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DC coach is Kyle Enright. His dad, Dave Enright is in Indiana Football HOF (inducted about 20 yrs ago). The younger coached at Warren Central under Kevin Wright, Steve Tutsie and John Hart, I believe.

No one at IHSAA did Northview any favors with the sectional alignment. Sabotage.

Also, in regard to the home field in playoffs, it is Bobby Cox's balls that have been determining it vs what results would be different if higher seed hosts.

The big advantage I see to home field for most hs football playoff games is having a team travel to your location, which, in my experience, can be horrific.

Thought from being at various venues over four plus decades: home court advantage seems much more valuable in most gyms/arenas than most football fields/stadiums I have been to at hs level. There are places that were the exception such as Evansville Reitz (but it is an awesome venue).

Cluster in 83-84. IHSAA reaction to bias of point system that left out some top teams (example: Heritage Hills 1980 and SB St Joseph with consecutive undefeated seasons and then sued IHSAA ). Same result as point system, left out top teams. Can read previous comments by Irishman on how messed up it was (could play Wednesday night football to conclude regular season and then cluster tie breakers on Saturday) All in started 1985. Read Daniel Engler's book on Indiana fb playoff history for details.

and forgot to include the great Duane Gunn who was one of the best receivers in IU history.

I thought the 84 and 02 teams were pretty good.

Mayes was a heck of a player at ND. NC has had many really good teams despite not having the postseason accolades due to the fact that often they have faced the toughest competition in the state in the postseason and those other teams have gone on to multiple state championships.

NC-do not recall any major success in postseason except the team Bloomington South beat in 93. That was a very good team. Also, recall NC had some highly ranked teams early 80's with such stars as Gary Thurman, Ray Wallace and Lars Tate, but seemed that Carmel was their kryptonite and then got thrashed in 83 by Washington (in what the media acted like was a huge upset.) Know they had misfortune of playing Warren in 84 regional.

Someone is going to have to take on those mullets in the regional.

Definitely started by 2001 (multiple lives ago with gaps between) when my cousin moved to Indian Creek and Coach Gillin took the reigns while Joey Siderwicz took over at Martinsville.

And think the new sectional alignments will be key factor. East Central gained an obvious advantage with their own invitational.

McCulley was moved to wr. question is not only who will start at qb, but the backups since, unless the OL is much better, will be a revolving door of hits. The more hits, the less good throws to a receiver the coaches say they really like.

Just a note regarding transfers: transfers have been going on for decades that I am aware of. I would guess that transfers may have been going on before beginning of 80's as well.

The clips from the 1982 Martinsville game in the story of the 1982 season: Is there a complete game film?

infinite wisdom of IHSAA

If only Tark the Shark was still here to coach.

Indy Washington was the perfect opposite of "blue blood." Played with the chip of a true underdog with something to prove.

The cluster tie breaker OT one set of downs mid-week to get into the sectional two days later is the type of brainstorming scheme that only the IHSAA could have invented. In that masterplan, the season finale also played mid-week both cluster years. Coach Springer's Indy Washington team was really, really good (both 83 and 84). Seemed like true outsiders with little Indy media coverage and then pummeled North Central and Lars Tate (who got all the press coverage) in the regional. the last great Indy city public team. And they were undersized.

Was not Don Baylor a DH often latter in his career. Leader in HBP. Dramatically changed 86 ALCS against his old team, the Angels. Really liked Don Baylor.

Once completed, I69 will have made a big stride on that divide. The lore has been brought up often over the past 20 years on the board. It definitely stems from the pre-69 history and has a lot of casualties both ways that were likely enabled by travel problem on Friday when teams were closely matched.

I posted too hastily, it was the 82 title season that Carmel played at Castle. and that may have been Friday as it was semi and it seems the regionals were Saturday. long time ago. but I recall the sectional games played during week, which made for Saturday regionals. Mid-week football playoffs may have been the dumbest idea in the history of IHSAA. Even dumber than Cluster with cluster tiebreaker playoff halves.

Have not attended road playoff game since 2009. So, this is a hodgepodge of 90’s and 2000’s seasons in which there was higher expectations and relatives playing/friends going. Any road playoff game leaving work early on a Friday while fighting rush hour traffic is going to require if much distance: 1) Gas 2) Fast food to go stop unless bring food/drinks, which I have done. 3) Potty (unless you take a piss bottle as I have done.) (Always combined with the food stop due to time) Sectionals from Morgantown: 03 and 04 at Union County, three hours with short stop to get fast food to go, ****ball road which was in that condition thirty years prior. 06-met friend from Terre Haute North at Columbus North. He stated the drive was over three hours, but nothing compared to crappy Jennings County game several years before. 09 at Heritage Hills, four hours with same type of short stop, exhausting. The Evansville problem: The old lore that one can not travel from Indy area to Evansville for Friday game and win. There was no direct, dual lane highway (and 41 was not a better option), putting one at mercy of every slow poke, every small town speed zone and every farm implement on road. Yes, 69 has made a major change, but take a piss bottle (if one properly hydrates) and food or be prepared to lose quite a bit of time driving out of way from exits. It is still a longer trip than I thought it would be. Also, I heard from a state trooper last summer that it is the wild west of speed drivers because the state police posts in those regions will not even patrol it. Regionals to Evansville were always a survival game and vice versa. So, there were very long trips in 95, 96 and 03 that were also four hours with any quick stop. Side notes of tourney travel to Eville: Carmel went to playing the Castle game on Saturday evening. Still lost in 83 and 94. Before the all-in tourney and I-64, Richmond played first round at Castle- may be most asinine game travel I aware of. Also, recall that the IHSAA, in it’s infinite wisdom, implemented a two-year scheme of mid-week basketball regionals beginning of two decades ago in which there were a lot of complaints about traveling two plus hours on school nights before playing semi-state on Saturday. The creativity of many members on this board over the years with mapping and tourney ideas is much needed by the IHSAA, if they only had the ability to receive it.

After having traveled three and fours hours to sectional games multiple times years ago, I realized the IHSAA is not a place for logic or bold, new ideas. With the sectional drive times they have been imposing for the last two decades as well as having two of the top teams in a class playing each other in an opening round due to the IHSAA balls system, they could easily take a whole semistate and seed it with top seed hosts. Are there challenges, yes. Are these challenges greater or less than the awkward current melee?