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I just looked. GS to New Albany is 1 hour 45 minutes...pretty much just 64 east GS to tell city is 1 hour 13 minutes

I agree it’s the right thing to do, regardless of the teams involved. I personally don’t have anything against cathedral. and thank you for the other team. I knew there was another just couldn’t remember on the spot and didn’t want to dig through all the banter of the cathedral thread lol

They have to adjust 6A and 5A I think. They made a retroactive change. Long story short they made the success factor to “stay up” 2 points instead of 3 but then only had it for winter and spring sports. People got upset because they believed it favored some teams like cathedral. So they changed it to make all sports from this past year reflect the new points requirements. The only issue was that sectional assignments were already released so they have to adjust for cathedral going “back to 5A”

One potential risk would be for teams like GS/HH playing SR 3 times in a year schedule an non conference game...face each other in the crossover. Then play each other in sectionals (potentially early). i think most people want to schedule crossovers. Just don’t want it mandated

I figure as much also. New Albany and castle have been playing week 2 recently (I don’t know for how many years though) the SIAC has been playing a number of schools the first 2 weeks....owensboro teams, terra haute, Bloomington... if if I had to guess...the new PAC will pick up the games the SIAC has to drop and then whatever remains will be inter divisional games likely across rivalry lines....without looking it all up but 8 SIAC teams with 2 weeks of non conference games leaves about 16 games (I don’t know if some teams play twice vs SIAC). Each PAC team needs to fill 4 games.

Just going off of 2018.... Gibson Southerns SoS had an average of about 189.78 for sagarin rankings last year. Since Henderson County isn’t on sagarin, I went to maxpreps national rankings and found the closest Indiana team and used their Sag rating. (Southern Dearborn with a ranking of 86) Projecting what GS will have for a schedule in 2020....speculating that GS will play Southridge still...and will pick up Bloomington South and New Albany (2 teams the SIAC have scheduled currently)...the average Sagarin rating is 125.89 Current schedule————189.78 Projected Schedule———125.89 for perspective...Evansville Memorials 2019 schedule using the exact same methodology gives an average ranking of 111.89 things to note....these are 2018 rankings that also factored in how far the team went in the playoffs....these are 2018 rankings, nothing is guaranteed for 2019 and 2020...This is a hypothetical GS schedule based on rumors and who theoretically should be available to schedule. Nothing is in stone i just wanted to try to find some value to what the new schedule could be in terms of SoS. If I’m being realistic, the 125.89 average is probably too good to be expected. Teams will rise and fall in 2019 and 2020.... There are plenty of flaws with this methodology but I think it gives us some kind of idea..even so, the schedule isn’t as tough as being in the SIAC currently.

Dang dude....someone hit the booze harder than me last night and seemingly tried sleeping with a badger too 😂 talk about having a bad attitude in short for GS...yes would have liked to join SIAC...didn’t happen oh well time to move on....PAC is beefed up slightly....it not the SIAC (clearly you’re a genius because only you would understand that the SIAC is and will always be the best conference in the area) I mean you just have that next level analysis making points NOBODY HAS EVER HEARD!!! Wow. 😊 GS’s schedule is better...bottom line...have plenty of flexibility...and yes, many teams would like to play GS....because of the team is pretty good (whether you like it or not) and the fans are willing to travel by the masses....so lots of money to be made for road games. be sure to down a few more shots and get all angry at me when you go to respond to this 😂

Don’t know if anyone else has mentioned it in a thread.... Blake Fisher has committed to Notre Dame. Very nice pick up for the Irish

# of schools with football in Illinois: 564 # of schools with football in Michigan: 556 # of schools with football in Ohio: 732 # of schools with football in Indiana: 338 Im sure these numbers are not exactly right as there has been consolidation and some schools stopped fielding teams....I pulled these numbers from max preps

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?

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