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I have so many people to thank. Nah, not really…just glad I kicked @gonzoron’s ass. Thanks for putting this on again. It was fun.

It might be their 2nd best season in school history. In 1979 TV went 13-0 and won the 1A state title 44-14 over Hamilton SE. Their closest game that year was 26-7.

I swear nobody can whine like a GS fan, you make my day

It came down to the last week, and one competitor correctly picked 10 of the 12 final games to be able to just squeak ahead of the competition. Congrats @temptation for taking home the prestigious prize of GID bragging rights for the year. Final Standings: 1. @temptation 71 points T2. @Bears62, @Boilernation, @DumfriesYMCA, + @LC_Bears_04 70 points 3. @wvigo13 61 points (of 89 possible) 4. @PCFan1996 67 points 5. @00NWP 64 points 6. @sbriant20 63 points T7. @CJJL + @gonzoron 62 points T8. @NE8_Fan, @WCGrad92, + @whiteshoes 61 points 9. @scarab527 59 points T10. @Komets2727 + @Muda69 58 points 11. @NLCTigerFan07 51 points (of 89 possible) 12. @TransplantedPanther 57 points 13. @bigcityp 56 points 14. @1st_and_10 55 points

Calpreps thinks so too per the predictor. BCHS vs Center Grove is: 31-14 CG BCHS vs Brownsburg is: 34-17 BB BCHS vs Ben Davis is: 31-19 BD BCHS vs East Central is: 22-19 EC I believe these are the 4 you have above BCHS in your latest top 25. How close these predictions are may surprise some from Sectional 28 only. BCHS vs Tippy Valley is: 35-14 BCHS BCHS vs Guerin Catholic is: 26-8 BCHS BCHS vs Hamilton Heights is: 28-6 BCHS

No Offense my friend, our Friends from Webo getting to 3 state finals in a row without a bump up for Success Factor drained any good fortune breaks !! 🙂 🙂 😀

That it is. The SIAC guys have us running away with the game. We're not taking Harrison lightly though.

I'm pretty sure that track seeds individual events--giving preferential lane and heat assignments to the best times and field event marks. I'm pretty sure swimming does this, too. I don't think there's any way to seed teams, just individuals. For sectionals, there used to be qualifying marks way back in the old days, but for the last 30 years or so, I believe schools have been allotted 2 individuals per event and 1 relay team, unless they had 3 or more individuals meet the state meet qualifying standard.

If we're just doing picks I think I should be able to do it. If it was a bracket challenge then I think I'll need some help. How do we feel about the 100 game total format? Yes/No? Was thinking of doing something similar to that.

No coach in America benefitted from the fool’s gold that was the Covid season than Tom Allen.

Valley’s ‘79 team was incredible. Widest splits I’ve ever seen an offensive line employ, and no one could stop Tim Alspaugh.

My Class 6A Top 10: 1. Ben Davis 2. Center Grove 3. Brownsburg 4. Westfield 5. Hamilton Southeastern 6. Fishers 7. Cathedral 8. Crown Point 9. Carroll 10. Penn My Class 5A Top 10: 1. Fort Wayne Snider 2. Valparaiso 3. Bloomington North 4. Bloomington South 5. Merrillville 6. Decatur Central 7. Mishawaka 8. Floyd Central 9. Plainfield 10. Harrison And how the hell did a 3-6, undisciplined Fort Wayne North Side team get votes? Also, Batesville should be ranked ahead of Lawrenceburg because Batesville won the head to head matchup and has a better record than Lawrenceburg.

Feel bad for TV. Beat season in school history and going home in round 1…likely in blowout fashion.

