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You gotta love the eyes of the Wildcat. This is great news and the first Hanover-Lowell game (Hanover is Lowell's border neighbor to the north) will be standing room only.

But you are ALWAYS better of with a bye than a game. You cant be eliminated on bye week. Nobody can get injured on a Friday that you dont play. Ask offensive linemen who play every offensive down for nine weeks if they want a bye week (or) two before the playoffs.

Thanks, NLC............But it is hard to grasp. Why did 3 teams drop out of 6A? I dont think there were 29 teams in 6A the last 2 years.///I'm pretty sure there were 32. If exact enrollments fluctuated, why did some teams drop to 5A?

Andrean did not move up to 3A like they were supposed to so everybody in Sectional 33 has a problem. 😒

There should be 32 teams in 6A.. The 32 teams with the biggest enrollment. A 3-team sectional isnt a sectional. Its one game for somebody Let Class 1A have the byes/ They need them. There's five eight teams sectionals in 1A

DT; As you know the Hammond schools have little chance to compete against Crown Point, Merrillville and Lake Central in football. Morton was state rated in 4A And DAC teams are not going to drop natural rivals CP-Lowell, LC-Munster, Merrillville-Andrean to play Hammond or Elkhart. Why would they?

I hadn't seen her play before this year. She's good defensively at 3B and her bat is coming around. I think next year she'll probably be their shortstop. The big game now is (barring a sectional upset) Crown Point at Lake Central....for the regional title on June 1...I think the winner of that game gets to the state title game.

They could've called their gym 'The Ice Box' And if they could build a dynasty..it could be 'The Ice Age' 😉

It was a weak choice, DT....and there are two others Wolves already in NW Indiana. I wanted the school to continue to be Hammond high as well. (and as you know, 'Bulldogs' is taken. I just wanted to send you a couple of photos of someone you may know. The battle for softball supremacy in Lake County goes on!)

Tommy!!! Laying some history on us!!!!

He's got to go to Denver and battle Patrick Mahomes 3 times every year.... ...all-time NFL TV ratings for the 'State Farm showdowns' 👍

Lets wait 20 years and revisit 7A... 8 years is nothing, really.

Help me here. Valparaiso went to the 2019 5A finals and the 2020 5A semistate. Valpo moves up to 6A, right?

If Merrillville is 5A, that's a major, major change. Portage, Chesterton, Crown Point and Lake Central do NOT have to beat Merrillville just to get out of the sectional.? That's sunshine on a rainy day.

I'm reading that River Forest coach Joe O'Connell has resigned.............. To become the 'passing game coordinator' at Crown Point. I like it.

True, I reversed the scores....H-F won on March 19 and lost on March 26. Thanks for the update

Big win last Friday, though. 31-0 over Lockport. Lincoln Way is a monster in Illinois.

Bob, Then allow defenders to face mask offensive players because while I am not on the playing field like you, I watch games only from the sidelines and I can honestly say that I have never seen a player injured (that I knew of) from a defender grabbing an offensive player's facemask. Have you? Its just the cumulative affect of hitting someone in the head. If its bad for the offensive player, its just as bad for the defensive player. And offensive players grab the defender's facemask all the time. It just isnt called if they let go quickly.. Like I said. In another era, you could pull the head gear off an offensive player and it wasn't a foul. Rules change.

But Bob, the question still stands. A strike to the head that, I might agree, hurts the neck more than the head.? Its dangerous under any definition. Why is it legal for an offensive player to do that?. Its taught. Its cheered. But a defensive player cannot do basically the same thing by grabbing the facemask. Linemen who jack up the heads of the offensive linemen on the pass rush get the yellow flag. You see it up close where the running back goes straight to the head of the defender and jacks his head back. Stiff are the shoulder pad. Stiff are his chest. The stiff arm to the head is not anywhere near safe. That rule must change.

I would not allow offensive players to stiff arm defensive players in the head. If face masking is a violation for the defense because the 'strike' of the hand to the head isnt safe, then there's no way on earth a running back stiff arming a defender above the neck or punching him open-handed in the mask is safe. This is one of those archaic rules of football that should have been changed long time ago. Ripping the other guys helmet off used to be legal, too. 🙁

No. And no Mickey Mouse shootout like soccer. Id play a 5th quarter, Gip. Just like basketball.. Recreate the final quarter and let both teams go at it. If the game is tied after the 5th quarter, let it end in a tie. Both sides earned it.

I would like to see the elimination of the present overtime format.. It isnt football. Its a scrimmage down. Play a 5th quarter and then let regular season games end in a tie. Play postseason games to their conclusion no matter how long it takes...

In 2019, Andrean senior Johnny Carrothers started for the 59ers, who won the Class 2A state boys baskteball championship. His sister Jessica Carrothers starts for 4A No. 2 Crown Point in the 2021 girls state playoffs. The question? Has a brother and sister, playing for two different schools, ever reached the championship game of Indiana basketball? Does anybody know?

You are right, FB....It is just Indy...where the most affluent and largest schools exist. More power to 'em Its the private school- public school debate. There's a reason Bishop Chatard has won 15 state titles and 100 other public 3A or 4A schools have none.

I dont understand the negative connotation of the word Crusader.... Just because a group adopts your name does not make it controversial or neagtive. What about the name Patriots?