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As far as I’m personally aware....Jack Kiser was the only one who played LB....QBs are generally one of the most athletic kids on the team so if I see a QB playing both ways, they are a DB... with that said, it all depends on numbers for the game and situation. I see a lot of late game qb plays DB (if they are fast)

All sports by all accounts. Jasper and VL are joining the SIAC in all sports which would leave 4 teams for the BIG8. Boonville apparently considered going independent over joining the SIAC. Im not sure if any of the other sports will do divisions or just football

That article suggests that there will be 2 crossover games....with 1 being week 9 as a battle of division champs all the way down to 6th. i certainly support having the division winners face each other. But I wouldn’t want 2 games. Would create the possibility of facing the same team 2 times in the same season. Should just be week 9: 1v1 2v2 3v3 and so on. Let the schools choose who they play. If they want to play a team in the other division so be it...but don’t force them to do as such

For GS this may work out better than perceived initially boonville (4A) Princeton, Mt Vernon, Washington, Heritage Hills (3A) in conference. Out of conference Southport (6A) Southridge (2A, but playing in 3A) and the potential to have Henderson County/New Albany/Bloomington South/possibly others thats a pretty good shake imo

How long is southports contract? I thought it was 2 years. But I could just be making things up.

Well we have an answer. And I’m sure we will debate this conference shake up including the SIAC shake up for 5 years

I did some looking and it was the Summit or SAC that I was referring to. There is an older thread on here about it...essentially though they are saying that “teams” want to better prepare for the playoffs with out of conference games. But a few members there are saying it’s pretty much just snider, the largest school. fort Wayne and Evansville are very comparable cities in many aspects so I find this even more interesting

Butkus has a bit of fire to his takes, but I like it! I think what he is saying the SIAC already knows, just a few fans don’t agree with. The SIAC did amend their bylaws to have a total of 12 teams. If I’m not mistaken too, there is a conference in northern Indiana (I think the south bend area) where they have 10 schools and their football schedule has 0 out of conference games. I believe they were talking about (or already did) making changes to allow non conference games because they feel like it is restricting. The SIAC at 12 gives all the flexibility and locality to scheduling. At 10, you just play your conference schedule

Any news of boonville or another team willing to join the SIAC or is it still a mess

I’m still up for moving it sooner. Just don’t want more games necessarily. Everyone gets to play a playoff game so it’s realistically a 10 games season and 15 if you make it to state. Those are good numbers the only issue that may come from playing a few weeks earlier is the heat. Especially for southern Indiana.

I personally think 15 games (if you make it to the finals) is a great number. Would not be in favor of extending it further. As for thanksgiving weekend....I’m personally not a fan of having it the day after thanksgiving but! But, it’s practically a sure fire day/weekend to have all the friends and family available to go and watch their team play for the title. If there was a push for a bye week, I say just have the season start 1 week earlier

The PAC is absolutely killing it this year for softball Heritage Hills, Tecumseh, and Gibson Southern are all in semi state

SIAC is Castle Reitz and central???? Idk. Lots of whispers of castle but that’s every year it seems BIG8 is VL, Jasper. I’ll give the nod to VL. PAC I think is firmly a Heritage Hills Gibson Southern race....normally I would say Southridge too but I think I recall reading that Montgomery for Southridge is focusing on only baseball now. Kid is a 3 sport athlete but I think if memory serves me correct that he has the potential to be a major baseball prospect.

Every year for the playoffs teams voice their concerns over that field or moving it to another site. Are there any plans in the near near future to update the field?

....what

......if Gibson Southern was only girls sports they would still be better overall for athletics than VL for both boys/girls sports lol

This guy gets it. Year after year we hear about the BIG8/PAC sos and the teams have mostly tried to make the best of it. But how can you pass an opportunity like this up. The SIAC is giving you 1/2 of the normal scheduled games and giving you 4 weeks to keep your rivalries in place, play other schools outside the area, or play schools in the other division. they pretty much gave teams no reason to turn it down other than they have to play larger schools who are typically much more competitive.

I’m not saying VL isn’t worthy. They are a solid school....but the SIAC is going to drive right by GS every time they go to play in Vincennes lol

It’s gonna be interesting when someone new to the forum comes on here later this year and in the future and says ”Gibson southern should play tougher competition” and the GS fans reply “We tried!!! We really did!”

I think a lot of people were wanting to see that too. As per collegefootballtoday Brady is ranked as the #1 QB and #13 overall for the class of 2022. It’s still early though and rankings are always changing. But I don’t think anyone in the Evansville area is going to miss out on seeing him play. GS has been getting plenty of publicity/coverage since 2012

GS did. I believe we dropped them after 2014 and replaced them with Henderson County who is now being replaced this year and next with Southport

A few years ago Gibson Southern lost their QB in week 9 to a broken collarbone fighting (and succeeding) to win the conference championship game.....I think the following week we faced Evansville memorial in the first round and lost by a touchdown. i think this was 2016

The issue i see with a crossover week is teams need to work their schedule to make sure weeks 7&8 are non conference games so that there is “enough” time to organize the games for week 9.

I feel like GS was for both the PAC/BIG8 merger and joining the SIAC. I think the big thing was getting a tougher conference schedule and I’m sure the other PAC schools were largely for this too. Boonville dropping out i think makes it tough now because really the SOS doesn’t change too much outside of boonville being added....just play slightly larger schools... at this point i think GS wants to join the SIAC because the hopes of a beefed up schedule for the PAC is now pretty much gone. The biggest losers of this are teams like princeton, north posey, south Spencer

GS is probably really hoping for booneville or another school to join the SIAC because as it stands now, almost all the hopes and desires of creating a tougher conference schedule just fell through.