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Gary West Side @ Valpo, 7pm Friday 

3 hours ago, temptation said:

State title game is the Roncalli/Chatard sectional winner.

Whomever comes out of the north will be roadkill.

Would love to be wrong.

You won’t be. 

54 minutes ago, Boilernation said:

Tommy or anyone up in Duneland territory know what Michigan City has returning? I believe they were fairly young last year. I see that 6'0 Sophomore APB Jaden Hart is a player to keep an eye on. 

They bring back starting QB Giovani Laurent, IFCA Jr All-State DB Kennan Tucker Jr, and 2x IFCA All-State Edge Cornell Branch IV, among others. I think they’ll be a solid team that could potentially make a run in 5A north. 

Hammond Schools make no sense for DAC membership. Wouldn’t be able to field required teams and add basically nothing to the conference except more dead weight. Hammond Central had less than 10 kids at their recent football call out meeting. Morton also doesn’t want to leave their current conference because they believe they’re a “football powerhouse” in it (how a team can consider themselves to be a “powerhouse” with one regional title in their school’s history is anyone’s guess). Penn and Elkhart make a lot of sense though. 

11 hours ago, BigBH said:

"what could I happen to know about any of this silly recruiting stuff"

 

this is not a knock on you, but why would you know much about recruiting when all you know is Rensselaer?  Anything above D3 is extremely rare, and we all know D3 doesn't really recruit.  I'm sure the Andrean twitter kid will be just fine.....I wonder back in the mid 90's if the Rensselaer GOAT would have tweeted "while you sleep I workout"?......actually it's probably better he didn't have social media!!

Lol yeah I’m sure the “Andrean Twitter kid” will be alright. Knowing him, he was probably working out while some pathetic grown man was trying to hate on him anonymously on the internet. Probably why he’s going to be playing major power 5 football and you’ll still be here whining and griping. It takes a special sort of loser to hate on a kid chasing his dream. The only scrub here is YOU. 

15 hours ago, DT said:

I think the two programs are fairly close   Either should be able to play with Valpo.  Morton has really beefed up its schedule.  They open up with 3 6A opponents, including Elkhart, and travel to Indy cathedral and Bloomington South.  I dont think they would have taken on this type of schedule unless they knew they had a solid team this coming season.  I dont know anything about their coach as he just came on board last year in the shortened season.  

Thought I heard some of the kids who transfereed to Merrillville were going back to Morton.  Any word on that?

 

ASS	SECTIONAL	JOHN HARRELL'S INDIANA HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL		RECENT SEASONS
5A	9	E-MAIL CORRECTIONS	FOOTBALL FIELD	0-0
		TOURNAMENT HISTORY
HAMMOND MORTON
GOVERNORS
Coach: Mac Mishler, 3-1 in 2nd year at school

DATE	OPPONENT		CENTRAL TIME				OA 0.0, DA 0.0
Aug. 20		Portage 6A	7:00 pm
Aug. 27	at	Lake Central 6A	7:00 pm
Sep. 3	at	Elkhart 6A	6:30 pm
Sep. 10	at	Munster 5A	7:00 pm
Sep. 17		Gary West 4A ©	7:00 pm
Sep. 24	at	Indianapolis Cathedral 5A	6:30 pm
Oct. 1		Hammond Central 5A ©	7:00 pm
Oct. 9	at	Bloomington South 5A	5:00 pm
Oct. 15	at	East Chicago Central 4A ©	7:00 pm
©GREAT LAKES CONFERENCE GAME

All the kids who transferred to Merrillville are graduating, so Morton won’t be getting any of them back. Morton has always made its living getting transfers from Gary or out of district in general so maybe if they get some studs that way they’ll be decent. But if they’re just putting together the Morton and Gavit teams from last year, no way they’ll be able to play with Valpo. Maybe whoever made their schedule knows something I don’t, but those games against Elkhart and especially Cathedral are going to get ugly unless some new transfer studs are coming to Morton. It’s one thing to give yourself a hard schedule, and an entirely different thing to schedule teams that are truthfully way out of your league. 

1 hour ago, DT said:

I like Morton as a potential darkhouse to get to northern semistate

Michigan City is a better pick imo. 

Andrean is traveling up to Grand Rapids to play Catholic Central in Week 3. Will be the second time these schools have met, with the first being a 28-0 Andrean victory in 2014. CC just came off a state championship this year. Should be a big test for the Niners. 

2 hours ago, SuperQuickArtesians said:

I would love to see Indiana High School football be able to cut down field..

As much I loved seeing WRs chopping down DBs in Paul Johnson’s offense, there’s no way this will happen (I believe it’s also been banned in the NCAA too). However, I do think the rules on legal cut blocks have become too restrictive. RBs should be able to cut in pass pro, TE/H-Backs on Slice blocks, and OL on LBs. But I must admit I’m heavily biased in this regard as a former OLinemen and heavy proponent of zone blocking. 

4 hours ago, Bobref said:

Some bad stuff going down at Hobart involving the football program. Stay tuned.

Heard some rumors about this, thought they seemed a little too outlandish to be true. Seems they actually might be. 

Condolences to the young man’s family and friends. A life cut short. 

1 hour ago, DT said:

The NCC needs to bring in the two Hammond schools to elevate competition within the conference.  

Don't know what they are waiting for

I think you’re overrating the impact this would have. 

1 hour ago, Bobref said:

I think so. They are a good fit size-wise, travel-wise, and they haven’t exactly run away with the conference title. They always have Andrean and Lowell to deal with. In the last 5 seasons, the Brickies are 6-6 against the Red Devils and the 59ers. No reason to move.

They’ve won 1 outright conference title in the past decade. Only shared the title twice. Andrean was 8-2 against them in that time span. Hardly the dominance needed to justify a move back to the DAC. 

