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Never said you were uninformed, just wondered what changed.

Ravens, you seemed to be much more doom and gloom a week ago, what happned? For the "they may move the college football season back to next spring" crowd: I've said it before and I'll say it again, the NCAA pushing college football back to the spring is unviable for a number of reasons; 1) financial suicide for most athletic departments 2) would mess too much with off season recovery schedules for returning student athletes 3) NFL would NEVER be on board. You have GMs complaining about having a draft now because they can't do their normal testing/measurables, how do you think they would react if college ball is still being playing in April or May? 4) While the CFP is the NCAA's biggest cash cow, moving the season to the Spring kills their second biggest cash cow, the men's basketball tournament. They can talk about it all they want, but if they do it they cripple college sports on the whole for decades to come...

No way that everyone gets tested for this thing. Look, there are always going to be people that a)think that this virus is absolutely not any worse than the seasonal flu, b) think that this virus is on the level of Polio, or c) think that this virus was concerning, but not near to the level to warrant the reaction we've seen. Count me in category c, but honestly, it doesn't matter what anyone here thinks, what matters is what the powers that be think. If how the spring sport season went down, I think our best bet is to watch how the NFL and the NCAA handles their upcoming seasons, the IHSAA will likely follow suit as they did followed the NBA, MLB, and NCAA this spring.

Is the consensus here honestly that a treatment or vaccine is a perquisite to resume some semblance of "normal" activity? I'm not even talking about play of any sports, I'm saying people going back to work (if they feel comfortable), stay at home orders lifted, etc.

A vaccine is not a magic bullet though. I haven't gotten a flu shot in years and have not had the flu *knocks on wood* for several years. A co-worker of mine gets one every year and has had Influenza A twice this year.

Apparently, we'll know quite a bit this week as this will apparently be our "Pearl Harbor" or "9/11" moment. I take that to mean that diagnosed cases and deaths are to skyrocket. Unfortunately, as with all of this, time will tell.

From the article you posted: "Even if the college football season could be moved to spring 2021, the consequences would likely be devastating for colleges across the country. As one coach mentioned, per The Athletic, schools might have to cut down to just football, basketball and four women’s sports due to budgetary restrictions." So basically their damned if they do, damned if they don't. Again, moving an entire sport to a different season for,one year make absolutely zero logical sense in the long term at any level. The same coaches complaining now that they need 2 months to prepare would then complain the fall after "Springfest 2021" that their players had no time to recover. Stories like this, it would appear, are going to keep popping up in the absence of actual athletic events to cover.

I think you are being a bit too drastic in your approach. MLB is already kicking around a July 1 start date; albeit potentially in empty stadiums, but that still puts them well over a 50 person gathering even for the roster, coaching staff, umpires and TV crews. The long and short is this; we're in early April and talking about August and September. The way news happens these days we could literally be back to normal by June/July or be quarantined for a full calendar year. These are "un-normal" (I prefer unprecedented) but I think you have your answer with how the IHSAA handled the Spring sport season. The very simple answer, unfortunately, is that if this continues into August, the IHSAA likely shortens the fall season by a month initially, then 6 weeks if needed, to then cancelling totally. I would add too that in many ways, the IHSAA handled the Spring sport season better in my opinion than the NCAA did because they at least gave the situation some time to play out before completely axing things rather than cancelling immediately. You can always postpone indefinitely before you cancel, you can never cancel then restart. As to 7 on 7, I think you run into similar issues. As a former offensive linemen, my first thought is what about your offensive linemen? Are you going to also have some kind of offensive lineman challenge along side it? Sorry, there is no way you get any kind of extensive interest statewide. And at the end of the day, Irishman has it right. We should probably pump the breaks on anything major happening to the calendar until after we get into May. To quote Tom Hanks from Apollo 13: "All right, there's a thousand things that have to happen in order. We are on number eight. You're talking about number six-hundred and ninety-two."

I agree they need to have some sort of contingency, but do not like this for a number of reasons. First, I do not like the idea of a player ever having to make a choice like this, even under extreme circumstances. Second, you're stretching a lot of coaches thin here too. Finally, I think the long term effects for the following season are too great. Kids need the year to properly recover, so doing this would land us on a shortened season the following fall as well. I think we're potentially looking at no organized work in the summer, which I know for a lot of programs seems unthinkable. In reality however you do not NEED the summer months, many of us just think we do. Football has been played before with no summer workouts; it may have been since the 70s and under different circumstances (no global pandemic, kids were different, etc.) but it has happened.

