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As an official who schedules games 4-5 years in advance and then loses games regularly because conferences realign or change schedules I can tell you this happens often. Some years we've lost 3-4 games. Each year there is at least 1 game changed/cancelled.

I could be mistaken, but I believe that I saw somewhere online yesterday that Grant Zgunda is the new head coach up in patriot country? This being confirmed as I am typing this, congrats to him and Jay County, Great hire. Program should be heading in the correct direction now! https://twitter.com/Blitz_OTH/status/1361444031264415749?s=20

I definitely agree here. Would love to see the NLC switch things up. I think one big reason why the conference couldn't was mostly due to Concord's schedule. Prior to Elkhart Memorial joining the conference in 2001, Concord and Memorial played every year in week 2 of the season. Concord also played Jimtown (an out of conference opponent) in week 6 of the season. However, when Memorial joined the conference, the schools just kept that game during week 2. So those teams would always start the conference part of the schedule a week earlier than the rest, while also having an OOC game in the middle of the conference season. With Memorial leaving via consolidation and Mishawaka taking their place this year, Concord and Jimtown thankfully moved their game up to week 2 of the season and Mishawaka slid into Memorial's slot on the schedule for all other teams (and into week 6 for Concord). Now that the NLC has all teams playing conference games in week 3 through week 9, maybe there is potential for some schedule shifts every 3-4 years. Definitely an advocate of it.

Teams need to play opponents at different times of the year. It keeps it fair and keeps it fresh.

I was on staff at Kokomo two seasons ago and the week we played Plymouth was during the Blueberry Festival. That is not fun for parking, or trying to navigate a team to the field when they are loading up those trollys.

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I agree with this. The NLC has kept the same conference schedule for as long as I can remember. Looking at our friend @Rudy Almanacsports.com website, Warsaw has had the same conference schedule rotation since the 1985 season. The only change ups have been when teams left or join the conference: Plymouth Bremen (1985-88) / Out of Conference Opponent (1989-2000) / Elkhart Memorial (2001-2019) / Mishawaka (2020-present) Rochester (1985-86) / Northridge (1987-present) Goshen Wawasee NorthWood Concord One reason why I would like to see a possible change up is because it seems every EVEN year, the homecoming opponent is Goshen and on the ODD years is either Northridge or Wawasee. It would also be nice if another school in the confernce had to deal with the traffic and parking nightmare that is related to Plymouth's Blueberry Festival 😆

You see college football change their conference schedules every year. I think it would be a good to see conferences change up when their teams play one another throughout the season. If there is a set week that rivals always play then that can be locked in and stay. But other matchups should be changed every other year or so.

The bigger question is what figures are they going to use? Obviously this pandemic has the numbers skewed quite a bit. I certainly don't envy the IHSAA with trying to figure this one out!

https://nypost.com/2021/02/16/nyc-public-school-asks-parents-to-reflect-on-their-whiteness/ A city public school principal is asking parents to “reflect” on their “whiteness” — passing out literature that extols “white traitors’’ who “dismantle institutions,” education officials confirmed to The Post on Tuesday. The “woke’’ offensive at the East Side Community School in Manhattan features a ranking list titled “The 8 White Identities,” which ranges from “White Supremacist’’ to “White Abolitionist.” The curriculum, written by Barnor Hesse, an associate professor of African American studies at Northwestern University in Illinois, claims, “There is a regime of whiteness, and there are action-oriented white identities. “People who identify with whiteness are one of these,’’ Hesse writes above the eight-point list. “It’s about time we build an ethnography of whiteness, since white people have been the ones writing about and governing Others,’’ Hesse adds. In between the two extreme “identities” of supremacist and abolitionist are such categories as “White Voyeurism’’ — defined as “wouldn’t challenge a white supremacist, desires non-whiteness because it’s interesting’’ — and “White Privilege,’’ or “sympathetic to a set of issues but only privately; won’t speak/act in solidarity publicly because benefitting through whiteness in public (some POC are in this category as well).”“The Eight White Identities” written by Northwestern University associate professor Barnor Hesse. The handout was accompanied by a color-coordinated meter with the red zone on the left titled “White Supremacist’’ and the green zone on the far right labeled “White Abolitionist.” A New York City Department of Education official told The Post that some parents at the school, which caters to sixth- through 12-graders on the Lower East Side, first shared the material with staff. The principal then disseminated it to every parent “as part of a series of materials meant for reflection” and as “food for thought,” the official said. A DOE rep said in a statement, “Anti-racism and the celebration of diversity is at the core of our work on behalf of the young people of New York City, and the East Side Community School’s students, parents and staff partner together to advance equity in their community. “The document in question was shared with the school by parents as a part of ongoing anti-racist work in the school community and is one of many resources the schools utilizes.”Northwestern University associate professor Barnor Hesse presents an “ethnography of whiteness” in the ranking list. The spokesman said school workers are now being threatened over the missive. “Our staff are now being targeted with vile racist, anti-Semitic and homophobic slurs and degrading language from people outside of their school and nothing justifies the abuse directed at our educators,” the rep said. Christopher Rufo of the Discovery Institute wrote in a tweet that included a posting of the curriculum, “This is the new language of public education.” The dissemination of Hesse’s literature to parents comes as the DOE and schools chancellor Richard Carranza have pushed to eliminate what they call current administrators’ “white-supremacy culture.’’ The administration has embraced “anti-bias training” across the board, with staffers forced to attend slide-show presentations denouncing the current culture’s “paternalism” and “power hoarding” — while getting sued over Carranza’s alleged creation of “an environment which is hostile toward whites.” Rufo’s Feb. 15 tweet drew mixed reactions on Twitter. “If you find this hostile, or unnerving, it’s because you are fearing the loss of power and advantage that your skin colour has afforded you. It’s an agenda to bring true equality,” a Twitter user fired at Rufo over Hesse’s chart. But another writer said, “THIS is what a public school spends time and money on? Anti-racism like this is a poison.” The racial makeup of the student body at East Side Community was 55 percent Hispanic, 18 percent white, 15 percent black, 10 percent Asian and 2 percent other during the last school year. The school’s principal, Mark Federman, declined comment through the Education Department. WTF? How is this, in and of itself, not racist? I guess since BLM endorses it, that makes it OK.

I really want to know if Terre Haute North and South really dropped enrollment that much.

They will probably drop it 10 days before the game due to "travel" issues.

Eh, if he’s a free thinker the result will be the same.

An average free and reduced lunch of 70 percent is not helping matters. I’ll say it again, unless you have a significant enrollment advantage, the uphill climb that this data presents is damn hard.

People are kind of missing the forest for the trees here: conferences need to be about geography first and foremost. Intriguing matchups are great, but when it comes with a long bus ride, that kind of defeats the purpose.

Ronnie's policies brought us to this point, and anyone saying anything less is delusional.

You don't have to throw the paper away in front of the student, chief. You at least rolled your eyes at such a PC request, right?