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    What are these advantages that private schools supposedly have?

    in The Indiana High School Football Forum

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    1 hour ago, MHSTigerFan said:

    I couldn't agree more.  The whole thing has a very "participation trophy" feel to it.  And, frankly, I think that's one of the fundamentally wrong turns we've taken as a society.  It was taken in the interest of promoting "success" by trying to eliminate (or, at least, diminish) the prospect of failure -- and it accomplishes this by making success harder for others to achieve.

    Imagine if, say, a commissioned sales force worked this way.  We've got a team of 2 sales reps -- Joe and Bob -- and they each start out with an annual quota of $1 million.  After a couple years in, both reps are making quota.  But Joe is pushing $3 million in sales, while Bob is just getting beyond the $1 million quota.  How much sense would it make to increase Joe's quota to the $3 million mark, while leaving Bob's alone?  No matter what you might do with compensation, you'd still be telling your better rep that, because he's proven capable of selling more than the weaker rep, he's going to have to triple that guy just to keep his job....while the other guy can sell a third as much and still keep his.

    This isn't how the world works -- nor should it be.  And to call it "fair" is positively Orwellian.

    When I was in school in the 90s, most of the kids I knew HATED participation trophies and ribbons because they basically meant that we didn't win. It was a bit of the proverbial "slap in the face" to me.

    What are these advantages that private schools supposedly have?

    in The Indiana High School Football Forum

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    17 hours ago, Ben Mussolini said:

    In the 1A championship game topic, it was stated that private schools should not be allowed to compete in 1A as they have too many "advantages"?  What are these advantages? 

    Private schools have to compete not just for football players but for literally their entire student body.  The parents of these students all make sacrifices in time and money that public school parents simply do not have to make.   The parents always have the option of deciding that these sacrifices are too much and simply walking away.   There is always a public alternative that the parents have already paid for anyway with their own tax money.

    The facilities at private schools are often not their own.  Covenant Christian HS uses the Zionsville West Middle School field as its home field.  In 2016, Lutheran had to move its regional game against Fountain Central to Beech Grove's field as Lutheran's old home field was simply not that good of a field.  How is playing on a field that's not your own an advantage? 

    I will grant that many 1A public schools have stretched resources.  They are at least guaranteed a student body from year to year and have their own facilities rather than borrowing someone else's.  Once again, what advantages do private schools supposedly have?

     

     

     

    Pioneer has played multiple semi state games at nearby Logansport due to facilities not meeting the standard of a semi state crowd.

    Class A should only have 32 teams

    in The Indiana High School Football Forum

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    The biggest case for not splitting up 1A is the fact that the two most successful 1A programs of the past decade are in the bottom 32 of enrollment. LCC and Pioneer have both won multiple state championships and are the only back to back champions to be moved up to 2A due to the success factor. Both schools were actually smaller in the past decade too. LCC was in the bottom ten in the past decade.

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    DTs Dandy Dozen - Most Overrated College Coaches

    in The Next Level

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    7 minutes ago, DT said:

    PU is 2-6.  The team is in disarray.  Injuries are rampant.  White and likely Brohm will both be in the NFL very soon, as will Big George.

    Purdue may have already hit its high point under Brohm.  I believe they probably have.  

     

    Who is White? 

    You and I couldn't be in more disagreement right now. Why would an NFL team hire a 2-4 win coach?

    DTs Dandy Dozen - Most Overrated College Coaches

    in The Next Level

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    2 minutes ago, DT said:

    I have stated previously that in today's game, most coaches who are rebuilding will do a short tern competitive fix by bringing in JCs and transfers.  The majority of these players tend to be linemen, who are still holding out hope for a career in the NFL.  Brohm chose not to go this route, and not only has it made his team less competitive, it is also making them much more susceptible to injury as the Boilers our outphysicalled every week.  I keep hearing how this team is injured.  Brohm left them susceptible to injury by not providing the protection that skill players need.  18 and 19 year olds always get mauled by 22 and 23 year olds.  Just ask Paul Chryst.  When do you ever see a freshman on his offensive line?  

