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......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.

My thoughts too

Lol. I will believe you at that. But you get what I’m saying either way

I mean. Consider the PAC/BIG 8 Kings Landing and the SIAC Daenerys lol

Woah 4 schools? I was only hearing 10 schools total, so 2 additions....this would remove all out of conference scheduling and this would be a merger for all sports. i also am reading here 1 PAC school is rumored. Is it really anyone but GS. The combination of geographic location, Enrollment, and success across all sports would imply it would be GS

I think mostly on the phone. But like all browsers not named exploder/sl”edge” it takes some time to really know what the perks are and how to use it optimally .

Safari is better than chrome 😂.

Well there’s definitely smoke....is there fire?

I’m not totally sure about the public/private school part...but yes. When are they going to address this issue. Ultimately, it’s our friends children, nephews, nieces, grandchildren, brothers, sisters, and children that are hurt most by this. They deserve the best they can get and by underpaying educators, classrooms become more packed and the number of quality educators and role models thins. In many ways, the issue is exponential and will only get worse until there is a breaking point.

I’m not sure moving to the SIAC is the best move for jasper or GS I see the argument....but I’m just like meh. The only positive i see out of it is there are no more “well if you played a SIAC schedule” or “team x is better than team Y via transitive property”

Eastern Greene is going through one heckuva athletic department situation. Not much is known other than people jumping ship over there...so not a big surprise to see someone join Coach P at north. I think the Central coach who was hired has his work cutout for him though. Plenty of talent still. Should be a contender this year

Very cool story. but...don’t think Gibson Southern is going to give ya a break when it comes to repeating this every 20 year pattern 😉😉😉

I have a feeling most teams want this to happen. I think the proposal is a big win for all teams involved at this point.

You can really eat up a lot of time If I had to guess it would be anywhere from 30 minutes to a little bit over an hour in time saved for a game. Which doesn’t seem like much but the difference for families/teams driving back home at 8:30/9:00 and 9:30/10:00 is a worthwhile goal for games like this. Ultimately it just depends on the game though. Some JV teams can come in and still score with ease and will bust off huge runs while others will purposely run plays geared at 4 yards a play and just try to get out of there

Imagine if we lived in a world where you could have meetings from a variety of different places and have everyone else’s face on a tv screen to ask any question you would like. its a bummer that we live in a world that lacks a means to communicate to the point the only way you could possibly be well informed on anything would be to wait until just before a meeting to tell everyone you need clarifications on things. 🙄🙄🙄