FormerHoosier

4 hours ago, HHF said:

Unless Warren has issues with the departing schools.  The MIC may discourage its members from scheduling the two outcasts.  

The remaining MIC members did what they did to save face. They realize the Carmel/CG decision was based almost entirely on considerations like baseball, softball, soccer, swimming, tennis, golf, XC, etc. and not on football. But they can’t say that part out loud. 
 

By 2023, this will largely be forgotten. The stronger MIC football programs will want strong schedules and the options within 90 minutes of home are limited to maybe 10 programs. Carmel and CG in down years are still no worse than the middle half of that list. 

5 hours ago, Trojanmp52 said:

From what I have heard from out in the  world is that is was a 4/4 slit.  Now what other info I have come across is that the night before it was 6/2 in favor they both get in.  Not sure what might have happen over night to change 2 yes to no’s.

Complete speculation, but if the late shift is true then there are a couple of possibilities:
1) a couple of additional schools shying away from the possibility acceptance could lead to the perception that the HCC raided the MIC.  
2) 2 more voters could have generally been supportive but had some reservations.  From the HCC's perspective, there is no huge rush here.  They have all sports covered extremely well within the current structure.  Saying no now doesn't preclude them from accepting or even pursuing either or both schools in the nearish future.  There aren't other suitable conference options for CG/Carmel.  Not that either really need a conference affiliation to schedule quality opposition.  

On 1/24/2022 at 12:51 PM, Indiana Fan said:

Just wait. It will happen. An above post might have a few of those schools that would like to break away with CG and Carmel.

Just an outsider’s view, but what this situation really needs is a novel approach. If I was an AD/coach, I want to know what weeks I’m at home and what weeks I’m on the road. I also want a schedule that is competitive for my team. It’s not useful to get your teeth kicked in and it’s not useful to do the kicking either. There are some good tournament pairing procedures brainiacs in chess and bridge use that could be modified slightly to assemble a 16 team HCC/MIC (as of last season) joint schedule. These two conferences have a lot of early season crossover, so base ratings limited to these schools are solid. 
 

Basically what it could do is give schools week 1-3 to schedule at their discretion. Ratings from post week 2 would pair teams for week 4 to give teams a bit of lead time. Over the remainder of the season, some distance is created between the top and bottom of the 16 team pool. 
 

Example:  Noblesville would have had an easier schedule last year dropping a 2-3 of Westfield, HSE, Brownsburg and replacing them with NC, LC, and Pike. Basically trading 2-3 opponents with a CG or Carmel. Same type of “trade” with Westfield/HSE/Brownsburg and the bottom three of the MIC. Mid tier teams would end up with a more even distribution. 
 

There are still chances to “fix” rivalry games in weeks 1-3 or a single random week 5-9, but the SoS self corrects so teams can “find their level” which can obviously change year to year due to class strength.
 

There is literally no reason this could not be implemented for a HS football season and I see a lot of benefits for fans, players, coaches and ADs.