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What about a "FITBIT watch" that has been GPS'd to be buried between the 40-50 yard line after the Snider game? Y'all might need to get that thang to a particular person if the field is playable.....😂

If I’m SA I’ve got the sprinklers on my field right now and won’t turn them off for 2 weeks. Right before AC shows up for regional.

I could be spoiled, and I'm glad the Irish are winning, but they are much more talented than they're playing. Kyle Hamilton's absence was more key than I imagined. I realize he's the heart and soul of the defense but no one seemed to want to step up in his absence.

Scratching my head about Oklahoma....an avg. defense at best. Will get fun for them after their upcoming bye week. Baylor at Waco, Iowa State at home, and then OK State in Stillwater. Saw what OK State did to Kansas yesterday....that is what the Sooners should have done. I don't think OU runs the table.....

that is what made yesterday so tough. McCulley had a nice start and one can see potential. Hendershot was fantastic, and team rushed for over 200 yds. (realize 66yds was a single play) Put 35 points on the board....and still lost. Defense, so highly spoken of this season, was bad...really bad. Very little pass rush and the DB's were toast. Tago threw for 419 yds...seriously? Allen's claim to fame is defense..... Each week, seems like the same old, same old. A side of the ball decides to take a crap...and there is always, and I mean always an excuse. Its Power 5 football....fix it or get blasted. No one cares about excuses.

First playoff rankings Tuesday should be interesting. Hopefully common sense prevails and Cincinnati isn’t #2 and Oregon is in front of Ohio State but I’m not holding my breath. The Temp’s Top 10: 1. Georgia 2. Alabama 3. Cincinnati 4. Oklahoma 5. Michigan State 6. Oregon 7. Ohio State 8. Notre Dame 9. Wake Forest 10. Michigan WHO you lose to and HOW you lose should matter more than WHEN you lose.

This could be an interesting game. 5A #1 and #2, in some polls, could be one of the best games of the week.

Irish by 4 TD’s. Sorry this Irish team is light years ahead of the team from 3 years ago.

Lawrenceburg [10-1] at Heritage Hills [9-2] or Gibson Southern [10-1] at Brownstown Central [11-0] or Lawrenceburg [10-1] at Gibson Southern [10-1] or Brownstown Central [11-0] at Heritage Hills [9-2]

Should never have come down to this. RUN THE DAMN BALL! outscored 31-10? What the hell!

I'd like to see this game played at home regardless of weather. No excuses come playoff time.

I think you’re exactly right. Hamilton is one of the 5 best players in college football right now and the undisputed leader of the defense. It would be nice to have someone step up. But he’s irreplaceable.

The only say the visiting team has in the playoffs is if a game is beyond a certain distance in miles, to play on Saturday. If a host school moves a game, my guess is it goes through the IHSAA to approve officially.

I think more people need to read this. I swear to God they do. Open enrollment doesn’t mean athletic eligibility but some people just don’t get it.

Can’t argue that. Just remember they were 4-8 not too long ago…that really wasn’t fun to watch I bet.

Never said it was R’s primary or secondary responsibility but the R can clearly see 4 players in the backfield right in front of him. Its a easy ask to say was someone covered up on that play? Looking at the formation I could see where a wing “could” miss one of the 2 upfront/wing people cuz they are side to side and it’s sort of an unusual formation. Can never be missed but we know mistakes happen and this is one that it missed they don’t miss it the second time. Good catch by whoever posted this play/question

I meant to type brother actually. Kept hearing msu referred to as Michigan little brother last week

Wouldn't Eastside have to agree with moving the game? I have a hard time believing they’d want to move the game to turf.

It can be done. Took me about an hour to identify neutral sites with turf for every (likely) regional game. They could also select regional sites for each matchup prior to the start of the tournament, which would give host sites more time to plan ahead. There are enough schools now with turf that it could be done. Semi-state games at neutral sites are long overdue in my opinion. Do it like basketball and volleyball - 2 games on Saturday using 6 sites (3 north, 3 south).

This is NOT "R's" primary responsibility! Again, the wings should have communicated (pre-snap) the # of players legally in the backfield. This cannot be missed as it is what dictates EVERYTHING that can/could happen at the snap of the ball.

Ok so it looks like a mistake. He is probably arguing because he feels he’s right. The only issue would be if he knew he was wrong and was arguing but let’s skip that. Now the question is how did they miss it? Maybe the stack wings and they missed one. To me the R should know that he has 4 in the back field. Only way to have this be legal is if they have the slot covered up. Does this crew have a slot covered up signal? However they do it this shouldn’t be missed.

This is absolutely untrue. 100% inaccurate. I understand your want to make the OV win sound less impressive, but it is simply wrong.

