Impartial_Observer

I have this game a couple of times recently, I feel your pain.

lol, did a MS DH last night and I don’t remember the score from either game, I know Madison won the 8th grade game.

I will preface this by saying I am the world’s worst prognosticator: Bedford North Lawrence at Martinsville Columbus East at 5A #5 Bloomington South Floyd Central at 6A #4 Louisville St. Xavier Greenwood at Seymour New Albany at Franklin South Dearborn at Jennings County 5A #3 Whiteland at Jeffersonville No real clue, saw a couple of teams in scrimmages, which really tells me nothing.

I did not see Merrillville, Valpo, or Snider. I’m basing my opinion on the teams I saw in the south and the final score of the ship. Again this all my opinion but just judging the games based on speed of the game, skills I saw, etc. I think there were several 4A teams capable of winning 5A as well as a few 3A. We had Castle at NA early in the tournament, and I know Castle had been decimated by injury as well as losing their leading rusher early in the game at NA. Hats off to Castle for making it to the SS, but having seen Castle over the years that wasn’t one of their better clubs. Might have been interesting if half their starters weren’t standing in the SL in street clothes.

I can’t wrap my head around how these facilities are oriented from these pics, but in the past weren’t the bathrooms in the MS in the east EZ?

I saw quite a bit of 5A last year and I felt like 4A certainly and the upper echelons of 3A were better teams.

I believe they have home brewed root beer as well.

I had a freebie at Dominoes. FWIW, if you’re in town I HIGHLY recommend Brooklyn Pizza and Brewery. Beer is brewed in-house. Shawn Malone is the owner, great community support, free concerts, this is the kind of local business you want to support. Tell them BFP sent, I’m sure I’ll equate a huge discount lol. Great place for a pregame meal and a couple of beers before the game.

Nope, I went home after work, took a nap, ordered a pizza and sat on my ass all evening, it felt exhilarating.

But the Schnitzelbank!

Is there any TV money involved? I could see this on ESPN or something.

Because it’s on the schedule.

I’m not making a disparaging comment regarding OV. My point being how is this an upgrade? I think BNL achieves what the coaching staff hopes to achieve and you can’t get to OV from ANYWHERE.

OV had a great run last year…..I would challenge anyone on this board from recollecting when was the last “great run?” I’ve seen them several times over the years….it’s typically been mediocre at best.

My kid played a non-revenue college sport, believe me I feel it.

Here’s my beef with this whole thing and perhaps I have some romantic notion of college sports. The decision to make all these conference changes is first, foremost, and ONLY about money. Specially Football and MBB money. What about the wrestling team, or the women’s LAX team, or the swim teams? You know the student athletes who don’t have a million dollar contract at the end of their rainbow? What have we really done to them? Does Maryland really have to travel to Eugene, OR to find competition? What does this do to any Big Ten school’s travel budget? Will all of this cash be rolling downstream to the women’s LAX team? Somehow I doubt it. Scott Hall Softball HC at Butler told me when they joined the Big East their travel expenses went up 70K, and they receive $0 in budget bump. Barry Collier made the decision based only on MBB. All any of this does is hasten the end of the NCAA. And while I know I’m old and from another time, there are still NCAA student athletes out there, we’re setting for the money and the aid of a handful of players who will see the next level.

I think it has a lot more to do with what you’re trying to accomplish with your scrimmage. Everyone is going to look like shit. First time at game speed, a lot of stuff still hasn’t been installed offensively and defensively, I think sometimes your more interested in looking at combinations of players, technique type stuff, and really just competing. One caveat I find interesting is at some point during this scrimmage something is going to go awry, how do my players react to that? Those type of things vs did we beat Mitchell.

Geez boys, it was a joke.

Well this is going to make the Rose Bowl awkward.

I remember Knight bitching about the late night trip from Penn State. It’s only a matter of time until the conferences create their own Basketball Tournament and at that point the NCAA is over.

Beef tastes like beef, 100%, and it doesn’t even try.

FWIW the secretaries are the real unsung heroes of HS Athletics.

lol, taking care of the officials. I told the AD of you put me in charge, we’ll never have a problem having officials. I committed for this season, may go check out a big game on off nights, may sub, I’ve had several people contact me. For the last 40 years my Friday nights have been dictated by my schedule, frankly I’m kind of looking forward to some free time. May just sit in the back yard at the fire pit and drink, who knows what I’ll be doing.

Congratulations to Reed, well deserved.

I have retired from Friday nights and Seymour has offered me a volunteer Friday night position for their home games. I’m looking forward to the next phase of my Football career and seeing more HHC action. I should actually get a chance to watch the games and see someone besides the QB and the LT. 😉