MHSTigerFan

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.

While I get what you’re saying, understand that we’ve played Castle in the scrimmage for quite a few years. I’ve been to at least the last 8 or 9. And Doug’s been their coach for roughly 20. So I kind of have an idea what to expect. I think it would be as wrong to say you can learn nothing about a team by watching those as it would to be definitive about how they’re going to be. And I’m simply saying that Castle didn’t look as sharp as they normally do. No more and no less.

90% of pre-season HS rankings are bunk. The only ones that mean anything are for teams that were good last year that return a lot of key players. To your point about Castle…anybody who watched their scrimmage against Memorial would be pretty skeptical of them. Granted, it’s a very limited sample size, it’s very early in the season, and coaches aren’t calling a game as they would in the season. But, still, they didn’t look very sharp.

I don’t know where to look for the game links. But I’d guess either on IHSAATv.org or the Memorial athletics website.