Too bad I hate water... And Florida as a rule...

Honestly, for some smaller rural schools this is nothing new. Trojandad, thank you very much, I really appreciate it. I tell my students all the time, most of us educators are not in it for the money, we really do love our jobs and love the kids we work with, even if some of them can be a little difficult at times.

Completely agree TojanDad. We, as a track staff, had held out hope but in retrospect, it seems as if this was a foregone conclusion 3-4 weeks ago. Definitely feel for our Seniors. We had 9 between the boys and girls teams which for a school with a total population of roughly 185 in 4 grades is pretty outstanding. And they were a great group of kids too, gonna miss them...

Shelter in place would seem to me at this point here in the US to be what it is currently; localized and focused primarily on urban areas. National shelter in place would only work if you had some sort of martial law, which I would say is out of the question, but a week ago I was preparing for track season and had only paid passing attention to this virus thing so...

I have not seen that, but the problem is that there are so many sources of information out there. It seems like, from what I remember of looking at a graph of cases reportd in China, that they peaked around 3-4 weeks after their first cases. If that were the case, you are looking at the US peaking near the beginning of April to the middle of April. That said, I don't know what our response here in the US has been as compared to China, quality of healthcare systems, susceptability of the population, etc. so that may be, and probably is, wishful thinking. I did see where the Wuhan province only had one new reported case yesterday, so that would appear to be good. I also heard some speculation that cases could surge again around October just based on climate. The long and the short is that it appears as through this year's Seniors (high school and college) are going to get drastically shortchanged on their experience. It just goes to show, as I think someone else on these boards pointed out, you can't take anything for granted.

Still holding out hope for this spring season, but given the speed with which so many things have happened, government recommendations becoming increasingly more restrictive, restaraunts closing dining rooms, public libraries closing, not to mention all the professional and collegiate sport cancellations, that hope is quickly fading. No matter how seriously you are personally taking this whole thing, it's going to be really hard to justify high school athletics when you are going to have schools not physically back in session until mid to late April at the earliest.

Congrats to all selected, but especially another Region 4 guy Jack Hargan of Attica. Becomes only the 4th or 5th player in Attica history selected! Incredibly well deserved!

This whole thing has become a mess to say the least. The biggest issue I see is with schools that are issuing 14 day quarantines how do you keep track of/monitor who has eligibility and who does not. The IHSAA would have to come out with something soon, especially after the NCAA's decision yesterday and the various states which are mandating extended e-learning and mass school closures. Definitely very fluid and with folks leaving or already gone on Spring Break it makes it even more difficult. Impossible for track meets, takes too many volunteers to adequately run a meet. Also an insurance nightmare.

I had to chuckle a bit at the thought of Seeger airing it out enough to warrant rushing 2 and dropping 9. Fall of 2011 v. BC. We had Rooze at QB and Fischback as our leading WR. Very physical game, but not uncommon at all for you guys to literally have two guys with hands in the dirt and 9 on their feet in coverage.

I've seen you guys do something like this before. If memory serves correct it was more of a 2-9 Umbrella...

I would second this...

Dr. Strange...

I student taught under Kurt, he is a great guy and knows his stuff. Really looking forward to what he can do at CHS! Best of luck Coach!

I have long referred to the following things as part of me being "stuperstitious," meaning I know that they have no bearing on the outcome of a game itself (hence the "stupid" part) but I can't bring myself to NOT do them (the "superstitious" part): -The only night of the week that I shave is Thursday night. -I wear the same coaches polo every Friday at school and on the sideline (despite being told that I can wear a team t-shirt). -I have to have the same numbered headset every Friday night (it was #8 last year) and wear it on the left ear over my baseball cap. -I take two pieces of chewing gum before the game and two at half time. These are not "winning streak stretchers" I simply HAVE to do these every week, win or lose, or else I feel like I personally doom our chances on Friday night... I know, stuperstitious right?

Geographically those all make sense. Memphis is who I thought I'd root for, but San Antonio looked good defensively. It'll be interesting to see if that holds up.

I asked this on another thread, but I've read about some of the affiliates for other teams, but who is the Colts' affiliate?