TigerFan20

I think it’s a great hire for Jasper, turned around Kankakee pretty quickly in the his 4 years there. Seems like NC is tough job right now from looks of it. I’m excited to see what he can do with Jasper and their resources, they seem to be a sleeping giant that needs to be awaken. I always thought Jasper’s passing game was slightly underrated, I believed they averaged around 10.0 yards per catch last season. I’ll be intrigued how Derek will utilize the passing game.

Yup, I wonder who else applied for the position.

Derek Hart announced he resigned from North Central to head to a new coaching position outside Central Indiana, which is pretty obvious now where he is headed too.

Gibson Southern vs Jasper non-conference game in 2026? Everyone loves a good old sibling rivalry!

From my understanding, North Central has been in a rebuild mood after 2020. O’Shea did have some success between 2018-2020 with winning a sectional championship. I believe North Central is like 1-40 overall in the last 4 years. Here is there past seasons over the last 30 years: http://indianahsfootball.homestead.com/logs/NorthCentralIndianapolis.htm#load

Going off the 2021 State run at Kankakee, looked he used the Spread (2100+ passing, ~1500 rushing). The 2021 state Championship game is on YouTube. And I’m assuming he has been using the same offense at North Central.

Great hire, he did very well in Illinois before heading over to North Central. I believe he lead Kankakee (Illinois) to the State Title game in 2022.

VL’s AD did say they were planning on staying in the SIAC 2025-2026 year. Although it appears the timetable is up in the air.

WIC has approved Lincoln’s application and will join the conference. Good luck to the Alices in the WIC!

Memorial’s offensive starters rarely changed throughout the season unless it was just for a game. Memorial’s defense switched around for some of the games for the DL and backfield, but I used the most common lineup on that side of the ball they primarily used. I’m intrigued who will be the QB this season. One team that caught my eye was North losing pretty much their entire offense, but returning a good amount on their Defense.

Is CAL playing HH again this year? Or was that a 1-year deal. That matchup would be something it was was played at the end of year.

I think the Border Bowl should be brought back to life in 2026. Could have some fun matchups again.

Intrigued to see who they hired.

Pre-2020 there were high hopes of of expanding the SIAC up to 12 teams and have divisions. What Oldtime said about getting some members of the PAC and Big 8 to join the conference. There was also a proposed Championship week too for the outright SIAC Champion followed by #2 vs #2, #3 vs #3, and so on. SIAC also had divisions for football back in the 60s and 70s. I do not know the total membership number back then. Here is a list of the former SIAC members http://www.almanacsports.com/football/conference.php?conf_id=siac