Overall state ranks after the team name and number in parentheses is the CP confidence factor S1: Portage #156 vs Lake Central #91 Lake Central 27-14 (80%) Crown Point 42-6 (99%) Crown Point 21-14 (65%) Laff Jeff #80 vs Crown Point #10 Crown Point 40-13 (96%) S2: Carmel #26 vs Warsaw #42 Carmel 26-21 (61%) Penn 24-17 (65%) Elkhart #105 vs Penn #14 Penn 31-3 (96%) S3: Fishers #9 vs Homestead #65 Fishers 40-7 (98%) HSE 28-27 (53%) HSE 27-24 (58%) HSE #8 vs Northrup #199 HSE 62-0 (99%) S4: Westfield #5 vs Carmel #22 Westfield 34-13 (90%) Westfield 31-21 (74%) Noblesville #24 vs Zionsville #27 Noblesville 24-20 (60%) S5: Brownsburg #2 vs Ben Davis #3 Brownsburg 35-31 (60%) Brownsburg 42-14 (96%) Brownsburg 42-17 (95%) Avon #21 vs Pike #66 Avon 28-13 (84%) S6: North Central #111 vs Cathedral #7. Cathedral 55-6 (99%) Lawrence North 26-21 (61%) Lawrence Cent. #23 vs Lawrence No. #12 Lawrence No. 28-26 (57%) S7: Perry Meridian #85 vs Warren Central #40 Warren Central 24-17 (65%) Warren Central 40-7 (98%) Center Grove 42-3 (99%) Southport #182 vs Arsenal Tech #266 Southport 38-14 (94%) S8: Franklin Central #17 vs Center Grove #1 Center Grove 35-13 (92%) Center Grove 48-3 (99%) Jeffersonville #233 vs Columbus North #75. Columbus No. 44-6 (99%) Final Four: HSE 27 def Crown Point 21 (62%) Brownsburg 31 def Center Grove 30 (53%) Projected State Champion Brownsburg 35 def HSE 21 (81%) Note: For those that are wondering what would happen if CG beat Brownsburg, the State Champ is projected to be Center Grove 31 def HSE 21 (74%)

