Boilernation

Are the DOE enrollment numbers accurate? I saw a post on Harrel's basketball board mentioning the IHSAA may have released the wrong data.

I noticed that. I was surprised to see how far Portage is dropping in 6A enrollment. A lot of Central Indiana schools that were once smaller than Portage have outgrown them. Their population has barely moved in the past 20 years. Don't see any reason to believe Portage couldn't end up in 5A at some point.

Yikes. I didn't think about this possibility when it became obvious Chesterton and Merrillville would be dropping down. It will be interesting to see who goes North and which Sectionals they get placed in. I imagine Westfield would be licking their chops at that alignment. As a Noblesville fan I relish the idea of a scenario like that. As a DAC alum I cringe at the idea of a Regional now going through Hamilton County.

Yeah. This is interesting. He was not a fit from a football culture viewpoint at Bloomington South. The school of Rex Grossman isn't going to buy into a 3 yards and a cloud of dust offense. Odd that South hired him and even odder Kennedy took the position. Not much to say about North Judson or Franklin County. some other options are: Completely fail and never receive another HC gig in Indiana Be average to above average, keep fans and admin happy, never really threaten the rest of the NWI 4A schools, ride out a long career into retirement. Duplicate exactly what he helped create and is still working at Lowell. Become a force in the 4A North. I'm curious what DE thinks about the potential growth of KV. I was surprised by the amount of upscale neighborhoods I saw when I went up to DeMotte to play magnificent Sandy Pines last Fall. Perhaps some good growth could increase the talent level.

The potential ramifications of this are very interesting to me. Can Kennedy build the Kougars into a legitimate threat in the 4A North? Will the Lowell faithfull turn on Kilmer if their neighbors to the southeast surpass Lowel in 4A North hierarchy? I'm not familiar with South Lake County and Northern Jasper County. I know Lowell has had some really good individual talent lately, but is there an overwhelming difference between the talent available in these neighboring school districts?

Great post. Goes without saying how much Penn has fallen that beating Duneland schools again is a step in the right direction. Penn is in the same boat as Lake Central to me. The enrollment and socioeconomic advantages are there. Just need something to spark a turnaround and create systemic change.

Unreal. 1 game into the 3 year contract was enough of a sample size to sever ties. Might as well save on gas, just send a JV bus up to 169th & Cline and have the Varsity stay home to keep preparing for LaSalle. I imagine LaSalle and fixing issues seen in tape will be the focus for Cathedral the week of the Morton game.

Yep. Received the notification from Noblesville Schools last night. Love it. Noblesville is also now mask optional at all schools.

I like that comment...A LOT!

Of course. There are no virtual signalling good lib points to be rewarded for praising a white guy who grew up an old money Dallas suburb.

Just came across this clip today. Stafford's no look pass to free up Kupp on the final drive by the Rams is impressive.

That's a shame. The NFL is a long shot and he just wasted a great opportunity for post graduate success in the ND alumni network.

Can't say I'm surprised as he's already accustomed to transferring schools, but that was fast! Was he buried on the ND depth chart?

Good point. In Kentucky there are only a handful of public schools that can compete with X or Trinity and they are typically forced to play them in District Play. In Cincinnati, only a select few teams from the Greater Miami Conference (Colerain being the main) can compete with the GCL South teams. I can't remember the last time a Lakota school, Mason, Sycamore, or Princeton beat a GCL South team.

It's really mindblowing that a Masshole will be running the LSU Fighting Tigers football program. They're going to love him down there at fundraising functions. Looking forward to seeing how he interacts with SEC media when he can't win the SEC West.

Wow, Drew Henson. Completely forgot about that dude. Fair to say he was a monumental bust based on the hype coming out of HS for both football and baseball?

Fun to watch There's really only a very select amount of teams from Indiana that can keep Carmel, Center Grove, Warren, etc. from playing their JV in the second half. From the standpoint of Carmel, would they rather get a challenge from Louisville Trinity or play their JV against an Indiana team?

Would like to see some games against the following Chicagoland Conferences: Chicago Catholic League, DuPage Valley, Southwest Suburban Blue, and Central Suburban South. They're all solid conferences; however, the avereage Chicagoland HS football fan has very inflated opinions of them. Warren took a very good Central Suburban South program (Park Ridge Maine South) to the woodshed years ago. Chatard was supposed to play Joliet Catholic until JC's season was cancelled due to Covid. Chatard also recently played Naperville Neuqua Valley from the DuPage Valley and Hamilton Southeastern played a DuPage Valley team as well recently.

My dad (Schurz HS) played against Butkus (Vocational HS) in the Chicago Public League. The way he described it sounded very painful.

Leaving Roncalli for Indian Hill is a major step down. He must have really wanted to get back to Cincinnati. Good for him.

It's hard to argue against Harbaugh's success with the '49'ers; however, they wanted him out of town regardless of the success. Maybe the problem was San Fran ownership, but the reports are he burned out everyone in the building. I think he also benefity from have two really good Coordinators in Fangio and Roman. My bet would be any success he would have again in the NFL would be dependant upon his Coordinators as he hasn't really proven he's elite X's and O's guy.

My understanding is Poles and Eberflus are both repped by Trace Armstrong and they have a strong relationship that spans 3 to 4 years and have talked about working together. I don't really get why you would want Harbaugh. And why would Ryan Day be a given to succeed in the NFL? Countless highly successful college coaches have proven the NFL is a different beast when you can't outrecruit 98% of your competition.

Reports are saying Polian was pushing for Caldwell, George and Ted liked Dan Quinn, and Poles went on his own for Eberflus. Apparently, they are both repped by Trace Armstrong and already have a solid relationship. Quinn has announced he's backing out of all openings, which makes sense considering Jones and Son are rumored to love him and McCarthy is likely a lame duck. I would like to know if Quinn backed out on the Bears or waiting until he didn't get the job. I would also like to know what Daboll's interest level was. He was the guy I wanted. Maybe Daboll said no thanks and is holding out for the GIants, Saints, or will take his chances next year. I soured on Leftwich. Seems like a Nagy situation again when Nagy was OC in Kansas City but Reid was calling the plays. I've heard Arians and Brady put toghether the Buc's offensive gameplans. Not sure if that's true or not, but the source is a connected NFL journalist.

Ugh, personally, I hate it. I was hoping Poles would extend the search and not just chose between the 3 that Polian recommended. Plus, looking at the Mahomes and Reid relationship as a barometer, I would prefer to see Fields groomed by an offensive minded HC. Now, Fields will likely be going through a shuffling of OC's as they'll either flame out or move on to HC gigs if really successful in Chicago.

Pure pie in the sky dreaming. Payton lived a portion of his youth in Naperville and went to Naperville Central. He then went to college at Eastern Illinois. I'm not sure if he's ever on record saying he's a Bears guy; however, Bears fans like to think it's a job he would be interested in.