1 hour ago, DE said:

Thank the Lord he is free thinker that believes in facts.  That is the difference between him and I and you both apparently.  You 2 who were raised as Catholics, something happened to you both somewhere and turned you away from your faith.  That religion is known to do that.  Did it to me, my mom, her parents, etc.  I am sorry you had to experience whatever it is you all experienced within the Catholic Church.

Would love for you and/or @Bobrefto come to service w/ me.

Facts? You DE? That’s a good joke. And I appreciate the offer, but I’ll also take the hard pass. 

5 minutes ago, DE said:

Good to know.  Glad I send my son to a Christian school and not a Catholic one.

Eh, if he’s a free thinker the result will be the same. 

3 minutes ago, DE said:

Man, what did Catholic schools do to you 2?

Easiest way to turn your kid into a lapsed Catholic is to send them to Catholic schools. 

5 hours ago, Bobref said:

That’s what the Crusaders said. And during the Inquisition. There’s never any shortage of those willing to wrap intolerance in the cloak of religion.

@Bobrefwoke up this morning and decided to speak facts

51 minutes ago, NLCTigerFan07 said:

I almost couldn't believe it when the HCAC (confernce of my alma mater) announced a spring season with the first game being February 27th. I wanted to say "don't these yahoo's know how freaking cold Indiana and Ohio can be in February?" especially considering practices have to be starting soon if they have not already. Temperatures well below freezing especially in North Manchester, Defiance and Bluffton these next few weeks! BRRRRR 🥶

I'm glad the boys will get to play a season, but at the same time, it's too bad they could have pushed it back to a start in beginning of April and just run through mid-May. I know classes/finals are usually the first week of May and what not, but baseball and softball teams regularly stick around after classes end if they make it into national tournament play. I feel like they could have done a 7 week season doing this:

Week 1: 4/3
Week 2: 4/10
Week 3: 4/17
Week 4: 4/24
Week 5: 5/1
Week 6: BYE WEEK during finals*
Week 7: 5/15
Week 8: 5/22

Seems very strange to me that they are trying to start the season in February and be finished by April 10th when they could just keep kids on campus for an extra 2 weeks (and focusing just on football), but I digress.

*assuming everyone has finals the same week. If they don't... I guess I can understand the reason for starting the season so early.

With football hopefully being played in the fall, I think some of these schools wanted to get the season done a little earlier so that they’ve got a bigger gap in between seasons. Playing in April and May then playing again in fall would be a tall task. 

4 minutes ago, Muda69 said:

Yes, I did explain.  And no, I was not offended.  

Exactly how am I a "butthurt moron" by pointing out a simple connection?  Why does that offend you so?

No, no struck nerve.  I was just trying to point how ignorant your baseless assertion of a "sad existence"  truly was.  And now that you are once again proven wrong you lash out with more baseless assertions.  Sounds like you are the twelve year old in this conversation young man, not I.

 

 

Lol you do live a pathetic existence, and this thread proves it. Unfortunately I think you’re too stupid to even realize it. 

17 minutes ago, Muda69 said:

Hmm, much like you do?  I only correctly used the term 'snowflake' when you blindly and incorrectly challenged my statement.  It's clear you were offended by that moniker, just admit it and move on.

And what exactly do you know about my "existence" young Padawan?   I live quite a full life, with a happy marriage of 30+ years, married children who are now starting families of their own, a challenging and satisfying career,  volunteering for various community endeavors, etc.    

Lol I did nothing of the sort, I simply asked you to explain, which you still have never done. Clearly you were offended by my asking you to explain. And I don’t get offended by butthurt morons calling me a snowflake on the internet, I laugh at how mindless they are. Clearly my comment about your pathetic existence struck a nerve seeing as you feel like you have to tell your life story to defend yourself. You’re clearly very insecure. If your family saw your behavior on this website, I would hope they’d be ashamed and embarrassed. The fact that a grown man like you acts like he’s twelve years old is incredibly sad. 

I think it’s pretty obvious that the DAC’s prospects for tournament success are better in 5A. The question is whether these programs will be able to take advantage. 

1 minute ago, Muda69 said:

Snowflake?  How so, exactly?

Your comments don't offend me in the least,  unlike apparently my comments to you.

Lol only snowflakes call people names for simply asking a question. And again, I’m not offended at all. I find you quite funny, if only because your existence is so sad. 

1 minute ago, Muda69 said:

Again, I satisfactorily explained the connection.  Just because a woke snowflake like yourself rejects it doesn't make it any less true.  

And here everybody is the mindset of the modern leftist.  Don't agree with their worldview and politics?  Then they truly wish you hurt, or better yet, dead.

 

 

Good god you are pathetic lmao. I can’t tell whether to keep laughing at you or feel sorry for you. If anyone’s the snowflake here, it’s you. 

3 minutes ago, Muda69 said:

 And I did explain the connection. Only a young woke snowflake would reject such a connection  and be so so willingly "offended" that they respond with a pejorative of their own.

 

Lmao no you didn’t, unless you think posting said quote is explaining. I guess when someone is as stupid as you are that qualifies as an explanation. And I’m not offended at all, laughing at room temperature IQ morons like yourself is quite entertaining. Thanks for the laughs. Now go play with some shiny objects, or better yet, in traffic. 

6 minutes ago, Muda69 said:

1. Yes, there is.  

2. Possibly, if you consider "Chief" a pejorative.  I consider it mostly a term of endearment, but if such nomenclature upsets you then I apologize.   However I doubt one would consider "pathetic simpleton" anything but a pejorative.

 

Lol you called me a ‘snowflake’ simply because I asked you to explain this ‘connection’ between two completely unrelated things. That’s the behavior of a pathetic simpleton, which you are.