JeffO2

 Whiting HC is open.

is https://core-docs.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/documents/asset/uploaded_file/1391/District/3718475/Head_Football_Coach.pdf

Being the HC in the MIC is a full-time job unless you don't want any of your players to get recruited because the coach can't leave the classroom. The scholarship money and incentive for kids to get grades and participate in football at a high-level pays for itself. Coaches could be in the classroom just like the band and choir directors, but they have to teach different subjects just to get a fulltime job. Instead, we have penny-wise and pound foolish thinking. 

Sports should be the Gifted and Talented or Advanced Placement of Physical Education. Our current situation is to do without physical education to the detriment of our student's health. Give everyone an "A" for participation so we don't negatively impact the GPA of an honor roll student. It's a joke.

I'd like referees to learn the existing rules and stop trying to limit the number of balls that can be checked into a game. There is no limit in IHSAA.

There are many public schools with below 80% male graduation rate. That doesn't factor students who are academically ineligible. 

Exclude freshman from the enrollment count and many schools would drop a class. 

According to school board agenda, Mark Hidalgo will be the Whiting HC.

https://go.boarddocs.com/in/whiting/Board.nsf/Public

On 12/16/2021 at 6:16 PM, HHF said:

How do you account for that awful record this year?

Ben Davis made it to the Semi-State 5 out of the last 6 years. I'll take that over regular season wins.

21 minutes ago, Staxawax said:

I’m trying to figure out if this is a serious statement. There’s only 32 teams, so show me a sample schedule that doesn’t involve more than 100 miles of travel.

There were 2 sectionals where all the teams were from the same conference and they're all from around Indy. They could have been split up. I'm not saying there has to be zero repeat games, but it can be reduced.  Lafayette Jeff as in the same sectional as Merrillville. It's doable.

It would be nice to see 6A sectionals made up of teams that didn't play each other during the regular season. 

Seems like it is final. They were voted out/released by the MIC.

https://cbs4indy.com/sports/carmel-center-grove-voted-out-of-mic-petition-to-join-hcc/

On 9/30/2021 at 12:00 PM, MICFan34 said:

For you Region fans, what makes you think that a DAC team would beat CG or Cathedral, when other loaded 6A teams haven't beaten those two programs in 1.5 years? If other elite Indy area programs can't beat CG or Cathedral, I have a hard time believing a DAC team could do it. 

I think they're referring to getting out of Semi-State.

Still watching on ihsaatv. Looks like a good game.

The ref's call on whether or not the player/ball is in our out of the endzone gets more complicated with the player's decision to down the ball or run it out. It will create more controversy since it could have a major impact on a game.

15 minutes ago, Coach Nowlin said:

They have opened with Merrillville for the last UMPTEEN years..... why is adding Crown Point all of a sudden an issue?  (Umpteeth + 12 years in a row, before Mvill, it was Portage, and before Portage it was Chesterton)  

 

Enrollment... laughable   

Andrean 459 bodied enrollment, yet have a football roster in the 70s ish.    give me a break on saying due to enrollment figures a school like Andrean that has just about every male athlete in that building playing mulitple sports is going to suffer to this ole new challenge of playing Crown Point.   

When you play 2 bigger schools (that are good) back to back, that can be a lot of wear and tear on a football team and increases the risk of injury. They get to play Merrillville while they're still fresh. Andrean definitely gets better kids than the average 2A team, but depth can be an issue when a key player goes down. Being early in the season, may not be a factor come tournament time.

When Andrean moves to CP and drops Merrillville from their schedule, it will be a rivalry. The game will be competitive most years, but it's tough to establish another rivalry. 

21 hours ago, Muda69 said:

https://www.foxnews.com/sports/youth-football-drill-goes-viral

Any experienced football coaches out there who have viewed this video?  Comments? Concerns?

 

Too many coaches confuse hamburger drills to see who's tough with teaching tackling. The kids are too far apart going at full speed with no preparation. I don't care if you work on tackling for 6 months, if that's the form a player is going to use, they never get in a drill like this. Video the drills that are much more controlled and show mom and dad why their child is not ready for tackle football. If they still insist on getting their kid killed, show them this video. #NotOnMyWatch

On 5/3/2021 at 4:05 PM, temptation said:

Three team sectionals?  What a joke.

Nothing like getting a bye to the sectional championship.

True, but then you play in the sectional championship after 2 weeks off. That's a long stretch for high school kids. I think one week off does a lot for the bigger schools (that play a big school schedule) especially if you're playing a team for the second time. 

The old Hobart Brickie Bowl.  They were the team to beat. The game day watering of the field (it was so wet, I slipped and fell and I was coaching.). A full house back in the day. Concrete bleachers with another set of bleachers stacked on top just seemed like big time football. Very first varsity game I started as a player was there and a couple of games as a coach. A lot of memories.

9 hours ago, Lysander said:

If an average football team has 30 players (guessing on this) and the average basketball team has 10 (guessing again) then we’ve got 9600 kids playing football and 4040 playing basketball.  I’m not making any statement other than crunching these numbers (if those estimates are sensible ones - they might not be).

Curious how many D1 scholarships there are comparatively between the 2 sports and how those have tracked over the last 20 years.  Admittedly beyond my kin (or ambition) to try tracking it myself.

We'll know football has arrived if those schools start adding football. Maybe Texas 6-man or 8 man.

I know of one officiating crew at a Northwest Indiana game that had a female ref.  We need more, so we better start getting them from wherever we can find them. 

8 hours ago, DT said:

Munster

Hammond

Gary

East Chicago

Crown Point

South Bend

Richmond

Muncie

New Albany

Jeffersonville

Seymour

Bloomington

Bedford

Washington

Rushville

Connersville

Marion

Anderson

Scottsburg

Madison

French Lick

Peru

Huntington

Rochester

Plymouth

St John 

Schererville

Dyer

Michigan City

Columbia City

Warsaw

New Castle

Batesville

Greensburg

 

That explains what happened to Munster. I'm glad they're good at something because it isn't football. Times change because that wasn't the case back in the day.

1 hour ago, oldunclemark said:

But pure numbers is why its  a basketball state.

How many football teams are there?  300

How many basketball teams are there 650, 700?.  How many Indiana basketball games are played every year. 

Not just games. Indiana basketball games.  Football is a one-day-a-week oddity. You live with basketball Noveber to March...

Then every state is a basketball state and the NBA is more popular than the NFL? You could argue more kids participate on football teams. The bands are bigger. 

15 hours ago, oldunclemark said:

True words, Muda.  Football's post-season is far too long and dominated by private schools...

 

A number of little schools still dont have a football team (up here, Hebron, Kouts, Morgan Township, Westville, Marquette)

Damn few girls play football.....thousands play basketball

Basketball rules in Indiana. That wont change soon.

Come to Porter County.

I guess it depends what your criteria are for top sport in the state as a whole. I never considered that it had to be popular in every single school. Cost may be playing a bigger role than interest.

23 hours ago, MarshallCounty said:

Why not both? 

Of course both can be good with one still being better than the other. 

7 hours ago, gonzoron said:

Why would BHSS want to schedule a clod?

When you drop a top school from your schedule and you give up 40+ to Southport and New Albany, and easy win just may be what they're looking for.

1 minute ago, Titan32 said:

I think it's been that way for many years now.  School consolidations and class basketball changed that landscape a long time ago.

I think class basketball killed the Cinderella story potential.