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Make sure to ask for the Grey Poupon. For you younglings out there:

and if SEC was so tough,...... why did they fire 25% of their conference coaches ?

Talk about stepping on a rake.

Signing day Joy is dead to me in current landscape of Professional Collegiate Football Used to be special, now, not so much, hard to get excited with a transactional landscape

I think the “transfer portal” should absolutely be weighed into the enrollment number for all schools, and the data is already somewhat available to do it. Last year, I put together an adjusted enrollment for each high school based upon the percentage of students their district receives from outside the district. I took the total enrollment of the school and added the percentage of students from outside the district to their number, which basically just counts every out-of-district student twice. As an example, if a high school had an enrollment of 400 students, and their district received 10% of their students from outside the district, then the adjusted enrollment for the school was counted as 440 students. Private, parochial, and non-public charter schools receive all of their students from outside their district since they do not have a defined district, so their enrollments have a 100% addition to their total. Since all schools, public and P/P/C, can receive and benefit from out-of-district transfers, I felt that this may be a way to add a multiplier to all schools rather than just P/P/C. The result really wasn’t a significant impact on many schools, but it did reflect some of the advantages of schools who benefit from being in a larger urban area or in close proximity to one they can receive students from. I’ve thought about posting it, but I may wait until the enrollment and transfer data for this year is posted and just include it with that data as a comparison.

A decade earlier, HSE was a 1A. No community has exploded quite like Fishers has. Fishers is now the fourth-largest city in Indiana (behind Indy/FW/EVV, but bigger than South Bend). Carmel is No. 5.

Others will likely find out “shun”.

I can't believe its taken them this long to get a HC...that can't help for signing day. Looks like the BYU coach Penn State was targeting may remain with the Cougars.

I think @Sparty is saying Center Grove isn't done winning State Championships with Coach Moore. I would agree with him. They have some Offensive Lineman to replace but they have a lot of young skilled players returning. A healthy CG team this year would have probably gone deeper. Brownsburg would have been a tough match-up for them in Semi-State but they would have been competitive. The injury bug at RB position caught up to the Trojans. I was waiting for them to blow the dust off of Trojan Dad or @Bash Riprock they were going so deep into the well.

"The schools in Indy" are losing or maintaining enrollment levels. It's the suburban schools that are growing.

Hmmm. Seems like you know something.

You forgot maybe the most important reason: It's makes game scheduling a lot easier for AD's.

Sagarin is a great tool, and I appreciate that it's maintained weekly for Indiana HS football. But it's an analysis based on correlations, and there simply aren't enough games between big/small schools, or schools from different regions, for it to be used for this purpose.

Notre Dame getting left out would be a blessing for the 12 teams that do get in. This is the best team Notre Dame has had since the Lou Holtz era. There's a reason Vegas has them as the fourth most likely team to win the championship. Sagarin sort of likes them as well, coming in at #2.

No one wants Poupon a sandwich

Ping pong balls. If it’s good enough for the tournament matchups …

Of course not. Redistricting (gerrymandering) is being pushed by Trump to add Republicans to Congress to keep him from getting impeached … again. That’s the only purpose it serves.

I posted this a couple years ago and think it generally still rings true. SF certainly can impact kids transferring, fan support, finances and overall positive momentum in a program. Transfers: Why go here (or stay here) if we face a guaranteed buzz saw in sectionals or regionals. Fan Support: It may not be immediate, but after 2 years of early playoff losses many lose interest. Finances: Less concessions and merchandise money with less games. Less support as success diminishes. Positive Momentum: After consecutive years of deep playoff runs and/or a state title, momentum is at its peak. Lose in the 1st or 2nd round 2 years in a row and by the time it resets the positive mojo just isn't what it was. If the idea behind SF is to offset open enrollment in public schools and/or no district map in private schools, the better equation would be evaluating rosters for organic enrollment. Have AD's submit an affidavit showing where ROSTERED PLAYERS attended 7th and 8th grade, as well as any high school transfers. If more than X number or Y percent is over a threshold, have a SF policy that deals with it.

Stop being so dang giddy!! Sincerely, Mr. Bitterbeer Face Colts Fan

So true..definitely felt that pain for years....

Andrean and Cascade would still be a helluva game. Lol the ranking is appropriate but that's a game I would love to see.

I think that sometimes the idea of teaching the scheme at the youth level can sometimes be overrated or overemphasized. To an extent, it's a question of how early you introduce that, as well as the complexity of the scheme. When I was coaching youth programs back in the day, I had a counterpart at another program ask me how detailed our play calling was for 3rd/4th grade kids. He confessed that they were just basically lining up in the huddle and saying things like "Mike, give the ball to Bobby and then Bobby, run to the right side behind Tommy" or something similar. We ran a basic system where we introduced back and hole numbers as well as general terms like dive, sweep, and counter to the kids, but these were all independent of the high school varsity schemes. In the time that I coached in LCC's youth program, from around 2002 until my retirement in 2020 when COVID killed the season, I coached under six different varsity head coaches and an interim HC. Every time a new coach came in, we always asked, if they wanted us to run a specific type of offense, scheme, numbering, terminology, etc. All of them said, do what we were doing because the most important things to them were that the kids understood safe and effective fundamentals of hitting and tackling, fundamental football ideology, and probably most importantly, that the kids had fun so that they would stick with football and keep coming back while their bodies caught up to their enjoyment of the game. I recall one coach even going so far as to say, just do what we were doing because there was no guarantee that he'd even still be coaching by the time they got to the high school.