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Boy was I wrong (lol), and deserve all the kickback and dragging I get. Was in Bloomington all weekend for the Bucket, only caught the first half. QB really shut me up and should be near the top of Mr. Football candidates next year. I really didn't foresee Luers' DL getting out-physicaled like that, but again, extremely wrong. Congrats to HH team, coaches, and community! It's a great feeling, don't take it for granted!

The whole week leading up to my son's state championship is such a blur and it goes by so quickly....then you win ....get your medal...then they shove you out the back door to celebrate in the parking lot LOL.

Oh Fo Sho! Forget the students... what the hell am I going to do at work without checking back in here every 15 minutes to argue with you guys?! 😉 Going to be one hell of a long boring 9 months that's for sure! Couldn't be happier with the results of this season though. Luers was a good team. I'd put money on Memorial beating them, and would be very interested in seeing them vs Gibson Southern. Maybe next year 🙂 Go HOOSIERS!!!

that guy has 11 posts and 3 of them are in this thread lol

Lots of folks thought Lutheran was gonna win that state final... then again... lots of folks thought brownstown Central would win it. We'd never know how Linton would have fared against Andrean. lots of folks thought we would not beat Lutheran nor Brownstown. Adams Central got on us early. the two picks put us in a hole, but I won't say that's what beat us. Unable to stop the jets on key 3rd downs. i lost count. they were 8 of 11....5 of those were 3rd and 5 or more... and the 4th and 7 conversion was brutal. Then the flurry of insanity with 2 more Jet interceptions amidst 3 Adams Central scores in a span of 2:24 in the late 3rd. went from 19-6 to 39-6 before I could think. As some of you know I keep insane stats...I have a word document that I do each week... I am attaching here if anyone is interested.... High points were pretty much all Jet numbers.... 360-190 total yardage advantage. AC 351 on the ground. Linton's 2nd worst offensive showing of year (behind week 1 with Marion Local (Oh)) of 190. Key numbers that stand out.... Linton 1 of 10 on 3rd down. Of course 4 Turnovers to the 1 for AC. Adams Central had only 1 negative plays (-1), Miners took 7 negative plays. Average start was a huge Jet advantage... near midfield was the average 47.6. Linton was pinned most of the night on great kicking from Cowans, and great coverage. The one Jet fumble gave us the only real time deep in AC territory. Linton started at the 20, 18, 8, 24, 16, and 19 in 6 of 10 possessions. AC was 6-6 in Red Zone, they ran 43 of their 61 plays in Linton territory, only 20 Miner snaps happened in Jets turf. Suprisingly the TOP was closer than I thought with SAC 26:17 Linton 21.43 AC led with Roach's 141 yards... killed us with keepers... I though Linton would do good on that type of stuff. Roach was the difference. 3 TDs. Heiser always was good it seemed for 4-5 yards... had 22 carries 92 yards 2 TD, Hirshy had a big run at the end for 59 yards on 10 touches 2 scores... and Everett was big too... 5 touches 59 yards. again...we run that type of play and thought we'd be looking for it.. but it was wide open on 3 occasions for big plays. Obivously AC didn't need to pass... was 1-6 for 9... but that 9 was the 4th and 7 play. And of course I realize that Jerit Smith dropped a sure TD or close to it. Another situation where I bet Roach could mass some good passing yards with Reber, Kaehr and Smith if they so wanted to. Linton just couldn't get the pass game to work. If it works, then the running game opens up. Starting 0-4 and 2-7 with 2 picks didn't get it done. It's usually better, but AC was ready for what we do. Passes were thrown into traffic as well. Kaehr played the 1st one perfectly, I don't think McBride saw him sitting down there. I also think Braylen had been counting on both Felter and Oliver to make the plays... but the Jets weren't gonna let that happen. Reber did a great job all game. So the pass was just 11 of 23 for just 58. Last week McBride had 280+ and 2 receivers over 100 each. Running game struggled as well. 132 on the ground for Linton was well below the 222 average ,but in games where we've been 120-150 rushing we;ve have 160-254 passing yards.. so the total O still rocks with 366.6 per game. We just put 459 on Lutheran... So hats off to the Jet defense. I had Hayden Bluhm with 11 stops, Max Kaehr with 10 as well as Cameron Fravel. 9 from Drew Kaehr was well. Fravel with 1.5 for loss, Reber with 1 TFL as well as Bultemeier. Hammond Max Kaehr and Schniz each with .5. For Linton it's a tough way to go out. I think Linton folks, including myself, thought playing a running style offense similar to our own, and something we had history with running it many years ourselves would help us. Brownstown was in the same vein. I also knew that they opposite would be true.... Adams Central would certainly know the rules and discipline to play defense against this set up. I had hoped the passing game would be the difference maker. it was.... but for the wrong reasons! A side note== Linebacker Corey Andrews #52, A junior had 18 stops total.. .bringing his year talley to 195. I do the stats myself, painfully going over the video to be sure who gets credit and who doesn't. I hold to a strict 2 credit per play no matter how many take a guy down. He broke a record from 1986 of 186 tackles, which I never thought would be broken. Course he'd rather have the blue ring... but it's still an awesome stat. And there were 3 games he never saw the field in 2nd half. Also the might mite for Linton #8 Jesse Voigtschild all 5'7 165 of him playing at Fullback, and both ways all year had 1,419 yards on 214 carries in his senior year. A true warrior if ever was. I think the last thing worth mentioning was Paul Oliver. He had a huge year as a sophomore with 1,164 rush yards in an offense where everyone knew he was gonna run the ball. He did pass for 687, but it was mostly smashmouth football run til you stop me. Coming into this season we knew that Coaches were going to mix things up to put him in different spots on the field...so McBride and well as #6 Goodman were gonna see QB time. This was the plan all along. When Paul hurt his shoulder late in 1st half against Marion Local it forced that to happen full time. He came back the next week to play some defense but not much. By week 3 he was back at WR, but we would not see him at QB until week 6 when he came in and played the 2nd half in a 46-14 win. But even after that, McBride started at QB and I'd say was there 80% of snaps. Partly because the offense was more dangerous with Paul at WR with Feltner giving McBride great options, plus McBride had shown he could be effective and elusive running the ball. The Coaches shifted guys around those first 5 weeks. Voigtschild has always been a wingback. Oliver would come in with situations like Lutheran where you wanted to grind out a time consuming drive. In saying that... he did come in on back to back plays. both short distance on 3rd and 4th and was stood up.. so clearly AC was looking for this as well. I just think its worth pointing out a kid who took a step aside for the better of the team as a whole. He could have been unhappy about not getting QB time.. not getting the big rushing totals or the spotlight... He ended up still being a huge part of why Linton was 12-3. 33 passing yards 5 of those TDs, 344 rushing with a 6+ yard per carry and 7 TDs on just 55 carries... but his 54 catches for 958 and 13 scores was the difference this year---with Feltner adding 56 catches and 744. It's been a while since LInton has had 2200+ pass yards in a season! OK.... File attached. I got Lutheran/Linton.. and Brownstown/Linton as well.... Adams Central Game Stats.docx

