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Cascade may have been a surprise, BUT anyone who was paying attention knew that South Putnam was probably the team to beat in 1A last season.

Amen!

CJ Sanchez (North Judson), DL, signed with Ball State. He didn't play for the Bluejays this season because of an injury before week 1.

North Judson encourages their football players to be in multiple sports. Their coaches don't just talk-the-talk but they walk-the-walk. Head Coach Lambert is also the head track coach. D-coordinator Coach McGowen is the head wrestling coach and track assistant coach. Assistant Coach Harper is the head baseball coach. Assistant Coach Hampton is the head golf coach and assistant basketball. Needless to say the football players find a way to lift weights 12 months of the year.

Interesting...Spanky Roth has been sighted flying over North Judson practices every time the Jays play Winamac!

North Judson definitely treats this game like a rivalry. However, the Bluejays have come out kind of flat the last two seasons. They almost lost last year's game. Littledog is right that the Bluejays haven't played like it the past two seasons.

Chirping? Pun intended I'm sure. I didn't realize the Bluejays were so confident the past couple of seasons leading up to AC. Everyone I talked to knows that Adams Central is a great program. You must be communicating with the wrong Bluejay fans. The Jays would love to have the opportunity to play in a semi-state again, but they have a LOT of work to do to make that happen!

Maybe 4 TDs with no conversions?

North Judson will play Knox week 1 and LaVille 2.

FWIW, North Judson is on central time.

Coach Lambert often says that they run the flexbone, but it resembles a wing-t offense sometimes as well. The fullback gets the ball as much as the defense will allow him to.

Pioneer was crowned conference champs after the 2020 season. It was decided at the principal/AD meeting. Last year was a 3-way tie between Pioneer, North Judson, and Winamac. Luckily for all of us Covid hasn't been an issue this year.

That's what she said?! 🤣

Coach Lambert fully expected to win the sectional game against Winamac last year long before he ever saw a weather forecast!

Not enough players to play this Friday. Calumet Christian has been lined-up since Monday. Other schools were also contacted, but they had the same issue as North Newton. It's sad that schools can't even field football teams anymore. Calumet Christian beat Hammond Noll a couple of weeks ago. They play Bowman Academy in a couple of weeks. Otherwise, they play a lot of non-IHSAA Christian/homeschool schools. They could be better than what NN would have brought, if healthy.

The bell is still in place. It passed a very intense inspection near the end of the week 1 game...

The Bluejays have a solid team this year. As their young talent continues to grow they should be better than last year's team. However, they are fully aware that Triton and Pioneer are in their sectional. Triton is very talented and North Judson hasn't beaten Pioneer since 2008!!! Plus, everyone knows that Adams Central is the true lock to make it back to state!!!😀 I think it was sarcasm!

How good is Providence? I'm asking because I was bored and saw that they had an opening this week while I was looking at team schedules on John Harrell. I heard that Rensselaer might have an opening this week because North Newton is short on players. Providence vs. Rensselaer on a neutral field would be a win for both teams! It seems better than both teams having a bye, if North Newton is indeed short on players.

1st, if you take Spanky’s posts as anything but NJ comedy, then you don’t get the point of his posts. 2nd, NJ could be very good this year. Everyone knows that who pays attention. Luckily, the staff and players do a good job of focusing on one game at a time. 3rd, everyone involved in the program last year knew that Adam’s Central was really tough! I would guess that you guys will be really good again this year. To say that the coaches and players were looking past AC is a false statement. However, there are always fans that look one step ahead, which is what is fun about being a supporter of a team.

North Judson will be very solid. Triton could be very solid as well. On paper Pioneer looks like they'll be down, BUT they are a team that reloads not rebuilds. Knox also has a lot of guys back and a HOF coach. However, you forgot about LaVille, who has everyone back from a sectional championship team! They will definitely be one of the contenders for a conference championship.

The first two times I put "we" it was referring to the high school teams around the state. The last "we" represents the people of the United States. I can see the lawyer coming out in you here. I hope I'm right and that your wrong on this one. Time will tell. There is still a lot of time between now and football season. The NFL draft is about to start and I don't want to get into a guessing game contest over the pandemic. Take care.

Just did. Thanks for the permission to do so Bob.

I'm confident we will be playing football this fall and starting on time. The media likes to play up the worst case scenarios and ignore anything that goes against that narrative. The only way we don't start on time is because of the pressure applied by a single-minded media. We the people are seeing through it.

I was thinking the same thing.

I wonder if he is leaving New Prairie because he felt like he had to have a different demeanor there, while he can be more Radtke-like at Portage. Just speculating.