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After seeing and twice rewinding the extremely blatant missed foul call on the obvious tackle by the Cathedral RT from behind on the LB who beat him around the edge on the deciding TD, I turned it off. After the obnoxious tutu qb imaginary foul on Chris Jones of the KC Chiefs to begin the week and then seeing this, causing me to further lose faith in the future of American Tackle football. The game has degraded so much into 7 on 7 by rules and enforcement of rules. Football has devolved the opposite direction from the Jack Tatum style era. I have watched less of it this year than I have since my elementary days. And when I have watched, I have too often become disillusioned and turned it off.

Mullet presumption of Roncalli getting back there. Disrespect to Sectional 24. However, the IHSAA wizards gave EC their own holiday invitational sectional.

undefeated sectional rivals Hanover Central and Calumet should be engaging. Any region folks thoughts?

The lawsuit that prompted change.

A number of very bad teams have won a sectional.

Oh no, someone brought up the historically 98lb weakling on the beach, Kansas. Well, Rock Chalk 1984 win over Troy Aikman-Brian Boswort-Tony Casillas led top ranked Oklahoma. Those Jayhawks that remember, still put it in their pipe and smoke it. Oklahoma played for national title in Orange Bowl. Sometimes those weaklings read the back of the comic book and buy those pills.

Intrigued by the back to backs at same location thanks to those little balls. In a case like this, is the plan for regular season finale to go all out to win/make a statement or do you go vanilla and try to win without showing cards?

Glad to see North Decatur's success. Old conference foe of Indian Creek when my relative played. Recall a wonderful hog odor at their field in the fall.

We all know that Bobby Cox's balls are always bouncing. Time to neuter.

Bobby Cox's balls ramming some folks hard again. We need to neuter him.

Turned on Chiefs-Raiders in time to see how the NFL has ruined football, heard Troy Aikman's comments and turned it off. Tony Dungy and others have weighed in on how the NFL is ruining the game since. The game has become unrecognizable to me. Although I do not miss Jack Tatum paralyzing people, I do think we have lost a lot over the years with how the rules have absolutely neutered American tackle football.

http://scoreboard.homestead.com/football/coachfield.htm#loaded

If, when final game planning, you plot in one team completing nearly 80 percent of passes and the other team completing just over half of its passes, who do you think wins? Also, neither team running a bone, flex, veer or any run heavy plan.

I would also mention with Mockabee from south end of state, did IU ever make a play on him. High-level track performers, even if not football first naturals, put tremendous pressure on defenses. Renaldo Nehemiah was not a great receiver, but teams were forced to deal with his potential for big plays.

Yes, two walk-ons outperforming those recruited on scholarship. Traditionally, top powers such as Nebraska were regulars at having walk-on starters who were in-state, regional, but those programs had a depth of dudes that could play, unlike the Purdue and IU types. In today's NIL, portal led landscape, I have no way of surmising what it means when your top two players at a position are non-recruited (meaning non-scholarship, we all know you offer who you value). And, these two players were intrinsic to the success against Minnesota and Maryland (both road victories), other wannabe programs Purdue and IU have to beat to get above average. Another point previously broached was that winning the West division would be a boon to success. Observe how bad Northwester is this year after playing in title game in 2020 and 2018 (although they were bad in 2019, also).

I hear your positive outlook. I was positive about the Brohm hire. My hesitation is that they have had two very high level playmakers that required other teams to put a lot of attention on: Bell on O and Karlaftis on D. Was waiting and seeing how it played out going forward in recruiting and results on field next few seasons. And, Tennessee game was 7 on 7, so, I discount that.

Awaiting the sectional draw.

Again, made me recall that era. Tim was the son of Ben Davis Coach Bob Wilbur whom the older brother of my friend in elementary school played for. Morten Andersen kicked for them and he missed the xp that lost the semistate game to Reitz. Wow. Bob Stephenson played for Reitz btw. Tim was a really good punt returner. Also, 1981 was a big disaster season for Northwestern while they were in that long losing streak and Dennis Green was their coach. Who didn't beat them. Who could forget Babe. The 1982 season was Corso's last and they were better, but, as a familiar IU story, they did not have enough dudes to be above average. And how many above average coaches has IU FB had Corso to now? I liked Mallory a lot. He got enough dudes at times to make some decent teams, but IU did not make enough commitment to fb because it was always about basketball.

Got me curious and looked up that season. Horrible road loss to Minnesota did them in. Game in which Clifford was knocked out of game. Today, a power 5 team with an even record (enough FBS wins) gets it in a decent $ bowl game. In 1980, 6-5 put a non-traditional power on the sideline for the holidays. The difference between 79 and 80 for IU was one regular season victory, that horrible loss at Minnesota.

Verdict remains to be seen, but he may be a thrift store version of former Illinois coach Mike White.

The Minnesota team that showed up Saturday did not appear in their previous four games. Unrecognizable. Equally, they likely expected the Purdue team that barely held on to beat those CUSA juggernauts, Florida Atlantic at Ross-Ade. That's the same FAU that went on to give up 45 points to the Mean Green of North Texas on Saturday.

The 1980 team had high expectations I recall, then opened with a horrible home loss. Felt like the low point was the 1983 season with Sam Wyche's one and done before landing the Bengals gig.

Snider had some very good defenders such as Rod Woodson, Dieter Heren.

such memorable songs as "Edge of Seventy."

Would be surprised to see Martinsville beat Franklin