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East Noble has been filled.

https://www.wane.com/high-school-sports/east-noble-hires-stewart-as-head-football-coach/

https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/indiana/rankings

Speedway has less than 2,000. Now let's look at the schools once you get pass the wealthy suburbs of Indy. What I see is Heritage Hills, Cascade, Tell City, Eastern, Northwestern, Manchester, North Putnam, Argos... The list goes on. 

Where is Warren? Lawrence Central? Jeff? Elkhart? I mean Elkhart just consolidated... One would think they should be at the top of the list!!! 

I have taught/coached at a lot of schools. Some were in a wealthy community, some in a poor community. Some were large corporations and others were small. There are a lot of factors that go into a school corporation being successful academically. One of the last factors would be school corporation size. 

The most important would be parent involvement. So how about we start by fixing that. 

There is a senior football player at Northwestern High School who was in a very bad car wreck. He's been in intensive care for over two weeks at this point. I'm not sure if we are allowed to share GoFundMes on here, but I simply wanted to spread the word. Please give your thoughts & prayers to him and his family.

https://gofund.me/d8a7eba9

Has Elwood actually been posted anywhere other than here? I did not see it on IFCA, IHSAA or their own website. 

Some like to use "city speed" a lot, so does EC have rural speed? Country physicality? Hillbilly strength? Just asking.

4 minutes ago, FlyingHigh said:

It’s hardly disrespect when there are easy, direct comparisons

If you want to do direct comparisons, EC is the best team in the state. 

3 minutes ago, scarab527 said:

The “Lutheran could win 2A” argument has never been stronger 

South Putnam and Providence too? 

4 minutes ago, hick said:

As some others have said, NP looks slow and unathletic. Bases on what I've seen today, both 1A teams would've beat them 3+ scores.

I highly doubt it. 

8 hours ago, sr1 said:

If you look online for the drive time it will tell you 2 hours and 42 minutes. For a distance of 169 miles. That is traveling the speed limit on I64 and I69 of 70 MPH for much of the trip. School buses are not allowed by law to travel at 70 MPH. It will be a 3 hour trip for the buses. 

Add on the time zone change. 

1 hour ago, CoachGallogly said:

Is watching live the only option or could I watch them on tape delay for the same price?  
Also $20 per day or for all 6 games?

You should be able to watch them on delay if you'd like. I just tested it and I'm capable of going and watching the Semi-State games. It's $20 for all 6 games. 

If I'm wrong, someone please correct me. 

In 3A, 5 of the top 9 are in the same sectional. What a rough sectional to get out of. 

Is Cash App an option? 

Honestly, I could care less if the kid was kicked off the team or not. He doesn't want to be at a school or football program where some pedophile was send messages to his little sister. I don't see why anyone couldn't understand that. Shame on IC for not allowing the transfer and shame on the IHSAA for not siding with the student. 

15 hours ago, Bobref said:

One of the things the Indiana Football Officials Association does to support its members in their never-ending effort to get better is produce and distribute a weekly training video. It has 10 or so video clips of plays from the preceding week’s games that illustrate mechanics issues, rules interpretations, and judgment calls. This video is distributed to the 700 or so members of the IFOA — most of the people you see wearing stripes on Friday nights. These weekly videos are an important part of our in-season training.

The IFOA needs your help. On a given Friday night there are 150+ games. They produce a wealth of useful information for officials. The problem is finding those plays in that mountain of video. This is where you come in. If you had an unusual play in a game you saw, let us know about it by describing it on this thread. Let us know the game, the approximate point in the game when the play occurs, and a brief description. We’re interested in almost anything: onside kicks, pass interference, punt returns, goal line plays, big hits … the list goes on an on.

Lots of people complain about officiating. Here’s your opportunity to do something about it. These videos help us to be better, more consistent. If you’re reluctant to mention a play openly, feel free to message me. 

I tried to message you and it says you cannot receive messages. 

18 minutes ago, jets said:

 3. Football is already a combative and  tell, I DESPISE these things cause I don't really think football can be played at THUD level...

A lot of programs practice this way everyday. Both H.S. and college. So yes, it can be played that way. 

16 hours ago, foxbat said:

Seems kind of weird.  Why would Logansport vote Harrison and McCutcheon out of the NCC and then decide to jump ship?  Could have abstained in the voting unless they are just opportunistic and decided to strike while the Cass iron was hot.

Guess Harrison will get a chance to ask them first-hand on October 6.

This may have been covered elsewhere, but what was the reasoning in McCutcheon and Harrison being voted out? 

12 hours ago, Fballfan15 said:

 It will be interesting to see where the HC turns to now. Wonder if this could cause a domino effect with some of the other teams. 

I think it's the beginning of the end.

9 hours ago, HereComesTheBoom said:

 

Very interesting. He has only been there two years. Seemed like he was making some progress. 

21 hours ago, foxbat said:

People leave p/p education much more often for public pastures than I think folks realize.  I've posted a few times on the p/p "break" points in education.  A break during high school is less likely than the other break points ... after K/1st, after 2nd/3rd grade, after 6th/7th grade, and after 8th grade ... but it does happen and is more common than folks might think.  In my experience, the flow OUT of p/p to public often nets out in favor of the public schools in terms of bodies.  The main reason that you don't hear about it as often is that, in the scheme of things you typically only hear about it with sports, but I can almost say that for every one student-athlete that you hear that leaves a p/p in high school, I bet there are at least another 3-4 non-athletes that you don't hear about.

This is true. I went to a Catholic school K-8. Most Catholic H.S. cost more than Catholic K-8. My parents couldn't afford it. 

2 hours ago, whiteshoes said:

I have noted a national trend to seeding the final four of each class.    After this weekend's finals where only one game could be considered competitive, perhaps it is something to chew on.

Only one game was competitive? MD won by 10. Lawrenceburg was leading at Halftime. Those may not have come down to the wire, but they were competitive. 

Terre Haute North

https://webapp.vigoschools.org/rdsonlineapp/postdesc.asp?POSTING=1223

Evansville North 18

Castle 28

End of 3rd

3 thoughts about programs qualifying:

1) A lot of teams would do their best to avoid any competition during the regular season. Who would want to play "independent" teams like Cathedral, Center Grove or Carmel? MIC and HCC schools already have a difficult schedule. On top of that, how many teams would want to bail their conference?

2) Programs would have to pick between money and increasing their odds to make the playoffs. If I'm Columbus North, I can schedule Perry Meridian or Cathedral. One gives me better odds to make the playoffs, but it cost our school money. This also goes for struggling programs that actually need the money. 

3) What happens to teams like Zionsville the past two years? I assume 4 win teams won't make the cut. 

Keep everything the way it is. Water will find it's level one way or another. 

21 hours ago, DumfriesYMCA said:

Coach Hart is one of the best coaches in the state and cares about safety more than most to the point that even practices are half pads/quick whistle/no tackling to the ground.  

 

You think the majority of coaches around the state do not care as much about their player's safety as Coach Hart? 

As far as "thudding up" during practice goes, this is extremely common. Not only in high school programs around the state, but in college programs as well. 

Am I missing something? Perry Meridian is receiving votes but FC isn't?