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  1. From Weather.com for tonight in Monroe. Good football conditions, temperature-wise. Wish we had this in TX. (Temp - Feels Like - Precip % - Humidity) 7:00 PM FRI Partly Cloudy 28° 28° 10% 85% N 2 mph 8:00 PM FRI Partly Cloudy 27° 27° 10% 85% N 2 mph 9:00 PM FRI Mostly Cloudy 27° 27° 10% 89% NNE 2 mph 10:00 PM FRI Mostly Cloudy 27° 24° 10% 87% NNE 3 mp
  2. Maybe 8-9 miles. Probably a 15 minute bus ride. Should be a good one. I'm thinking SA by 17 pts.
  3. When I was a H.S. player, if an opponent was ahead that far started taking a knee every down/punting on 1st down/etc. I would have been offended. I would have seen that as a slap in the face. Ya'll think we suck that bad that you don't even want to play the game? If we have to stay out here, even with a running clock, then let's play some ball. I would have preferred to go down fighting. Losing a game against an opponent in that manner would have felt more humiliating than running simple plays. It's like they're dumbing down the game just for you. Even if 2nd string is in and they're running basic plays, it still resembles normal game play. Continuous kneeling, punting, etc. does not IMHO. Ya'll feel free to disagree, but that's how I would have felt and ain't nothing changing my mind. Maybe I'm just too old school.
  4. https://usatodayhss.com/2019/long-island-high-school-football-coach-suspended-for-running-up-the-score-against-previously-undefeated-foe This situation's a little different than the previous one. After reading the article, two things stand out to me: 1. The coach didn't pull his starters even with a 5-possession lead in 4th quarter. Not cool says I. Let your 2nd stringers get some valuable time vs. the other teams 1st string. If opponent starts a comeback, your starters go back in. Bad form by the winning coach, but not deserving of a sanctioning IMO. 2. The Nassau County Lopsided Score Committee? REALLY? Once again, at a total loss for words. 🏈 ❄️
  5. I'm sure many of them are. That's why I threw in the line about the dually pickups.
  6. Shoot some of these boys with old oil money would probably hire limos to drive them from the airport to the stadium. Or, they might send a fleet of lifted 4WD diesel dually pickups to get them. Could go either way depending on how redneck the guy with the cash is.....
  7. Tenaha H.S. in east TX. I believe I saw their 9-12 enrollment on "snapshot day", last Friday, was 159. Class 2A Div 2. They ride in this. They have made some deep playoff runs in the last 10-12 years. But so did our school and my boys never got a ride like this one.
  8. That's pretty obvious. Also requires longer drives to fb games for many. Folk in smaller states got it pretty good in that regard. I know one guy in TX that isn't rich lol. Seriously, I've never heard of a team chartering a plane, not that it couldn't happen. I do know of many schools, even a few 2A's that have very nice "tour buses" to go to away games with.
  9. In TX I've driven almost 2 hours for some regular season games, and 3+ hours for playoff games is not unheard of. There was a semi-state game a few years ago in our classification where the drive was 4 1/2 hours for each team to the neutral site.
  10. Peru South Adams Adams Central East Noble Leo Mississinewa Marion Concordia
  11. Think I mentioned this in another thread; bye weeks can truly cut both ways. I've seen teams with players that got healthy(er) and/or were able to do some additional scheming so the bye helped them. Also seen teams develop timing issues, increase in minor penalties (false starts/offside/etc) just generally get their heads taken "out of the game". The lucky ones fix that stuff during the game - the not so lucky ones, well you know......
  12. If most of the conferences only have two classifications, that would definitely be more do-able IMHO. I was thinking that maybe a lot of them looked like the HC, which apparently isn't the case. I used 2A & 4A, since, like you say 2A is the TX equivalent of IN 1A. Another thing which just occured to me is that down here each class, except 6A, is split into two divisions. Class 2A D1 are bigger schools than 2A D2, and so on. So for 11-man football, you really have nine classifications, but it's such a big state that it makes sense. So, with a little fudge factor I can see how the IN classifications could be a little closer together. Thx for the explanation.
  13. Good info there.... The reason I picked HC was because it was referenced in a previous post and has four classifications in it - looked to be a good example, and I figured someone could explain. The HC conference titles have indeed been spread fairly evenly which is what we want, in theory. What I still have trouble with is how a 1A can beat out several 3A's for a title, or beat enough 3A's to share a title with someone. If the 2A school my kids attended were in the same district with a 4A (I know impossible down here, but for argument's sake..), unless it was a very weak 4A, we wouldn't have a snowball's chance to win that district because there's absolutely no way we could beat that 4A school. Second place would be the best we could hope for. We've beat our share of 3A's, but would not like our chances against any but the bottom-of-the-barrel 4A's. We typically suit up between 20-25 for varsity, a typical 4A here will dress twice that many. Probably half of our kids play both ways - 4A is almost exclusively 2 platoon. See what I'm getting at? It would be foolishness to put teams that far apart together in a conference or district down here, but up there ya'll seem to be making it work. How? Less disparity between classifications? I wouldn't think so, but have not seen the cutoffs. I feel kinda silly for asking, but there's got to be something I'm not factoring in to this....
