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Not everyone, they did lose 2,100 of their 3,000 yards of offense from last year just in one senior alone. Heard the offensive line was really good tho. Gonna lean on those big boys up front until they can find their go to backs.

Any TRC fans still on here? Hoping for a healthy season for every team this year. Who ya got Week 1? Friday, Aug. 21 Caston at Whitko, 7 pm Logansport at Peru, 7 pm Maconaquah at Sheridan, 7 pm Northfield at North Miami, 7 pm Northwestern at Manchester ©, 7 pm Pioneer at Cass, 7 pm Southwood at Rochester ©, 7 pm

This wouldn't be as bad and probably not a bad idea. In all honesty, if someone is choosing to co-op they probably aren't adding more than 10-12 guys to your roster. A 2A with 35 kids gets 10 more to put them at 45 is probably reasonable for most 3A teams to have numbers wise. The problem you run into is why would the 35 man roster team want to do that? I think the co-ops are going to come from two small, probably 1A schools or small 2A's that both teams can't get enough kids for a team. My question with co-ops is what would be the rules set in place for it? Can anyone just decide they want to co-op? What if a Valley and Rochester(never going to happen we aren't exactly buddies) decides we want to co-op just to co-op? Valley is 3A, Rochester 2A, some years we would combine for 80+ kids. We have had times where we have some studs on both teams. What's stopping someone from creating a super team? I can think of some others. What if Gibson Southern and Heritage Hills combined? You're telling me with the talent they both had last year they couldn't contend for a 5 or 6A title? Will there be rules set in place for this in co-op if it ever happens?

Scrimmaged Judson, well coached, tough kids. Definition of a program. Plug and chug, doesn't matter who is in for them, they produce. Scrimmaged winamac on Friday. They were physical, good size, and had some speed. Need to fine tune some things on the defensive side of the ball, but they will be better than last year. I would want to play them early because I think they will get better and better as the season goes on.

So someone like a Tipton who is usually a solid program year in and year out, gets to add 7-8 Elwood players per year without any enrollment penalty that makes their team better and stay in the same classification. You don't see how that could be an issue for anyone that is not co-op in the same class? I believe you have to play 4 games in the season to stay eligible for the tournament.

If anyone is paying $6 a month to read my $hit, I want a percentage of the cut lol. I will stop having a school I'm affiliated with and will only post to the digest about my name, brand, and likeness. @Coach Nowlin I want to sign the first NIL deal the GridironDigest has ever signed. Let's make history!

It is getting more and more difficult for 2A teams to get 30+ guys on their roster, let alone 1A.

I don't know anything about Cascade other than what I've collected on here. I too thought it was ridiculous this happened, but it sounds like the Cascade team from last year was THE team. I think they have a good player coming back here and there, but nowhere close to the talent of the team from last year.

I think we have had this conversation before, but I'll ask again, who on the schedule do you think they are going to beat to have this great year?

They will maybe win one game this year.

gotta give the nod to luers and yorktown. Logansport has the potential to be dangerous

I'd take Brownsburg over them any day.

Not as knowledgeable as you are when it comes to the SAC unfortunately my friend. I assume Carroll the assumed #1 this next year? Snider still going to be down? Who do you think could be at those 2-6 positions with North?

This right here is the deciding factor in my opinion. I think it was mentioned before but it wasn't more than a few years ago they had a DUDE playing QB, RB, and a receiver too I think. I watched them play a game where at one point they were facing a 3rd and over 30 yards. Almost still got the first down on a broken play. 8 D1 guys is impressive. Doesn't always translate. Also know a lot of guys that have been tagged "D1" in the past that needed to be polished before being truly D1 playing ready. Looking forward to watching them with all that talent. Could be a fun team to watch. Hope they can avoid making silly mistakes that have haunted them in the past.

Yikes, hope Columbus North knows what they are doing.

