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It just seems unlikely that all the officials and all the coaches are missing something that only you are picking up on.

You have the same chance beating Center Grove as you would Alabama this year.. let that sink in.

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Holy Toledo!

As regards Strength of Schedule, it might be worthwhile to actually look at just who has played the (as in “THE”) most difficult schedule in the state in any class so far this year per Sagarin and CalPreps….and to look at other schedules in a relative sense. Just to clarify, a 4A (3A enrollment) team has so far played the most difficult schedule in the State….to be clear….more difficult so far than any MIC squad.

Certainly not you but it appears JHgwood could likely use a touch of Preparation H when it comes to New Pal.

Coach Sauder dominating the match, but in the end...Coach Amstutz pulls a folding chair from ringside and gets in a shot. Ends with a DQ. And they sign a rematch contract for a later date.

Friday, Sep. 17 Blackford at Madison-Grant ©, 7 pm Will probably be a close game, Blackford able to put up 28 on Alex and M-G looking to get their first conference win this season. I'll take Blackford in a shoot out and breaking the 8 game losing streak. Eastbrook at Frankton ©, 7 pm "Battle" for first place in the conference! Frankton still getting their bearings with the new coach, Eastbrook battling to keep the tradition of a running clock this season... Clock will be running early again this week. Eastbrook by a lot. Elwood at Alexandria ©, 7 pm Alex riding high after a close game with Blackford, Elwood still trying to fond some offense. Alex Big. Mississinewa at Oak Hill ©, 7 pm Ole Miss finally getting in the win column and Oak Hill reeling from getting shut down last week should make this a good game. Think this will come down to a turn over battle. Oak Hill will be trying to prove they should be the 2nd place team in the CIC and get their offense back on the rails will pull this out in dramatic fashion. As always be safe and stay heathy!

My 4A Top 10 After Week 4: 1. Roncalli 2. Mooresville 3. Leo 4. Jasper 5. Evansville Memorial 6. Chatard 7. East Central 8. East Noble 9. Northridge 10. Hobart

After two gut check games against inferior competition, Notre Dame is bound to have a game where their talent level plays like they should against lower level competition. And while I don't particularly like either of these teams, I think this is the week where Notre Dame does what they should have done against FSU (did it for 3 quarters) and Toledo. ND being down to their third string OT is a problem, especially with Karlaftis lined up across from him, but man for man Notre Dame should destroy Purdue up front on both sides of the ball. Purdue's offensive line isn't impressive at all and they are down their best running back for a huge chunk of the season. Freeman is overcoaching everything at the moment. This isn't Cincinnati where you need to outscheme the opposition on every single play because there isn't a huge talent gap between opponents. Needs to get that figured out quickly as he's almost cost ND to games they had no business losing. Anyway, I see Notre Dame getting back on track and finally playing like the team they were billed to be. Purdue is going to need a monster game out of Karlaftis and some of the secondary skill position players are going to need to step up. I think Hamilton (with corner help) is really going to take away Bell's downfield playmaking ability but alas think that is a fascinating match-up, two of the very best at their respective positions.

Linton wins by at least 3 scores. We beat them by 2 and turned the ball over about 100 times.

Carroll at Dwenger Concordia at Northrop Luers at North Side Snider at Homestead South Side Wayne In that same line of thought.... "If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice" Rush - Freewill

Yes

Hammond Central @ Pioneer- This one will come down to toughness and overall depth. If the Panthers dont get worn down by sheer 5A numbers I like their chances. LaVille @ Caston- Your gut be wrong because Caston be bad... Laville by whatever their offense can muster because Caston wont score on them... Triton @ Culver- Dont know much about either team yet but I'll take the Trojans. Glenn @ Knox- I like Knox by a couple of scores. Winamac @ North Judson- I'll take the Warriors off the bye week. Sidebar: Why didn't Winamac go pick up a team last week with LaVille out? I figured with their best team in recent years they would want to test themselves against some tougher competition prior to the tournament.

I know several 20-35 year olds that act more like 16-18 year olds. But regardless, of age, I still call my off spring “my children “ so according to the definition they really are just my off spring.

Carson has looked good so far. I think Ball State got a steal but I’m biased.

I saw where Carson Steele has played and scored TD's in each of his college games for Ball State. Saw him score Saturday against Penn State in Happy Valley. In the first quarter, he caught a nice pass out in the flat on 4th down and picked up the first, trucking a Penn State DB in the process. Hope the young man continues to play well and stay healthy.

