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Like college, the cost to attend, tuition and fees, tends to be a set amount ... although that set amount might depend on whether you are a parishioner or in the diocese. What your net cost ends up being is tied to things like: vouchers ... whether you get one or not is tied to income level and size of family scholarships ... a decent portion of which, in many p/ps are need-based, so tied to income grants ... some of which are need-based, so tied to income parish/diocesan discounts ... some of these are tied to just being a parishioner while others might be tied to level of activity in the parish number of direct family members attending the school or in the school system donor payments - these are also sometimes need-based If the actual question is how many kids go to p/p for free, it's probably a smaller number than rumors might claim it is. From experience, albeit only in elementary school settings, we had just the parish discount and the number of kids in the system discount. This was before vouchers were a thing. So we ended up paying most of the sticker price.

Here's a current list based on MaxPreps. Faith Cristian played there the last couple of seasons, but started with 11-main last season. A couple of familiar names on this list that played 11-man ball at one time in IHSAA.

OK, gotta admit, that made me chuckle.

FRL, college bound, test scores, etc.

I think they did have an injury to their QB, but they were struggling before that too. Early on, they were having an issue with the passing game. This year the average QB rating is around 60 and last year it was almost twice that around 118. LCC's recent bread and butter has been around a solid running attack with a near lights out passing attack. Without that passing attack to keep teams off balance, it makes it easier to defend the run.

They often lose a lot to graduation and tend to be young in general with no freshman team and a JV that dresses with the varsity. Not really sure what's going on with them this year. Even the year after O'Shea left, back in 2017, they finished 4-8 and made it to the sectional championship before losing to eventual state champ, Pioneer. I think they'll need a lot of help from the ping pong balls just to get to the third game of sectionals this season.

I like it. Did this and helped confirm what I suspected ... at least on paper. I had LCC as, at least, the 4th best team in Sectional 34. The predictor had them as 5th, but close to 4th. I like the tool. Has a lot of data points to it just beyond predicting a winner. Nice work on this!

To be fair, Harrison put two TDs on Jeff before Jeff got out of the gate, then turned around and squeaked a mere 21 points on McCutcheon including one of those scores on a busted play and another where a haphazard McCutcheon D was out of position on a sweep play. Credit for the third score on a trick play. On paper Jeff looks a lot better than they do in person. Also, in using Harrison as a high-end measuring stick, this isn't the year for that. Realize that they beat West Lafayette by one TD. West Lafayette is 2-5 and only beat LCC this year by a TD. WL hasn't been 2-5 since 2004 when Harrison and McCutcheon were 4A and Benton Central and Tipton were 3A. Incidentally, LCC's 1-6 this season having just dropped it's sixth game to Tipton 49-7 ... that's not a misprint. Will have one more piece in the puzzle as Roncalli comes to Harrison this week. I'd take HSE and Avon by 3 using paper for them and in-person for Jeff.

Those districts are all very different too. West Lafayette looks much more like LCC than any of the other schools. McCutcheon and Jeff are more aligned economically albeit not nearly demographically. Even WITHIN districts, Harrison probably looks more like West Lafayette than McCutcheon, even though Harrison and McCutcheon are both county schools that are close to the same size.

Looks like the score was 77-7 at the half and 84-7 within the first couple of minutes of the second half.

Now final.

Harrison getting worn down. Chatard pulling away. About 4 minutes left in the game.

Harrison refuses to go away ...

About 3 minutes left in Q3

Has St. Joe's semi-restart had any impact in keeping that number from dropping further?

Takeaway from Week 6 ... Even though there's less than half a regular season to go, I suspect it will seem longer than that for LCC. Three regular season games left and the bright spot is that they get Benton Central for one of those. Common foe Twin Lakes beat both teams, but while Benton Central gave up more points, they scored more than the 3 that LCC put up. For the second time since LCC rejoined the Hoosier Conference, they'll be looking for a win against BC to end up not being the last-placed team in their division. They round things out with Tipton who beat RCHS 33-14 a couple of weeks ago. LCC lost to RCHS last week 40-7. Last regular season game is at Guerin. Potential silver lining for LCC, although it will be painful to attain it, is that they are probably, at best, ranked 4th in a field of 8 for Sectional 34. If they don't get out of Sectional 34 with a win, their two-year SF total will only be 1 point and they will head back down to 1A in 2026.