I love winning as much as the next person, but what happened to finding a way to win through actions rather than words and complaints. This is the reason we have little girls and boys going out into the real world instead of young men and women. We have parents, coaches, and leaders holding the hands of student athletes to make sure everything goes perfect for them. One thing I never understood as a child, but now can't appreciate enough from my parents was their ability to allow my siblings and I to fail on our own, and sit back and say you got knocked on your ass what are YOU going to do to figure it out because once you get out in the real world there's no one to sit there and hold your hand through this whole thing we call life. We're crippling our youngsters by not allowing them to fail similar to what you said with the strike zone. It's bigger figure it out.

Put private schools in their own league and be done with it!

I would think he is done after his son graduates but unsure. From an outside view on things I would say he runs things how he wants and has a lot of say for an assistant coach.

I hope it is not. Maconaquah being good makes the TRC good. The conference showdown between Mac and Rochester at the end of the last two years has been really cool to be apart of. Hopefully things are different with this new coach, but he fits the mold of what they have had the last couple of years. A young guy who comes in for 2-3 years, and then looks for greener pastures.

1. Running the ball is boring. 2. Running the ball keeps an assistant coaches son from breaking records. 3. Need a young head coach that will keep a certain assistant coach on staff. 4. Need a young coach that will let assistant coach do as he pleases on offense and just keep the other team from scoring too much. (New hire was previously a D-Coordinator) 5. Winning doesn't matter, records do. 6. Setting a high standard and holding kids to it sounds good on paper until things get difficult. Then we should allow athletes to give up. 7. Coaches should be the athletes friends, enforcing discipline is a no-no.

It's lower than that even at Rochester, and I believe they have one of the lowest paid coaches in the conference if not the lowest.

I don't believe I blamed the refs. Never said anything about them missing a call. Simply stated that if a play was called differently it could have been a different outcome because it was a controversial call where both sideline judges called it differently. It didn't go in our favor and we moved on. Ask other head coaches of 2A programs around this area if their rosters are shrinking or growing. If you're a Rochester guy, ask Brant Beck if he would rather have played for someone else, ask Jabez Yarber who came from Caston what he thinks of Coach Shaffer, ask the Swango's, ask Alex Demming. If players didn't play for him or quit, they probably weren't wanting to be a football player in the first place. I can tell you that was absolutely his plan to retire to spend more time with family. He also felt like it was time to step aside for someone to take over long term and it was the right time for that. Plymouth reached out to him because he is a winner and wanted him. If you want to know more about the Mac job feel free to PM me. I'm more than happy to explain it there. The biggest joke here is you bashing a guy who took a program at one of it's lowest points in program history arguably and turning them back into a winner. Since you are so concerned about Rochester and the program, I'd love to hear what you have done in the last 5 years to help the program grow and succeed?

Look at the margin of victory between Valley and Rochester the years prior to him getting there. It was getting really bad. He comes in and every year it shrunk. If you watched the bell game last year you would know that one or two calls the refs made go a different way and that game might have a different outcome. Look at the couple of seasons before he got there. Rochester wasn't even beating those cupcakes you speak of before he got there. There wasn't a push for utilizing the weightroom when he got there. All those things have changed. This is a really dumb take on your part in my opinion. Plymouth wants a guy that can get them back to a winning program. They got the right guy to do that. May not happen as quickly as Rochester, but it will be better than the 3 and 4 win seasons they've grown accustom to. Really crappy thing for a Rochester person to say about a guy who took over a program that went 4-15 in the two seasons before he got there and won 75% of the games they played the next 5 seasons. Easy for someone on the outside of the program who just sees the team on Friday nights to say. Clueless as to all the work he puts in the other 6 days of the week.

The co-op thing to me feels like it just goes under the transfer rule. If you are unhappy with not having certain sports at your school, transfer your freshman year. If a school is that small and doesn't have football, that happens for what 5-6 kids per class if that. If those 5-6 kids want to play football transfer to a different school.

I understand what you are saying. We need to stay on topic. Unfortunately, it's the offseason. Any thread on here that gets any conversation is good for all of us. There aren't many of us on here everyday in the offseason for good/fun discussions. Thank you for posting a thread that got some kind of conversation going. Even if it wasn't the intended topic. It gives a teacher like me that is bored at the end of the school year something to read throughout the day lol.