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I’m sure Ohio football snobs (not you Bobref!) will say it’s a 2020 thing, but the fact is their only losses were to Indiana teams..... Brownsburg and Cathedral.

LCC played their very first game of post-season at home and has been on the road for the other/last two. They've played 1 of 3 at home; one-third. SA has played 2 of 4 at home; half. The bye from the week before, in conjunction with Winamac's schedule CAUSED LCC to be on the road against Winamac this past weekend as LCC was considered home team in a game that they didn't even get to play. Even tossing in the bye/forfeit as a win, both teams played half of their games at home. Based on IHSAA rules even at half, which is actually being applied, LCC would still be home team ... unless it was last year or next year because the idea of lower/upper bracket alternates each year.

the secret lies in 1 simple decision, one @The TW coming back coaching on the sidelines. And BOOM, heading to semi state

I’m not. It’s 2020. Indiana University is leading the Big Ten... Seriously though, this is an awesome testament to Indiana high school football, pandemic or not.

Had Marion/East Noble this past week. Honest surprised at Marion's dedication to what they did best....RUN THE ROCK! A hard hitting contest that was a nail-biting game. No idea of which Purple team will come out the victor, but this should be a close Semi-State. A play here or there, and EN could have prevailed. As a fan, please understand that some of the rules that you see on Saturday and Sunday are NOT the rules applies to NFHS games played at the HS level. Enjoy the 12 contests this coming weekend, and understand that the officials who were selected to officiate these contests also feel honored to be participants in the tournament as much as the teams that are on the field. Just my 2 cents!

If you truly think that not playing is an advantage, you don't know what you're talking about. You can have injuries in practice, so resting doesn't make a bit of a difference. Give any coach or player the option of playing a game or resting and taking a week off, and I'd bet no one would want to give up a game.

4 really good teams left in the 3A bracket. No way that there is a 20 pt difference between Chatard and the other three schools. I expect two good games this weekend and another on Thanksgiving weekend. Hopefully, the Trojans will still be playing . . . actually, I hope someone, anyone will still be playing.

I don't

Lamentations of old men. The boys would play this game before school on Wednesday if that’s the way it was scheduled. Good luck to MD from The Ridge !

Oh I beg to differ. Come to our scrimmage sometime and watch our down-liners go against theirs. The falloff we have is pretty much always a lot sharper than theirs. And it shows. And why? Well, compare the number of kids in uniforms on either sideline. Besides, I’m not arguing that different schools have different advantages and disadvantages. Heck, one could make an argument that requiring tuition is, in and of itself, an obstacle to accessing great athletes whose families don’t have the money to send their kids to private schools. I mean, I grew up on the east side of Evansville around the time that Calbert Cheaney, Chris Lowery, Kevin Hardy, and Walter McCarty were donning red and black. You think we had athletes like that...because we were a private school? I’d say it’s more accurate to say that we didn’t have them because we were. In those cases, our East side rivals had advantages over us. It never would’ve dawned on us to appeal to the IHSAA to do something, anything, to help us better compete with those elite athletes...or guys like Elkins at Bosse.

Westfield also just routed what was likely the SAC’s best team, Homestead. As a huge region homer I’d love to see the Pirates pull this one out but I highly doubt they can.

Thanks Coach Nowlin for your order! Wanted to update everyone. We are sitting at 46 dozen sold. Goal is 100 dozen by Christmas. Thanks for everyone that is stepping up and getting this done. Again thanks for your support. Mike Dowell

Just my opinion. Im glad the Winamac kids didn't have to play SN week 2. You could have brought our JV in and nothing changes. I would have rather had 8 days to prepare for NJ rather then 4. Just my thought.

Pick Central is LOADED with D1 talent. Flabbergasted at the result.

http://scoreboard.homestead.com/football/capsFri.htm#loaded

It's a nooner!

