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No impact.

Ouch!

Moore is eligible to return this week, correct?

I hope Coach Wheeler can get more kids to play. They didn’t field a JH team this year due to lack of numbers and ended up playing 8 man vs a couple local teams. RP won banks two years ago and again this year. Those kids are currently sophomores from the 2022 8th grade. If they get through HS and don’t beat SV or NV, then your comment maybe has some merit. RP has two contributing seniors they’ll lose and everyone else returns next year, plus a JV team that hasn’t lost in two years. Their build has been slow and methodical and fortunate they haven’t had a coach that will leave or has when the talent leaves. 🤷🏼‍♂️

Any county that adds NV’s success to it would present itself as “better” than most. SV’s sectional titles plus NV seven titles is still 7. (See what I did there..??). Jealousy is an emotion. Facts are not on the side of SV. Shhhhhh….. good luck tonight to everyone!

You’re correct. Take what I wrote and vice versa it. Regardless, he was ejected and won’t play. ✅

Moore had a personal foul in the 1st quarter for spiking the ball on a touchdown followed by two unsportsmanlike conducts penalties in the game that resulted in an automatic ejection and disqualification from the next game.

Yes. RP is at home vs PH and NV is at NC Friday.

Seeger @ Lewis Cass - This sectional is loaded. Maybe the best 2A sectional in the state with legit contenders up and down the bracket. I don’t see Seeger winning this game. North Posey @ SV - I wish it would rain Friday so we all can get an opportunity to watch this game Saturday. (5% chance, so we may see a delayed game). NP’s two losses came at the hands of ranked Heritage Hills and Southridge. SV hasn’t won an opening round sectional game since 2019. The history-making season against 1A teams ends this weekend. Regardless who wins, they get Linton in round 2 for another banger of a game. Trojans @ Attica - even without Moore (ejected from the RP game Friday), Covington wins big and get South Put in week 2. PH @ RP - This game was 49-7 at half two weeks ago I don’t believe it will be this bad Friday RP wins and PH starts basketball with a legit chance to win a state title in hoops FC at SP - Chuck Sorrels boys take this one running away. Herb is 14-17 in three years at FC and looks to change their fortune in 2025. NV @ NC - Two coaches entering sectionals in year 1 of their teams. Coach Rod and his team win handily vs Coach Wheeler, ending their season. I believe Coach Wheeler will have his crew playing well next year with better healthy and fewer injuries. A week two rematch between NV and RP is on the horizon, with their first game ending in overtime.

10% chance of rain next Friday vs North Posey. Has the game been moved to Saturday yet?

Report from RP junior high game tonight. RP 38 SV 0. SV declined playing a B game allegedly citing weather conditions as it was too sunny and no clouds.

A whole 5.8 miles south. That’s 30,624 feet south of Rockville. Friday’s forecast for the local games in Parke/Vermillion/Putnam counties at 7pm is 75 degrees, partly cloudy, 5% chance of rain and 5% chance of a request to delay a game.

Agreed, coach. SV earned the conference title, assuming they win out, which shouldn’t be an issue. And yes, most did know this would happen as soon as the 10 day forecast was released prior to the game and it showed a strong possibility of rain. (It was the third game in a row SV moved their home Friday night game to Saturday vs RP). And kuddos to SV, if they can take advantage of weather to benefit their style, do it. Sadly, if Attica was on the schedule for that night, I not convinced that SV dictates the game to be moved. I also don’t believe North Posey, nor Linton, would be as kind and hospitable come sectional time.

Drones? We use satellites at RP. It’s been a boon for all levels including K-2 flag football.

Only one coach was reaching out to the others on Friday trying to get them to delay or cancel to Saturday. That’s a fact and I’ll say it to your face. Hint - no one took the bait and it still got delayed to exactly the time of no rain on Saturday. SV will win the conference undefeated. They earned it. But they have no running game and cannot handle physical teams, as shown Saturday vs RP. RP provided the blueprint for North Posey and Linton on how to beat them. Reality will sit in in a few short weeks. SV @ FC - SV Herb was at the SV/RP game on Saturday. He knows they must attack and pressure SV on D. I’m just not sure he’s got the kids to do it for 4 quarters RP @ Attica - Attica is better this year You can see it on film RP will simply be more physical and take care of business. RP finishes with PH and Covington prior to sectionals Seeger @ Covington - Game of the week for WRC standings. Covington by 10+ due to better athletes. I like the way Seeger plays, having even broke out the old school Power I several times this year. The Moore kid is great in space and gives Cov. the edge. PH @ NV. - Coach Rod has his boys playing great ball. This will have a running clock in the 2nd half. There’s no year-end awards. Just a team champ and individual determined by the coaches at their year-end meeting.

