MHSTigerFan

On an SIAC note, I’m hearing that Memorial alum Branson Combs will be starting at LB for the Jacksonville Jaguars tomorrow. What a journey for him: - He gets only 1 scholarship offer from SIU (which was puzzling, Branson was dominant in HS). - Becomes an ILB for the first time, gaining about 25 lbs. - Plays his way to a Wake Forest offer for his final season. - Goes undrafted, signed by JAX. Makes their practice squad in Year 1. - Falcons try to pick him up off the Jags’ PS. Jags protect him by putting him on 53 as a rookie. - Plays ST in Year 1 - Set to start at LB for Week 1 of his second year.

The stream was really spotty tonight. Seems like they always have problems with it at the Bowl. I don’t know if the Internet access there sucks or what it is. Hopefully the archive game will have everything. Because the livestream missed several scoring plays.😏

While that’s true about the penalties, the Tigers’ run defense was exposed. Whipped up front all night long. Awful tackling. Outside of a couple of games against terrific East Central teams, I can’t remember the last time a Ben Johnson defense got beaten so bad. They did do a better job in the 2nd half, but they also had a lot of help from North TOs. Need to get Ellis back ASAP on offense.

Too many guys getting in the backfield and plugging gaps up the gut.

Memorial is going to have a difficult time in the tournament if they don’t figure out their offensive woes. Excluding the “bye week” games against Harrison, Bosse, and Central, the offense has struggled in their past 2 competitive games (Mater Dei and Reitz). It looked good to start the season in the first 2 games against Jasper and North. I’m not sure they’d beat Jasper if they played again - maybe both of them. Ben Johnson’s defense still looks excellent. Grayson Carter has emerged as one of the best players in the conference. And Brady Combs is starting to look like a Combs. But they have to figure out a way to sustain more drives. They can’t just count on occasional big plays and defensive TDs.

Huge win by the Titans! Wow!

And now the Pats score on 4th down. Back up 34-31. 2 minutes remain.

The Titans might just pull this off. Impressive showing for them, even if they don’t.

I’ll say HH by ~20. I respect Nick Hart and his program a whole lot. But HH is on a different level this year.

I thought MD won the line of scrimmage, for the most part. And that disrupted a lot of what Memorial wanted to do on offense.

I can’t remember ever seeing a comeback like that - 14 down with just over a minute to go? Did Tyrese Haliburton suit up for the Tigers?

I think I'm going to pick North to upset Reitz. Other than that, I like the favorites.

I agree. Just gave the $40 -- and encourage everybody else to do the same. You don't know what you got until it's gone (for a few weeks)!

I agree about Memorial's victories over both Jasper and North. I think both of those are pretty good football teams. I talked to a longtime Reitz football fan (and alum) this weekend. He went to the game in Jasper -- and said it was the last one he's going to. He said something about some of the Reitz players getting into it with each other during the game? I hadn't read anything about that.

While I’m certainly not going to say that coaches don’t ever add/edit/delete plays and sets on either side of the ball, if there are two current head coaches in the SIAC who know each other’s playbooks intimately, it’s Hurt and Hurley.