Going to flip things up a bit, as our family had a rough week that\u2019s worth getting caught up on first.<\/p>\n
Monday M got diagnosed with mono. She\u2019s been sick for weeks and it took a turn last weekend, so she went and got checked. She told us she could see the test turn positive from across the room. So she REALLY has mono, I guess. She had a terrible couple of days but after starting on some steroids, improved pretty rapidly.<\/p>\n
She ended up coming home for the weekend – UC is off Monday and one of her local buddies offered her a ride – so she was able to have some downtime away from the dorm. When she was awake she seemed pretty normal, but she did sleep even longer than usual. Hopefully she\u2019s on the right path for recovery. Funny how when your kid gets mono everyone you know has to tell you the story of the person they knew who missed a year of school when they got it. I know one of those people, so I understand some of those stories are legit.[1]<\/a><\/p>\n Otherwise she seems to be doing great at school.<\/p>\n That wasn\u2019t our worst health news of the week. Friday morning L cracked heads with a teammate in practice and failed a concussion test after. She went to class for a bit but started to feel bad and I picked her up around 11. She had all the classic symptoms – headache, dizziness, light sensitivity – and they were pretty bad both Friday and Saturday. Sunday they hadn\u2019t improved much but she was feeling a little more like herself.<\/p>\n The girl she knocked heads with is a good friend of hers. She stopped by Sunday to give L a bag of candy, which was nice.<\/p>\n Obviously we\u2019re being very careful. She\u2019s anxious to get back to school and on the court. We told her to slow her roll, it\u2019s better to miss some time and have to make school work up and catch up in practice than get hit again before she is healed and miss even more time.<\/p>\n C didn\u2019t have any issues last week. But we are still working to get her back issue figured out. She\u2019s had an injection that didn\u2019t work, seen a back specialist, and a spine specialist. Friday she goes back to the spine specialist for a more advanced injection he hopes can give her some relief.<\/p>\n Friday was the first time Cathedral played Roncalli, the Catholic school on the south side of Indy, during the regular season in 13 years. They used to play every season and often played in the state tournament before Cathedral moved up two classes.<\/p>\n Roncalli won a state title three years ago and were very good last year but are a little down again. Friday the Irish killed them 42\u20130, extending their winning streak in the series to 13.<\/p>\n I only heard a few possessions as I was picking M up right when the game started. She laughed because one of her UC friends graduated from RHS and was going to the game. He said he was only going because his dad was making him and it was stupid to go because \u201cWe\u2019re going to be down 30\u20130 at halftime.\u201d It was, indeed, 28\u20130 at half.<\/p>\n Now it\u2019s on to the final week of the regular season, the big Center Grove game. Center Grove is ranked #2 in the state but #23 in the country, so pretty much the same old same old down there.[2]<\/a> Because a huge crowd is expected and CG is still complaining about having to play on real grass two years ago, the game has been moved to Butler\u2019s stadium. Not sure if I\u2019m going or not yet. I have a big day Saturday and have yet to determine if going to a game Friday night fits with those plans.<\/p>\n The Irish have adjusted their offense and played much better the last four weeks but it will take their best game of the year, by far, to hang with the three-time defending 6A champs.<\/p>\n Friday night was also Late Night in Lawrence. Someone asked the question online if Late Night is washed. My response was \u201cOf course it is.\u201d The concept is 40 years old and pretty much every variation has been tried. If you expect anything more than silly\/dumb skits and a ragged scrimmage you\u2019re asking for way too much.<\/p>\n Where Late Night used to be the first chance for fans to see new players, we\u2019ve now seen their highlight videos, seen them play on ESPN as high schoolers, seen viewed clips from summer pickup games, etc. In the transfer portal era we\u2019ve even seen some of them play against their current teams. One of my buddies shared that he thought a guy who played for KU when we were in school was white until Late Night, which I thought was hilarious. No such issues these days.<\/p>\n (Lengthy aside: an underrated big day on the college hoops calendar back in our time was the first game after classes had started for the second semester. We always anxiously watched the tunnel the players came out of to make sure everyone was eligible. There was always one guy you were worried about. There was nothing like that moment of relief and elation when you saw Terry Brown or Alonzo Jamison walk onto the court in uniform. Of course today, when athletes take enough hours in the summer and online to stay eligible, kids have no idea about this flavor of anxiety.)<\/p>\n I say accept Late Night for what it is, the ceremonial start to the hoops season, and don\u2019t ask any more of it.<\/p>\n We had a front blow through Friday night that crashed the temperatures. Saturday and Sunday were both cool and blustery. Which made each day perfect for sitting on my ass and watching football.