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    Leave Your Drones at Home for the Tourney

    in The Indiana High School Football Forum

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    I have actually been researching our options for replacing our current methods of filming games with drone technology.  It seems that there are potentially several options that are significantly cheaper than the tower options that currently exist.  My assumption would be that if a member school petitioned to be able to do this, especially if it were due to cost saving measures, than it seems plausible.  I guess now I need to ask the questions before getting in too deep!

    Quality Conversations

    in The Indiana High School Football Forum

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    This summer we (Bosse) brought in veteran official Dave Snider to speak with our players and coaches.  Was a really positive experience for everyone.  Players learned a massive amount and were able to ask tons of questions.  

    Last night Mr. Snider invited myself and new Central HC Sean Coultis to speak with a room full of officials at their monthly meeting.  Once again, this was a really positive experience for all of us.  The running theme for both events is that communication is the key to keeping games and relationships positive and productive on Friday nights.  

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    3A sectional alignment

    in The Indiana High School Football Forum

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    22 minutes ago, Gipper said:

    It is.  And, unfortunately if you pull two school in different quadrants and put them together, there will be a ripple effect statewide...

    Math, Science, and Geography in this case suck!!!

    At least this method provides very simple, logical explanations using Math, Science, and Geography for why some teams have to be placed in one place or another.  

     

    1 hour ago, Coach_K said:

    A few years ago (2016-2017?), I was asked to be on a sectional realignment committee.  (I declined.)  Even then the IHSAA said we want you guys/girls to set these up however you deem fair.  At an Principal/AD Area Meeting, Bobby Cox asked us what was more important travel distance or travel time.  In my area the answer was time. But then what they wanted to do was put me (from southwestern Indiana) on a committee to realign a Northern Sectional.  The logic was ADs in the south know very little about traditional rivalries and historical sectional opponents.  Therefore, we were going to shake things up.  Obviously, that did not happen a few years ago but the idea was planted. You can see a lot of changes in a variety of different sports and very little consistency. 

    My old school is in a different sectional for boys basketball, boys soccer, girls soccer (boys and girls soccer are not in the same sectionals either), and volleyball. I don't understand the purpose of completely changing every sport.

    Conference affiliation, traditional rivalries, and who is friends with who should not be factors.  There does not need to be a committee that assigns sectionals.  We are waiting to see what the people are going to do about an issue that can be determined without human bias and illogical reasoning.  Place the grid over the state and assign sectionals accordingly.

     

    1 hour ago, btownqbcoach said:

    And if they played in sectional 31 they would have a 2hr 15min drive to Franklin Co, if they played in sectional 30 they'd have a 2hr 5min drive to Sullivan. Brownstown and Salem are centrally located, but neither of us are on an interstate. Why are the extra 23mins in your scenario that big of a deal? That's kind of silly. But, yeah... they did do a pretty good job, at least in the South, not familiar enough with the North. 

    Simple geography makes this a moot point.  If you look at the map that I posted earlier of the projected verses actual sectionals, you can see the flaws.  Math is the other thing on the side of my approach.  In the actual sectional assignments released for the 2019 and 2020 seasons, the average mileage and travel times (for the two schools in each group that are the farthest apart) are 102 miles and 1 hour 51 minutes respectively.  This is compared to the projected sectional alignment where the distance and time between the two schools with the greatest distance between them being, 96 miles and 1 hour 45 minutes respectively.

    The number of schools vs. the number of classes creates a problem for the IHSAA that I do not envy.  However, this discussion would not be at all necessary if they simply geographically places schools in their sectional.  my biggest issue looking at these maps is the size of the boxes on the Actual side as apposed the the projected side.  Six miles and six minutes worth of travel time seems silly to argue, however in the 2019 case there are far more schools with potentially longer than necessary trips in the sectional than 3A has seen in the past.

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    3A sectional alignment

    in The Indiana High School Football Forum

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    23 minutes ago, btownqbcoach said:

    Looks fair to me. 

    I am not a fair this or fair that kind of person. My favorite quote is, "There is nothing more unequal, than the equal treatment of unequals."  That being said, the 3A alignment just does not employ any type of logic that I can come up with.  The IHSAA called this a Sectional tournament, not you or I, implying that geography would be the logical way to divide teams.  Therefore, split the state into half and divide each half into quadrants.  This works for every class.  With 64 as the magic number, group eight schools at a time geographically, so that regardless of who moves up or who moves down, this is an outcome with far less anticipation.  We should not be waiting and holding our breaths to see who will go where because there should only be a handful of schools that are borderline based on their location to the location of others.  There ARE politics involved in the decision of where to send everyone this time around, and we should question the logic.  I am all for bucking tradition for better means,  and looking for new solutions to old problems, but this process should only be about looking at lines on a map and not who benefits from this scenario and that scenario.  There should NEVER be a 150+ mile, 3 hour bus ride for a sectional game.

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    Heritage Hills vs. Bosse

    in Boy's High School Hoops

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    On 3/1/2019 at 5:03 PM, Screagle said:

    Zero negativeness on either situation. Just pointing out that both of last two years Bosse picked up a really good player each year.  I have no problem with it. IMO parents have to do what they feel is best for their kid. SIAC there are several choices out there. I think middle school parents whose kids play sports would be stupid not to look at best situation both academically and athletically for high school. 

    I understand what you are saying.  I was referring to the above comment from taps.  

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    IHSAA Enrollment Numbers that will be used

    in The Indiana High School Football Forum

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    43 minutes ago, tango said:

    That makes too much sense....  You gotta remember who is making these decisions...

     

    40 minutes ago, Titan32 said:

    Agree...somehow I doubt the word timezone ever enters into the discussion.

    Should time zone be considered when a drive is less than 90 minutes?  I just cannot see time zone having anything to do with the discussion.  With them having to move two teams from the geographic footprint of the sectional, it will happen in one of two ways, Sullivan and Washington will go North, or SR and HH will go East.  Based on the numbers in the other sectionals and their geography, I think that HH and SR both go East.  We will know soon enough.

    I already know but...

    in The Indiana High School Football Forum

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    9 hours ago, Payne said:

    They must make good use of their space at Boonville. The gym looks very similar to Carmel which holds about 3,800.

    IHSAA website says Boonville gym holds 5,600 so I'll take their word for it.

    I went to Boonville and have been in Carmel's gym.  Boonville is most definitely a couple thousand seats larger.  Boonville is like the 17th largest gym in the state.  It was built with the late Roberts Stadium in Evansville as the blueprint.

    I already know but...

    in The Indiana High School Football Forum

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    9 minutes ago, DumfriesYMCA said:

    I heard through the grapevine that both teams have D1 prospects on them. 

     

    I live in Green Bay, Wisconsin but was hearing from friends and family that this game was going to be huge 

    Kiyron Powell from Bosse is a 6'9 Jr. forward with offers from Kansas State, Xavier, Georgetown, Evansville, and Miami (OH).

    Heritage Hills' Blake Sisley is a 6'8 Sophomore who has a large skill set and will command some pretty big offers eventually as well.  

    There are are some other players on both rosters who are great high school basketball players in their own right, but those are the two biggest prospects!

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