Spitting Llamas

Looks like Memorial starts strong and finishes with a tough one but is pretty soft in weeks 5,6 and 7.

Burnett has been playing football for years. I'm not sure how "raw" he is. I will agree though, he is lightening fast. If he gets the corner, goodbye.

Haha. No kidding. And while we are asking for things, can Covid be over before next season too?

I've heard rumblings that Herdes is transferring to Memorial but I don't have much faith in that happening. I also heard he was transferring to Mater Dei for his freshman year and obviously that never happened.

Who is the Reitz impact running back next year? I don't recall seeing that kind of player on their roster this year. Brickey and Brown were very good but both are gone. Not sure who else remains.

WeBo is very good. Yes, their O-line isn't big but they are physical and aggressive. I wouldn't say the defense is fast, but they all fly to the ball. I haven't seen anything of Luers, but it will take a good effort for anyone to beat WeBo. Unfortunately we didn't give them our best shot but they made us look bad everywhere. Good luck to both teams. I'm sure it will be a good one.

I think we could be looking at a change at the top of the conference next year. I know Central is losing an awful lot of talent

You are a wise Tiger

Much closer to reality.

I don't see anyway MD vs. WeBo goes over 48 points. I could be wrong but I would gladly wager the under on that one.

Memorial would not have been the favorite against Castle and some might have said Northview as well, but against everyone else listed above they were the favorite. No question.

So in 2012, MD "refused" to play at Central, but the game was played at Central? Doesn't sound like much of a refusal at all.

You're exactly right. Southridge would have also been a great addition to the SIAC and would have competed very well. It wouldn't be hard for me to imagine them winning a title occasionally and being in the top half of the standings every year.

I assume what you are saying is accurate but isn't Brownstown about 90 minutes from Evansville? The game was played at 11:00 AM Brownstown's time which means they could have left their school at 8:00 AM and been at the field by 9:30 AM. Not exactly the same as MD making a 3 hour bus ride for a game that started at 11:00 AM Evansville time. But it's all over now and doesn't really matter anymore.

The fact that there are no PPs in 6A further demonstrates that the current system is working. If PPs were truly "at the very top of the heap in all classes" as you put it, there would be PPs in 6A. The fact that there are not should tell us all we need to know. The current system keeps PPs from being able to dominate their class because they are moved up to a level where they simply can't have that level of success. Case closed.

While I don't disagree entirely with your argument you seem to be going further away from the direction DT wants to go. But moving up in class due to success will always penalize the next group of kids coming in, no matter how frequently or infrequently you do it.

I'm not sure why what we are currently using doesn't work. If a team is successful and earns enough points they "bump up". If they continue to be successful they continue to move up the ladder. Maybe we change the points system or what it takes to "bump up", but just moving all private schools up based on twice their enrollment regardless of success seems ignorant. There is no reason a school of any size should be penalized and placed in a class well above their enrollment when they might have an absolutely horrible athletic program. Indiana classed all sports many years ago to give more kids a chance to be successful. Now it appears some don't feel the right people are benefitting from classification.

So where do we start this system? Are we all in one big class and in 2/4/6 years start classifying teams based on their success? You know, since we can't use enrollment in the equation.

You're in the wrong thread I'm afraid. These two come from sectionals 39 and 40.

What I'm saying is that there isn't a student at Mater Dei who went there solely for the reason to play football. Period

What you don't understand is that none of them go to MD for football. Some go to MD and play football. Football isn't the reason they attend Mater Dei. I hate to say it, but if you were going to go to an Evansville school solely to play football, it wouldn't be Mater Dei. They go for the education and because their grandparents, parents, aunts and uncles all did.

These kids aren't just football players, the are students. They are male and female. It's not like the feeder schools are football farms.

Many of those schools only have 12-15 kids per class, some have more but likely not more than 25-30 and as stated not all of those attend Mater Dei. Trust me, the school is trying to increase the enrollment, not keep it down for athletics.

I've never seen anyone run that offense as well as it was run in the title game in 2014. That was a very impressive performance but I'm not sure we will see that level of execution and athletic ability.

I believe Tell City had some guys out because of Covid contacts. I think I read on Twitter it was 5 starters. Not sure if those players will be back next week or not for the Linton Stockton game.