What was working to perfection before the success factor? Here are some more facts for you jets. 1986 - 4 of 5 public schools won state. Cathedral was the only p/p 1987 - Public school sweep 1988 - 4 of 5 public schools won state. Roncalli was the only p/p 1993 - 4of 5 public schools won state. Roncalli was the only p/p 1997 - 4of 5 public schools won state. Chatard was the only p/p 2000- 4 of 5 public schools won state. Mater Dei was the only p/p 2005 - Public school sweep From 1978-2008 only 3 times did p/p's win state in class 1A. LCC in 1999 and Ritter in 2003 and 2008. LCC won state from 2009-2012 and then they came up with the success factor.

Is this the actual goal though? Pretty sure you are being tongue in cheek, but even if you are, isn't this year kind of proof that the success factor has been a success at least to some degree?

CONGRATULATIONS @CoachSnyder CoachSnyder 236 - 77 129 Fballfan15 231 - 82 135 BendNotBreak 227 - 86 133 LC_Bears_04 226 - 87 133 1st_and_10 223 - 90 121 footballer_02 222 - 91 125 WCGrad92 222 - 91 124 foxbat 221 - 92 121 gonzoron 220 - 93 122 CoachDurham 220 - 93 127 mod22 217 - 94 125 Sailors 216 - 99 129 nmsu_aggie 215 - 98 123 Donnie Baker 212 - 101 122 FarmerFran 209 - 104 125 Huskyfan50 208 - 105 110 Obi-Wan 199 - 114 123 Muda 174 - 139 112 First_Backer_Inside 150 - 151 114 Daniel_Bragg 85 - 216 85 LCCAlum 74 - 227 74 hondo17 49 - 252 49 Coach_MarkBrown 23 - 278 23 CamB31 19 - 282 19 WarriorFootball82 10 291 10

after beating osu michigan comes in at a clear #1 for me to hell with the buckeyes

George Washington Indianapolis - Terry Pendleton stepped down, Ramon Stallings is the new head football coach.

