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Got to wondering the other day are conferences public or private and what I mean by that. Most school boards are public and have open meeting and any can go and get the minutes from there meetings. My thinking is if the conference like Mic or HCC or mid-state to name a few are tied to public school then would they not be the same and held to the same rules.

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My own personal survey of 3 HCs said they would like to have 1 non-conference game. I don't think any of them "need" it...or any of them who think they wouldn't be just fine without it. I'm just saying, I bet almost all would say it would be a nice thing to be able to have that game to play with, to either create a new rivalry, play down when your down, play up when your up, or for as a reason as dumb and tying the SIAC into the rest of the state for Sagarin. I don't think anyone in 3A was bummed Chatard is where they belong in 4A or even Memorial for that matter. But this season it wouldn't have mattered. Anyone not located on Lincoln Ave. that knows football will tell you that. Yes, the SIAC is a clearly superior conference to the PAC in EVERY sport. It is supposed to be, it is a metro area 4A and 5A conference (primarily). The PAC is primarily a rural 2A and 3A conference. We will NEVER have the athlete pool the SIAC does (especially the P&Ps), for that reason our HC really likes the flexibility of his non-conference schedule. That said, Heritage Hills continues to use the entirety of it's non-conference schedule to play schools on the small side of the conference and despite that, they made it to a state championship game. There is zero logic to this analysis. Here is the thing, Memorial isn't the Memorial of 2017 and 2018 every year. Gibson Southern isn't the Gibson Southern of 2015 and 2021 every year. To sit here and try to give some games more merit than others in the 6 matchups is just silly. Memorial has a great HC and a nice staff, even that QB coach isn't horrible...so they are never bad. GS's record is about the same in regular season each year (especially before we got the non conference flexibility) for the up years and the down years, so doing a record comparison of the teams you beat in the series is just silly. Memorials 3 wins aren't any "better" that the 3 GS wins.... period end of story. A series is a series...I would expect a baseball guy to say we only lost because our stud wasn't pitching LOL (so the games you won don't count LMAO), and that is what you are saying here (the stud being Memorial 2017-2018). I try not to rank our last 11 teams but 2017 and 2018 aren't at the top of our pack either. Not to mention beating us by 9 in 2016 and 2017 may have been Memorials closest games in the playoffs I'm to lazy to research it. More iffy logic here. First off, wasn't it Memorial guys on here in the past talking about how "transitive" property doesn't work in football. Well whoever it was, they were right. It was 21-7 with GS and LB at half and everyone in the stadium felt like a running clock was eminent. Came right out after half and made it 28-7 (there was no "struggling"). We got a little cute in the second half expecting them to lay down and made a couple silly errors to let them back in it. In a 7 game series we running clock that team 4 out of 7. Memorial would have been just another bug on the windshield this season. I know at tailgates and cocktail parties, it's fun to talk about the state championship that got away from the Tigers this year if success factor hadn't cheated them out of what they deserve, what is implicit in the contract. But, even given the advantages they have when playing in 3A, this year probably wouldn't have been the year. neutral field [2021] South Warren (Bowling Green, KY) 31, [2021] Reitz Memorial (Evansville, IN) 17 neutral field [2021] Brebeuf Jesuit Prep (Indianapolis, IN) 27, [2021] Reitz Memorial (Evansville, IN) 22 neutral field [2021] Gibson Southern (Fort Branch, IN) 34, [2021] Reitz Memorial (Evansville, IN) 22 That said Memorial was really good this year. In Fact probably about as good as our second best team in the Hart era. neutral field [2021] Reitz Memorial (Evansville, IN) 28, [2015] Gibson Southern (Fort Branch, IN) 27 The simple fact is most years Memorial is going to be better than us and they should be as a Metro P&P. It should never be close between a Metro P&P with a top notch coaching staff and a rule public school in a corn field. For that reason I don't think most Titan fans feel any kind of rivalry exist at all between these two teams. Rivalries, when at their best in high school sports, are between very "like" or "similar" schools, like a GS and HH for example. Somehow, by the grace of God, GS as been the most consistently winning 3A public school in the state for the Hart era. Yes, I would personally enjoy that uphill battle against a Metro P&P like Memorial as non-conference game. It would be very cool. Was it nice beating Memorial at their homecoming this year in both JV and Varsity basketball....YES it was, but more in that David Goliath kind of way, you know that old testament stuff first book of Samuel (as devout Catholics I'm sure you guys are familiar with that story). But not really in a Rivalry way.

So, back to actual football. Amari Cooper to the Browns. He’ll get his $20 million now. Is he worth it … in that offense … with that QB?

Do you REALLY have to keep up with the CONSTANT name calling toward him? We get it....you don't like him at all; why continue to do this? So people disagree on a topic? BFD........but you LOVE to pile on. Just stop. Put him on ignore.

As great as Brady Allen is, I still think MHS would’ve beaten GS last year. The Titans struggled with (but beat) Lawrenceburg. The Tigers struggled with (but beat) East Central. Those two teams played: EC beat Lawrenceburg 34-6.

About the time Memorial gets back to 3A (if it ever happens)....GS will be getting dang close to 4A, oh the irony of it all LOL. I still think the SIAC having 1 non-conference game would be a change that if you surveyed all the coaches in the conference, it would win the vote easily.

IHSAA isn't going to send 3 different outlier schools north into 3 different sectionals. Here's the likely map for the north. 1: Lake Central, Portage, Crown Point, Lafayette Jeff 2: Elkhart, Penn, Warsaw, Carroll 3: Homestead, FW Northrop, Westfield, Noblesville 4: Carmel, Zionsville, HSE, Fishers or 1: Lake Central, Portage, Crown Point, Elkhart 2: Penn, Warsaw, FW Northrop, Carroll 3: Homestead, Noblesville, HSE, Fishers 4: Westfield, Carmel, Zionsville, Lafayette Jeff I expect the first option to carry. The south is almost set in stone: 5: NC/LC/LN/Cathedral 6: Pike/BD/Brownsburg/Avon 7: Southport/Perry/Tech/WC 8: Jeff/CN/CG/FC You're pointing out precedents - there is no precedent for sending a Hamilton County school up U.S. 31 to the Michigan border. While there are precedents on pairing Zionsville with Lafayette-area schools in *5A*, in 6A, generally Carmel & Zionsville are tied together, as are HSE/Fishers. Putting those four together makes for a sensible sectional field. The key is going to be, you're likely going to have to split up the three Allen County schools somehow just because there are nine "north" schools north of the U.S. 30 corridor and seven south. Someone is going to have to get tied into the Central Indiana schools. Homestead makes the most sense because it's the farthest southwest and closest to I-69 ... and Noblesville, HSE & Fishers are also a short distance off I-69.

Huh…what….Bob, I was just asking for another beer.

Any day that starts with some Latin is going to be a good one. Fot the uninitiated, res ipsa loquitur is a Latin phrase used in law. It means “the thing speaks for itself.”

Maybe it was Calvin Ridley.