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We are glad to have him, this is an excellent pick up for us. Actual release to the QB club: It’s time to add some Red, White & Blue to this suit! Please join us in congratulating and welcoming Luke Messmer as our new Strength & Conditioning Coach and Assistant Football Coach at Heritage Hills High School! Coach Messmer is a former Southridge Raider student-athlete who has spent time teaching and coaching at Heritage Hills, Wood Memorial, and Mount Vernon. His experience and proven success is going to be a great addition to our program. We look forward to kicking off the summer workouts right with Coach Messmer leading the way!

I understand Michigan was actually paying schools to copy their god-awful helmets. 🤣😂

And you said it right to their face!

What does Jeff, Harrison and McCutcheon and the NCC have to do with the topic of Lewis Cass leaving the Hoosier Conference for the Three Rivers? Start a new thread if you want to dig deeper into what's going on in the NCC.

There was no hijack intended. @vicvinegarasked a simple question ... I'm assuming he was trying to gauge what might have sent Logansport, from the NCC, looking to the HC ... and I responded. Someone else then responded. From the Logansport side, I'm somewhat perplexed as to whether they decided before or after Cass bolted to make a play for the Hoosier Conference. Anyone have insight on that? Unexpected opportunity, planned strategy, or a mix of both based on goings on in their old haunts?

That is bizarre.

Zollman is gone at the end of the year as I understand it.

On that note, and not being narrow-minded here, I wonder if Notre Dame has a beef with Cathedral using plain gold lids.

https://www.washtimesherald.com/sports/local_sports/more-progress-at-hatchet-hollow/article_bc573cac-e9c5-11ed-96ad-5bc0f7683f16.html?utm_campaign=blox&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&fbclid=IwAR3j3SOAU2jNHCJtV4ZPOuyrVWem7BzU5GWE0h4lnTA-pI5ATEI3VF_koUg

What are you wowing about? It's literally a saying lol... words. "Too many Chiefs, not enough Indians"... if you or anyone else finds offense in that, I can't help you, you're beyond saving.

Be careful, the "You can't tell me what to say" Mafia will come after ya. It's State Law. I'm pretty shocked they didn't already

I like that idea where high schools are concerned. The school keeps the copyright intact, can potentially write it off as charity, advertising, or community relations, and the high schools get the use of a recognizable logo.

Interesting turn of events

I'm basing my sizing on the IHSAA classification for the schools for 2022-2023 and 2023-2024: https://www.ihsaa.org/sites/default/files/documents/2022-23 2023-24 Football Alignment.pdf. I certainly agree that Harrison will likely surpass Jeff in the next classification round and so they'll both likely be in the lower 6A / upper 5A. Of course, given the numbers that you are projecting for Jeff, that still places them upper 5A or lower 6A and also puts them above McCutcheon for size. The argument about enrollment gap in the NCC certainly is a legitimate one ... if you are Richmond, Logansport, or Marion ... but arguing about a couple hundred kids difference when Jeff and Harrison are both trolling the deep water of the IHSAA ocean seems somewhat off from Jeff's position. Realistically, Jeff and Harrison look the same, large, compared to the Logansports, Marions, Richmonds, etc. Even with the low end of the enrollment you are projecting for Jeff, it still puts them about 400-500 above Kokomo and roughly 600-900 above Richmond, Marion, and Logansport. Not to be a d*ck about things, but in the 20+ years that I've lived in this area, I've not once heard Jeff complain about enrollment gaps with McCutcheon and Harrison and how unfair it was that those two smaller schools had to compete against a 6A, upper 5A, school. I certainly can see the point of Marion and Richmond and Logansport wanting Harrison and McCutcheon out, but not Jeff. Travel's not an issue for Jeff to Harrison. Serious enrollment gap isn't an issue either. Competitive imbalance? For Harrison and Richmond and Harrison and Marion? Probably. Between Jeff and Harrison? No way. I've been a fan of what Jeff's been able to do with the advent of the Moore seasons and into your guidance of making them competitive again. And I have ties to Jeff too as my three oldest kids all attended Jeff. I've even sent you DMs concerning my appreciation for your stances on community issues. But this is a bad look for Jeff in this "fight." Same thing with Logansport too if they were considering to jumping to the Hoosier Conference at the time of the vote. The vote should have been an abstain. Similarly with Jeff, I can't see a legitimate reason for Jeff looking at those three issues, from their own vis-a-vis with Harrison and saying, "Oh yeah, I believe every one of these wholeheartedly." Or, realistically, even one. Again, I think it's a bad look for Jeff because none of those things make any real sense for Jeff to have pulled the trigger on an affirmative vote. They didn't have to vote "no," especially if there was an amendment hanging around to make it three Lafayette-area schools instead of two, but an abstain would have been the proper thing to do, IMO, for Jeff as the reasons just don't hold any real water vis-a-vis Jeff and Harrison.

Supposedly it was enrollment gap, geography, and competitive imbalance. Realistically two of those make no sense at all as Jeff is situated between Harrison and McCutcheon geographically and Jeff is currently larger than both McCutcheon and Harrison. Competitive imbalance because Harrison wins a lot of country club sports like tennis and wins the NCC all sports titles, but when it comes to the mainstream sports there's little dominance by Harrison that also doesn't show up in the Jeff history too. See post below for more details, at least through 2020, on the competitive balance claim ... especially taking into account that Jeff was one of the schools voting out Harrison. In essence Jeff is saying in that vote that 1) they can't compete with Harrison or 2) they want to have the inside track to easy football victories again ... because they sure can't be saying that Harrison and McCutcheon are too far away and that Harrison and McCutcheon are too big.

Wow!