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All is not rainbows and unicorns in IU Football land: https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/college/indiana/2026/07/24/indiana-football-player-tyrone-burrus-jr-arrested-strangulation-domestic-battery-charge/91034371007/

This could be quite the societal discussion. It could be argued the higher percentages of German heritage in the south and Polish heritages in the Northwest in those blue areas could also be a factor if just looking for correlation. But ultimately, I believe it is good coaches that can make a program is the primary factor. If they have a stable or growing community geared toward service and involvement that can feed a tradition, that gives them a playing field above other communities that may be stagnant or dwindling. Catholic communities don't have a monopoly on such environments, but I believe the data would show they would be skewed on the demographic spectrum toward the more stable and supportive families and communities. Then adding in the the random genetic athletic roll of the dice from year to year, you can get sometimes get greatness when you were already good. Just looking at the historical results of the southwest blue counties in your map, I would say Gibson, Perry and southern Spencer are opposite sides of the tale. In the 70's/80'searly 90's, I would consider South Spencer and Tell City as perennial strong programs, while Gibson Southern over all was not. The opposite is true now. I would say observing first hand, coaching changes was a big influence in that and coupled with those areas also having the opposite stories in regards to the population retention or growth, it paints the picture. Meanwhile, north Spencer and Dubois county communities keep moving right along consistently.

As a travel sports parent....you've gotta love combinations of "cash only" entry fee, combinded with the "no cash" concessions 😁

Enjoy your Government backed Social Credit Score. At least until you do something the government doesn't like and your cost for some good (gas, food, etc.) goes up, or you are denied access to some service, or denied entry to some venue. This will be the future of a cashless, CBDC society. It is already starting in China.

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This is great. No matter how much credit the Sabols get for what they did with NFL Films, it will never be enough.

IU football is at the top of the mountain, but staying there is the challenge. They are recruiting at a level never seen in Bloomington and they have conquered the transfer portal like nobody else has. Scary times for the rest of college football…

Not going to be able to stop it, we don't have to worry about though.

Forgot to say “public” little 3A school in a cornfield. (Fixed it for me)

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I have already heard from local Gibson County folks that you're looking good with the new faces. And the projected QB will be throwing the ball all over the place.

If you want to try to connect the match ups of last years games with who you return. FC beat Evansville North 15-10 in Sectional. Memorial beat them 21-0 last year. FC beat Castle 49-14 in Sectional. Memorial beat them 37-7 two weeks prior. Memorial will be better this year. Memorial has some spots to fill this year, but I think the key area to see who steps up is 2 to 3 spots in the line rotations on OL and DL. I think everywhere else will be as good or better than last years team. They return a lot. Quite a few, relatively speaking, sophomores started and contributed a lot of minutes on last years team. You'll have plenty of games to watch by the time week 8 rolls around to see where they are.

And the sectional champion in four of those six season was from the SIAC.

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.