The question is whether Harrison and McCutcheon hold a grudge and work to keep them out. After all, Jeff voted with the rest of the NCC to kick Harrison out of the league citing, laughably, drive times and competitive landscape. Realize that 1) Jeff is using the rest of the NCC right now as a pre-post-season snack and 2) if the drive to Harrison/McCutcheon is too long, I doubt a team will feel "refreshed" ONLY having to drive to Jeff instead. Harrison had TH on its non-conference schedule for a while, so it's not like they haven't done it before. Not all that fun, but then again, it's not any worse than traveling all the way over to Anderson and Richmond.

Likely not. Even as Harrison was coming out of the doldrums there, it was still obvious that the NCC wasn't really a football conference. When Jeff and Harrison were the strongest two teams in the conference ... the last half decade or so ... it still wasn't really a magnet for other 5A/6A schools to join from a football perspective. The NCC will likely end up being a good destination for basketball schools, but with the mix of teams they have, they'll need to find someone with a good basketball program and a good football program that's like in the middle of all the other schools to make it worthwhile for them to jump to the NCC. That or a few stronger 2A football teams with OK basketball looking to add a little size to their schedules ... again with decent travel times.

And one of those will be against the other school in the district.

Actually, BD is around 69%, counting 9th grade too. Warren Central is 58.2%. https://www.in.gov/doe/files/school-enrollment-ethnicity-and-free-reduced-price-meal-status-2006-25-final.xlsx

Warren Central's FRL is a bit over 58%. Carmel's is much lower at between 13-14%. Heck, that's better than Chatard's percentage. Ben Davis is over 73%. Realistically, 90% FRL doesn't exist for many high school football programs in Indiana. 496 922 53.8% Frankfort's reported FRL is 496 students and 922 is total reported student enrollment. The 53.8% is the result of FRL divided by total enrollment. I think a more realistic discussion is not whether Wright could create a championship program at a 90% FRL, but rather could he do so at somewhere like 3A Speedway which has around a 56% FRL number? Similarly, an interesting discussion would be what mid-/high- FRL 1A, 2A, 3A programs would/could a coach like Wright be able to make a positive impact on, if any, and why if so?

I'll put it on my "things to do in retirement" list.

Speaking of such, interesting that six of the top 10 pound-for-pounds are outside of +/- standard deviation for FRL. Of note, with a couple of p/ps mentioned in this thread for comparison: Andrean/Chatard as a datapoints, here's a bit of comparison: Andrean FRL 25.3% (https://indianagps.doe.in.gov/Summary/school/2403)/Chatard FRL 19.3% (https://indianagps.doe.in.gov/Summary/School/2351) From the original pound-for-pound list - FRL % 1. New Palestine 24.8% 2. Adams Central 24.5% 3. Decatur Central 56.2% 4. Lafayette Jefferson 58% 5. East Central 18.9% 6. Heritage Hills 28.7% 7. East Noble 32.5% 8. Gibson Southern 23.7% 9. Westfield 18.9% 10. Merrillville 47.3% Indiana average by school across all public schools ... includes schools that provide meals for all of their students: 48.9% Indiana median across all public schools: 48.9% Indiana standard deviation across all public schools: 18.7% Indiana +/- 1 stddev range across all public schools: 30.2 - 67.6% +2 stddev or higher regarding FRL% impact (positive) numbers for public schools calculated using IDOE data from their site

De-hater sanity incoming ... LCC number of regional wins, 1976 - 2007 ... 32 years, prior to Kevin O'Shea: 2 ... 6.25% LCC number of regional wins, 2007-2016 ... 10 years, with Kevin O'Shea: 6 ... 60% Sometimes the right mix of coach and kids just happens to come together at the same time.