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Geez, how many redshirts did this dude get? Looks like his wife and kids are sitting in the stands forgodsakes.

When divisions are geographical, championship games/weeks make sense...not always so much when the divisions are Big School, Small School.

Jesse James? 🤣

NO ONE IS BRINGING THIS UP!!?!? #SIAC4LIFE

I would love to see the SIAC go to this model in football, but I will be surprised if it ever happened. Based on enrollment, the divisions would be: Biggie Castle (5A - 1965) North (5A - 1684) Reitz (4A - 1378) Harrison (4A - 1250) Central (4A - 1165) Smalls Jasper (4A - 1105) Bosse (3A - 800) Lincoln (3A - 735) Memorial (4A - 609) Mater Dei (2A - 497)

This move is far more important to Carroll and Homestead than it is Snider. Those two programs have to endure 6a every single year, and this new format will prepare them for that. They deserve a championship, right? Luers has their 11 state titles thanks to a conference that prepares them for the tournament every year. Now maybe it's another programs turn to benefit. At the end of the day, this doesn't hurt Luers one iota. They'll still play Dwenger every year and one of the other big schools. With the two open dates, they have an opportunity to schedule programs just as good as Snider, Homestead, and Carroll. I don't think scheduling the likes of Hartley, Whitmer, or Chatard will hurt their chances of making deep runs in the tournament. I think the biggest winner in all this is ticket sales. Will I travel to the south end of town to see Luers take on Homestead? Highly doubtful. A team that I wouldn't normally get to witness in person like Chatard, Whitmer, or Hartley? Absolutely. Snider vs Penn, Homestead vs Carmel, Carroll vs Merrillville, and Dwenger vs Roncalli? Sign me up for those.

Attended this clinic in 2018. Best clinic I've been to. Definitely worth the trip.

Both would be good additions IMO, but Boonville isn't having any of it.

This is a huge get for the Irish. https://www.si.com/college/notredame/football/notre-dame-football-harry-hiestand-returning-a-home-run-for-marcus-freeman-tommy-rees Harry Hiestand Returning To Notre Dame Is A Home Run For Marcus Freeman, Tommy Rees The return of Harry Hiestand to coach the offensive line at Notre Dame is a coup for Marcus Freeman and Tommy Rees Irish Breakdown readers and members have known this was coming, but more and more national reporters are learning what we've known for awhile, and what has been reported on Irish Breakdown for weeks, that Harry Hiestand is going to return to Notre Dame as its next offensive line coach. Hiestand and Notre Dame have been working on a contract for weeks, and IB sources indicate all the hurdles have been cleared and the former Irish line coach will once again be the Irish line coach. Of course, Hiestand was the Notre Dame offensive line coach from 2012-2017, and during that time the program came to be known as O-Line U for its success at producing elite lines and high NFL Draft picks. Notre Dame won the 2017 Joe Moore Award, which goes to the nation's best offensive line, during Hiestand's final season in South Bend. A case could be made that Notre Dame also had the nation's best offensive line in 2015, two years before that award was created. Of course, that award is named for a former Irish coach, one who was part of Notre Dame's last championship squad (1988) and also had a legendary career at Pittsburgh. During Hiestand's six seasons at Notre Dame he developed four players that became 1st Round NFL Draft picks (Zack Martin, Ronnie Stanley, Quenton Nelson, Mike McGlinchey), including three that were Top 10 NFL Draft picks. Notre Dame also had a second and a third round draft pick during that tenure, and three more players that Hiestand recruited and coached for at least one season were drafted in the second (Liam Eichenberg, Aaron Banks) and third round (Robert Hainsey) a year ago. Notre Dame's offenses averaged 204.1 rushing yards per game during Hiestand's tenure (minus sacks, team runs), compared to 191.8 in the four year since he departed and 142.7 in the four years prior to his arrival. Notre Dame's offense also averaged 5.83 yards per carry (minus sacks, team carries) during his six seasons, compared to 5.41 in the four years that followed his departure and 4.74 in the four years prior to his arrival. Notre Dame's 2015 team set a modern program record for yards per play (7.0). In 2017, Notre Dame's 6.25 yards per carry also set a modern program record. Despite a narrative emerging about his recruiting passions, Hiestand landed top line classes year after year. He even recruited a player inJerry Tillery that eventually became a first round pick at defensive line. Tillery, of course, was initially recruited to Notre Dame as an offensive tackle. For Notre Dame to become a national title contender a major step was getting its offensive line back to the levels it had during much of Hiestand's tenure. The program has grown in other ways since he left, but the line steadily took steps back. Head coach Marcus Freemanand offensive coordinator Tommy Rees convincing Hiestand to come back gives the program a chance to get its line where it needs to be. This is a coup for both coaches. For Freeman it gives him one of the best, and most respected names in the business. For Rees, more practically, it gives him an offensive line coach who will certainly be able to improve the physicality and production of the run game. It's the first, and arguably most important, big coaching domino to fall for Notre Dame this offseason. It's step one towards Freeman building the kind of top-to-bottom elite staff that his predecessor never could build. Hiestand and Rees clearly have a relationship. The former was the offensive line coach for the final two seasons of Rees' career, including overseeing the line that allowed Rees to be sacked just 8 times in 2013. They also worked together in 2017 when Hiestand was the offensive line coach and Rees was in his first season as the quarterbacks coach.

