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Not if they win a regional next year.

Read the first post in here lol.

Hats off to Ball State for keeping the offer. Not sure every school around the nation would do the same in today's day and age. From what I hear, their getting a good one.

Went to Uindy with a guy named Rylan Arihood, really good running back. Was sad to see him transfer to St. Joseph. I'm pretty sure it shut down before he graduated. Do you know if he decided to go play anywhere after that?

So since Dwenger won do you have to change your name? @23andCounting

If we were smart we would rest him for a couple games. If it is a calf strain, I think they have linked a lot of the achilles injuries in the NBA to players having a calf strain to start, rushing back and piling on minutes, only for their achilles to eventually go.

Haven't looked into them. I like the idea of us on the moon. Which means I'm all for the earth being round...I think. I wasn't a firm believer in the NFL thing until the last couple of years. How do the Chiefs run through the NFL for multiple years in a row while Taylor Swift and Kelce are all over news making the NFL money and drawing outside fans attention. The attention dies down...so does the Chiefs dominance. Just odd to me. I could keep going on things of recent but I don't really believe it, more just speculation that makes sense to me. Up until after Covid and sportsbooks becoming more popular, I haven't really looked into it. If I didn't think Vegas has a little bit of pull in how professional sports go every year, I would call myself crazy, but I'm not confident enough in it to call anyone else crazy.

The bigger issue at hand is Sauce Gardner. Haven't really looked, but what is the word on his injury. The defense had looked really strong with him in there. Healthy Gardner and healthy Buckner, our defense is good enough against any offense in the league in my opinion. Shane will hopefully come to his senses of running the ball 20+ times a game. Maybe just trying to keep him from taking too many hits throughout the year is the only thing I can come up with. It's now or never tho. The race is too tight now. Gotta lean on your best player more down the stretch.

Send this to Vegas and ask them. They are pretty good at this sort of thing. If they can't help you, at least we know everything in the professional sporting world is scripted.

No matter what system you put in place, there's always going to be an odd man out. If Luers is left in 3A, what's stopping them from piling semi-state after semi-state after semi-state. At some point you have to say they are punching higher than the class they are in. I agree, moving up a class without winning a state title doesn't feel right, but neither does allowing a team to make it to state over and over without winning a title stay in that class. Clearly they are more than successful in that class. Not sure there is a right answer to Luers situation unfortunately. Obviously there are going to be situations that come up in any system that don't feel right, but I think for the most part the system that has been in place with slight modifications has been doing its job when looking at the overall scope of Indiana High School Football. Something that could avoid a lot of the problems we are seeing with the success factor would be seeding the North and South or even sectionals. But then you open up a whole different conversation and can of worms with how to seed.

Everyone in the state is running the same plays Knox ran, power, GT counter, Midline Option, Power option, maybe just a different formation. So everyone in the states offense is doing 4th grade level stuff. That's the whole point of building a program. You have kids run your offense from the time they start tackle football in 3rd or 4th grade. It's the only way teams like Knox survive, not everyone has the talent Luers has every other year. Russ Radtke has won a lot of football games. I think he knows what he is doing when it comes to football. You said it yourself, McLaughlin is a great football player. Why would you not run the ball with him 40 times a game? Luers executed their defensive scheme very well Friday. Knox did not execute very well Friday night. I'd be interested to hear what you think a real offense looks like. I'm sure the other 13 teams that Myles averaged 300 yards against felt like the Knox offense was pretty real. One of those teams happens to be playing in Lucas Oil on Friday.

Knox didn't play any "real" competition until Semi-State? Maybe Rochester should voluntarily move up to play in the 3A region sectional...then again good chance Andrean is there next year. Since they beat Luers I assume they would be considered real competition.

