First_Backer_Inside

Yes, never was too impressed with him. Hopefully the Ohio State guy we drafted last year in round 2 comes back from his injury and lives up to what he is supposed to be. I believe the name is Tuimoliau or something like that.

Still have Pierce obviously, Downs, and Warren, realistically you need a #2 receiver from the draft and you are okay. At LB, again you can find something in the draft. If you watch tape on Franklin, yes he has a lot of tackles per year but if you watch his run fits from a coach perspective you aren't losing much. Both him and Leonard were not very good at attacking the open windows and gaps. Overran a lot of plays allowing for cut backs. The one thing I did think Franklin was better than Leonard at was pass coverage. Pratt played very well after we picked him up through the season last year. I think we have him and you draft a guy to play alongside him to learn from and we will be okay. A healthy Buckner and Stewart can make mediocre LB play look a heck of a lot better.

Saw the post right when I posted that on here haha

Just saw this, wowza that's a lot of money. Gotta think Pittman has to be sweating about possibly not being back. This also makes me think there's a possibility we don't bring back Jones and roll with Leonard on a rookie contract. I like Leonard at QB. The dude put up the most points out of anyone all year against a Texans defense I would only put behind Seattle's. But it is also a big risk for Ballard and Steichan. A bad year with Leonard at the helm and both might be looking for new jobs after next year.

Gonna be hard for us to do being in the TRC, 8 conference games which allows only one non-conference game, and need to keep Valley on the schedule for the Bell Game. I doubt Luers will be back down to 2A any time soon. I think there's a chance we could see each other in the Sectional. Will be interesting who they pick between Rochester and Bremen to go West and who goes East for Sectional assignments. I think it is more likely you guys will have Bremen. Hopefully our two sectionals meet for the regional. Could be the year we see RC and Rochester in the Regional against one another. Looking forward to a fun 2A year.

At least if they don't it would be a lot easier to change to 24 than the people who get premature tattoos that don't end up happening lol

When are you going to change your name? I wake up everyday and get on here waiting to see 24andCounting and never do. You know we are less than half a year away from opening night in Indiana. Time is ticking for you!

Nice job, Sectional 20 is flip a couple coins for how they are going to draw that one up. All the others i had about the same on.

They needed to find a way to justify taking two months to create the sectional alignments haha....I kid, I kid.

Good call, didn't take these things into account when trying to fly through all 6 classes.

Probably the most difficult one will be what they choose to do with the 4A North Teams that run along or within reach of 31. A lot of teams on the outside of the state in the North with a bunch of teams scattered all down 31. Might have to pull a few Indy area teams there to create the last Sectional in 4A

Big question for me is what they do for regionals in 2A this next year. In the past in the North at least it has been Northeast and Southeast sectionals matchup in the regional and Northwest and Southwest sectionals matchup for regional. Might be more east and west matchup this year. Same could probably be said for the South this year. Not sure how they have had it set up in previous years.

https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1NciF91zy63EMbqP18JsTnlvm4LFnG3o&usp=sharing Updated classes for sectionals. Again didn't take a lot of time with all of them but a general idea for people to go off of.

I understand what you are saying with penalizing the underclassmen but.....couldn't that be said about a lot of public schools(and some private) that have had to move up in the years past due to the success factor? I'm not saying make Cascade go up to 4A and play but to me based on the success factor they should have to stay in 3A for one more cycle before going down because of enrollment. I'm not saying anything needs to be changed this year either but I think the IHSAA needs to look into having something in writing to explain why this is okay one way or the other for a team winning a state championship and moving down a class because I don't think there is anything to this point.

HAHA get the Luers fans fired up. Lose the 3A State Championship, reward...go to 4A. Cascade wins the 3A State Championship, reward...go to 2A. Something isn't quite adding up right here.

Should've done some more digging on the paper sent out. They have the plus by them which says at the bottom tournament eligible.

Somebody help me out. I've heard Illiana Christian is playing football this year correct? They wouldn't be eligible for playoffs yet would they?

Yes, I created this before the officially numbers were released. Will try to update before the end of the day and send it back out.

Based on the numbers provided so far and assuming there won't be any changes when the IHSAA officially releases them(not counting on it), here's an idea of every class and the possible sectionals for each team based off of what I think will happen. I will admit I am most interested in 2A, so didn't put as much thought into the other 5 classes but I tried my best, enjoy. https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1NciF91zy63EMbqP18JsTnlvm4LFnG3o&usp=sharing

I wonder what the hold up is for the IHSAA not officially releasing the numbers for the next cycle. In the past, this has been released mid-February I believe. Wonder what is holding things up.

The idea of judging a team's schedule before the season is played is just crazy to me. How do we know Notre Dame is going to only play 3 ranked teams? How do we know those three ranked teams will be ranked at the end of the year? IU only having 3 ranked teams on their schedule? Give me a break, who knows what team could emerge in the Big Ten. I think it's been said on here and it's simple. Be like IU this last year, win them all and there isn't even a question of whether you are in or not no matter who you play.

Wonder what the breakdown is per athlete on the team? Still a huge difference in mens and womens sports but I wonder if football per athlete is still getting the most money. My guess would be yes, but I wonder if basketball isn't really close.

I really thought after a few years with Andy coaching them, he would get them to at least a winning record, great coach and an even better guy from my experiences talking with him and hearing even more about him. I fear Benton Central isn't a coaching problem, it is a culture problem that is gonna take a few years. I'm not saying Herb can't eventually make them better. I don't see it happening in year one. It's going to take time.

Anyone hear or see anything yet?

Have you looked at Benton Central's schedule? You please tell me who they are beating this year?