<\/p>\n The Oklahoma-Texas game was awesome. I was super entertained for the three-plus hours it took the Sooners to pull out the win. And while I hate both schools for leaving the Big 12, I always lean OU in that game since they were a Big 8 school, so I was pleased with the result.<\/p>\n I was super nervous about the KU-Central Florida game. We knew Jalon Daniels would not be playing, which meant KU would feature the run. UCF\u2019s defensive strength is their interior line. Seemed like it could go sideways pretty easily. I was both nervous about losing and about what an L would mean for the season. Drop this game, at home, and the road to bowl eligibility gets a lot tougher, many of the hopes of August quashed in early October.<\/p>\n Silly me. The Jayhawks manhandled those fools. One snap into the second half it was 31\u20130. Methodical marches down the field. Great defense (in the first half). A punt return touchdown for the first time in nine years. A 75-yard TD to open the second half. Other than the D getting torched in the second half and keeping one of the Indy boys from getting to play quarterback, it was almost a perfect game.<\/p>\n 399 yards rushing on the day Tony Sands went into the Ring of Honor was perfect, too. In an ironic twist, my buddy Sweets, who missed Tony\u2019s then NCAA record game in 1991 was unable to watch Saturday. We let him know about it.<\/p>\n So, Jalon\u2026 Super concerning. Especially since he apparently didn\u2019t even come to the stadium to watch. Which is weird.<\/p>\n I have four theories, offered in order of likelihood: I can\u2019t see JD not being around to support his teammates if he was able, so I doubt options 3 or 4 are the explanations. As the father of a kid with a back injury that experts have struggled to identity and treat, I totally get #1, which is no doubt way worse for a football player than just a random high school kid trying to get through her day.<\/p>\n He\u2019s not been the same since he took that hit against TCU last year, and back injuries are never any joke. I\u2019m hoping there\u2019s a reasonable explanation and a path towards getting healthy and playing again before this season is complete. It would be very KU football, though, if his season\/career is over.<\/p>\n Once again KU should be super happy Jason Bean decided to come back. He has some flaws, and I worry about how he\u2019ll manage once teams dare him to make throws consistently. But he\u2019s a hell of a second option and definitely good enough to win another game or two.<\/p>\n And I keep telling myself don\u2019t let the drama around Daniels distract from a second-straight 5\u20131 start. Last year KU fans were thinking, \u201cCan we win one more game?\u201d This year it is \u201cHow many more can we win?\u201d It\u2019s kind of weird to hear national broadcasters praise KU football.<\/p>\n After KU I flipped between the evening games, but mostly watched Notre Dame – Louisville. That turned into an ass-kicking. The Irish, again, are frauds.<\/p>\n At some point in the evening S complained that she felt like she hadn\u2019t accomplished anything all day. I pointed out she went to a friend\u2019s house to take out some stitches and took M to both Costco and Target.<\/p>\n I, on the other hand, had been sitting on the couch watching football for nine hors at that point.<\/p>\n C helped me out, though. \u201cHey, you yelled a lot for awhile so you got your heart rate up.\u201d<\/p>\n She\u2019s my favorite for the moment.<\/p>\n What a weekend for the Colts!<\/p>\n Saturday they announced they had re-signed Jonathan Taylor after his holdout and that he would play on Sunday. I was torn on this. He makes the Colts better, but they are now paying like five guys a quarter of their salary cap, and three of those guys have concerning injury histories. Another potentially bad contract as the team tries to rebuild around Anthony Richardson. But, when healthy, Taylor will take pressure off of Richardson.<\/p>\n Sunday Taylor played a few snaps, but his replacement, Zack Moss, had the game of his life. Nearly 200 total yards, 160+ on the ground against one of the best run D\u2019s in the game. Moss makes a hell of a lot less than Taylor, so now the new contract looks kind of dumb?<\/p>\n Moss was huge in the Colts beating Tennessee and pulling into a tie for first place. Which was even more impressive since Richardson got hurt for the third time this season, leaving the game with a shoulder injury. Apparently my teams can\u2019t have good, young quarterbacks.<\/p>\n Again, great to have a competent backup, in this case Gardner Minshew.<\/p>\n I wrapped up the weekend watching a good chunk of the Cowboys-Niners game. Woodsheds, ass kickings, and whatnot. San Francisco looked awesome, which makes me even more sure that one or more of their stars is going to have a leg amputated or something next week.