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What I want to happen and what I think will happen are two different things. I am one of the few on here who has no iron in the fire so I don’t pick games with my heart. My school is irrelevant but I CAN tell you one thing. If I were asked to pick a school (my alma mater for example), I can boast that they are undefeated against Penn. Can any other school in Indiana make that claim? Oh I know. Love the banter back and forth with you man. Go Chargers!

Stop being so hyperbolic. Past results at the high school level don’t necessarily predict future results but Carroll’s (and the rest of the SAC’s) recent history against HCC/MIC teams shouldn’t exactly have folks brimming with confidence when it comes to Carroll’s chances. And I’ll say it for you again…I’D LOVE TO BE WRONG HERE AND EAT MY CROW ON SATURDAY MORNING! I want fresh blood at Lucas Oil and will be the first on here to congratulate them Friday night.

Come on.

I own it either way. I screwed up badly on Gibson Southern…showed up the next morning. I whiffed on Westfield…still here. Called Fort Wayne North to make a surprise run to Lucas Oil…(raises hand). Countless examples. A firm believer that if you’re willing to put your opinions out there, you’ve gotta take the good with the bad. Passionate about the sport but at the end of the day it’s just a game…like checkers. Nothing said here matters. Don’t run a good narrative with facts now.

Wow, can’t wait to revisit this one Saturday morning. So you saw Cathedral in week 3 in Mishawaka and saw Carroll maul your Kingsmen on Halloween weekend. Now I get it. It all makes sense now.

I’m saying that it’s an overused idiom. Coach speak if you will. The resumes of those coaches speak for themselves but this nonsense has been accepted as fact despite being immeasurable and having no actual supporting data. I provide relevant data and you still won’t concede. No, the HCC was the second best conference in the state that year and Noblesville had been battle tested and was much better than their record indicated. Nothing more, nothing less.

So ONE coaching STAFF, lol? Sounds like you played for some excuse makers.

Most semi-state matchups are thought to be competitive contests based on them being the final four teams left, no? I would not go as far to say “equal footing” but we aren’t talking Dugger vs Lutheran here.

Second mic drop…especially the final sentence. This isn’t the NFL where you have teams traveling three time zones.

Yes. In theory it sounds like a good idea but execution/follow through seems to be lacking. I honestly think they’d make MORE money by just keeping it like it is but that’s just me.

When teams from similar areas of the state are playing in different classes, they try to put those games on the same day.

You played for five head coaches in four years now? Just put down the shovel man.

It’s extremely subjective but the original claim cannot be proven any more or less so than what the research I’ve done above does. All I am saying is those winning percentages are damn close…

TWO head coaches, lol. Pick up the mic for me. It’s still on the ground.

No. All I am doing is pointing out that it is a non-factor or WAY down the list in determining the outcome. That has been my point all along. These numbers bear that out.

What are the home team players doing while the visiting team is traveling to the game? Eating, sleeping, playing video games? This is an overstated idiom that has grown legs with zero to little factual supporting data.

Even when proven wrong, you double down! I love it! Spoiler alert: Two coaches, whether hall of fame or not, is not a large enough sample size to make a definitive statement. #micdrop

Will take full responsibility for sidetracking two of the semi state threads leading up to contests this Friday night as travel time and it’s effect on the outcomes of high school football contests, specifically those at the semi-state level became a hot topic. Not wanting to further detract from those contests, I felt a separate thread was necessary. It was claimed by one poster (@GOLDRUSH1985) (and even presented as a stone cold fact) that the amount of travel time, specifically bus rides in excess of 2 hours (I’ll let the LA Times article he attempted to cite that stated even a 30 minute bus ride has detrimental effects slide for now) plays a significant role in the outcome of semi-state football contests Well, the Temp has run the numbers and the results speak for themselves. Taking schools that are now closed out of the equation (simply because I don’t want to dig up the data; there are two (Harding and Rockville if I am not mistaken), there have been 218 IHSAA semi-state contests played in the last 20 years. I feel 20 years is a fair time period to analyze this data and draw a reasonable conclusion. Of those 218 contests, 102 of them were played within a two-hour drive (according to Google) from one any other. The road team was 44-58 in those 102 contests for a winning percentage of .431. Of those 218 contests, 116 of them were played where a bus ride of 2+ hours was required (according to Google). The road team was 54-62 in those 116 contests for a winning percentage of .466. So, not only is the idiom of a 2+ hour bus ride DEBUNKED, but teams that travel in excess of two hours actually have had a HIGHER success/win rate than those who traveled less than two hours to play a semi-state contest. #micdrop

Damn, its down to 30 minutes now? No one is safe.

No one is forcing you to be here.

Now wait a second...this coming from the guy that just weeks ago cited his "blue rings" as a reason his opinions were holier than everyone else's on the board? I cited the data that debunked your bogus claim and now your feelings are hurt. Get over it. I comment on yours because you have had it out for me ever since joining the board and you keep swinging and missing.

My marathon personal best came on a night where I traveled 3.5 hours, got 3.5 hours of sleep the night before, an lost an hour due to the time change...and I was twice the age of a high school football player at the time.

Not at 18, you don't. Its a built in excuse. I've had some of my best performances where I traveled 2+ hours and/or gotten little sleep the night before due to anxiety/excitement.

Well, you'll be paying me and if you still reside close to your alma mater, it'd easily fit into the 2+ hour drive criteria so I'd expect you to forget how to function on the way down US 31.

I'll gladly take that bet.