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Like all liability insurance issues, this one is based on underwriters’ predictions about future claims. And like most liability insurance markets, it tends to overreact and cause the pendulum to swing farther than it needs to in the other direction (see the medical malpractice insurance market in the 80s). There will be a period of instability, which may include some insurers exiting the market. Then, as we get more and more claim experience, the market will reach equilibrium and stabilize.

I had the opportunity to listen to coach Cashdollar(OC, O line coach) at the AFCA on Wednesday morning at 8 AM. High energy, Dynamic are just a couple of phrases that explain his talk the best. Record last year was 4-6 while starting 4 freshmen/sophomores on the offensive line. His RPO(Run Power Often) game is spot on. I wish him success.

Bingo. Agree 100 %. Zionsville is gonna bump to 6A anyway. Might as well go somewhere that will have a lot of athletes to compete in that class. Zionsville competed as a 5A team with a 6A schedule. Record be damned.

I took a shot at 2A based on one of the iterations posted here: REGION: Whiting, Andrean, Boone Grove, Bowman Academy, Wheeler, Rensselaer Central, North Newton, Delphi NORTH CENTRAL: Bremen, LaVille, Rochester, Pioneer, Lewis Cass, Manchester, Wabash, Fairfield FORT WAYNE: Prairie Heights, Central Noble, Eastside, FW Luers, Woodlan, Whitko, Eastbrook, Bluffton MUNCIE-ISH: Eastern, Blackford, Lapel, Alexandria, Elwood, Tipton, Frankton, Winchester EAST CENTRAL: Centerville, Northeastern, Union County, Shenandoah, Triton Central, Eastern Hancock, Scecina, Heritage Christian WEST CENTRAL: South Vermillion, Speedway, Western Boone, Southmont, Cascade, North Putnam, Howe, Seeger SOUTHWEST: Evansville Mater Dei, North Posey, Paoli, Crawford County, South Spencer, North Knox, Linton-Stockton, Forest Park SOUTHEAST: Monrovia, Mitchell, Eastern Pekin, Clarksville, Tell City, Switzerland County, Providance, Milan Sorry for using geographic labels rather than the numbers. Please nobody jump my case if there is some stupid error here. I was bored and started trying to piece things together and a ton can change if even 1 or 2 teams shift classes. With these 64, the most compelling decisions seemed to be which team gets pulled into the Region sectional from outside of that area (I chose Delphi over Bremen/LaVille) and which central team gets pulled to go south for sectionals (I chose Monrovia over Trition Central). If you were to choose differently for either of those, you could draw a very different looking map.

As a society we are not very patient, if things do not improve overnight then we want change. I still believe it takes close to 7 years to build a program. You have to get the youth program on board, and the middle school teams implementing your system. It takes time and if you do not have enough success they pull the plug or a school board member comes after you. Coaching is tough and the days of seeing one coach at a school for a long period of time is not common anymore.

Divine rite?

