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We tested them, but decided against it because the crew couldn't carry all 4 of them at once.

This was in the best interest of the young man. Dad made poor "white collar" choices and will be going away for awhile. The parents have since separated and I believe the mother now lives in the Indian Creek school district, which is why Indian Creek was the school of choice. Kudos to Coach Moore and the CG Athletic Department for signing off on this for this young man and not making his life any more difficult than his father has already made it for him. I believe he's already had 2 ACL tears and has rehabbed twice to come back. Kid deserves to play based on that alone in my book. Best of luck to this young man!

I'm not trolling. You are!

I was fortunate enough to play on some of Benton Centrals best teams from ‘00-‘04. I know I’m not alone when I say the memories I made with my teammates will stick with me for the rest of my life. We all get caught up in the “my team is better” hoopla, but we are all here for ONE reason... The love of this game! May the best teams win come Thanksgiving weekend, and this years players make the memories that we all have.

Just be thankful that Evansville Memorial moved up a class or they would have put them in that sectional too.

Wowwww. Muda hates people who are colorblind. Hate to see it. Not a good look

I'm a ref, so naturally I'm blind, it's essential for the zebras!

2019 Indiana Football Coaches Association Coaches Poll (Week 6) 6A 1 Avon (9) 5-0 99 2 Carmel (1) 4-1 87 3 Lafayette Jeff 5-0 68 4 Warren Central 3-2 64 5 Homestead 5-0 53 6 Merrillville 5-0 47 7 Brownsburg 3-2 46 8 FW Snider 4-1 32 9 Fishers 4-1 23 10 Westfield 4-1 15 Others receiving votes: North Central [Indpls] (7) 3-2, Ben Davis (6) 2-3, Warsaw (3) 4-1 5A 1 New Palestine (9) 5-0 99 2 Valparaiso 5-0 86 3 Indpls Cathederal (1) 3-2 83 4 Concord 5-0 62 5 FW Dwenger 4-1 59 6 Elkhart Central 5-0 51 7 Decatur Central 3-2 28 8 Bloomington North 4-1 25 9 Franklin 5-0 21 10 Bloomington South 3-2 17 Others receiving votes: Mishawaka (10) 3-2, Harrison (7) 3-2, Michigan City (2) 2-3 4A 1 New Prairie (6) 5-0 86 2 East Central (2) 5-0 76 3 Evansville Memorial 5-0 66 4 East Noble 5-0 65 5 Delta (1) 5-0 60 6 Mooresville 4-1 58 7 Marion 4-1 49 8 Plymouth 4-1 38 9 Mississinewa (1) 4-1 19 10 Northwood 3-2 13 Others receiving votes: Ev. Central (10) 4-1, Leo (3) 4-1, Columbia City (2) 4-1, Silver Creek (2) 5-0, Northridge (1) 3-2, Pendleton Hts. (1) 3-2 2019 Indiana Football Coaches Association Coaches Poll (Week 6) 3A 1 West Lafayette (6) 4-1 95 2 Indpls Chatard (4) 4-1 94 3 Gibson Southern 4-1 69 4 Heritage Hills 5-0 60 5 Indpls Brebeuf 4-1 55 6 Mishawaka Marian 5-0 48 7 Guerin Catholic 4-1 46 8 Brownstown Central 5-0 44 9 Southridge 5-0 25 10 Knox 5-0 5 Others receiving votes: FW Concordia (3) 2-3, Lawrenceburg (3) 4-1, Calumet (1) 4-1, Jimtown (1) 2-3, West Noble (1) 5-0 2A 1 Lewis Cass (8) 5-0 98 2 Western Boone (1) 4-1 84 3 Evansville Mater Dei 4-1 75 4 Indpls Scecina (1) 4-1 70 5 Pioneer 4-1 57 6 Rensselaer Central 4-1 50 7 Eastbrook 3-2 37 8 Heritage Christian 4-1 33 9 Linton-Stockton 4-1 25 10 Triton Central 3-2 7 Others receiving votes: Boone Grove (6) 5-0, Eastern [Greentown] (2) 5-0, Eastside (2) 3-2, LaVille (2) 4-1, Andrean (1) 2-3, Tipton (1) 3-2 1A 1 Indpls Lutheran (5) 4-0 92 2 South Adams (4) 5-0 91 3 Adams Central (1) 5-0 83 4 Southwood 5-0 69 5 Parke Heritage 5-0 56 6 West Washington 5-0 43 7 Churubusco 4-1 35 8 North Vermillion 4-1 29 9 Sheridan 4-1 24 10 Monroe Central 3-2 18 Others receiving votes: Attica (5) 4-1, North Daviess (2) 4-1, Lafayette CC (1) 2-3, North Decatur (1) 4-1, Traders Point Christian (1) 5-0 2019 IFCA COACHES POLL Week 6.pdf

