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I have long railed against ESPN/NCAA for bringing college games to Friday nights, yea I’m looking at you IU. Now the NFL is getting in the act. I suggest you join my merry band of pirates, screw the Big10, screw IU, screw TV, dare I say it screw….the man….there I said it. Go to a local school of your choosing tonight, plop down your 6-7 bucks, spend a 20 at the concession stand and enjoy the hell out of kids who just love a game! Who’s with me? …..que patriotic music

“Connor Stalions is not the boogeyman. He’s the one you send to steal the signals of the @#$&*% boogeyman.” NSFW

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I’d like to see Indiana do the co-op thing over 8 man like Illinois. That and weed are about the only things they’ve done right over there. I swear to God it is.

Now where did I complain about fairness? I was there both evenings, and this was a hard fought, mostly defensive battle. It was one of those game where both teams deserved the W. No way would I pay tens of thousands of $$$ for a kid to go to high school. Unlike my years at Cathedral, when they and Brebuf were the only local college prep schools, many in the burbs have just as good if not better academic and athletic facilities Now if my kid was a super athlete, I'm sure Cathedral would supply an all expense paid trip each school day to 56th and Emerson. Westfield has no choice to where they play, since they are in big boy 6A football. Can't move up any further. Perhaps your Irish should concentrate on how to beat Brownsburg :)

I would never pay for Sunday Ticket. Can’t justify it. However, I have friends/family that do and will let me come over and watch. No connection to Wisconsin. There were several factors that led me to the Packers though. 1. My dad isn’t a Colts fan. The Colts didn’t move to Indy until he was 21 so he already had a team. He and my uncle never got along so they always rooted for the rival to the other’s teams. Since my uncle was a Bengals fan, my dad was a Steelers fan. 2. Player marketing works on kids. When I discovered football in the 90s, Brett Favre was one of the top players. Loved watching him play and loved the Packers’ uniforms. 3. I was a rebellious kid. While I have always been loyal to an Indiana college team, I strayed with pro sports because I felt the Colts, Pacers, and Reds were too bland. I went with the Packers, St. Louis Cardinals (due to the marketing of Mark McGwire as well as my childhood appreciation of cardinals), and whatever team Shaquille O’Neal played for (although I haven’t watched the NBA in almost 20 years). We already have Peacock so I can’t say I’m spending money on it just to watch the Packers play.

IU cash’s the check, screw em, I’m supporting the local kids I’d like to see grow up and be successful! You understand how high school sports are funded…..right?

Honestly IO, the only way I’m watching or listening to IU play football is if somebody pays me. Barring the unexpected, I plan on being at a HS football game every Friday night through Thanksgiving weekend…like most every year.

I think you missed the point.

I think that most of the sports you mentioned (could be mistaken) in which Carmel and CG play have “invitationals” in which multiple teams compete unless you are insinuating they have a wrestling dual/volleyball match. You're going to run into each other in those sports wheee competitions are mainly invite based as naturally they are hard to avoid. You’re right though. It’s all really bizarre and silly in the grand scheme of things and the kids are ultimately suffering so the adults can virtue signal and control some embellished narrative. Carmel and CG are both getting on a bus Friday night, traveling 2+ hours each way across state lines in order to “protect each other” from the other party because some adults refuse to lock themselves in a room and sort out their differences. Both teams will roll back into their school parking lots well after midnight and the coaches (and some players I assume) will be right back at it the next morning. Then, they’ll look at folks with a straight face and speak about “doing what’s best for student athletes.” Crazy times we are living in.

The same fans who complained about the soft schedule are now probably complaining because you have some guys dinged up. Regardless of what the fans think...scheduling that game was a very wise move for the Patriots that is going to pay dividends down the road.

Far too big a drop for South Putnam in 1A. They lost to 2A #1 Lutheran. Opponents matter.

The only thing I will say, I sure would not want to be Boonville this week.

