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Also love how they just wear Indiana on most of their uniforms.

Orioles is the mascot. Deaf Hoosiers is the nickname.

Before the recent defections of a handful of IHSAA schools I was really worried about the future of 8 man, and now it looks better than it ever has.

I doubt it. In fact I bet the shut New Haven out.

Owensboro Apollo had a senior baseball player come out this year and caught 7 balls for 268 yards and 5 touchdowns last week in his first football game. Looks big and fast, could be a problem

Andrean 35, Luers 21 Carroll 28, Center Grove 21 Decatur Central 56, Wayne 0 East Noble 28, Snider 7 Eastbrook 43, Concordia 42 Bishop Dwenger 21, Toledo St Francis de Sales 7 Warsaw 40, Northrop 28 North Side 28, New Haven 0 South Bend St Joseph 35, South Side 21 Noblesville 38, Homestead 35

Outside the Huddle is reporting this in more of a "removed" sorta way. https://outsidethehuddle.net/2026/08/24/sources-ben-johnson-no-longer-the-football-coach-at-north-side/

Milan has been solid for the past decade

It's not like half of East Noble's starters are college football players too or anything. EN had the best player on the field according to recruit rankings too. Easy to blame on bad coaching. This is a half decade of almost putting a team together. However, losing by three scores to EN week 1 is something that would happen to a lot of good teams.

Northside QB is out tbf. Still woulda picked EN even if he was playing

AC 35, Luers 24 East Noble 42, Northside 30 Warsaw 35, Snider 21 Leo 49, Wayne 14 Northrop 56, Gary West 7 Carroll 35, HSE 31 Roncalli 21, Dwenger 7 Westfield 42, Homestead 21 Secina 38, Concordia 6 Marion 42, Southside 35

Yay it's prediction season. Let's throw these guesses out. Booneville 35, Bosse 7 Gibson Southern 35, Floyd Central 34 Heritage Hills 70, South Spencer 0 Mt. Vernon (Posey) 35, Forest Park 7 Washington 27, North Daviess 20 Southridge 28, North Posey 27 Eastern Greene 34, Pike Central 26 Princeton 15, Tecumseh 13 Tell City 30, Perry Central 12

There used to be a website called mghelmets or mgshelmets or something where this graphic designer had a created one of these for almost every football helmet ever including high schools. I think the website went away about a decade ago.

The big issues a lot of the coaches at (I assume) smaller schools seem to be having is sharing. If there's an open period, you want your athletes practicing with you during that period. Most of the time at smaller schools, those athletes are already actively practicing for a in season sport. Every missed session is a wasted day in the football coaches mind. The kids get burnt out essentially playing three sports year round. Lose lose situation for everyone. Like a coach mentioned in the survey, lift weights all off season but don't pressure the kids to think they need to be playing football year round. Start ramping up in the summer. Obviously for the bigger schools where one sport specialization is more common this would probably actually hurt them more than it would help. It's hard for the IHSAA because the law you write for Hamilton Southeastern has to be followed by Sheridan and vice-versa. I feel like having less live periods would help 1A through 4A with turnout and burnout, but it would hurt 5A and 6A (and some 3a and 4a schools) where one sport specialization is more prevalent. And of course if only 1A-4A had less live periods it would leave them at an even larger disadvantage when playing those bigger schools simply due to less time spent together. I think they mean any sort of organized sport outside of the school. 7 on 7, AAU, travel baseball etc.

Nah you pretty much covered it.