Reactions from Week 4: No surprise at all with the Concord and Northridge wins. No sense in beating a dead horse, but Plymouth and Wawasee are unbelievably bad this year. Quite possibly the worst teams in 4A. I had a bit of a feeling that Goshen might surprise us and keep it close with NorthWood, and they did just that. The Redhawks don't get to play Plymouth and Wawasee until the end of the season, but as long as they make it mostly healthy until then, they should end the season 4-5. The Panther Defense is the only thing that might be able to keep them around in upcoming games against Northridge, Mishawaka and Warsaw. Hats off to BOTH defenses of Mishawaka and Warsaw. What an absolute SLUGFEST of a second half that game was. I lost count how many possessions were played back to back with each offense going for it on 4th down, only for the opposing defense to stuff them. It felt like the entire second half of the game was played between the 20 and 40 yard line on the Warsaw side of the field. All it took was for one of the teams to finally break through, and that is what happened for the Tigers. Still, the Cavemen defense held Warsaw to a 4th and Goal situation and the Tigers decided to go with the freshman kicker to boot the game winning field goal. Incredible high school football game. *Side note - also really cool that both the Mishawaka and Warsaw coaching staffs wore T-shirts in memory of the late Mishawaka assistant defensive coach Gregg "Smitty" Smith who died this past spring. Really cool to see.

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Methinks that the pre-season accolades towards the Colts defense and their o-line went to their heads. That was a very disappointing performance.

Being a spectator, retired from the sidelines, I have seen both teams play. I give Leo the edge in this one. Their o line is just dominant. They are big, strong, and move well. They are also very physical. They are looking to punish anyone in their way. I also know from experience that few coaches prepare their team for a game better than Coach Amstutz and his staff. They do a great job of putting defenses in a bind with formations and motions, knowing where you have to set your strength on defense. Looking forward to seeing a great game.

I’ll comment on these 3 teams, all in sectional 19. Leo — Awesome O-Line with size, a great stable of backs to share the load on carries, great hard nosed defense, great special teams, but a questionable Offensive scheme IMO. This is what I don’t understand about Leo, they have all this size, great backs, experienced QB, and their scheme relies on deception, ball fakes, and confusion?? As soon as they match up against a defense that has the minimum level of size and tackling ability, AND has the scheme to stop their run they’re in trouble. I think Amstutz and EN have that defensive scheme. EN is 3-1 against Leo in the past 2 years with much of the same players on both teams. East Noble — Down in size a little compared to Leo, but an experienced roster. Offensively they are much better than last year, more balanced for sure. Playmakers at skill spots. Defense has been improving since week 1 against Plymouth where for more than half the game, we didn’t have our 1st team D on the field much at all. Northridge — I honestly don’t know a whole lot about them. I expected a little drop off with Coach Wogoman gone but doesn’t appear so. I know their conference is tougher than the NE8 playing the likes of Warsaw/Mishawaka etc. I’ll be following them as they play out their conference schedule for sure. Seems to me it wouldn’t be a surprise to see any of these 3 teams win sectional 19 and move on.

Honest question. Have you ever picked Warren to lose?

Thanks to a team built by Brian Glesing, beating a bunch of bad teams. No offense. I’ve been here for 30+ years. I played in Green and Gold. About 10 people in my family played in Green and Gold. I am Floyd Central. I was around during the Wiegleb era. I think the world of Coach Bragg as a person, but he has looked like a Deer in the headlights this season. This team struggles to even get a play call in. This offense doesn’t fit this team or this program. The playcalling at times is baffling. It took till game 4 to realize that the 5”7 QB shouldn’t start over the 6”3 QB that can throw the ball 50 yards down the field. With that being said, Floyd Central is a program built on the running game. They can’t win any other way other than ground and pound. These kids struggle with pass concepts and have for 30 years. Glesing had it figured out. He went with a lot of mis-direction, motion, and some Wing-T concepts. What Coach Bragg is doing is not working. And it’s not going to work. It might get them wins over New Albany and Bedford but they’ll never beat anyone good with a Pro-Style offense. I respect that you coached over there and these are your friends and I’m not trying to make any of them look bad, I’m just calling it like it is. I’ve had almost 3 decades of looking at Floyd Central Athletics, I feel confident that I know what I’m talking about. Stop bringing up money. Just because I spend some money over there doesn’t mean I expect anyone over there to listen to my opinion. I’m just a fan and I’m just saying what I see.

