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I will let Coach Berry tell you :

We’ve been pumping HGH and roids into the water for years. Isn’t that common practice???

Colton Crum, a Notre Dame junior who claimed a gold medal at the 2021 ACC Indoor Championships with a pole vault of 16-9.5 feet: https://theacc.com/news/2021/2/25/indoor-track-field-virginia-tech.aspx#:~:text=Notre Dame junior Colton Crum,Virginia Tech junior Harrison Rice.

At least their mascot isn’t the largest member of the weasel family.😂😅🤣

The only thing I see canceled is your pulse when I rip out your karate arteries. You regions boys are probably good bagpipe players with all the air you blow. I swear to God you do. The only good dudes I ever seen from the region is Nowlins and Brad Smith. You typed 4 paragraphs but I’m the over responder! I gotta go

If I was Nowlins I’d ban your ass and I’ll say it right to your face. Girls play too. STATE LAW!

Success breeds success kids growing up don’t want to be know as the Losing class so everyone pushes everyone harder

Let's say that by the competition factor that 6A would have the 32 most successful programs over a given period by some mathematical algorithm. Then 5A would have the next 32 and then so on. I guess the only thing you might fight is the perception that some of the low schools would be seen as "losers" or something. It might also have the unintended consequence of the "rich get even richer."

Ole Donnie Boy you having a bad day or just part of the new Cancel Culture??? You completely misconstrued my post. If you read the original post in thread, it listed a lot of teams that were mostly Girls teams from various sports with Boys only coming from football. My question was even more specific to the original one as to what is the secret to the success to the Girls sports at Pioneer. Coach Nowlin replied with some good posts as to why the success from Adam Berry. You need to chill out and take you banning/cancel culture, overreaction elsewhere! Ridiculous!

Those people would rather tongue kiss an electric outlet than join forces with their northern neighbors. If you are ever in the Mecca area Muda feel free to pick up a steak at the Mecca Tavern and maybe take a stray dog or two home with you.

You and the work you do here are appreciated Coach!

I'm sure there is a rich Cass county farmer or two that happily picks up the tab........................

They do not invest in end zone camera excellence?

New Haven hires Kyle Booher as the next head coach. He has been an assistant in the program for 3 years now.

They were a joint corporation. North Central Parke Community School Corporation, the same one PH operates under currently. I believe they were 2 separate corporations until about 2013

I'm sure a number of Texas citizens and their families did. They were prepared.

No, but it can change.

DT back when we put the SF together I brought up the concept of bumping teams down who had not won a playoff game in the four years span, down one level. It garnered virtually zero support in the committee, and died on the spot. There is no appetite from schools to accept such a label, and I doubt the IHSAA has any interest in forcing it upon anyone.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9300987/Rand-Paul-likens-gender-surgery-genital-mutilation-exchange-trans-nominee-HHS-deputy.html Rand Paul compares gender change surgery for minors to genital mutilation in furious exchange with Biden's transgender pick for assistant HHS secretary Rand Paul angrily confronted Joe Biden's pick for assistant secretary for Health and Human Services on Thursday, likening gender changes surgeries to genital mutilation and pushing the transgender nominee on if they would allow minors to decide if they want to go on hormones to stop puberty. 'We should be outraged that someone is talking to a three-year-old about changing their sex,' Paul said of Rachel Levine, a transgender woman Biden picked to help head up HHS. Paul, who was a practicing ophthalmologist before becoming a U.S. senator, likened transgender minors starting on transitioning treatments to genital mutilation, blaming the increasing rates of trans-identified youth on 'the social pressure to conform.' 'Genital mutilation has been nearly universally condemned,' Paul began in his line of questioning of Levine. 'Most genital mutilation is not typical performed by force,' he continued in an opening monologue. 'But, as [the World Health Organization] notes, that by social convention, social norm, the social pressure to conform, to do what others do and have been doing, as well as the need to be accepted socially and the fear of being rejected by the community.' 'American culture is now normalizing the idea that minors can be given hormones to prevent their biological development of their secondary sexual characteristics,' Paul continued as Levine appeared before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee for her confirmation hearing on Thursday. 'Dr. Levine, you have supported allowing minors to be given hormone blockers to prevent them from going through puberty, as well as surgical destruction of a minor's genitalia,' the Kentucky Republican senator pointed out. 'Do you believe minors are capable of making such a life changing decision of changing one's sex?' Levine thanked the senator for his 'interest' in transgender medicine, calling it 'a very complex and nuanced field with robust research and standards of care that have been developed' over time. 'If I'm fortunate enough to be confirmed, I will look forward to working with you and your office and coming to your office to discuss the particulars of the standards of care for transgender medicine,' Levine said. Levine, a pediatrician, is currently secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Health and rose to prominence in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. She was nominated to become Biden's assistant secretary of HHS. If confirmed, she would act as HHS secretary nominee Xavier Becerra's deputy. Becerra currently serves as attorney general for California. During the hearing Thursday, Levine did not address the substance of Paul's questions at any points regarding transgender healthcare decisions in cases with minors. 'Let it go into the record that the witness refused to answer the question,' Paul said of Levine. 'The question is a very specific one: should minors be making these momentous decisions?' 'For most of the history of medicine, we wouldn't let you have a cut sewn up in the ER [without parental consent],' he lamented. 'But you're willing to let a minor take things that prevent their puberty, and you think they get that back?' 'You give a woman testosterone enough that she grows a beard, you think she's going to go back looking like a woman when you stop the testosterone? You have permanently changed them. Infertility is another problem,' Paul said. Levine appeared before the Senate panel alongside Surgeon General nominee Vivek Murthy for a dual confirmation hearing. 'According to the WHO, genital mutilation is recognized internationally as a violation of human right. Genital mutilation is considered particularly egregious because because, as the WHO notes, it is nearly always carried out on minors and is a violation of the rights of children,' Paul continued in likening putting children on hormones to castration and female circumcision. 'I'm alarmed that you're not saying they should be prevented from making decisions to amputate their breasts or genitalia,' Paul said during the heated exchange between him and Levine. 'We have always said that minors do not have full rights—will you make a more firm decision on whether or not minors should be involved in these decisions?' Levine reiterated that transgender medicine is 'a very complex and nuanced field,' but refused to directly answer whether minors should be able to make medical decisions based on changing their sex. No doubt this is "very complex and nuanced"......but the inability of this individual to be able to articulate a position on this in unacceptable.

