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That 5A north line is going to stretch further north in a couple of years. Based on the latest numbers, and assuming Cathedral gets bumped to 6A via SF this time around, Harrison would be the largest 5A in the state at that point. The Harrison area is on a growth spurt that will likely have it surpass Jeff in 6A, which would leave McCutcheon as the lone 5A school in Lafayette by the 2024 season.

This is pretty cool. Thanks! BTW, if you look at the 5A map, there's an interesting phenomena compared to the 6A map. As might be expected, there are lots of schools in the Indy area at 6A, but if you look at 5A, look at that cluster of 5As at the top of the state. Haven't looked at the details yet, but wondering if there are any close to tipping points to 6A. Another interesting optic is to bring up the map where you can view most of the state on the screen, select just 5A, then select 6A in addition to 5A. That Indy area just blooms as soon as you click on that 6A. Interesting comparison between 5A and 6A densities.

Thought I saw a quote somewhere that said that KV had 10 coaches over the past 22 or so seasons. When you realize that Broyles, Stewart, and Peo occupied 4, 5, and 5 seasons respectively, that really means that in a four-year cycle, there were only about three classes out of 22 that didn't have at least two or more coaches during their high school football. That makes it really tough on a program ... and the kids.

LCC was 2A south this past season, so like you said, it's possible.

It'd be easier if they were P/P. They'd be in the same sectional with Cathedral.

Brad Stewart was at Lowell with Kennedy. He was HC at KV from 2011-2015.

Given that I was responding to the following post, I'm not seeing it as such.

Stats really only count, at best, past sectionals.

Always thought it was a good sport especially for youth players. My linemen, in particular, got a better awareness of how to control their bodies and, even better, to be able to "feel" and understand body shift movements of an opponent.

Maybe not every week, but I like the idea of out-of-state competition coming to play every once in a while.

Clocking in at a tad under 65%.

Bingo! (pun intended)

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I admit I did. I thought they had changed that many years ago.

Have a question for you ... and I'm not trying to say/start anything. Just interested in your opinion. I've only recently become acquainted with Warsaw as my boys' travel baseball teams have competed in a Warsaw tournament for the past 4-5 years. It's the one tournament that all of the Harrison travel baseball teams have attended at the same time and they call it their Raider Invasion. From the outside looking in, I would consider Warsaw to be a program on the upswing and also successful. At the same time, it also has a fairly decent-sized FRL percentage, around 40%, and a non-White population pushing 30% ... and I suspect that's growing. It would also be in the lower half of 6A too with enrollment. Would you concur, at least in your opinion, that it's successful? To some extent, the term successful is up to all types of interpretation, but I often think that, first and foremost, the constituency would define successful as they see fit.

While I understand the shortsightedness in coaches who do this, I always thought this was nuts; especially given 1) what the sports numbers show and 2) what the medical info shows. If you look at folks that get drafted eventually, they tend to have been multi-sport athletes in high school. Also, when you look at how kids develop, if they are going to be an athlete in one sport, their body still needs the various muscle/body development afforded by multiple sports. I've been really happy that my sons' coaches have all supported/encouraged, when they were young and now that the oldest is in high school, playing more than one sport.

Is there a difference in the travel rule for national competitions/appearances vs. seasonal games? Also, is it cheer or dance? I know that, when my daughter was on the Jeff Dance Team, they traveled to Florida for Nationals. Does dance fall under IHSAA? Is cheer under IHSAA? I didn't see it listed under sports for their site.

Are there any true charter schools that play football in the state?

Especially if there was a cash bar! If not, there's always the KOC fish frys in the upcoming Lenten season to expand the stipend fund. Lord, I apologize for that there.

Yes, but outside of Missouri, they are aligned by geography, not by anything that the SEC has intentionally done. Going to the B12 model of a title game without divisions would be more in line with taking steps to insure what you are suggesting. In reality, there's a better parity geographically in the SEC than there is in the B10. It'd be nice to have two B10 schools in consideration, but let's be realistic here, I think the B10 would be happy to, consistently, have one team in that top 4 where the expectation before the games start is that the B10 school WILL be in the final game.

??? The SEC has divisions ... East and West. The reason that they can send multiple teams to a 4-team playoff has very little to do with divisions. It has to do with the fact that the SEC happens to produce stronger teams ACROSS divisions as opposed to them all bunched in a single division. Of course, it also helps to send a couple teams when one of your schools has Nick Sabin coaching it and he can lose to an unranked team and still end up in the top four. I wouldn't be surprised if Alabama skips the first half of the season and still ends up in the National Championship hunt.

There had been conjecture when O'Shea left LCC that he was going to a bigger, public school, again, to 1) get out from under the talk that he was successful because of LCC and 2) because he needed to pick up some additional public school service for the full public school retirement package before heading back to LCC, perhaps, to finish up his career. Don't know how much of either of those are true or just the traditional "spaghetti on the wall" talk. If there is some truth to #2, then Roncalli would make some sense if he'd picked up the years to round out the requirements. As for #1, I can say that O'Shea and LCC was very much a synergy situation and the right guy, the right program, at the right time. Both needed each other, when they crossed paths, to do what they did at the time. Part of me would like to see O'Shea return to LCC, but another part would like to see what he could do at Roncalli. Similarly, I'm really interested in seeing where Nay and LCC end up.

Merrillville's schedule probably was already locked for Week 3. Like many schools in conferences, especially larger conferences, typically Weeks 1 and 2 are the weeks for non-conference games ... and sometimes Week 9 if there isn't a crossover championship in split conferences. Merrillville's schedule is filled in Weeks 3-9 with other Duneland teams. Week 1 and Week 2 are taken up with non-con Andrean and Hobart. They've played Andrean consistently for over a decade and, looking at the schedule, it looks like they had a home-and-home with Hobart that will hit the second cycle of that finishing out at Hobart this year. Don't know if Andrean's more of a year-to-year, but I suspect that the Hobart games are part of a contract agreement.