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Any upsets any bigger than the Eagles beating Tipton?
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Easbrook big over Blackford. Let's just start game with running clock.
I will take Elwood with upset if you will over MG. I liked the way they played last week with a lot of fight.
Ol' miss over Alex team the struggles with the Defensive side of the ball every year.
OH and Frankton. Well I hope the Eagles of Frankton can get a nice win over OH. Not sure if they have it in them yet but they can definitely keep things close by running the ball and keeping the Defense off the field. I'll take frankton by 2 points. (Also Might be a little biased in my pick but a red and white eagle seems more patriotic. But the golden eagle seems to be more of what you would ever find in nature. So I will always root for the patriotic Eagles)
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On 9/23/2021 at 6:21 PM, GV5 said:
You would be surprised at what kids get away with now! We live in a different time frame. As a former coach I do not agree with it but it is what it is. The AD at Eastbrook is a great man and always does the right thing. May not always agree with everything done but these kids are doing nothing different than we did 20-30 years ago. Problem is everyone has social media and knows everyone's business!
Let these kids learn from their mistakes and move on! I have seen other kids throughout the cic get away with alot worse.
I hope Alexandria puts up a decent fight but not holding my breath. They will have to score 50+ to be competitive and we all know that won't happen. Alex cannot stop anyone with that defense!
This is the best response on here. We'll said sir, well said.
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Blackford -Mg : Blackford with a big win. They look to be improving every week but penalties kill.
Alex - Elwood: Alex wins big but elwood could make it close as Alex is defense optional team.
oakhill- mississinewa: Oakhill if they run the ball well and eat clock can pull this one off. Mississinewa looks to still be finding groove with new qb. Oakhill by a score.
Eastbrook - Frankton: never thought I would be saying this so early "battle of the top teams". I k ow Frankton hasn't really played anyone in the CIC yet, but still great for the young guys on the program for a nice confidence boost and keep them working hard. Eastbrook running clock after half.
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19 hours ago, djbowzz said:
Madison-Grant vs. Mississinewa ©, 10 am, Ball State
Alexandria vs. Blackford ©, 1 pm, Ball State
Frankton vs. Elwood ©, 4 pm, Ball State
Oak Hill vs. Eastbrook ©, 7 pm, Ball StateOle miss v. Mg- by 50 at the half. Bigger school should be drumming bottom rural schools. Ole miss 56-0
Alex v. Blackford- Alex by 21 if they don't throw interceptions. Alex need to get back to running the ball to keep games closer and help milk clock. Alex 42-21
Frankton v. Elwood: frankton seems to be doing better better better with new coach. Like to see them running the ball just work on getting O-line from McDonald's big to athletic big. Elwood until they keep a coach will always be bottom. Frankton 42-0
OH v. EASTBROOK- this game is a battle of 2 great programs. Will ground and pound each other and come looking to hit. Will be the best game of the year in CIC I believe. Eastbrook 21-7
Where is Elwood in 2A enrollment wise? I have heard Franktons enrollment is more than Elwoods now. Are they close to dropping to 1A.
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17 hours ago, Bobref said:
I don’t like the word “soft,” since to me it implies less than 100% effort, and I wouldn’t accuse someone of that just because of the style of their offense. But there is no doubt that the game has changed dramatically. It’s now much more of a scheme, matchup, one on one game than ever before. Now, it’s all about getting the ball to players in space, so they can make a big play. Reminds me a lot of MLB these days, where record numbers of homers are being hit … along with record numbers of strikeouts. Both football and baseball now live by the big play. I halfway think that the reason is our video game, internet, text message, social media culture simply lacks the patience, and the attention span, to be effective at doing it the old way.
I would agree I'm not sure "soft" is correct term. Also would agree our culture as a whole is to blame for this. This generation knows nothing but instant gratification with buy online get it next day or world of info at tips of fingers. This type of culture had hurt the ground and pound of having patience to beat your opponents will to win. That is why we are seeing more teams like Eastbrook in 2A have success with all the other coaches trying what they see in the pros. It is also hard to get kids to play to ground and pound because all they see is the finess of spread at pro and college level. Hard to idealize or imitate what you never know exists. I do think we will see a cultural shift since D fences have gotten smaller and quicker to accommodate for pass offense. Offenses will "MAKE FULLBACKS GREAT AGAIN"!
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18 minutes ago, djbowzz said:
GAMEDAY!!!
Roll Call : What game are you going to or watching on the TV tonight if you are able?
I will be making the trip to Eastbrook for the Rivalry game against Ole Miss.... Go Panthers!!!
Good luck to all teams, stay healthy and injury free! Safe travels to all!
Will be traveling to Blackford to watch the eagles run the ball and pull out a victory.
