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Bobref's description is certainly correct - the members are the schools (principals), who elect the Board / Exec. Committee, which then hires the administrative staff - but the difference is the IHSAA is a quasi-governmental entity and the Commissioner pretty much controls the executive, legislative and judicial decision-making. jets - the Board / Executive Committee is made up of 19 members. The state is divided in to 3 geographic districts, with each district having reps from 4 enrollment classes (1A - 4A), plus 3 reps for the North & South regions (for female, minority & urban "classes") and 1 rep from p/p schools. The reps for District III (which includes our neck of the woods) are: Jeff Doyle (Barr-Reeve), Tim Grove (N. Knox), Larry Cochren (Washington) and Tom Black (East Central). Joe Hermann of Mater Dei is the p/p rep, but is retiring at the end of the school year so there will be a new person elected.

Washington is right on the 3A / 4A line, so my guess is they might be in the mix for moving back down if a couple of 3A move up.

Assuming no other movement, probably nobody - just leave S32 as a 7 team sectional. If HH makes another run this year, wouldn't they get bumped up to 4A in 2025?

I remember. But in the last 2 classifications, there has been a lot of movement of several former 3A schools to 2A (Pike Central, Sullivan, Brownstown, Salem, Brown Co.) and Washington moving to 4A in the latest one leaves a very distinct group of 8 3A schools within the pocket of SW IN. That said, I'm not saying a different group couldn't be decided, but it would be almost idiotic to split that group up. And yes, I realize idiotic is certainly not out of the realm for the brain trust on North Meridian Street. As for Sectional 24, Washington replaces Memorial, but I wonder if BNL will get moved out? That seemed like an odd addition last year.

Might be a somewhat different situation because of wrestling being a 1 day Sectional with the winner based on team points. With football being 3 games and travel expenses being what they are, I just don't see the IHSAA doing anything but looking purely at geography. We shall see soon enough I suppose.

I don't recall anyone making any predictions, other than the Sectional will be very, very tough. I think we know enough to not presume anything. If that's the group, HH will be the favorite without question.

I'd say it is the likely scenario. Not sure how the IHSAA could split them up to be honest. Add Mt. Vernon, Princeton & Vincennes Lincoln and that looks to be a Sectional. I would bet the 5 you mention will all easily be in the top 10 of the preseason poll.

The only way GS, VL, HH, EM, PCHS, SR, MV & MD (listed by enrollment) aren't in the same Sectional is if there is some serious monkey business going on at the IHSAA. Adding Memorial and MD makes an obvious 8 team group in SWIN. Will be a tough, tough Sectional. Princeton is gonna have to burn a lot of boats... Interesting that GS could very well be 4A next time around as they are 30 or so from the top of 3A. MD is less than 10 from the 2A cut-off, so they could potentially bounce down next time around.

Fixed it.

Of course not. As I've said multiple times (obsessed in your words), those teams in the same Sectional would provide some great games for fans and great competition for the players. As to the financial side, maybe it isn't a concern to a public school, but maximizing gate receipts is an important revenue source for us. Personally, I'd rather see big games between schools in the same general area in the Sectional, not the Regional or Semi-State, because I'd like for the schools to reap the rewards of bringing thousands of fans instead of the IHSAA. It almost sounds like you would prefer a Sectional that isn't competitive from top to bottom? What's the rationale for that?

LOL. You would have gotten far more from a split of the HH game...

And I can't remember now if MD is forecasted to be in 3A too or not. If they are, adding MD and Vincennes Lincoln would probably make it the best Sectional this area has seen in quite a while (in any class).

It was, but from the schools' standpoint, having that game in Sectional would have been far more lucrative and the environment would have not changed. As a semi-state game each school received only 100 tickets worth of gate revenue. Instead, the IHSAA was the one who made the bank. Call it what you want, but a Sectional with tradition-rich schools like GS, HH, SR, & Ev. Memorial will offer some great games to watch and the schools will benefit financially and competitively.

There were some funky groupings in several areas during the last cycle... HH and GS (2 PAC schools w/in 50 miles of each other) playing for a semi-state being an example...

I personally don't see how seeding 5A & 6A with only 4 teams in the Sectionals makes all that much difference. Yes, you push back a Brownsburg / BD type of game, but only for 1 week. For 5A & 6A, it makes more sense to me to seed the South and the North, which would be easier to do at 5A & 6A than in lower classes because of geographic concentration (especially in 6A). In lower classes that have 7&8 team Sectionals, seeding the top 2 and ping-ponging the teams is fine with me. That gives no/low-win teams a chance of drawing a competitive game (an IHSAA goal) and also insuring the top 2 teams aren't squaring off in round 1.