foxbat

Don't forget Scecina.

Well, that's one thing they say that's good about schizophrenics ... they always have someone to talk to.

I actually heard that, upon the announcement that Faith Christian was going to go to 11-man this season, some 20-25 players from the LCC football team became Baptists and will be attending Faith in the fall. Lord, I apologize for that there.

No, they were part of the folks that voted out Harrison and McCutcheon on the grounds of distance and competitive balance.

There's good and bad to the idea of big teams meeting in sectionals. LCC and Pioneer have had their fair share of being #1 and #2 in the rankings over the years only to end each others seasons before regionals started. With that said, there were some great crowds for those games and the schools got their shares of the gate.

No real seeding in Texas. Top four in a district get to play after the season is over ... everyone buys a ticket if they want to watch anymore football that year. In 2A through 5A, the teams are pre-determined in Division I or II based on their district. In 6A, the top two largest schools go in Division 1 and the bottom two go in Division II ... exception is 1A, 6-man, where there are only the top two teams per district that advance. Each team then plays a "counterpart" in the next district in bi-district for first game of post-season based on division ... the two Division I teams in one district play the two teams in Division I from the next district. It's basically the equivalent of regionals in Indiana for their first post-season game where you "represent" a grouping and play the "representative" of the next closest grouping. Texas places teams in districts and it's all based on how you do against the district to get to the post season. If I recall correctly, non-district doesn't count for or against in determining post-season eligibility.

To be quite fair to Faith, while most religious institutions tend to do for them and theirs, Faith has worked with the local government to provide some facilities for the use of the community as a whole and not just their congregation. Faith built the, currently, only skate park in the Lafayette area and it's open to the community. Even when folks were worried that Faith's current expansion efforts might end up overrunning that park, Faith has committed to the community that it will find space on its grounds to make sure that there will be an available skate park. My main surprise with them building a football stadium is that, they had a rental deal with Jeff last season for 8-man that cost them pretty close to nothing. The issue is likely that, with the move to 11-man, that arrangement would be much tougher to pull off because 8-man usually played on Saturdays. Then again, Cathedral has used other institutions' ground for their home field too and, with five other schools with very nice facilities in the Lafayette area, I'd have to imagine that at least one of them would be open on any given Friday night. Toss in Benton Central just up the road less than a half hour and there's a half dozen locations. Until Faith gets stable in football, it would seem like a better fiduciary route. Of course, Faith's always been known for soccer around here, so perhaps it's being built as a soccer venue that allows football to be played on the pitch as opposed to the traditional Indiana setup of a football field with the orange and blue spray paint on the gridiron.

I'm surprised they spent the money on football/soccer stadium; especially given that they are just moving to 11-man. Then again, Faith has fairly extensive locations around town and gets some community monies tied to providing community services like the skate ramp park over on the east side campus.

No they wouldn't. The Texas post-season system while not all-in, does nothing at all to "seed" teams outside of, in the past, putting the two largest of the four "winningest" teams in district in the Division I and the two smallest of the four "winningest" teams in district in the Division II. They then square off with the next district numerically ... The top two largest teams of the top four "winningest" teams in District 1 square off against the top two largest teams of the top four "winningest" teams in District 2. If that produces #1 vs. #2 in the first game, called bi-district, then so be it. Just the way it is. You play who you play. No lunacy, no whining, no nothing ... you just go out and play.

He's still showing up in the teacher directory for the school: https://www.madison.k12.in.us/mchs-contacts ... third from bottom on All contacts.

Not sure I understand the impetus for the thread nor even the LCC example. I'm pretty sure about the most I've ever heard anyone say about a program is that they might have won the class above them that year as opposed to pretending that their title in their class makes them more than just that, the state champion in their class. I'm not sure that 6A feels in the least "diminished" because a 3A school is also called a state champion along with the winner of 6A. I'm also not really sure that the response to 6A school winning a state championship if they played a 1A team would be much more than, "duh." Of course, there are other issues with the proposal despite the straw man example of a 6A program beating a successful 1A school. In 2019, there's a good argument that 5A New Pal likely would have clipped 6A Carmel even though Carmel won 6A. Your proposed idea would have done exactly what, I'm assuming in spirit you are proposing to not have happen: let a "poser" call themselves state champion.

Does that also include the implied value of the "free" faculty parking you get on the fourth row of the student parking lot? Lord, I apologize for that there.

Of those six schools, four ... TPC, RCA, ISD, and Dugger Union ... moved to 8-on-8. Another wrinkle in the 32 for 1A also becomes that the vast majority of schools that will play 8-on-8 will be 1A schools and you may have some movement up as well. Faith Christian just started playing football for the first time and did so as an 8-on-8 program and has already decided, after one season, that they want to play 11-man next season. Granted, they aren't eligible for post-season due to their newness, but I bet that if 1A went to 32, ISD might just jump back into the fray in 11-man. And they played 11-man for over two decades in 1A, so they wouldn't necessarily be a "newcomer." Would that then push someone out of 1A in that rotation or would there be a +1 in one of the sectionals?

I'm kind of the opposite. Coming from large school, Texas football ... my alma mater boasts some 3,000+ students in a school district that has like 10 6A schools ... I admit I had a big school bias in football and was very used to the idea of qualifiers and split p/p and public leagues. Coming to Indiana over a couple of decades ago, this small school ball, 1A/2A, has quite grown on me as well as the all-in. I still like watching big school games every once in a while; especially since my kids have attended Jeff and my sons play or will play at Harrison, but I still go and take in 1A/2A games each season just for the fun of it.