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After two games vs. out of state teams last year for Ben Davis...
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14 hours ago, BTF said:
Love it. Go big or go home.
Snider too!
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20 minutes ago, WestfieldRocks said:
Westfield has another "cupcake" schedule 🙂
Opening game at Center Grove
Week 2 home against Carmel
Then that always easy HCC schedule
They also scrimmage some Ben Davis team. Never heard of them.
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11 hours ago, BTF said:
Warren Central has high expectations again this year, so yeah, the 100th meeting with Ben Davis could be a dandy. Here's what I have out of the Northeast:
Warren Central at Snider........Round 2
Hamilton Southeastern at Carroll........rubber match
Snider at Carroll........Carroll has that suburban Indy vibe. They've replaced Dwenger as Snider's fiercest competitor.
Carroll at Center Grove........If you're going venture into Trojan country, might as well do it with a D1 quarterback.
Leo at Luers...........4A Top 10 program takes on 2A's best.
I like that Carroll is taking on Indy Metro teams.
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That's awesome! Congratulations to the Irish.
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Looks like a lot of schools are posting their schedules for 2024. What games are you looking forward to on your school's schedule?
For Ben Davis, after having six home games last year, they drop to four in 2024. The Giants pick up Cathedral in the Moeller slot, and Center Grove returns to the schedule. Looking forward to the 100th meeting of Ben Davis and Warren Central.
8/23-CATHEDRAL
8/30-at Avon
9/6-at Pike
9/13-CENTER GROVE
9/20-at Warren Central (100th Meeting)
9/27-LAWRENCE NORTH
10/4-at Carmel
10/10-LAWRENCE CENTRAL
10/17-at North Central
All kicks at 7:00 pm
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Coach Yeoman had the unenviable task of following a legend. It's not easy, but he did a fine job as the head coach of the Kingsmen. Congratulations on a great career, Coach. From all accounts, he's a first-rate human being.
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I can only imagine what some of those early Avon coaches like my dad and his players from the 1960's would have thought about this facility. Good gracious. That's a beautiful facility, and that's a great tidbit about the Valley. Something I never knew, and I've been a Westsider for all of my 48 years.
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On 1/24/2024 at 10:55 AM, Coach_K said:
To @BDGiant93's point we are stable here in Corydon, but with the growth in the Louisville metro area, we are seeing growth push out towards us. Charlestown is up to 4A, Floyd Central and New Albany are the 12th and 13th largest in 5A, while Jeffersonville is 6A. We might see more student growth in Harrison County for the football schools, us and North Harrison.
Exactly. Great example. I'm sure we'll see those areas around major metros continue to see growth. We're seeing it around Indianapolis where, when I was a kid in the 90's, Avon and Brownsburg were small, country farm schools. Now, they're massive. When I taught at Franklin Central, we had 1,700 kids. That school is almost twice that size now 25 years later.
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Indiana's population is not declining. It's showed stability or very small growth. Now, if you're talking community by community, then I get what you're saying. There are some areas where the population is declining and others where it's growing exponentially.
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18 minutes ago, Bobref said:
Exactly. I’m just curious whether that increased pool results in an increase in games vs. non-Indiana opponents.
Gotcha Bob.
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19 hours ago, Bobref said:
Well, just for starters, we wouldn’t have had a chance to see IMG under the old rule.
Obviously yes. But, for Indiana schools, the travel part hasn't changed. It's more for the outside schools. I guess it just increased the pool of teams that could play Indiana teams.
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What has changed other than opening up opportunities to play teams from further away?
A team from Indiana still can't travel more than 300 miles from the state line.
56 minutes ago, Indiana Fan said:Is Carmel still not playing CG?
Nope.
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On 12/24/2023 at 1:17 PM, BTF said:
Can we qualify Anderson as an Indy team since I69 is three lanes from Indy to Anderson?
Anderson is a separate city from the Indy metro for sure...though Indy seems to be getting closer to Anderson by the year.
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23 hours ago, BLACKGOLD2007 said:
If you look back at some of the games, a good handful came down to final drives. There was the heartbreaker at Penn, I think 4th and goal BD punched it in for the win. My Senior year at BD we were down by 21 or so, came back and forced overtime.
IDK if you still do it, but you guys would line up shoulder to shoulder along your sideline for the coin toss. I think it was supposed to intimidate us, but the guys always seemed ready for the challenge.
11 of the games played were 1 score games. 15 games were played from 1996 - 2010. Penn only won 4 of those games. but each game was memorable in some way.
Then having the teams sit down and eat dinner after the game together was really special.
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18 hours ago, BLACKGOLD2007 said:
It has been since 2010 since Penn has played BD yearly. Idc if we got walked, won or lost close. BD was always the game on our schedule. Also, the respect between the two programs, sharing meals after the game was an awesome sign of respect.
I loved that rivalry....well it was lopsided but still a Rivalry to us.
It was so unique.
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31 minutes ago, BLACKGOLD2007 said:
I think Penn needs to have Mishawaka on their schedule. It is good for our area. What threw me into a frenzy, is the fact that we (the school) are so worried about hurting conference schools feelings that we are sacrificing our competitiveness in the 6A tourney for a conference championship.
I would rather have Mishawaka on the schedule and send the JV to play most of our conference schedule. That gives us 3 or 4 games we could play Carmel and other 6A schools.
But, we care more about feelings than we do about winning.
I remember running into Coach Geesman before BD and Penn played for the last time in the regular season at Lucas Oil. He was talking about how he told the NIC/ADs they needed to protect rivalries so that games like the Mishawaka game never fell off.
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10 hours ago, Gatorguy said:
There are a few yearbooks on the classmates website.
You can also use inspire.in.gov and click on the newspapers link and search for the Indianapolis Star, it has all the past editions except for the last 30 days or so.
I may be able to help you with what you are missing if you want to dm here.
I'm using the Digital Indy site which has most of the Yearbooks in question. I appreciate the Star link idea. The problem is that the yearbooks would put regular season results in and then say Sectionals 2nd. John Harrell also has all the IHSAA yearbook data inputted.
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On 12/7/2023 at 7:50 AM, Muda69 said:
I wish her the best. It's a lot of fun trying to search down little tidbits of history to give to future generations. I'm currently trying to figure out game-by-game results for Ben Davis girls basketball, and it's a challenge. Once it's done though, it's there for everyone. My project is easy compared to what she's trying to do.
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On 12/8/2023 at 1:41 PM, BLACKGOLD2007 said:
Penn Drops Carmel in favor of Mishawaka.....
We will be an undefeated paper giant going into sectionals for the foreseeable future.
GAH.
#droptheNIC
Penn/Mishawaka is like BD/Warren, Avon/Brownsburg, Bloomington North/Bloomington South, HSE/Fishers right? I mean, not the same district but huge rivals. I can see this making difference in gate receipts, but I think Penn needs to play someone down in this area.
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No surprise. Sounds like a great choice.
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On 12/9/2023 at 8:20 AM, temptation said:
Shocking.
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55 minutes ago, temptation said:
A combined 99-16 against BD/Warren at the JV level and 191-51 over the entire MIC huh?
Center Grove always has a great program at all levels every year.
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22 minutes ago, Bulldog said:
Brownsburg JV 9-0 (Back to Back Undefeated seasons)
Brownsburg Freshman 9-0
Proper. Coach Hart's built a monster.
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Good luck Coach Gilbert! Coach was a year behind me here at Ben Davis. I graduated in 93 and he graduated in 94.