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Now it looks like they are sending us an allotment of tickets. I do not know if any will be sold at the gate.

I think that is an IHSAA decision in the tournament. Hopefully we hear something soon.

We received an email that tickets would be sold at the gate...which honestly I thought was a little odd last time given the current state of affairs. Most schools just Fedex an allotment to us.

I agree.

Always enjoy this.

No complaints I suppose.

It's looking more and more like the rain will be over...but I do have a small pop up tent just in case!

The local county health department can handle this situation as they see fit.

No, I did not say that at all, in general terms that is a true statement. The Castle student population has roughly the same number of quality success driven athletes (ie human capital) walking the halls as does Memorial despite the largely varying enrollments. You will more than likely find the same thing in all of your examples.

And this applies to that one as well: Agree totally that socio economics always play a role, but I can tell you ain't from these parts LOL. Although a portion of the Castle demographic is similar to the Memorial one, it is just a portion. Let's call it a factor of "x" (see what I did there?). Enrollment alone is very very weak criteria by which to measure unlike institutions against each other for competitive "likeness". I think that is clear. I like how you make both sides of an argument in the same thread.

I had to edit....you are too fast for me.

Agree totally that socio economics always play a role, but I can tell you ain't from these parts LOL. Although a portion of the Castle demographic is similar to the Memorial one, it is just a portion. Let's call it a factor of "x" (see what I did there?). Enrollment alone is very very weak criteria by which to measure unlike institutions against each other for competitive "likeness". I think that is clear. I like how you make both sides of an argument in the same thread.

I'll be up top with my buddy @HereComesTheBoom !

It isn't as much about affluence as it is human capital. P/Ps will ALWAYS having a higher percentage of quality, results driven student athletes for no other reason that they are paying to be there. They are paying for a certain experience.....it is a transaction that has value for the parents. As with any other transaction for services, there are expectations in quality and performance for both ECA and academia. Conversely, in public schools, a varying percentage of students are there only because the law says they have to be. The result is more quality human capital per capita at a P/P. The example I have used in the past is how Castle and Memorial seem to go toe to toe in both girls and boys conference championships each year within the SIAC and seem to both produce a similar number of top notch athletes in various sports. Castle has 1965 students, Memorial has 609. Our Catholic friends would like us to believe that is because of the blood sweat and tears of their Irish/German ancestry genetically instilled in them a work ethic no mere protestant can match. It's really not that complicated....birds of a feather flock together. The math makes multipliers hard....maybe my friend @Lysander is right, just bump them all up a class.

I think as the housing market expands to the North out of Vanderburgh county, some football families might have interesting options depending on the trajectory of the two programs over the next few years.

I think there is a slight upward trajectory and a large freshman class. I have not heard anyone predict 800 kids although I suppose that is a possibility as I have heard rumors of more Toyota expansion. I would say though there is no danger of 4A any time soon (no success factor jokes here please LOL).

That's it...am I so transparent? And it's "jealous"....are you sure you didn't attend NP?

Just another small SWI school that doesn't do football. Not sure the reasons are any deeper than that but I wouldn't know for sure.

Proposal: Vincennes goes to the Large School PAC conference and North Knox goes to the small school conference. We LOVE Knox county!! That leaves the PAC schools with two non-conference games and the SIAC teams with one.....and Vincennes won't crush their program with winning 2 to 3 games every year.

It is only bonkers for the closed conferences like the SIAC. You guys need to fire either Jasper or Vincennes and send them to the PAC so you can go out into the world with a non-conference game.

Yes they do...I have heard that myself.

The same dudes that are saying we won't have a tournament are the same guys that got on here and proclaimed without equivocation...we WILL NOT finish regular season. I know where I will place my bet.