wrn1979

In all fairness was this a full strength game? There are a lot of outcomes being determined by quarantine across the state.

Weak. Weak. Weak. Weak. This is as weak as I’ve seen the 3rd in the 16 years I’ve lived here. In their defense, it could be COVID and the late start/start/stop etc. It may be across the state. I haven’t seen but one team from outside the region. It just seems exceptionally weak this year.

Absolutely: that’s what all of the NFHS rules are about. Limiting risk. Typically during warm ups the environment is much less controlled. People are walking all over the place. Kids are trying skills they wouldn’t use in a game. Cheerleaders are warming up doing skills that are not allowed in live ball action. Coaches are conversation. Sometimes (and this one drives me up a wall) coaches and other people have their small children on the court itself. It’s a different safety environment from live ball action.

I neither support nor oppose the rule..... But I do find the percentage of kids who can dunk in warm ups but blow layups in overtime to be disproportionately high.

“We investigated and uhhh looked into it. It really was a beautiful investigation and we were uhhhh doing a fabulous job of investigating. We went on to interview some fantastic witnesses, talked to some horrible people, and investigated a little further as we looked into it. Have a nice day.”

I was thinking the exact same thing as I read that.

Brown, Any idea who had the monster block on this play? I'm watching on the McCracken Co Youtube channel. They haven't acknowledged anyone besides the players that score.

“Contact tracing.” If everyone who met these quarantine standards in healthcare was quarantined by “contact tracing,” there would be no one left to work.

Apollo always gets up for this game. They showed some fire in the game against DC last week after being punched in the face by a late TD. I think this one goes like the DC game. It’ll be a nail-biter at the end and someone will make a huge defensive stop for the win. Apollo 35 Catholic 28.

Especially when the response to this illness is so far out of proportion to the response to other public health crises: Leading cause of death in all people under age 40 in the United States? Trauma: no one is taking kids’ car keys from them. 3-4 of the top 5 diseases processes on which we spend the most money every year as a country are directly linked to cigarette smoking and poor nutrition (this one is truly a little dependent on the year). Yet I see no bans on cigarettes (especially in KY), and I certainly can’t get onto the McDonald’s parking lot these days for drive thru service. When it’s all said and done, Covid might creep into the top 10 for deaths this year, but it’s going to have to battle all of the lung cancers, all of the COPD victims, and all of the heart diseases to do so. So why the uproar?

Has anyone seen the list of suspicious symptoms requiring testing these days? When this started in February the concerning symptoms were “cough,” “shortness of breath” and “fever.” Now you can add: Fatigue nausea vomiting headache Muscle aches Loss of sense of taste or smell rash sore throat joint aches nasal congestion abdominal pain Chest pain They might as well add “wakes up in the morning” and “goes to bed at night” to the list. Current research shows that people who have tested positive will continue to have a positive test for 3-5 months following recovery. Referring back to my previous post with 90,000 people tested of all walks of life and less than 1% of those even being sick enough to require hospitalization: how do you justify taking things away from kids because of an illness that will have minimal impact on well over 99% of the population?

I agree with some of the posters above. It is unrealistic to use the same threshold for labeling all of the counties in the state regardless of population. Last I checked, we were orange. Several counties around us are also orange. There are at least two counties in our region that are red. The two red counties are very different. One has a population of about 12 during business hours on a Monday. They are “red” because there were reportedly two large family gatherings on the same weekend where one person showed up and possibly infected a few others. Many of those infected have no symptoms. They were only tested because they were at the above-mentioned family gatherings. The other is a larger county that turned red after an outbreak in a large long term care facility. I believe they also had some talk of transferring prisoners at the county jail because of the number of cases there. In neither case has there been a report of a sporting event causing a large outbreak, nor has there been an outbreak on an affected team. These kids should not be penalized because of situations that would have happened regardless of the status of sports. Now if the sports teams that would be playing have a huge outbreak among the players, that’s different. My hospital system has done more than 90,000 tests in 3 large hospitals, 7 critical access hospitals, 60-something physicians offices, and several drive thru testing centers. Our positivity rate is at about 10%. We have campuses in all three states of our particular tri-state area. We have had just under 1% hospitalizations since the beginning. I am employed in the ED where we are exposed every day to someone with bizarre symptoms who later tests positive. Only 4 of our 100 coworkers have tested positive in 8 months of this. Even with all of these ridiculously low numbers, we remain a “high risk” county in Indiana. Two of the kids I coach (not football) called me this week to tell me they were in quarantine. One was on a school bus with a kid who tested positive. She has no symptoms and has not had a test. The other was exposed by a family member, had flu-like symptoms and tested positive herself. They were both tearful and told me they were sorry and “I tried so hard to be careful.” My problem with this situation is not that they have been quarantined from the team for two weeks. We will survive and move on. My problem is the amount of guilt these kids are feeling over something that is out of their control. This Covid nonsense reminds me of the mid-80’s, when nurses I worked with would double-glove to walk into the room of an HIV patient and do nothing more than flip the light switch. These kids acted like they were calling me to tell me about an unplanned pregnancy. When discussing this with some of my coworkers who had been quarantined they said they AS ADULTS felt the same way. This is droplet-based viral respiratory disease. It is not gonorrhea. You acquire it by being in the same general vicinity of someone else who has it, not from a “toilet seat.” At some point we have to stop punishing people for something that is completely out of their control.

Do points scored play into RPI at all? I am not trying to justify running up the scoreboard, but there’s a news report that can be found on YouTube of a team in Texas that does this routinely. The coach’s justification is that his first few years his team went undefeated in the regular season, then would give up close games in the finals in the last quarter. He said he felt it was because his players weren’t accustomed to finishing a game, so he stopped pulling his starters early. So I am asking if RPI could be used as a justification for this.

