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Game was scoreless--lightning in the 4th caused cancellation.

Sure they could. The option to move up a class in a single sport has been available since the inception of class sports.

If you miss the old days, then you can go back to the cluster system, when the oppressed Catholic schools in Marion County sued the IHSAA because they were all put in the same sectional. Oppression crosses all boundaries and decades.

Most people looked at South Putnam beating North Judson in the state finals in '86 as a big upset. South had never had a winning season until the year before, and was only 5-3 going into the tourney--Judson was unbeaten and had been #1 in class all season.

Southmont 22 Cascade 21 ot F

Didn’t read about a clock reset (edit: sorry, I see it now)—if it was, then I understand.

Since it took LaVille five downs to run out the clock, I’m guessing Andrean vehemently disagrees.

Valley’s ‘79 team was incredible. Widest splits I’ve ever seen an offensive line employ, and no one could stop Tim Alspaugh.

Last night, Tippy Valley kicked off, West Lafayette muffed in the field of play, ball went well into end zone—where WL picked up and returned. Play was blown dead on the tackle. Afterwards, I think official realized his mistake, marked ball as a touchback, and reset the game clock. My hypothetical question is, had there been any flags occurring during the runback, what (if any) fouls would be enforced?

Tri-West 26 WeBo 21 F

WeBo 14 Tri-West 12. 1/2

Third graders with dull crayons can figure out how wrong that statement is.

The 3 high schools that merged in 1970-'71 to form Owen Valley were Patricksburg, Gosport, and Spencer. Freedom and Coal City were Owen County high schools that had closed previously in the mid-60's. Quincy High School in Owen County burned in the 50's--but that is part of Cloverdale school district now.

This one might. In the early days of Owen Valley football (early 70's), they didn't have a playable field. They played their home games at Cloverdale. A few years later, they finally got a field built, and had a huge crowd and big ceremonies for the opening night field dedication game. The lead trumpet player marched out to midfield, mic-ed up, to solo the Star Spangled Banner. He missed two of the first three notes, paused, and muttered an "aww F#$@" heard clearly over the loud speakers, before playing flawlessly the rest of the way. Took it almost 50 years to drop to the second best night in OV football history.

Move the goalposts. Your previous post alluded solely to seeding. Now it's qualification.

And one of the advantages currently is you can see a great game each week of the playoffs. I took a carload to Mier last week to watch Guerin/Oak Hill, and a little less than a carload to watch the nut-buster at Owen Valley last night. You seed it, we'd likely stay home the first two weeks.

Cascade lost their good running back to a broken leg last week. They have some other weapons, but it's not the same. Southmont is pretty physical, I think they will hang with Linton for a good while before succumbing.

Just a quick synopsis as I remember it--the IHSAA was sued by South Bend St Joseph's players because they had failed to make the tournament after going unbeaten two straight regular seasons during the point system qualifier. St Joe lost their case, but the IHSAA went to the cluster system to avoid further litigation from other unbeaten teams. Instead, Catholic Schools in Marion County sued over discrimination due to their cluster grouping, since the IHSAA put five Catholic schools in the same AA sectional (Ritter, Brebeuf, Scecina, Chatard, Cathedral), IHSAA won that lawsuit also, but the cluster was widely despised after year one's results. (Looked this up)--eight 9-1 teams didn't make the playoffs the first cluster year, a dozen 8-2 teams were left out also. Scheduling was a mess, consequently big gates were lost, and conferences were wrecked. Amzie Miller at New Prairie hated the cluster, and was the driving force behind the all-in playoff. The schools overwhelmingly voted in favor of the all-in. The school vote in Northwest Indiana's District 1 was 40-0 in favor of the all-in playoff. The state's other four district's votes were not unanimous, but overwhelmingly in favor also.

https://www.record-eagle.com/sports/mhsaa-might-let-all-football-teams-into-playoffs/article_2609f56e-2798-11ec-ad9b-43ee49087bdc.html

I really wouldn't know--you'd have to individually ask the other state's associations. But if I was guessing, I would imagine that there are some who have toyed with the notion of an all-inclusive tournament, but the logistics plus the time constraint of the sport seasons make it non-feasible.

Can't like this one enough. It's supposed to be education-based athletics. And whether you get straight A's or straight F's during the year, you still take a final exam.

Missouri's high school football tournament is all-in. There are a few basketball state tournaments that are all-in beside ours.

I really didnt have time to look at much of that. I did look at West Vigo in '85--Crawfordsville did the dirty work the week before beating Zionsville, 2-0. Sagarin had Zionsville ranked 18th including all classes--then West Vigo came back from 17 down in the last 10 minutes to beat Crawfordsville the following week. I did look to see if a sectional couldnt possibly have had a winner in the top half of Sagarin, I think the one Rockville won was that way, but that was the only one I recall.