Take your medicine and send your kid to Cathedral. You can justify Westfield's futility all you want. It's just like Chatard. Play in the wimpy north of 6A and feel good about your program for the season until the tourney. #JVAllstars in the meantime, we'll play two classes up and deal with it. Prob beat all the 5000 enrollment teams when it counts and grab 6A drip. And you'll still be whining about fairness.

Temp...the ultimate Walmart Wolverine!!

At times the D looked really good. Several 3 and outs for the game. Logansport's two offensive scores came on shorter fields and one came after a quick strike pass. With that said, both offensive scores came on fast drives which should be a red flag for a defense. LCC also gave up an early score on a blocked punt returned for a TD. Special teams for LCC were an Achilles heel Friday. Blocked punt for a returned for a TD, extra point bounced off the goal post, and FG blocked. That's a net 11 points worth of pressure taken off of the Logansport offense which help keep them hanging around longer. Yes, the regular punter was out in street clothes for the game, but that blocked punt wasn't on the punter. At least one field goal hold and one extra point hold weren't clean either. Those are going to end up costing a game later in the season if not addressed. Offense was hot and cold. To be fair, LCC was without its top receiver, but in the Ritter game that pitch-catch stat wasn't all that good downfield either. The screens, however, were quite effective ... both in the Ritter game as well as the Logansport game. Running game seemed hit and miss, but more so miss on the guard dives. Off tackle provided more success, but for some reason it wasn't utilized as much. Took LCC a couple of possessions early on in the game to finally settle down. Halftime score was 17 - 7, but likely should have been 24-7 and, but for a blocked punt, 24-0. Logansport did a nice job keeping the Knights to a single score in the second half and that lack of offensive performance put more pressure on LCC's defense. The defense was able to stiffen up and, helped by several Logansport illegal shift calls, kept an upset from happening although Loganport had the ball three different times in the last seven minutes of the game. LCC will be able to ill-afford giving teams like Andrean or Adams Central three possessions in the last 7 minutes of the game with no points to counter those possessions and survive post season. I don't know the possession clock balance, but I would guess that time of possession favored Logansport. In the past that hasn't been an issue for LCC because they've typically used a couple of minutes to score and then let the opponent burn 8 minutes before turning the ball back over to the Knights who would then take another couple of minutes to score again. When the defense spends 8 minutes on the field, the offense has got to make their two minutes on the field count to let the defense have some flexibility before they head back on the field again for another 8-minute stint. In the end, a win is a win and Logansport played a solid game. The Berries could have come out in the second half and laid an egg, but they stayed in it the whole way, even when a late-game interception made it look like the game was done. LCC stiffened up when they had to at the end to preserve the win. I'll chalk LCC's performance up to the fact that they really didn't play a Week 2 game, had their top receiver and punter out, were on the road, and were playing a scrappy 4A team. Former LCC head coach, Kevin O'Shea, and Twin Lakes visits LaRocca next week coming off a 14-7 win over Tipton. O'Shea, even though he's been gone for a while, has seen a variation of this current LCC team before, so hopefully LCC will have tightened up the offense a bit by this weekend.

If only Cathedral could have pulled it off! LN routs Wayne. Carmel rolls Centerville. LC beats Edwardsville. CG beats Trinity! WOW!

This exact play occurred in the closing moments of a playoff game several years ago. The crew got it right … and were regularly downvoted by the losing coach for years afterward as a result. Because the foul occurred after the down had ended, and they were short of the line to gain after 4th down, the ball goes over. The 15 yd. penalty against the defense is then enforced from the dead ball spot. 1st & 10 after enforcement for Team B.

Please. Despite Merrillville having 47 D1 players on their roster every year, they are annually the most overrated team in Indiana high school football. Warren has the better win over Snider in comparing to Crown Point beating the paper champion Merrillville. Hell, from now on I will refer to Merrillville as the Notre Dame of Indiana high school football

Let's Do It! Heading on the road to Logansport with one of my sons tonight to watch LCC-Logansport.

