Daniel_Bragg

You could appear in the Semi-State every single year of your existence, and you'd remain in your class. Semi-State runs don't earn enough points to move up.

That was my freshman year. The whole school wanted to completely embarrass Westfield for dropping us from their schedule. LOL

That won't do them any favors. The community is mad at the school for this, and now the School Board will likely take just as much blame. The community is sad, mad, livid, every emotion in the world. He deserved better than this.

The community is livid right now. The school has essentially been quite throughout this whole ordeal going back to the suspension. The community wants answers, and quite frankly, the school is ignoring everyone.

Removed the two games that have already begun. 6A Westfield vs. Brownsburg 5A Warsaw vs. Decatur Central 3A FW Luers vs. Heritage Hills 1A North Judson vs. Providence

OF COURSE IT IS!!! People don't get into television to lose money. You are asking television owners to do just that. Again, it costs a lot of money for these games to be broadcast on a TV broadcast "level". Are you proposing that those people work for free?

My point is that to ask a television station to have civic pride when broadcasting costs hundreds of thousands, if not millions of dollars is an unrealistic ask. Meanwhile, I can stream games to the whole world for a few hundred dollars, maybe. My streams are free for the reason you cite: civic pride. However, I don't have towers to pay for, crews to pay full-time salaries to, benefits, etc. Believe me, I wish a station would carry the State Final games for free to view, but it's just not the world we live in anymore.

6A Crown Point @ Westfield Brownsburg @ Center Grove 5A Merrillville @ Warsaw Decatur Central @ Bloomington South 4A East Noble @ Mishawaka Martinsville @ New Palestine 3A Garrett @ FW Luers Batesville @ Heritage Hills 2A Adams Central @ Andrean Linton @ Indy Lutheran 1A South Adams @ North Judson South Putnam @ Providence

Again, none of this happens for free. As it is, streaming is the best way to get it to the entire state. I don't believe any network in Indiana actually covers the ENTIRE state. If so, they'd have to be something like FOX59 or WTHR. To ask them to broadcast the high school semi-state and state finals would mean having them ignore their network commitments, as FOX and NBC affiliates. That's just not a realistic ask.

Can he not bring himself to do it, or does he figure this is just how it always plays out?

I agree with this. I get what they are trying to accomplish, because it is a "luck of the draw" thing, but so many schools seem to disregard it. This past week, how one announcer got around the rule, was he would just yell out the door/window of the booth, and the crowd would react. It's the same thing, just not over the PA system.

I'm actually not sure about this. I believe everything has to be adjusted, because I believe the bottom team in 2A then moves down? I could be wrong though.

Judson goes up if they win it all this year. Gonna open 1A even further in 2025 if that happens.

The most shocking part about last night was that the QB didn't even need to be there. Sheridan was allowing Benton to do literally whatever he wanted.

THANK YOU!! Nothing against Adams Central, but I've seen this mentioned A LOT this year by people. Many aren't aware that they moved up due to enrollment.

6A Carroll (FW) @ Crown Point Westfield @ Fishers Lawrence North @ Brownsburg Center Grove @ Warren Central 5A Valparaiso @ Merrillville Lafayette Jeff @ Warsaw East Central @ Decatur Central Castle @ Bloomington South 4A New Prairie @ Mishawaka New Palestine @ Indy Chatard Evansville Reitz @ Martinsville 3A Knox @ Garrett FW Luers @ Maconaquah Tri-West @ Batesville 2A Andrean @ Laf. Central Catholic Brownstown Central @ Linton 1A North Miami @ South Adams Milan @ Providence

What a night in 1A!! Taylor over Pioneer North Miami over Triton South Adams over Madison-Grant Milan over North Decatur Incredible Sectional Championship round!

Taylor over Pioneer would SHOCK people. Cloverdale over Sheridan would be an upset, but not a HUGE surprise to some in Sheridan. The team has just seemed up and down throughout the season.

6A FW Snider @ FW Carroll Fishers @ HSE Indy Cathedral @ Lawrence North 5A Chesterton @ Valparaiso Warsaw @ Concord Decator Central @ Plainfield Bloomington So. @ Bloomington No. 4A Hanover Central @ New Prairie East Noble @ FW Dwenger Huntington No. @ Lebanon Indy Chatard @ Indy Roncalli 3A Mishawaka Marian @ Knox Garrett @ West Noble Maconaquah @ West Lafayette Mississinewa @ FW Luers Guerin @ Tri-West Lawrenceburg @ Batesville Evansville Mem. @ Heritage Hills 2A Bremen @ Andrean Eastern (Grto) @ Tipton Lapel @ Triton Central 1A Triton @ North Miami Cloverdale @ Sheridan North Decatur @ Milan

A "fraud" meaning I never thought they were playing in a way that reflected their polling. Most of the year, they were regarded as a Top 3 team. Top 10, sure, but I never really believed that they were on that "top-tier" level this year.

I hadn't said anything publicly all season, because, with my ties to Sheridan, it would have been assumed that I was just being biased, but I felt like Carroll was kind of a fraud most of the year. I did NOT, however, expect them to get the beatdown that they received tonight.

They wanted the IHSAA to say that the call was wrong, and they basically got that. I don't believe anyone thought that the result was going to get overturned.

6A Carmel @ Zionsville Fishers @ Noblesville Ben Davis @ Pike 5A Michigan City @ Chesterton Concord @ FW North McCutcheon @ Kokomo Bloomington South @ TH South 4A New Prairie @ Hobart Logansport @ Lebanon Indy Roncalli @ Brebeuf Ev. Reitz @ Jasper 3A Jimtown @ Mishawaka Marian Griffith @ Knox Cascade @ Tri-West Madison @ Scottsburg 2A Western Boone @ Laf. Central Catholic Rochester @ Eastern (Greentown) Centerville @ Lapel South Vermillion @ Linton 1A Tri-County @ Taylor South Adams @ Tri North Daviess @ Perry Central

It's worth remembering that the game was played in a hurricane. That being said though, Sheridan never seemed to be interested in playing on that night. They were the only team in Hamilton County playing on that particular Friday night, and I've heard the only reason they played, was because everyone else in the conference were playing their games. It was INCREDIBLY unsafe for both teams to be playing that night, but Taylor wanted it more, and got it done.

My bad. I get heated some times. Also, that comment was likely directed at several individuals specifically, and not all private schools as a whole. Either way, I should never have phrased it that way.