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Frozen Tundra

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  1. 13 minutes ago, Impartial_Observer said:

    No. I can give you all the BS criteria they tell us but the bottom line is Robert will do whatever he pleases and you will like it. I can tell you a crew in southern Indiana who in my opinion is an outstanding crew that have had the rating and eligibility to work the finals for the last four years and have been snubbed every year. Including being the #1 rated crew in the state one of those four years. Multiple state finals worked in multiple sports for the crew members. White hat has worked the finals in Football, Baseball, and Basketball. 
    This is beginning to be a bone of contention among officials, we have a system in place but North Meridian just does whatever they please. You reach a point in your officiating career where you just say eff it, I got better things to do every Friday night. 
    I retired from Friday nights and have been doing mostly MS and a few JV/Frosh games and I had a ball just working the games. No politics, no jumping thru all the BS hoops they force us to jump thru. I haven’t applied for the tournament in Softball since 2019 and we (our crew) opted to call it a day last February and I even had more fun during SB season this year. 
    I was asked by Seymour’s athletic department to take care of the officials for their home games this year and I enjoyed it. Still a little fellowship with “the guys” and no responsibility. For me it’s always been more about being out with “my guys” on a Friday night than being an official. You’re a team, you’re involved in something bigger than you. Does that make any sense?

    Sorry for the rambling response I hope I’ve answered your question. 
     

    Lastly I’ll say, you have no idea how many guys have asked me….”do you miss it?”  And the answer is an emphatic no. I think we have a real problem coming in the not too distant future with football officials. 

    Makes perfect sense. Thank you.

    6 minutes ago, Bobref said:

    As an observer, I am in contact with many different officials, from all parts of the state. The “problem” has already begun. And reversing the trend is going to prove very difficult.

    So what’s the contingency plan when crap really hits the fan? Has that been discussed? For football, are we going to have to implement bye weeks? Will some games just not get played? Will high school-sponsored sports cease to exist?

  2. 36 minutes ago, Impartial_Observer said:

    About the only time we could conceivably see crews working two games would be the first round. And we’re getting closer. I believe there were 129 crews apply this year for 124 first round games. The bigger issue with games being moved to Saturday is a lot of guys have college/NFL responsibilities. In that case, if there’s a conflict, they will just switch the crew to a Friday game and move that crew to Saturday. 
    I realize the NFL isn’t playing on Saturday yet, but guys will have to be in town for meetings, film, pregame, etc. 

    ok so the IHSAA or another governing body doesn’t look at it and go, “That crew is one of the worst of the 24. Let’s let this better crew work a Friday night game and then work Saturday too.”

  3. Question for @Impartial_Observer.

    Next week we’ll be down to 8 teams left in each classification for a total of 48 teams. That’s 24 games. Regionals is usually the round where we start seeing some games needing to be played on Saturdays because of travel distances. If this is the case, since there are 24 games, will there be 24 different officiating crews for those games? Or, could any of those crews that worked a Friday night game also work a Saturday game?

  4. 2 hours ago, Impartial_Observer said:

    I’m kind of surprised they’ve only played 18 times. Back in my day we played them every year. I think there was a time in mid 90’s when the SCC was in its death throes they didn’t play every year. 
     

    If you included South’s time as Bloomington High School then it’d be much more than 18.

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  5. This week’s game (week 12 - sectional championship):

     

    #3/#2 Bloomington South (9-1) at Seymour (6-4)

     

    Notes:

    -Bloomington South is #3 in the media poll and #2 in the coaches poll.

    -Bloomington South beat Seymour 47-0 in week 9.

    -Bloomington South leads the all-time series with their fellow former South Central Conference member, Seymour, 12-6 and has won the last four games. Seymour’s last win was in 1990.

    -This is the first ever postseason matchup between Bloomington South and Seymour.

  6. 1 hour ago, MuleDriver said:

    Alot has changed since the redistricting in monroe county. In the 1990s you could expect a long tourney run from bhss and they did just that 7 regional titles I believe. But take away those old bhss communities and student body sending them to bhsn has weakend the program. I have the same mentality as you now . Sort of I'll believe it when I see it. 

    I’m glad you understand where I’m coming from because I didn’t want to sound like I was knocking your team. I just have to be honest because there’s two things you can almost count on with Bloomington South every year and both are negative. 

    1. They’ll amass a lot of penalties.

    2. They’ll fall apart in the postseason at some point (whether they’re favored or not) and it’ll keep them from getting to Lucas Oil Stadium.

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  7. 4 minutes ago, npatman said:

    Once thermally stable, the temperature of the water must be exactly 0C/32F until the ice has completely melted,
    only then is it physically possible for the temperature of the water to change.

    Conversely, the temperature of the water physically can not drop below 0C/32F until all of the water has frozen,
    then the solid ice may drop below 0C/32F

    For bonus points, -40 is the crossover point of C and F, so you don't have to specify which it is, as they are equal.

    I knew your dad coached high school football in Texas but I didn’t know you had an interest in Indiana high school football of all things, Dr. Sheldon Cooper.

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  8. 1 hour ago, FridayNightLights said:

    DC has started to turn it on. Plainfield has sputtered to the finish line. Harrison has been dominating inferior opponents. A LOT of Sophomores playing for DC so I still have trouble trusting them in crunch time. I do think Bloomington South ends up representing the south. They will have a tough matchup between Harrison/Plainfield/DC though. 

    I don’t trust Bloomington South in the postseason. In the last nine years, they’ve lost several games in the regional that they were favored to win. Castle upset them in 2015 and last year. New Albany upset them in 2021. Until I see something different, I can’t pick Bloomington South.

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  9. 1 hour ago, troyfan said:

    Would like to see that as well....it's been a while since we've seen the Panthers.  I remember pre-season scrimmages back in 2010-2012 when S Beuning was JCs coach. He of course left EC to take the HC job at JC. I also remember the long bus ride to North Vernon.

    I have quite a few connections to Jennings County. Would’ve been nice to see Buening build something there but I don’t think he had the support needed to do so. Luckily, he was able to find some success at Southridge.

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