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  1. I'm sure most years you can make this statement and be correct but here are exceptions. The 2008 Washington team with Tyler Zeller and Seth Coy were 3A but would have won in any class that year. I have no doubt there are others.
  2. I believe what he is saying is that less than 32 teams would devalue a championship. 5A and 6A have 32 currently and have a much less of a chance at shutting down a program before the season begins or not being able to finish because of injury. 1A could begin with 32 and be at 28 by the end of a two year cycle. I know a few years ago (2021?) we had at least two 1A schools shut the program down right before the season began. It's not a ridiculous thing to consider.
  3. I got to walk through the new gyms being built at Crawford County Friday. It's very impressive. I started thinking about which teams in the conference have the best athletic facilities. I'm going to rank them and hopefully I do a bad job and others join in because they feel slighted. #7 Orleans: Easy pick. No football field. Their baseball field is kinda weird. Everyone is looking down on you and the fence is super short. Softball field is across town. Really like the HS gym and the auxiliary gym is ok. Elementary gym is old and cramped and no locker rooms. Their weight room is in a closet and the equipment is outdated (assuming they haven't gotten anything new since I've been in there.) #6 Perry Central: I hate their HS gym. Just very uncomfortable to sit in. Small. I'm not sure about that dome gym but we always referred to it as the asbestos dome growing up. They do have a nice elementary gym with that huge mural in it that's pretty cool. Not a big fan of their baseball field. Everything is almost too big. Huge back stop. Huge fence. The football field is always in good shape. The track is always in good shape too. I've never been in their weight room so I can't comment on that. #5 Springs Valley: The HS gym is great. Auxiliary gym is ok at best and elementary gym is awful. They have a nice weight room. They recently resurfaced the football field and it's in good shape. The track can't be used for home meets because the surface has to withstanding the flooding and that doesn't make it suitable for meets. I really like what they've done with the baseball and softball fields in recent years. #4 Paoli: I like our gym a lot. My favorite is the sunken style of gym but Paoli's feels very open and I like big crowds. The lower gym that the girls play their volleyball and basketball games in i super nice for a 2nd gym and I think the elementary gym is good too for what it is. Baseball and softball fields are ok, not great. I help coach baseball too and I always feel like the kids prefer playing on the road. Football field and track is in good shape. The visiting locker room is kinda of embarrassing. Before I coached at Paoli, we never used the visiting locker room and now I know why we didn't. Weight room is big and has everything you'd want but equipment is kinda dated. It works though. #3 Crawford County: This might be #2 when everything gets finished. Football field isn't great but the baseball field is good, their basketball facilities will be great when they're done. They are also building an additional multi-purpose gym. I haven't physically been in the weight room since they moved it but I've seen photos and it looks much betters. They also have a new indoor hitting facility for baseball and softball. Overall, things are much better at Crawford County than they were 5 years ago. Also, Crawford County has one of the best Cross Country courses in the state evidently. #2 West Washington: They have a really good set up for basketball. They have the nice sunken gym, auxiliary gym, a nice elementary gym and a nice (not sure why the gym floor is black) multi purpose gym. Field is always in good shape. Last time I saw the weight room it was nice. The baseball/softball areas could use some work. I would compare them with ours. Just nothing you can really say. The track is ok but their numbers are normally low in track so I get why they don't do much with it. I really wish we had a facility like the Bowsman complex. #1 Mitchell: Mitchell has done a great job with their renovations. Baseball, softball, and football field all turfed. Looks great. Someone on Facebook posts photos of their new basketball facility almost daily and it looks great as well. I almost applied for their football job just to get a tour. I haven't been in their weight room but I've never heard anything bad about it. Their track always seems to be in good shape too. Only thing I can think of that I don't care for is their HS gym. I don't know why. Maybe it's the layout but I don't like going there at all. Hopefully the 2 other PLAC guys on this forum can tell me why I'm wrong!