Maybe 10 years ago, but if you go 15 you've gone too far

I think you mentioned @temptation was biased towards the HCC. I think you are a biased towards the true north, just a little bit. I am biased towards neither and could care less about 6A football, so I will clear this up. Based off of history the HCC is better and will continue to be better for a while still. There will not be a state champion from the true north in the next 5 years, probably not even the next 10 years because none of them will play each other or leave their conference to play an independent schedule against the Indy schools all year. I think you mentioned Westfield is a 4 quarter team. This is correct because they have to play 4 quarters all year. This is not the case for the true north teams and their schedule. This is the reason they can compete for a half and then lose at the end of the game and will continue to lose for the years to come unless something is changed. So while he might be biased, temp is also correct, the HCC and other Indy schools in the north are better and will stay better than the true north. This is settled now. If you can do this 360 more times that would be impressive, but it isn't needed. Sorry for spoiling the off season @Rodney, gonna have to come up with something else to talk about all off season because this is a dead end.

Chiefs time of possession was 42 minutes or something crazy like that. Asking your defense to be on the field for almost 3 quarters of a football game is nuts. This one is on Shane. 6 offensive plays in the fourth quarter, all pass freakin plays. YOU HAVE THE BEST RUNNINGBACK IN THE LEAGUE! If they stop JT in the 4th and you lose you can at least say well they were the better team today, they stopped what we do best. But instead the only thing that stopped Shane's offense today, was Shane. I'm not an NFL coach, I have no idea what happens behind those doors, but I do know football. I don't care what level it is, don't complicate it. Find a way to get the guys that are really good with the ball in their hands, the ball into their hands. Shane did not do that with his best player today in my opinion.

Thank goodness he is playing football. Imagine having this walking around your school, and they don't play football (the kid at our school was probably more like 275, but I'm not a picky person. I would've taken the 50 pound difference)

I think if JT is going to get the MVP he has to break both of LT's records. I think the yards he will come somewhere close to 2,000, give or take a few. Can he get to I think it's 31 rushing TD's and 35 Total TD's or something like that by the end of the season? If he can get one or both of those, and doesn't win the MVP vote, then I think we really do have a problem on our hands as far as giving the award to QB's. The dude has more rushing TD's than more than half of the QB's in the league have passing touchdowns. What's crazy to me about his numbers is if you look at Daniel Jones' numbers, he is still above average if not better on all of his statistics. So it isn't like JT is just getting all the carries in the world. The dude is averaging 6 yards a carry in the NFL. That is a crazy stat to me. 6 yards a carry!!! Some kids in high school don't even average that on good teams. Just nuts. Shoutout to the offensive line play of the Colts as well. JT is good, but he will be the first to tell you he has some hawgs blocking for him up front, OL and TE's.

1A - Elim. 2A - Elim. 3A - Knox (41) over Luers 4A - Elim. 5A - Concord (29) over Merillville 6A - Carroll (9) over Westfield

How does the success factor work with someone who's enrollment goes down, but they are continuing to have success in their class? An example would be Knox. I think they have accumulated 3 points in the last two years which would put them as successful in 3A, however, their enrollment might be low enough for 2A next year. Do they stay in 3A due to success or go down to 2A because of enrollment? I don't think they can get to 6 points, but what would happen if a team (Let's say they are in 3A like Konx) accumulated 6 points in a class they had enrollment for, and within two years the enrollment dropped but they had those 6 points. Would they go to 2A because of enrollment? Stay in 3A because of success but drop of enrollment? Or go to 4A due to success? Probably something that would rarely ever happen but would be possible.

Not unhappy at all AC got the win. Good luck 3A next year, you're gonna need it. A lot of talent coming back for the Jets.

I think the 2A North might be better than 3A North this year. So many good teams playing in the regional. Eastbrook and Adam Central was a lot closer than the two score gap it shows.

Eastbrook - 14 Adam Central - 0 Under 6 min left in the 2nd Quarter

Andrean will win and it will be ugly. Nothing against Southmont, but they won the weakest 2A sectional in the North.

Eastbrook - 7 Adams Central - 0 3:43 in the First

Mississinewa's team from last year beats the team from this year by a running clock. They had an absolute stud at middle backer who I believe went to Air Force to play D1 football as well as other studs they lost to graduation. Not the same team. Not even close. Can't speak about Luers.