INDIANA — It was really funny listening to the football streets talk about now the M.I.C. was down this season. There wasn’t anything sexy about it because there wasn’t an outright dominant program as in years past. When the smoke cleared on the final week of the regular season there were four teams standing there holding the conference title. There was North Central, Warren Central, Ben Davis and Carmel. They all have played their butts off to get there.
However, the streets were still believing the hype that the M.I.C. was down because they weren’t ranked on top of the state. Then the playoffs started. It was just what Big Momma told you it would be. They all were battle tested and plowing through boyz to the point where by the time the smoke cleared after the regionals were over. There were three M.I.C. teams in the Final Four (Semi-State). Ben Davis still standing with that west side swag and there was Center Grove and Carmel looking at boyz like what?
Carmel sprinted through Merrillville with the quickness and Ben Davis and Center Grove wrestled in the middle of the street. Center Grove came out of it and there we were again, watching the M.I.C. Invitational. At some point folks are going to start listening. The M.I.C. is head and shoulders better than any other conference in the state.
I’m not just talking playa. The facts are screaming at you but but you won’t listen. Do you realize that from 1984 to 2019 a school that is currently in the M.I.C. has won all of the State Championships in the highest Class but 7 of them. Think about that.
It wasn’t the M.I.C. way back then but the schools that make up the current conference were running things just like they are today. There was a run from 1992-98 where the rest of the state got a chance to play in the reindeer games. Fort Wayne Snider won it in 1992, Bloomington South got it’s hands on it in ’93. Then Castle came out of nowhere in ’94. Then Penn won three straight from ’95 to ’97. Bloomington South came back to life in ’98 and after that it’s been pretty much a wrap. Fishers won it in 2010.
All other State Championships have been won by schools from the M.I.C. Carmel, Ben Davis, Warren Central, Center Grove and Lawrence Central. That’s NUTS!!!! Hey next year when boyz start chirping about how they’ve got chance to win the Class 6A State Championship. Just be nice and don’t rain on their hopes and dreams. Allow them to work as hard as they can to get there but unless the M.I.C. as an entire conference becomes ineligible to participate in the post season, they’ll win it. Center Grove is the early favorite with all of the studs they’ve got coming back.
It’s simple, the schools are HUGE so they’ve got the depth it takes to play this game at the highest level. They’ll show up with 120 plus players and it’s nothing for them to have 40 to 50 SENIORS on the roster!!!! They’ve got crazy facilities and the talent to go with it. That’s like 90 percent of the battle for high school programs. Unless you’ve got what they’ve got you can’t compete.
Some of these programs can go two deep at every position with SENIORS!!! That’s NUTS!!! They may as well rename the Class 6A State Title the M.I.C. Invitational until someone else can even compete. Stop me when I start lyin’!