I’m currently at the PH game and the winds are literally carrying players across the field. It looks like Harry Potter is carrying the ball. The goal posts have bent into a Y shape and visors are flying everywhere Rumor has it that an updated school board agenda at SV has an upcoming hearing for an indoor stadium to avoid precipitation and winds above 8 mph during football games. All public are invited to attend.

Only SV/RP locally. Awaiting 73 degrees, sunny and 0 MPH wind conditions before start time. 🤷🏼‍♂️

He played OL at D3 powerhouse Mount Union.

At SV

Hey Donnie—. Welcome back! I’ll take a shot at this. Seeger - Defending conf. champ and lost a very good RB. I believe they’ll be very good again this year and possibly repeat at Conf champs Covington - new coach again this year with limited talent and a poor JH program to feed it. You are correct about Coach Brown. He got it done. Unfortunately, it won’t be this year for the Trojans FC - Herb is herb. The man can coach and if a play is working, he’s running it 475 times in a game until it’s stopped. The older Acton will lead this group but will it be from QB or RB. Do they have the OL to protect him? Attica - I don’t know enough about this group to make a call. SV - When do the sectionals start? That’s when I care about SV. They have to break through soon, right? The gold and black visors will have talent and battle for the conf championship. Circle your calendars for the late season game vs Seeger. NV - As long as Crabtree is there, they’ll be strong. They return their QB, who is a threat. Although their biggest loss may be on the coaching staff. Coach Blank is/was a talented football coach RP - All anyone asks about RP is how they replace their all-state RB. I’ve headed they changed the offense to 4 and 5 wide. Or maybe not. Time will tell how they will be with opening week games against 3A Pike Central and @ #6 Carrol (Flora) in week 2. PH - Coach Rector might be nicest man alive. Truly, a great person and a team looking to climb another step back in the post-Moore era. They return several players from a forgettable season last year. We won’t know who they are until after their week 1 home game Vs Linton. Week 2 will tell us a lot about PH in their game against West Vigo.

No. Not unless Coach Bettis returns to the sidelines. In all seriousness, if the conference is truly the worst that it’s been in many years, it’s going to be a rough few years for any varsity team that won a single game in 2022 and doesn’t have much talent in the JH level.

☝🏼☝🏼 The only truth BB has said about me all week! Go Panthers.

Completely agree. As it pertains to the RP JH, they are a solid group. It could be argued that the B team (7th grade) has played as much as the A team in many games to avoid being disrespectful or getting kids hurt. We aren’t other JH teams in the conference that refuse a running clock or call timeouts up 35+ just to get the ball back. That’s bush league shit. In fact, in a game vs SV Thursday, RP was winning 26-0 with 1 min to go in the half. SV drops a bad punt on the field. RP’s next play is a TD pass (first forward pass of the season for their team) to make it 36-0. Running clock is official in play and B team goes in and no more timeouts called. What’s amazing is the opposing coach, facetiously yelling from the opposite sideline about how classy the coaches from RP were, yet said same coach forgot he’s the one who called timeouts two years ago in a game to make sure his team could score 50 in a game that was far from being close. Like you said, the issue isn’t kids, it’s overzealous coaches padding stats. Ill continue to agree with Coach Crabtree - anything goes until there’s a 35 point lead and then BOTH teams take steps to keep the game respectable. Again, there’s no revenge to be had, only a group of kids that refuse to be someone’s doormat or homecoming every week in high school, which we all know RP was and has been for many years.

Same. It was 24-0 four minutes into the game and the B team (7th grade) played 2.5 quarters of the game with a running clock. I don’t care if it’s varsity, JV or junior high, if a running clock is accepted, timeouts aren’t being called, no passes are being thrown and all the backups are in, there not much more a team can do to avoid scoring other than teaching the opposing team how to tackle or not fumble or throw interceptions. The irony in this conversation topic is that you aren’t the first to questions RPs scores this year at multiple grade levels. But I don’t recall anyone having a level of concern for some of the TR teams, RP teams or even the last Rox team and current PH teams or FC teams the last few years. There’s some level of empathy, I’m sure. But ZERO sympathy. It’s 1A football. The regret is that Coach Good, who I’m friends with and took a great career move, didn’t stick around to take a few of these L’s