US31

Does this school "not far away" happen to have 3 ft OL splits?🤔

The optics would be bad for anyone who knows where the gate money goes for those ticket sales.....

It will be interesting if crowd sizes are allowed to increase at regionals and beyond....

I'm fairly biased towards Westfield.....but to be fair, Westfield is a lot more like Fishers than it is Danville. Hamilton Heights would be a better comparison to Danville. Westfield enrollment is about 2,500 and will be getting closer to 3,000 in next five to ten.

Does the IHSAA get the money for 1st round sectional ticket sales???🤔

I posted this in the other thread....but the matchups for 6A sectionals ened up pretty close to how you'd seed them. Blind squirrels and nuts they would say....😂

Is it just me....or did 6A sectionals turn out almost like they were seeded? Maybe not the Home/Away....but at least the match-ups.

It is an abomination to man that Indiana is on Eastern Time. Anytime the school start time debate happens, I find it interesting that people suggest starting school at 9am is the only answer to "kids shouldn't be waiting for the bus in the dark" issue. Ummm...what do you expect when your state is on the same time as the Atlantic Seaboard.....maybe putting the state on a time that makes astronomical sense would be the "A" answer. (Bias alert: I also would like MNF, to start at 8pm) Running joke between my region/Chicago buddies whenever they come visit...."Hey, hope that 30 minute drive went well...Welcome to the East Coast!"

Why??🙄

Get well soon Coach!

I’ve been to MANY places that are designed around the premise of family units that can be together....and spaced from other similar units... Dentist/Doctors offices, restaurants, Indy Zoo, etc, etc, etc I think there are a great many, in current practice, mechanisms to handle exactly this. However, whether or not common sense would prevail is a completely different discussion....

A family unit shouldn’t have to socially distance. If Jimmy’s Mom, Dad, and baby sister want to come they shouldn’t have to spread out. I don’t see there being an issue allowing each athlete 2-4 “family” unit members depending on the size of team/stadium/ etc

Posted in general as well....

The way I read this a school can still have a Marching Band, they could still play on Friday nights....they just aren’t having the big competitions?

Should be rephrased to what happens when you FIND out 5-20% of your team is ALREADY infected and asymptomatic? Keep in mind some of the things we do KNOW about all this. Most people are asymptomatic (especially young healthy people - high school athletes). It would go without saying, temperature checks will NOT identify these individuals (which will be almost all of the players who are positive). However, once someone tests positive and the contact tracing starts....expect to find that anywhere from 5-20% (based on reported data) of a "random" population will test positive for either COVID or Antibodies. I teach Human Anat/Phys and Vertebrate Zoology. I promise you my kids did not get what they should have from the course. They did ok with the watered down version they were forced into. re: Grandpa & Grandma being forced to make the decision about having a burger with their grandkids. Total red herring question. Are these kids NOT going to school? Football should not be in the calculus for that decision, if you are worried about that...the kids are already riding buses and sitting in classrooms with hundreds/thousands of other kids each day. That should already force that decision. Here's the reality....unless we go back to eLearning, kids are going to be in class and on buses much like they always were (schools may tell you otherwise, but I don't see it). Football or other sports is NOT significantly raising their risks above what they are encountering during the school day.

Players CANNOT use “communal” water sources. But water must be provided. I assume this means they need to bring their own bottle, and school must have a place to refill those? That restriction doesn’t seem to disappear after phase 1. I think most staff’s will find ways to make this work. I’m more curious about the return to school recommendations and how that will work. How closely do schools need to adhere to these “considerations”? Or are they “guidelines” in the Pirate Code sense? If they are expected to be strictly adhered to, things will be far from “normal”. Interesting that the state asks for schools to discuss liability with the district insurance provider (pg 4). I struggle to see high schools being able to function anywhere close to “normal” if these are thought of as strictly adhered to “rules”. @Bobref...enlighten us!!!

Many.....Many schools have a one week fall break during football season. Some during the last week of season or first week of tournament

State Finals would likely be in June, similar to Baseball. I don't know that...but the Ohio proposal does something similar. I also don't think attendance will be as affected as you think, the appetite for football would be huge, and the novelty of it would likely draw crowds especially if social distancing was done by then. I'm not saying I want this to happen....I want us to come back from moratorium and be back to football.

This is the real reason. Football gate money and the State Finals fund high school sports. If social distancing practices (of some type...think "large crowds") are still in place this fall, it would prevent that revenue....it is not just "outside of the box" thinking, you could argue its the financially responsible decision. I would hate it personally, but not over the choice of just cancelling football for an entire year. As far as conflicting with basketball state finals....I think a lot of IHSAA "dates" would be shuffled if such a change would occur. I don't always agree with IHSAA decisions, but I have faith they'd get that figured out.

Saw that Gov Holcomb said no “non-essential” gatherings of 250+.... Nothing on IFCA Twitter yet

Entire state of Ohio just closed schools for 3 weeks. https://www.dispatch.com/news/20200312/coronavirus-ohio-to-close-schools-ban-gatherings-of-more-than-100-people

Without getting into why Coach Marsh left, I think this is a bit strong. Roncalli's postseason success the last 15 years has been based almost entirely upon whether they had to play Cathedral. I think the last time Scifres beat Cathedral in the tournament was '05 or '04. Marsh was there 3 years...lost to Cathedral twice. His predecessor had a lot of L's to Cathedral in the decade prior. But the Rebs made some deep runs and got a title when Cathedral moved up. Hats off to them....a lot of other schools are in that boat, it shouldn't be seen as a slight. Maybe I'm out of my lane, but I don't see Coach Marsh's performance being any different than the last decade of Coach Scifres' tenure. Maybe that's just where the Reb's are right now? Hats of to Coach Rodenberg if he can take them through Cathedral consistently.

I agree with this 100%....with some further specifics. Demographics/Economics changes in the last few decades across most all of Northern, IN. (Ft Wayne to a lesser degree). With a significant amount of population movement from the Region and SB/Elk area to Northern Burbs of Indy. I live in Hamilton County and can hardly keep count the number of Duneland/NIC/NLC folks that are down here now. A LOT of Legacy families from all of those programs are now in the Indy Metro area....specifically Northern/Western Burbs. At my kids' ball games, I know people from Penn, Hobart, Jimtown, Valpo, LaPorte, Goshen, Plymouth, etc, etc, etc. These are guys who were GREAT players in all the blue blood programs (I don't count myself one of them😋). That is a lot of football "culture" being exported from Northern, IN to the Indy Burbs. More specifically, Penn is NOT a "Mega" school anymore and has not been able to keep pace with the growth of the MIC/HCC schools. They would fit nicely in the middle of both of those conferences across most all sports. Being at the top some years in some. Maybe most importantly.....some of the legends of Indiana Football have been retired for a long time.....Gees, Howell, Sharpe, etc. Their contemporaries are drawn to the FtW, Indy Metro areas. Hopefully this ebb will flow in time....in my football soul, I want to see the NLC, NIC, & Region football get back to par with the Indy Metro

from Iowa....do you know him?