Earlier in the week, @Bobref started a thread titled "Sectional Draw 2023" and the thread kind of went a couple directions away from the intended purpose. One of those directions pertained to the notion that 6A and 1A should be the classifications with 32 teams rather than 6A and 5A. This topic interested me, and I decided to take a deep dive researching it. It took me about ten hours total over the course of several days to compile. I'm not saying this to get a pat on the back, but to help you understand I didn't just breeze through it without any deep thought or research. Nevertheless, for this particular scenario, I compiled lists for 1A through 5A using the most recent enrollment numbers the IHSAA released (which was two years ago). I excluded 6A since it obviously wouldn't be affected by the change. In compiling the classification lists, the goal was to base it off this specific year's tournament in regard to the Fort Wayne Dwenger situation and the teams playing up due to the success factor. The 1A through 5A breakdown for this year's tournament is the following: 5A - 31 teams 4A - 64 teams 3A - 64 teams 2A - 62 teams 1A - 58 teams Total - 279 teams I wanted to keep these numbers as similar as possible. This meant that 5A would have 63 teams rather than 64 as a result of the IHSAA moving FW Dwenger down in the middle of the classification period. Therefore, these were the classification numbers I came up with: 5A - 63 teams 4A - 64 teams 3A - 64 teams 2A - 56 teams 1A - 32 teams Total - 279 teams After compiling lists for the classifications, I wanted to look at the ranges for each classification from the largest school to the smallest school. See below. 5A (63 teams) Largest School: Harrison (WL) - 2,079 students Smallest School: New Haven - 1,064 students 4A (64 teams) Largest School: Kankakee Valley - 1,062 students Smallest School (aside from the success factor team): Bellmont - 641 students Success Factor Team: Evansville Memorial - 556 students 3A (64 teams) Largest School: John Glenn - 638 students Smallest Schools: North Putnam and Tell City - 444 students 2A (56 teams) Largest School: Indianapolis Scecina - 439 students Smallest School: Covington - 294 students Success Factor Team: Lafayette Central Catholic - 296 students 1A (32 teams) Largest School: Fremont - 291 students Smallest School: Attica - 170 students Here are the ranges from the scenario above compared to the current numbers (excluding success factor teams): 5A: 1,064 - 2,079 (currently 1,513 - 2,079) 4A: 641 - 1,062 (currently 795 - 1,510) 3A: 444 - 638 (currently 511 - 790) 2A: 294 - 439 (currently 379 - 510) 1A: 170 - 291 (currently 170 - 378) Instead of just compiling a list of classifications given the scenario, I wanted to get the full scope of what this could look like as it pertains to sectional assignments. As a result, I put together classification maps and spent a ton of time trying to come up with sectional assignments that limit travel time as best as possible while also ensuring schools from the same school district aren't split up. I cannot stress enough how hard I tried to keep travel times down. I flirted with many different scenarios by looking at the travel times on Google Maps but some long trips just couldn't be helped. It's important to note I'm only including these sectional assignments to give you an idea of how 1A through 5A could look given the hypothetical 32 team 1A scenario. I'm not necessarily saying this is how they should look. See the link below to view the classification/sectional assignment maps. https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1SqvN_8IxXWiJQxvs4E0RSxadUGh_f9k&usp=sharing Here are the sectional assignments I came up with. 5A (63) Sectional 9 (8): East Chicago Central, Gary West, Hammond Central, Hammond Morton, Harrison (WL), Lowell, McCutcheon, Munster Sectional 10 (8): Chesterton, Hobart, LaPorte, Merrillville, Michigan City, Mishawaka, South Bend Adams, Valparaiso Sectional 11 (8): Columbia City, Concord, Goshen, Huntington North, Kokomo, Logansport, Northridge, Plymouth Sectional 12 (7): DeKalb, Fort Wayne North, Fort Wayne Snider, Fort Wayne South, Fort Wayne Wayne, Muncie Central, New Haven Sectional 13 (8): Anderson, Greenfield-Central, Indianapolis Attucks, Indianapolis Roncalli, Mt. Vernon (Fortville), New Palestine, Pendleton Heights, Richmond Sectional 14 (8): Columbus East, East Central, Franklin, Greenwood, Jennings County, Seymour, Shelbyville, Whiteland Sectional 15 (8): Bloomington North, Bloomington South, Decatur Central, Martinsville, Mooresville, Plainfield, Terre Haute North, Terre Haute South Sectional 16 (8): Bedford North Lawrence, Castle, Evansville Central, Evansville Harrison, Evansville North, Evansville Reitz, Floyd Central, New Albany 4A (64) Sectional 17 (8): Hanover Central, Highland, Kankakee Valley, New Prairie, South Bend Clay, South Bend Riley, South Bend St. Joseph, South Bend Washington Sectional 18 (8): Angola, Culver Academy, East Noble, Leo, Mishawaka Marian, NorthWood, Wawasee, West Noble Sectional 19 (8): Bellmont, Delta, Fort Wayne Dwenger, Jay County, Marion, Mississinewa, Norwell, Yorktown Sectional 20 (8): Frankfort, Guerin Catholic, Hamilton Heights, Lebanon, Peru, Twin Lakes, Western, West Lafayette Sectional 21 (8): Brebeuf Jesuit, Crawfordsville, Danville, Edgewood, Indianapolis Shortridge, Indianapolis Washington, Northview, Owen Valley Sectional 22 (8): Batesville, Beech Grove, Connersville, Franklin County, Greensburg, Indianapolis Chatard, New Castle, Rushville Sectional 23 (8): Charlestown, Corydon Central, Lawrenceburg, Madison, North Harrison, Scottsburg, Silver Creek, South Dearborn Sectional 24 (8): Boonville, Evansville Bosse, Evansville Memorial, Gibson Southern, Jasper, Mt. Vernon (Posey), Vincennes Lincoln, Washington 3A (64) Sectional 25 (8): Benton Central, Boone Grove, Calumet, Griffith, Hammond Noll, Rensselaer Central, River Forest, Whiting Sectional 26 (8): Bremen, Fairfield, Jimtown, John Glenn, Knox, Lakeland, Rochester, Tippecanoe Valley Sectional 27 (8): Bluffton, Fort Wayne Concordia, Fort Wayne Luers, Garrett, Heritage, Manchester, Wabash, Woodlan Sectional 28 (8): Alexandria-Monroe, Blackford, Eastbrook, Eastern (Greentown), Maconaquah, Northwestern, Oak Hill, Tipton Sectional 29 (8): Greencastle, North Montgomery, North Putnam, Southmont, South Vermillion, Tri-West, Western Boone, West Vigo Sectional 30 (8): Centerville, Christel House Manual, Frankton, Heritage Christian, Indianapolis Ritter, Lapel, Purdue Polytechnic, Speedway Sectional 31 (8): Brown County, Brownstown Central, Cascade, Indian Creek, Mitchell, Monrovia, Salem, Triton Central Sectional 32 (8): Evansville Mater Dei, Heritage Hills, North Posey, Pike Central, Princeton, Southridge, Sullivan, Tell City 2A (56) Sectional 33 (8): Andrean, Lake Station, LaVille, North Judson, North Newton, South Central (Union Mills), Wheeler, Winamac Sectional 34 (7): Adams Central, Central Noble, Churubusco, Eastside, Prairie Heights, South Adams, Whitko Sectional 35 (8): Carroll (Flora), Clinton Prairie, Covington, Delphi, Lafayette Central Catholic, Lewis Cass, Pioneer, Seeger Sectional 36 (6): Elwood, Madison-Grant, Monroe Central, Sheridan, Taylor, Winchester Sectional 37 (6): Covenant Christian, Eastern Hancock, Indianapolis Scecina, Knightstown, Park Tudor, Shenandoah Sectional 38 (6): Hagerstown, Milan, North Decatur, Northeastern, Switzerland County, Union County Sectional 39 (7): Cloverdale, Eastern Greene, Linton-Stockton, North Knox, Parke Heritage, Riverton Parke, South Putnam Sectional 40 (8): Clarksville, Crawford County, Eastern (Pekin), Forest Park, Paoli, Perry Central, Providence, South Spencer 1A (32) Sectional 41 (4): Bowman Academy, Frontier, South Newton, Tri-County Sectional 42 (4): Culver, North White, Triton, West Central Sectional 43 (4): Caston, Clinton Central, North Miami, Tri-Central Sectional 44 (4): Fremont, Northfield, Southern Wells, Southwood Sectional 45 (4): Cambridge City Lincoln, Tri, Union City, Wes-Del Sectional 46 (4): Edinburgh, Indianapolis Lutheran, Indianapolis Tindley, South Decatur Sectional 47 (4): Attica, Fountain Central, North Central (Farmersburg), North Vermillion Sectional 48 (4): North Daviess, Springs Valley, Tecumseh, West Washington I hope you all find this information as interesting as I did. Does this information change your original opinion? Should 5A remain at 32 teams or should 1A have 32 teams instead? Feel free to provide your thoughts and share any ideas you have.