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I've dealt with Doyel firsthand. He went on a fishing expedition for a "hot take" story that was 100% ground in falsehood and rumor, I (along with a couple of other people) was able to head him off and get him to not run with his story. The Caitlin Clark moment he had this spring was not unusual for him. He tries to make himself the story. There are a lot of really good, professional columnists around. We've had a few in Indiana - Bob Kravitz in Indy, Ben Smith in Fort Wayne, Mike Lopresti is back writing for some statewide newspapers after his long stint at USA Today. You can have an opinion while researching and telling all sides of the story and present it. Doyel just goes straight for whatever hot take opinion will generate the most clicks.

There is more to the story. Not going to share it publicly, but Doyel is only telling half of it.

Let us know when soccer players are considered "non-participating" students. They may not be from Burma, but we have a bunch too. And the ones who get cut have no interest in football.

yup, all the hoopla....take it to the parking lot in 20 degree weather. We didn't really care, then we went back to the school for the same thing....snowballs were flying.

In 2017 & 2018 players and parents/fans were able to congregate in the mezzanine area just down from the Oil Can Grill or whatever its called. In 2019 it was out the door and into the parking lot, and the team bus had to leave the facility so we were on McCarty Street S of the LOS parking lot. It is not a good look for the IHSAA in my opinion.

And waiting for Tibbs to hit the portal.

Mr. Cignetti may be listening...........

And Brownsburg only beat Avon 21-13 in the sectional.

First game of the season. You said it yourself. If you plan on upsetting a team, you may want to do it in Week 1. I gave a lot of credit to Avon for the final three weeks. My poll doesn't reflect body of work through the whole season near as much as how I think teams are playing right now. Some people may think I'm nuts for having Ben Davis at #10. But if the games were being played tomorrow, that's exactly where I would have them.

At least they do SOMETHING - here in good ol Indiana we just put our heads in the sand and act like it is a non-issue! I guess we have the success factor - almost worked to perfection this year with 5 of 6 public school State Champs.

The Miners will probably be able to say after this coming weekend that they lost to state champions to start & end their season. Both from neighboring counties in 2 states. Just shows you that Linton will play anyone to improve themselves. A great program in Southern Indiana that went home with red medals & a trophy when I'm guessing most didn't expect it this year. I hope the community down there is proud of their team and remember they knocked out the 3x defending champions! That's a pretty good season!

CoachSnyder 236 - 77 129 Fballfan15 231 - 82 135 BendNotBreak 227 - 86 133 LC_Bears_04 226 - 87 133 1st_and_10 223 - 90 121 footballer_02 222 - 91 125 WCGrad92 222 - 91 124 foxbat 221 - 92 121 gonzoron 220 - 93 122 CoachDurham 220 - 93 127 mod22 217 - 94 125 Sailors 216 - 99 129 nmsu_aggie 215 - 98 123 Donnie Baker 212 - 101 122 FarmerFran 209 - 104 125 Huskyfan50 208 - 105 110 Obi-Wan 199 - 114 123 Muda 174 - 139 112 First_Backer_Inside 150 - 151 114 Daniel_Bragg 85 - 216 85 LCCAlum 74 - 227 74 hondo17 49 - 252 49 Coach_MarkBrown 23 - 278 23 CamB31 19 - 282 19 WarriorFootball82 10 291 10

Congrats to the Flying Jets.... they did an excellent job shutting down anything Linton tried to do... they kept to their assignments perfectly. Our pass game was non-existent, and the early picks put us in a bad hole against a team who loves being ahead and grinding the clock. But 13-0 early wasn't how we lost. We couldn't stop the Jets offense. i don't feel bad about it... Most people didn't. Everett had huge holes on every one of the counters.. and Roach ate us up on those keepers that got huge chunks of yardage. When we did get a break on the kickoff fumble to start 2nd half... and managed to score on 4th down.. I thought that was the moment we needed to get some ol' mo.... but no dice. When AC drove 75 yards with relative ease after stopping us on a key 4th down, to score... well I knew it would take a miracle. 2 more picks didn't qualify as that miracle. i hate to see us lose so badly because Linton is better than that score indicated. Perhaps we would not have won, but 4 picks certainly put our D in bad spots. But like I said...we were unable to move the ball against the Jets. They stayed disciplined. They knew where were going. I think we pressed a bit getting down early. Being down 25-6 in 2nd half you realize you'll only get the ball x amount of times...so you realize you "Gotta" get points. Clearly the Jets were not going to let Oliver get open, or let anything get outside. We couldn't do the same with Everitt or Roach. and it seemed they got4-6 yards on every 1st down. Linton had chances to get the Jets off the field on several 3rd and 3, 6, 7 's... and could not. the 4th and 7 conversion on the only completion of the game to Reber at the Miner 10 was giant play too. Conversely... Linton did real poor on 3rd downs...which resulted in punts, and in a couple occasions turn over on downs. Like I said.. wasn't out day. Doesn't reflect on a terrific season many in Linton are calling the best coaching job Coach Brian Oliver and his staff have done. Linton beat 4 year end Coaches Poll top 10s, and 3 top 5's to reach Lucas. it will be a season MIner Fans and the folks in Linton to remember to ages. Congrats against to a great team in the Flying Jets and Coach Mosser.... and thanks for the run and not just the memories of this year, but of each of the graduating seniors who gave their all for 4 years in the red and blue: Jesse Voigtschild, Braylon McBride, Hank Gennicks, Hayden Feltner, Collin Webster, Tyson Walker, TBone Howard and Josh Singleton.

