scarab527

In a world where you have said many ridiculous things, THIS might be the most ridiculous thing you've ever said.

The last time a team from outside the Donut won the title in the highest class was Penn in 2000. While the North has produced good teams in that time span, let's not kid ourselves here.

The 'Indy bias' is justified seeing the dominance Indy has had over the largest classes for the past 20 years. Teams from outside the donut will need to win multiple state titles in order to shake that off, one won't be enough (nor should it be considering said Indy dominance). I do think this CP team is pretty good, as do I think Carroll is good. Are either good enough to beat whatever Indy team they play in the semistate? I'm not sure. I think some of us thought Merrillville was good enough last year and we saw how that turned out. I will say in regards to CP that I think they're better equipped to deal with a team from down there than Merrillville has been the past 3 years mainly do to their line play, discipline, and the expertise of their coaching staff. Good thing the tournament is starting soon and all of this speculation and posturing will be put to rest.

Luers is a contender imo. I could easily see them getting to at least semi-state.

I didn't see the game but from checking MaxPreps I'm not sure this is accurate unless all Ballentine did was hand the ball off as they didn't record him throwing a pass. Also didn't see Skinner say anything in the Times or Tribune about the situation. For what it's worth, here's Henry's stats so far this season: 140/194 (72.2%), 1469 yards, 18 TD - 2 INT, 120.4 QBR.

I was a believer until last week. Now I'd have to agree with you.

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."

In chess there are objective 'best moves' based on the game state, etc. This is why a computer can figure that out. They don't do as well with subjectivity.

There's times when I'm not sure whether Cody is completely delusional or actually a troll mastermind. And that's when I realize he must be a troll mastermind.

Sounds good to me

I'd be down for this and could help grade as well. Unfortunately I can't help with any sort of digitization of the picks.

I think those are a little different because of the groupings of those sectionals. CG and Warren literally couldn't have gotten a bad draw. I was talking more about sectionals where draws can actually impact who ends up winning.

“You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink.”

Oh no, one team isn’t going to get to win the one playoff game they otherwise would have. What an absolute tragedy. How will they ever recover from this great injustice? If all you’re judging is postseason success then even with a qualifier you could say the regular season results don’t matter at the end of the day. Get off the internet and go get a breath of fresh air. You’ve been posting constantly on this thread for days now and clearly you’re very mad lmao. It really isn’t that big of a deal and you better get used to it because the IHSAA doesn’t seem like they’re going to change it anytime soon. Oh no, I had one. Calm down, son. It’ll be alright. Just show me on the doll where the all-in format hurt you.

Good thing no one is making that claim lmao. Keep constructing strawmen so that you can knock them down. Hope it makes you feel better about yourself. This is getting sad.

This. If you told any coach or player in the state that regular season games don't mean anything, you'd get laughed out of the room. As you should be.

Definitely could say that looking at it from their perspective. I was looking at it from the viewpoint that GS is the defending champ and is many people's (including myself) pick to win 3A South. Just felt that the draw had higher stakes for them. Still expect them to get through.

Norwell should win this one handily if they are serious contender for 3A

Honestly the only person I saw saying they could make noise in 3A was DT (rip)

Except if you look most of these teams would’ve had to have beat teams in the top half of the Sagarin ratings to win the sectional, just judging from their rankings in the class and their rankings in the sectional. Back track some more then try again.

@Bobref should take a look as well. A lot of guys acting smug on this thread only to be proven spectacularly wrong…

But I was told in another thread that teams in the bottom half of Sagarin have never done anything in the post season ever. In all seriousness, good job with this.

Fair assessment. I guess I was just looking at it from the perspective that DC will get a less physically taxing game as opposed to Harrison/Plainfield. To your point, Harrison actually getting a competitive game at this point in their season might be good for them as well. I guess we'll just have to wait and see.