3 weeks?

The current regime at HH has shown no desire to desire to deviate from playing any school other than ones they have played for 20 years. Regardless of the competitive nature of said game. “Shame”. I really with the admins would fix the stupid edit timer.

You forgot Reitz, as they play Boonville.

Edgewood (2-7) at Jennings County (4-5) BNL (6-3) at Evansville Harrison (1-8) Interesting history - the only sectional championship that JC has ever played in was 2000, finishing with a 6-6 record. Their head coach was Jerry Bland. Bland would go on to lead Edgewood from 2006-2016.

If they fell in sectionals 1 or 2 they are playing in semi state.

The recent history for those schools is SR beats Linton four years in a row, loses year five, then has them replaced with Washington. HH replaces VL with MD (a big upgrade at the time), loses two years in a row, then replaces them with Mt. Vernon. I've never gotten an answer as to why either series ended. (SR v Linton, HH v MD) Both seamed to make sense from a schedule and competitive standpoint. In the new PAC most non-conference games are cross division. The only non-PAC games with 3a or larger schools are Washington vs Edgewood (4a) and Tell City vs Hancock County (3a if they were Indiana), and GS vs IMG acadamy.

who cares, win the game or go home. what's the difference between losing round one and round four

We did play Central I believe for 2 years(?) in what turned out to be 2 of their strongest teams in school history. Go figure lol

According to Woofs twitter, the game will be played at Brebeuf. Covenant rented Brebeuf for tourney games last year, also.

