scarab527

1 hour ago, temptation said:

Not my intent at all.  We all have to admit that 15 days ago, Valpo’s resume was not all that impressive.

15 days ago Valpo still would’ve beaten Lutheran. I’m not “crapping on” Lutheran at all. I’ve consistently said since this was brought up this is mostly just a testament to how good of a program they’ve built. 

I just want to point out that there were people on this forum LAST WEEK saying that Lutheran could beat Valpo…

Just now, slice60 said:

I only saw the OT but the Valpo QB made a SportsCenter 9-yard TD run on 4th down. Then they spread 'em out & RB waltzed in for 2pt conv & the win. Congrats to the Valparaiso Vikings!!! Way to represent for the DAC.

My first thought was John Elway in the super bowl. What a play on 4th and goal by that kid. 

After a Luers kor TD, Bowen takes a handoff like 70 yards for his 5th TD.

42-23 Andrean in the 3rd. 

5 minutes ago, GOLDRUSH1985 said:

This final is a shocker for me . Where did Valpo come from ? They were beaten badly in week 1 . 

They’ve gotten a lot better since then, this is a very young team, many of whom were making their first varsity start in that game. Different quarterback as well who’s maybe given them a spark as a runner. Marshall is just a really good coach and his teams just don’t make mistakes or beat themselves. And their formula of a strong defense and running game is tailor-made for the playoffs and travels well. 

Thank you Carroll for putting off the talk of Indy supremacy for at least one more week.

In all seriousness though, congrats to the Chargers. Great run they’ve had for their fallen teammate.

Valpo wins 22-21. Wow.

Andrean up 28-13 over Luers at half. Bowen with a Herculean performance so far with 200+ rushing and 3 TDs, but he’s banged up. We’ll see if he’s limited in the second half and just how much that will impact the game. 

14 minutes ago, psaboy said:

Last I saw HSE player got hurt, D linemen maybe??

 

Yeah I saw the ambulance on the field…

and another kid just went down for HSE…

What’s going on in Carroll vs HSE? Long break in the action 

15 minutes ago, ASJCPUMA said:

Has the lake effect snow stayed away from Merrillville?

So far but we'll see

My Senior year, Regional game vs Jimtown, it was so cold that I wore gloves (never did). Just putting your hand in the dirt made your fingers freeze up it felt like. After the first series of the game I came out and had to put my hands up to the industrial-strength heater we had (one of the ones they tell you not to touch or get too close to under any circumstances) for about 5 minutes to get the life back into them. No clue if it was 24 degrees that night but it felt like it. I think that's what I would say was my worst weather game experience. 

The week before, sectional championship vs Marian, the wind was insanely strong. Like a pass couldn't even be completed strong. We ended up moving that game to Saturday. If we had played that Friday I think I would've said that's the worst weather game I had ever played in. 

1 minute ago, Boilernation said:

Got ya...thanks! How is Father Eckert Field holding up? 

Looked good in the picture I saw of it yesterday. Looks like they were practicing on another field this week as well to keep it from getting torn up. 

19 minutes ago, Boilernation said:

I think one of those DB's is Patrick Clacks though. Is that correct @scarab527? If Maxpreps is correct, he has 70 receptions for over 1,000 yards and 13 TD's. The Junior also has an assortment of D1 scholarship offers. What he makes up for in height vs. the Luers WR's is likely made up for in talent. Nonetheless, it won't be an easy night to throw the ball based on weather conditions.

Clacks has not played DB this year at all from what I've seen. No clue whether that will hold true tonight. The Andrean Secondary has done a solid job all year long up until this point, however. We'll see how they do against Nick Thompson. 

On 11/14/2022 at 9:10 PM, Komets2727 said:

I gotta say, Luers is not getting much respect round these parts. Almost every year, they are around a .500 team and almost every year they seem to be making a state title run. There is nothing that Andrean is going to do that they haven’t already seen this year. They have played much better teams with more athletes and speed. I think this will be a very good game that goes down to the wire, Luers 24 - Andrean 21

While this is true you can say the exact same for Andrean in regards to Luers. Should be a great game tonight. 

On 11/16/2022 at 2:20 PM, ragdoll said:

I would consider the mercy rule as used in Indiana from games I have seen to be akin to Burt Reynolds for Ned Beatty's hostage situation in the movie "Deliverance."

Well... that's definitely one way to describe it. 

1 minute ago, temptation said:

When teams from similar areas of the state are playing in different classes, they try to put those games on the same day.

Well, I stand corrected. Kinda weird that Gibson and Mater Dei or Zionsville/Westfield didn't play on the same day last year then. 

1 minute ago, Staxawax said:

They've actually taken travel considerations into play for the last 3 or so years.

Really? How so? 

 2/4/6A one day, 1/3/5 the other. Not sure which is which this year. They haven't changed that formula since the inception of 6A. I wish they would bundle teams from one area together on one day to make it more convenient but I doubt that will ever happen. 

I feel like this whole debate is very subjective. There's a few instance-specific factors (team's familiarity with travel, the smoothness of the trip, the ability to keep regular routine, etc.) that I think could impact the degree in which a long bus trip can affect a team. 

18 minutes ago, dazed and confused said:

Im really dazed you didn't know this........it IS handy !

Haha never noticed it before

I'll take Chatard 28-21. 

1 hour ago, foxbat said:

I buy in to the idea that it's hard to beat a team twice in a season when the initial score is tight ... kind of the law of averages.  But it's just amazing the swing on some of these games.  A couple of them make sense when you look at injury reports, but some are just head-scratchers like, how did Pike Central let Washington run up 41 points in the first game and shut out their offense and then turn around and limit Washington to a single TD?

Yes, that's definitely the wildest part of it. There's a 27-point swing on average across these games. I think it just goes to show how a few plays can make a large difference in the score of a game between two evenly matched teams. If those teams play again you can then have the same effect for opposite team.   

I'm not sure if this has been done in previous seasons, so correct me if I'm wrong, but it looks like John Harrell has been keeping track of all the teams that avenged a regular season loss in the playoffs. So far there have been 17 playoff rematches with a different outcome than the regular season matchup. There's the old cliché that "It's hard to beat the same team twice" and while some roll their eyes at this I've always thought there was a lot of truth to it. We saw rematches go the other way last year with BD-Brownsburg, Northridge-NorthWood, and Michigin City-Valpo, I'm sure among others. Maybe if I have time later I'll try to go through and see the percentage of how many rematches got flipped this season. Just something I thought was interesting and wanted to point out.

2 minutes ago, temptation said:

Same.  It just doesn't feel like a true "state championship game" to me if both participants are within 30 minutes of downtown Indy.  Maybe I am alone in that thinking.

Go Chargers!

Agreed. Think Carroll's defense might be able to keep this one class for awhile, but I just don't see them scoring enough points to keep up with HSE.