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When I first came to Hancock County in 1998, I went to Mt. Vernon to cover a football scrimmage on a Saturday afternoon. I'm on the sidelines shooting photos - mesmerized by this incredible old-school offense MV was running - and their larger-than-life coach approached me and growls "who are you?" I told him I was the new sportswriter with the local newspaper. He reached out and shook my hand - engulfing it in his gigantic right palm - welcoming me to the community. The first few times we talked, he was very measured with his answers to my questions, but we quickly formed a very good professional relationship, which quickly became a friendship, and those brief interviews became a lot of long conversations about football, education and life. Listening to him tell stories of coaching with Lee Corso in the USFL, bringing the WIng-T to Indiana when nobody had seen it, and his days playing at EHHS and IU, were a lot of fun. We talked often about faith, football, education, family, or anything else. When I decided to pursue a teaching career, our conversations often encompassed teaching philosophy. His football program at MV felt like a family, and I was always welcomed in even though I was a reporter and then a broadcaster, and I became friends not just with Coach P, but with several of his staff members and former players. His DC, Tim Adams (who founded the GID), and I became fast friends and began broadcasting games together when we both moved on professionally - he retiring from coaching, me moving on from newspapers to become a teacher. Another of his former assistants has remained a friend since those days, and we had the great fortune to teach and work together at New Palestine. Prayers to Desa, his children and the extended football family he built. There are no better people I've worked with in my three decades of covering high school sports than Doug Peacock. He was a giant of a person and a giant of a coach. He will be greatly missed.

Hoosiers goin' to the NATTY! Oh, and they covered the 3.5 point spread too!

Irish would have been steamrolled like everyone else 23… Total and complete ass whipping

They've only earned 4 points in 5A, because they've only been in 5A for one year. Points reset at zero when you move up a class.

That was a good game. Wow.

Coach Peacock truly cared about people and making a lasting difference in their lives. One of the best men I have ever known. He will be missed!

14 TOTAL LOSSES IN ENTIRE 14 YEAR HC CAREER THUS FAR 5 State Titles (3 in 5a, 2 in 4a, their natural enrollment ) https://indianahsfootball.homestead.com/coaches/KyleRalph.htm#load He and his program have won 91% of the games he has coached in with the 169 total games. Incredible stuff each and every year Go get that 6a Title

Longtime Mt. Vernon (Fortville) head coach Doug Peacock passed away today from cancer. Was a great coach and an even better man. He will be missed.

This is a comprehensive rundown of the game: Indiana routs Oregon in Peach Bowl to advance to national title game vs. Miami - Yahoo Sports

Indiana opens as a 7.5 point favorite against Miami

Best line of the night. Cheers Coach!

Of course they did!!! Trust me, there will be a lot more Indiana fans than Miami fans

IU vs. Miami 8 minutes to go in the semifinal. I feel pretty sure now IU has this lockedc up. On to Miami. Crazy to think the number 1 team plays at the home of the number 10 team. I really do not think it matters though. It might be close early, but Miami got beat up pretty good against Ole Miss. And their defense was gassed most of the 4th quarter. I think IU wins by at least 17 points.

42-7 now!

Thanks for getting me connected w that handle. It is must watch. Lol

Thanks Irish

It was an amendment to Senate Bill 1, which was removed. It called for school corporations and districts within counties that have fewer than 50,000 residents to consolidate into a single district for the county. I think discussion occurred that led to a change to the threshold identified for the population which would have reduced it to something like 30,000, but the amendment was removed before SB1 was approved.

From I can tell, as one of if not the BEST weight room culture in the state of Indiana. I say that because the buy in from TOTAL SCHOOL athletics. @crimsonace1 could speak on that

Just saw on the Clinton Central Football page on FB that Coach Jeremy Fendley has retired from coaching and teaching. Best of luck to him in his future endeavors.

Michiana Sports is reporting that Jeff Kaiser has stepped down at LaVille.

enjoyed that telecast for sure last night Well Earned Love how Miami has made sure Carson Beck DOES NOT lose them a ballgame......Been a good adjustment offensively and kudos to coaches in changing up how they are attacking offensively

Yeah, I'm guessing they were the mysterious "7th team" that had hit Harbaugh's agent up...

One wonders how many "OMG! Athletes" are flocking to New Palestine H.S. from other area high schools to be part of such a dynasty.

Mt. Vernon is the site of one of the strangest sports broadcasts of which I've been a part. Back in the days when we'd use an actual landline phone to connect, we were broadcasting a basketball game from Mt. Vernon. During the first quarter and through the first half, we kept having people pick up a receiver somewhere. Schools at this time often maintained a courtesy phone line for broadcasters. Turns out, the courtesy line at Mt. Vernon doubled as the pay phone line. The AD at the time put a big sign on the pay phone line that it was out of order. Don't know why I just thought of that.

TONEY for his AGE WOW

It's a rolling 2-year cycle now. But when you move up to a new class, your points reset at zero. NP has 8 points the last two years, but four are from 4A (which helped to bump them up to 5A), but when they moved to 5A, the points reset at zero (they had 0 points in 5A). They now have four 5A points, so they need two more to bump up in 2027.

Yes. I've only seen six games being rescheduled due to IU-Oregon, and all but one are in central or southern parts of the state where IU seems to have a much larger fan presence. Here in the Clinton county the North Putnam @ Frankfort contests, both Boys and Girls varsity games, will be played as planned.

This is probably a Bob question....but I don't think currently they take C students....I "think" a portal transfer has to have something like a 3.0 and a full year of college credits. If I was a coach, I'd be more picky about the character of a portal kid than his exact GPA. Fairly recently I beleive ND transferees had to have mulitple years of credits and the GPA. But I'm not an expert on that. Now...how you quatify "character"??.....who knows. Probably the old, "I know it when I see it".

Had a special class, and the talent dropped WAY off afterwards. That was not unexpected - their younger classes were very uncompetitive in junior high/elementary all-star tourneys and those began to matriculate to the high school. When Kirschner was at MV, they got a lot of transfers, those appear to have dried up a bit, too. They'll be back. The community athletic culture at MV is very good, they have a growing community and a good administration.

Basically, the "3 points to stay in your class" ONLY applies to teams already playing up 1+ classes due to the Success Factor. So Knox's 4 points are irrelevant because they were playing in 3A due to enrollment. They would bump up to 4A had they achieved 6 points, but they would move down to 2A due to enrollment if their enrollment places them there. However, New Pal will remain 5A for two more years due to its 4 points achieved this year, because it's a 4A school that's been bumped up.

I didn't take your post as an argument with Bob and I am agreeing with you on the need of the portal. I am just wondering if ND would follow Vanderbilt's route (assuming I am correct) in taking C students, or would their academic standards prohibit this, resulting in a much smaller % of applicable transfer portal players? My guess is schools like Stanford is in the same place. Are they at a crossroads with the changing game to consider things they once would have never done...such as lower academic performance for transfer portal players, joining a conference, etc.?

and now you see the quagmire where is the leaders and stewards of the game...... Mouthpiece I support, yes, the pant police......yea..... let focus on illegal formations and other things of that nature as I know the feedback I get from many guys is the same, wish they could worry more about more important stuff in the 48 min game then knee pads.