I’ll take 2

Hey y’all! A new t-shirt just came out in the SV team online store. If anyone wants one, let me know and I can probably help arrange it!

The IHSAA Spring bulletin has 4 pages describing the seeding process for track. Pages 80-84 under the headline XVII. Seeding You may have never heard it used in that manner before but technically it is correct. https://www.ihsaa.org/sites/default/files/documents/Spring Bulletin.pdf

Based on work started by @Frozen Tundra. All scores projected by Calpreps matchup predictor. Numbers in parenthesis are their confidence ratings. Sectional 25: Rensselaer Central #174 vs Hammond Noll #301 RC 48-3 (99%) RC 35-14 (90%) Boone Grove 28-27 (53%) Griffith #249 vs Benton Central #256 Griffith 35-28 (65%) River Forest #228 vs Calumet #261 River Forest 22-8 (81%) Boone Grove 28-20 (72%) Boone Grove # 183 vs Whiting #282. Boone Grove 46-6 (99%) Sectional 26: Tippy Valley #35 vs Bremen #171 Tippy Valley 44-7 (99%) Tippy Valley 40-17 (93%) Tippy Valley 331-27 (60%) John Glen #124 vs Jimtown #139 Jimtown 20-19 (53%) Rochester #115 vs Lakeland #140 Rochester 35-28 (65%) Knox 31-21 (74%) Knox #55 vs Fairfield #161. Knox 38-10 (96%) Sectional 27: Heritage #88 vs Wabash #267 Heritage 48-3 (99%) Heritage 27-7 (88%) FW Luers 21-20 (53%) Garrett #180 vs Woodlan #230 Garrett 27-12 (84%) Bluffton #104 vs FW Concordia #250 Bluffton 46-7 (99%) FW Luers 21-20 (53%) FW Luers #48 vs Manchester #262. FW Luers 48-0 (99%) Sectional 28: Alexandria-Monroe #106 vs Blackford #307 A-M 58-0 (99%) A-M 31-20 (75%) A-M 34-21 (80%) Oak Hill #165 vs Eastbrook #189 Oak Hill 27-21 (62%) Macoaquah #159 vs Northwestern #226 Maconaquah 48-27 (90%) Maconaquah 31-24 (65%) Eastern (Greentown) #153 vs Tipton #239. Eastern 35-10 (95%) Sectional 29: Tri-west #56 vs West Vigo #279 Tri-west 62-0 (99%) Tri-west 35-7 (96%) Tri-west 28-10 (87%) North Montgomery #133 vs Southmont #145 N Montgomery 28-24 (60%) Greencastle #119 vs South Vermillion #147 Greencastle 38-35 (58%) Western Boone 28-27 (53%) Western Boone #112 vs North Putnam #212. Western Boone 34-14 (88%) Sectional 30: Centerville #114 vs Christel House #300 Centerville 50-0 (99%) Centerville 26-19 (65%) Lapel 27-24 (58%) Speedway #152 vs Indy Ritter #204 Speedway 31-19 (77%) Heritage Christian #134 vs Frankton #205 Heritage Chr 331-17 (81%) Lapel 28-21 (65%) Lapel #116 vs Purdue Poly #290. Lapel 52-7 (99%) Sectional 31: Triton Central #34 vs Brown County #308 Triton Central 62-0 (99%) Triton Central 35-21 (81%) Triton Central 41-28 (80%) Brownstown Central #110 vs Cascade #128 Brownstown 34-28 (62%) Indian Creek #97 vs Salem #258 Indian Creek 50-8 (99%) Monrovia 35-28 (65%) Monrovia #69 vs Mitchell #288. Monrovia 63-3 (99%) Sectional 32: Heritage Hills #45 vs Pike Central #280 Heritage Hills 62-0 (99%) Heritage Hills 35-12 (93%) Heritage Hills 28-19 (73%) Mater Dei #132 vs Tell City #144 Mater Dei 28-22 (62%) Southridge #100 vs Sullivan #149 Southridge 28-14 (81%) North Posey 27-21 (62%) North Posey #77 vs Princeton #260. North Posey 48-3 (99%) Elite Eight: Tippy Valley 48 def Boone Grove 13 (98%) FW Luers 24 def Aleandria-Monroe 21 (58%) Tri-west 28 def Lapel 14 (81%) Triton Central 28 def Heritage Hills 27 (53%) Final Four: Tippecanoe Valley 35 def FW Luers 17 (87%) Triton Central 26 def Tri-west 20 (62%) Fictional State Champion Tippecanoe Valley 31 def Triton Central 28 (58%)

