Frozen Tundra

The 2012 team would like to have a word with you. Lol

Yeah I’m with @Impartial_Observer. I’m failing to see when Floyd Central ever blew out Silver Creek.

That’s fair. That 3A championship was in the largest class at the time which is obviously a big deal. I might be blinded by the fact it was ten years prior to my birth which is why I went with 2013. Aside from that championship game, I never saw that team play.

For Columbus East it’s no doubt the 2013 undefeated 4A state championship team. They absolutely steamrolled everybody up to the championship game. They won their first 14 games by 28 or more and that includes wins against ranked opponents such as Jasper at regionals and New Palestine at semistate. They came from behind to beat Fort Wayne Dwenger in the state championship by 1. Best coach is Bob Gaddis for obvious reasons. Best player is a tough one. It would probably be Stevie Brown (2002-2005) if you base it on the fact he was a Swiss Army knife and could fit in anywhere on the field and excel. Played four years at Michigan before having a short NFL career. If you want to base the best player on records set then it would be Markell Jones (2011-2014). He set the state record for rushing yards in a season in his senior year. He came close to the career rushing yardage record and probably would’ve gotten it had East made the state title game.

Glad I’m not the only one who thinks that. I just figured folks would say it was sour grapes on my part since I associate with the rival school. To me, the helmets look clean without the bulldog. Adding it to the front makes them look corny.

The side the pressbox is on used to be the home bleachers (1972-2013). In 2014, they moved the home crowd to the visitor’s side of the field. Those bleachers used to be smaller than the old home bleachers. Not sure why exactly they switched sides but I’m guessing 42 seasons of complaints about the home fans having to stare into the sun during early season games might have had something to do with it.

I’m aware these are 3A and 4A schools but what’s the growth like? Could these potentially all be 4A schools at the very least in the future? Is there a possibility that these three could pick up the two Terre Haute schools down the road and save them from an unstable Conference Indiana?

Maybe that’s why our track meets with Bloomington South were always on Final Four Saturday at 10 AM. Never had Saturday track meets against any other team unless it was part of a multi-team invitational.

Depends on who you are I guess. When you look at college football, those conferences don’t schedule the same games in the same weeks year after year (except for rivalries). Even when conferences were small enough that you could play every team it still didn’t occur. Is it a huge deal that the HHC schedule is always the same? No. It would just be a nice change of pace though. Wouldn’t hurt anything if they did it. I’m sure there’s some random scheduling generator computer program they could use to schedule games given the constraints involved if they didn’t want to take the time to do it manually.

As a fan, it just feels boring. If I was a fan of another team aside from East, I would feel like the schedule layout helped East stay unbeaten in conference longer than they would’ve been if it had been switched up. For instance, those last three years under Gaddis had some teams that got off to really slow starts. In 2018, I’m not sure East would’ve been unbeaten in conference play had they not started off with Seymour and Jennings County. New Albany nearly beat us in week 5 and BNL nearly beat us in week 9. Had either or both of those games taken place in weeks 3 or 4 then I’m not sure East makes it to 2021 with a 14 year HHC unbeaten streak. So that’s why I’m in favor of switching the schedule up every other year. If Floyd Central and New Albany want to keep their rivalry in week 9 then they should but it would be nice to mix everything else up.

So if conference games are long term contracts then does that also include the date? Otherwise, I don’t understand why it would be in the same order. As for Columbus East and Columbus North, the game hasn’t always been in week 2 although it has been since 2000. Because of conference schedules, that is the best week for it and I’m ok with rivalry games always being the same week. But week 2 works best because week 1 helps you see where you’re at before going into a rivalry game. Technically, they could have it later in the year now that both conferences are below eight members, but I think the warmer weather in week 2 help makes it such a huge draw for the community.

Does anyone know why HHC games are scheduled in the same exact order every single year? I’m not talking about non-conference games. I’m aware each team has designated weeks for conference games. I’m just asking why, for example, I know year-in and year-out that Columbus East gets Seymour in week 3, Jennings County in week 4, New Albany in week 5, Floyd Central in week 6, Jeffersonville in week 8, and BNL in week 9. Why can’t it be switched up every year or every other year?

Yeah I saw Shelbyville has played in seven sectional championship games in their history and lost all seven. They either ran into Columbus East or East Central and then there was a year with Roncalli and the year with that legendary Seymour team.

Wish I could add to this conversation but I don’t know squat right now. Maybe I’ll have a better idea after summer camps but I know nothing as of now.

It’s a shame to see how far Shelbyville has fallen. I remember East playing them for three sectional championships since 2004. There were years when they were the second best team in the sectional behind East. When East moved to 5A, Shelbyville had years where they were just behind East Central as the best team in the sectional.

I saw your guy Brian Glesing took yet another coaching job. Five jobs in seven years and he sat out one of those seven years. It’s almost becoming comical at this point.

I always liked the idea of East Central in the HHC but I also realize the unlikelihood of it happening due to current conference geography.

Well-deserved. No more crazy coaches and crazier parents screaming at you.

That’s the danger for them. They’re kind of on an island on their own. The two Terre Haute schools are in a similar situation. Columbus East, BNL, and Seymour could go north, and Jennings County could go East for conference affiliation. The best Jeffersonville, New Albany, and Floyd Central could do after that is hope to pull in Silver Creek and form a four-team conference. They’d have to play six non-conference games though. I don’t want to get too crazy with this because it’s all just theorizing. There’s no rumor of any of this even happening. I just think on a grander scale that what’s going on in other parts of the state may soon creep its way into southeast Indiana. If it was just one or two conferences going through changes then I wouldn’t give it a second thought. However, it’s involving many conferences and teams. Kind of feels like the high school sports landscape is changing. Or I could just be overblowing the situation and @Impartial_Observer could be right.

I hope everyone is doing well. Four months of inactivity in this thread pushed it to page 5 on here. Not sure I’ve ever seen that with the HHC thread. Anyway, all of the conference changes taking place in northern and central Indiana has me wondering how long it’ll be before we start seeing the same thing. Southwest Indiana went through it a couple years back but southeast Indiana has been pretty much unaffected aside from very minor tweaks. Nevertheless, it seems membership changes north of here are driven by demographic changes, student population changes, and competitive balance. How long do you think the HHC can go before this stuff starts to affect us?

We’ve already discussed that to death. While the IHSAA has allowed for a team like Monrovia to make a run, Monrovia still had to make it happen on the field. I’m asking how. Did they get hot at the right time? Did they get healthy? Were the match-ups advantageous to their style of play?

I don’t follow much about Monrovia. So can somebody explain to me how they went 2-7 in the regular season but are now playing for a semi-state title next week?

Not as nice as your boat. I don’t care what the homeowners association or your neighbor to the north, Mitchell, says. It’s not an eyesore. You’re allowed to put your boat wherever you want as long as it’s exclusively on your property. State law.

What you’re describing sounds normal. Unless there’s more to it that I’m missing, that’s not over-exposure. I could be wrong but I believe my football-playing classmates were doing three-a-days at team camp. To me, over-exposure is a coach constantly in your ear throughout the year wanting you to work on your skills constantly without much downtime. I didn’t see that at East. Gaddis always encouraged guys to play multiple sports. But if you weren’t doing anything in the spring, he expected you to get your butt to the weight room after school so that you did conditioning.

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