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I’m including freshmen, I could be wrong but would guess most 2A public schools include freshmen on the roster. Guessing the P/Ps don’t have to dress freshmen or use them for practice. Including freshmen we had 44 players at the start of the year coming off a conference championship season and 9 wins last year. Including freshmen MD probably had 85-90 players it’s not apples to apples. Fun fact we dressed 39 healthy players against MD, they had that many coaches/staff/trainers/doctors on the roster

As are Nolan and Carter Schickel. In a few years Nolan (freshmen at MD) could be a starting WR/DB and his brother Carter (8th grade) could be a starting QB/DB at NP. I didn't want in this conversation just presented numbers about the 2A tourney and the success of the P/P schools, I'm just going to say we do not see things the same way and that is ok. I don't feel sorry for Pike Central when we beat them almost every year and I don't expect MD to feel sorry for us. I don't see the IHSAA changing anything anytime soon so our 40 - 50 football players will have to learn to outwork the 80 - 100 football players at MD. Same for our 6-8 coaches will have to outwork the 20 or so coaches at MD.

I'm not sure but I believe MD usually has above 90% participation rate and have heard it has been close to 100% before.

I would say that roughly 50% of NP kids are very similar to 90-95% of the MD kids. The biggest difference between these kids (the roughly 215 NP kids that have similar home life as the 450 MD kids) is expectations at home. MD families are paying for an education and athletic experience, they are more involved with their kids school and extracurriculars. These numbers seem to translate to roster size as well. NP has 40 kids playing football, MD has 80ish (way more last year.) Routinely? I got tired of looking but going back to the early 2000's NP has won 5 out of the last 27 or so games in boys basketball vs MD. So NP wins 16% of the time in the last 20 years, for reference against Evansville North (1600 students) same time period NP has won 5 out 17 games (about 30%.) I can't tell you about baseball those stats aren't as easy for me to find but we have had some really good baseball teams including back to back state titles so I imagine that is pretty close. As far as siblings at both schools, not always but usually the family will send the better athlete to MD and the rest to NP. Again its about expectations, freshmen receiver at MD is supposed to be the star while junior sister and 8th grade brother at NP are pushed in a different direction. To be clear I didn't say anything good or bad about MD, I presented the facts of this years 2A tournament. Good luck to the Wildcats

A look at the numbers in 2A this year (feel free to correct me if these are inaccurate,) 62 teams and by my quick count 8 P/P schools. 6 of those P/P schools advanced to the sectional title game, 4 of them won a sectional, 3 of them won a regional, and obviously 2 of them are playing for the title. So 13% of the schools won 50% of the sectionals, 75% of the regionals, and 100% of the Semi-states.

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Only had 4 seniors on the team this year, bunch of Juniors including the QB.

Whiteland Linton

Week 13 Matchups Castle [+20.5] Evansville Memorial [+21.5] Southridge [+7.5] Evansville Mater Dei Linton-Stockton [-21.5]

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Week 12 Matchups North Memorial North Posey Owen Valley [-41.5] Southridge Tecumseh Linton-Stockton

Week 11 Matchups North [-14.5] Castle Memorial [+7.5] Reitz Gibson Southern Pike Central [-6.5] Southridge [-35.5] Charlestown [+3.5] North Posey Mater Dei

Winner next week might get Pike Central in the championship…

Week 10 Games Memorial Boonville Reitz [-42.5] Gibson Southern [-14.5] Mater Dei [-24.5] Owen Valley Pike Central [+13.5] Southridge [-20.5] North Posey [-21.5] South Spencer

Close, Tell City has beat them 4 times but its been a long time since that happened.

Tecumseh and Southridge

Not to be disrespectful to PC but I think the right two teams have an opportunity to meet in the finals and I believe MD wins this week by 3 or 4 scores. On paper PC and NP would be a very good game, believe Sagarin has NP a little higher.

Week 9 Games Memorial [-3.5] Harrison [-14.5] North Mater Dei [+9.5] Jasper [+2.5] Gibson Southern North Posey [-31.5] Southridge Tell City Mount Vernon [-21.5]

Week 8 Games Castle [-31.5] Mater Dei [-16.5] Memorial Reitz Jasper Boonville Forest Park Southridge [-6.5] North Posey [+23.5] Tecumseh

Week 7 Games Mater Dei [-35.5] Harrison [-12.5] Vincennes [-7.5] Memorial [+14.5] Castle [-13.5] Gibson Southern [-27.5] North Posey Boonville [-43.5] Southridge [-41.5] Perry Central

Week 6 Matchups Reitz [-3.5] Memorial [-28.5] Harrison Mater Dei Jasper Boonville Gibson Southern North Knox [-36.5] North Posey [-6.5]

How about the double punt play?

If the only thing you know about the Vikings is what happened the night we played Southridge I completely understand this thought. The young Vikings got punched in the mouth by a veteran Raider team and didn’t respond how we’d like, fortunately that game doesn’t define us. We are banged up and have some tough games ahead (starting with Tecumseh) but still have a lot of talent and will continue to improve. Half our starters aren’t eligible for their drivers license yet, these young men have a lot to learn about winning. Good group of kids that took a big step last week and had a little luck too.

Or Linton