Yep, big come back that they got that time. They were 1A football runner ups & 1A Champs in hoops while AC was 1A football champs and 1A runner ups in baseball.

Saw Phish there in April. All I can say is.....WOW.

Yep 2000. Had Mr Smith that went to Navy. Lost to our Jets 29-21 but put up a good 2nd half come back.

It’s noteworthy that the study is based on self reports of concussions, not medically-diagnosed concussions.

I once fired a clock operator at halftime … of a playoff game … found out it was a nun.

Rumor is that the new Friday night Titan Football Broadcast on 89.1 The Bash is simply amazing. I can neither confirm or deny.

Many years ago I was working a game at North Judson. As I gave the ready for play signal, a bat landed on the ground about 5 yds. in front of me. Sure enough, they snapped the ball and the QB rolled toward me … and the bat. I kept one eye on the QB and one eye on the bat as the play ran. Somehow, the bat escaped being trampled and flew away before the next play. At that time, the local public TV station, WYIN, broadcast a game each week on tape delay. I was able to get home in time to watch the replay, and the bat showed up great. And no, I did not throw a flag for an “illegal bat.”

6A Total 1 Brownsburg 118 2 Westfield 113 3 Warren Central 95 4 Hamilton Southeastern 79 5 Center Grove 72 6 Crown Point 70 7 Cathedral 59 8 Carmel 29 9 Lawrence North 25 10 Fort Wayne Snider 14 Columbus North 13 Noblesville 13 Pike 8 Ben Davis 2 Fishers 1 5A Total 1 Merrillville 110 2 Whiteland 69 3 East Central 63 4 Lafayette Jeff 62 5 Valparaiso 57 6 Warsaw 50 7 Concord 49 8 Plainfield 45 9 Decatur Central 37 10 Bloomington South 19 Chesterton 13 Kokomo 11 Floyd Central 6 Bloomington North 4 Franklin Community 4 Michigan City 3 Fort Wayne North Side 2 Castle 1 4A Total 1 Bishop Chatard 79 2 New Palestine 67 3 Evansville Reitz 57 4 Mishawaka 52 4 Leo 41 6 New Prairie 30 6 Martinsville 30 8 Roncalli 29 9 Brebeuf Jesuit 16 9 Greenfield-Central 16 NorthWood 10 Hanover Central 8 East Noble 4 Silver Creek 1 3A Total 1 Guerin Catholic 105 2 Evansville Memorial 100 3 Heritage Hills 69 4 Gibson Southern 68 5 Batesville 46 5 Tippecanoe Valley 46 7 Mississinewa 28 8 Evansville Mater Dei 27 9 West Lafayette 26 10 Lawrenceburg 24 Fort Wayne Luers 17 Delta 16 Tri-West 10 Garrett 9 Fort Wayne Concordia 5 Knox 4 West Noble 3 Mishawaka Marian 2 2A Total 1 Lutheran 120 2 Lafayette Central Catholic 105 3 Brownstown Central 78 4 North Posey 77 5 Triton Central 55 6 Western Boone 50 7 Linton-Stockton 42 8 Eastern Hancock 25 9 Adams Central 22 10 Bluffton 19 Rochester 18 Lapel 15 Heritage Christian 12 Monrovia 11 Centerville 4 Paoli 4 Andrean 2 Northeastern 1 A Total 1 North Judson-San Pierre 118 2 Providence 105 3 Carroll (Flora) 91 4 South Putnam 76 5 Springs Valley 67 6 Milan 49 7 Triton 37 8 Madison-Grant 35 9 South Adams 21 10 North Decatur 14 Monroe Central 11 Pioneer 9 Forest Park 8 LaVille 6 North Miami 4 Sheridan 2 There you have them folks.

