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The always competitive and entertaining HCC takes on Week 5. Brownsburg has established themselves as the top Dogs. Still some other interesting storylines though. 

Avon @ Franklin Central

Brownsburg @ Fishers

HSE @ Westfield

Noblesville @ Zionsville

Who ya got? Final standings predictions?

DC 35 Mooresville 28

Plainfield 23 Greenwood 21

Whiteland 35 Perry 0

Franklin 22 Martinsville 19

22 hours ago, Staxawax said:

Just what is "LN's place"?  They have an explosive offense with an elite QB.  North Central has a great defense, but containing that QB is a great challenge.  I think LN wins this game.

Is Warren "in their place" at the bottom looking up?  Is Ben Davis finally "in their place"? Very curious statement.

NC will shut down LN. LN has a good team with good players yes, but they will not consistently play like this all year. North Central will put them in their place.

Center Grove 35 Ben Davis 6

Warren Central 20 Lawrence Central 7

North Central 21 Lawrence North 16

Carmel 28 Pike 14

Center Grove looking to run the table

Warren Central has still yet to score a point

Ben Davis could potentially come alive

Carmel offense has issues

North Central looks solid and I believe puts LN in its place Friday night

5 minutes ago, FridayNightLights said:

Week 4 is here-

Greenwood @ Mooresville- Mooresville keeps the train rolling. Pioneers  42-20. 

DC @ Martinsville- DC and Mooresville set to square off next week in what appears to be will be for the conference championship. DC 35-14

Franklin @ Whiteland- First test for Franklin since getting beat week 1 by Danville. Whiteland 28-21

Plainfield @ Perry- Plainfield 35-0.

 

Power Rankings Week 4

1. Mooresville 

2. DC

3. Whiteland

4. Franklin

5. Greenwood

6. Martinsville

7. Plainfield

8. Perry

 

 

Mooresville 35 Greenwood 14

DC 42 Martinsville 13

Whiteland 37 Franklin 20

Plainfield 31 Perry 0

Conference play begins for all teams of the MIC this week.

CG 28 Carmel 17

Pike 23 BD 20

Warren 14 North Central 13

LN 45 LC 21

Thoughts? 

8 hours ago, Whiting89 said:

Source 

https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/post-tribune/sports/ct-ptb-spt-football-notes-st-082820-20200827-euk2gtyqsvcijcxjwjai7f3ubi-story.html

once again region proves its superior to rest of state 

also calumet unlikely to play this year 

Region is definitely not superior...  LOL

12 hours ago, FridayNightLights said:

Some great games and surprises week 1 from the Mid-State. 5-3 in my picks last week. 

Going into week 2:

Greenwood (1-0) vs Indian Creek(1-0) - Greenwood with a great win at Bloomington North last week. Indian Creek has a very talented running back, but if Greenwood can stop him they win. Greenwood 35-21

Martinsville (1-0) vs Bloomington South (0-1) - If you would've asked me last week I would've said BS big, but I think this one comes down to who turns the ball over less. Bloomington South 28-24

DC (0-1) vs Gueirn Catholic (1-0)- DC will bounce back after playing the #1 team in the state. DC 35-14

Plainfield (0-1) vs Tri-West (1-0)- Plainfield 27-14

Franklin (0-1) vs Shelbyville (0-1)- Tough loss for Franklin last week. Franklin should score at will this week.  49-0

Mooresville (1-0) vs Danville (1-0)- Danville looking to take down back to back Mid-State opponents. Mooresville 35-21

Perry  (0-1) vs Southport (0-0) - Southport 42-21

Whiteland (1-0) vs Gibson Southern (0-1)- GS has a stud of a qb, but I think Whiteland it too much to handle. 49-21

 

Week 1 Power Ranking Mid State

 

 

 

 

Greenwood 27 Indian Creek 22

Bloomington South 31 Martinsville 13

DC 45 Guerin Catholic 7

Plainfield 28 Tri West 7

Franklin 42 Shelbyville 0

Mooresville 36 Danville 22

Whiteland 44 Gibson Southern 17

5 hours ago, Warren Central Warrior said:

I'm back to posting MIC content after taking it easy the past few months. Here is my Week 2 preview of the MIC.

Ben Davis at Avon: The Giants once again started their season with a loss after winning 20 straight season openers. 38-7 was the final score against Brownsburg. Avon started the season with a 62-34 loss to Lawrence North. Two teams seeking revenge face off at Avon. Prediction: Avon over Ben Davis 38-14

Cathedral at Carmel: The series is back after a hiatus. Both teams looked impressive last night. I like Carmel in this one. Greyhounds win in a close one, 33-28

LC at LJ: Bronchos kick Bears 55-0

Lawrence North at Marion: Wildcats win in Marion 62-28

North Central at HSE: Panthers in a tight one, 28-21

Pike at Fishers: Tigers bounce back from their loss 35-14

Open: Center Grove, Warren Central 

Give me your insight on next week's games. I hope my Warriors will play soon.

Avon 35 Ben Davis 21

Cathedral 28 Carmel 24

LJ 34 LC 13

LN 70 Marion 13

North Central 28 HSE 25

Pike 23 Fishers 20

CG 28 Warren 14

On 8/12/2020 at 9:19 AM, Bobref said:

So, because we aren’t avoiding one type of contact, we shouldn’t avoid any type? Great logic. You can’t play football without blocking and tackling. But you can play it without handshakes.

