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.

Yes, they’ll be streaming games. A couple changes, though. One is that they’re producing it in-house - rather than in partnership with Indiana SRN. Hopefully they’ve got all the resources they need to do it reliably. The other change is that they’re supposed to be adding a 2nd camera. That should help create better coverage when the ball is in either red zone.

It was interesting to see De’Andre Fellows, a sophomore transfer from Bosse, getting 1st team reps for Memorial in the Castle scrimmage. He got the ball a few times, too Looks quick and elusive. This one is hard to predict. Both programs usually put competitive teams on the field. New coaching staff and offense in Jasper, lots of new faces at MHS - Fisher, Ellspermann, Broshears gone… I’ll go with Jasper by 10.

Several coaches making their SIAC debuts: Nero at North, Hess at MD, and Derek Hart at Jasper. Hart has coached elsewhere before (most recently at North Central). But Nero and Hess are marking their first seasons as a HC. I always wondered how an opposing team prepares for a Week 1 game like this. One would think that Hess won’t change much up at MD. Hart likely runs the same looks as he did before. But Nero might have the element of surprise on his side against the Knights.

To that end, it probably is deeply rooted enough in Indiana at this point that it’s unlikely to be going away anytime soon. Nationwide, there are more states moving in this direction to one degree or another than there are ones which are moving away from it.

Huh? You made an assertion - and the quantified evidence you offered pointed in the other direction of the assertion. When asked for evidence that actually supported the claim, you cited a different data point that is almost certainly no different than it was status quo ante. There’s absolutely no supportable argument to be made that school choice will lead or has lead to school segregation - racial, economic, or otherwise. That’s a platitude people make for no reason other than its shock value.

I’m mostly asking you to defend your claim that vouchers result in segregation. Citing a disparity in free lunch qualifications between two schools doesn’t do that. What were those numbers prior to the voucher program even existing? I’d bet they were pretty similar. The two participation data you presented on income and race both point away from school segregation, not towards it. I ask you this — and instead of answering my question you go off on a tangent about special needs students.

At the end of the day, I don’t understand why it matters what school a kid chooses to attend and use the taxpayer dollars allotted for his/her education. Whether it’s School A or School B, the purpose of the expenditure is their education. And can you elaborate more on this “segregation” point you’re trying to make? You cite racial statistics that roughly a third of the voucher students are minorities. But then go on to say it’s some other form of segregation….by explaining that 70% of the users have household incomes of less than $150k? Where does the segregation come in? Which schools are being segregated…and how? Because neither of the stats you cite suggest segregation by either race or income. In fact, both stats suggest a pretty diverse mix.

1) The families using the vouchers pay property taxes too. So I’d argue that it means they’re getting the intended value from paying them. 2) What segregation are you talking about? Can you expound on that - preferably with some kind of real-world data from Indiana’s program? Last I looked at it (which admittedly was several years ago) racial minorities were over-represented in the use of the program. That is, racial minorities represented a higher percentage of voucher users than of the overall state population.

28-24. Linemen placed 4th overall. Top 3 were all 6A.

Jasper and Castle are Drago. We’re Rocky!