    Brohm signed two OL grad transfers in his first year, one from Rhode Island and another from Northern Illinois. Both were solid starters and sniffed the NFL as UDFA. He then signed another OL from Western Kentucky last year and he was a starter as well. Unfortunately they all graduated and he struck out on securing any OL grad transfers this past year. He had one, but that player changed his mind at the last second. Purdue also had a projected starting OL retire during the offseason.

    Brohm knows that his OL was going to struggle and he tried to correct it. He tried and failed. Don't forget to invite me to your team building seminar.

    Also, during Brohm's first year he brought in approximately 10 grad transfers and JUCOs.

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    DTs Dandy Dozen - Most Overrated College Coaches

    in The Next Level

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    40 minutes ago, DT said:

    The new guy is not doing so great either.

    Did anyone ever tell Brohm that an offensive line is essential relative to protecting the QB?  For $6M per, I thought he might have known that.  

    You build a team from the inside out out.  1. Offensive and defensive Linemen  2.  QB, LBs and RBs.  3. Receivers and Dbacks.

    He did it the exact opposite way and is paying the price.  

     

    You're wrong. Brohm didnt recruit these seniors, and only recruited a handful of the juniors. THESE ARE HAZELL RECRUITS. Brohm has actually signed quite a few promising OL. The only problem is that THEY'RE ALL FRESHMEN. Stop with your hot takes on a team that you know barely anything about and go do some research.

    DTs Dandy Dozen - Most Overrated College Coaches

    in The Next Level

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    Just now, DT said:

    Did anyone force Hazell to take that job and the millions that came with it?

     

    It was a step up from Kent State and any of us would have done the same thing. I'm just not big on talking bad about Hazell because he was classy and he actually tried. He's not a terrible football coach, which is evident because he was immediately hired as an NFL position coach. I believe that he was set up for failure from the start and his style wasn't s good fit for the program. Programs like Purdue often have success with gimmicky pass heavy offenses or option type offenses. Unfortunately Hazell was from the Meyer coaching tree and tried to play like OSU at Purdue.

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    DTs Dandy Dozen - Most Overrated College Coaches

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    8 hours ago, DT said:

    #11   Willie Taggart - Florida State / Unmitigated disaster, despite the fact that Jimbo left him nothing to work with.

    #12   Jimbo Fisher - / Tex A&M / a used car salesman.  Hornswoggled the A&M brass into 75M contract.  One of the all time boondoggles.  

    Purdue was in worst shape after Hazell left than any of those other programs, relative to their normal standards.  Hazell was LAST in BIG recruiting every year he was in WL.  How can somebody be that bad?  

    Hazell wasn't as bad as his record was because AD Morgan Burke had the program on a shoestring budget. He had made the comment before that football was a "$5 million" opportunity. He chased off Tiller and didn't give Hope much help either.

    Purdue had horribly outdated facilities and didn't even have stadium lights for night games. They were literally decades behind the times. They also had probably the lowest assistant coach budget in the conference and hired a former Nebraska LB coach who was an assistant high school coach to be the DC at one point.

    I'm not saying that Hazell would have been Bill Belichick or anything, but he would have st least won a few more games. Hazell wasn't allowed to bring his own staff from Kent State and was forced to use Shoop as his OC, probably the worst OC in the history of the Chicago Bears. I'm also going to guess that his recruiting budget didn't amount to much, either.

    Purdue 2019/2020

    in The Next Level

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    2 hours ago, Gipper said:

    It’s a bummer about Nick, I’m just glad he’ll still be enrolled at Purdue to receive a works-class education.  Academically, Purdue is a powerhouse, which is something we take for granted.  As for the QB position, yes we are loaded, but adding another never could hurt.

    QB depth is really thin right now actually with Sindelar hurt. Our actual backup is walk-on O'Connell and the 3rd stringer is either walk-on Carrollo or true freshman Piferi. Next year they'll be in better shape as far as bodies, but it will be interesting to see if Brohm gets a transfer QB as an emergency backup type.

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