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I might be wrong, but I think that the autographing of anything that has your school name/logo on it would likely be violating the "spirit of the rule," if not the rule itself. Maybe a photo of yourself in your uniform, but a shirt or hoodie with your school's name? Those are the kinds of things that will have to be clarified. For example, you can't go to do a commercial for a local eating establishment while wearing your team hoodie with your school name or logo on it. However, could you do that same commercial while wearing a blank hoodie that is clearly displaying your school colors? ChatGPT says "I would advise against it."

Having spent 3 years coaching in Michigan, I am definitely intrigued to see how co-ops would work in Indiana. Michigan is a different beast because of the sheer number of schools in the State with small enrollments - A scan of the MHSAA website shows that there are ~180 high schools with enrollments between 100 and 250 students. Indiana is in a different situation (see: "Indiana School Reorganization Act of 1959"). Yes, some smaller Indiana schools who don't offer football could co-op with bigger and established schools, but I'm not sure how many schools would be willing to "bump up" a class by taking on what would amount to only a handful of extra bodies. Are 5 extra guys worth going from 2A to 3A? I'm not sure. Rossville forming a co-op with either of the 1A Clinton County schools would result in a combined enrollment that would bump them to 3A for football. There are a handful of programs that could explore starting a co-op program from scratch. For example, Kouts (219 students) and Washington Township (240 students) are only about 20 minutes away from each other, and would have a combined enrollment (459) that would put them in 2A. Argos (169 students) and Oregon-Davis (130 students) are a half hour apart, and a combined program (299 students) would be in 1A. Obviously there is more to the equation than just counting bodies and mileage - football isn't exactly the cheapest sport to participate in - but it still makes for some fun discussion board conversation.

"But, Coach, we pay $1000 a month for little Billy to see a private trainer. How is it possible that he's not going to make the varsity team?" When you go to the barber, the barber will never tell you that you don't need a haircut.

I agree, it's parents (or, rather, just the adults in general). I still think the average kid doesn't care if they have a 10-yard night or a 100-yard night as long as they're on a team and having fun, they're going to battle with their buddies, and they feel like they're contributing. You have lots of athletes who would rather have 8 catches for 150 yards in a loss than a night where they maybe went 1 for 10, but it was a game that the team won - And I think that comes from parent pressure. Kids nowadays are different, you can't argue that. But they're different as a result of their environment.

Coach Brian Burkart (Mishawaka Marian, Michigan City Elston, Michigan City, Knox, and South Bend Adams) passed away Saturday morning, June 21. Coach Burky was always a character, and lord knows the man was a TALKER. He’ll be missed terribly by his family. He loved being a part of the IHSAA and IFCA coaching community. Our family is still working on arrangements, but we’ll definitely have some kind of a remembrance ceremony in the coming weeks.

Saw this thread pop up and thought “oh, ****, what did I do?” Wish Ed nothing but the best. I’ve only known him since January when I began the interview process, but he was always very fair and was nothing but supportive of all of the crazy ideas I have thrown at him since accepting the position.

I appreciate it, Muda! Happy to have the opportunity to lead the Hot Dogs.

Carson Steele has a pet Alligator that he has had since he was a little kid. It's name? Crocky J. During weekday MACtion coverage when he was at Ball State, the color commentators had a field day discussing him, that's the only reason I knew about it. Long live weekday MACtion.

I think all future job postings should come with the disclaimer added "NOT TRITON CENTRAL" for clarity and consistency.

On an Apple device, in the bottom of the URL bar at the bottom of the window there is a button like this: AA Click it, and select "request desktop website."

Absolutely a first-class guy. He coached up here in Northern Indiana for years, and he's legitimately one of the nicest guys in the business. Best of wishes to him.

He played on L.C.'s State Runner-Up team back when Elmer Britton was their head coach... So he was on the team for the 1993-94 school year.

As a former Indiana HS football coach who is now in my second year coaching in Michigan, I just thought I'd chime in and share how co-ops work in Michigan. An example, Covert High School has 96 students. Bangor High School, with 349 students, is 12 minutes away. The two schools co-op for football, so Covert students can go and play at Bangor under the name "Bangor Vikings," and the MHSAA uses the combined enrollment of 445 for classification purposes. In every other sport, Covert and Bangor each field their own separate teams - they opened their basketball seasons against each other in 2022-23. I think the main reason the IHSAA doesn't allow (or, rather, hasn't addressed the idea of co-ops) is simply because the amount of small schools who would be impacted by co-ops is fairly small. Michigan schools are organized much differently, so there are nearly 200 high schools throughout the State - public and private - with enrollments below 200 students. By comparison, a quick peek at the IHSAA member list shows that there are less than 40 high schools in the whole State of Indiana that have an enrollment below 200. Here's the MHSAA list of approved co-op programs for 2022-23 - It's 28 pages long (each school is listed twice, so 14 pages of co-op teams): https://www.mhsaa.com/sites/default/files/Enrollment and Classification/2223hscoop.PDF To be fair a quick glance at the approved co-op teams also shows that a large number of these co-op football programs also happen to play 8-man so it's fair to say that the two schools are in a position that, without the co-op, *neither* team would be able to field an 8-man program. Here's a link from the MHSAA explaining the co-op process: https://my.mhsaa.com/portals/0/documents/AD Forms/srcoop.pdf

Awful to hear... Condolences to his family, and to the entire NP community.

Can confirm. The Tribune already reported it, but the teaching and coaching resignations weren't officially posted on the SBCSC School Board agenda minutes until 1/10/22.