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What I said wasn’t an insult. Floyd Central is the best in the conference in those sports. Traditionally, Columbus North is great at those sports too. They would be good competition for each other in those sports. That’s simply all I was saying.

If Columbus North were to join for some reason, I could see a country club sports rivalry forming between them and Floyd Central.

East Central will be back in 4A since they only earned 2 points (two sectional titles) over the last two seasons in 5A.

Completely forgot it said the vote was in mid-April

News broke in late January that Bloomington South would likely be joining the HHC. It’s now March. I would’ve thought we would hear more by now. Has a vote not taken place?

Every year we get told how great North Side is. Yes, they have talented teams. However, they don’t execute. Biggest busts every year. I don’t want to hear about them or see them ranked until they actually do something.

Gives you another perspective as to why Andrew Luck retired when he did. All that rehab after major issues, especially back-to-back, is mentally draining. I just wish Rondale could’ve gone down the same path and spared his life.

Gonna need another team for all sports because Southport wouldn’t want their football team to be in that conference.

He was referring to Silver Creek, not Bloomington South.

Apparently Greensburg has agreed to change the site of their game against Jennings County from home to away. Now the Panthers will have four home games instead of three. However, the Pirates will now have three home games instead of four. I’m really confused as to why they would do this.

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Very good points by @Impartial_Observer and @RetiredSouthernCoach. I hate when people try to get Jennings County to leave the conference just because their football team isn’t good. Is the school shrinking? Yes. But school size doesn’t matter as much in other sports like it does with football. We’ve seen smaller schools compete with, and beat, larger schools. I’m tired of football being the lone representation of an athletic program or school. There are 18-23 other IHSAA sports (depending on if your school has gymnastics, girls wrestling, boys volleyball, unified track, and unified flag football). Is Jennings County a threat to win the HHC title in most of those sports? No. They aren’t in many of them. However, are they going to finish dead last in every sport every single year? No. They are capable of fighting their way into the upper half in most of those sports. Personally, I think that qualifies them as being competitive enough for the HHC. Making football go independent but staying in all the other sports is the right move. However, if they shrink down to Madison’s size and go under 1,000 students then that’s the time where leaving the HHC as a whole is a logical decision.

The main issue for Jennings County was football. That’s the one sport where they struggled to compete with the HHC. The other sports have been able to find success, especially boys and girls basketball the last several years. Adding Bloomington South adds one more tough opponent but their inclusion doesn’t change anything for Jennings County.

Nah we need them for basketball. If we’re going to suck at football we can at least dominate in basketball.

They all need to suck it up. I like the idea of having Bloomington South in the conference. Plus, with the loss of Madison and Jennings County being half-in and half-out, we need to add some members to ensure the HHC doesn’t go the route of Conference Indiana.

Bloomington South has played Columbus East and BNL in boys basketball every year going back to before John Harrell started keeping track of things in the 1993-1994 season. Bloomington South has played New Albany every year since the 2009-2010 season. They’ve played Floyd Central every year since the 2014-2015 season. They played Jennings County every year from the 2014-2015 season up through last year. It was dropped this year. Not sure the last time Jeff was on the schedule but, given the fact they’ve been playing Floyd Central and New Albany annually, I don’t think adding Jeff will bother them too much.

I get what you’re saying and I’m very familiar with the EIAC, East Central and the scheduling format. However, as a Columbus East grad and someone who has lived most of his life in Columbus, I would be stunned if Columbus North joined the HHC in football. Just going off what I know. I get that they’re without a conference home but that doesn’t change anything.

Problem is, Madison has zero interest in rejoining. Last I heard, Silver Creek and Charlestown have no interest in joining. And I’m still not convinced Columbus North and Bloomington South are joining in football. Knowing what I know about North, HHC football is beneath them.

I haven’t seen anything official. All I’ve seen are conflicting posts. Some say Bloomington South is joining. Some say Columbus North is joining as well. Some say one or both are joining in all sports. Some say one or both are joining in all sports except football. I guess we’ll see.

Bloomington North used to do it in the late 70s and early 80s. It’s Bloomington South’s turn now.

AJ Moye must be putting in the work to change the culture and make the athletics program better as a whole.

As @crimsonace1 has mentioned, these numbers aren’t final. There’s a chance Madison may still be in 3A. Just depends on what the IHSAA numbers say.

I sure hope you’re right. We need someone who can give us the shot in the arm we need to get back in the thick of things.

Yeah I had read through his history. It’s crazy how he had college football coaching jobs and an XFL coaching job at 19, 20, and 21 years old.