We are just past the half and 3A is a tough class. I have posted the latest sagarin, but this obviously could/will change. CLASS 3A CLASS RANK STATE RANK TEAM OVERALL RATING SCHEDULE STRENGTH RANK RECENT RATING RANK PREDICTOR RATING RANK 1 8 Indianapolis Chatard 101.97 77.81 23 100.48 9 102.55 7 2 17 West Lafayette 93.07 60.50 63 91.35 15 93.32 17 3 33 Mishawaka Marian 78.43 45.17 135 78.85 32 78.64 31 4 36 Brebeuf Jesuit 76.88 67.12 35 78.54 33 76.23 37 5 38 Guerin Catholic 76.21 67.23 34 80.28 27 75.41 40 6 52 Heritage Hills 71.57 38.40 175 72.03 50 71.30 53 7 56 Gibson Southern 69.50 27.09 251 68.79 57 69.67 57 8 73 Brownstown Central 64.05 38.59 173 65.47 70 63.90 74 9 79 Lawrenceburg 62.40 42.41 143 62.76 79 63.18 77 10 83 Southridge 61.85 34.69 200 64.59 72 61.35 84 A few observations: 1) Sectional 28 is brutal: #s 1, 2, 4, and 5 2) Section 32 looks to be tightening with Gibson, Heritage, and Southridge 3) Top 5 on one side, #s6-10 on the other...interesting 4) Does recent Indian Creek transfers impact Sectonal 29 5) Any insight on Mishawaka? 5) Big games this week: Heritage vs. Gibson, Chatard vs. Guerin Welcome any/all comments. Hope the second half is as exciting as the first half!

1. New Palestine 2. Avon 3. Brownsburg 4. Cathedral 5. Carmel 6. Warren Central 7. Homestead 8. Valparaiso 9. Lafayette Jefferson 10. Fishers 11. Chatard 12. Hamilton Southeastern 13. Merrillville 14. West Lafayette 15. Fort Wayne Snider Honorable Mention: Carroll (FW), Westfield, North Central, Fort Wayne Dwenger, East Noble, East Central, New Prairie, Evansville Memorial, Mishawaka Marian, Lewis Cass, Indianapolis Lutheran, South Adams.

1. This is my poll with my opinions. 2. My opinion is that Chatard and W. Lafayette are better than any 4A team. 3. See thread on Homestead if you don’t understand that Sagarin is not a true poll.

Worth posting in a second spot on the site. I am still laughing

There is no doubt - good luck to all involved. Hopefully, this puts him in the best place to succeed in life!

what if the Digital Down Marker was donated to your program by a private citizen who chooses how to spend their money?

As a graduate of Yorktown, you can never sleep on them in the sectional. A NORMALLY tough conference schedule helps prepare the Tigers. Coach Wilhelm is pretty good at getting them Playoff ready. They also have an extremely talented group of skilled players this year. No doubt this is likely the toughest sectional in the state top to bottom.

That draw in 28 will be very anticipated Yorktown has a valid 3a team, but also get overlooked with how loaded that sectional is. In a perfect world you could see WL vs Crawfordsville Guerin vs North Mont Brebeuf vs Yorktown Chatard vs Heights You could also see Chatard vs WL Brebeuf vs Guerin Yorktown vs Heights Crawfordsville vs North Mont

I don't have to post anything. You're the one that hates the disabled.

We had a bball player transfer mid season last year on a Monday and was signed off on. He practiced Tuesday and could have played against us that friday but didn't. That's the first id ever heard but I think sometimes its allowed if both schools sign off and the transfer is what's best for the kid (living situation, moving in with other parent etc)

believe that Payola does.

Tell that to the Kiser kid who is playing at ND now.