I'd like to know how the schools in Iowa feel about their proposal to use Free and Reduced Lunches to set their enrollment. To me, that seems to be the best solution that actually addresses the problem. I'd like to see how that and a 4 year success factor (Or even 6) instead of a 2 year success factor.

And then the Colts fire Gus Bradley and hire Eberflus...........................

Enjoy the celebrations! This took a lot of work and commitment. The well deserved fun will continue for some time. I can tell you first hand that it will be hard to get the students to settle back down for learning to take place.

the Multiplier been in place for lots of years I believe, has it helped?

At least the Illinois State Association has the ______ to do something about it. (Multiplier)

Doyel is a cuck. Also, there HAS to be more to this story…

Big Winner Coach Snyder, Hoosier Conference, his reversible jacket went 2-0 over the weekend 🙂 Thanks @CoachDurham

AND THEN... i further clarified my statement by saying: As I said before, and got THROUGHLY "roasted" by Da Region guys..... Unless and until the Northern schools in 6A start playing beyond US24 on a regular basis and getting a feel for this type of play, the (true) North is just playing for the red ribbon in 6A. I stand by that; To paraphrase a statement by Barry Goldwater in 64 (ugh).... "In Your Heart you know I'm Right".

He wasn't far off on the Warsaw game. The Tigers moved the ball at will when they weren't turning it over. What no one saw coming was Warsaw's inability to make tackles. That's what made DC the better team. You're going to be really pissed when you see where I have Crown Point ranked.

“Sectional of Death” with one less team, no idea who will be coming out of Sectional 32 next year. But how about them Hoosiers?

Some of you folks trying to take the high road and put these comments on the HH fans need to take an another look at the 3rd post of this thread that kicked everything off. You talk the game then for some reason claim the HH fans are “something”, give me a break! I didn’t partake or even predict a score, but don’t pretend this was one sided banter. Congrats to both teams on a great season! Both teams got here because they earned it! It’s a great day to be a Patriot, as always! Onward, onward, Heritage Hills … !!

Just a comment that occurred to me earlier in the week when some were making comments regarding one team having 12 State Championships and HH not playing the schedule that Luers played. At the time, I just bit my tongue. My first thought was that Heritage Hills would likely have around 10 State Championships but for the fact they almost always faced Chatard in SemiState. The other thought I had was HH always brought it against Chatard and it was a bruising tough game….regardless who Chatard had played during the regular season. Congrats to HH.

I’ll keep an eye out for you. And I fully expect the Buckeyes to maul Michigan mercilessly.

Not offereing an opinion on the situation regarding these atheletes, but all of us in Indy metro need to be thankful Kyle Neddenriep is the primary voice of HS sports here. He is a true asset to what the HS sports experience is within Indy metro. He's balanced, he has the best interests of high school sports (and all that fits in that umbrella) in mind when he goes to work each day. I don't know that I've always agreed with everything he's written....but I've never seen any evidence he wasn't putting high school kids first in what, I'm sure, is a job with a lot of hours and pay that doesn't match the work he does. Can't say the same for the other guy...

Quite a difference in the tone, and frankly the quality, of the two articles. One seems to be based in fact and what was directly said in testimony and interviews, the other plays fast and loose with editing of interviews and journalistic integrity as a whole. Doyle is not the "hero" he thinks he is.

Oh, he's not being tic! That's the whole idea of the "success factor" to penalize Private Schools that win too much.

How about the D Coordinator at Penn State??? "a one and a two....you know what to do....."