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We're getting dangerously close to abandoning "education-based athletics".

As long as there is no undue influence, I support this. Coaches can leave for better opportunities, so why not kids? I like that it takes the IHSAA out of the process for determining whether a transfer was for athletic reasons or not. Why does it really matter? Coaches leave for better positions all the time.

Way too early pre-season rankings: Chime in! Big School 1. Heritage Hills 2. Gibson Southern 3. Boonville 4. Mt. Vernon 5. Washington 6. Princeton Small School 1. Tell City 2. Southridge 3. North Posey 4. Forest Park 5. South Spencer 6. Pike Central 7. Tecumseh

We used to have one school wide one (totally parent ran)...it kind of died off with lack of leadership in the past few years. Individual sports one have taken it's place in recent years (again totally removed from the school). These groups are incorporated for purposes of 501C3 reporting and the school really wants nothing to do with it. From my understanding this is more the norm in the land of publics. Finding money can be challenging if a sport that doesn't have a strong booster group and makes a deeper than expected run in the playoffs. Said another way, the schools do nothing to raise private funding. In some cases Coaches choose to take it upon themselves.

All I know is this, a ticked-off administrator or coach from the sending school should have zero say in the matter. A system that allows them to have a say is fundamentally broken.

Do you think the IHSAA doesn't regulate transfers now? Do you think having a 1 free transfer rule helps p/p schools more than public schools? I'm interested to hear your opinion. A rural school like SR probably doesn't run into this very often, but in Evansville and the immediate area we do. Titan32 knows the situations better than I, but a couple of years ago 2 Castle kids switched to GS. One had to fight the IHSAA all the way to the top. The other didn't. As I understand it, the only difference was 1 had some family support that allowed him to jump through the right hoops and the other kid didn't. I use that example only because it was 2 kids leaving the same school, going to the same school and at the same time. It was crazy. We've had a few kids transfer in or transfer out in the past couple of years. Some had to fight and some didn't This kind of rule eliminates the BS and takes the decisions from the hands of people who are sometimes not looking after the best interests of the kid (regardless of what they say). I feel very strongly that at Memorial we should NEVER block a kid from having full eligibility somewhere else, even if the reason for the transfer is purely due to athletics. Why punish a kid because he/she wants a change of scenery?

Yes...kids can already move schools freely in this state so long as the receiving superintendent approves. At least this is my understanding. The only time they are held up is when athletics are involved and the sending AD is an A$$ H0le.

This won't increase transfer numbers much...it will just expedite the process by eliminating all the back and forth and legal types getting involved. This is a great idea.

This will widen the gap between the good and the bad. Might as well start the running clock after the first quarter.

I have no issue with this. It would save the IHSAA a metric Sh!t ton of headache.

At most publics the AD has nothing to do with the any of the Booster clubs. Man, starting to see a trend here.

All those teams should like that sectional, honestly. First of all-- removing East Central cannot be understated... Mooresville gets out too? Huge.

NIL $ can't be far behind.

Notre Dame Men’s Lacrosse begins the defense of last year’s national championship. After winning the ACC regular season and tournament titles, and finishing the regular season ranked #1, the defending champs enter the NCAA tournament as the #1 overall seed. Duke is seeded #2. The Irish have beaten Duke the last 5 times they have played.

The transfer portal comes to high school.

The sacrifice is real!

'Equity' Grading Is the Latest Educational Fad Destined To Fail: https://reason.com/2024/05/03/equity-grading-is-the-latest-educational-fad-destined-to-fail/ Yet another race to the bottom approach for government education. They keep on adopting new ways to fail at actually educating children.

Every public school in the state is in your corner. Go get'em!