Wildcat1992

Agreed. It should be an automatic 1st down. You could have 3rd and 25, have a guy beat his defender and then get molested on the catch in order to avoid a big play. Now you've still got 3rd and long.

Reitz has beaten the 2 worst teams in the SIAC. They get to swim in the deep end against Jasper Friday night. That game will go a long way to showing us if Reitz is for real or not.

LCC in the 2A south seems ridiculous. Potential 4 hour drive for semi-state if LCC and MD are fortunate enough to advance that far.

I think MD and Memorial will be neck and neck, just like they have been the last 2 years. MD starters returning: QB - Wunderlich RB - Pierre and Humphrey WR - McDurmon OL - Boots, Carter, Wells DL - Boots, Ralph LB - Martin DB - Mayer, Humphrey, McDurmon, Martin Fill in the gaps with a JV team that beat Memorial JV 36-0 and I red and gold colored glasses gives the edge to MD. Also, Castle will be right there as well.

Not sure WeBo's defense was super fast, but they did swarm to the ball and they didn't miss tackles, seemed very disciplined. I think they scouted us very well and executed their game plan on defense extremely well. their lines are not big, but they seemed to out-quick MD on friday night. MD was able to get a little pressure on their pass plays, but we really seemed to have no answer for #41. And when you key on him, they run out wide for big chunks.

Last two games against Linton: MD Starters 81 Linton Starters 7 MD JV 0 Linton starters 33 MD has a lot coming back next year as well. I expect another sectional match up between these two.

Also, Linton beat Providence 27-7 and TC beat Providence 35-7. MD beat Linton 37-20. Not sure what this tells us other than Linton and TC had similar games vs Providence and MD blew out Linton. Are Linton and TC actually similar? Any Providence fans on here that want to weigh in?

I think they did go up the night before. Maybe it was just starters that did. I also think there was a fender bender that backed up traffic and kept the team from arriving as early as they usually do.

Not true. MD had a running clock against them last year as well. MD went up 44-7 last year late in the 3rd quarter to get a running clock.

The roster that gets handed out at games now includes freshman

I think the roster on MaxPreps is incorrect. I see two listed that did not play this year. They added 11 freshman to the roster for the post season. Several of those kids didn't dress against North Knox. We did not dress 75 and then increase it with the freshman.

I don't have the roster in front of me, but there are only a few kids on the team that didn't have family attend MD. All these kids grew up in the MD feeder leagues. They did not choose MD just to play football. That's what you aren't understanding. These kids grew up wanting to wear the red/gold, but they would still be attending MD even if there was no football because that is where their parents, aunt/uncles and grandparents all went.

I would say it is likely more a financial thing than a political thing when kids decide to attend one of the public schools vs MD or Memorial. None of the feeder schools have 30 in their class. My son's 8th grade class had I think 20 kids. I would guess that most 8th grade classes that feed MD have 15-20 kids.

Holy Redeemer - some go to Memorial, some end up at Central Corpus Christi - have had kids end up at Reitz Resurrection - have had kids end up at Reitz St. Joe - I know some kids ended up at North St. Wendel - some end up at North Posey West Side Catholic - have had kids end up at Reitz St. Phillip (in Posey county) - some of these kids end up at North Posey or Mt. Vernon St. James (in Gibson county) - many of these kids end up at Gibson Southern

Wunderlich has been the QB since the get go. Looks like some of the passing stats haven't been entered in MaxPreps for some reason. Same for Pierre. He's been the starting RB since week 1, but missed a couple of games late in the season with an injury but is back to what appears to be 100%. Both are sophomores and I think they were thrown to the wolves the first few weeks against Central, Memorial, Castle and Jasper and took a while for them to adjust to the speed of varsity football. They have both improved so much as the season has gone on.

Who said MD was a small town team?

Curious to what the field conditions will be like at NK tomorrow night with all this rain.

2020 MD is not the same as 2019. We lost a ton of good seniors. We had a lot of young kids thrown to the wolves the first 5 games (Central, Memorial, Castle, Jasper and VL). The defense has played well all year long and it looks like the youngsters on offense are coming together at the right time.

I'm sure they still do run it very well. I am curious why you like your chances better after playing RC? MD doesn't run an offense remotely close to what RC runs, so that won't help you. I assume that you are referring to the level of competition that increases your odds?

We didn't have much problem with it last year when we won 35-6. That seems more relevant than a game against RC six years ago.

What does this have to do with the NK/MD game this weekend?

I don't see Central steamrolling 4A. They could very well make a deep run, but they could also lose this weekend to Jasper.

MD Freshman 21 Reitz Freshman 0

MD JV 34 North JV 8

Jasper JV 34 MD JV 28