Leaderboard

This is false. Kids like to be coached hard.

Don’t get all warm & fuzzy about Glass. If you’re going to give him some credit for what IU football has done this season, then you have to assign him blame for the fact that they haven’t done in the first 10 years he was AD.

HUGE missed opportunity today by the Colts....HORRIBLE 2nd half. They gave up on the run game way too soon. Defense played really well most of the game; hard to fault them for the one play 3 yard drive for a TD......outside of that one play, they really did do enough to win the game. The loss could very well cost them a spot in the playoffs. It is crazy to think they could finish 11-5 and miss the playoffs, when in the NFC, the Cowboys are still alive and could finish 7-9.

Yes. He was a 3 sport athlete at SN and a very good one.

I apologize. Let me be more specific. This generation of kids is as tough as those who’ve come before them. Most like to be pushed and held accountable, or coached hard. There will always be those who are soft or lazy, and they typically find other activities during the fall, or a place that better suits their personality. We could have a whole discussion on this, but I don’t want to hijack Lake Central/Crown Pointe football thread!

and watching Cincy QB throw for over 350 + against that Texans Defense,,,,, All Fool's Gold... But again the frustrating thing will be: Foles decision took like 12 games to start to RUN the ball and PA and BOOT Mitch..... Now look much easier the game is for the Bears.

This comment shows just how wildly out of touch certain members of GID are lol.

They need to be.

OK, for those that were fooled by Trubisky’s play the last few weeks, that was Ex. A in why it’s time to move on from him.

Was doing a little history check and found this interesting: South Bend Washington started in 1938, expanding South Bend into a three high school corporation. It "won" the mythical state title in 1939. I think Covenant was a little slow on their start.

True, there will be a point when logistics ($) and reality (declining enrollment and loss of athletes) supersede tradition and history.

As has been said before, if OSU, Michigan, Michigan State, Penn State, Wisconsin and even Iowa were in the same position IU was, any of those teams would have played in the conference championship with no 11th hour change of plans, AND those schools would have been in one of those NY6 games. I am not really big on looking for bulletin board material for a team, or things similar, but this is one case where an exception can be made for IU for next season. Carry that chip on your shoulder Hoosiers.

Richmond, Muncie Central, and Anderson are some pretty lengthy bus rides from Tippecanoe County. Marion and Tech aren’t terrible, but not trips that are easy to make on a weeknight. The tradition and history of the NCC will keep schools like Kokomo and Logansport from leaving. Football has never been the focus of the NCC, but the current alignment and schedule format really doesn’t benefit very many of the teams. The non-revenue sports are not very competitive either. I don’t think the 10 or 12 team conferences have worked out very well. This past season showed what schedule flexibility (mostly out of necessity rather than choice) could look like and there were several interesting matchups that wouldn’t normally happen. AD’s hate the prospect of 6 or 7 team conferences because they see it as more work to schedule non-conference games. Personally, I think 6, 7, or 8 teams in a conference is good for high school sports. I thought for a while that a conference of Kokomo, Logansport, Jeff, Harrison, McCutcheon, and West Lafayette would be a nice combination with relatively limited travel. It would also leave some openings in the schedule for Kokomo and Logan to keep the traditional rivalries with schools like Marion. The eastern schools of the NCC could combine with a few of the larger schools in east central Indiana and two from the Hoosier Heritage. That conference could include Marion, Mississinewa, Anderson, Yorktown, Delta, Muncie Central, Jay County, and Richmond. The Hoosier Heritage would then have 6 teams with Pendleton, New Castle, Mount Vernon, Greenfield, New Pal, and Shelbyville. They wanted 8 teams when they went after New Castle. Maybe they look at a school like Beech Grove to fill one of those spots. Note: absolutely none of this will ever happen.

Gene Miller, as in the Washington boys basketball coach, Gene Miller?

he was also at Judson for 2 years

Well yea! Who the hell knows? But to say they didn’t benefit? You may be jumpin to conclusions

Snider played Penn in 2012 (one of the four seasons you speak of) and beat them in the regular season. Maybe that prepared them for their victories over Fishers and Merrillville en route to the state title game?

Well, it just occurs to me that you may have not accounted for a variable or two in your determination of causation, rendering the conclusion a little suspect.

Because it benefits Luers in the tournament by playing larger schools in the regular season. I'm struggling with why you don't think Snider would benefit from playing larger schools like Luers does. It's common sense.

Can we ever have a SAC thread that stays on topic without some outsider trying to tell us how to run our own conference.