Any Non-success list would have to include Pike Central. Has the IHSAA football tournament been around in its current format since 1985? 1986? Pike Central has won one sectional game in that time span. Not won the sectional. ONE GAME. So their postseason record is 1-35. If that doesn't define a team that can't be competitive as a 3A school, I don't know what does.

Apologies to you and @Donnie Baker I glanced at the Membership Map https://www.ihsaa.org/Portals/0/ihsaa/documents/calendars/MembershipMap.pdf and confused I-74 with the county line between the two. It appears then Seeger (Warren) is the single HS exception and not Fountain Central. Great point. It's always easier to support a winner.

Good to see you back Coach Nowlin.

Wow. 2-year series with Eastbrook is over? Wonder which side ended that. I see Eastbrook now is playing Huntington North and New Haven instead of Marion and Delta. Unfortunate given how bad the CIC is. I would like to have seen them add some better competition. Going to be hard to beat Bishop Luers, Pioneer, LCC, Rensselaer Central, Andrean or whoever they play if they get out of sectional if they haven't faced that level of competition yet. Maybe they don't think they'll have the talent to worry about it the next couple of seasons. I think the tougher non-conference clearly helped them in 2019.

There obviously isn't just one answer, but I think for SOME of these school's Admin either doesn't care or have given up. First, make practice convenient for players. Have an athletic class. Students no longer have to find a way home after workouts, plus it allows them to work after school during the off-season. Adding an activity bus would also increase participation. It would allow students a way home after practice in-season. This doesn't have to be difficult. Coaches can't drive players home after practice in their personal vehicles (at least aren't supposed to). So get them licensed to drive the activity bus and I'm sure a lot of coaches will be happy to take players home themselves. Secondly is coaching. I feel a lot of these schools fall in one of three categories. Either they hire a coach and fire them after 2-3 years if they haven't turned the program around. Coaches need more time than that to turn these perennial losers. OR hire a coach that averages 2-3 wins a year and the Admin allows them to stick around for 10-15 years. apparently they aren't a good fit. OR they hire a coach that has been to 2-3 schools and failed. It honestly puzzles me. I assume they feel that they are hiring someone that "knows" how to run knows how to run a program, keeping the Admin from having to deal with any day to day headaches. Admin should also take coaching into consideration when they are hiring teachers. It should factor in if a teacher is willing to coach one or multiple sports. Obviously not every teacher is going to be a coach, but I do feel like coaches are judged in a negative way by a lot of admin. They believe coaches just want to coach and don't care about teaching. Are there bad teachers that coach? Sure. Are there bad teachers that that don't coach? You bet! This would actually allow HC's to get talented assistants as opposed to having MAYBE a teacher or two, then hoping for lay coaches to fill out the rest of the staff. There are plenty of talented lay coaches, but work schedule keeps a lot of guys from coaching. Once again there are multiple reasons why some programs struggle year after year, but I feel Admin is one of the main factors.

So the IHSAA exists to recognize "success" and basically ignore failure. Got it. Turkey Run and Rockville schools did recently consolidate, yes. I'm not sure if athletic relevance was the primary reason behind such a move however.

As one of the smallest school in 4A at the moment, I agree. Maybe even down to 2A with their available talent pool.

You do know that Frankfort finished this past regular season with a winning record, 5-4? The first one since 2009. Of course they had play two 1A schools (and go 1-1 against them) to do it.