One of the few programs in the state undefeated against Roncalli. Depending on when the success factor was instituted, HH would have likely been playing in 4A against Chatard/Roncalli (might have been 5A) from 2001-2007. Playing Jasper twice in one season would've been a treat. The local game that has never happened and looks like it never will is Heritage Hills vs. Reitz. As always don't dismiss HH or MV or SR yet against GS. Kryptonite seems to appear at the most inopportune times. That being said, I fully expect the Titans to run the table in the PAC and 3A this year. Highest prospective PAC QB in 20 years (since Cutler; albeit, because of circumstances which prevented HH from going on a run in 1999, being a legitimate collegiate athlete prospect in three sports, and the changes in exposure/recruiting for Allen). Side note... Bob Griese's brother, Bill, has lived and is now retired in Santa Claus and can most often be found on the golf course.

Carl Biddings picks up a Louisville offer and accepted it.

Texas is just an odd story. In the years 2004, 2005 (National Championship year), 2008, and 2009, They had one loss or none over the last twenty years. Since then, they have been average at best. I am guessing there are a lot of alumni that upset about a lot of things. Not sure what has happened. Just seems there are so many good football players living in Texas, they should be able to get their share to go to UT. Add to it that A&M is highly ranked. Plenty to be fuming about for the UT alumni. On a side note Joe Tessitore is awesome calling college games; and his description of the fans rushing the field was classic.