Listening to BK post game presser he said UNC on tape was a counter running team. But these teams, like 4th week in a row, that have a bye before playing ND change things up. BK said they ran zero counter runs last night (not sure if true but he should know). Not trying to make excuses just stating what I heard. But you’re right, the defense needs to play and tackle much better. Luckily navy won’t throw too much, the secondary needs to communicate better as there were a few blown assignments vs UNC.

Cognitive dissonance is real. I'll tell you a secret "Walter".....we wore cleats instead of sneakers. It seemed to help us with our footing out there on Friday. I am curious why did they run the sprinklers all week? Someone should be held accountable for costing your team the big game.

Williams is something special to watch. I have not seen a better back this season. His vision, acceleration, ability to stop and change direction are fun to watch. While not spoiled, Coan is frustrating to watch…..and yeah, the defense lets teams hang around too long. It reminds me a lot of the defenses from when Van Gorder was the coordinator….way too complicated. Diaco simplified things so well.

At the point of this photo I would consider this to be an illegal formation if the ball is snapped. We have no idea what the formation was at the snap though. One challenge here is the near wing may not see both of the backs near the interior linemen. The wing on the top has no idea if the slot is being ruled on or off. I've seen similar formations and the slot receiver is either supposed to be on the LOS intentionally being covered up or the end on the other side of the formation.

Purdue and Indiana football fans must scoff at the notion that a team that is going to be ranked in the top ten and is 7-1 “is not that much fun watching.” Spoiled? I could watch Kyren Williams highlight tapes for hours.

Charlestown has a new turf field that would be a decent location to host that game. 1 hr 45 for East Central, 2 hrs for Mater Dei.

One peek will only give you a small sample. Imagine Merrillville overhype that would make professional wrestlers blush, then repeat it 20 times a day for years. He's also got multiple burner accounts that echo his same stupidity. They are either Cody's burners or Merrillville is some kind of Mecca for morons.

The Irish defense is really missing Hamilton!

Tough loss for the Hoosiers today. Third string freshman QB McCulley had a decent day but the defense wasn't up to par.

Please, let’s not degrade Ted Bundy… Parkhurst and Dahmer… yes… but not TB. State F’n Law!

He probably won’t kill anyone or eat them but he’s still kinda a dickhead and I’ll say it right to his face!

Parkhurst is a disgrace to living breathing humans.

Or sometimes the other team is just better on any given night.

I don't know that. I do know that Winamac and their fans are quite confident the game would have been different if they had played on a better surface. I like this idea that Winamac had all these fast kids and Judson kids were slow or something. I don't know what game you were watching, but one team was very aggressive and flying around on defense and the other team was just getting perpetually bulldozed. It was a perfect storm for Judson. A whirlwind tsunami that blasted its way through Pulaski County and into the psyche of every Warrior fan for generations to come.

Winamac relied on playing a weak schedule to be where they were at. They ducked Judson the first go around and opted not to play when LaVille dropped. They need to get the MWC cellar dwellers off their schedule and beef it up. I hear the class of 2028 is looking promising for them though.

I have yet to hear a good reason for the rule.

Very well said MDAlum82. Quite frankly, I'm glad we don't recruit. My son probably wouldn't be on the field much at his size if we did.

Since the Indiana Dept. of Education moved to "School Choice" back in 2008, there has essentially been "open enrollment" among all high schools; public, private, parochial, charter, etc. The only caveat being that if a student is already enrolled in one high school, that school must approve their transfer to another high school in the same district. This is the primary reason why you see some students move btwn the different school systems in grade school. For some reason, there still seems to be a sense of "ownership" among some folks about kids that live in their district. On the "near" west side of Evansville, kids live in both the Reitz and Mater Dei "district". There are kids who attend catholic grade schools but end up at Reitz (as is the case with several children in my own extended family) and vice versa. Although, it is rare for a student who attended a west side public grade school to end up at Mater Dei. The same situation exists on the "far" west side btwn Mater Dei & North Posey, and, to a lesser extent, MD & Mt Vernon. Both St Wendel & St Philips grade schools feed into MD under the catholic school system. However, some families live closer to NP or Mt Vernon, so that is where they send their children. A similar situation exists btwn MD & Gibson Southern with St James, a catholic grade school in Haubstadt. However, it seems most STJ parents send their kids to Gibson Southern over Mater Dei, likely due to distance. There can be many reasons parents choose to send their children to one school over another. Some seem convinced that when a child moves from the public school system to the parochial school system, it is based on athletics. This inevitably stirs the "recruitment" accusations. Certainly athletics can be an important part of any child's high school experience, but I think it is incredibly small-minded for anyone to think these decisions are based on athletics. As a past member of the ECIHS Board - think "catholic school board", I was privy to the data & information used to market both MD & Memorial to prospective students. When you ask parents what their priorities are when choosing a high school, athletics comes in behind things like: 1) Religious based education - which is often code for "disciplined school environment", 2) high academic standards (college prep), 3) teacher engagement, 4) community involvement, followed by 5) "athletic opportunity". The reality is that for most parents who choose to make the financial commitment to send their children to a parochial school, (remember, even state vouchers do not pay the total cost to attend) they are thinking well beyond athletics to more important like college prep, etc. This is why I always chuckle a bit when folks toss out the accusations of "you recruit" at Mater Dei, especially when it comes to football. Size & speed are among the top 2-3 attributes of most good football players. Mater Dei rarely has what anyone would consider overwhelming size or blazing speed. Honestly, if we recruit, we aren't very good at it.

