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Tell me you have only watched region football all year without telling me you've only watched region football all year.

New week of games. Can Rochester and Maconaquah continue to stay undefeated and on path for a collision course for the conference championship in Week 9? Time will tell. Can't believe its already Week 6! Sectional draw is right around the corner. Who ya got this week. Maconaquah at Northwestern - Mac had a bit of a scare last week. I look for them to reload and refocus this week against an improved Northwestern team from the start of the year. Mac wins this by a couple scores. Manchester at Southwood - Manchester is putting together a nice season. I look for them to continue this and be too much for the Knights. Manchester by 21+ Rochester at Peru - Probably the game of the week in the conference. Peru has a very misleading 1-4 record. They play everybody really well. Rochester has the second best defense in the state. It will be tested this week against an offense that can put up points. I think Rochester in a close one. Wabash at Northfield - Northfield is very young and Wabash has some pretty good athletes on the team that will be the difference in the game. I like Wabash by two touchdowns. Whitko at Cass - Cass took one on the chin last week. I think they bounce back and continue to keep the conference race close between them, Mac, and Rochester. Cass by a couple of scores.

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I would have a dome or covered stadium built for every single high school football team in the state. I would give them the option on whether they wanted natural or artificial turf on the inside, and let someone smarter than me figure out how that would all work. I would then pay for any maintenance needed going forward on every teams indoor facility. With the money I had left over I would pay @Donnie Baker mom, Phylis, back for all the sticky ones he has stolen from her over the years to pay for his GID booster membership, his nudie magazines, and any other thing that Mr. Baker himself would only ever buy that most other people would probably never think of purchasing.

If you are a spread team or looking to see what your defense can do against the spread, summer scrimmages are great. When you are foot to foot, double tight, double wing, summer scrimmages don't really give you much to go off of. Quick whistle for a pile of bodies that you can't even tell what is happening in the middle of it. Like stated above, it's great for some things, but until you strap them up and go at it under the lights, you never are going to truly know what you have.

Strictly talking football I would have to agree. I think throughout other sports the conference is still fairly competitive in conference and playoffs. With the exit of Valley and North Miami, it has been rough. I would make the argument that Cass and Northwestern will have years being up and down. When they are up that helps the conference. The Wabash schools are certainly struggling. Southwood and Northfield haven't been their usual selves the last couple of years. Those are usually two tough 1A schools you can count on to be a hard out year in and year out. Peru is another one that just can't put consistent years together.

All of the teams you mentioned have 1 or more losses on the season. Did the teams they lose to also do the Haka, and if so they must have done a better job for them to lose to them? It would be interesting to see two teams performing the haka on the field at the same time. Some might call it a haka-two-a battle.

Still looking for some TRC folks on the digest. Should be some fun ones this week. A lot of teams playing mirror images of themselves this week. Who ya got? Cass at Rochester - Big game in the conference. Both teams undefeated in the conference, same style of offense, should be a good hard hitting game on Friday night. Northfield at Manchester - Should be a quick game with both teams running the ball in their option offenses. Manchester has the better athletes, I think they get the job done. Northwestern at Whitko - Both teams are going to air it out. If Whitko has their QB back should be a pretty good game between the two of them. I'm going to give Northwestern the nod, but should be a good one. Peru at Maconaquah - About the only game where you will see the two offenses running different things this week in the conference. Peru has lost a couple of close games in the conference. I think Mac's ability to air the ball out will be too much for the Tigers. I'll take Mac. Southwood at Wabash - Should be a good matchup. Will come down to which defense plays better than the other. I think Southwood has a little better defense, but I think Wabash probably has the best player on the field offensively. Should be a good one. I'm going to go with Southwood here.

I had to try lol.

Everybody can recruit now and the private schools all of a sudden aren't as dominant as usual...interesting.

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I think he's going for illegal procedure is maybe what he's going for?

I hope he stays healthy, the rest of the team only has 200 yards offense.

I'm not sure I would even take under 19.5. 20.5 you got a deal.

My point was not about Merrillville. They could very well be in anyone's top 25 and could have a decent arguement. Not sure about top 10, but I'll give you 25. You then went on to say that Andrean could beat the 23-25 teams. That is where you lost any credibility whatsoever for creating a top 25.

What are you smoking and where can I get some of it. Merrillville isn't in the top 25 yet, and they beat Andrean by almost 4 scores. Andrean is a really, really good 2A team, STOP RIGHT THERE, DON'T GO ANY FURTHER

I think this thread proves just how hard it is to be a football coach. The job of a coach is to push your athletes to their maximum potential, if not you are doing your players a disservice. There is also a fine line in this because you are also trusted with the health and safety of these players as well. The first couple of weeks of high school football are hot in Indiana, especially on Friday nights. You have to push athletes in order to survive the first couple of weeks to make it through a 48 minute game of varsity football. Difficult difficult situation to be in as a coach. Time needs to be spent heading into the season training kids on how to prepare for a game or practice properly hydrating throughout the day. I think it was mentioned earlier in the thread, high school athletes feel invincible until they aren't. Without proper preparation, no one is. I feel for the coaches and I feel for the players, difficult situation to be in at Snider.

I don't know much about the license thing. I would have to look into that for you. Easy one man job, the drone flies itself. Just need to adjust the camera view from time to time, but the actual drone itself shouldn't have to move too much. Set up before the game is half the time it takes to set up an end zone camera. The only reason we still have an end zone camera is because we can't fly them during the playoffs. The sideline package is what I meant not focus, my apologies.

Are you talking like how long the battery lasts? We have about 3 we take out during the game with the battery charger as well. I don't know for sure, but I think a battery fully charged should easily last you a quarter. Usually land it swap out a battery every quarter or half. We also have the charging station there to charge the battery from the first quarter if we need it for the last quarter. The shot you get from a drone vs. end zone camera is night and day. I would push for one as soon as you can. If you use hudl on the sidelines you can get adapters to hook the drone footage directly to your hudl focus like you would with an end zone camera to see right there on the sidelines.

I'm very excited about the win, but dang how much of the win was us doing things right or the Dolphins doing that much wrong. I mean they looked bad. Brownsburg might have been able to show up and beat the Dolphins on Sunday 🙂

No I don't because my guess is they all already had them last year. You are behind the times.

The same teams that were using it last year when you asked the exact same question.

2A North is very wide open. Jets are still a very good team, but they don't look as untouchable as they have in previous years. A lot of football to be played till then, and with the great coaching they have they might get to that level by then, but right now they just don't look quite as dominant. I think South Adams and Bluffton will be closer games this year than they have been in the past.

Could be some good ones this week. Big game between Southwood and Northfield. I think the Manchester and Cass game could be a good one as well. Who ya got? Manchester at Cass ©, 7 pm Northfield at Southwood ©, 7 pm Northwestern at Peru ©, 7 pm Wabash at Rochester ©, 7 pm Whitko at Maconaquah ©, 7 pm For me, I'm taking Cass. Big win last week against Peru in a close one. Haven't seen the game yet. That momentum will ride into this week. Give me Northfield on the next one. It's about that time that Coach Baker starts getting that option team to become a well oiled machine. Peru will be too physical for the Purple Tigers. Rochester by a lot. Wabash has some good athletes tho. Maconaquah by a lot. Wonder if Whitko will have their QB and HB back for this one. Didn't play in the game last week against Rochester and it showed. -15 yards of total offense in a game is not good.

North Miami needs to clean up the QB and center exchanges. Ball on the ground way too much last week. Against good teams that will cost you, luckily they were able to overcome that last week.