  14. If Indiana ever did go with playoff qualification & seeding, conferences would become meaningless. Indiana conferences with three or in some cases four different classifications of schools in them and those classes don't face each other in the post season. So what's the purpose of the conference, besides bragging rights? Bragging rights don't get you a sectional/regional/state champ trophy. There are a bunch of different sized schools thrown together in more of an apples-to-oranges setup than apples-to-apples IMO. I never understood mixing classifications in a conference even when I was in school in the early-mid 80's. The ACAC teams were fairly close together, but still had two classes in there IIRC. I don't get how a 1A team, or even a 2A, is supposed to compete with a 4A team for a conference championship. That would be the equivalent of a 2A or 3A competing with a 5A team down here. Besides the handful of obvious lopsided match-ups (good small school vs. weak big school), just not gonna happen. You put a strong 5A against a strong 2/3A and that 5A school is going to eat the smaller one for supper. There has to be something I'm missing. The Hoosier conference has 1A LCC tied for 2nd place (betw both div's) with a 4A school! That would be insanity down here. Does the conference put a weak 4A with average 3A's and good 1/2A's? Sorry, not trying to be disrespectful just want to be able to wrap my head around these different classes in conferences.
  15. That's correct, Texas schools are playing for conference (district) championships. To address GOLDRUSH's point the difference is in Indiana the conference championship is for bragging rights only (IIRC); in Texas your finishing place determines your seeding in playoffs, so there's more on the line and teams are more motivated to win the conf./dist. championship or place as high as possible.
  16. Ah, the Houston & NE Dallas areas. We're in 2A Div 1 Dist 8 (Waco area) for the past 13 years. Don't know if you had any interest in TX small school football, we were in the same district as Mart for several years. Played them a handful of times for district championship - they won. Regarding the article in the OP's post, the crap that coach pulled wouldn't have flown at our school - and probably not with the UIL (the IHSAA of Texas). We used to have a bye week for district champs years ago down here. While a bye is good for hurt players getting extra time to mend and being able to do some extra scheming, I've seen/heard of that bye week doing some weird things to teams in round 2. Build up a little rust, timing off, head not 100% in the game, etc.
  17. This is correct. Drop a couple close early district games with some good opponents still to come and you've dug yourself a pretty deep hole. Another issue, which has gone away to some extent, is having very weak districts or on the flip side what we call "stacked" districts. No system is perfect. Still like the idea of having to earn the right to play post season, though.
  18. Guys I must have missed something here. Where is the file we're supposed to download? Does someone DM it to us? Think I still have time to take a look tonight and get it back by the deadline. If my wife doesn't have anything pressing for me to do.
  19. Agree completely regarding Concordia being a dark horse. Not sure how deep they will go, but they're definitely not a pushover team. Battle tested and toughened up playing SAC schedule they beat the teams they should have beat (maybe except Northrop) and lost to the teams they were "supposed to" lose to, but did put up points against some of the powerhouse teams. I'm on the fence regarding Luers. Shut out by the SAC big four by an average of 44-0 and lost by 28 points to Concordia. Their other losses were close games and the two wins were against weak teams, albeit larger schools. I'm having difficulty discerning whether they are either: a good team just on the wrong side of the coin in a super-competitive conference, or a not-so-good team that got a wood shedding several times and maybe a little beat down from it. If the former they could fare reasonably well in post season, if the latter they will perform like a mediocre team that got beat down repeatedly by better teams and make a quick exit. Hoping it's the former. Always pulling for the Fort Wayne area teams and know several people who graduated from Luers. However, I can't shake some lingering doubts. Just because you play tougher competition and get blown out doesn't make you a good team. Time will tell.
  20. New Haven Heritage Bluffton Eastside South Adams Monroe Central Adams Central East Noble DeKalb Leo Huntington North Norwell
  21. I like the idea. Always nice to chat during a game. We have an app down here that works pretty slick. You can find your game, update the score, live chat/comments and check other games. It gets a ton of use Friday nights.
  22. That's correct, it would be impossible. Still, the playoffs should be for the best teams, or at least the winning teams, regardless of the geographic location. We gotta agree to disagree on this one.
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