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I think you have a drastic misunderstanding of the current NCAA football recruiting landscape. If a kid is having to DM D1 coaches with his highlight tape, chances are he will not be playing D1 football. ZERO D1 coaches are scrolling through the hundreds of Twitter DMs they get, looking for some “diamond in the rough”. If the coach doesn’t know your name before you send the DM, odds are he won’t after. In regards to recruiting sites, @oldtimeqb hit the nail on the head. These recruiting sites are to HSFB, what the travel and prospect teams have been to HS baseball for a while (MONEY TALKS). The overwhelming majority of the “recruiters” on these sites have zero to an absolute minimal level of experience within college football, no coach at any level is looking at any of these rankings. NCAA programs, especially D1 programs, have a plethora of recruiters assigned to every corner of the country that meet with HSFB players and coaches daily. Any NCAA FB coach will trust the guys on their staff a million times over before ever looking at some recruiting site. The days of simply playing for your HSFB during the fall, and expecting big time college offers are long gone, as much as it sucks. It is a year round commitment of going to camps, showcases, and (in regards to skill position players) the national 7-on-7 tournaments. The kids you listed are all really good ball players that will have great HSFB careers, but realistically, 2-3 will actually get D1 offers (FCS/FBS). Geography doesn’t help much as Southern Indiana football, despite the awesome atmosphere on Friday nights, isn’t a hot bed for D1 talent. Realistically, most of the kids you listed will get D2, D3, or NAIA offers and have the opportunity to receive a good education, while continuing to play football.

Wow, that's an awful take. The guy has only accomplished something no coach in the entire history of Michigan City athletics has ever accomplished in football at City, Rogers, or Elston by winning more than 1 Regional. And he's won a Regional 3 times since 2017. Then, for extra measure, Mason has 6 Sectional, 3 Regional, 2 Semi-State, and 1 State Tile on his resume as HC at Andrean. I fear Cody Parkhurst has finally found The Gridiron Digest.

Yes on Sloan Cox. Bellarmine for shotput I believe.

@ShakeDowntheThunder.. I agree 100% D1 is a tough, tough level to reach and so much goes into it beyond the playing field. Look at it this way.. In recent years, the winningest programs in SW Indiana have been Memorial and Gibson Southern. Memorial is 69-14 and GS 58-13 over the last 6 seasons. I believe the two schools have combined to produce 5 D1 athletes - Drew Hart (EKU), Mike Lindauer (UC/SIU), Branson Combs (SIU)and Ray Brodie III (IU track) from Memorial and Brady Allen (PU) from GS. I believe Sloan Cox from GS may have signed D1 for shot, but I'm not positive, so maybe it is 6. If you look at each of those kids, they had something that absolutely set them apart from everyone else on the field in pretty much every HS football game they played.

Ignorance on display. Glad you don't represent the average WC fan. I have family that played for Warren. I have always enjoyed and respected their program and our rivalry. I occasionally ask our kids who they like and don't like playing against...who talks the most trash...who plays the dirtiest. I'm pretty sure every time I've asked the response has been about how much they like the Warren kids and team. The friendships made there have been good for kids on both rosters. Shame some of the parents can't connect those dots.

The only position I’m sure of anybody being in is bottom.

No Pioneer in 1A?

They literally beat Valpo in regionals this year...I always thought people were exaggerating how braindead your takes were on FB but now I see what they mean. Don't bring the ignorance to the GID.

Castle has 5 D1 athletes from the 2022 class who were on the Knights FB roster at one time, 6 if you include Sloan.

I think team camps on a college campus are for the benefit of the college. What better way to get prospects on campus to evaluate them? I think schools are better off to host multi-team scrimmages on their campuses. More team work gets done this way. Just my humble opinion.

Awesome. That means Collin Wilson from HH will probably get an offer for shotput next year. He threw 64' 4.5". And he still has one more year of HS. He's a 1 sport athlete though.

It's demolition derby season at numerous county fairs around the country. Been watching a bunch of them via YouTube. Great stuff like the figure-eight trailer races at Rockford Speedway: But watching these makes me wonder that the future holds for this great form of entertainment and sport once electric vehicles dominate the landscape. Sorry, but I don't think watching a bunch of old Tesla's smashing into each other would be fun to watch.

Hybrid technology is the now. Battery technology is the future. The dirty little secret is the greenies can’t get past is the fact that “green” vehicles produce more Co2 in the manufacturing process than gas vehicles will produce over their lifetime. Hybrid tech gives us some of the benefits of battery, sans the huge amount of Co2 produced in manufacturing massive fuel cells. Coupled with savings in conventional fuels and emissions.

Great interview with a great coach. One of the very best I ever worked for. Coach Smith taught me a lesson very early in my career, one which I carried with me and have tried to pass on to many younger officials. I was a very young Referee and we were working at Crown Point. I managed to mis-enforce the same penalty twice. CP won the game comfortably, and nobody said a thing, but something was nagging at me after the game. I went back over it in my head and realized my mistake. It just so happened we had Crown Point at Munster the very next week. When we came onto the field before the game I made a beeline for coach Smith. I admitted last week’s mistake, apologized, and told him it wouldn’t happen again. Without saying a word, he reached into his back pocket and pulled out a rule book. It was folded open to the rule describing the proper enforcement for the mistake I had made the week before, and that section had been highlighted. We enjoyed a great relationship from then to this day. I learned that by stepping up and admitting a mistake, you can gain more credibility than if you hadn’t made the mistake in the first place. A valuable lesson that stood me in good stead for the rest of my career.