I feel like Apollo is still working to overcome a trend from the last couple of years of putting themselves in a position to win against a beatable opponent and then starting to play “not to lose,” as opposed to “going for the kill.” It was repetitive last season, as Warren Central (should have been an easy victory that was closer than the score would show), Henderson County (ahead at half, injured QB didn’t help), Marshall County (another one win that should not have been close but went down to the wire), and Daviess County (I believe lost in final 2 minutes after leading most of game) were prime examples. The same case could be made for the playoff loss to McCracken as MCHS was without their top offensive threat and the regular season contest was all offense. Several things I’ve witnessed on the sidelines the first four games of this season make me believe Coach Edge will correct that. There are great athletes here, and the strength and conditioning program is second-to-none, but the mental game is so important.

Officials should have blown the ball down before the fumble. These guys suck. They haven’t seen a single hold yet

20-14 at the half

20-14 McCracken 1:23 left in first half. Apollo with ball on their own 40-ish

Huge defensive stand by Apollo with a minute on the clock. Meade lost the Oppel kid to ejection in the 2nd quarter. Another member posted in the game thread that he couldn't imagine the kid "kicking" another player as he had known him a long time. It was certainly a gray-area situation. I believe some chippy behavior on the part of another member of the Green Wave offense had the officials' eyes and ears perked up for anything that looked aggressive. That player probably cost the Green Wave their RB more than the "kicking" action did. Apollo's defense looked better this week than last, but who doesn't look better against anyone other than Gavin Wimsatt and the OHS Red Devil offense right now? As an Apollo guy it was good to see Lovinsky get his arm behind him and throw some nice passes. You can tell in these early games that these guys haven't had their typical pre-season schedule to get their timing down. I'm hoping to get down to Paducah for McCracken next week.

Are you like me? Spent twenty years in Law School at the University of “Law and Order?”

So, I wonder what we will do a year from now when it's Covid-20.

If you have time and the inclination, the actual investigative report can be found on UK’s website with a simple google search. There’s a lot of sensationalizing that’s going on in the press. The names of the athletes involved have been redacted, but in all but one case, most of the athletes interviewed said the coaches were unaware of much of the behavior that went on. One of the coaches did reportedly participate in the basket tosses into the lake. However, most of the statements about nudity were predicated with “said she heard some of the participants were (insert applicable level of nudity here). The university fired the coaches involved for failing to provide oversight on the trips when some of these activities allegedly occurred. They were not terminated for “allowing” it to go on, and there is very little in the investigative report to substantiate that they were allowing any of it. The claims of financial conflicts of interest escape me. These athletes are not regulated by the NCAA, and are broke college kids. 16 of them receive some level of scholarship dollars, the rest are paying tuition or on whatever financial aid package they receive from the financial aid office. The allegations of financial conflict of interest are made against two of the coaches and an adviser. The adviser apparently hired the kids to do odd-jobs around his house like yard work. He’s been with the program since the early 80’s, and i would venture to say he has probably been doing this the whole 40 years. The other two coaches own cheerleading business and hired broke college cheerleaders from the best program in the country to work for them in their business. One would be hard pressed to say they could have hired more qualified individuals outside of the program.

There’s also no proof that it has caused 90,000 deaths either, but you were awful hung up on that yesterday. Example: I got a phone call about a potential exposure from a patient I had last week. 96-year-old who fell and broke a hip. He/she is not a surgical candidate. He/she was being sent back to the nursing home on comfort measures and with hospice. Before being sent back, he/she was swabbed and tested positive for Covid. On a GOOD day, the prognosis for survival with an unrepaired broken hip at 96 years old is a matter of days. When death occurs, this person will be reported as a Covid death even though they have had no symptoms of Covid. This is happening more often than you think. Why????????? Because under the CARES act, Medicare pays more for the Covid19 add-on. It’s like super-sizing the value meal.

Rewrite that a different way: 1.5 million cases, 96% of which are still alive. Then add in a few more details your statement leaves out: 1) We now know that this virus was in this country LONG before anyone even knew it existed. One of the epidemiologists finally admitted that there is proof that it’s been here since the fall. There’s potentially another 1.5 million cases we don’t know about. 2) For the first month the CDC would only allow testing for those with severe symptoms or those who were at high risk because of their travel history. That leaves out a significant number of people who had mild or no symptoms and who acquired the virus locally during a time when everyone thought it came from an undercooked bat in Wuhan. 3) Of those “confirmed deaths” you have no idea how many are really directly related to covid19. There are multiple reports of hospitals adding on the diagnosis in unconfirmed deaths because of better reimbursement. There is also a report of hundreds of deaths From before testing being reported as Covid19 posthumously “because the clinical picture fit.” Don’t believe everything you see on the nightly news.

You leave out the 3rd option: that it was just a whole bunch of nothing. My hospital of employment led our region in preparedness and testing. I stopped following the numbers two weeks ago when it became obvious that nothing was happening: 3000 tests 150 positives 30 hospitalizations 5 deaths I work in one emergency department in a multi-hospital system. We average 300 patients per day between our two busiest ER’s. We’ve been seeing about 120 because people are scared to leave their houses. Since the shut downs began, I’ve taken care of one patient who actually tested positive, and she had zero symptoms. She was tested for nursing home placement. We have lost 40 million dollars since this started. The bottom line, just as I predicted on day 1, this has been a whole bunch of nothing.

There is absolutely no reason, real or imagined, for the season to not start on time.