Let me get this logic straight. Fact 1: 10 high school playing schools out of roughly 320 in Indiana have organized themselves in such a fashion that they ONLY play each other for the first 8 weeks of the season. They do not play any other teams in the State of Indiana......PERIOD. In other words, for the first 8 weeks of the football season these schools might as well be playing all of their games in Zimbabwe. Fact 2: A computer program is developed to compare and contrast teams in a given geographic area and predict just where those teams stand in relation with one another. Said program or some form of it is used throughout the country as a means to rank teams in multiple sports nationally at every level of play. The basis of the program is making connections between teams as they play one another and extending those connections throughout all the various hundreds of teams throughout the State. Fact 3: Certain persons from said teams think the rating system is “dumb”, “stooopid” or something along those lines because it cannot properly rank their relative standing among the other 310 teams in the State because they refuse to play ANY OF THE OTHER 320 teams.

It is high level of coaching and players and systems each and every week it seems. Watching LCC this weekend and today. They are the best 2-3 team in small class football in my opinion. They gave Guerin all they wanted most of the 1st half until some things went south late 2nd quarter for them. Same Guerin team that just beat 6a Columbus North. Beat Tipton, who is valid 2a team. Took their WL medicine already and played very competitive week 1 game vs Tri West. They are the hands down favorite to win sectional 42 in my humbled opinion and they may go into the tournament with a sub 500 record and being playing in Semi State SECTIONAL 41 SECT. RANK STATE RANK TEAM OVERALL RATING SCHEDULE STRENGTH RANK RECENT RATING RANK PREDICTOR RATING RANK 1 175 Culver 36.68 20.94 276 36.19 182 37.54 174 2 176 North Judson 36.38 35.87 191 36.60 179 36.01 180 3 231 Winamac 25.71 50.70 105 24.84 233 26.01 228 4 276 South Central (Union Mills) 10.93 38.15 179 9.87 279 10.99 275 5 291 West Central 5.21 0.81 312 6.15 288 4.54 291 6 314 Lake Station -17.19 19.93 284 -14.63 313 -17.84 315 7 317 Gary Roosevelt -18.70 20.58 279 -19.11 317 -19.87 317 8 319 South Newton -31.29 9.18 306 -31.12 319 -31.27 319 SECTIONAL 42 SECT. RANK STATE RANK TEAM OVERALL RATING SCHEDULE STRENGTH RANK RECENT RATING RANK PREDICTOR RATING RANK 1 137 Lafayette Central Catholic 48.64 59.77 66 49.20 131 48.63 136 2 195 Traders Point Christian 34.49 3.40 309 35.99 183 34.74 194 3 210 Clinton Prairie 31.07 17.70 291 30.75 211 31.92 205 4 260 Carroll (Flora) 16.98 2.72 310 17.80 254 17.15 259 5 277 Clinton Central 10.72 13.64 301 10.07 277 10.74 276 6 288 Frontier 6.05 -5.57 317 10.64 275 5.00 290 7 304 North White -2.45 3.76 308 -3.36 305 -1.91 304 8 313 Tri-County -14.71 0.44 313 -16.49 315 -15.63 313

We've seen several of them, I couldn't tell you who has them and who doesn't. BSN has them listed from 1099-1599, my guess is they actually cost in the 600ish range. They are easy to see and find, I'm all in.

I've been told that the LED display of a digital down marker makes it possible for people who are color blind to be able to see it. Do you have something against people with disabilities? Also don't be ridiculous. Robots have no place at a high school football game. They could go rogue and destroy everyone in attendance. You know that's how the human race will end, right? Death by robot revolution.

Who said anything about beating their wife or forcing a woman to carry an unwanted child?

What makes you think I'm an Owl fan?

Can’t say the same about Seymour, which is probably why our resident owl is so bitter.

Culver is a POWER T formation

I was close then!!

Watched another couple of clips of this play, from different angles than were on the Indy Star highlights. Absolutely no question in my mind that this was the right call, and handled 100% correctly by the crew. The mob coming on the field was within a few yards of the loose ball. Has to be illegal participation under those circumstances. Great job by the crew in a difficult situation.

We had a bball player transfer mid season last year on a Monday and was signed off on. He practiced Tuesday and could have played against us that friday but didn't. That's the first id ever heard but I think sometimes its allowed if both schools sign off and the transfer is what's best for the kid (living situation, moving in with other parent etc) A fine line there no doubt and if it’s postseason I’m sure it would not be allowed but in high school sports it should always be about what’s best for the kid.

