CoachJB

Clark Pleasant District Schools, or Whiteland High School, has an AD opening right now on the IDOE. Not sure what the specific requirements are for their position, but if you have a teaching license or admin license it'd definitely be a good school to work at/apply to. 

I was told from a coach within the Mid-Indiana football conference that their conference is ending. Not sure if it is in effect for next year or the following year. With the WIC looking for small schools to add to the small school bracket of the conference, could potentially sway one of the Mid-Indiana teams to join. Ill list the conference below. I could see Milan or North Decatur being a competitive good fit. Travel times are an issue in any conference in todays football landscape.

Mid-Indiana Conference

Milan 

North Decatur 

Edinburgh 

Oldenburg 

South Decatur 

Switzerland County 

On 12/1/2019 at 7:11 PM, Ben Mussolini said:

In the 1A championship game topic, it was stated that private schools should not be allowed to compete in 1A as they have too many "advantages"?  What are these advantages? 

Private schools have to compete not just for football players but for literally their entire student body.  The parents of these students all make sacrifices in time and money that public school parents simply do not have to make.   The parents always have the option of deciding that these sacrifices are too much and simply walking away.   There is always a public alternative that the parents have already paid for anyway with their own tax money.

The facilities at private schools are often not their own.  Covenant Christian HS uses the Zionsville West Middle School field as its home field.  In 2016, Lutheran had to move its regional game against Fountain Central to Beech Grove's field as Lutheran's old home field was simply not that good of a field.  How is playing on a field that's not your own an advantage? 

I will grant that many 1A public schools have stretched resources.  They are at least guaranteed a student body from year to year and have their own facilities rather than borrowing someone else's.  Once again, what advantages do private schools supposedly have?

 

 

 

This can be looked at through a lot of different lenses..... depending on your association with the schools and your background. The best way for me to describe why private schools have an advantage in the smaller classes is quite simply the numbers game. Take a public school of 250 students and a private school of 250 students. Compare those two 250 student bodies and tell me that their isnt a drastic difference in makeup. Sure, open enrollment is one argument, but realistically most small school communities are made up entirely of kids that have no choice but to go to that school due to location and socioeconomic status. While a private school, kids literally choose to go there and the school can essentially pick their student body..... A private schools enrollment usually doesnt include students such as special needs students, students that are so low socioeconomically that they are forced into the work force at a young age (hindering their ability to partake in sports), and the "ghost students" that are enrollment counts but rarely attend school. You can argue about public schools and say that they can do the same thing as privates and can grow their program to improve. Theres validity to every argument. However, please atleast acknowledge that the student body makeup between small public and privates are vastly different which has implications to the athletics department.... Trust me, ive been involved in both Public and Private schools over the years and can assure you it is just different. 

Covenant Christian (Indianapolis) with a coaching change in consecutive years. School athletics website stating they have hired Dan Gietl as the new Varsity football coach. Gietl will replace Tony Bowman, who in his one year as HFC led Covenant to a 6-5 record. Gietl's coaching career is described in the article link below. 

Covenant Christian with a 6-5 record this year, bowing out of the tournament to 1A favorite Indianapolis Lutheran, has produced four straight winning seasons. Under Larry McWhorter, they posted a 10-1 record in 2016, 7-3 in 2017, and 9-1 in 2018. The potential for success is there for the new head coach. 


covenantathletics.org/2019/11/13/gietl-named-next-football-coach/

Covenant Christian (Indianapolis) with a coaching change in consecutive years. School athletics website stating they have hired Dan Gietl as the new Varsity football coach. Gietl will replace Tony Bowman, who in his one year as HFC led Covenant to a 6-5 record. Gietl's coaching career is described in the article link below. 

Covenant Christian with a 6-5 record this year, bowing out of the tournament to 1A favorite Indianapolis Lutheran, has produced four straight winning seasons. Under Larry McWhorter, they posted a 10-1 record in 2016, 7-3 in 2017, and 9-1 in 2018. The potential for success is there for the new head coach. 


covenantathletics.org/2019/11/13/gietl-named-next-football-coach/