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Ok. Let's make this work. Scrimmage Week is Game 1 and Weeks 1-9 make a 10 game regular season. You MUST win 2 games against another IHSAA school to qualify. If you can't get 2 wins out of 10 games then just move on to basketball. For reference in 2023 there were 47 teams with 10 or 9 losses. A 9 loss team either finished 1-8 and lost Round 1 or got lucky with a draw finished 2-9 or 3-9. But to get 9 losses, you had to be 1-8 after week 9. Last year that means 315 - 47 = 268 "qualifiers" for this set up. Even could allow a few more teams that scheduled wins, because the magic number would be 272. Top 32 in enrollment = 6A tournament Remaining 240 qualifiers split into 5 even classes of 48. Seeded obviously with the top 16 in each class getting a bye and let a bunch of 2 & 3 win teams face each other round 1 (week 10 of current schedule). Week 11 is round 2, each class has 32 teams and the 6 classes will still crown champs Thanksgiving weekend in LOS. If I were omnipotent commissioner for a day, this is what I set up.

Harrison used to have THS on its non-con calendar back around 2020-2021, so it's not a foreign concept. If I were the Sagamore though, I would hold off on grabbing the Terre Haute schools as I suspect they might have better options; especially if someone like West Lafayette joins. With that, you'd only need a couple of other teams to make an 8-team conference, and you could almost afford to be pickier at that point. I suspect that the NCC, which claimed it kicked Harrison and McCutcheon out due to travel and "competitive balance" will likely turn their sights on Jeff once they realize that they look just like the two folks they kicked out. Jeff might not be too far off from being #6 or #7. If West Lafayette joins and Jeff's a potential, I suspect the TH schools would be in the running only if the conference wanted to get to 10 teams ... which I'm not sure they would want.

When I posted this last week (and it was removed) I was told that I had a problem with Barron. The entire process of hiding facts and not letting people have opinions is a joke. As a father of a teenage girl I know that if any "teacher" slapped my daughter on the butt I would be going for his head. Since he is a football coach and a good ole boy we will just let him get away with it. The girl is the victim not John Barron!