Frozen Tundra

Any variation of the word “tough” is definitely not an adjective I’d use to describe the Hoosier Hills Conference as it pertains to football. As for Jennings County, you’re talking about a program that’s only had six winning seasons since the high school opened in 1968. And five of those winning seasons were 6-4 or 5-4.

I wouldn’t say they all gravitated to East during the Gaddis years. North still landed some great players because of the mentality of some in Columbus that North is the premier school and that playing 6A football is more important than competing for a 5A state title. However, now that Gaddis is gone, it does seem almost all the talent is going to North. It also doesn’t help that the talent pool is drying up and numbers are dropping.

This is proof that, as much as we want it to, the HHC is never going to get better at football.

This just supports one of my previous posts about how high school football has taken a hit in this state. If Southport can’t even field a JV then there are problems.

Week 7 Schedule BNL (5-1, 4-0 HHC) at 5A #10 Floyd Central (5-1, 3-0 HHC) Jeffersonville (2-4, 1-2 HHC) at New Albany (0-6, 0-2 HHC) Seymour (0-6, 0-4 HHC) at Jennings County (3-3, 0-2 HHC) Columbus East (3-3) at Bloomington North (3-3)

I’ve heard Beech Grove used an academically ineligible player for the first three weeks of the regular season and had to forfeit those three wins as a result. Therefore, Jennings County is now 3-3 on the season. John Harrell hasn’t updated this yet and, surprisingly, Kyle Neddenriep hasn’t tweeted anything about it yet either. However, I saw a post about it on the Indiana High School Football Fans Facebook page and had it confirmed by an assistant football coach.

Forever. Milan has a sign and a water tower celebrating their 1954 boys basketball state championship. Wingate still has a sign up celebrating their 1913 and 1914 boys basketball state championships. Those towns will celebrate that forever and I have no problem if other cities or towns want to celebrate the accomplishments of their local high school(s) forever too.

Columbus East and Floyd Central are the only HHC schools with freshman teams. East beat you guys on Saturday and claimed an HHC freshman football championship despite only needing to go 1-0. It’s bizarre and sad only two of the seven schools can field a freshman team when there were eight freshman teams 10-15 years ago. And now you have Jennings County that couldn’t even field a JV team for a week due to a lack of depth.

I’m just discouraged with how many programs are struggling, especially in football. Seems like numbers and interest have really dwindled over the last 10-15 years and I think it’s hurting the sport overall. I also think there’s becoming a bigger separation between the haves and have-nots. I’d like to see more programs thrive even if they aren’t winning. Just stinks to see.

Which makes me wonder if the high school is small because the district is small or if the district is small because the high school is small. Regardless, they went from 464 students to 385 students in seven years. That’s the biggest drop of all high schools within Clark and Floyd counties in that timeframe.

Yes. Kids are able to attend schools out of district. That wasn’t the point of my question though. The question is why all of Clarksville doesn’t fall within Clarksville Community School Corporation. Why are some areas of the city within other school districts?

You had a Seymour address because the Seymour post office is the one that was assigned to deliver your mail. My address includes a city I live ten miles from. There are small towns with post offices that are closer to me. Nevertheless, my address is of the city instead. A buddy of mine that works for the USPS explained it to me awhile back. By the way, this is what I was referring to.

Yes I understand that. The point, though, is that a high school and school district are named for a city but not everyone in that city is districted to go to that high school. That’s like if everyone east of Main Street in Brownstown was part of the Seymour Community Schools district and was to attend Seymour High School despite being within Brownstown city limits.

Not the same as Columbus. North and East are part of the same school district and the entire city of Columbus is within that school district. Meanwhile, Clarksville High School is in its own school district but not everyone living within the Clarksville city limits is within the Clarksville Community School Corporation district. Some are within the Greater Clark County Schools district and some are within the Silver Creek School Corporation district.

Questions for those in the know. The topic of Clark County school districts has been mentioned before but I need a reminder. 1. Why did Silver Creek split from Borden and Henryville to create their own school district? 2. Why does Clarksville have its own school district? 3. Why doesn’t every kid living in Clarksville city limits attend Clarksville? I read some are in Jeffersonville district and some are in Silver Creek district. 4. Has there been any talk about consolidation? I’m not recommending it nor am I a proponent for it. However, with recent consolidations around the state, I’m curious if it has ever been mentioned for Clark County. Could Borden and Henryville be consolidated due to their district’s loss of students over the last decade? Could New Washington be consolidated with Charlestown due to New Washington’s loss of students over the last decade? Could any of the four districts be consolidated? Could any of these schools handle a couple hundred more students in the event of a consolidation or would it require expanding the school buildings?

Wouldn’t have mattered. Floyd Central is the better team and would’ve won regardless.

First place and last place are on the line next Friday. Looking forward to seeing where Columbus North actually ranks in the conference now that they’re finally playing the tougher teams. Also interested in seeing how many points Southport can score.

Just a heads up but I won’t be counting this week’s pick ‘em because there wasn’t enough time for everyone to get their picks in. I knew it was a long shot but only six of the eight remaining in the competition were able to submit theirs. 7-8 hours wasn’t enough time, especially given the site was down most of the week and those two might not have been aware it was back up. If, for any reason, those two miss a week going forward then I will go back and tabulate the week 6 picks as part of our scores.

Floyd Central beats East 56-28. Silver Creek beats New Albany 23-22.

4 yard TD run by Floyd Central. They lead 56-28 with 1:12 left.

Completely forgot about that game so thank you!

16 yard TD pass by East on 4th and 13. 49-28 with 6:51 left.

Silver Creek takes their first lead of the game on a 1 yard run on fourth and goal. Two point conversion is no good. Dragons up 23-22 with 1:35 left

Floyd gets another 1 yard QB keeper for the TD and it’s 49-21 with 11:15 to go

BNL beats Jennings County 63-0 Brownstown beats Seymour 59-13