Footballking16

Almost felt like that was a battle Purdue HAD to win over IU. They got a good one.

So culture and coaching does play a big part 🙂 ? Thanks, just wanted to hear you say it.

What about Penn, North Central, Pike, Lake Central?

LN also has had generational type talent these last few years and still has a losing record against BD in said time frame. Simmons inherited a BD program the year after going 14-0 ending as one of the states all time best teams that lost an absolute ton to graduation. Simmons has had some injury and youth situations early on. As we all know its cyclical for every program.

Younger son Derek

I've maintained for awhile that CG's biggest hurdle in the South is Ben Davis. Young team last year that only got better.

If you can secure it in LOS, it may have some life, otherwise don’t see that many people interested watching a high school football all-star game in the middle of December outdoors. Still think you’d get a fairly watered down product. Guessing most of the players good info to make the all-star football team are likely playing basketball as well, especially in the lower classes. Summer works for the IN-KY bball series because it doesn’t interfere with any other sanctioned sports.

So you mean to tell me that most schools in Houston and Dallas aren’t consolidated into 6500 students? Wild conjecture I’m sure.

Why?

That would be a good #. Assuming they would need to build a brand new building centralized to the new student body? Feasible?

Don't know much about either of those schools. Can't really comment.

I can only sit on my hands so long lol. To be fair to DT, this was actually a pretty impressive thread backed by actual research until that comment. To me consolidation, specifically for sports doesn't do much for me.

Allen High School (the one with the mega stadium) is the largest high school in Texas and only has 4800 students.

I would guess one of the schools (LC) would be used a freshman campus and the other (LN) grades 10-12.

It could work and would definitely propel their athletic prowess, just not a huge fan of mega-sized high schools.

Probably not, as it stands now you'd have well over 4500 kids attending one high school and I don't think that's good for anybody. But Mt. Vernon has been exploding and the majority of those families are coming from Lawrence Twp. I do foresee a continued decline of Lawrence Twp students but it may only be marginal. Cathedral/Chatard are capped at their enrollments as is.

There's three parishes where Lawrence Twp kids predominantly reside; St. Simon, St. Matthew, and St. Lawrence. St. Simon by far has the best athletic program of any of the CYO schools and is also the biggest. St. Simon serves the majority of the Geist neighborhoods on the Marion County side although some come from Fishers and Mt Vernon districts. Large majority of those kids attend either Cathedral or Chatard but otherwise would have attended Lawrence Central before the district became open enrollment. St. Matthews is at 56th and Binford right on the border of Lawrence/Washington Twp but many of those kids live in the neighborhoods to the east which again predominantly serve LC. St. Lawrence at 46th and Shadeland would serve a mixture of Lawrence Twp and IPS as it is right down the street from Arlington.

Sad but true. There's a pocket on the very far NE side of Lawrence Twp that in my opinion produces some of the best football talent in the state on a year in and year out basis. Unfortunately for LC and by extension LN, a lot of those kids go to the CYO feeder schools and subsequently Cathedral or Chatard. You have Heritage Christian sitting right there also in the heart of Lawrence Twp. Property value on houses in that Geist pocket, absent the lakeside homes, aren't what they used to be and in turn a ton of families are moving to Fortville and McCordsville and into the Mt. Vernon and HSE school districts.

Lawrence Central has become the casualty of a two school district. Open enrollment has allowed many of the athletes to attend Lawrence North who traditionally has been the better athletic school in Lawrence Twp and many of the families on the Geist side of Marion County are either moving north of Carroll Rd into either Hamilton or Hancock County or simply sending their kids to Cathedral or Chatard. I foresee LC's enrollment to continue to dip and think somewhere down the road LC and LN will consolidate into a single high school.

I think they go 9-3 Losses: OSU, Penn State, 1 of Cincy/Iowa

Sorry. Was enjoying at nice weekend at the lake. The 5* recruit is a lineman, not the athlete you said Notre Dame needs in order to close the gap, and hasn’t even started his junior year of high school. When Notre Dame is even competitive in a big game on the national stage, you come let me know.

Vegas has IU’s win total O/U at 8.

Where do I sign?

How many 5* recruits has Marcus Freeman brought to South Bend?

Until they prove it on the field, they will always be second tier. Prove it on the field and that moniker goes away.