  4. Forgot about Oscar Lewellyn (5-11, 290). Oscar has started at NT for us the past two years. Sorry Oscar.
  5. In an effort to drum up conversation and hopefully others to post some kind of a preview like btownqbcoach1 did, I'll talk about Paoli. Offensively we bring back 10 of 11 starters, losing only Trey Rominger at Fullback. However Trey will be hard to replace as he finished 11th all-time in the state's history in rushing yards. We bring back our entire offensive line in seniors Jaxson Reynolds (6-0, 200), Jeremiah Hutcheson (6-6, 265), Peyton Baker (5-11, 230 and All-Conference in 2023), Ian Drake (5-10, 220), and Coy Busick (5-11, 230 and All-Conference in 2023). This group has quite a bit of experience as Reynolds started his sophomore year and Baker, Drake and Busick started the second half of their sophomore seasons. Senior QB Fletcher Cole returns (6-0, 180, 655 yards rushing and 12 TDs, 486 yards passing and 5 TDs, All-Conference WR '22 and QB '23). Senior WRs William Baker (6-2, 160) and Garrett Hickman (5-11, 170) return and have been playing a lot since their sophomore year. Junior Cooper Spires (6-0, 155) also saw a lot of time at WR last year. At slot back we return Juniors Dane Padgett (6-3, 190, 761 yards rushing and 10 TDs, All-Conference in 2023) and Treighlin Minton (6-2, 170, 241 yards rushing and 1 TD). Junior Coen Brace (6-0, 175) also started at slot back last year the last 3 games due to injuries and did a really nice job. I'm really curious who ends up taking the FB job. I could see it being Junior Tyler Hannon, or Sophomore Dawson Guidry. Both did a really nice job on the JV last year. Defensively we bring back 10 of 11 starters, losing on Trey Rominger at Inside Linebacker. We rotated quite a few guys on the defensive line with Busick, Drake (All-Conference in 2023), Hutcheson probably getting the most snaps and Baker and now sophomore Rusty Turner (6-1, 240) getting quite a few snaps during the game. At OLB Reynolds (All-Conference in '22 and '23) returns and Tyler Hannon (5-9, 165) played that spot the 2nd half of the season. Padgett also rotated in that OLB. At ILB, senior Isiah Apple (6-0 200) returns. Apple played half the season at OLB before moving inside. Hannon also played some ILB last year as well as senior Jareth Nunez (5-9, 180). At Defensive Back we return Cole (Junior All-State), Minton (All-Conference in 2023), Spires, and Baker with Hickman and senior Ashton Jones (5-10, 150) playing quite a big as well last year. Kicking duties could go to Nunez (All-Conference in 2023) or Hannon. We are going to do our best to not have to punt but if we do, I think Sophomore Justin Thorton (5-11, 180) will do it. I expect we will look something like this coming into the season barring injury or a family moving to Wyoming. We have some young kids that played JV last year I'm excited to see how they've changed. I could see us trying to figure out how to use some of these kids. Hopefully it's a good season for us.
  6. Do those that believe a qualifier is or at least should be coming think that will apply to all IHSAA sports or just football?
  7. 2 questions: Cathedral is independent, correct? Would you feel different about a devalued regular season if they were in a conference? Do you feel like the current system is holding Cathedral back from post-season success?
  8. If you have a problem with an objection based around the kids playing the game, then we are involved for different reasons. I've noticed over the years your posts have changed. I enjoy the ones where you answer officiating questions. You're pretty knowledgeable with the rules. It does seem like with what you're wanting to do is add a 10th which according to you would add a meaningless game. It wouldn't make it a playoff atmosphere for teams trying to qualify because we'd use some kind of mathematical formula to determine if you're in the top half that wouldn't come out until you know the scores of all the games Saturday. If you're not in the top 50% after week 9, then it won't change much after week 10. A buddy of mine coaches in Florida at Oak Ridge. He grew up here in Indiana. He hates their format. To qualify, your district games are the only ones that factor in to qualification. The other games truly mean nothing. For context, 5 of the 9 games they played were essentially exhibition games. They knew when their season was ending after 8 games because they had lost 2 district games week 7 and 8. I'm not sure how that is a better system.
  9. It always amazes me on a forum that should be for promoting football in Indiana, the amount of people on this forum that either want to eliminate teams completely or eliminate teams from playing games. There is nothing wrong with the all-in. Kids get very few football games to play in their entire lives and once it's done, it's done. Let's not try and minimize the experience just so fans can feel like it "means more."
  10. I don't think it does. The risk of injury in a scrimmage is already present. So the risk is essentially the same. (Maybe the increased risk would be in a scrimmage, you can play in fewer snaps than an actual game.) The only difference is, you could get injured in a glorified practice game or an actual game.
  11. I don't think that's true. I haven't spoken to a coach that feels the official scrimmage is as important as it used to be with the current summer guidelines.
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