Coach Hanson

I would say not in 4A and most likely not in 1A. 

Is Gridiron Digest doing another bracket challenge this year during tournament time for all 6 classes? Just curious.

53 minutes ago, Fballfan15 said:

Well Madison-Grant just now canceled for tomorrow night. Unbelievable! Tipton is looking for a game for tomorrow or Saturday night.

Lapel is free tomorrow I think?

1 hour ago, oldtimeqb said:

Not sure if serious.... have you looked at a map before?? 

That bus ride. Yikes. 

Winner would be the home team

23 minutes ago, foxbat said:

I've noticed this advantage with my kids who, for the most part, have been fully homeschooled until high school and then split time between homeschool and regular school when they get to high school.  My middle child did about four years between junior high and the first two years of high school full time at a public school and will be heading back to a hybrid homeschool model this fall, her junior year. but the others have focused on main being homeschooled until high school.  It's not really that they do it when they want as we have them do most of their work during regular "school" hours, but if they get something completed early, they can move on to their next subject rather than kind of killing time in class waiting on everyone else to finish.  Similarly, if they need a bit more time, it allows then to have that flexibility before moving on to another topic.  The other advantage that we have seen with this is that our kids' education has been incorporated into life as a whole as opposed to just "during school time."  As such, we tend to find our kids incorporating there lessons into things in regular life through the day.  In a sense, the learning doesn't have an artificial break point.  We also ended up incorporating their learning into family activity too ... especially when the kids were in elementary school and middle school.  Family trips often had a learning aspect to it and typical school holidays weren't big breaks from learning ... i.e., we didn't take a week off for Spring Break and Thanksgiving was typically a break on Thursday with a half-day on Friday unless we went to LOS for state games.

The kids learned the discipline of handling their own schedules and also understanding how to pace themselves.  We also gave them the options to move school days to Saturdays and/or Sundays when other events were pushing on their schedules like performances, games, science fairs, etc.  This helped them manage competing items better.  For my oldest two, they already had a taste of managing college schedules before they even got out of high school, so it was less stress when they headed off to college.  the youngest three are no yet in college, but the middle one is again resuming home schooling this fall and my youngest two have been home schooled their whole life, so they are pretty used to being given several tasks to complete and figuring how to balance those in to their lives at a very early age.

I think that this is a huge advantage that some students have compared to others. I completed the majority of my bachelors and almost all of my masters online while working a daily job. What you taught your children as far as self discipline and time management skills will go a long way. But even in the impoverished schools where kids don’t have a lot to do to stay entertained, they will find a way to do football related activities and a good coach would encourage them to put their studies first but to also watch as much film and stay in as good of shape and hydrated as possible. Every district’s virtual learning will be different like Irishman state’s but we would all be naive to say that CERTAIN districts won’t be more at an advantage. Like I said, I don’t have a solution but was just curious why this had not been brought up yet because there has been hundreds of debates in here on the last 3 months but no one addressed this. 

7 minutes ago, wabashalwaysfights said:

It COULD be an advantage for SOME. I know we certainly have some students who have enough self-discipline to handle it, but not near enough for a virtual option to be successful in the long term in the way you describe. 

I have been working on my MA in my subject are so that I can continue to teach my Dual Credit course. I take one course per semester (fall, spring, and summer) through a ISU's distance program. It is certainly a blessing, the virtual nature of the class, because otherwise pursuing this degree would not be possible. That said, I have the self-discipline as an adult to make it work, I do not think the same would be the case for me when I was 17.

I see where you are coming from and what you suggest works well on paper, but the reality is much different I fear...

I agree with you in a sense. I think the ELITE programs like Warren Central, Cathedral, and a few others can find a way where these kids can group together and take advantage of this free time. It will not follow social distancing rules, but who is really regulating at this point and who can blame these kids for just wanting to improve and better themselves and the groups overall chemistry? These kids can watch film together, do routes, and workout in a more unique atmosphere than the kids that are in school 8 hours a day. I don’t think this will hurt classes 1A-3A but 4A-6A could see a significant advantage with kids who have D1 Aspirations. Just my 2 cents though. It takes a special athlete to get a D1 scholarship and I see a lot of these kids taking advantage of the down time that virtual schooling allows.

I posted this in another forum that got way out of hand and locked (rightfully so) and am curious to hear others’ thoughts 

I know that these Indy kids and other virtual students did not ask for these circumstances but I think it’s a little crazy that no one on any of these posts has talked about the MASSIVE advantage that the students have that are not attending a traditional 8 hour classroom sitting but instead are online and many juniors and seniors will be working at their own pace. I think it’s a massive advantage of doing your class work when you feel like it compared to being required to show up for 8 hours of school and then have a grueling 3 hour practice. It’s not the kids or parents’ faults but I am surprised that no one has discussed how big of an advantage this truly is for virtual schools. As long as these virtual students have self discipline, they have a huge edge in my opinion. And no I don’t have a solution for this but was just curious why no one has brought this up on the site (at least that I could find).