Former Mt. Vernon, Lebanon, and Edinburgh head coach, and long time Franklin College assistant Dave Marendt passed away Monday. He was everything a high school coach should be. I'm one of the hundreds of men who were fortunate enough to play for him. RIP Coach. https://www.ghherrmann.com/obituaries/David-Dave-Marendt?obId=32989999

Yep. Kudos to BD for having the stones to put CG back on the football schedule. Warren still playing the victim card and Carmel is just too hard headed to walk it back. Pretty sad for the kids honestly.

It is pathetic that in week 3 there are 4 out of state schools on this list of games. We should be talking about a Carmel vs Center Grove Copper Kettle game. Heck just last night Carmel and CG played volleyball game so Carmel nonsense about play CG is just BS.

To be fair. 1. There was no poll taken after the week zero game so their #10 ranking was just “leftover” from the preseason poll. They will not be ranked today. 2. Their stadium is under construction and all of those seats underneath the press box were off-limits.

By Labor Day? What is today? Im ALL IN on the dismantling of Florida St Bill O'Brien absolutely running circles around Norval's squad ...can't ask for a WORSE start for FSU after the egg last week and now this getting SHELLED at home

I was texting an older brother during the game about how Kelly's teams never won big games. I made the comment that even at ND, he was always blaming someone else.

Or on the try, at the option of the offended team.

In the case of Chatard/Hanover Central, travel was certainly an issue - Hanover Central would have to basically drive 3-3.5 hours to get home on Friday then turn around and come back. Between 12-14 hours on the bus for the kids over a 2 day period. Add that HC's only score was a 1st Q kickoff return TD with Chatard effectively shutting down their offense otherwise. It was the smart decision for HC. No conference championship was at stake, its not an historic rivalry, obviously it doesn't affect playoffs (because no regular season games do), etc.

A big game like New Pal/Decatur Central was called after it was 21-all at the half. Both teams are in the same general area, so why couldn't they have played that game out today instead just calling it a no contest? I was kind of looking forward to see how they game was going to turn out.

It's possible the youth league has supplemental rules for something like this and wants it enforced that way. But as others have said, under NFHS rules the TD counts. NCAA used to be this way until a few years ago when they made UNS a regular live ball foul to curtail this type of activity. It's not common in HS but I would not mind this rule change.

This feels awkward.

I think that depends. If the coach calls a timeout to talk to the Referee and says “Look at this play, you guys were wrong,” just tell him “I can’t look at that, put it away.” Problem solved. Now, if it goes beyond that, then you start thinking about using the flag. But certainly not as a first resort. Calling an unsportsmanlike conduct foul on a coach has significant repercussions. Not to be done lightly.

Keep Rushville who craps the bed in nearly every sport but reject JC who went to 4A basketball semistate not too long ago, what an excellent conference administration!

TD should have counted. Mark off the (clearly to be accepted penalty) on the ensuing kickoff. Personal foul - Taunting.

Dwenger 24 - North Side 14 - Saints showed me something playing Moeller tight until the 4th quarter. This is a must win for them or the season will spiral out of control. North got rocked to sleep on Friday/Saturday by another mean Indy team Luers 49 - Northrop 28 - Knights get a defensively challenged Bruins team who do have some offense this year, but Luers too much in this one Carroll 56 - South Side 7 - Chargers recover after facing the Indy juggernauts and happily welcome South to Charger field. Frustrations will be taken out in this one Wayne 28 - Homestead 17 - Generals go to 3-0 against a disappointing Spartan team. What a beat down Sparty took from Noblesville Snider 49 - Concordia 6 - Panthers offense started to show some life against East Noble. Cadets 2-0 start is surprising, but the big step up in competition will prove to be too much

Yeah, A&M ain't an easy place to play and most of the "experts" on Game Day picked the Aggies.

That's crazy man lol

Lol, it's fun to hit the mark once in awhile. It's really a testament to how good the HCC is. How bout them Millers?

Nice road win…..way too many penalties and missed tackles on defense, but made some huge plays when needed. Offense was out of sync most of the night, but a young o line will get better.

If Brownsburg can ever figure it out come playoff time, watch out