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Dang...I forgot Reitz lost to Memorial in 2023....I refuse to use Harrell...looks like dementia has set in. 2023 is a blur for me. Season SIAC Champion Won Sectional? Eliminated By 2025 Evansville Memorial ✗ Gibson Southern (PAC) — sectional semifinal, 28-21 2024 Evansville Memorial ✗ Heritage Hills (PAC) — sectional championship, 38-24 2023 Evansville Reitz ✗ Evansville Memorial (SIAC) — sectional, 21-16 2022 Evansville Reitz ✗ Boonville (PAC) — sectional semifinal, 28-27 2021 Jasper ✗ Northview — sectional, 28-14

Who is the NV QB this year? I'm curious what they are doing now after being running the spread/zone the last 15-20 years. Any updates on PH's summer scrimmages or RP? Apparently, RP was at the North Put scrimmage with Sheridan and going to North Davies soon. I'd love to know how those went against Sheridan and ND bc both are state-ranked. Lastly, a great interview with Jake Salts on Hoosier Prep Gridiron today. Its nice to see the WRC getting some love from them.

I remember watching this. It was always crazy to me that the best team in pro football each year would play a college team; even if it was an all star team; what a huge mismatch. But this was even crazier. You can even hear them say there was lightning close by.

The future is bright….for as long as college football is still a thing anyway.

Doyel: Is SEC football willing to destroy college sports? And would Big Ten join them? https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/columnists/gregg-doyel/2026/07/23/sec-football-breakaway-destroy-ncaa-sports-greg-sankey-protect-college-sports-act/91010638007/ Should be an interesting few months.

Intereresting what you said earlier about them. Looks like FC looses a QB who threw for over 2,200 yards & 18 TD's and a RB who rand for 1,755 yards & 24TD's. Converting a 3 years starter at WR (who must be a really nice athlete) to QB and return 2 OL. FC looks to have also lost a couple DL, LBs and DBs. Nothing too big for a 5A school to recover from but based on earlier comments I would be expecting them to be returning more key pieces.

Gibson Southern is just a little 3A school in the middle of a cornfield. Probably not much for you guys to worry about…lots of new faces for GS. Hopefully we stay healthy.

I decided to look into basic data and compared Per Pupil Spending (source: US Census Data), Median Income (source: US Census Data), and Standardized Testing Results (source: Nations Report Card). I just wanted to know more on how Indiana compares since this article used nationwide data. Indiana Rankings PPS: 41st @ $13,622 per pupil (including D.C.) Median Income: 42nd @ $71,959 median family income (including D.C.) 4th Grade Math 2024: 10th (including DoDEA*) 4th Grade Reading 2024: 7th (including DoDEA*) 8th Grade Math 2024: 14th (including DoDEA*) 8th Grade reading 2024: 7th (including DoDEA*) While I would like Indiana to lead in all aspects as it relates to education, I would say that in comparing spending to performance, we're not doing bad. Some other information from the top and bottom of the list included below. New York - highest PPS, ranked 16th in median income 4th Grade Math 2024: 29th (including DoDEA*) 4th Grade Reading 2024: 26th (including DoDEA*) 8th Grade Math 2024: 28th (including DoDEA*) 8th Grade reading 2024: 28th (including DoDEA*) Utah - lowest PPS, ranked 10th in median income 4th Grade Math 2024: 6th (including DoDEA*) 4th Grade Reading 2024: 8th (including DoDEA*) 8th Grade Math 2024: 5th (including DoDEA*) 8th Grade reading 2024: 9th (including DoDEA*) *Department of Defense Education Activity I know there are more factors that contribute to education, student performance, etc...these are very basic comparisons.

Memorial should be very good.

Since the team I follow is going to play them. How good is Gibson Southern and Evansville Memorial this season, compared to last year. Or the years before? What can we expect? I admit that I know very little about them other than the fact that they’re both very successful.

Thanks. If not for me being out west covering games, I would have done this.

Yeah....I need to slow down...but the premise holds.

I'm not sure what you intended to say but at least half of what you wrote is incorrect.

