temptation

Well stated. Michigan is not Alabama, Clemson or Ohio State but they are also not Nebraska or Tennessee. If you try to re-tool and rebuild your coaching staff every 5-6 years, you dig yourself an even deeper hole to relevancy. There are many once proud programs that ignore this fact. And while I agree that Harbaugh should have accomplished more by now, he took over in the midst of his two main rivals having the best runs in PROGRAM history. MSU and OSU (and the Big Ten East in general) is/are as good as its ever been. Third place in the division usually still means you are a top 10-15 team. There are worse places to be.

Knew we couldn't make it two in a row...

You’ll give me Danville +100 then?

The kids are bigger and stronger or they have a higher density of big strong kids? I think the latter which is still connected to enrollment.

I’m not disagreeing. I think the “commitment to football” that @DTrepeatedly cites is at play here. What is the typical daily teaching schedule for most coaches in that area? Because I can tell you first hand, how laughable things are for the powers in central Indiana from that standpoint.

Eh, I haven’t kept score. Maybe I’m wrong. Sorry.

Better coaching? Different kind of kids?

Likewise. +42 is asinine.

Don’t disagree but other than enrollment, how specifically?

We finally agree.

Both.

You’ll give me Westfield +42? Gentlemen’s bet?

Gimme a packed Cracker Jack box venue (not possible in the Covid era) with a standing room only crowd, any day of the week. Wont ever happen, but Butler or Arsenal Tech in November? Sign me up.

No doubt. Can see that side completely.

Eh, maybe one of the TDs is in garbage time.

Oh, I do love the high school sports scene (hence the reason I come to this site) but there is just something about the cavernous nature of high school football in a professional sports stadium that is anti climactic to me.

Seems vague. Just say it...you know you want to.

It’s almost as if you cannot just build an all star team with transfers and such from other schools.. Discipline + Experience + Togetherness = success Brownsburg agrees.

Explain “A” in greater detail please... I assume with “B” you are referring to administration, though correct me if I am wrong.

I think that Sagarin has it nailed perfectly (though it’s been inaccurate this season more so than ever). I see another one that is close in the first half and in which CG pulls away in the second. The blueprint for Westfield is simple...though no one has been able to do so to CG for 4 quarters... Control the clock, limit CG’s possessions and cash in (touchdowns) in the red zone. Of course this means running the ball effectively. Gimme the Trojans by 2-3 possessions. Somewhere in the 38-21 neighborhood.

Spot on, but you failed to mention WHY privates/charters can find success so quickly. Why do you think that is? Tell me more about the “resources” you speak of.

I’m pathetic even though you’ve resorted to the name calling and while you speak to me from your ivory tower? I may be on here more than you are but when I do log in, I don’t resort to name calling. What’s that say about you? Like I said, I’ll call out lazy analysis EVERY TIME. Make your daily visits (that you somehow seem to squeeze in despite being a family/career man) count by actually providing substance to the discussion. My elementary aged kids could watch one quarter of football and tell me “dat wuz a bad quarter.” Do better next time...and the time after that.

You get it.

Still a no brainer for me. Maybe I’m just getting old. The college level game is the only one worth attending in person anymore. The atmosphere, pageantry and setting just cannot be beaten. When it comes to high school/professional sports, it just seems a bit stale to me. I can stay warm, sit by the fireplace and drink my own beer, eat my own snacks and go about my day while watching on my flat screen. Something about a professional stadium being at 10 percent capacity turns me off. Plus, when you are at the game you are often the LAST to know about injuries, etc...

What if a player moves in to the state his senior year and dominates?