2nd! Wooohooo! I would just like to thank my sponsors, my family, and the people who so kindly submitted nice formats for their answers so I could just copy paste and change a few instead of typing all of them out 😂

Agree with you on this. Big game, always bet against Franklin. That guy chokes every time

This makes too much sense. Needs to be more like the current blind draw where Providence travels to Eastern Greene to open sectionals.

Sectional 24 Bedford NL 42 Harrison 7 - Warriors fail to wake up the echos of Ryan Hales and CJ Hedgepeth, the authors of the last Harrison team to win a sectional in 2015. Boonville 14 Reitz 35 - Panthers make up for the close loss last year. However, a Reitz assistant coach is forced to run the stairs of Reitz Bowl every day next week after exclaiming, “Hey Pioneers, have you had Benough?”, after Ben Davies throws his second TD. Memorial 48 Central 7 - Coach Hurley cancels his membership in the Coach Prime fan club after the Buffalos embarrassing loss to the Stanford Cardinal . Bryan Harsin reaches out to the the Central Bears about the prospect of an unpaid assistant coaching position. Jasper 35 at Bosse 32 - Coach Lewis instructs staff to deflate all of the practice balls and shows a nonstop highlight loop of Herschel Walker, Red Grange, Barry Sanders, Jim Brown, and other great running backs to emphasize the Wildcats run first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth…identity. Sectional 30 Vincennes 26 Owen Valley 13 - Coach Salters arranges a FaceTime between Luke Lindsey and Curtis Painter to get Painter’s insights into playoff football (Somewhere Jim Mora has a heart palpitation at the mere mention of playoffs). Sectional 40 Mater Dei 28 Tell City 26 - After a narrow win, Coach Goebel, recalling a chance meeting he had with Abe Lincoln in his first year at Mater Dei, awkwardly shares with a befuddled Coach Webb his favorite Lincoln quote, “I will prepare and some day my chance will come.” Coach Webb shakes his head as he thanks Goebel.

So much Blue will be rooting for Green... again...hoping, praying they can tie themselves to a win over GS in some fashion. The free rent is awesome.

They're good. They have a very dangerous QB/RB combo. Only losses were close games against good teams. Don't see any way Harrison stays in the game. Reitz (assuming they win) will absolutely have their hands full, especially having to make the long trip there.

I’ll just go ahead and say it. Northern Indiana has better depth than southern Indiana when it comes to football. That’s not to say southern Indiana doesn’t have good teams but we don’t have as many of them. For whatever reason, it’s most evident at the 3A level (real or hypothetical) right now.

oh lets be real legitimate move of residences. When you hear about certain programs having "ins" on rental properties under "someone's LLC". This isn't a case where a kid isn't playing and leaving. Why would a starting QB in one program leave to literally sit the bench for another, especially when the program he went to has a 3 year starter/NIC 1st team All-Conference last season. Not to mention the current starter is a junior. Maybe some should of listened to the comments about the HC and his staff of Playstation Coaches that I made last season. We can go back and check those receipts too. Because they were spot on and most got #$## hurt, lol. One week you have a DC following officials out of the stadium and into the parking lot making threats over "Holding". Then a week or two later you have another coach making a more menacing threat to a certain players parent. Not hard to figure out who I'm referring to. If that doesn't fall under the hardship clause. Then what do we consider a hardship?

