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A lot here to respond to: 1. Enrollment is still extremely large. Your telling me that you can’t find quality players with close to 3,000 students?? 2. If your definition of a good program is winning State titles, I get it to a point but this would imply all other 6A teams in football aren’t good programs besides those in the MIC as they have won every 6A title. 3. I was not aware of the Pop Warner situation. A shame as this was a very good program. 4. Middle school set up still leaves two very large feeder schools. Should be adequate. 5. Andrean, Mt Carmel and Marian Catholic have always poached and will continue to poach. 6. Agree Hanover benefitting the most with the growth in south St. John. I think there is more to support or lack there of from the Administration. I’ve heard from too many people that there is no desire to be great in football from Administration. Limit budget for football to support an excellent staff is one example that I’ve heard consistently from these same people.

I can’t figure out LC football program. Large enrollment, growing community, great facilities, good in all other boys and girls sports, well established youth football program and three large feeder middle schools. It would seem everything is in place to be really successful. they have had some competent coaches come through over the years. What is stopping them from winning at high level?

Good. Sorry, I didn’t read the article. A definite upgrade for Wabash!!!

My only surprise is he’s going back as Associate HC not the Head Coach. Maybe this is a transition year for Morrel and Gilbert? Coach Gilbert is a great coach, Best of Luck!

If I read this properly, you actually are proposing going below 32 teams. What CoachMack is proposing is that it would never go below 32. If your argument is simply opposed to having 32 teams in a class and thus it devalues a championship then you must currently oppose 6A and 5A with32 schools.

I still like the earlier reco with: 6A:32 5A: 64 4A:64 3A:64 2A:64 1A:32

I just don’t think Indiana has enough High Schools participating in football to support 8 classes. Too much dilution. i believe Ohio and Illinois have 8 classes. How many schools play football? I think Ohio has double the schools not sure about Illinois.

#4 not a question more a statement. Someone on here suggested ND hosting some of the Championship games. LOS is great don’t change it.

IHSAA make these changes now: 1. Adjust brackets to 32 in 6A and 1A, then split 5A - 2A with 61-64 schools in each. 2. Seed the Sectionals. Either complete seed or I’d be happy with seed top 2 and blind draw on the others as someone suggested earlier. 3. Neutral Site Semi State games 4. Keep LOS as home for all Championship games. Thats all. Too much to ask?

If I’m reading correctly, with 32 in 6A and 1A, the ratio large to small within a class is pretty similar with the exception of 6A. As you state, there is not much you can do with 6A with Carmel being so large. So why not do it? Makes too much sense.

Interesting, but not a complete surprise. This is a loss for LC. He is a good coach. He has Chicago Catholic league ties. It would not surprise me if he heads back that direction.

Agree. A phased approach with actual results then make the next step. And the IHSAA is surveying coaches and administrators on seeding as we speak.

True but totally different here. With single class basketball change, all teams were still able to participate in tournament. With this proposal of qualifying for tournament, you are telling a portion of your contributing member schools that they can not participate in tourney. Simply not going to happen.

In my opinion, this is all extremely unrealistic. The IHSAA will never move away from all schools qualifying for the tournament. This is what makes Indiana high school sports unique and they like being unique. I think the more realistic outcome is 6 classes with 32 in 6A and 32 in 1A and close to 62-64 teams in 5A to 2A. I also believe there is a strong possibility of seeding occurring in tournament and possibly neutral site semi state games. Other than these changes, the rest is a pipe dream.

Coach Marshall is a great coach and they have a great staff but why leave Valpo? He has built Valpo program to rival Penn. Valpo already in a better conference than Penn.