I understand a state title is the ultimate goal but not valuing conference championships as well is crazy. You should want to win every championship you can to prove you are the ultimate team.

A lot of teams do not value conference championships, especially really good teams like Homestead girls basketball that are focused on winning state championships. Winning your conference is important if your team knows they are unlikely to win anything in the state tournament. A conference championship is a chance to accomplish something and celebrate it. Many schools with swimming and diving know their swimmers will not win a sectional event and advance to state, so winning a conference championship is their goal. Some larger schools, like Homestead and Carroll, don’t face the level of competition in their conference that they will see in the state tournament, and it does not feel like an accomplishment to beat inferior teams and win the conference. When Carroll and Homestead joined the SAC for basketball and football, it was done for scheduling purposes, primarily in football. The SAC schools were willing to take them as long as they agreed to the gate splitting because Carroll and Homestead would bring big gates to the two revenue sports. Most of the SAC schools didn’t expect to win very often against Carroll and Homestead, but playing them would increase their much needed revenue. It appears to have cost the conference Concordia, and now Homestead and Carroll are not going to play several of the schools in certain sports anyway.

Someone can fact check me on this, but if memory serves me correctly, Homestead and Carroll were admitted into the SAC only to play football and basketball. The SAC member teams felt comfortable competing with those two programs ONLY in those two sports. And even that was just considered an experiment. So none of this is surprise. Homestead and Carroll outgrew what is now called the Northeast 8. Now they've outgrown the SAC. It's really as simple as that. Unfortunately, there's nowhere for either of them to go in football. There's a lack of similar sized schools in NE Indiana. The best they could hope for would be to form a super conference for football only and pray that programs Snider, Dwenger, and Northrop will join them. There's just not much to choose from up here. Warsaw is almost an hour away. Schools with 1800+ are few and far between, as is the case with any area outside of the Indy Metro.

Coach Hurley shouldn't say he let the conference down...he has had some help. Season SIAC Champion Won Sectional? Eliminated By 2025 Evansville Memorial ❌ Gibson Southern (PAC) 2024 Evansville Memorial ❌ Heritage Hills (PAC) 2023 Evansville Reitz ❌ Heritage Hills (PAC) 2022 Evansville Reitz ❌ Boonville (PAC) 2021 Evansville Memorial ❌ Northview 2020 Evansville Memorial ✅ Mooresville (Regional)

https://reason.com/2026/07/22/american-public-schools-lost-1-4-million-students-since-covid-their-budgets-grew-by-34-percent-anyway/ Agreed. Asking taxpayers to pay more for a government education for less students and middling results (at best) is insanity.

https://outsidethehuddle.net/2026/07/21/homestead-girls-basketball-drops-four-sac-teams-from-2026-27-schedule/?fbclid=IwdGRleATNrmlwZG9mAWV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkCjY2Mjg1NjgzNzkAAR5xXhsCRgZjePyhpPCyMG0EQMixEP61-8APWcPxt5A9PUg5aDe07sjDw-FPdw_aem_NKaGXWtVL2EcevjewYDSUw I know this is basketball but what’s going on here? Is the SAC about to implode? We’ve seen games get dropped in football and now we’re seeing it in basketball. If you’re not going to play games against teams in your conference then that should get you kicked out of your conference.

It's easy to wash your hands. And the move to a Central Bank Digital Currency means the end of personal freedom as we know it.

Thank you for the link. From the article: The Bears should be paying ALL the infrastructure costs, either in Illinois or Indiana. It is their stadium after all. Although the "willing" in that last statement is telling. It's basically saying we'll take whatever taxpayer sugar either state is willing to throw our way for construction costs.

It’s inevitable. And incredibly sad when I think about our own experiences with a college athlete in the family. So much will be lost, in the name of a few people making a buck.

been saying it for last 2 years.... TV money only thing to save the break off of NCAA because if they cannot get TV deals as lucrative as the ones they have while in NCAA then that would be the sticking point

I agree....but I also feel it's inevitable. I would add, the reasoning used is a good one. If the NCAA is not allowed to enforce their own rules regarding gambling, then they are basically on life support.