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While from a competition standpoint it would be great for both teams, I don't see it happening either. Valley enjoys beating up on the conference way too much in football. The deal breaker for Rochester would be travel time. The traveling for the TRC for Rochester is already bad enough, adding on even more in a tougher conference. Not gonna happen. Let Rochester play every conference game at home and they are in!

I was just talking about this with someone that football overshadows all other sports it feels like when talking about a restructure in conferences. Allowed myself to be blinded by the same thing. You bring up an excellent point there with the other sports. And you think by adding two middle of their class schools will tip that balance too much for the 1A teams to handle? Glenn is a lot larger in enrollment than I thought and could cause problems down the road and with other sports. But Bremen is a large 2a/small 3a maybe eventually. The only problem I see with Bremen is location. Just my opinion. Become a better coach. Become a better player and rise up to your competition. The hoosier conference is a prime example with teams like LCC, Cass, and Tipton trying to compete with the juggernaut that is West Lafayette. It can be done. Maybe won't happen every year but can be done.

To become more tournament ready. Not one school in the HNAC(from the 1A schools) is close to matching the physicality of Adams Central and possibly even South Adams. Adding these two schools is only going to make you tougher when it comes to tournament time. It's going to be a while before any of those teams are able to compete for a conference title regardless of the other two teams joining or not so I don't see what it's going to hurt. Just going to make you better.

I agree, the coach definitely should receive some form of punishment. He could've easily escalated this to Malace at the Palace 2.0

Bingo, you don't want CTE, don't go to the league and make millions of dollars. Get a 9-5 job. The answer to this question is that easy.

At Rochester, we have a drill we run called "Touchdown drill". Players get divided up into groups and each player starts 15 yards from the end zone and runs the ball in for a touchdown. The group has to then go and congratulate them and find a teammate to celebrate with. If you want kids to do it, you have to practice it. Like you said team success is the whole point, not tearing down the other team with a celebration. If you are that good of a team, let the scoreboard speak for itself.

The QB from last year was a fantastic leader and was just limited to size(5'7" on a good day) and ability but was well respected by his teammates. The QB for next year will probably be a sophomore who's probably up to 6'2" and a lot more athletic and can sling it. Had a great freshman year as the JV QB so it will be interesting to see next year how the coaching staff looks to utilize him.

8 starters on offense. 8 on defense.

LCC would have to be eliminated in Sectional play next year to go back down into 1A again if I'm not mistaken. Tall task for everyone else in Sectional 34.

I'd imagine if this were still the case, Jeff would have a lot more seasons like the one they had this year.

Right after they get that blue ring and medal? lol

The problem with a four team playoff for those classes is determining what four make it in. You have to base it on something whether it is a point system, sagarin rating, wins, losses, point differential, etc...the list could go on and on. It's too much work for the IHSAA to come up with. It's a lot easier to just let everyone in, bounce around some ping pong balls, and list the names of the schools as they fall. Your idea isn't a bad one, just never gonna happen or at least not any time soon. As for starting with 1A and moving up rather than 6A and moving down, you have an excellent point there. I forget where I heard it but someone mathematically(numbers don't lie) explained to me that it would make a lot more sense for classification and enrollment to do the classes this way.

The private schools just worked harder and wanted it more

It was only 3 years in a row so doesn't equate to my example lol, also like I said above they were public schools so it was cool because it never happens anymore in the lower classes.

You're completely right people wouldn't have been as impressed. The fact that a public school did it makes it very impressive because it never happens these days in the lower classes. I'm not saying it isn't impressive for a private school because it is. Its hard no matter who you are to reload and have a state team multiple years in a row, but it happens so much with private schools so everyone sees it just as another boring couple years that a private was able to dominate again.

That's because Center Grove is in 6A. The only way to stop them from winning another state championship would be to tell them they can't be in the tournament. These other teams can be bumped up and werent this last reclassification so its a little annoying is all.

Splitting up the sectionals isn't working for moving privates either. If you look at 2A, not a single private was in the same sectional to my knowledge(one sectional might actually have one but for the most part they are pretty split up). It seems to me like all of those privates are just getting bottled up in 2A because they are winning their sectional, and then beating each other in the regional causing them to stay in 2A rather than move up or down. The place to be right now is 1A. After next year your going to have 2 private schools left in the reclassification, Park Tudor in the North possibly and Covenant Christian in the South more than likely(who knows how the IHSAA will form Sectionals).

Gotta love the success factor really doing its jo....oh nevermind. Feels like I'm back in the years 09-12 watching LCC and Luers win the 1A and 2A title every freakin year only now its Lutheran and Andrean instead.

6'3" 195, 6'3" 185, 6'2" 175 Andrean has two DB's listed right at 6'. I'd say that is an advantage.

I think last year Luers had a better team than they do this year. Andrean also had a better team last year than they do this year but...they have #34 back. I think it will be a good game. I don't think either team will just run away with this. I think if Luers is going to have a fighting chance they have to have their wide receivers make plays down field. Bowen can cover a lot of ground in the middle of the field as we saw against LCC, but I think with the big receivers they have Luers can attack them from hash to sidelines. However, Andrean will have the best player on the field tonight, so I'm going with the 59ers.

It could be the explanation for why 3 of the 4 teams left in 2A are Catholic schools if I'm not mistaken. Could just be a coincidence tho.

I think regardless, it will be a nailbiter. As far as 2A goes other than Eastside and Luers, this might be the game to watch. Calpreps has LCC winning 35-34. Indiana predictor has Rochester by 1 with homefield, losing by 1 without the homefield factor. Might just come down to those ole intangibles you like to remind us about Mr. BendNotBreak 😉

Fantastic point! Making a high school team drive 80+ yards is extremely difficult for an offense(not impossible) and increases the chance for error.

I'd say 50/50. I think LCC does a great job creating turnovers as we saw in the Cass game, but if you also look at their regular season games they do a great job of it as well. One of the fumbles came on a kick return where I think the guy was trying to run as fast as he could and didn't have it high and tight like he should. I think two of the fumbles LCC had their players helmet right where Cass ball carriers had the ball tucked and made a good hit where the ball was coming out regardless. The other one I'd have to go back and find. I think the point you're trying to make is LCC will force you to turn the ball over, and you are exactly correct. If there is one thing I'd say the LCC defense has excelled at this year from watching their games its that they will force you to turn the ball over whether its a fumble or an interception. I think they are better at using ball skills to pick it, but probably not gonna get too many opportunities to do so this Friday. Rochester is going to have to hold the ball tight and really concentrate when carrying the rock. I'm sure it will be a point of emphasis in practice this week.

I'm going to give the advantage to Rochester offensively in this game over LCC and heres why: Rochester offensively is going to run the ball. Even a bad play for Rochester usually results in a gain of 2 to 3 yards. As long as you are doing that every down, you are going to be in good shape for a first down. LCC has possessions where the defense might not cover them well on three straight plays, but they still have to punt the ball due to three straight incompletions. LCC is very elite at throwing the football, but at the end of the day they are still high school kids. They aren't going to play a complete perfect game, although the qb for LCC against Cass got pretty close. For this reason, if the trend continues from other games this season LCC will have two possessions where they give the ball back to the Zebras without the Zebras doing anything. Possessions are going to be super important this game and I think the Zebras will have a greater chance at possessing the ball and controlling the clock. Of course Cass probably thought the same thing before they put it on the ground 4 times 🙂