Not a fan of either team, but the last quarter of the Michigan Michigan State game was really entertaining to watch.

Someone needs some spellcheck, I swear to God they do!

Owen Valley handed Northview their only loss.

I have heard this same refrain from officials for at least the last 20 years, but there is absolutely no doubt that the grief officials take is contributing significantly to the shortage - and it’s getting worse. You might think that young people today are “soft,” or that officials shouldn’t have ”rabbit ears.” Be that as it may, the fact is that something has to be done or we are going to reach “critical mass” in a few short years, and you are going to see schools paying a lot more $$ for officials, just to entice people to become officials, and/or you are going to be seeing Thursday and Saturday games in abundance. You only have to look at some of the comments you see here on the GID and know that is multiplied tenfold on Friday nights, from the stands, from the sidelines, and from social media. People, criticism is expected. But the vitriol you hear is worse than ever.

They do initially order 75 medals for the finals. Schools can order more though after they have won. It seems at one time, when Bobby Cox was still commissioner, the reasoning was to keep things equal for both teams in a game. The appearance of one team having so many more players than the other, even though they are in the same class, can be "intimidating". I never bought that and think it's time to get past it and just allow full rosters to dress. The single most difficult thing to do as a coach in the playoffs, is to pick kids who should or should not dress for a game. It is absolutely gut wrenching.

This goes back to the definitions in the rule book, as most interpretations do. A player doesn’t become a kicker until he kicks the ball. Therefore, until there’s a kick, he’s just like any other player. The fact that he’s only 5 yds. deep has several implications, but none of them pertain to the kicker, as he’s always entitled to special protection regardless of the formation. The roughing the kicker rule excuses contact on the kicker when it is “unavoidable” because it is not reasonably certain a kick will be made. Does the player do anything that is “un-kickerlike?” Is the player contacting the kicker attempting to block a kick, or tackle a ball carrier (which is what the kicker is before he kicks the ball)? These are factors that go into the judgment process. But ultimately, the burden is always on the defense to avoid contact if possible.

The craziest part is it was the wing on the BOTTOM that was arguing with our coach about it being legal.

https://mises.org/wire/three-reasons-start-taking-secession-seriously Kilgore can barely contain his contempt. He might as well be saying "If those Red State troglodytes are allowed freedom, they’ll surely embrace a racist and misogynistic dystopia that fills the air with poisonous fumes. These are religious zealots, after all!" Anyone who doesn’t want to live out his or her life as subject to the whims of men like Kilgore should take his few moments of candor as an ominous warning. These people will never “happily accept” self-governance outside Washington’s purview because they quite literally equate it with slavery and the hatred of women. In other words, the more the Left condemns secession in detail—as they must now do because dismissive scoffing no longer works—they only provide additional reasons for why secession is likely the only real solution to the national divide. Now Is Time to Ask the Difficult Questions Finally, the mainstreaming of secession means now is the appropriate time to start asking the difficult questions about how separation would actually take place. For example, the issue of nuclear weapons cannot be ignored—although the case of post-Soviet Ukraine shows it’s not as intractable a problem as many suspect. Moreover, the question of the national debt ought to be approached. It will likely also be necessary to admit that under all realistic scenarios, a partial default is the likely outcome either with or without secession. And finally, there is the problem of “ethnic” enclaves. Historically, this always comes with secession, as with the ethnic Russians in the secessionist Baltics or the pro-Spaniard populations left behind throughout Latin America in the nineteenth century. Moreover, how "complete" would this separation be? It is entirely conceivable that a United States with two or more self-governing pieces could nevertheless remain within under a single head of state or within a single military alliance. In real life, big political changes have a habit of occurring regardless of what the official planners want, and what the official plans say. That is, events have a way of overwhelming what the elites think is the proper way of doing things. But fostering serious discussion now could help avert at least some unpleasant surprises in the longer term. On the other hand, living in denial about secession won't improve things. And, of course, the matter of secession is not "if" but "when." All polities come to an end at some point either through disintegration or revolution. In many cases, the world improves when old states like the Roman Empire collapse. The fanciful America-will-last-forever position is something that should seem plausible only to small children or the hopelessly naïve. Definitely something to consider.

https://reason.com/2021/10/27/popular-progressive-policies-helped-ruin-venezeula-they-wont-work-here-either/ It certainly is a dangerous myth, and the progressives will never learn.