foxbat

I think you are right. I must have been thinking Northwood and mixed in with Western who is in 4A and the HC.

Then why vote to boot Harrison and McCutcheon? Only two programs voted not to boot Harrison and McCutcheon and I have to assume it was Harrison and McCutcheon. Assuming that Logansport truly believed their vote, then their move to the HC was totally opportunistic when they saw an opening left by Cass. The other alternative means that they already knew that they were making a bid to leave the NCC and thus it would seem that the honorable thing would have been to abstain from voting about the future of a conference that you planned to leave. Calpreps also shows Logansport finishing behind Western too. That would put them about in the middle of the conference ... by Calpreps would have been fourth third in East last season and third in the West.

Northwestern used to be too.

Poteet's a little old town. Heck, Rensselaer's bigger.

Calpreps says that Logansport would have dropped games last season to Heights, WL, and LCC. Would have only been an 8-point favorite over RCHS and a 2-point winner over Cass. As for pride, if Harrison and McCutcheon have to take the boot, the only thing good about the proposed league above, outside of having one, is the addition of West Lafayette ... and McCutcheon and Harrison already have WL on the non-con schedule. Realistically, as bad as it seems getting booted from a conference, I think Harrison, as well as Jeff and maybe McCutcheon, weren't doing themselves any good for competition staying in the NCC.

Supposedly it was enrollment gap, geography, and competitive imbalance. Realistically two of those make no sense at all as Jeff is situated between Harrison and McCutcheon geographically and Jeff is currently larger than both McCutcheon and Harrison. Competitive imbalance because Harrison wins a lot of country club sports like tennis and wins the NCC all sports titles, but when it comes to the mainstream sports there's little dominance by Harrison that also doesn't show up in the Jeff history too. See post below for more details, at least through 2020, on the competitive balance claim ... especially taking into account that Jeff was one of the schools voting out Harrison. In essence Jeff is saying in that vote that 1) they can't compete with Harrison or 2) they want to have the inside track to easy football victories again ... because they sure can't be saying that Harrison and McCutcheon are too far away and that Harrison and McCutcheon are too big.

Benton Central?

Seems kind of weird. Why would Logansport vote Harrison and McCutcheon out of the NCC and then decide to jump ship? Could have abstained in the voting unless they are just opportunistic and decided to strike while the Cass iron was hot. Guess Harrison will get a chance to ask them first-hand on October 6.

@Coach Nowlin on the third hole.

I have mixed feelings on it. Growing up in Texas, we didn't have a say and district was the lay of the land ... never really thought much of it. The rivalries were typically based on who you saw on a regular basis as opposed to more organic rivalries. Of course, there were always the sibling rivalry rivalries where you faced off against the other schools in your school district because the football districts were based on size/geography so you tended to end up playing your brother a lot. My old school district in Texas had grown so big that the football district, up until just recently, was comprised of all of the schools from our school district ... all in the equivalent of 6A. And here in Indiana we think the SAC looks inbred from a regular-season perspective. In New Orleans we had districts too, but because the public and private schools were split, it seemed more like a Catholic conference ... usually with a local public school tossed in at the start of the season. Moving up here to Indiana, I underwent a couple of transformations in that 1) I really learned to love small-school ball and 2) I was introduced to, and enjoy, the idea of conferences ... especially the backstories and histories. I do agree, if there was a move to districts, I think there would eventually be a qualifying component to the tourney that would likely follow.

Would likely be the end of conferences as we know it. Would lay open the path to districts.

Could always hope that they and LCC both advance in 2A and do a repeat of the 2015 LOS thing.

I don't know if it's actually been done with that type of class gap, but I recall hearing a story where a program asked if their varsity players could play in the JV matchup game against a same class opponent as their varsity was off that week.

Is it the Wolfhound? Lord, I apologize for that there.

That covers four games in Hoosier East of Tipton, Northwestern, Heights, and Western plus one that listed for Hoosier West for West Lafayette. Typically there are two crossover games in the regular season, but I don't see the second West opponent listed on Harrell's. It's not optimal at the end of the season, but Center Grove's looking for a Week 7 opponent and West Lafayette was scheduled to play Cass in Week 7. Only other options for WL, currently, would be Pike and East Chicago Central. Prett much a 6-one-way, half-dozen-the-other kind of kind of decision.

Or perhaps transformation. The way that conferences are going nowadays, it's not about attracting folks, but kicking folks out. Perhaps one of three alternate realities on the table: Status quo and look for replacement - Maybe Lebanon to join? Eventual folding - Sheridan left, although they were swapped out for LCC. Delphi left. Now Cass is leaving. On the horizon, perhaps BC? Although they tend to do better in basketball. Northwestern? West Lafayette teaming up with Harrison/McCutcheon to form a new league with maybe Lebanon? On a stretch LCC leaving with WL to join with fellow Lafayette folks to form the LL+L conference ... League Lafayette + Lebanon? Kicking members out - In light of activities in a couple of other conferences first two on the chopping block would be LCC and West Lafayette.

I'm pretty sure that CG would prefer to be playing in-state, but probably not at the expense of playing an under-.500 2A team.

I wasn't going to pick on the Wolfhound ... he has less hair than some of the guys in that team picture.

Looks like that guy has a brother/twin. Look at the guy on the second row in the middle ... the one that looks like Ace Ventura.

West Lafayette leaving to join Harrison and McCutcheon and a couple of draft picks to be named later?

New conference. Don't know if that plays into it or not.

Could be Rodney Dangerfield too.

Deserving guy who has been an outstanding representative for his school and conference. Also been a supporter of GID as well. Pow!

Might also be quite embarrassing if your varsity gets running-clocked by your JV. Interesting logic program ... who would JV put in in the second half for that game?

Given that, under current conditions, the season actually has no real impact on the post-season, outside of nine weeks of "simulated playoff football," and that includes no impact, in addition to plain old qualification, to even the issues of seeding, byes, locations, etc., it frankly would seem that who one plays in the season before post-season doesn't really matter ... outside of the general idea of "getting ready" for post season. Now, if we got to seeding or qualification, etc. then there may be an argument to be entertained, but that's not very likely to happen as those ping pong balls have a half-life of around 50 years or so.