NLCTigerFan07

West Noble, Central Noble and Norwell have GRASS fields

Wawasee (4A), Culver Military Academy (4A) and South Bend St. Joseph (4A) have turf installed. Northridge (4A) will have it installed for the 2020 season.

I'm not upset about the Tigers going to Fort Wayne. No disrespect to Homestead and Carroll (and Noblesville), but none of those teams are on the level of Penn. An additional benefit for Warsaw facing those teams is the fact that I don't believe any of them face an offense like Bart Ball all season long. I outlined my alternative sectional groupings in a few posts above. Please feel free to see the answer to your question there. My "argument" was more to the statement of it being a no-brainer the way 6A shaked out, when I believe my scenario had some credibility to it as well. As @US31 states above, Patayto - Patahto 😊

Again... we can agree to disagree on the fact that it was "self-explanatory" 👍

We'll have to agree to disagree on the fact that it was "self-explanatory". While I'm just fine with the fact that Warsaw is not in Penn's sectional, the set-up could have very easily been: Sectional 1: Crown Point, Lake Central, Merrillville, Portage Sectional 2: Chesterton, Penn, Valparaiso, Warsaw (Elkhart still replacing Valpo in 2020) Sectional 3: FW Carroll, Fishers, Hamilton Southeastern, Homestead Sectional 4: Carmel, Lafayette Jefferson, Noblesville, Westfield My thought process with sending HSE/Fishers up I-69 is their proximity to the highway. Yes, Noblesville is further north than both of those schools, but Fishers and HSE are boht quicker trips TIME wise FW Carroll and Homestead than Noblesville is. And you have a sectional of 4 schools with 2 schools both close to each other. Noblesville definitely got the shaft travel wise in 6A.

Pretty close on my predictions and was accurate that Zionsville would be put in 6A south and had all the 6A south groupings correct. Just didn't predict they would send Jeff up I-65 to the region. Part of me still thinks you could have done something like this: Sectional 1: Crown Point, Lake Central, Merrillville, Portage Sectional 2: Chesterton, Penn, Valparaiso, Warsaw (Elkhart still replacing Valpo in 2020) Sectional 3: FW Carroll, Fishers, Hamilton Southeastern, Homestead Sectional 4: Carmel, Lafayette Jefferson, Noblesville, Westfield My thought process with sending HSE/Fishers up I-69 is their proximity to the highway. Yes, Noblesville is further north than both of those schools, but Fishers and HSE are boht quicker trips TIME wise FW Carroll and Homestead than Noblesville is. And you have a sectional of 4 schools with 2 schools both close to each other. Noblesville definitely got the shaft travel wise in 6A.

Thank you. @SBFootball1 clarified this for me in later posts.

@Coach Nowlin might need to do an update soon! Hard to stay away/out of the game

Wow... according to Mark Howe (sports writer for the Warsaw, Indiana newspaper Times-Union) tweeting out that former Warsaw head coach Phil Jensen is being introduced as the new head coach at Whitko High School. Congrats Coach Jensen! @NRRaider2001

@SBFootball1 Completely missed that on the original document! Thanks for pointing it out.

I must have missed this. Can you please provide a link? Thank you @SBFootball1 !

While that may be true NOW, Muncie Central literally jumped 64 spots in the enrollment rankings from the '13-'14 alignment to the '15-'16 alignment. So in the 2014 season (a mid-cycle year), they were a 4A school playing with a 5A enrollment. My point is why do people think Elkhart is going to move from two 5A schools to 1 6A school mid-cylce in the 2020 football season? I don't see why they won't just play the 2020 season in 5A and then when the reclassification for 2021-2022 comes, they'll get moved up to 6A at that point.

I don't understand this... There has already been a precedent set. When Muncie South consolidated into Muncie Central "mid-cycle", Muncie Central stayed in their class the next season. Am I missing something here? I don't anticipate the new Elkhart High School to be in class 6A until the 2021 football season.

Yes... yes it would. But I'll go ahead and just settle for the school's first ever sectional football championship. Baby steps DT, baby steps lol

http://www.ihsaa.org/portals/0/Flip Book/2018-19/uff/index.html

*Unified Flag Football - and yes it is AWESOME that the IHSAA has adopted both Unified Track & Field and Flag Football for these athletes. http://www.ihsaa.org/dnn/Sports/Coed/UnifiedFlagFootball/tabid/2141/Default.aspx

Adding something to this thread Soon to be senior Kicker/Punter for the Warsaw Tigers Harrison Mevis has been busy this offseason. He received his first offer from Army and recently took visits to Purdue, Georgia, Missouri and Penn State.

Will they have visitor side seating? My memory could be off, but I don't remember how much space they have on that side of the field as it butts up against Clinton Street.

I was unable to find anything with exact amounts, but both Michael Lindauer of Evansville Memorial (3A) and Bronson Yoder of NorthWood (4A) were named among the top 4 finalist for Mr. Football and received votes. That is why you see some votes missing among the 3A, 4A and 5A totals posted above from what Kiser and Bell received in those respective classes. Lindauer and Yoder played a majority of their games against those size teams in areas where Kiser and Bell were probably never seen, especially those in the southwest corner of the state.

Who's we? Are you speaking for all of Tiger Nation?

@HanShotFirst So have the 3 teams from the "South" been named? Ben Davis, Chatard and Bloomington South? So this would take Cathedral out of the running for the top 10. My guess: 1. Penn 2. Ben Davis 3. Carmel 4. FW Snider 5. Bloomington South 5. Chatard 7. Hobart 7. FW Dwenger 9. FW Luers 9. NorthWood If neither Luers or NorthWood, my other guess would be Griffith, Lowell, West Lafayette, or Adams Central.

Speaking purely from limited insider knowledge on this... I do not believe the NLC is all that interested in expanding past 8 teams at this time. There certainly isn't a need.

I second this, as well as adding to go with the boneless wings. Typically I enjoy bone-in wings, but the Hermanaki boneless are fantastic.

Lol would 100% stick to option A here... if you need B, let that be word of mouth. Yikes.

@Indian72 see @CoachMiller response. Memorial and Central athletics will merge starting the 2020-2021 season under the one Elkhart High School. There will be no disruption for Memorial athletics in 2020-2021 because there will not longer be a Memorial athletics department.