<\/p>\n Going to flip things up a bit, as our family had a rough week that\u2019s worth getting caught up on first. Squad News Monday M got diagnosed with mono. She\u2019s been sick for weeks and it took a turn last weekend, so she went and got checked. She told us she could see the test turn positive from across the room. So she REALLY has mono, I guess. She had a terrible couple of days but after starting on some steroids, improved pretty rapidly. She ended up coming home for the weekend – UC is off Monday and one of her local buddies offered her a ride – so she was able to have some downtime away from the dorm. When she was awake she seemed pretty normal, but she did sleep even longer than usual. Hopefully she\u2019s on the right path for recovery. Funny how when your kid gets mono everyone you know has to tell you the story of the person they knew who missed a year of school when they got it. I know one of those people, so I understand some of those stories are legit.[1] Otherwise she seems to be doing great at school. That wasn\u2019t our worst health news of the week. Friday morning L cracked heads with a teammate in practice and failed a concussion test after. She went to class for a bit but started to feel bad and I picked her up around 11. She had all the classic symptoms – headache, dizziness, light sensitivity – and they were pretty bad both Friday and Saturday. Sunday they hadn\u2019t improved much but she was feeling a little more like herself. The girl she knocked heads with is a good friend of hers. She stopped by Sunday to give L a bag of candy, which was nice. Obviously we\u2019re being very careful. She\u2019s anxious to get back to school and on the court. We told her to slow her roll, it\u2019s better to miss some time and have to make school work up and catch up in practice than get hit again before she is healed and miss even more time. C didn\u2019t have any issues last week. But we are still working to get her back issue figured out. She\u2019s had an injection that didn\u2019t work, seen a back specialist, and a spine specialist. Friday she goes back to the spine specialist for a more advanced injection he hopes can give her some relief. HS Football Friday was the first time Cathedral played Roncalli, the Catholic school on the south side of Indy, during the regular season in 13 years. They used to play every season and often played in the state tournament before Cathedral moved up two classes. Roncalli won a state title three years ago and were very good last year but are a little down again. Friday the Irish killed them 42\u20130, extending their winning streak in the series to 13. I only heard a few possessions as I was picking M up right when the game started. She laughed because one of her UC friends graduated from RHS and was going to the game. He said he was only going because his dad was making him and it was stupid to go because \u201cWe\u2019re going to be down 30\u20130 at halftime.\u201d It was, indeed, 28\u20130 at half. Now it\u2019s on to the final week of the regular season, the big Center Grove game. Center Grove is ranked #2 in the state but #23 in the country, so pretty much the same old same old down there.[2] Because a huge crowd is expected and CG is still complaining about having to play on real grass two years ago, the game has been moved to Butler\u2019s stadium. Not sure if I\u2019m going or not yet. I have a big day Saturday and have yet to determine if going to a game Friday night fits with those plans. The Irish have adjusted their offense and played much better the last four weeks but it will take their best game of the year, by far, to hang with the three-time defending 6A champs. Late Night Friday night was also Late Night in Lawrence. Someone asked the question online if Late Night is washed. My response was \u201cOf course it is.\u201d The concept is 40 years old and pretty much every variation has been tried. If you expect anything more than silly\/dumb skits and a ragged scrimmage you\u2019re asking for way too much. Where Late Night used to be the first chance for fans to see new players, we\u2019ve now seen their highlight videos, seen them play on ESPN as high schoolers, seen viewed clips from summer pickup games, etc. In the transfer portal era we\u2019ve even seen some of them play against their current teams. One of my buddies shared that he thought a guy who played for KU when we were in school was white until Late Night, which I thought was hilarious. No such issues these days. (Lengthy aside: an underrated big day on the college hoops calendar back in our time was the first game after classes had started for the second semester. We always anxiously watched the tunnel the players came out of to make sure everyone was eligible. There was always one guy you were worried about. There was nothing like that moment of relief and elation when you saw Terry Brown or Alonzo Jamison walk onto the court in uniform. Of course today, when athletes take enough hours in the summer and online to stay eligible, kids have no idea about this flavor of anxiety.) I say accept Late Night for what it is, the ceremonial start to the hoops season, and don\u2019t ask any more of it. College Football We had a front blow through Friday night that crashed the temperatures. Saturday and Sunday were both cool and blustery. Which made each day perfect for sitting on my ass and watching football. The Oklahoma-Texas game was awesome. I was super entertained for the three-plus hours it took the Sooners to pull out the win. And while I hate both schools for leaving the Big 12, I always lean OU in that game since they were a Big 8 school, so I was pleased with the result. I was super nervous about the KU-Central Florida game. We knew Jalon Daniels would not be playing, which meant KU would feature the run. UCF\u2019s defensive strength is their interior line. Seemed like it could go