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Yeah, I've seen a lot of $70,000 pick-ups at some of the so-called "under-privileged" rural public schools...

It would be nice to get some rain before tomorrow night to compact the fill.

I guess that's the risk you run when you live on a public course. We had one here sold to the school corp and now part of it is prairie. That doesn't change the fact that Irsay supports many, many causes very generously. Not the least of which is IHSAA football.

MY THOUGHTS...

Yes, in one of the more egregiously bad IHSAA decisions in the past couple of years.

Thanks for posting to GoFundMe link, Bobref. It is already over $23,000. Gipper, Has anyone in the program attempted to reach out to Jim Irsay? Dude has a heart of gold.

Drove by Castle just a bit ago. Lots of workers getting after it.

Looks great! Can't wait to see the finished product Friday night.

Actually, deep tournament runs generate very little financial return. The IHSAA gets more than the lion's share of the revenue at the Regional, Semi-State and State levels.

I'm told the scrimmage with Memorial is scheduled for there Friday night, so I guess it will be done by then.

Thank you.

In my mind, our big rivalries are with Castle, Jasper and MD. I think he replaced MD with Reitz purely based on what happened last year in the tournament. Beautiful night. Huge crowd. I was selling athletic passes all night and it was steady. Never got to see even 1 play...

Final article in the series... https://www.courierpress.com/story/sports/high-school/2024/08/09/who-are-the-toughest-sw-indiana-football-coaches-to-play-against/74610539007/ Mike Goebel, Scott Buening & John Hurley most frequently mentioned as toughest coaches to play against. Fun series by Kyle Sokeland at the Ev. Courier to kick off the new season.

Therein lies the rub. It is well documented that the IHSAA applies the rules inconsistently. Taking them out of the equation with a automatic one time transfer rule would level the playing field for all students and remove any inconsistent applications. Without getting into all the details, 2 years ago we had a kid transfer from one of the public schools, both schools indicated it was NOT for athletic purposes, yet the former school still blocked full eligibility and the kid had to go through the entire appeal process to get full eligibility, ultimately by suing the IHSAA. Giving a one-time transfer takes politics and bias out.

That doesn't happen down here.

I honestly don't know the answer to that. Maybe for IHSAA purposes we do. Switch Memorial with Harrison then. Kid is at Bosse and wants to go to Harrison (2 miles away). Does he have to move? I guess I don't understand the "just move".

Or, to maybe make it more palatable to some on here... Kid enrolled at Memorial and played a year, but transfers to Bosse. Still walks to both schools. Same question. Why require a move?

So I think you knew the neighborhood. Let's say a kid enrolled at Bosse and played a year, but transfers to Memorial. He walks from home to both schools. Why should his parents have to move?

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They have all the prep work done. I think its just a matter of installing the carpet. Those crews are incredibly efficient, so we'll see.

I was told that too. First time I've heard of that being used. Sounds more environmentally friendly. Castle usually hosts the scrimmage with Memorial. If the crew starts tomorrow, I bet they'll be playing on it next Friday. It is pretty wild how quickly they can get them installed.

How far do you want to roll it back? Back to when the IHSAA was controlled by such honorable men like Arthur Trester, who didn't allow African-American or Catholic schools to be members and participate in the state tournaments? That sure oozed morality and "doing what was right". Good post. I can't speak for any other parochial school, but our coach is not out trying to contact or recruit players from public schools.

"The complete lawlessness of recruiting players and the de facto 'transfer portal'. If you polled the coaches from the SIAC and PAC, you would have a strong consensus on a very few programs that are involved in this area." "Over the last 8-10 years, in the city, you will have one "all-star" team and everyone else. Those coaches who aren't coaching the loaded team are livid behind closed doors, but have a job to keep. Everyone sees it, everyone knows what is going on, but no one says a word (in public). The coaches on the teams that aren't "the chosen one" lose players and are always up against it. The loaded team usually has a lot of success in the conference. The only thing that changes is which team is declared "the winner" and I don't think that is changing anytime soon."

Oh heck, let's talk about it. LOL. You're 100% right. Harrison had a brief stint, then Central, and now it's Reitz, who probably has the best chance of making it stick given the overall dynamics in the EVSC system. I do find it interesting that a coach made those comments knowing it would go into an article. It will be interesting to see how things play out over the next few years.

Don't want to leave out the first article in the series about rule changes: seeding, hashes and those darn cheatin' Catholics... https://www.courierpress.com/story/sports/high-school/2024/08/05/indiana-high-school-football-coaches-propose-possible-rule-changes/74610118007/