Bash Riprock

Not disagreeing with you at all...but that isn't the name of this thread. It was should Merrillville be in 6A?....not would Merrillville be a contender in 6A. I guess its all a moot point. Enrollment says they are 5A. If they take care of business in 5A for a couple of years or their enrollment increases, they will move up regardless.

I understand your comments....but it seems hard to say a team can't compete in 6A, when they have won 3 consecutive regionals in 6A. When I look at teams 16-32 in 6A, I struggle to think Merrillvile cannot compete with them and win their fair share of those contests. I am not disagreeing with your comments when you stack them among the best of 6A.

perhaps with the top 5-10 but they can certainly hang in 6A. Last 3 years....33-5 record with 3 regional championships. I get that its not the metro Indy region, but I certainly think they can hang in the 32 class 6A.

that's brilliant!!! Well played legend!!

that is a bummer...great series and was hoping CG and Carmel would be afforded the same opportunity

Totally agree...the options seem to be limited for independents. CG travels to Trinity friday night Labor Day weekend....Trojans first 4 games are WC, Carmel, Trinity and BD.

Not meaning to be disrespectful, but this is the outcome I am expecting..........

this analyst feels that ND is overrated....at least this year with their schedule. Not my words, just sharing the article. Analyst Names 5 'Overrated' College Football Teams In Preseason Top 25 Polls (msn.com)

Got a feeling CG and WC may cross paths in the playoffs in the future. Hope its not the last time in the regular season down the road. What great games over the years!! Good luck to your Warriors this season!

Guess Watson and his lawyer are taking a different approach following Judge Robinson's written statement's indicating he has shown no remorse. Just a few days ago after her ruling, Watson stated he had no regrets. Time for a different approach I guess......he finally apologizes to all the women he has impacted..... https://sports.yahoo.com/deshaun-watson-apologizes-to-all-of-the-women-that-i-have-impacted-browns-suspension-232445332.html Sit out a year Deshaun....hope it is even longer.....

Well, the NFL claimed it wanted an indefinite suspension which was a year minimum. I want to believe this since Big Ben received 6 games for a single alleged incident. But Bobref may be exactly right....the NFL looks better because they claimed they wanted a stiffer penalty (see what I did there?) but they will settle and make the former judge the scapegoat. I thought the closing in this Yahoo Sports article was an interesting take..... https://sports.yahoo.com/by-sue-robinsons-own-findings-there-was-nothing-non-violent-about-deshaun-watsons-conduct-220215808.html Robinson wrote that she believed the NFL’s contention that Watson “had a sexual purpose — not just a therapeutic purpose — in making these arrangements.” She wrote that Watson knew “the sexualized contact was unwanted.” She wrote that Watson had committed sexual assault as defined by the NFL. She wrote that Watson still shows no remorse, acted with “reckless disregard for the consequences,” and that his pattern of conduct is “more egregious than any before reviewed by the NFL.” She thinks Watson is such a danger that she wants him, for the remainder of his career, to get massages only through his team or with a team-approved therapist. To some of us, that sounds like a predator, someone who knows what they’re doing is wrong, does it anyway and could do it again in the future. And yet given all of this, Robinson gave Watson what amounts to a slap on the wrist. His non-throwing one at that.

Well, Watson got a 6 game suspension for his off-field behavior. What does everyone think? Appropriate? Consistent? NFL next steps? Some recent updates about his "towel"habit..... https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/browns/2022/08/02/deshaun-watson-towel-trick-key-evidence-nfl-suspension/10205405002/ NYTimes report how the Texans played a big role and includes that he met at least 66 women for massages. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/07/sports/football/deshaun-watson.html Browns owner says Watson is remorseful, while Watson publicly states he has no regrets https://sports.yahoo.com/browns-statement-on-remorseful-deshaun-watson-contradicts-q-bs-words-judge-robinsons-conclusion-232058538.html

The beatdown administered by the Hoosiers led to rapid development on the part of the Wolverines to go to the CFP. Heck, UM should be thanking IU for the help!!! Don't forget...IU took the vaunted Idaho Vandal football team to the woodshed last year!!! On a more serious note, I was at the IU vs Cincy game. IU was handling them in the first half...wheels fell off in the 2nd half, yet they still could have won the game at the end. IU never recovered after that game. They just didn't have the depth to survive the loss of their first 2 QB's and their line play really dropped. Hopefully, Allen has an answer for the Hoosiers to be more respectable in those areas, or it will be another long season.

Of course you'd say that as they slapped your Wolverines all over the field that year like a rented mule. Guessing those records won't be tossed out, and they all played under the same conditions. So stop whining about and take the whuppin' like a man!

No one will ever have these stats when it comes to winning.....ever. In addition to his 2 NCAA championships playing for the University of San Francisco, he was on the winning 1956 Olympic basketball gold medal team in Melbourne....his team won all 8 games by an average of 56 ppg margin. I didn't realize he was not at his HOF induction in 1975....and only accepted his HOF ring in 2019 some 40+ years later. He objected to being the first black man to be inducted into the HOF as he felt others deserved this honor before him. Such an infectious smile....was glad to see he and Chamberlin (great rivals and friends) corrected their riff and became great friends again years later. What a legend. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Russell

LOL....just funnin'.....appreciate your loyalty!!! Stadium design blueprint? Yale Bowl? University of Chicago maybe? 😜

Superior uniforms? You mean a helmet design they stole from Princeton? Ugly, boring away uniforms and a boring designed below grade stadium? Desmond Howard? Now we align....pretty darn special college football player.

now other sports are getting involved in NIL deals?? How does this not create advantages/disadvantages in the recruiting game?? https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/34302303/darlington-raceway-signs-coastal-carolina-qb-grayson-mccall-rare-nil-deal-nascar-track-college-football-star

Aaron Rodgers is everywhere!! https://nypost.com/2022/07/26/i-live-in-nude-with-my-boyfriend-clothes-make-me-anxious/

Jeff Brohm .491 coaching record at Purdue. Tom Allen .448 record at IU. Yeah....Brohm is certainly in another league.....🙄 Oh yeah, Brohm's teams don't play in the Big 10 East.....

why is the NFL intent on making its uniforms looks like the old USFL wannabe's? Crying out loud....the Bears look like they should be on a Peanut's Halloween Special........

Irsay is building up his own little private museum..... https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2022/07/24/jim-irsay-buys-muhammad-alis-belt-for-6-18-million/

yet somehow the recent coaches that have failed to turn Pike around didn't come from private schools. Jimmy Graves or Pat Echeverria couldn't turn around that program and neither were private school football coaches. Echeverria took a Eastern Hancock team to the state championship, and yet had a 5-25 record during his 3 years at Pike. You want to try and make some correlation between regarding private school coaches and lack of success at schools that historically have subpar football programs, knock yourself out. But my point is that as many, if not more formerly successful public school coaches have experienced the same lack of success at the same or similar programs when trying to turn them around. Don't get overly flustered with someone disagrees with your half-cocked theories based on your lack of comprehension of basic statistical principles. Considering the source, I'll take your immature comment as a compliment.

beating my head against the wall now....sigh..... Mark Haste was NOT from a private school. He built a highly successful state championship program at Tri-West. He then went to NC and experienced similar results as Streiff and O'Shea. It is NOT just a private school thing with NC....it has to be deeper with football. Feeder systems, football culture, transfers out, etc. This is a case with highly successful high school coaches going to NC and not having the same type of results as their previous school. (in terms of wins/losses and playoff success) I know we all like simple, but this case is not as simple to single out private school coaches.