A day after JB moved basketball from medium to high risk, effectively cancelling the season, the IHSA flat out defies him and announces the season can start as scheduled.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2020/10/28 ... basketball

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"When people want their version of the truth, they go find it, no matter how baseless their beliefs." -- Ken Rosenthal

Yep!

The dominoes fall if they just stay the course.

THIS IS WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE!

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

JB basically tells people to sue the school districts for liability if they play.

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"When people want their version of the truth, they go find it, no matter how baseless their beliefs." -- Ken Rosenthal

Bullshit threat. How many AAU tournies and programs have been sued?

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Self-Certify eliminates liability. Plus has anyone ever sued for the flu? Nope. Good luck proving it.

Absolutely none since the parents all have to sign liability waivers. But that's not gonna stop the ambulance chasers. Or bitter parents.

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There are only two examples of infinity: The universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the universe.

How many open schools have been sued?

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Shots fired at shakes!

The same number as teachers filing suit for an unsafe workplace?

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There are only two examples of infinity: The universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the universe.

Interesting. In GA, every store or shop has a sign referencing a GA corona virus act explicitly saying you are entering at your own risk and the shop is exempt from liability. Same with pools, playgrounds, basically any public or private place.

None that I'm aware of due to the fact that parents were given the option to go remote as well. Right now I am in a conference call with an officials association (football officials) and the issue coming up is whether or not if defying a Governor's EO and recommendations of IDPH recommendations would make my (and a coach's) liability insurance null and void. Electronic whistles are allowed, but I'm not sure whether or not there are officials that will be running around wearing a mask all game...

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An unjust law is no law at all--St. Augustine of Hippo

Cause tried and true
I see the light in you
Oh, can you dig in my soul?
Could you smell my whole...
life?--Gener and Deaner

As much as America is lawsuit-happy, I am a little surprised that nobody at a hotel or a restaurant nearby has sued an AAU organizer yet. Just because the parents signed liability waivers doesn't mean nearby workers did.

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"When people want their version of the truth, they go find it, no matter how baseless their beliefs." -- Ken Rosenthal

Haha blue fuckers. Suck on your blue microdicks until you give up and just call 'em clits.

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We Now Know That JOE BIDEN has been COMPROMISED by CHINA! (let that sink in)

Election 2020-The Largest Fraud in the History of Mankind.

*If you believe that Biden won, you also believe that Epstein killed himself*

I know that the IHSA leadership is a mess, and all of this probably means nothing. It's grandstanding.

But what I don't get is - the IHSA is not an independent entity, is it? They get state funding, at some level, don't they?

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Founded on December 27, 1900, the Illinois High School Association is a private, not-for-profit organization with more than 800 member high schools in Illinois. The IHSA is headquartered in Bloomington, Illinois, and is not funded by tax dollars or administered by the government in the state of Illinois.

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That answers that.
The problem that the IHSA has then, is that most of their member schools rely, big time, on state funding.

Are districts willing to gamble COVID liability, in addition to potential forfeit of state funding, to go forth with a sport?

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I honestly didn't know this part.

Essentially the IHSA is operating the same way that the NCAA is. They don't actually have any jurisdiction over their member schools, unless those schools want to participate in the IHSA's events.

Hmmmm....

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So state funding can be withheld over not following guidance? No laws are being broken.

Schools districts are already gambling with COVID liability. The majority are or have been open to some extent and most have had cases. No one is getting sued over COVID because you can not prove where you got it.

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Sorry, but I'll always despise the IHSA.

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There are only two examples of infinity: The universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the universe.

But but but I I thought all of the bars and restaurants were super spreaders for this! That's why they have to be closed! That is what the experts are telling us!

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Pretty much every group thinks the IHSA is out to screw them. CPS, Catholic, South Suburbs. Down state schools think they favor Chicagoland and Chicago area thinks they favor Central and Southern Illinois. Suburban coaches feel they cater to CPS. CPS feels they are not considered. All these things can not be true.

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ISBE is on record, with Carmen backing JB's recommendation.

"Laws" have nothing to do with any of this.

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Can you point to where ISBE is on record that they can and will be stripping funding from schools that play basketball?

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Can you point to instances where public schools in Illinois don't follow ISBE guidelines?

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Maybe this ends up in a lawsuit of IHSA vs the State? Who knows.
This is grandstanding by a few people at the IHSA. Are they really gonna hold a basketball season with just few random rural districts participating throughout the state? Awesome!

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It wont be the IHSA vs the state. It will be schools individually or collectively. 41 states are playing so far. Anyone who believes basketball will happen in March is dreaming. There will be no widespread vaccine by then. Assuming we even have one.

Not even getting into practice space, officials and coaches.

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This is a point that keeps getting brought up that does not matter in this conversation (not by you, just in general).
It's like complaining that people are surfing in Hawaii right now, but we can't do it here. Or, complaining that my school has a dress code but the school two towns over doesn't.

It doesn't matter in the conversation and wouldn't matter in a lawsuit.

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2 things on this:

1. Then what difference does it make what the IHSA's opinion is on this matter?

2. It definitely would NOT be collectively.

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Don't rock the boat. spanky is WAAAAAY to comfortable cashing in those Government 202 checks from the comfort of his home for the next calendar year.