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Paoli JV over Boonville 12-0

Week 1 Match-Ups: Boonville at Paoli Eastern Pekin at West Washington Edgewood at Mitchell Springs Valley at Eastern Greene Switzerland County at Crawford County Tell City at Perry Central Brownstown at Corydon North Harrison at Salem Scottsburg at Madison Silver Creek at Charlestown Bonus Pick of the Week: Castle at Evansville North

Did you want Edgewood or Mitchell?

We actually worked it out with the IHSAA that Trey would get an additional year of eligibility.

For this year to make it more challenging, I think we are going to use the point spreads used on the John Harrell's site to pick games. Week 1 does not have points on so starting next week, I will list spreads as well. Week 1 Match-Ups: Boonville at Paoli Eastern Pekin at West Washington Edgewood at Mitchell Springs Valley at Eastern Greene Switzerland County at Crawford County Tell City at Perry Central Brownstown at Corydon North Harrison at Salem Scottsburg at Madison Silver Creek at Charlestown Bonus Pick of the Week: Castle at Evansville North

What is their 2.0 GPA rule?

You guys should scrimmage McLean Co. I assume Wagner is still there?

20 coaches is lot of coaches. Almost 18 years a coach.

Mitchell scrimmages Salem I was thinking Crawford County and Pike Central were scrimmage opponents. In the past, Perry Central and Southridge were. Not sure if they still are.

IHSAA did not grant open enrollment. The Indiana Department of Education granted open enrollment. The IHSAA decides whether transfers are granted eligibility within their rules.

Something to do with Forest Park recently re-sodded their field and have had issues. Not sure if its just affects their scrimmage or more games.

Update: Scrimmage has been moved to Paoli.

In the past few years, Brownstown Central's basketball program benefited from transfer players from Scottsburg and came in during their freshman season. I'm not suggesting anything inappropriate happened. The kids got limited eligibility. Everything was on the up and up as far as the IHSAA was concerned. Did that bother you or change how you saw the recent state championship Brownstown won? They would have been really good regardless but that definitely helped put them over the top. Also, I agree completely that students and coaches are not the same and can't be compared. In an earlier post, I compared student athletes to non-student athletes and you didn't like that either. What would you compare the situation of the student athlete on a 1 year scholarship?

I guess that would depend on the definition of "Pure." When someone says the high school game should be left pure, I envision a scenario where kids grow up together and attend their local high school together. I think of the movie The Sandlot. High school sports have not been like that for a long time. Open enrollment, private schools, and even allowing transfers between high schools has changed all of this. If we are comparing this what we now have in college, as a fan I don't like all the movement. I enjoyed watching the 3-star come in as a freshman and sit on the bench his first two years and develop into an All-American like Russ Smith did at Louisville. However I agree that the student athletes should be allowed to transfer like they are currently doing. I think that is completely fair. So, I can dislike a rule but completely agree with it.

This is my favorite sentence I've ever read here. The high school game is not pure at all and hasn't been for a long time.

Speaking of colleges, if students that do not participate in athletics can transfer wherever they want, with no restrictions, shouldn't student athletes? Scholarships are renewable on a year by year basis. The athlete isn't bound by anything other than the one year. In regard to high school, I wish the IHSAA would institute a rule that whichever school the student is enrolled with when schools return from Dead Week, that is who you are eligible to play with, the exception being an actual physical move during a school year. That would remove some of the judgment calls the IHSAA has to make every year that seem to be inconsistent. This would also be more consistent with "Open Enrollment" the IDOE has instituted.

We scrimmage at Forest Park.

That's awesome. Can't wait to see pictures of Corydon's field. Should be done I'd imagine.

Isn't making money the point of education? You become educated to get a job that hopefully pays well.

How do they study this?

I feel like the IHSAA is making this too difficult on themselves. Whoever the student is enrolled with when schools return from Dead Week, is who you are eligible to play for that school year. The only exceptions would be an actual physical move. If they wanted to put some limitations on it, maybe an athlete cannot return to a previous school without sitting out a year.

Brownstown is probably my favorite team to watch on film. Looking forward to that.

Mitchell hired Zach See as head coach for the 2024 season. https://www.wbiw.com/2024/04/10/mitchell-schools-bolstered-their-staff-during-school-board-meeting-last-night/?fbclid=IwAR2-O-MUWBGwx4MMVvr6ULGugW2mwOWaQiojm0u18kSXeiAybEp0mVxVA6Q

I don't see how else they could do 48. I assume Providence will be good again. I know they had a bunch of seniors though. Forest Park will be pretty good. South Spencer only had 3 wins last year but I think they'll be solid. Probably won't be able to win it but they might make it to the finals. What do you think?

I don't believe so. WW, SV, and PC (twice) have been to state finals in football. Paoli and SV have been to basketball state finals. I can't think of anyone making baseball state finals although several have made it to semi-state.