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My money would be on GS to advance further. 4A South is a gauntlet and whoever wins Sectional 24 is going to have their hands full with East Central in the Regional.

As I understand it, they vote a full squad for big & small school divisions, so there are basically 6 schools that make up each All-Conf team. That will change a little bit this year as Tecumseh has joined the small school division.

Top 10 GID post all-time....

LOL. I was just making sure you weren't asleep on a rainy day... BTW, I don't think I've ever told anyone on any day how awesome VL was.

It would help them avoid Owen Valley in that Sectional 30 juggernaut... LOL

I know he didn't play against us in Wk 9.

Was Gordon the QB for Castle last year who didn't see much PT after about the 3rd week of September?

How so? I'll be interested to hear how our OL/DL did. That will be the fulcrum for Tiger football this year.

Yes, but the same Success Factor rules apply to all the class sports (3, 4 & 6), right? It seems a little unclear if the new rolling two-year period starts in 2024.

https://www.ihsaa.org/sites/default/files/documents/062223.pdf The IHSAA adjusted how the schools are assigned in the 4 class sports, but also tweaks the success factor. Does this mean a school like Mater Dei, who has accumulated 7 points over the past 2 seasons, will be moved to 3A for 2024, or does the new "rolling 2 year period" start this season?

I dropped by school last night on my evening cruise and watched the workout. As I suspected, we have a lot of depth everywhere but the trenches. I predict Memorial will be putting the ball in the air more than the last couple of years. We have some younger kids with nice size at OL/DL, but they are going to have to take some big steps this summer. The best part was seeing coach Andy Zirkelbach back in royal blue. He will be a great addition to the coaching staff. BTW, it is the Colts 7 on 7 in Indy this Saturday. We play East Central, Brebeuf and Beech Grove in pool play. I suppose EC will be a different animal in 7 on 7 than back in November when they lined up and ran it down our throats in the Regional. LOL.

Colts?

Congrats to the North Posey and Tecumseh girls softball teams for winning the 1A and 2A state titles!! Pretty impressive accomplishment for the PAC!!

I'm not sure we do much 7 on 7 anymore. I know we had NewPal, Boonville and maybe Castle at a 4 team 11 on 11 thing one evening last summer. I think one issue is the number of kids who also have other sports going on. It's a fine balance between allowing multi-sport athletes to be multi-sport athletes and also having some time to still be kids.

You do realize there is no p/p school in Indiana with 1200 students, right?

Seems to me it would be a lot easier to seed an individual sport like wrestling than a team sport.

I would estimate that is pretty close to the "non-participant student" numbers at Memorial as well. So, if we use Wildcat1992's 10% for NPS that would give MD an effective enrollment of 450. If GS and MD are very close in effective enrollment, then GS would have a NPS percentage of 35% (450 / 700 = 0.64). Does that seem fair?

I will give you some degree of socioeconomics and definitely increased parental support at p/p schools, but evidently those don't translate to athletic success at Day School, Wash. Catholic or Rivet. As for controlled enrollment, those 3 schools could have significantly higher enrollment and still be 1A, so I'm not sure that holds water. The implication that schools like Memorial and Mater Dei control the enrollment to stay in a given class for athletics is wrong (or "bull crap" as Muda says, LOL). There is no question p/p schools cannot adequately provide for every type of student, especially those with significant learning challenges. Not being able to accept those student is a form of "enrollment control" but it has nothing to do with athletics. Having served on the board of trustees at Memorial for a long time, we would love to be able to accept all students, but the economic reality is we can't. If we could get another 200-300 non-sports playing students, we would take them in heart beat because it would mean tuition doesn't grow by 10-15% every year.

I meant actually participates. My knowledge of 1A is pretty limited because we don't have many 1A schools that have football programs down here in SW IN. I thought LCC was 2A on enrollment.

No. I will never agree that every p/p has advantages over all similarly sized public schools - because it just isn't true. I ask again - what are the advantages that EDS, WC and Rivet have over Tecumseh, Wood Memorial and NE Dubois? To be honest, the only 1A p/p I'm aware of that actually plays football is Lutheran, who has demonstrated lots of success and yes, has advantages over most 1A publics.

Considering there are only a handful of schools currently being SF'ed in football, the other sports are probably relatively similar - a few in any given cycle. Me too. I'm okay with no p/p in 1A for football, but not other sports like basketball, baseball, etc.

I'm not sure you read my post correctly. I said there is no question Memorial and Mater Dei are capable of punching above their weight because I do not dispute that Memorial and Mater Dei have advantages over a lot of public schools of similar enrollment. I would argue they have some disadvantages too, but that is irrelevant to my question... I asked what advantages Day School, Washington Catholic and Rivet have over Tecumseh, Northeast Dubois, etc. You want to automatically bump all p/p schools, regardless of whether they have any success. If a p/p isn't having any success, why should they be bumped up?

But there are in other sports. You gotta remember that any SF / multiplier system applies to all sports, not just football. The IHSAA is never going to do one thing for football and something else for other sports.

There are some weak sectional fields out there across some sports. I would never support a system where a program like GS girls tennis gets bumped up for multiple consecutive sectional titles while having never won a regional.

Please explain their advantages. Day School has an enrollment of 44, Washington Catholic 74 and Rivet 68. Ev. Christian is just recently eligible for IHSAA tournament play, but EDS, WC and Rivet have been eligible for a long, long time and have had little success in any sport. In boys basketball, EDS had Evansville's career leading scorer (twice actually) and won 1 sectional each time. They have zero advantages over Tecumseh, Wood Memorial, Northeast Dubois, etc. The problem with an automatic bump is while some p/p schools can punch above their weight in many sports (eg. Memorial and Mater Dei in SW IN), there are as many, if not more schools that can barely land one in their own weight.