BTF

Bleachers for how many?

For most, it's the principle. Taxpayers pay for the venue, the owners walk away with the profit. Every business owner would love that. "You build it, I take home the money." But.............if they don't build it in your city, they'll build it somewhere else leaving your town boring and stagnant. Personally, as a taxpayer, I'm all in. I don't want to feel like I have to travel to Chicago for for something to do, and I haven't in 15 years. Fort Wayne is a case in point. In 2007, they leveled a 15 year old baseball structure on Coliseum Blvd. in favor of a ballpark downtown in which 90% of our residents were against. The result? A minor league ballpark that has ranked #1 in the country at all minor league levels nearly every year since it's dedication in 2008. Massive downtown growth with approximately 2 billion in new infrastructure. A plethora of new restaurants including Ruth Chris Steakhouse. Coffee houses, shopping venues, several new apartment complexes, three new hotels, and a vibrant new family friendly scene on our natural rivers that run through downtown. Resident's in Fort Wayne don't feel like they have to go to Chicago, Indianapolis, or Cincinatti, for a downtown experience anymore. They just take the 15 minute drive to downtown, pay $1 an hour to park, and have a great time. More money is invested in our own town without having drive 2 or 3 hours only to invest it in someone else's. More and more out of towners are starting to consider Downtown Fort Wayne as a weekend destination. For those you who reside in the Indianapolis area, I say build it. I mean, they're going to build it anyway. Quit bitching, go enjoy it, and support the economy in the process.

Mostly tourism tax dollars? How much will this affect a local homeowner?

It's looking like the stadium itself is just a pipedream. They just partnered with St. Francis to play their games there for the next two years.

Good point. In Fort Wayne, I think it's more of an opportunity for something to do. Getting 5000 people to show up on a weekend won't be too hard to do. Like Indy, we have a nice downtown and people can walk around before and after. Can Indy get 15000+ to show up on a weekend?

It's been popular in Fort Wayne for quite some time now. In 2021, it was announced that the 150 million project (seating 8000 I believe) would be moving forward on the northern outskirts of downtown. Fort Wayne was set to joint the USL by 2023, but everything went quiet.

Is this semi-pro or the real deal?

Thanks for the correction. I guess I always thought since, they were a mile down the street and in the same zip code as Northrop, that they fed into them.

Offers from Indiana, Purdue, Illinois, and Louisville.

They're probably 8th graders at Northwood for a reason. Either they just want to be a part of the public school system or they don't have $10,000 per year to go to one of Dwenger's feeders. They'll just go to that school down the street called Northrop.

In all fairness, Carmel, Ben Davis, and Warren Central were and still are blessed with a plethora of talent for most coaches to fail. So I don't think that is a good comparison. Eric Moore would have 15+ state championships in a 20 year span at those schools. That being said, I think Moore is building something sustainable at Center Grove. They will always be successful on the gridiron, not necessarily Eric Moore successful though. It will take a coach who has both passion and time. Many coaches have families and other obligations, so time could be an issue. Either way, he'll hand the baton off to someone who'll run the program the right way and maintain a decent level of success. Similar to Geesman/Yoeman and Isaacs/Tippmann.

Most of us knew what you meant.

If best recruits + highest pay = most desirable job, then yeah, Notre Dame probably ranks somewhere around 10-15. But that's just 75% of the coaches out there. The other 25% percent might look at other things, like the moral integrity of a program.

Good coaches seem to maintain success regardless of who their coordinators are. Agree or disagree?

Turns out Andy Ludwig accepted the position, then ND refused to pay the 2.8m buyout. So the laughable part (Temp)? It's not that high profile coaches don't want the position, as you were suggesting. It's that ND is refusing to pay what it takes to get them there. Are coordinators a dime a dozen? Only as good as their head coach allows them to be? Maybe that's what the ND administration thinks. Maybe ND's recent success had more to do with having arguably the best coach in the country stick around for a decade and not necessarily the idea that they are a strong program like they were pre 90's. I guess we'll find out how good of a coach Freeman is now.

Furthermore, none of this has impacted incoming recruits, notably Sam Hartman and CJ Carr. Kids seem to be drawn to Marcus Freeman. Future looks bright.

People like to find a reason to pick on the Irish. They'll find someone. Still one of the Top 10 jobs in the country.

What about sports isn't comical anymore? I retract. There is still some purity left in high school game. The next two levels become a clown show.

Figuring out how to replace Tommy Rees is small potatoes compared to the dilemma of replacing Harry Hiestand. If the Irish do land Andy Ludwig, then the joke is on Alabama.

Combine Carroll and Homestead to give them Carmel's enrollment.

There's something different about North Side since Ben Johnson took over. In good way.

Ouch!

It's rare for Dwenger to go outside their pipeline. That's why they don't dominate every year like some of the other Catholics.

Walking away from an opponent half your enrollment after a year of being defeated by them in the two major sports isn't a good look for Carmel. The video is the icing on the cake.