So hands aren’t going to touch while playing with sweat and tackling and everything else? But a coin toss can’t be allowed??? I’m just saying. At least have the players go out there. If they don’t want to handshake I’m totally fine with that. But to keep players separated for a coin toss and then 3 minutes later go tackle each other is just defeating the point 

Cracks me up that there won’t be a normal coin toss with handshakes with players but they are allowed to go tackle one another and be in full contact the rest of the night

35 minutes ago, MICFan34 said:

If we're on borrowed time with a season, wish teams would just play their Week 1 opponent this Saturday, instead of playing a scrimmage. 

Teams probably aren’t ready yet

Center Grove and Brownsburg on Friday night

Teams are still scrambling to find scrimmages at the moment. Must be hard for coaches. Also, should’ve just kept scrimmages on Friday. Some places may not allow fans on Saturday anyway.

5A:

1. New Pal

2. Cathedral

3. Valpo

4. Zionsville

5. Dwenger

6. Decatur Central

7. Floyd Central

T8. Bloomington North/Bloomington South

10. Mishawaka

6A:

1. CG

2.Brownsburg

3. Carmel

4. Avon

5. Warren Central

6. North Central

7. Penn

8. Lawrence North

9. Merrillville

10. Homestead/BD

Fishers/HSE/Westfield are question marks who sit right outside this list

20 hours ago, psaboy said:

I'm not sure about that. If they played there (Gib S) it would be interesting IMO. Probably differnet if GS played at WC. I hear Gib S has a good QB though, may be able to keep competitive??? Keep within 14-21??

One QB wouldn’t change the outcome of that game. Warren central would hurt Gibson Southern players

56 minutes ago, Bobref said:

Well there you go. Have Warren travel to Gibson Southern. It’ll be a culture shock for all involved. Problem solved.

Gibson southern would get hurt by Warren Central. Won’t happen and shouldn’t happen.

1 minute ago, from_the_sidelines007 said:

Lots talking and planning going on now.

And, still a lot of talk and planning still to come.

With the present mask requirement in Indiana, would a delay help the numbers level off?

 

In your opinion, what are the options for the HS football season?

1 - Cancel the season entirely?

2 - Postpone the season to the spring?

3 - Postpone the season for Weeks 1 - 4 and pick up with week 5 (that would put us at September 18 to start)?

4 - Postpone the season and play the last 4 regular season games (September 25 start with Week 6)?

5 - Other suggestions?

 

What say you?

 

as always, the game is better

from_the_sidelines007

Number 3. Give teams that are in different phases or starting late a chance to catch up. Plus it gives IHSAA more time and everyone a chance to figure this all out. 

30 minutes ago, Julio said:

Hopefully the IHSAA and individual schools will be smart and stop all outside athletic activities, such as baseball, basketball, and softball since they are not in season, and just make the student athletes concentrate on Fall Sports.  From what I have read and heard from other coaches, most of these student athletes have been doing travel sports where they are being exposed to a vast majority of the population.  This increases the risk of catching Covid-19.

Travel sports are spreading more of this. And they have been being played well before the IHSAA came back open. I am also somebody who believes all the showcase events and camps should not be happening. By looking at pictures on social media (Twitter) it looks like zero social distancing is happening. Kids from all of the state are represented at this. It makes the IHSAA look foolish for all of their rules that are to be followed with these events taking place.

I’d like to see which teams moved onto the next phase and which are staying at phase 1 protocols. Reply here on what your team is doing for this week or if you have heard of what certain teams are doing. I know every school district has their own thoughts and ideas.

This is expected. It’s going to happen anywhere in trying to get back to normal life. Not a shock at all

16 hours ago, CoachSnyder said:

Rensselaer had 3 HOF coaches on the same staff in the mid to late 1960s.  Bill Siderewicz, Head Coach, Chris Geesman of Penn fame as an assistant and Dale Hummer of Fountain Central and Dekalb fame as an assistant.  Then there was Joe Burvan who is in Wrestling HOF as an assistant and was head coach at one point with an undefeated team at Rensselaer.  That was a staff.

Probably about as good of staff as a program could have

3 hours ago, Boilernation said:

Unreal. Really looking forward to watching them play this year. Fingers crossed we can actually watch them play this year. I have no logical reasoning for making this statement as it's truly a gut feeling, but I have a feeling they're going to come out firing and open a can of whoop*** on Warren in Week 1. 

I like CG from the South and I’ll take Penn from the North. No particular reason I just feel that program will find a way to win and get back to the state finals with Carmel goung South. However, i think there could be at least 4 or 5 schools who makes it from the north 

5 hours ago, IndianaWrestlingGuy1 said:

Maybe I’m missing something, but there seems to be little talk of the Cathedral Irish here. They return all their skill players sans the QB and majority of OLine. Also advancing is a stacked junior class of 40 players that were undefeated freshmen through arguably the toughest freshmen schedule in the country. Senior depth and leadership at D-Line, RB, WR1, WR2. 
 

Our schedule lightens this year too as we only travel to Penn and Louisville Trinity. We did add a big game with Carmel out of the gates and an emerging Westfield team. I believe this is the deepest Cathedral team in a decade. We’ll know more after Carmel. 

Cathedral will be back in the state finals this year. That is my pick for the South