BDGiant93

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.

AGREE with this.

I would think that it would. You'd have parents "moving" to the district to be coached by Saban...I mean switching jobs and ending up at Tech or having to help grandma or Aunt Matilda.

This is an interesting discussion. The issue isn't numbers to me, it's success. There is no success factor that can graduate the megas out of a class, so I would advocate some sort of "equality matrix" or something that would move down teams in classes that have enrollment but do not have football success. I'd do that, and I'd seed 6A 1-32. Forget the Sectional/Regional/Semi-State model. None of this will happen though.

So what happens when the same schools dominate 7A? Do you just throw BD, WC, CG, and Carmel in 8A?

Very true.

BD has several traditional "shop" classes, but most if not all are part of the Area 31 Career Programs. As far as FACS (Family and Consumer Sciences), many of those have been adopted into the Area 31 Career Programs as parts of specific programs (and business classes for personal finance classes, etc) again as they are not required courses any longer at the high school level to my knowledge.

Cathedral has long marketed itself as a college prep school in a Catholic tradition. That's what I meant. Am I incorrect? If I am, then I will gladly say so.

These things cost money. Referenda have been focused on classroom expenses recently rather than capital projects. Pretty certain BD's stadium updates a few years back were part of the construction of the Chapel Hill Center.

They built that building around the old building that housed the scoreboard and then didn't move the scoreboard forward. Remarkably, the only MIC school without an elevator now is Carmel.

Best: Any of the MIC stadiums. Usually very user-friendly especially since the Lawrences upgraded. Worst: Fishers. Nothing against the stadium, but the amenities are very outdated. Unique: St. X. I about died climbing to the top of the home side. Pretty cool stadium. Really like Southport Cardinal Stadium or whatever car dealership is sponsoring it now.

My point was that the Catholic schools such as Ritter, Guerin, Roncalli, Central Catholic, Chatard, Scecina, etc. tend to be connected to parishes within a certain diocese of the church. Covenant would not be part of the Catholic system. It's a private Christian school more like a Heritage Christian. Cathedral is a prep school and Brebeuf is a Jesuit school. If I'm wrong on this or seem ignorant, I will gladly take the L. . Covenant wouldn't take students from Ritter normally because it's not another Catholic school. From what I'm hearing on this board, Ritter's been losing students to other Catholic schools.

Correct.