Sectional title winners

[FlyingAngel]

6A crown point fell on a good battle with the Penn kingsman. Was watching the game with the lady next to me in the stands tonight and they never seem to have gotten control in that game. Congrats Penn.

5A Merrillville rolled with no issue over Munster. Penalties will kill this team down the road.

Michigan city won a hard fought game over Laporte. Hope Laporte continues to build in the right direction.

4A Hobart dominated Lowell all over field. But a great season for Lowell wit the new head coach.
Keep building


2A Andrean made it look to easy

[BallinFreak]

interesting post format

[NWI10]

6A- Crown Point was not the bulldozer they had been for the previous couple years. The kinks in the armor were showing all year.

5A- Merrillville, no surprises.

4A- Maybe the sickness running through Hobarts locker room impacted the game the regular season game vs Lowell more then we realized. Hobart looked very good and dominated Lowell. Lowell had a fantastic season but loses ALOT. Will they be as good next year?

3A- Knox run to the Dome continues.

2A- too bad Andrean isn’t 3A. Knox vs Andrean would be fantastic.

[Coach Nowlin 2.0]

Andrean as expected was very good

We lost our MLB/RB first series on defense, assuming future all state player and candidate for N/S All star game about 3 mins into the game with knee injury. Hard to replace 138 tackles and almost 1000 yards at 230 pound sub 5.0 kid. If anyone watched the stream or was there, you saw his impact on play 1 of the game. So it goes.

Needed a darn near perfect storm to go our way already but that one was not one we could recover from with our other SR rb unavailable until 2nd half. Had to scrap the game plan we worked on offensively for 3 weeks with 2 guys down and next ones up not a spot to put them into happens with a roster of 32 with about 13 to 14 varsity ready bodies. So had to jump into more of horizontal formation and that did not bode well for matchups for us. 2nd half we scored on the 1st drive unfortunately took the entire quarter since they got to 35 before half. So is life, what we told the kids, things don't always go your way but that one game did not define our seniors impact.

Andrean not your "typical 2a" team in terms of size, speed and roster of 75 or so

Let's see if they can finish out and move on up to 3a in 2026.

[Bearcat Nation]

Andrean not your "typical 2a" team ....

That's because they aren't a 2A team. They aren't a 2A school. They don't have a 2A student body. They have enrollment requirements public schools cannot have such that they have a hand-picked all-star student body compared to a public 2A school. It's no wonder they have a hand-picked all-star football team year-after-year. They should be in 3A.

The Success Penalty factor is a joke. The IHSAA should implement a multiplier, but of course they won't. The IHSAA is a joke too.

[BombKicker]

Andrean not your "typical 2a" team ....

That's because they aren't a 2A team. They aren't a 2A school. They don't have a 2A student body. They have enrollment requirements public schools cannot have such that they have a hand-picked all-star student body compared to a public 2A school. It's no wonder they have a hand-picked all-star football team year-after-year. They should be in 3A.

The Success Penalty factor is a joke. The IHSAA should implement a multiplier, but of course they won't. The IHSAA is a joke too.

Year after year, the Wheeler school board votes against open enrollment in order to protect their kids' spots on the various athletic programs. Isn't that the definition of a "hand-picked" team? Rather than one based on meritocracy and athleticism, it's just based on parental manipulation.

[paintballer]

Andrean not your "typical 2a" team ....

That's because they aren't a 2A team. They aren't a 2A school. They don't have a 2A student body. They have enrollment requirements public schools cannot have such that they have a hand-picked all-star student body compared to a public 2A school. It's no wonder they have a hand-picked all-star football team year-after-year. They should be in 3A.

The Success Penalty factor is a joke. The IHSAA should implement a multiplier, but of course they won't. The IHSAA is a joke too.

Year after year, the Wheeler school board votes against open enrollment in order to protect their kids' spots on the various athletic programs. Isn't that the definition of a "hand-picked" team? Rather than one based on meritocracy and athleticism, it's just based on parental manipulation.

What is the point of having a school district if you just open enrollment to anyone?

A lot of people aren’t going to like it but money is absolutely a barrier to entry in some communities because of their housing costs so why would you as a family work to make all that money and then just allow anyone in?

How do you build community if all the families who send their kids to a school are watching open enrollment students start in all the sports?

Society is better when communities foster cohesion through shared experiences and people sending kids to a school via open enrollment aren’t sticking around for that

[paintballer]

Andrean not your "typical 2a" team ....

That's because they aren't a 2A team. They aren't a 2A school. They don't have a 2A student body. They have enrollment requirements public schools cannot have such that they have a hand-picked all-star student body compared to a public 2A school. It's no wonder they have a hand-picked all-star football team year-after-year. They should be in 3A.

The Success Penalty factor is a joke. The IHSAA should implement a multiplier, but of course they won't. The IHSAA is a joke too.

I tried saying another post the same thing

[Bearcat Nation]

Andrean not your "typical 2a" team ....

That's because they aren't a 2A team. They aren't a 2A school. They don't have a 2A student body. They have enrollment requirements public schools cannot have such that they have a hand-picked all-star student body compared to a public 2A school. It's no wonder they have a hand-picked all-star football team year-after-year. They should be in 3A.

The Success Penalty factor is a joke. The IHSAA should implement a multiplier, but of course they won't. The IHSAA is a joke too.

Year after year, the Wheeler school board votes against open enrollment in order to protect their kids' spots on the various athletic programs. Isn't that the definition of a "hand-picked" team? Rather than one based on meritocracy and athleticism, it's just based on parental manipulation.

No, it isn't. I'm not going to argue why the Wheeler School board votes against open enrollment, but I doubt very much that protecting their kids' spots on athletic teams has anything to do with it. Even if it did, there number of kids involved would be a very, very small, because the number of school board members' kids is a small percentage of Wheeler's enrollment.

Public schools MUST enroll any student who lives within the district, if closed, or literally any student who walks through the door. Public schools cannot use tuition, entrance exams, etc. to selectively enroll students the way private schools can, and do. Public schools cannot waive those requirements (that they do not have) to enroll students that do not meet their requirements but that they want for other reasons the way private schools can, and do. Private schools use hurdles to selectively choose their student body. Public schools cannot do that. A private school's student enrollment is not even close to an apples-to-apples comparison to a public school's enrollment.

The success penalty does not address this reality at all.