superjay

I think 5A should also be a full 64 team tournament. These schools have unlimited kids. All of the byes should be in 1A. Smaller rosters, more kids playing both ways, etc.

My only recommendation for next year is to have them seeded differently. Our bracket had the same teams as pool play.

Gillin and company did a nice job putting on this 1st time event. Very organized and clean. Bruins finished 2-1 in pool play beating Perry Meridian and Heritage Christian & losing to a very athletic LN team 13-12. In bracket play, beat Heritage Christian again and lost to LN. 3-2 on the day. Got some good reps for our young kids after we lost 4 seniors to mega camp after pool play.

Can someone post the schedule for this?

South Spencer is unique. There isn’t a track so the bleachers are right behind the benches. I assume it is the same. I haven’t been there since 2003. Also, Brownstown has a unique setup. The locals like to tailgate and watch the game from the street that runs behind the visitors bleachers. I assume they still do that. It makes you feel surrounded.

Covenant Christian gets kids from Eastern Hendricks county. Churches like Chapel Rock, Kingsway, and Plainfield Christian. Could be considered “feeders”. They occasionally get the IPS or big school transfer. But mostly stick to the local church schools.

I didn’t think that far! Lol! Either Zionsville and Valpo will move up and 6A will be reshuffled a bit or they will just leave those spots open in 6A. East and Snider can be added anywhere to make 5 team sectionals in 5A.

Guessing LCC will replace WeBo in 2A. WeBo will replace Chatard in 3A. And Chatard will move into 7 team, Roncalli 4A sectional. Hammond schools will stay where they are. Columbus East and FW Snider will return to 5A and make 5 team sectionals. Pretty easy transition for IHSAA.

No, I see a lot of old time Ritter names on Chatards roster. And Ritter continues to take several voucher kids.

Tri-West is looking for a week 1 in 2022.

He’s gone now. Got caught up in the mess. We already got the next one in reclassification training.

Allow schools to opt out of the tournament and schedule another game or games. School could only opt out during enrollment count years. Another option would be to allow schools to petition the IHSAA to move down a class. Petition requirements could be socioeconomic factors, win/loss records, longevity of poor performance in current class, etc.

Who still plays a freshman schedule? Sagamore did away with it a few years ago because it was always a scheduling nightmare. Not enough kids to field JV and Freshman teams. Curious if other conferences are the same?

What I’d really like to add to it is private schools would only be allowed in 6A, 4A, & 2A. But from a safety standpoint 1A rosters would benefit from that bye week.

6A & 1A. Should be 32 teams. 6A because of enrollment gaps. 1A because of roster sizes. A bye week would help small rosters of 30-40 players more than 5A 70-100 player rosters.

I'm hearing Tri-West and Brebeuf will begin playing week 2 starting in 2022. TW was dropped by Plainfield after this coming season. Brebeuf was playing New Palestine.

Franklin Central surely will make some waves.

Tayt Odom, Co-owner d1 training finch creek field house and Chatard asst. coach. No different than G2wins and Casey Gillin.

Dutra Conference Whiteland Center Grove Brownsburg Tri-West Danville

I was was going solely by the numbers given at the start of this topic. Any addition to the north would most likely cause a Danville move to the south and a 2nd northern team would cause Tri-West to move to the South. TW has only been in north for 91 & 92 seasons. Went south every other time. It will be fun to figure it all out when the numbers are released. One problem is we won’t have a TW guy on the committee like last time.

If those 3A numbers are correct I've got it this way. Tri-West and Danville would both go north and could potentially be separated (Danville stays south). Heritage Hills is odd man out and has to go East. South Bend area splits half to region half to the Fort. REGION KOKOMO FORT WAYNE INDY NW Hanover Central Alexandria Bellmont Hamilton Heights Calumet Knox Heritage Gueri

Desmond Tardy. Warren grad, Purdue Wr, former Wr coach at Butler, currently at IMG academy.

Allow teams to opt out of the tournament for a 2 year period. And allow them to play another game vs. another opted out team. I can name 15-20 schools that would do this for sure.

I wish they would make 1A a 32 team class instead of 5A. Just a thought. It would shake things up a bit in the middle classes. And 1A schools with limited rosters could benefit from a week of rest and healing before starting the tournament. Guessing most 5A rosters have 70-80 kids with no freshmen and most 1A have 30-40 with 8-12 freshmen. Also the 32 team 1A would be public class only.

Strong showing for the conference. Webo turn around was a great coaching effort. Hard to believe the same team we dominated week 4 went on to win state. How often does a team finish third in conference win a state championship. Solid effort by Danville, but I felt they were a bit conservative against Chatard. Probably wouldn’t have mattered. Tri-West caught the injury bug and COVID quarantines the wrong week. Would have liked to been full strength both times vs Danville. Lebanon entire season was disrupted by Corona shutdown. And they never recovered. The rest of the conference need