sideways pretty easily. I was both nervous about losing and about what an L would mean for the season. Drop this game, at home, and the road to bowl eligibility gets a lot tougher, many of the hopes of August quashed in early October. Silly me. The Jayhawks manhandled those fools. One snap into the second half it was 31\u20130. Methodical marches down the field. Great defense (in the first half). A punt return touchdown for the first time in nine years. A 75-yard TD to open the second half. Other than the D getting torched in the second half and keeping one of the Indy boys from getting to play quarterback, it was almost a perfect game. 399 yards rushing on the day Tony Sands went into the Ring of Honor was perfect, too. In an ironic twist, my buddy Sweets, who missed Tony\u2019s then NCAA record game in 1991 was unable to watch Saturday. We let him know about it. So, Jalon\u2026 Super concerning. Especially since he apparently didn\u2019t even come to the stadium to watch. Which is weird. I have four theories, offered in order of likelihood: 1 – His injury continues to baffle doctors and he wasn\u2019t actually in Lawrence but somewhere else seeing a specialist. 2 – He\u2019s already had some kind of surgery and they\u2019re trying to hide it. 3 – KU and Daniels\/his family disagree on the best way to treat the injury and because of that he stayed away. 4 – Daniels has shut himself down for the year and was told to stay away from the stadium if that was his choice. I can\u2019t see JD not being around to support his teammates if he was able, so I doubt options 3 or 4 are the explanations. As the father of a kid with a back injury that experts have struggled to identity and treat, I totally get #1, which is no doubt way worse for a football player than just a random high school kid trying to get through her day. He\u2019s not been the same since he took that hit against TCU last year, and back injuries are never any joke. I\u2019m hoping there\u2019s a reasonable explanation and a path towards getting healthy and playing again before this season is complete. It would be very KU football, though, if his season\/career is over. Once again KU should be super happy Jason Bean decided to come back. He has some flaws, and I worry about how he\u2019ll manage once teams dare him to make throws consistently. But he\u2019s a hell of a second option and definitely good enough to win another game or two. And I keep telling myself don\u2019t let the drama around Daniels distract from a second-straight 5\u20131 start. Last year KU fans were thinking, \u201cCan we win one more game?\u201d This year it is \u201cHow many more can we win?\u201d It\u2019s kind of weird to hear national broadcasters praise KU football. After KU I flipped between the evening games, but mostly watched Notre Dame – Louisville. That turned into an ass-kicking. The Irish, again, are frauds. At some point in the evening S complained that she felt like she hadn\u2019t accomplished anything all day. I pointed out she went to a friend\u2019s house to take out some stitches and took M to both Costco and Target. I, on the other hand, had been sitting on the couch watching football for nine hors at that point. C helped me out, though. \u201cHey, you yelled a lot for awhile so you got your heart rate up.\u201d She\u2019s my favorite for the moment. Colts What a weekend for the Colts! Saturday they announced they had re-signed Jonathan Taylor after his holdout and that he would play on Sunday. I was torn on this. He makes the Colts better, but they are now paying like five guys a quarter of their salary cap, and three of those guys have concerning injury histories. Another potentially bad contract as the team tries to rebuild around Anthony Richardson. But, when healthy, Taylor will take pressure off of Richardson. Sunday Taylor played a few snaps, but his replacement, Zack Moss, had the game of his life. Nearly 200 total yards, 160+ on the ground against one of the best run D\u2019s in the game. Moss makes a hell of a lot less than Taylor, so now the new contract looks kind of dumb? Moss was huge in the Colts beating Tennessee and pulling into a tie for first place. Which was even more impressive since Richardson got hurt for the third time this season, leaving the game with a shoulder injury. Apparently my teams can\u2019t have good, young quarterbacks. Again, great to have a competent backup, in this case Gardner Minshew. I wrapped up the weekend watching a good chunk of the Cowboys-Niners game. Woodsheds, ass kickings, and whatnot. San Francisco looked awesome, which makes me even more sure that one or more of their stars is going to have a leg amputated or something next week. What up, Em? \u00a0\u21a9 Brownsburg is ranked #1 in Indiana, but only #50 nationally. 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\nHS Football<\/h3>\n
\nLate Night<\/h3>\n
\nCollege Football<\/h3>\n
\n1 – His injury continues to baffle doctors and he wasn\u2019t actually in Lawrence but somewhere else seeing a specialist.
\n2 – He\u2019s already had some kind of surgery and they\u2019re trying to hide it.
\n3 – KU and Daniels\/his family disagree on the best way to treat the injury and because of that he stayed away.
\n4 – Daniels has shut himself down for the year and was told to stay away from the stadium if that was his choice.<\/p>\n
\nColts<\/h3>\n
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