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Paoli hired someone today.

West Washington and Paoli do such a great job of making sure all of their athletes get in the weight room year round. I feel like the other schools in the conference just hope to have success with talented classes coming through but WW and Paoli do whatever they can to ensure they get the most out of every class. And in reality, this isn't a coaching thing necessarily. This is a school corporation/culture/community thing. #envious

I enjoyed talking with the Southridge coaching staff a few years back. Grabbed some pizza. That's a model worth following. Real humble group of guys.

Correct, we don't measure our success on how many sectionals Gibson 'Southern hasn't won the past few years.

Not new. Just gets old listening to the chest thumping sometimes. Especially when Gibson Southern will field a team of kids with 0 sectional championships in 2019. Same as my kids.

Hate to interrupt the "Gibson Southern is Incredible" stream but is there a time table for when this merger will be official?

In sectional 39, I think you have Eastern and Pekin Eastern. Are those different?

Providence and Clarksville are on top of each other. Hard to see.

I can't figure out 2A south. 14 teams south of Bloomington. All spread out. Hopefully we can open the sectional at Mater Dei. Bet they have nice locker rooms.

I was told a name had applied shortly after this all started and was shocked that someone with his experience and recent success would apply. Maybe there is some connection between him and the current board.

Isn't that what sexual harassment is? Locker room talk that is outside the locker room is sexual harassment. Assuming Fishers does not have co-ed locker rooms.

I'm going to guess it is to simplify scheduling. They currently schedule Pike Central, North Posey, and Forest Park, so those 3 would remain the same. They would replace 3 of North Daviess, North Knox, Perry Central, Springs Valley, and Crawford County with Southridge, Tell City, and South Spencer. Scheduling is difficult in 1A and 2A so I'm guessing this is part of the motivation.

If you attend an IFCA region meeting where they name the Region All-star team, you will be convinced there are only 4 classes.

My favorite part was when he said "Brief history"

I knew you'd know!

So under the new proposal, would the small division teams never play the bigger division teams? I almost feel if you want to consider yourself part of the same conference, you should play 1 or 2 of the opposing division on a rotating basis.

Most coaches don't like talking about their teams but I'll do it for all the fans we have on here. Last season we finished with 23 kids. 12 of those were seniors so we initially had 11 coming back. Of those 11, one moved away before we had our banquet so I was looking at 10 kids that had finished last season. I've been recruiting pretty hard and as of now, I've had 50 kids tell me they plan to play next year. Which, in reality I'll probably get 35 of those to actually play when the season starts. And of those 35, 25 will have never played or not since youth but I'll take it. It's a much better situation than last season to start with. So when someone asks me what my goal is, my goal is to play an entire JV season. No one seems to know for sure when the last time that happened here and if we could win a handful of games on Friday night to go along with that I'd be tickled. We have to find a QB, a FB, and a RB we can count on. Keith Brooks might end up being QB. He will be a sophomore. Right now he's 6-5 and 175. Really good athlete, just needs to develop some quickness. Nolan Barker played RB a lot last year but will needs to be more consistent. He's got good size at 6-2, 195 and he's decently strong but not going to run away from anyone right now. Preston Coleman is our top returning rusher and receiver. Last year he split time between football and tennis so I never felt he got consistent practice and would be much better if he didn't play tennis. But kids like tennis I suppose. Preston has decent size at 6-0, 155 and is a good athlete. We bring back 2 OL with experience. Garrett Stout 5-9, 190 started at center all year for us and T.J. Donnelly started every game at tackle minus the ones he was out with an injury. TJ is 6-2, 215 down about 25 pounds from last year. Outside of those 2, we are going to have to find some linemen. Defensively, we graduated all of our defensive backs and linebackers. Keith Brooks started at the end of the year at OLB and probably will again this season. We bring back several defensive linemen. Zach Carlisle started at NT until he tore his ACL and MCL and meniscus week 7. He should be ready to go. He's got some size at 6-4, 410. Nolan Barker, TJ Donnelly, and Garrett Stout all started at times last year. Stout will probably move back to LB and Barker may too depending on who we will have. Other than them, we will have to find some guys that want to play and are willing to learn. It's hard to project other spots because you never truly know what a kid will look like until they get out there.

I plan on contending more in the pick 'em this coming year than I did last year. And if I find myself at the bottom again, I'll just fudge the scores since I normally tally them up!

We just scheduled Tecumseh for '19-'21. Hate to lose them.

My junior season, we had a kid make Junior All-state. That would've been '99 so at least that long.

I used to do jr. high basketball at one school and was an assistant football coach at a different school.

Moriority was at Salem, not Paoli. Balsmeyer was before Lowery.

LaPorte

Do you get paid to post on the GID. If not, I would definitely stop.

Simple answer. The Kiser home is full. No room for another award.