Go Vikings

Sectional 24: BNL @ Harrison - BNL 28-17 (know nothing about BNL, but Harrison isn't good) Boonville @ Reitz - Reitz 47-0 (its not gonna happen again for the Pioneers) Memorial @ Central - Memorial 38-0 (the Bears are chicken soup for the Tigers' soul) Jasper @ Bosse - Bosse 36-31 in the upset (Wagner is a dawg at Enlow) Sectional 30: VL @ Owen Valley - VL 21-0 (Alices don't need Hunt until November at the Jewell) Sectional 40: MD @ Tell City - MD 28-7 (and Poseyville anxiety starts increasing)

They have a state title so it is hard to say it is their best season in school history.

Stinky, Stinky, Stink 1.2.3 The Dawgs did beat STC 26-23 but Stink Town played with a back-up QB! No excuses, just the facts! If Stink Town beats Centerville QB1 will be back for the rematch!

Well, put it this way, Wayne might have had 50 yards total offense. I did not hear anything about Wayne missing players though

Attucks received a vote in 4A and Roncalli didn't. It was a strange season in a lot of respects.

Boo the response! Lol 😆

This will be a running clock.

Here are my thoughts on this season in the NLC as well as going forward into the post season. Congratulations to Warsaw and Mishawaka...well deserved co champs! I think this season was one of the more competative seasons within the NLC. At the begging of the season, I don't think there was a full on favorite to win the crown. Warsaw / Mishawaka / NW / Northridge all had a chance with Concord not that too far of a stretch. My biggest takeaways from the regular season was actually the bottom half of the conference. Plymouth / Goshen / Wawasee all showed great improvment from previous years (not looking at the records). Plymouth...2 years since a win, that is a huge mental hurdle to jump over. Wawasee's record shows only 1 win...but those kids came to play every game and made every team they played work for it. Then there is Goshen...while I don't understand what is going on with Goshen's program...I know they have about 10 kids going both ways and those fellas give it their all. I really hope numbers improve...they have a good coach, great facilities and a passionate fan base. It was a fun season...and now on to the post season: Our big boys have the week off and in my opinion all of the NLC teams will make it to week 2 of sectionals. Northridge at Logansport: Logansport runs that offense that no likes to prepare for, however, I feel like Warsaw and Mishawaka run it much better than Logansport and NR has seen it before. I don't think Northridge will have any troubles beating the mighty berries from Logansport. If I remember correctly, the visiting teams locker room at Logansport is about the size of a broom closet...hopefully the weather will permit Northridge to hang out under the trees rather than cram in there (I base this on the covid year when NW played at Logansport / I don't remember the away locker rooms being that large nor having air conditioning but I could be wrong). Northridge 49 Logansport 14 Wawasee at Riley: Riley getting that NIC championship...good for them as it has been...a few..years for them. I think that Wawasee's schedule was better than Riley's and Wawasee played everyone really well. I think Wawasee may win its first playoff game in 10-11 years! Wawasee 21 Riley 13 Plymouth at Washington: This was probably the best draw for both teams to get a 1st round victory. This may turn out to be a good game. I again think that Plymouth has played a better season than Washington. I think this will be close, however, Plymouth will come out on top. Plymouth 28 Washington 7 NorthWood at St. Joe: I think NW has figured out their defense and have made adjustments when necessary. I don't feel like this game will be too competative. St. Joe beat whom they should have this year and lost to whom most would have guessed. I will take NW by possibly a running clock at some point. NW 49 St. Joe 14 All in all I think all the NLC teams playing this week will be playing in round two. Good luck to everyone!

We move back down unless we win the Sectional.

I appreciate the amount of work that went into this, and I agree with this in concept. Let me be the first to suggest: Move Lutheran out of this version of 1A.

So, what happened here is easily explained, it turns out. After an administrative stoppage, the play clock is set at 0:25 and starts on the R’s ready for play signal. The linesman had not yet gotten to his position on the visiting sideline, so the R had not yet signaled the ball ready. Elkhart ran up to the line in a hurry to try and draw New Prairie into the neutral zone, and it worked. But since the ball had not been made ready for play, there was no foul. The R was yelling to the QB “wait, wait” but they started to run the play anyway. So, no foul. The U should not have moved off the ball until all crew members were in position.

I’ll be as unambiguous as possible. The tight end, assuming he’s on the end of the line, may put a hand or hands on or near the ground, and then pick up, without it being a false start.