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24 minutes ago, Muda69 said:
I thought plastic soda bottles were recyclable?
C' mon man! Everyone knows you can only recycle plastic so many times before it has to go to the landfill. Paper and glass can be recycled infinitely. And what school recycles at sporting events? (I'm just using this as an argument to get my good tasting cola back that doesn't taste like plastic. No idea if paper is really recyclable infinitely)
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2 hours ago, Muda69 said:
I haven't seen this at a high school football concession stand in probably 20 years. Must be going to the wrong schools.
Anybody have a list of what schools still do this?
Oh, and just for Coke. Pepsi is an abomination. State Law.
Not to be political but we can ban plastic starws because they are bad for the environment. Let's ban plastic soda bottles at sporting events and give me my 100% recyclable paper cups! Plus I'm sure with all them chemicals released from the plastic into my drink is what is making me FAT. 🙄
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This is a topic often not considered when schools are looking for potential opponents. It's probably THE most important thing that should be considered. If a school still has paper coke/Pepsi cups for soft drinks with real carbonation happening behind the counter. That school gets a +5 on the concessions list. You can usually tell a lot about the quality of opponents by how good food is at the concessions. If they have burnt popcorn or cold hot dogs and no greasy hamburgers or brauts like a college campus don't consider them. US parents like to eat a lot so quit making me stop at fast food on my way to the games and let me support the FFA club by buying a 1/2lbs heart attack burger they made on a grill donated by the local bar. Allow me to buy the 1gal slushy from the drama department. My point is concessions have gotten worse and I'm tired of cold popcorn terrible tasting better for your health hot dogs, and soft drinks that taste like they sat in an athletic department cooler since last year. I want greasy unhealthy foods with softdrinks in a paper cup and real carbonation.
So what schools have the best concession stands?
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23 hours ago, irishuncle411 said:
It's the italics I think is bush league. Alluding to Frankton administration having a first year head coach and another person to take control soon, or that a former head coach in the area is possibly expecting to "take over soon" is not needed on the GID. Whatever gossip is going on in Frankton should stay in Frankton. Your original post would have been fine without those three words.
That being said, if either of the two scenarios I painted have even a hint of truth, then this job should be appealing to no potential candidate.
Totally agree 100% with what you are saying. This dude must be the Bishop Sycamore of CICAlum. We at Frakton love this new guy. (For now) he really takes intrest in developing the youth and yea we suck right now but we will get better. Got a solid staff and admin is one of the best admins around. Best thing he did was bring our youth together to run what he wants them to run. Now don't get me wrong I wish he would have done it with the lapel league because they really helped buy equipment for jr. High and always gave money to both Varsty programs. But I also understand his point of this is closer and gets them competing with CIC teams.
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Eastbrook@ madison grant- Class of the conference wins big. Up 50 at half and running clock.
ole miss@ Elwood: Elwood has improved and has a lot of fight but ole miss is still to much. It's closer than what most will think. Ole miss by 3 scores.
oak hill@Blackford: good CIC slug fest. Oak hill pulls out a barn burner for them this year 21-7.
Bottom dwellers@Alex: with Alex's optional D. The bottom dwellers still cant find the endzone. ALEX walks all over the heartless Eagles. Alex finishes the regular season with average record looking to get beat in sectionals. Frankton ends dismal regular season 1-8. Frankton kids already looking to rebound with basketball and petition still collects signatures to get rid of HC.
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51 minutes ago, bittergymteacher said:
November 16th, 1997. I remember it like was yesterday as it was the first day I had grown 1\4th inch since 2nd grade. 0-10 Colts defeated the 8-2 Packers. Anything can happen on any given day!!!!
That is anything can happen on "any given Sunday". The fact is this team has not scored an offensive TD in how long? That is sad and look at total offensive yards a game. Not like they are playing cathedrals D every week.
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1 hour ago, bittergymteacher said:
Hold up Cowboys! Let's not be going and putting the cart before the horse. Lapel has to get past Frankton first.
I have watched this frankton team every week this year and Lapel could bring JV team and still win big!
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4 hours ago, irishuncle411 said:
Box score from last week shows that Lapel vs Heritage Christian was a 1 score game going into the 4th quarter, but bottom must have fallen out for the Bulldogs in the 4th as they lost 41-19. I think they're just under the top tier in sectional 36. I'd say it's Eastbrook as the favorite and Tipton is barely a step behind them. Lapel/Greentown need some good bounces versus either of them to have a shot. Here's to a good draw for all of them!! Rest of the sectional is onto basketball season...hoping we get one.
I have not looked at box score of heritage Christian and lapel just saw the score on john harrell. I heard at the grain elevator today that heritage Christian could be the 2a team to represent the south. So I just figured they drummed lapel and it was never really close. Could we see a heritage christian and eastbrook state title? Has anyone seen heritage christian them play this year?
