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My thoughts are to continue to blame the NCAA and their HUGE ROLE in all of this current state Wish they would just go to 5 years and call it a day No more medicals, no more red shirts You have 5 years from Day 1 on campus

What @Donnie Baker says on the gridirondigest goes on the gridirondigest, STATE LAW!!!

I'd say it's kids BECAUSE of their parents. I've rarely had a problem kid on a team, after having met the parent(s), that I didn't know EXACTLY why the kid was the way they were. Conversely, there have been some really good ones IN SPITE OF their parents.

Delphi knocks this out of the park with hiring Coach Peebles!

Big get!!!

Beat a team that finishes with a winning record and finish above .500. That would be a great start to filling his shoes.

I will expand later when I have more time, and I haven’t read the OP’s blog yet. I really believe there’s a third component to this discussion as it relates to HS sports and that component is club sports. The short answer to the question is the universe is in a constant state of evolution.

20-22 in four years, don't know if those kind of shoes need to be filled.

My source: https://outsidethehuddle.net/list-of-future-sac-non-conference-opponents/ Scroll over Prep Football on the black tab, then you can click on Future Opponents. Great site for high school sports in NE Indiana. I think this guy might formally be the Pigskin Prophet from the New Sentinel. Outstanding high school football coverage when the paper was still alive.

Yup no Running clock back then and Coach Crabtree was not going to be the guy to have his stud pad needless stats

How does Earl fill the shoes of the legendary Herb King? Tough task ahead of him for sure.

Franklin College legend. Go Grizz!

Could have been more but he sat out a lot of games after halftime

I think he's the 7th all-time leading scorer in IHSAA history

DonnieBaker said so, and he had someone tell him, so it’s not gossip.

At my school the problem is a little bit of both. Kids in all sports here feel it is a put down to be on JV or C Team. They don't look at playing sports as a means to compete, they look at it as status. In the past your played freshman as a freshman, you played JV as a sophomore and sometimes as a junior, then your senior year you got to varsity and could play there. Now it seems kids and parents think that JV is a death sentence. I have seen kids quit a sport because they weren't going to be varsity as a sophomore. It is hard to build a program when you can't have at least a JV playing on Saturdays to get experience and build that depth you need for next season. Waiting your turn has been lost on this generation. If they can't be good now they just quit.

I agree, it's parents (or, rather, just the adults in general). I still think the average kid doesn't care if they have a 10-yard night or a 100-yard night as long as they're on a team and having fun, they're going to battle with their buddies, and they feel like they're contributing. You have lots of athletes who would rather have 8 catches for 150 yards in a loss than a night where they maybe went 1 for 10, but it was a game that the team won - And I think that comes from parent pressure. Kids nowadays are different, you can't argue that. But they're different as a result of their environment.

I was surprised at my findings regarding New Haven due to all the housing starts. Maybe I'm looking at unreliable sources. It was Homestead that shocked me the most. I'm pretty sure their enrollment went down.

Fountain Central names Jacob Earl head coach moving forward. Should be interesting to see what north Vermillion’s does now. My sources say Earl interviewed for the job but now heads back to FC. The race now comes down to whoever the outside man is that interviewed and Robby Davis

https://hawktalkhockey.com/2016/05/10/31-years-ago-blackhawks-fans-start-cheering-the-anthem/

Good question. It said he was at Hanover, so my guess is he likely is familiar with the program and may have recruited the area. So maybe he has at least been there before.

Nothing like it when the LEGEND gets the MIC Fun Story, we had him come down to Military Appreciation Night vs KV about 8 or 9 years ago I think now...... Its on you tube somewhere OUTSTANDING

lol......love Izzo...hate MSU, but he is a great one.

A great read and so true .

I enjoyed getting to know and working with Russ these last three seasons. He's a good guy, and he has a fun and different way of looking at things. I think he'd admit that it didn't end exactly like he thought it would here. I'll always appreciate the work he did that first season. That team was expected to be good, and it still had to complete a gauntlet run to the state championship. It was full of landmines. That was a fun run. Unfortunately, that turned out to be the highlight. I think the arrow points way up for the program. He's leaving it in a pretty good position to move forward. We'll see what the next coach could do. I remember meeting him for the first time. He was like, "You're BDGiant93!" Anyway, he's a friend, and I'll leave it there.

Coach Kirk Kennedy informed his team yesterday he has stepped down at Kankakee Valley