THis seems a good place to place this story that I read online from a place in Texas. Not football...but I'm sure it registers with the football coaching profession as well": High School Coach Resigns Due to Parent Politics … And It’s Time to Say Something Out Loud After just a few months into her position as the head volleyball coach at Amarillo High School in Texas’ panhandle, Kori Clements has announced her resignation. Was it because of an unsuccessful season? Definitely not. The Sandies went 33-14 before losing in the regional semifinals. Was it unethical behavior? Some scandal or rules infraction? Nope. Not that either. Although, you can bet there will always be rumors. So what was it? What would cause Clements, an AHS grad who also won a national championship as a Nebraska Cornhusker, to resign from her alma mater after her first season at the helm? In a word: politics. In her statement, Clements explains, “I cannot and will not compromise the integrity of my decisions based on a parent’s political pressure or position. I believe strongly in the value of athletics, that being a part of a team is a privilege, and playing time is earned.” And all the coaches said, “AMEN.” Now we don’t know the whole story, or at least her whole story. But we do know this story of politics, parents, and pressure is not an isolated event. We’ve all watched our coaches deal with it. The emails, the complaints, the being cornered after a game, the late night emails and calls, the demands and threats from parents who think they know better than the coach whose job is literally on the line with every win and every loss. So parents, I write this to implore you: we’re losing good ones. Good coaches and good teachers are leaving the profession because it’s so hard to do it with integrity. I get it, your kid deserves to play. She has worked so hard, and if only that coach could see what you see. Listen, I know there are bad coaches in the world. I’ve played for some and I’ve worked with some. But the vast majority of coaches see our athletes much more clearly than we parents do. We love our kids so stinking much (not a bad thing) and we want the best for them (not a bad thing), but can’t we all admit that that big love might make us a little shortsighted? And can’t we also admit that fighting their battles is not what is best for them? You know what IS the best for them? Overcoming adversity. Working harder than everyone else. Getting better just for the sake of being better than they were yesterday. Learning to have hard conversations. Staying late at practice. Taking extra shots. Running extra sprints. Busting their tail in offseason. Failing. It’s hard, I know. And it’s even harder to put into practice. So let’s just commit to this one thing: Let your kid have the first conversation. Help prepare him/her for the conversation. A few good questions? How can I get better? What can I do at home? What are a few specific things I need to work on? And then let’s ask ourselves one thing: What’s my end goal for my kids?

it got extended in house of IFCA and seems like they didn't update the website

I think another issue facing coaching turnover is the coach's family. Coaching any sport nowadays requires the whole family to be on board. I am a young(ish) coach with 2 children under the age of two. When looking for a coaching job, I immediately ask my wife what she thinks about the possibility of moving to the community. My wife has some flexibility with her job, but we can't just pick up and move. My wife is very supportive and wants me to advance in coaching, but she understands how political some school corporations can be. Everything Driven T brings up is valid. I have been a part of a coaching staff where there has been poor admin support. This has affected coaches drive to coach, wanting to stay in the profession and time which some coaches put in. Currently I work in a school which does not have football (so I coach at another school), but every time the administration hires a new teacher, coaching any sport is not a conversation to be had. Some schools are simply devaluing the importance of extra-curricular activities. It is a sad state of affairs for some schools in Indiana.

I took Southridge in the pickem game on the other site, mostly because coach Rohrer has a history of winning big game match ups like this and frankly HH has a history of losing them.

Why does everyone get stuck on win-loss records? Don't you have to consider WHERE these guys put that record together at? Some places getting your squad above .500 might be much more impressive than winning a sectional somewhere else. Still everyone loves to post about win-loss records and why these coaches aren't great hires for this or that job.

Yea, no way the IHSAA puts Camel in the south and risk not having an all MIC state title game.

Right away, you disqualify your own comment. Pat Echeverria was the DEFENSIVE COORDINATOR ON THAT STATE FINALIST TEAM ... and then coached his own team to the State Finals a couple years later. Zionsville was likely the second-best team in 5A this year and was the only team on New Pal's schedule (including Center Grove) where the game was in doubt in the fourth quarter. If you actually watch football, Zionsville is one of the better-coached, better-prepared teams around.

Obviously a homer here, but I will be interested to see what the Warsaw Tigers do in year 2 under Bart Curtis. They over exceeded my personal expectations last year, and in no way was that due to doubting the Tiger coaching staff. Implementing a completely new offensive philosophy and getting the players and community to "buy in" to it was going to be a hurdle in my opinion. However, they were only a few points away from going 10-0 in the regular season last year and even led Penn at halftime of their 1st round sectional game. A revamped out of conference schedule (replacing 4A schools Columbia City and East Noble with 5A foes Huntington North and Michigan City) and higher expectations following the "success" of 2018... I am very excited and interested to see how Warsaw does in 2019!

Frankfort High School: 5 different coaches over the last decade, 4 different coaches in the last 4 seasons alone.

http://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/25776964/insurance-market-football-evaporating-causing-major-threat-nfl-pop-warner-colleges-espn Dire times. Maybe the risk, and the cost, for youth tackle football is too great.