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I think everyone is wanting the easy road and the Frankton draw. Great way to say you had at least 1 post season win. The best questions are who is going to challenge Eastbrook in sectional 36? Is eastern legit or just week schedule? Can lapel find a way around eastbrook? Is the former CIC team Tipton up for new conferences kingss? Who is Franktons coach next year?
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8 hours ago, Giantbeareagle80 said:
Tough, but should show us where we are with Tipton and Lapel as our first 2 games.
I'll just go out and say it. Unless somthing changes in the program, you will be where you have been...... THE BOTTOM! Look Randy England turned this program around and had them back at 500 then they get a new coach who had success in first season with what Randy built. Then it has progressively gotten worse less heart from players lower numbers every year and bigger loss margins. All the signs of a program in peril.
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8 hours ago, irishuncle411 said:
I agree, Eastbrook needs to run more screens and get into some empty sets...I've been saying it for years. It's why they only have red rings
They like the red rings it is in the schools colors.
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Eastbrook over young and improving Alex team. Eastbrook by 4 scores
Elwood ends streak against a pandemic shortened Blackford team. Elwood is improving so much and very quickly with young coach that knows how to build program.
Oak hill over a mg. Oak hill rides momentum after beating a rebuilding ole miss program.
Ole miss over lackluster Frankton program. Ole miss should not have lost last week and they know it. They are out to punish anyone that steps in front of them. Frankton will be bottom dwellers of CIC and 2A for sometime. After a few more years at this rate they can just drop football all together and just focus on basketball and baseball!
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4 hours ago, irishuncle411 said:
Any remaining games look like they could be interesting?
Frankton/Alex - ?
Frankton/MG - Maybe?
Are you serious have you seen this lackluster Frankton team? This has to be the biggest waste of talent in school history! This program could be the Alex team of 2000-2010 that won maybe 8games in a decade. Coaching keeps driving numbers down and losing games. When does this administration make a move.
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1 hour ago, irishuncle411 said:
Sagarin has Ben Davis (83.2) vs. Indy Lutheran (82.4) being a coin flip. It is a crazy year for it. What's the word on Blackford...not playing tonight, but status on next week? John Harrell still has them playing Elwood next week...
Face it this is not a year for statistical guys. It is going to force people to know your own strengths and not worry so much about stats. Throw sagarin crap out the window. To many guys like to look at this and %this and %that it's just number that dont take into effect what these kids had for lunch or breakfast, who's gf broke up with them. To many variables that are not taken into consideration. With that said it's just junk!
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I know eastbrook has dropped in sagarin. But from what I hear is that the head lunch lady had to make some changes to staff in the cafeteria because of covid! From my understanding this really upset the big boys on the o-line. Now if this is what you are talking about with effects of covid then yes I'm sure we probably dont have a handle on where teams stand or the effects it is having on teams.
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Frankton vs Eastbrooks JV. And eastbrook still wins big! This game is a waste just like most of the CICs games for eastbrook. Or is it why they are so dominate every year? They play lack luster teams in regular season (CIC) to develop younger players! Frankton wow last week almost got beat trying to throw the ball all the time. Finally pulled it out when they started running the ball just like everyone keeps saying they should do. They played Lapel to a great first half till they started throwing the ball. Lost to Tri- central throwing the ball. Bad decisions like this are not coming from players, but are what drive players away! Who does Franktons coaching staff thank they are? This community knows ground and pound and they want to throw it around like Steve Spurrier. Eastbrooks JV is in before half because they simply out coach Frankton. Eastbrook by 50!
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Let's talk of the toilet bowl this week Elwood vs. Frankton. Frankton has some talent but let's face it they get out coached 90% of the time. With that week schedule they have no way they should ever finish below 500. If Frankton loses can we start looking for a new coach?
CIC Week 3
in The Indiana High School Football Forum
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Alex over blackford. Not sure why Alex is getting votes. They have yet to beat anyone with a decent record in some time. What has happened to the blackford of the 70s- early 2000s this like many teams in the CIC used to have good football now seems to be struggling and irrelevant in the post season.
Elwood v frankton. Elwood is just a dieing town and have heard they are close to going to 1a not sure if that is true. Another new coach and same results of last few years. Frankton is improved and happy to see them running the ball and playing tough d. But a few bad decisions killed momentum against lapel last week.
Miss. V mg. Mg improved not sure they can handle much bigger ol miss. Ol miss thinks they are good against CIC teams and they should be.ol miss by 21 at least.
Eastbrook v Oakhill. Oakhill like Eastbrook is always well coached. Should be a great game if Oakhill can slow down the hurry up option of Eastbrook. Better bring your best base D golden eagles. Eastbrook by 14.