SF kinda thinks this "mandate" that isn't law will not stand up in court - not if, but when it gets there. Also, HTF are they going to be able to enforce this? Most likely a few OSHA guys are going to show up somewhere, issue a few penalties and publicize the heck out of it showing some company somewhere getting the book tossed at them to scare the rest of us into submission. I guess companies are just gonna have to make sure their staffing stays below 100......Who's gonna have to go? Thank President Biden.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/18/business/afghanistan-lithium-rare-earths-mining/index.html The swift fall of Afghanistan to Taliban fighters has triggered a humanitarian crisis, with thousands trying to flee the country. It's also brought renewed focus on Afghanistan's vast untapped mineral wealth, resources that could transform its economic prospects if ever developed. Afghanistan is one of the poorest nations in the world. But in 2010, US military officials and geologists revealed that the country, which lies at the crossroads of Central and South Asia, was sitting on mineral deposits worth nearly $1 trillion. Supplies of minerals such as iron, copper and gold are scattered across provinces. There are also rare earth minerals and, perhaps most importantly, what could be one of the world's biggest deposits of lithium — an essential but scarce component in rechargeable batteries and other technologies vital to tackling the climate crisis. "Afghanistan is certainly one of the regions richest in traditional precious metals, but also the metals [needed] for the emerging economy of the 21st century," said Rod Schoonover, a scientist and security expert who founded the Ecological Futures Group. Security challenges, a lack of infrastructure and severe droughts have prevented the extraction of most valuable minerals in the past. That's unlikely to change soon under Taliban control. Still, there's interest from countries including China, Pakistan and India, which may try to engage despite the chaos. "It's a big question mark," Schoonover said. Huge potential Even before President Joe Biden announced that he would withdraw US troops from Afghanistan earlier this year, setting the stage for the return of Taliban control, the country's economic prospects were dim. As of 2020, an estimated 90% of Afghans were living below the government-determined poverty level of $2 per day, according to a report from the US Congressional Research Service published in June. In its latest country profile, the World Bank said that the economy remains "shaped by fragility and aid dependence." "Private sector development and diversification is constrained by insecurity, political instability, weak institutions, inadequate infrastructure, widespread corruption, and a difficult business environment," it said in March. Many countries with weak governments suffer from what's known as the "resource curse," in which efforts to exploit natural resources fail to provide benefits to local people and the domestic economy. Even so, revelations about Afghanistan's mineral wealth, which built on earlier surveys conducted by the Soviet Union, have offered huge promise. Demand for metals like lithium and cobalt, as well as rare earth elements such as neodymium, is soaring as countries try to switch to electric cars and other clean technologies to slash carbon emissions. The International Energy Agency said in May that global supplies of lithium, copper, nickel, cobalt and rare earth elements needed to increase sharply or the world would fail in its attempt to tackle the climate crisis. Three countries — China, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Australia — currently account for 75% of the global output of lithium, cobalt and rare earths. The average electric car requires six times more minerals than a conventional car, according to the IEA. Lithium, nickel and cobalt are crucial to batteries. Electricity networks also require huge amounts of copper and aluminum, while rare earth elements are used in the magnets needed to make wind turbines work. The US government has reportedly estimated that lithium deposits in Afghanistan could rival those in Bolivia, home to the world's largest known reserves. "If Afghanistan has a few years of calm, allowing the development of its mineral resources, it could become one of the richest countries in the area within a decade," Said Mirzad of the US Geological Survey told Science magazine in 2010. He led the Afghanistan Geological Survey until 1979. Even more obstacles That calm never arrived, and most of Afghanistan's mineral wealth has remained in the ground, said Mosin Khan, a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council and former Middle East and central Asia director at the International Monetary Fund. While there has been some extraction of gold, copper and iron, exploiting lithium and rare earth minerals requires much greater investment and technical know-how, as well as time. The IEA estimates that it takes 16 years on average from the discovery of a deposit for a mine to start production. Right now, minerals generate just $1 billion in Afghanistan per year, according to Khan. He estimates that 30% to 40% has been siphoned off by corruption, as well as by warlords and the Taliban, which has presided over small mining projects. Still, there's a chance the Taliban uses its new power to develop the mining sector, Schoonover said. "You can imagine one trajectory is maybe there's some consolidation, and some of this mining will no longer need to be unregulated," he said. But, Schoonover continued, the "odds are against it," given that the Taliban will need to devote its immediate attention to a wide range of security and humanitarian issues. "The Taliban has taken power but the transition from insurgent group to national government will be far from straightforward," said Joseph Parkes, Asia security analyst at risk intelligence firm Verisk Maplecroft. "Functional governance of the nascent mineral sector is likely many years away." Khan notes that foreign investment was hard to come by before the Taliban ousted Afghanistan's civilian Western-backed government. Attracting private capital will be even more difficult now, particularly as many global businesses and investors are being held to ever higher environmental, social and governance standards. "Who's going to invest in Afghanistan when they weren't willing to invest before?" Khan said. "Private investors are not going to take the risk." US restrictions could also present a challenge. The Taliban has not been officially designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization by the United States. However, the group was placed on a US Treasury Department list of Specially Designated Global Terrorists and a Specially Designated Nationals list. An opportunity for China? State-backed projects motivated in part by geopolitics could be a different story. China, the world leader in mining rare earths, said Monday that it has "maintained contact and communication with the Afghan Taliban." Taliban co-founder Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, left, and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in China on July 28, 2021. "China, the next-door neighbor, is embarking on a very significant green energy development program," Schoonover said. "Lithium and the rare earths are so far irreplaceable because of their density and physical properties. Those minerals factor into their long-term plans." Should China step in, Schoonover said there would be concerns about the sustainability of mining projects given China's track record. "When mining isn't done carefully it can be ecologically devastating, which harms certain segments of the population without a lot of voice," he said. Beijing could be skeptical of partnering on ventures with the Taliban given ongoing instability, however, and may focus on other regions. Khan pointed out that China has been burned before, having previously tried to invest in a copper project that later stalled. "I believe they will prioritize other emerging/frontier geographies well before Taliban-led Afghanistan," said RK Equity partner Howard Klein, who advises investors on lithium. Is the Afghanistan debacle starting to make sense yet? The Chinese needed the US out of there post haste.......before Uncle Joe can't control things anymore......

Not horrible looking, but it does look a LOT like an Oregon uniform. I am a huge fan of the white jersey/white pants combo from the last couple seasons. The green pants here might look cool with the white jersey though.

Nobody at CG is bitter about those two games. We just wish you would have kept playing us.

I can't believe you continue to sit behind a computer and say ignorant stuff, but here we are. Dominated? It was 21-14 in the 4th quarter, and FC had 3 turnovers to that point. But good try. Underachieved 3 years in a row? 3rd sectional in school history, more kids playing college ball, including the first ever D1 scholarship player, than ever before, but underachieved. Maybe pump more dollars in and you can hire someone who can magically make more 6'4 athletes.

No…..Pat McAfee used it as an example to explain what the league was doing as far as testing guys who openly said they were not vaccinated. And I merely speculated how the league was going to handle the players who refused to say whether they are vaxed or not. so, yeah, neither statement had a thing to do with my post. Try actually watching the full clip next time.