Fort Wayne, Bishop Dwenger does. In fact, they have two of these lighted digital line of scrimmage down markers; I.E., the one that's official on the side of the field opposite the press box, and also another on the home side of the field; like many of the colleges, and all of the pro games use.

Mooresville does, not sure the cost outweighs the benefit, but they are nice.

LaPorte does

Don’t ever let facts get in the way of a bunch of fan bois!

East vs. West. 1 through 5. I believe this year it's East AT West. HOOSIER ALL TIMES EASTERN East Division CONFERENCE ALL GAMES W-L Pts OP W-L Pts OP Streak Cass 2-0 80 13 5- 0 225 41 Won 5 Western 1-0 51 13 4- 1 212 110 Won 2 Hamilton Heights 1-1 49 51 1- 4 93 179 Lost 1 Tipton 0-1 7 28 3- 2 121 86 Lost 2 Northwestern 0-2 6 88 0- 5 34 186 Lost 6 West Division CONFERENCE ALL GAMES W-L Pts OP W-L Pts OP Streak West Lafayette 2-0 94 6 4- 1 262 103 Won 4 Rensselaer 1-1 41 44 4- 1 122 82 Lost 1 Twin Lakes 1-1 61 42 2- 3 106 99 Won 1 Central Catholic 0-1 0 50 2- 3 105 148 Won 1 Benton Central 0-1 7 61 0- 5 35 289 Lost 16

I believe Laville does.

Correct, North Vermillion has a digital down marker.

Boonville had one we we played there last week...NK does not.

Bombers do It is delightful and we've received lots of compliments

He’s a great athlete, but your defense is the real deal. I respect all the HHC teams. I’ll cheer for all the other teams come playoff time. We all want to see the HHC get stronger. Even the East fans want that.

I had the same thought about Kelly. Sometimes a guy can get you so far, but you need another guy to take you to the next level. See, Doug Collins coaching the Bulls with Jordan. But, I’m not sure at all that he’s the limiting factor. It may be time to accept that the Irish will never be in a position to compete year in and year out with the Clemsons, Alabamas, or Georgias of football. The reason: they simply can’t get enough of the difference-making athletes. I hate making excuses, and that’s not what this is. It’s more of an explanation, because this limitation is self-inflicted. The University has made a choice. Notre Dame is one of the hardest schools in the country to get into, rejecting more than 80% of the applications. They have decided that they’ll only go so far in relaxing admission standards, and no further. And that handicap simply cannot be overcome, except by catching lightning in a bottle once in a great while. Hope is not a plan. But they are also handicapped in a different way. Without a conference affiliation - and the conference championship game that comes with it - they have to run the table to have a chance. Under present circumstances, a 1 loss Irish team will never get a chance to play for the big prize. The combination of playing a pretty difficult schedule and having no margin for error is a killer. For these reasons, I doubt I’ll see another Irish National Championship in my lifetime, unless something changes. The only issue I have with that is that I believe the Athletic Dept., and the University governance as well, is not committed to competing at the highest level. Instead, they are into maximizing all possible revenue streams. Again, this is a self-inflicted wound. The $$ the football program brings in ($72 million in profit annually) does so much good for the rest of the University, that it’s hard to criticize that ... unless you are of the opinion that competing at the next level will necessarily generate even more revenue. Bottom line: Until the Irish remove these built-in barriers, i don’t expect to see them climb the mountain and get to the top again. If their decision is that they will not compromise the University’s admission standards to win, I’m fine with that. Believe it or not, Our Lady’s University is about lots more than football.

I would argue it would be controversial regardless of what they called. They call nothing or go with unsportsmanlike conduct and declare the game over others would say they can't believe they let them get away with it. Officials don't care about the controversy side. They go with the information they have at the time and enforce accordingly. They obviously felt these players had an influence on the play. I know this crew well and trust their judgement.

Wishbone?

I know there's a food thread on this site, but where is a place to eat around Heritage Hills? Thanks for any suggestions

Some stats from last night: Cathedral 585 total yards, 237 rushing, 348 passing . St. X 348 total yards. Turnovers, Irish 2, Bombers 0, the difference in the game.

I have a lot of respect for South Adams. Pound for pound one of the best teams in the state this year. But the 1A school wouldn't have a morsel of a chance against 6A Homestead.

Lol wut?

As the authors of the First Amendment should have also.