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Pike/BD/Avon/Brownsburg should be the Sectional. Huge gates. It never should have changed, but Carmel had to go south and somewhere. Personally, I think they fit more with LN/LC/NC, but that leaves Warren without a spot. I mean, it could be Warren, Tech, Perry, and Southport...The whole IHSAA policy of keeping schools in the same district in the same Sectional locks in a few scenarios.

No question.

Tim Adams would be a nice feature. We all miss the big fella. TA was the best.

That won't make a difference in that Sectional...or it shouldn't.

Agree. Tremendous advantage for Center Grove to not have to play an extra game potentially while Warren has three other MIC teams to contend with in their Sectional. Same deal for the benefactor of this up in Sectional 3. Waltz to the Sectional title game while the other two duke it out on the other side.

If you need any help on BD, I've got a history file I can share with you.

Ben Davis does too! Great theater and drama program. Great choir and band and ROTC. There's lots here along with a world-class career center...just like North Central.

Pike yes. North Central, Lake Central no. They don't have the same SES.

🍿This popcorn is good.

Washington Central would be the township name + Central. I'm thinking since there was already George Washington HS in Indy they probably went with North Central instead. In the 1990's, Wayne Township opened an elementary school and had a naming competition. They chose...North Wayne.

Looks about right.

Remains to be seen. At this point, they haven't been able to turn their recent regular season success into large scale postseason success. There are many factors for this, but BD remains the one that's still winning titles. That, of course, can change. The rise of the MIC. Everybody caught up.

We're getting industrial development on the Westside around the old airport terminal, but residential is going mostly in Hendricks County.

To my knowledge, there's no room on the BD schedule for several years. That was part of locking up the two Hendricks County 6A schools. BD is done growing. There's not much more land out here. There's a few spots here and there, but housing developments are not going in at the pace they were maybe 25-30 years ago when the BD enrollment went from the mid 2000's to the 4000's.

This is a game you put on your schedule when you want to take a step forward in the state tournament. I know I get a lot of flak from time to time for trumpeting the MIC, but there's nothing like high-level MIC football in this state. The players are all fast and mostly big and all strong. It gives you an idea of the speed of the game at that level. That way you don't get shellacked when you end up meeting a MIC team for real in the tourney. Every bit counts. Upsets happen. Bravo to Warsaw for stepping up.

I don't disagree with that. I just wouldn't expect he'll have an open spot on the schedule going into the year as they have had the last few years at WC. That's my point. If he can do a long term deal with someone, he tends to do that. At BD, they were able to lock down Avon for a long time. Before Pike joined the MIC, they were locked in for a long time. I think Tech signed a long deal. He really wanted Brownsburg, but that didn't get done until he was leaving/out the door. Just saying that this is a trend with him. Nail down that schedule.

One thing I think you can expect from Coach Kirschner at Warren is schedule continuity. At least when he was at BD, he wanted long term stability in that regard. Good for Warsaw wanting to play Warren. That's always a problem for the MIC's Big 4. Will it be a great game? Dunno, but Warsaw will be better for playing up in competition. At least they'll know that they tried. Wonder if there's some Kirschner/Warsaw connection in coaching friendships, etc.

Sadly, I've slept since then and could not remember all the circumstances. https://usatodayhss.com/2012/hoosier-crossroads-affiliation-coming-to-an-end-for-harrison-lafayette-jeff-mccutcheon

Jeff and Harrison were in the HCC and left.

Carmel was in the Olympic. Center Grove was South Central, and LN was in the CSAC. (Which BD was actually in a very long time ago).

Why? It doesn't have anything to do with the fact that the great conference fairy isn't going to disband a conference unless the schools within that conference want to disband it. The IHSAA has no control over conference lineups or whether schools decide to come together and form or disband a conference. The NCC lineup has changed here or there, but it's been around since 1926. What's the urgency to get rid of a conference that's apparently working for its members? To answer your question, football, basketball, volleyball, baseball, and softball all benefit from conference membership because of scheduling. If you're in a conference, those are games you don't have to schedule. That's one of the main reasons, for example, that the MIC was formed in 1996. BD/WC/NC were all independents and having trouble getting games in state. They got Carmel/CG/LN to defect from their conferences and the 'Hautes joined the next year and you have a conference. These are decisions made at the school level...not by some great conference god or goddess. Why is Tech in the NCC? Because the NCC and Tech want to be.

Is there some outcry among the members of the NCC to disband it? I haven't heard it. Also, why do people fixate on conference lineups? If the schools want to change, all they have to do is drop out or vote out someone. It's not unprecedented. In high school, there's no great conference fairy who governs what conferences can exist or continue to exist.

It works fine for other sports. If the schools stay together, who's going to break it up?

I think I combined a couple of threads there.

This is a slap in the face to the coaches at Tech and schools like it who work darn hard to put a good product on the field yet face an entirely different set of circumstances than Coach Moore does. Heck, the Ben Davis and Warren staffs face entirely different circumstances than Coach Moore. What Coach Moore has done has been remarkable and I don't know how he coaches track AND football. Those are two HUGE sports and he's doing both and succeeding in both. He's a great coach for sure, but the idea that because Tech doesn't have a lot of success that those coaches aren't working hard is ridiculous. They do work hard, and their students need them in their lives.