That's incorrect. Sectionals hosting per IHSAA - First Round: The second-named team in the blind draw is host school unless the two teams agree to switch the site. Semifinals: The team without a home game will host. Exception: The bye team will always be the visitor. If both teams were hosts or both were visitors, the second-named team in the quarter bracket will host. In 6A & 5A, in the four team sectionals, the second-named team will host. Championships: Host team will be the team that has played the most away games. If both teams have played the same number of away games, the bottom bracket team shall host. First round - LCC got home for first game because of ping pong balls. Semifinals - LCC plays on the road because Clinton Central played away the first game, so they get to be home because LCC was home the week before. Championships - Trader's Point would have been home team vs. Clinton Prairie in semifinals because both teams were on the road in first round and Trader's Point was the second named team ... the lower bracket team. Clinton Prairie forfeited due to COVID, giving TPCS a home win in semifinals and since LCC and TPCS both had the same number of away games, TPCS was given home field advantage for the championship game. As such, LCC would have been the visiting team. LCC defeats TPCS when TPCS forfeits due to COVID. Regionals hosting per IHSAA - Classes A, 3A & 5A Sectional final game non-host, if applicable, or lower sectional # (i.e., Sect. 1 is lower than Sect. 2). LCC was non-host in the sectional final game. Whether they played or not, they would have still been the non-host and winner to have reached regionals. Winamac was also the non-host for the Sectional Championship game. LCC has the disadvantage here because Section 41, Winamac's section, is lower than LCC's section, 42, ... Winamac gets the host position due to the fact that they have the lower section. Classes A, 3A & 5A *Regional non-host, if applicable, or higher sectional # (i.e., Sect. 2 is higher than Sect. 1). *If regional winner has not hosted either sectional final or regional, that school will be the designated host. LCC was regional non-host. South Adams was also non-host. However, South Adams hosted a sectional final whereas LCC was scheduled to be away for the sectional. By the last decider, "If regional winner has not hosted either sectional final or regional, that school will be the designated host," LCC serves as host. The only way that South Adams would serve as host is if you altered LCC's away game with TPCS and not only gave the a win, but also changed the bracket and made them home. In that case, South Adams would be home for semi-state because they are Sectional 43, the higher section number, and LCC is sectional 42.

I’m going with Westfield, Valpo, and Hobart.

You must have missed @foxbat's explanation above. But your comment should make great bulletin board material.

Well, I said I didn’t see anything wrong with it. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. And the only reason anybody thought it was broke was because (in particular) Cathedral, Chatard, Roncalli, Luers and Dwenger had “too much” success. So I’m guessing this whole Multiplier 2.0 discussion is coming around because the SF hasn’t done enough to quash their success. There are all kinds of variables the IHSAA could, I guess, consider to hold back programs they don’t want winning. But I would question why they would want to do that in the first place. You want to beat Cathedral or Chatard? Hit the weight room. Hit the film room. Put more effort and focus on your feeder program. Institute better discipline. But don’t gripe about them having advantages you don’t and can’t have and thus try to justify establishing rules which are obviously designed to make life harder on them just because they’ve been more successful than you have been. That’s, among other things, a horrible life lesson for the kids we’re raising.

LOL...”game level conditioning.” Guess I’m gonna have to break out my exercise science degree on you fellas here soon. You are embarrassing yourself...again. Some were heavy underdogs regardless...once again it’s not all or none. Maybe the games were closer than anticipated and part of that can be attributed to the rest involved?

Data (which I’m too lazy to look up at this point in time) supports this statement. Why else would NFL teams battle for the coveted byes annually? Were threads created about those six schools? Are they playing this weekend? Would you feel better if I retroactively created threads about those teams?

Just looking at 1A alone, you feel playing 1 fewer game is an advantage for LCC, but not Winamac, Parke Heritage, Park Tudor, Indiana Lutheran, Madison-Grant and North Central(Farmersburg)? Your theory doesn't hold water.

It wasn't the same Carmel team fixed it

The next two sanctioned sports in Indiana will be women’s wrestling and men’s volleyball.

Southern Indiana is also part of the great state of Indiana. Why give the central area all the gravey? when a team earns the home field, more power to them. And the community that surrounds them.

So please PHJIRish, tell all about how "serious" a fan you are. Maybe I can aspire to live up to your seriousness about a game played by children.

Now hold up everyone. Cal Preps and Harrell’s aren’t very accurate in my opinion. Anyone that takes high school football seriously knows the only way to predict a winner is by using the good old ouija board. It rarely lets you down and it doesn’t factor in those silly numbers the others use. Two out of the three spirits i contacted picked the Castle, the third one picked White Castle, which I thought was strange.

Without you throwing an empty beer bottle at me, who is CC?

“CB” issues? What’s yer’ “handle”?

Open enrollment has ended the discussion about “borders” and that was almost 10 years ago.

Well, it happens. Dwenger decided to turnover the game away. Concordia played fairly well against one of the best teams in the state. Homestead is Homestead and does this occasionally. If I was that other guy southend, I’d wonder why Harding and New Haven together are playing so poorly. Did they pick the wrong coach? Lots of politics there.

Honestly, we need to stop feeding the troll! This is the only way to shut him down. If he wants to talk high school football, that's fine, but he's just trying to get a reaction from serious fans.

You need another hobby, DT. And if you didn't see the game you shouldn't try to discuss it! You have enough other troll threads to keep you busy.

I project CC state Champs.

Muda....thanks for the downtick it reminds me of the good old days when we fought like cats and dogs and you had some semblance of a spine. Makes me sad seeing you a lapdog for DT....feel for ya’.

No chance. And us “highbrows” would never get the opportunity to express ourselves, because there’s absolutely no possibility that ND is going to seriously consider a coach who has been featured in stories about player arrests, etc., at two different stops in his career ... I don’t care how many national championships he’s won.

LOVED that the kids rushed the field. LOVED. IT! Great job ND.