Re: Phase 4 = high school football?

by HHSTigerFan2 Wed Oct 28, 2020 11:32 am

Obviously the high school sports situation had very little to do with this choice, but we have decided to head to the Nashville area.. my GF starts her job down there in a few weeks, I will head down there end of May. This state is an absolute joke..

by general maximus Wed Oct 28, 2020 11:33 am

Head Idiot wrote:Interesting story-
https://www.pantagraph.com/sports/high-school/football/watch-now-fieldcrest-star-jaxon-cusac-mckay-wanted-to-play-football-so-he-moved-to/article_b9dbb84a-09f8-528e-bc7e-4f9c01695c9d.html#tracking-source=article-related-bottom

Two of our best freshman athletes transferred over to Indiana before the season started. I know one of them was starting on the varsity. Not surprised at all given the fact that he would have started for us last year when he was in 8th grade.

by newcom Wed Oct 28, 2020 1:09 pm

HHS kudos to you this state is a complete shitshow.

by Bighitter11 Wed Oct 28, 2020 3:27 pm

HHSTigerFan2 wrote: Obviously the high school sports situation had very little to do with this choice, but we have decided to head to the Nashville area.. my GF starts her job down there in a few weeks, I will head down there end of May. This state is an absolute joke..

Congrats and good luck Jon!

by Teetime Wed Oct 28, 2020 4:47 pm

HHSTigerFan2 wrote: Obviously the high school sports situation had very little to do with this choice, but we have decided to head to the Nashville area.. my GF starts her job down there in a few weeks, I will head down there end of May. This state is an absolute joke..

This is shocking! Shocked

You have a girlfriend?

by Head Idiot Tue Nov 03, 2020 5:25 pm

Cross country runners going to have a "state" meet anyway-

https://herald-review.com/sports/high-school/cross-country/cross-country-runners-look-for-closure-to-season-at-unsanctioned-xc-championships-presented-by-shazam/article_5a385336-e753-5104-8b3e-87f2717ac879.html#tracking-source=home-top-story-1

by OldTitan Thu Nov 12, 2020 12:52 pm

Basketball is a mess - from the IHSA announcement:

IHSA wrote:The Board revealed that among the 546 schools who responded to the survey (IHSA has 813 member schools), nearly 300 IHSA schools do not plan to start basketball on November 16, and another 212 schools remain unsure of their status.

There is a push to move basketball to spring/summer with wrestling, track, and baseball.

I have my doubts about football starting in February. August/September would have been safer.

by lefty120 Thu Nov 12, 2020 1:06 pm

With 12,000 + reported cases a day I’d tend to agree with that.

by Bighitter11 Thu Nov 12, 2020 3:00 pm

Every High School kid should just get to redshirt this whole year and take time off for whatever. Not only are they being deprived of Sports, clubs and other activities but with remote learning etc they are getting screwed out of hands on quality education and nobody is coming out better from any of this.

by wolverine55 Thu Nov 12, 2020 3:15 pm

Bighitter11 wrote:Every High School kid should just get to redshirt this whole year and take time off for whatever. Not only are they being deprived of Sports, clubs and other activities but with remote learning etc they are getting screwed out of hands on quality education and nobody is coming out better from any of this.

Class of 2020 got the sympathy, but Class of 2021 is getting screwed far more unless something drastically changes these next few months.

by Head Idiot Wed Dec 23, 2020 6:32 pm

Illinois is the only state to lose people for 7 years in a row, the agency said.

From July 2019 to July 2020, the population dropped by nearly 80,000, which is equivalent to the city of Bloomington.

by OSUBucks Wed Dec 23, 2020 7:04 pm

Head Idiot wrote:
Illinois is the only state to lose people for 7 years in a row, the agency said.

From July 2019 to July 2020, the population dropped by nearly 80,000, which is equivalent to the city of Bloomington.

There were 10 states that lost population in the US in 2019, mostly Northern states. Illinois was #2 on the list.

by OSUBucks Wed Dec 23, 2020 7:11 pm

Head Idiot wrote:
Illinois is the only state to lose people for 7 years in a row, the agency said.

From July 2019 to July 2020, the population dropped by nearly 80,000, which is equivalent to the city of Bloomington.

I have one daughter that lives in STL and another in St Louis. That makes it more difficult for me to want to move far away. I admit though that on a lot of levels Illinois sucks.

by Head Idiot Wed Dec 23, 2020 7:53 pm

OSUBucks wrote:
Head Idiot wrote:
Illinois is the only state to lose people for 7 years in a row, the agency said.

From July 2019 to July 2020, the population dropped by nearly 80,000, which is equivalent to the city of Bloomington.

I have one daughter that lives in STL and another in St Louis. That makes it more difficult for me to want to move far away. I admit though that on a lot of levels Illinois sucks.

Seems like living in St Louis would be a good spot...

by Teetime Sat Dec 26, 2020 7:49 pm

I think St. Louis is #1.

In murders per capita.

by OSUBucks Sat Dec 26, 2020 9:28 pm

Teetime wrote:I think St. Louis is #1.

In murders per capita.

I think that's right. I guess it depends on where you live in that particular city. My daughter lives in the West/Central end of the city. It seems pretty nice. I've never seen a crime committed there on the occasions I've visited.

by Head Idiot Fri Jan 08, 2021 10:33 pm

The Big 10 is wrestling tonight.

by OSUBucks Fri Jan 08, 2021 11:11 pm

Head Idiot wrote:The Big 10 is wrestling tonight.

Talk about a badass wrestling conference.

by Head Idiot Fri Jan 08, 2021 11:14 pm

OSUBucks wrote:
Head Idiot wrote:The Big 10 is wrestling tonight.

Talk about a badass wrestling conference.

True.

At the same time, there's so few D1 programs left, pretty much anyone halfway decent going to be ranked in the top 25.

by Sponsored content