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Tippy Valley 39 Rochester 8 how bout now?

What if Pioneer wins? Oh wait, none of their players are old enough to have a driver’s license.

Pioneer 38 Winamac 0

Like I said, Knox is the team to beat. They returned a ton from a 3A sectional champ team. Nuff said. I believe Peru is prob favorite to win TRC I would not count out Maconaquah either. Cass prob few steps behind those teams.

Still believe Knox is the team to beat. Pioneer took a big step Friday. Panthers start 14 freshmen and sophomores, but they are talented. Seniors are well seasoned and provide excellent leadership. Friday is just one game, but if they can stay healthy they could be a dangerous draw come tourney time.

Pioneer 29 Lewis Cass 22

https://www.ndinsider.com/story/sports/football/2023/08/16/notre-dame-football-linebacker-jack-kiser-turns-professional-drayk-bowen-mr-indiana-football/70601329007/

Interesting in that they are super young still but many players appear to have had a good off-season. Finishing games was tough for them last year. In a lot of games (except Laville and maybe knox) but fell apart. Leadership and mental toughness is crucial to finishing games. Seem to be different this year. Didn’t help their youth last year that basically 4-5 teams in HNAC had their best teams in years (maybe ever) Interesting to see if growth and confidence will translate to Friday nights.

Lewis Cass is at Pioneer

Pioneer looked interesting. Best thing about starting a bunch of freshmen is they become sophomores. Opening with Cass won’t be easy as it never is, but should be indicator for season.

New coaches at Laville, Culver, Triton, Those teams plus NJ lost a lot to graduation and retirement how will new coaches change/shape those teams Knox probably is early slight favorite. Laville and Triton QB’s prob early favorites for POY

After bumping up Pioneer in 2020 started a freshman at Qb, beat 6A Chesterton during season, lost star RB in sectional, beat #1 Andrean in Regional before heart-breaking collapse and loss at Luers in SS. A game they led 28-7 at halftime. Definitely had talent to win 2A.

If Rochester would've joined what a great league geographically with some excellent local rivalries created too.

Get rid of the success factor. class sports was created to give more teams and smaller schools opportunity at post-season success. Success factor was then implemented to slow private school domination. Has that happened? Idk Tweaking the system should end. Class sports is enough. Stop punishing kids who had little(or nothing) to do with said school’s success

Might not have been totally Cass decision to leave immediately as Valley was booted immediately if I’m not mistaken. Cass contingency may have been join immediately

Yes been smaller 2A and largest 1A

Winamac has for most part always been 2A. Pioneer is now 2A in everything other than football. Rochester is 2A and are in with smaller 1A schools now as pointed out. I wouldn’t see that as a significant difference to them. The bigger schools in the TRC aren’t exactly overwhelming by any means from a competition stand point vs solid 1A schools

How is this stuff done at some of your schools? Do parents have any input? Is community involved to get a feel for what folks want? Do principals and AD’s make unilateral decisions for the school?

define “significantly” not much different than teams in TRC Rochester 495 northfield 275 Southwood 240 north miami 287 winamac 387 pioneer 313 triton 258

do you believe you will get a definitive answer? And will you honestly believe it when/if you do

Shout out to former Pioneer great and current Purdue RB Addai Lewellen who had one carry for 7 yds against LSU today in Citrus Bowl. Keep workin young man

3rd string guy playing 4th q

Tough spot Its 3rd q and LSU backup QB in. They scored on a jet sweep Doesn’t appear to matter if they run or pass. LSU will be in the hunt for championship next year as return 18 starters and all 11 on offense.

On the defensive side Jack Kiser came out on top (88.8), yet only played 27 snaps because he typically comes off the field when the Irish put in their nickel package. And only cornerback Morrison has a higher season grade among all of ND’s defensive players, including All-American Foskey. PFF grades are only one evaluative tool, not necessarily the conclusive one, but Kiser’s consistently strong numbers beg the question: Is he being used enough? Consider that among all Irish defensive players, middle linebacker JD Bertrand led the team in tackles with 82, followed by Kiser with 58 and starting weakside (will) linebacker Marist Liufau with 51. But Kiser accomplished his total in roughly half the snaps (332) as Liufau played (646). He also had more tackles for loss and sacks.

The blunder was in the play-call literally running over SC first and goal you call pass?? I don’t believe Freeman has the luxury to wait for Rees to mature as a play-caller. yes they had 500 yds O but he has 6-7 calls a game you just scratch your head