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Kind of a wash for Harrison given that the reclassification gods saw fit to place 6A Zionsville in 5A and directly in Harrison's path as Zionsville terminated Harrison's season two years in a row en route to a pair of LOS showings in 5A.

Cronk was listed at 270 his senior year at LCC. He's now listed at 318 in his first year at Jacksonville.

Congrats to former LCC standout, Jackson Anthrop, who will be headed to the Colts as an undrafted free agent.

Yeah, those AARP solicitations are funny ... until you start looking for them in the mail. 🙂

Wonder what the odds are that honorary P/P, West Lafayette, will be in that sectional too?

Do we get odds?

One thing I've started seeing, and it seems to be with a preponderance of teams from outside of Indiana at travel games, is parents aggressively challenging almost every call that the umps make and starting early in pool play to set patterns of intimidation. Saw over the weekend where parents were sitting on the fenceline between home and the dugout ... and not in the bleachers ... and yelling about everything including where the umpire was standing in the field. The plate umpire finally had enough, ejected one of the people and called for a supervisor. From what I could hear of the discussion, it was apparent that this program had been doing the same thing the day before in pool play and it was just the one obnoxious parent ... it was programmatic. Sad thing is it was just an 11U game. Luckily I've only seen the item above, kids disrespecting the umps, a couple of times over the year, but I have noticed more and more kids talking back to their coaches or acting out during games and doing stuff like turning away from the coach when he's talking to them, talking back, throwing helmets, not giving the coach the ball when he comes to the mound to change pitchers, etc. I can't believe parents let their kids do that; especially in a game situation. My older boy was with me in the stands at the younger one's game one time when a kid on the opposing team started pulling some stuff like and yelling at his coach about being pulled from a game. didn't help that the parent was also yelling at the coach for "taking him out too soon." Realize that the kid had just given up his fifth consecutive hit in the inning and had already walked a couple of batters. I looked at my older boy and shook my head. He looked at me and said, "That wouldn't happen with us [he and his brother]. We'd be out in the car in the parking lot and getting ready for a long ride home and it would have nothing to do with the coach's decision." I told him, "D*mn right!" They both know, with a dad as a former coach, that my philosophy is you don't embarrass your coach in public and you don't challenge his calls. If you disagree, you, the player, schedules a meeting with him and go to his office or stay after practice, and discuss it with him as adults ... even my 11 year old. Parents need to be better so their kids can be better so the kind of stuff in your post don't start becoming acceptable behavior as they get older.

They've been yo-yo'd between 1A and 2A before with enrollment as opposed to SF yo-yoing.

LCC's still up in 2A after one season and winning a sectional, so it would seem to make sense that Pioneer would still be in 2A after having picked up a regional. Keeping LCC up didn't even technically meet the regular point total allotments since they'd only been in 2A for a single season unless the IHSAA combines their 1A regional points with their 2A sectional. The question in LCC's case is whether the IHSAA considers a reclassification period as an enrollment reclassification period, a Success Factor determination, or either. Used to be that reclassification and Success Factor came at the same time until COVID period. In either case, it would seem that Pioneer qualifies for 2A given that LCC is there in 2A as well. With the updated list with Pioneer in 1A, did anyone gets bumped up from 1A to compensate for the Pioneer move or was it just Pioneer moved down? If it was the former, that also means that someone's in 2A that's going to be dropping down to 1A when this is rectified.

If you get the chance to experience it live, it's well-worth a trip; especially in the upper deck. The deck itself moves as well as the students.

Oh, Texas Bite. I'll take A&M's over Texas any day of the week; especially given its origins. If the swaying stands don't get you, the last video should regardless of political affiliation.

I've been working on the railroad?

What about to welch on a bet?

SWEET!

Gotta go Old School my friend. Omar Epps is sharp, but I gotta give it to my man Clarence Williams III. That 'fro is to kill for.

Sometimes my oldest son tests whether my own are a priority for me. Something about 16 year old boys that makes you think tigers eating their young might be on to something.

Tends to be by sport and gender. A petition by boys' basketball for a school would not result in women's basketball being bumped.

There have been examples of this in football too. I believe that Mishawaka Marian was the first many years ago and petitioned from 1A to 3A. I believe though that IHSAA only let them go to 2A. They have since increased enrollment enough to get to 3A naturally. Scecina was 2A and had enrollment drop enough to go to 1A, but they petitioned IHSAA to stay 2A. They eventually moved down to 1A before being SF'd to 2A. Their enrollment has since taken them back to 2A. I also believe that Mishawaka petitioned to remain in higher classes after getting bumped even though their enrollment allowed them to be in a lower class. If I recall correctly, Mishawaka petitioned a couple of times to move up.

First rule of football that I learned when I moved to Texas when I was 12, except that ours was, "It's not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog."

Despite the narratives that we sometimes see on GID about the P/Ps, sometimes those enrollments do indeed drop based on demand. Scecina was 2A for a bit, having won titles back-to-back if I recall correctly, but then numbers put them below the 2A cutoff. They petitioned to remain in 2A for a few years, but then finally went back down into 1A before seeing enrollments climb enough to put them in 2A ... albeit after being SF'd out of 1A. Back in the early 1990s, the Bishop had actually announced the closing of LCC due to waning enrollments and support after a bit over 30 years of operation. An 11th-hour appeal convinced him to keep the doors open.

No one, or I should say no one in Sectional 28, was surprised when Chatard ended up in 4A in Roncalli's sectional. No one from that sectional will be surprised to see Brebeuf end up in there with Roncalli either. And certainly seeing Chatard back with Guerin. The only thing that would somewhat surprise me, but wouldn't put it past the IHSAA, is finding a way to get LCC into Sectional 28 with Chatard, Guerin, West Lafayette. 😃

If Chatard's back in 3A, don't be surprised to see the resurgence of the Sectional of Death minus Brebeuf. That will put Guerin, Chatard, and honorary P/P, West Lafayette, in the same sectional again.

Last two seasons, THS and Harrison have kicked off their respective seasons against each other.

Should be eight south of 24 in a couple of years as Harrison's going to grow into 6A even without a 5A SF victim.