Indiana High School Athletic Association

Indeed, spend a day at an Amateur Athletic Union basketball tournament, and you'll discover that whatever traces of amateurism remain are nearly lost amid the hacks, skills, and charlatans looking to turn young ballers into marketable commodities.

While the overwhelming majority of Hoosier high school athletes are unlikely to land NIL contracts, the Indiana High School Athletic Association has put together a basic set of rules for students, parents, coaches, administrators, and boosters to follow.

The rules prohibit recruiting inducements and the use of school identities in endorsements, among other restrictions.

It's a good starting point.

The name, image, and likeness brand deals prevalent in collegiate athletics are trickling down to high school athletes, but Indiana lawmakers appear unlikely to regulate the practice for now.

The Indiana High School Athletic Association in May authorized its own version of the deals, known as personal brand activities.

Already, the association counts 54 student-athletes making money from brand deals, IHSAA Commissioner Paul Naadig told the Interim Committee on Education Wednesday morning.

While the committee did not recommend legislation on the topic for next session, it informally asked the IHSAA to incorporate financial literacy education for student-athletes.

The SEC has filed a memorandum in opposition to LSU's request that a federal court dismiss the conference's lawsuit against the university and its officials, saying a live controversy still exists between the parties and highlighting the Tigers men's basketball team's efforts to add a player who had previously signed multiple two-way NBA contracts.

LSU men's basketball coach Will Wade had planned to add RJ Lewis Jr., the 2025 Big East Player of the Year.

Right around the time we're recording this, we're in the final week of the regular season, looking ahead to opening week of sectionals, and I thought who better to join me to talk about sectional football here in Indiana than my guy Greg Rakestraw.

Greg, you host the pairing show for the IHSAA network, so I wanted to be able to have you on and talk about this, because there are some really good teams coming out of the state of Indiana who have a shot this year to compete for a state title.

Always a pleasure to chat with you, Stu.

Good catching up with you.

Um, in other words, if form holds, we're gonna have a slew of ranked teams that make the regional.

And so we always like upsets, always like the Cinderella story and always like talking about 0 and 8 and going to state, the old modern-day cry from, from the early '90s.

Um, but if, if, if, if you're a fan of, of chalk in your NCAA tournament, you might get it this year in the IHSAA football pairings, uh, just because, a- again, unless we have some upsets, there's a lot of ranked teams are gonna work their way through.

Yeah, absolutely.

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the laziness of the IHSAA in how it's, how it is.

Mm-hmm.

Period.

Rod Laferri sitting at Isom's tonight, and we are wrapping up on some football talk.

First off, a big thank you to Batesville head football coach, Evan Ulrey, joining us tonight, as well as Milan head football coach, Ryan Lankford, plus that interview from Friday night with Jerry Stanger and Rob Moorhead, Jake Miners of the East Central Trojans.

As we wrap up on football talk tonight, last night you heard it live on WRBI, courtesy of the IHSAA Champions Radio Network.

Football postseason two weeks away.

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... high school football Friday night, college football Saturday afternoon, Indy 11 soccer Saturday night, Colts post-game show yesterday followed by the IHSAA pairings show, and then Morning Drive on The Fan this morning, and yet I still got enough pipes to talk to you fellas, so just your average weekend.

Yeah.

Not a bad one.

There are just two weeks left in the regular season, and there seems to be a clear pecking order established in each of our local leagues.

Conference crowns can be clinched starting this week, and when the IHSAA releases the sectional draw Sunday, each of our local teams will learn what it'll take to win a sectional crown, or perhaps even book a trip to the state finals at Lucas Oil Stadium.

In Class 5A and 6A, No. 1, Carroll at 6-1, No. 2, Warsaw at 7-0, No. 3, Snyder, 4-3, No. 4, Northrop, 3-3, and No. 5, Homestead at 2-5.

In Class 3A and 4A, Number 1, Bishop Dwenger at 6-1, Number 2, East Noble at 7-0, Number 3, Leo at 5-2, Number 4, Columbia City at 5-2, and Bluffton is Number 5 at 7-0.

She's revered by Rokitta- A politician who uses his public office to stoke cultural wars, that's, uh, Todd Rokita.

Was he the attorney general? There is a thing going on in Indiana where the Indiana High School Athletic Association receive, rever- re- reserves two seats on their board for people that aren't white, and Rokita's like, "That's just not right." And one-hit wonder Riley, who made a living off playing the trans card, hmm? That's Riley Gaines.

One-hit wonder.

Do you s- See, a woman with saddlebags on the sides of her ass has no idea how hard a woman like Riley Gaines worked and worked, the mornings she got up, the mornings that she swam in the cold.

It's gonna have to be from ADs and principals and superintendents saying they want this.

Um, and until you can get kind of a majority to sign off on that, I don't think that push is gonna come from the IHSAA.

I think it has to come from the membership itself.

You know, the, uh- What's so, what's, why are they against it? I mean, what, what is the, the, uh, the reason? I think part of, I think part of it is, is, is tradition of having the blind draw is because it's- Yeah ...