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I could be wrong, but I am fairly certain that South Putnam has turf.

The only change that I could see would be to keep the clock stoppage rules after a first down: it would keep things moving while still allowing for a team to get a few more in game reps and more tape. Even without that, I think it's been a good change on the whole.

Love the end zones. Midfield setup is cool, but for our officials on the board: don't they need some kind of either continuation of the white of the 50 yard line or a break on either side? There is a nice looking A in the middle of our field and we were told we had to use filed paint to finish the 50 yard line because the logo interrupts the 50.

This is the way I read it. So you could have a Rossville-Clinton Central co-op with a total enrollment figure of 532 (Rossville's 283 + Clinton Central's 249) or an Attica-Frontier-Indianapolis Tindley (I just picked the three schools with the lowest enrollment at the last re-class, I realize that geographically this is not feasible) with a total enrollment figure of 507 (Attica's 158 + Frontier's 171 + Indianapolis Tindley's 178). Again, just the way I read it, I could be mistaken.

Based on the rules for combining (individual schools must have less than 300 students, total enrollment cannot exceed 700) I would imagine that classification would be based on total enrollment, but that is just a guess. If so, that could cause some hesitancy among schools not wanting to avoid class jumps based on enrollment. To use Muda's example: Rossville would only be allowed to co-op with Clinton Central (as both of their enrollments are below 300), and their total enrollment would be 532. I don't have the numbers in front of me, but I'm guessing that would easily put them in 2A and I don't know that Clinton Central would want to avoid that, but they might.

That one I am less enthralled with, but to each his own. I'm not sure this was made clear or not, but if I understand correctly the co-oping schools would agree to play under the name of one of the schools correct?

I do feel like Co-op programs is the one thing that Illinois has gotten right in a good long time.

4x100 gets all the attention, but the 4x400 is the best. Last event of the night, kids get hyped for it (or the fact that when it's over they get to go home), and it's a test of who's got the toughest 4 sprinters on the track. Great event. Sadly in our area, so many kids find track to be "boring" and would rather not do anything in the spring. It's maddening honestly. I don't know how many times I have told kids that if you aren't going to run track, at least play baseball, but more often than not it seems like it falls on deaf ears. If nothing else, the fact that kids are going out and learning how to compete in those spring sports is value added in and of itself, to say nothing of the physical carry over effects.

This is not the point of this thread, so I apologize to the original poster, but I have asked about 5 different crews about this exact rule and gotten about 5 different answers. My question is specific to "sky kicks" where in the kicker kicks the ball at an incredibly steep angle directly in the air, not striking the ground first. I have been told that such kicks are illegal under the "pop-up kick rules" and have actually been told that we would need to do exactly what the text of this rule seems to specifically rule out. Very frustrating; I've had fantastic success with sky kicks in the past, but haven't used them since 2017 because of disputes over this rule. As to quickest scores: as with a previous poster, it came after halftime, but I told our kick-off return team coming out of halftime of a game years ago that it was going to be the only shot we had to return one all night, so we'd better house it. My returners actually played rock-paper-scissors to decide which one of them got to take the return. We took it back from about our own 30 in about 5ish seconds, but it got called back on a very cheap block in the back... we scored roughly 2 plays later...

Not attacking at all, because I understand what you're doing, but to devil's advocate your devil's advocate: just because some get away with it doesn't mean it should be gotten rid of. Rules are rules. I don't like seatbelt laws, I think they are kinda stupid honestly. Still, just because I think they are stupid does not mean that I am exempt from them. Likewise to the Pro/College point; people getting away without wearing their seatbelts doesn't mean I'm exempt.

Similarish issue: should a player be punished for not having their mouthpiece in at the start of a play? Chinstrap buckled?

This.

Depends, how big is the boat, what us the asking price, and does it come with conservative talking points?

No damage out of the ordinary in the West Central portion of the state: some power outages on Sunday scattered throughout the area and some building damage from straight line winds, but nothing that we haven't seen before and, thankfully, no injuries. A colleague of mine and I were discussing this: is the weather actually more severe than it has been in the past or are people just more concerned about it than we used to be?

Don't be barbaric... the former Illinois counties will of course have to change their names in deference to their new Indiana overlords...

I mean... It's all incredibly unlikely, but the thought is kind of remarkable.

To stick with the original topic: I would think something like this would all but guarantee the end of the all in tournament no? Slightly off topic: I have been saying for years that we (Indiana) should just take over Illinois minus Chicago. It's essentially Indiana West anyway...

I never thought of knee pads as preventing ligament damage, more to protect against a bone bruise type injury on the actual knee cap. Unfortunately we've had kids not wearing knee pads and knock knees in practice and complain about how much it hurts, which this old guy says, "maybe wear your knee pads..."

Absolutely. This is especially true at smaller schools where staffs get smaller and teaching loads get heavier. As to hiring lay coaches: that's also not as straightforward as it seems, but again, this is by school district. There are some districts that will hire lay coaches as head coaches, but there are some places that place restrictions on what head coaching jobs can be filled by coaches with teaching contracts.

And I'll say it right to your face!

If you have the available finds to do so, sure. Like I said, most corporations would find a way...

My saying that it's not always as easy as it seems to get any coach in the building had nothing to do with funding, but everything to do with a number of other issues. It may be easy to find the money, but if a school wants "Coach X" who teaches math for example and all they have are English openings, that may be a bit of a problem for "Coach X." It's not hard for the school: emergency licenses are easy enough to come by, but "Coach X" may want no part of teaching English and may well reject the job because there are no math openings. And it isn't always as easy as simply creating a math position for "Coach X:" at a larger school this is likely easier, but the smaller the school gets, the harder it is to just create a position from whole cloth if you already have a department that is fully staffed. And you can't always just shuffle the teachers you already have to make room, an administration would need to consider the internal dynamics of the teaching staff and how they would react. No doubt that many, if not most, administrations would and do pick their top candidate, regardless of teaching certification, and make it work; and no doubt that many coaches, who want to be at a given school, would and are willing to teach whatever is available; but to act like it's just as easy as the snap of a finger ignores a number of other important dynamics.

See below: And as to your bolded comment: this has actually been a trend in our area, the open enrollment, and it actually puts a lot of stress on smaller schools because literally every student counts toward funding. I would imagine that the answer to this question would be similar to the answer for how does a school like Traders Point see their enrollment drop so fast. I don't know why that has happened and I'm not fishing there, but just saying that it seems like wild enrollment fluctuations both positive and negative, are not completely unheard of. I would imagine that at the end of the day it probably has to do with the fact that both Providence and Traders Point are P/P, but I'm not familiar enough with either school to comment with any certainty. It also seems to me that you are always going to have this issue with re-classing. Years ago, I was at Benton Central and we were constantly looking to see if we were going to be the smallest 2A or the biggest 3A, so despite my current situation, I have been there. Ultimately, I'm sure there are other alternatives to reshuffling the deck every single year, which would seem to me to be incredibly chaotic.

It's harder than you'd think.

This isn't always as easy as it sounds...