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Lanning is a master motivator. He will have em ready.

This will actually likely piss you off in the opposite direction, but the Temp believes that a FRL population in the 25-40% range is best for an elite football program all other things considered equal. Carmel's SES is perfect for country club sport domination but not so as much for the grit required in the ball sports. Go ahead...tee off.

So 1 sectional/regional title between the two schools with 40+ opportunities huh?

1. Can you show me where Perry/Southport are holding their own? 2. Yes, they are in 6A purgatory...small enrollment relative to their class, ethnic population through the roof, and high poverty. 3. You sarcasm/cynical comments actually do point things in the direction of personal. Its cool though. I too remember my first crush.

Awaiting, "Center Grove has won with 2000-2500 kids, why can't Perry/Southport? which is always next with you. "Eric Moore is great, their feeder system is top notch and everyone should simply copy it if they want to be successful." Suggesting any factors other than "hard work" are a contributing factor to CG's success always seems to trigger you. Wash, rinse, repeat. Maybe, just maybe a consolidated athletics program in Perry Township could develop into a nice little rivalry with CG so they don't feel the need to travell across state lines annually.

Did you know that Notre Dame is one of four "bluebloods" (Nebraska, Penn State, and Tennessee the others) that claims to be elite yet has not won a national championship this century?

Wait till @Rodney finds out that Crown Point has been receiving a first place vote (actually two this week) for a few weeks now...

Gap isn’t as large as you think.

Avon could play with New Pal also IMO. OT thriller at Avon in week 1. Coin flip.

Matchups…DC’s speed would absolutely give New Pal fits…LN could not only match DC’s speed but exceed it.

And its deserved…particularly at the highest level of the sport. Decatur, with Polson, would be an absolute battle with New Pal this year were they in 5A. They won’t get past LN in 6A.

350-0

DC’s speed is truly the difference maker when it comes to their domination of the Mid-State and when they were in 5A. There still aren’t many 6A teams that possess more speed than the Hawks either. I think they can undoubtedly play with LC in a potential sectional contest, but probably not LN. As for Merrillville, I’ve always been told I don’t let go of grudges and I’m sure I bought into that boy Cody’s speak but when they came down to Indy and got smashed by Chatard a few years ago, I was out on the Pirates. I’ve never forgiven them.

While true, you eventually have to beat the teams on your schedule more often than you don’t. Don’t view it so as much as a head to head poll/ranking so as much as what teams do with the schedule they are presented. Decatur Central can’t help it that the Mid-State is not as strong as years past but they scheduled AVON and NEW PAL in the non-conference. What else do you want? Crown Point also. They tried with Pike but the Red Devils haven’t held up their end of the bargain. Even Merrillville…who I’ve been more critical of as anyone…went out of state in the non-conference.

So game results shouldn’t matter? Should I just rank the same 25 teams every week?

Sorta related but I’ve dreamed of the following in state matchups for a while… Eastern-Greene vs Eastern (Greentown) Mt. Vernon (Posey) vs Mt. Vernon (Fortville) Greensburg vs Greenwood John Glenn vs Ben Davis Plainfield vs Fairfield Franklin Central vs Franklin Community/Franklin County Indy Washington vs Washington/New Washington Heritage vs Heritage Hills/Heritage Christian North Central (Indy) vs North Central (Farmersburg) Carroll (Flora) vs Carroll (Fort Wayne) Brown County vs Brownsburg Sure, there are some I am forgetting.

Ban knives.

BD is 1-6, lol.

In this instance we are referring to Temp’s top 25 which is littered with 6A teams. The largest division in Indiana has had its state championship game before Lucas Oil in nearly every circumstance… No one north of Hamilton County has even put up a fight. You can’t ignore those facts nor pretend there is some sort of unwarranted disrespect from the central Indiana teams… They (we) need to see it to believe it.

No, I wasn’t referring only to 2025…

You REALLY think Carroll is a top ten program right now?

Beat me to it. Just a general statement. Northern teams’ record against the central Indiana squads speak for themselves.

But you do so while glossing over the dozens of examples in which those northern teams got mud stomped.

No, but you’ve cherry picked those two examples and even cited moral victories to attempt to illustrate that the gap is close…which it isn’t. We have 2.5 decades of data.

You’ve gotten a lot of mileage out of that Carroll win over HSE and Crown Point over Westfield.