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Keep rolling Tigers. Hope the dirty South is well represented at LoS. No doubt Memorial will rise to the occasion.

I was born and lived 4 years near 116th and Keystone. Would've gone to Carmel, so I've seen that growth and on the Southside around Center Grove, but I have never understood the growth moreso on the Westside than the East. In general, I guess the west is more affluent?

I believe Notre Dames TV market exceeds SB city limits, don't you?

In a generation, Zionsville has grown from 3A to 6A. I'm not that familiar about the Westside. What's going on?

Thread is back open play nicely, you keyboard Warriors.

Only if it makes it so the classes playing on Friday in the state finals are also the ones to play Friday in semistate at neutral sites no more than a 2 hour drive.

Who is Dan and why does he have a village named after him?

What do you think Danville will bring to the table that HH hasn't seen...not much respect for Gibson Southern, Southridge, Jasper, or Lawrenceburg? Five regular season losses and SOS is now essentially the same.

Good teams like Indianapolis Memorial, erghh? We aren't counting regular season games... Oh the horror, an hour trip from Indy to Bloomington!

There's a McCain (RIP) joke in there somewhere. I know, I'm going to He**!

2010, 2005, 2004... Yeah not getting much sympathy from 3A when Chatard essentially rarely leaves the donut counties of Marion County. Perhaps being in the north will change that. http://pastfb.homestead.com/logs/IndianapolisChatard.htm#loaded

Mileage varies though. @DaveMosbey broke it down, after Danville game, HH will have traveled 800+ miles for the three away games.

I doubt this game will see that much scoring. Good news though. The only teams not named Chatard to beat HH in semistate are in Danville's proximity: Tri West in 2014 and Zionsville in 1996. However both of those losses were at Heritage Hills. Heritage Hills has two semistate wins: vs. Chatard at FC in 2004 and at Roncalli in 2000. (Yes, I'm reaching)

While you're at it bring back Cutler. He's only 36, play action bootleg always was the offense he should've been in. He never wanted to be a pocket passer. Never understood why he was forced to stand in the pocket and launch the ball 60 yards. I hear he has his own reality TV show now too. What's to lose?

It's a great city and only 2.5 hours from many Hoosier fans along the Ohio River.

Doug Flutie, Michael Vick, Drew Brees... And people still think you need to be 6-3 to make it in the NFL?

Chatard could have made an argument in 3A in the early 2000s. Roncalli as 3A in 1999 and I believe 1992...don't quote me on the latter year. The Werner days at EC/Roncalli in 2004? In 2002 Chatard beat Heritage Hills who beat 4A champion Jasper. Only five classes then. 2007 McIntosh at Reitz probably would put up points in 6A, not sure about the defense though. I was at that CE game -- best HS football game I've ever seen.

Or you could take the pervious 4 years and throw out the most successful year and least successful year to get a better median of the programs success with the remaining two years.

78 percent accurate year in and out. And that was when TW did his analysis 10 years ago.

Sound similiar to Gibson Southern. The running QB is what concerned HH going into the L-Burg game. HH has the athletes to cover space while they pressure with 6-7 (think Tampa 2, bend but don't break but different implementation.) Regardless, I think we are in for a hard-hitting game. I hope the winner is as close to 100 percent strength heading into State.

Ok, so what does Danville do well? How are special teams? Any players missing during the five losses who are back? Jake Powers have any younger brothers to be concerned about?

You can't run up the score so easily because of the new rule. Additionally, I don't claim to know Jeff Sagarins algorithms, but I imagine a 70-0 win has about the same weight as a 49-7 win. After a certain point it is approaching meaningless. Look at my plan to get the coaches involved in seeding sectionals with Sags as a tie breaker. If you can do it in wrestling why not in football? You could even have Sectional 31 coaches seeding sectional 32, or a random mix. We live in a world where coaches can meet on Skype and the IHSAA could easily make a website for coaches to cast blind ballots. If there are no ties after round one and the IHSAA or a third party agrees there has been no vote rigging (four coaches voting in bad faith for their own advantagr, for example), Then that's that.

Yes. Importantly, it closes the gaps in the middle classes.

Percentages matter more than counts. A 300 enrollment school can challenge a 600 enrollment school much easier than a 600 can challenge a 1,200 (P/PS not withstanding).

Let's talk competitive balance. If you plot any random sample on a chart you end up with a bell curve. Who in their infinite wisdom decided 5A should have 32 teams and 1A 64 or so? Logically it doesn't make sense, so what was the real reason? The farther away from the median enrollment across all classes the larger the disparity (percentage in smaller schools) and by count in the larger. Does the IHSAA know math?