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Bishop Luers opens with Adams Central then has Andrean in Week 2. Is Luers going to 4A? If not, three of the top teams in 3A North facing off early in 2026.

Call me an optimist but athletics will never leave high school. In fact it could go full circle meaning an increase in multisport athletes. The elites may play in club, get paid nil, and play for IMG like schools but the majority of kids will not. This will open up opportunities for those in high school to participate in multiple sports and enjoy it. Kind of the way it was when I was in high school. Will the overall quality decline? Likely but who really cares if you enjoy athletics and competition.

Are you surprised by this? This was the intent all along of the success factor.

Your private/parichial calculation is unfair in the sense you are penalizing private for students that come from parochial grade/middle schools within their diocese. Once again, Ohio model accounts for all of this and is based in specific roster. Total enrollment is base then each player in roster assigned a value and added. Multiplier’s make no sense and quite simply are lazy way of determining classification.

Why get rid of conference play? For many schools, winning the conference is goal and has meaning. Can you not achieve what it is your looking for by: 1. Keep Conferences 2. Add a 10th regular season game 2. Reduce number of teams in tourney - regular season means something 3. Use sagarin or some other tool to determine tourney teams and seeding - regular season and strength of schedule would matter 4. Neutral sites for Regionals and semi state 5. Neutral sites must be turf In terms of competitive balance/success factor, I would just adopt Ohio’s policy and regulations. It requires more work by administrators and much more detailed as every player in your roster gets assigned a value and added to your enrollment from grades 9-11. It seems fair and definitely more logical than multipliers.

I believe there are three “physical” traits and one playing issue that may be hindering his D1 recruitment. 1. And 2. Height and Weight: Program has him at 5’11” and 190 lbs. I’ve also read on recruiting services he is 5’10” 185 lbs. I would tend to believe the recruiting services as we know most programs add a few inches and pounds to program. 3. 40 time. I don’t believe he is a consistent sub 4.5 guy based on watching film. He’s likely 4.5-4.6 range not slow but not a blazer. He's what I call a tweener. He’s not big enough to allow for a slower 40 time and not fast enough to allow for smaller frame. 1. Playing issue: Competition level This is not his fault but the competition level is not that great. Recruiters factor this in as well. So much of recruiting today is also the eye test at Summer Camps. I believe he has attended some of these camps and has not received a ton of interest. This tells me something. As we have all seen in the past, great high school players don’t translate necessarily to D1 status. Now, I do believe he should be our states Mr. Football. He deserves it. Kudos to him for this season and his career at Knox. I hope Knox makes it to LOF so he has a big stage to perform on and show everyone his abilities.

Girls sports are very good to elite in 6A. Boys basketball is competitive and really good every few years. Boy’s baseball is always good and just win the 4A title recently. Both boys and girls soccer are good. LC athletics is very good with one exception, football. I don’t know why but it really is their only blemish.

Sorry, with Illiana joining, the NCC will be a 8 team conference. 7 conference games and 2 non conference games.

why would anyone want a 10 team conference? LC does not fit the NCC they are 6A. It’s a good 4A conference for the most part. I’d love to see Griffith come back. I also think it would be good for Griffith. The conference they are in is not very good. Illiana Christian is joining the NCC next year and started football this season with a jv schedule. This will make it a 7 team conference. Highland to the Greater South Shore and Griffith to NCC.

Even better, Penn joins the DAC thus keeping Valpo, drops Mishawaka, then add one school either from FW schools or HSE/Fishers/Westflied. Now you are talking a much improved schedule for Penn and also competitive DAC schools. Logistically, LC would be the furthest travel time. Laporte, MC, Portage, Valpo, Chesterton are relatively close. Merrillville and CP are easy drives, all interstate. I know this has been discussed a lot before but it makes too much sense. Penn already plays all these schools in other sports. There must be some strong commitment to the NIC by Penn.

Metrics - code for height, weight and speed. Agree. Tape/Film - metrics get you the look but then it comes down to your play Live Eye test - Summer Camps

I know nothing about Noblesville but it does appear John Herbert is a very successful coach and they were 1-8 this year. Are you saying he is not a good coach?

What’s the old adage…””Iron sharpens Iron”. Believe me, I’m not say coaching is not important. It is extremely important. I’m just saying that when you are constantly playing good competition it not only makes the players better but also the coaches as well and just not HC but the position coaches and coordinators. A super conference will never happen. Yes these 6A schools throughout the rest of Indiana can schedule bigger and better comp in the first 2-3 weeks. Many are trying to some success but it has its limits due to budgets and local relationships within their conference community.

It is more about competition than coaching. 6A North just simply do not have enough 6A schools in a close geographic area like the Indy and the surrounding Metro area. Of the 32 teams in 6A, I count 19-20 that are in the Metro area. The remaining 12-13 teams are spread throughout the rest of Indiana. The competition factor also elevates the coaching abilities in terms of preparation and in game coaching. Many of these 6A schools in the North have great facilities, good youth football programs and multiple middle school feeders just like Indy metro 6A schools. Yes, scheduling would help improve 6A North but it is easier said than done and still would not be adequate since they could not do it every week of the season. 6A Teams in Indy do not have that problem. i like to use Ohio as an example, the large schools are not dominated by one metro like Indiana. Yes, they have multiple metro areas but this reinforces the competition factor in all of those metro areas. They play similar competition every single week during the season. You can not say that about Indiana.

Not really. It’s either Merrillville or LJ in the North.