Not disagreeing, just don't ask the NY Giants to scheme up blocking Robert Quinn in a normal pass rush front. Quinn was lined up to the Giants left (wide 5 technique). Instead of having your left OT block him (with the possibility of help from a RB), you guessed it, the Giants pulled their center to block him. Needless to say, this experiment worked as well as you are picturing it. Have you been watching Hard Knocks (In-season version) with the Colts? Good stuff. Tell you what. That Colts team has some pretty solid leadership in that locker room.

Just for a little historical perspective, the idea originated with the SAC when the league started. From 1973 to 1979, the two division champions would play foe the conference title. http://www.almanacsports.com/football/conference.php?conf_id=summit The Fort Wayne City Series, the SAC’s predecessor, has one in 1971 and 1972 as well. Cool move though that could create some intriguing matchups. Rudy

Maybe Luers should steal people's tax money and build a new stadium, oh wait we are not a government school.

Top Ten Ways to Determine an SAC Champion: 1. Flip a coin. 2. Cut a deck of cards. 3. Dramatically draw a name written on beechwood bark from a bowler's hat at dawn. 4. Placekicking shootout, opposite foot. 5. First team to call dibs. 6. Give it to the fifth place team on even years, seventh place team odd years. Except leap years, then it is paper-rock-scissors between fourth and sixth. 7. Top 40 time by the starting left tackle of the respective teams. 8. Mascot fisticuffs. To the death. 9. Each team plants a tree. In ten years time, the team whose tree has grown tallest wins. 10. The equipment managers of the top two teams appeal their cases to other conference teams (and anyone else nearby) in 10 words or less. None of the ten words may include the letter ‘E’.

If I get his salary, choo-choo!

The real heroes of high school football are the players and coaches who put hours and hours of effort into this great sport. But let's not discount the voice of the fans, the ones who pump money into the athletic departments. And at the end of the day, football IS a team sport........coaches, players, and fans. The twelfth man is kind of important. It would be foolish of any league or athletic depart to not listen to the voice of the very fans who support them. Maybe the idea of a two division format originated on the GID and maybe it didn't. But you know what? Who cares. It's gained momentum. Congrats to the coaches and athletic directors for bringing this close to reality.

Not sure why you think his post is funny. You don't think media, coaches, athletic directors, and players read this forum? I bet there are 40 readers for every poster. ................and music to my ears. Good move for the SAC.

Why would you need the championship game/week? We don’t have it in the PAC and it works ok.

https://apnews.com/article/sidney-poitier-dead-214e66b7e52909bdc64465e9ff4a1339 Truly an American Icon. He will be missed.

I couldn’t laugh at this post enough. Are you congratulating HHF on Facebook also?