Had a couple hours this afternoon, so I worked up sectional champions (and beyond) between 1985 (start of the all-in tournament) and 1999, that were in the bottom half of the Sagarin Ratings in their respective class at the end of that regular season. In other words, these are the teams that would not have made a tournament had the field been cut in half by Sagarin Ratings before the tournament started. Class A usually had less than 64 teams in class, which alters things a bit. There could well be a few schools I missed here, but I don't think many. Here Goes: 1985 West Vigo (3A Sectional Champs), Sagarin Class Rank 50th of 64, Ranked 5th in Sectional 1986 Rensselaer (2A Sectional Champs), Sagarin Class Rank 43nd of 64, Ranked 6th in Sectional 1987 Center Grove (5A Sectional and Regional Champs), Sagarin Class Rank 33rd of 64, Ranked 3rd in Sectional 1987 Northwood (3A Sectional Champs), Sagarin Class Rank 35th of 64, Ranked 2nd in Sectional 1988 Evansville Central (5A Sectional Champs), Sagarin Class Rank 34th of 64, Ranked 5th in Sectional 1988 Logansport (4A Sectional Champs), Sagarin Class Rank 33rd of 64, Ranked 4th in Sectional 1988 Northwood (3A Sectional Champs), Sagarin Class Rank 37th of 64, Ranked 2nd in Sectional 1989 Andrean (4A Sectional Champs), Sagarin Class Rank 43rd of 64, Ranked 3rd in Sectional 1989 Greensburg (3A Sectional Champs), Sagarin Class Rank 47th of 64, Ranked 4th in Sectional 1989 Tri County (1A Sectional Champs), Sagarin Class Rank 32nd of 57, Ranked 4th in Sectional 1990 Evansville Harrison (5A Sectional Champs), Sagarin Class Rank 46th of 64, Ranked 5th in Sectional 1991 Manchester (2A Sectional Champs), Sagarin Class Rank 38th of 64, Ranked 5th in Sectional 1991 South Putnam (1A Sectional Champs), Sagarin Class Rank 29th of 56, Ranked 2nd in Sectional 1992 Cascade (2A Sectional Champs), Sagarin Class Rank 45th of 64, Ranked 3rd in Sectional 1993 Charlestown (3A Sectional Champs), Sagarin Class Rank 40th of 64, Ranked 3rd in Sectional 1994 Harrison (5A Sectional Champs), Sagarin Class Rank 45th of 64, Ranked 6th in Sectional 1994 Rockville (1A Sectional Champs), Sagarin Class Rank 34th of 55, Ranked 2nd in Sectional 1995 Brown County (3A Sectional Champs), Sagarin Class Rank 36th of 64, Ranked 4th in Sectional 1995 Leo (2A Sectional Champs), Sagarin Class Rank 45th of 64, Ranked 6th in Sectional 1995 Lapel (1A Sectional Champs), Sagarin Class Rank 39th of 54, Ranked 3rd in Sectional 1996 Charlestown (3A Sectional Champs), Sagarin Class Rank 40th of 64, Ranked 3rd in Sectional 1996 FW Luers (2A Sectional, Regional, and Semistate Champs), Sagarin Class Rank 39th of 64, Ranked 5th in Sectional 1997 Northwestern (2A Sectional Champs), Sagarin Class Rank 33rd of 64, Ranked 6th in Sectional 1998 Arlington (5A Sectional Champs), Sagarin Class Rank 33rd of 64, Ranked 3rd in Sectional 1998 Jeffersonville (5A Sectional Champs), Sagarin Class Rank 45th of 64, Ranked 6th in Sectional 1998 Yorktown (3A Sectional Champs), Sagarin Class Rank 38th of 64, Ranked 6th in Sectional 1998 Lake Station (2A Sectional Champs), Sagarin Class Rank 33rd of 64, Ranked 2nd in Sectional 1999 Muncie South (4A Sectional Champs), Sagarin Class Rank 41st of 64, Ranked 3rd in Sectional 1999 Mt Vernon Posey (3A Sectional Champs), Sagarin Class Rank 41st of 64 Ranked 5th in Sectional 1999 Lawrenceburg (2A Sectional Champs), Sagarin Class Rank 33rd of 64, Ranked 3rd in Sectional 1999 Clarksville (1A Sectional Champs), Sagarin Class Rank 35th of 62, Ranked 5th in Sectional

It wasn't OT, but a handful of years ago, South Putnam's stud running back got ejected in the season finale @ Cascade, and the IHSAA played Sgt. Schultz and let him play in the sectional opener at West Washington. Weird stuff happens down there.