scarab527

If anyone wants to bet, you can have the field in 3A and I’ll take Chatard, since apparently so many are convinced they’re not a sure thing.

Warms my heart to see coaches of mediocre teams coming together ❤️

Lmao you’re the clown getting mad defending turf. Sorry my comments struck a nerve. The truth hurts.

They didn’t. Just making an observation.

Eastside had beaten them two years earlier and only lost by a touchdown the year prior. They were also undefeated. From a person outside of the FW bubble it really wasn’t all that shocking. There were also Andrean and Mater Dei. This year there’s legitimately likely one team in 1A that Lutheran won’t running clock.

Would that be BD, Brownsburg, CG, and…?

No, any team with a state title or even appearance is exempt from this. You know it’s all love for the Bombers.

I’m sorry but Chatard beat Cathedral…if they’re healthy they’re not getting touched in 3A. Their QB went down against Guerin and that’s what made it so close. They play again healthy I doubt it’s as close. I guess I’d give someone in 1A a slightly better shot than someone in 3A because AC did take Lutheran to the wire a couple years ago, while Chatard has won 3A almost every year it’s been in the class for seemingly forever.

You’re right. However I don’t think people thought the gap between Leurs and the rest of 2A that year was nearly as big as between Lutheran and the rest of 1A currently (at least I didn’t). And with that “you never know” mentality I doubt you guys will have a letdown.

3 regionals in a state where only the post season matters. I stand by my comment.

One thing I'm gonna say is last year 5A had by-far the most interesting tournament (in my opinion) and this year its stacking up to be the same way. Whether the class is weak or not there's a whole lot of parity in it and I think that's nice from a fan's perspective (and maybe was one of the goals of the 6 class split/success factor?). This year there's 3 classes (1A, 3A, 4A) where we truthfully could just save a lot of time and give the trophy to the best team right now and not even need to play the tournament, that's how lopsided they are. So while I might think that the teams that currently make up 5A are mediocre in relation to their size, I have to say that 5A is arguably the 'healthiest' class (if you consider healthy to be the fact that seemingly anyone in the top 10 of it could win).

Always coaches of teams that have never won anything that talk the most on this website, ironic.

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The point is the owners aren’t the ones losing money here…lol And not to get too far off subject, but that’s not the reason RPOs aren’t the run in the NFL more at all. The speed of players make RPOs much less effective and ineligible man downfield rules are enforced much more in the NFL than college. Not to mention NFL teams utilizing offenses that operate under center more often than not. It’s not about avoiding getting QBs hurt.

It’s obviously significant to the guys who potentially lost millions of dollars over it. My point was that the whole “running qbs get injured more” take is not really backed up by evidence.

The report also flat out states that approximately 48 extra injuries are caused per year solely because of the use of turf in the NFL. I would say that’s compelling enough reason to not use turf.

The irony is I think some of the only people on this forum that don’t believe that are you Snider guys lol

Last year you guys averaged 80.69 passing yards per game. Against Valpo you had 58 yards passing and had more passing TDs than your average per game. Yes, those 22 lost yards of passing were definitely what lost you guys the game. Not the fact that Valpo threw 5 passes all night and you guys still couldn't stop the run even though you knew it was coming. C'mon man.

EC has already convincingly beaten a team in Moeller that is substantially better than any team in 5A (who CalPreps puts at a 92% chance of beating Snider, fwiw). Only thing I'm going to say about the snowstorm comment is that Valpo played in the same weather. If Snider was that much better the weather should not have been a factor. Just sounds like sour grapes.

Here's a link to a study that shows in the NFL shoulder injuries are 9% more likely to occur on turf than grass. https://www.sportsinfosolutions.com/2022/11/08/the-effect-of-turf-on-injuries-in-the-nfl/ Also relevant to this, this study actually shows that contact with ground injuries happen more on turf than natural grass: https://www.the33rdteam.com/category/analysis/analyzing-nfl-injury-frequency-on-grass-vs-turf-fields/ I will also say that many studies have come out saying that mobile QBs actually get hurt at similar rates than 'statue' QBs (with some even saying they get hurt less), this being just one of them: https://www.bruinsportsanalytics.com/post/qb-mobility

Lol this argument is so tiresome. No one is arguing that injuries don't happen on grass. They just happen at lower rates than artificial turf, which has been proven over and over again in studies.

Think there’s been good points made on both sides here. Some thoughts: - Only Chatard in 3A could be a consistent contender in 5A. This does not make 3A as a whole better than 5A. 5A as a whole is much better than 3A and I would argue that this year and last year 3A was actually very weak outside of Chatard. - East Central would win 5A this year. No other 4A team would as I believe the class is actually pretty weak outside of EC. Last year you had 3 teams (EC, New Pal, Roncalli) that could’ve won 5A. However I don’t think you can say however that since the inception of the sixth class 4A has been better than 5A overall. Most years 5A I would say was better. If you look at the history, the two teams that have played for 5A state have been better than the two teams that have played for 4A state nearly every single year. - Cathedral/New Pal dominance in 5A is hard to look at as a knock on 5A when those teams were some of the very best in the entire state those years. - There is a significant jump in competition from 5A to 6A that is the largest between any two classes. 5A is a lot closer to 4A than 6A. This is why you’ve seen 4A teams bump up and still do well and mediocre 6A bump down and make long runs.

This is the first I've heard of this and as crazy as this is, I think it does have some legs to it. The authorities themselves stated the crime scene was highly posed and even described it as 'non secular'. And the defense wouldn't just say all that stuff about the details of the bodies if it wasn't true, whether or not all of what described was actually at the crime scene is obviously easily provable in court. Now I think the question becomes: did Mr. Allen (or the actual murderer, presuming innocence) know about this cult (assuming it is actually real) and deliberately make the crime scene appear this way to throw off investigators? Or is the supposed cult not real and this was just a total red herring to begin with? Or, as unbelievable as it sounds, was this a real cult sacrifice? Either way a very strange twist in what has already been a very strange and sad story. I hate speculating on something so dark but I must admit this case has intrigued me ever since it originally happened.

Exactly. Big games are big games no matter what round they come in. Neither team is thinking about the semantics of what round it is being played in during the lead up to or during the game.