Tom Russo | Daily Reporter Indiana players are covered in confetti as they celebrate winning the CFP semifinal Chick-Fil-A Peach Bowl in Atlanta.
Sorry to all of the young Hoosier fans in the community, but Bartholomew Consolidated School Corp. will not be calling a two-hour delay on Tuesday for the morning after the College Football Playoff national championship game.
The Indiana Hoosiers will play the Miami Hurricanes on Monday night for the top prize in college football, a string of words that defies any understanding of what fans and alumni have grown accustomed to over the football program’s 139-year history, which had until very recently been the “losing-est” program in FBS history.
The fever-dream of the past two seasons and the historic nature of the continued success of the team— which has the chance to become the first team in major college football history to go 16-0 since the Yale Bulldogs in 1894— has led to a wave of calls for Indiana’s schools to play call a two-hour delay the day after the game because of the late hour of the expected finish.
Results have been mixed so far, but rumors on social media that BCSC was going to have a two-hour delay because of the game are completely false.
Likely complicating the matter is that students already have Monday off due to Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
For what it’s worth, Indiana University-Bloomington has already announced that classes are still on for Tuesday.
Jack Gibson, a 9-year old from Shoals in southern Indiana, has gathered media attention for writing a letter to Indiana Gov. Mike Braun asking him to delay school statewide on Tuesday.
“I am also praying really hard for fog or maybe a little snow the next morning so school gets delayed,” Gibson wrote in the letter. “But if that doesn’t happen, I think it would be the ultimate Hoosier Hospitality move to make Tuesday, Jan. 20th a two-hour delay so kids like me can stay awake in class and not fall asleep during math.”
In response, while not agreeing to delay school start times on Tuesday statewide, calling it “a heavy lift,” the governor said that he was “going to give him (Gibson) this permission, his parents will let him stay up late to watch.”
In Braun’s State of the State address this week, he noted the current administration “has people from up and down the state. We have Butler fans, Notre Dame fans, Purdue fans … but on Monday I expect to see all of them wearing cream and crimson. Go Hoosiers!”