I know that these Indy kids and other virtual students did not ask for these circumstances but I think it’s a little crazy that no one on any of these posts has talked about the MASSIVE advantage that the students have that are not attending a traditional 8 hour classroom sitting but instead are online and many juniors and seniors will be working at their own pace. I think it’s a massive advantage of doing your class work when you feel like it compared to being required to show up for 8 hours of school and then have a grueling 3 hour practice. It’s not the kids or parents’ faults but I am surprised that no one has discussed how big of an advantage this truly is for virtual schools. As long as these virtual students have self discipline, they have a huge edge in my opinion. And no I don’t have a solution for this but was just curious why no one has brought this up on the site (at least that I could find).

5 minutes ago, cw13 said:

we can argue all day........the Avon experiment is under way today...........how they do, in person classes.......will gives all an idea as to if in fact the protocols will work........wait and see

Are students officially in the building today at Avon?

Whether I believe that Covid-19 is as serious as the media portrays or isn’t , I do think it will have a significant impact on this season and if I was a betting man, I honestly don’t think this season will be finished once the second wave hits. A lot of people are talking about schools shutting down in October and I just feel like many schools do not have a great plan that is safe, efficient, and is PR friendly in order for a full football season to be played. I’d love to be wrong but am seriously starting to have doubts and the ivy league just adds another obstacle. Just my opinion though.

1 hour ago, XStar said:

Just like every year, the winner of Linton Stockton and Mater Dei will win it all.  Nobody else matters.

Andrean would best both these teams based on last year and what happened in offseason. Western Boone and eastbrook are also favorites over these two

26 minutes ago, DumfriesYMCA said:

That’s a very strong squad returning 👀

 

would 100% throw their hat into the mix for 3A

Lawrenceburg vs Gibson southern semi state?

Best hire by Noblesville in the last 20 years and I think portage turns the program around starting this year. Great conversation starter DT, much better than the contraction conversations 😉

14 minutes ago, Coach Nowlin said:

Bombers in 2014 for class 2a really put on an offensive show 

2013:  We had 13 defensive touchdown returns

2014: we had 5 safeties on the year.  

I would put those dudes in 2014 up with anyone in class 1a-2a being bantered about, however, I am clearly biased, just know how darn competitive that group was.   

It was a tough group and I think there are about 20 groups that could argue for their spot amongst history in the last 100 years. I love the debate here but I think it’s too broad to come up with 1 best team

7 minutes ago, 1st_and_10 said:

Webo in 18 & 19... Undefeated in 18, but would argue the team in 19 was more dominant.

Definitely fair

9 minutes ago, MICFan34 said:

Brett Law team in '88 that dominant as well? Totally forgot about Luers, they just had dudes ALLL over the field lol. 

Yeah the 88 team might have them beat. 

1 hour ago, MICFan34 said:

What about smaller classes? '18 Pioneer team w/Kizer, any of the LCC teams during their run.... Who else? 

Sheridan had a couple in 1A in 1998 and then 2005-2007, Bishop Luers had many as well.

1 minute ago, Gipper said:

Perhaps it won’t.

Math is funny that way...

Math makes everything interesting 

11 minutes ago, DT said:

Football numbers are already in decline.  That ship left the port long ago my friend.  I would like to see 20 or 30 of the weaker programs in the state fold up their tents and create new opportunities for other students to take part in.

This is the perfect time for ADs and admins to blame outside influences for the cancellation of their football programs.  Its really an easy out and not at all difficult to sell to parents and communities.

If my school is 3-38 over the past 4 seasons, perhaps there are more pressing issues at hand than continuing on with this type of performance.

This could help us get to the targeted 280 much quicker than originally forecasted.

Your logic as far as a spectator makes sense but I still really think that every school should should deserve the opportunity to compete no matter what their talent is. Imagine a school that is 0-9 that has 1 division 1 athlete and 1 d3 athlete coming up, they could easily be 3-6 the next season or a 4-5 team. I enjoy the conversation but there is always going to be someone on the bottom. 

14 minutes ago, DT said:

Interesting comment.

Football is a very social game.  KIds like to play with their buddies and friends.

Perhaps this situation will push more athletes towards individual sports.

 

 

This could definitely push more kids to individual sports such as wrestling but I still think that it won’t dramatically change football numbers. 

All politics aside, I do not think that the coronavirus will speed up contraction (At least I hope). I think all schools are negatively being impacted and I saw a post on Twitter about this football season will be where we really see who is committed to being a champion and doing the right thing when NO ONE is watching. I certainly feel for the Seniors now and the juniors (future seniors next year) have a tough task ahead.

Thanks guys! It worked.

Can coaches that took this year off but plan to coach next year sign up? When signing up, it has a box that asks for how many assistant coaches I want to add, when I am not a head coach. It does not give me to option to select “0”. Thanks for any help!

Young guy here but honest question, can a team join a conference (MIC) in one sport but stay in another conference in other sports? 

Just now, Coach Hanson said:

Young guy here but honest question, can a team join a conference (MIC) in one sport but stay in another conference in other sports? 

I know New Pal has a good softball team but this post is mainly for them and chatard

36 minutes ago, Staxawax said:

Heard through the grapevine that Luke struggled with the decision to play QB this past season. He has zero interest in playing football in college.  Basketball is his future.  So, maybe he doesn't even play football his senior year.

If this is true then I would take my prediction back and say that Preston Terrell would be my new front runner.