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Very sad news from the Center Grove community as longtime PA Announcer Jason Mueller has passed away after a long and tough battle with cancer. He was a great announcer, teacher, and father. Condolences to his family and friends. Rest in Peace, sir. https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/high-school/2021/05/14/center-grove-pa-announcer-jason-mueller-fights-colon-cancer/5018903001/

Why would I start naming other programs? If I say well, BD has the advantage in coaching vs. X Team. Then that's a subjective judgement. I'm not familiar with what goes on exactly at all the other programs in the MIC. I'm not 100 percent sure what, for example, LC is fighting right now. You want to start a tit-for-tat, hot take back-and-forth that would force me to start throwing other programs under the bus, and I refuse to do it. Why make our guy look better by trashing someone else? All I know is that the last two years the Giants were left for dead, and they ended up in the Semi-State pulling upsets both years to do it. In 2019, they were Co-MIC Champs. I've got nothing else to say about that. You can have your opinions, but I'm not going to participate in your exercise.

He's won everywhere he's been. He's led two different programs to State Championships and has a career record of 25-3 in MIC play when he coached in the league.

CG and BD both have advantages in that they don't have high hurdles to climb to win Sectional. We'll see how the year develops.

People used to say the same thing about Mike Kirschner...until he won two State Championships. It may not be evident to you, but Jason is a good football coach. I'm not going to throw other coaches under the bus so that we can play hot take Thursday. Well, they'll likely see a MIC team in Regional and Semi-State too.

All depends on the start of the season. The MIC, other than Center Grove, is pretty much within hailing distance of each other for 2-3-4-5. I think Carmel, BD, Warren, LN, and NC are all right there in no particular order. Pike is coming on fast, too. I think you could see anywhere from 8-1 to 4-5 without the team being that bad this year. The Sectional is what it is, so you play it out. There have been years where BD had to pick its way through a loaded field, too.

Correct.

We'll have high school football game action to talk about in one month...August 20!

8/12 on the Ben Davis Football schedule! Let's go!

Godspeed! My condolences to his family and friends.

Couldn't care less of the denomination of the university.

I would agree with that. Abuse was a poor term.

Assuming this was moved from North Central because of construction?

I think that would be great. Would take some effort in the scheduling dept. Everyone thinks that the conferences are some monolith, but you're dealing with individual schools and scheduling contracts.

Wow, after all the abuse you've given Mike over the years, he gave you an interview. Classy individual.

Sure.

I hope. They've been working hard this offseason after not having any offseason program last year due to COVID (like everyone else in Marion County, mind you).

Good luck Coach!! I'm very happy for you and wish you the best in your new opportunity!

It's state law.

Jake Gilbert=Ben Davis graduate. I don't think this is an outlandish statement. Coach Gilbert has built a heck of a program.

Not even remotely in the same league on offense.

What is your choice for the best MIC teams of all time? Remember, the MIC started in 1996, so it has to be within the last 25 years, and the teams had to be in the MIC in the year of greatness. That means 2012 LC is out. My top 5 1) 2006 Warren Central 2) 2017 Ben Davis 3) 2018 Warren Central 4) 2001 Ben Davis 5) 2020 Center Grove

FC just scrimmaged Ben Davis last night. Don't know how it went, but I think it says something if Coach West is wanting to scrimmage teams in the MIC.

So, do we now split 6A into 16? So you have 16 teams competing for a title? The line has to be drawn somewhere. So, if we split 6A in half, Center Grove would be in the smaller class of the two. Carmel is 2+x the enrollment of Center Grove.

Marking the tape.