Sad news RIP https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2022/07/11/marion-barber-died-from-heat-stroke/

Don't know why you're seemingly taking a dig at Coach Good here. Especially when I've seen you repeatedly sing the praises of his replacement at Calumet for 'building a program', when Good was the one who actually had taken that program from a doormat to a sectional title. If anything, Calumet took a noticeable step back last year under their new coach. Good comes from an undeniably great program in Mount Carmel and has already shown he can turn a program around. Gotta give him more than just one year to show he can do the same at LC. I would say Seiss has become an absolutely elite recruiter, but I wouldn't go as far as to say he is an elite coach (not to say he might not be one day, he is for sure a solid young coach). But if you watched the semistate game from last year, you'd have seen an actually elite coach in Gilbert essentially toying with his much younger counterpart. There's nothing about Seiss's schemes/game planning/ etc. that scream elite coach to me right now, and I have watched quite a bit of their games in the past few seasons. These past two years the Pirates have mainly dominated by being able to just show up with way more talent than their opponents. And when this hasn't been the case, or even against Chatard where they arguably had better individual talent but clearly much less superior coaching, things have gotten pretty ugly for the Ville. I do agree that Seiss will likely leave for a larger Indy school at some point in the near future, maybe if they win a state title in this classification cycle. I'm just going to guess you haven't been paying any attention to CP football if you actually believe this. The excitement and energy around that program is night and day different as compared to under the previous coaching staff, and the team obviously improved throughout last season. Started DAC play with blow out losses to Ville and Valpo and ended it beating Chesterton, playing MC hard, and giving Merrillville their toughest game of the season up to that point in the sectional. Buzea came back to do one thing: win a 6A title in Indiana. Not saying that's going to happen, but he has a great track record and no one in CP thought that would happen over night. I actually looked it up and since 2016, City has produced 10 different all-state defenders for a total of 13 all-state selections on defense, at all 3 levels of defense (DL, LB, DB). This is many more all-state players on defense than the program had been producing in the decade prior to Mason's arrival (4 total on both sides of the ball). Don't think you can say they haven't produced high-impact defensive players. The real problem with the defense is that Richards runs maybe the most boom-or-bust defensive scheme I've ever seen, where every play could be a TFL or a 60-yard TD for the offense. But I will say that I've had the same thoughts about if regionals is the ceiling for City, though, and that becomes even murkier with Merrillville now a resident of 5A. I feel bad for Mason, he's taken the program to heights its never seen before and a bunch of people who know nothing are trying to take him down. City will go back to being the DAC doormat it had been if they run him and Richards out, and they'll deserve it and have no one to blame but themselves. But here's my prediction for how the DAC shakes out, for what its worth: 1. Ville 2. Valpo 3. CP 4. City 5. Chesterton 6. LC 7. LaPorte 8. Portage

He better be careful what he says. He does not have the greatest reputation among many on this topic..

https://reason.com/2022/07/13/how-georgias-extreme-ballot-access-law-keeps-libertarians-and-everyone-else-off-the-ballot/ Such ballot access laws should be ruled unconstitutional . They are an affront to American Democracy.

https://mises.org/wire/turns-out-elites-administrative-state-better-democracy The ruling did no such thing. Instead, the court said that federal regulatory agencies are not free to create and enforce rules outside of their statutory authority. The EPA had simply declared itself the official power plant CO2 emissions regulator under the Obama administration despite the fact that Democrats had a supermajority in the US Senate and a huge majority in the House and theoretically could have passed a law giving new regulatory powers to the EPA. That Congress did not do so is instructive. In other words, this was an extralegal power grab but one approved by elites because, well, elites know more than everyone else. The NYT editorial continued: The “administrative state,” of course, is anything but democratic; it is autocratic to the core. For all of their professed love for democracy, progressives have long demanded rule by experts, or at least rule by “experts” that meet progressive approval. As I pointed out last year, when actual scientists studied the effects of so-called acid rain and concluded that it was not causing lake and river acidification, progressives in the media, as well as EPA administrators, immediately tried to destroy the careers of scientists failing to echo the party line. Not surprisingly, one of the loudest antiscience voices in the acid rain affair was the New York Times. Furthermore, for all the “experts know best” rhetoric in the NYT editorial, there is no proof that the administrative state governs as effectively as democracy, which elites pretend to love. The “experts” at the Federal Reserve believed they could substitute trillions of printed dollars for actual production of goods without creating monetary chaos. In western forests, the “experts” at the US Forest Service have had fire suppression policies in place for more than a century, and the result has been that what were once mere forest fires have become destructive conflagrations that burn so hot that they often destroy the scorched soil’s ability to generate postfire growth. The ”experts” at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention imposed policies that precipitated massive job losses, caused unnecessary premature death from ailments other than covid-19, and still failed to promote adequate information about the virus and its origins. Education “experts” have created one educational crisis after another, and so on. Rule by experts—the administrative state—has caused destruction whenever it is invoked, yet the editors at the “newspaper of record” have failed to notice. Instead, they proclaim eternal fealty to what only can be called a failed experiment in governance, not to mention that it is antidemocratic. Yet, the NYT editors cannot keep from claiming loyalty to both forms of governance, even when they contradict one another: There is much to dissect in those words, but suffice it to say that to assume that EPA decision makers have the kind of knowledge and expertise implied in that editorial is to foolishly demonstrate faith in something that inevitably fails. Far from being near-omniscient sages of science, the bureaucrats making life-altering decisions at the EPA are people who bear no costs if they impose unnecessary burdens on the lives of ordinary people but who also find that the more draconian their edicts, the greater the praise from environmental interest groups and, of course, the New York Times. What possibly could go wrong? Of course the elites prefer the administrative state over real democracy. It helps perpetuate big government.