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I thought the 1984 team was the worst LCC team ever, even though they beat Seeger 15-8. On October 12, 1984 Attica beat LCC 50-0. LCC had 26 rushing yards in that game. I thought that was the lowest point in LCC football history. Attica 0 21 15 14 LCC 0 0 0 0 Things started to turn around on September 13, 1985 when LCC beat McCutcheon 6-4. Rich Ebershoff's 9 yard 2nd quarter td pass to Vince Lockard was the only td of the game. McCutcheon closed to 6-4 with 6:47 left when Ebershoff was tackled in the end zone, but LCC held on for the win. It seemed like the youth program started to help by 1989, but then LCC almost closed in the Spring of 1990, and it would take about another 8 years before LCC would have a really good team.

Things were going well for LCC football in the 1960's. In 1969 LCC went 10-0. 1969 LCC Results 28 Muncie South 6 21 Crawfordsville 6 45 Lebanon 0 31 Delphi 22 31 Greenwood 0 26 Rensselaer 7 30 West Lafayette 0 23 Twin Lakes 6 30 Logansport 20 (played in the rain and mud on October 31) LCC 16 6 8 0 Logan 0 12 0 8 26 Southwestern (Tippecanoe County) 6 Some of the players from the 1969 LCC team Dave Delaney LE Dan Drysdale LT Tony Harris LG John Reifenrath C Tim Maloney RG Keith Lehnen RT ( 1st Team All-State) Brett Eberle RE Joe Dewenter QB Kerry Thinnes LH Mike Schrader RH Dave Metginger FB John Ewalt Jim Korty Mike Drewery Pat Doyle Mark Sheets Kevin Flynn Gordon Halsema LCC had some average years in the early 1970's, but won state in 1976. How bad was it for LCC in the early 1980's? In 1981 Keith Lehnen was the coach and there was about 300 students at LCC. There was only about 30 players on the 1981 team and LCC had just joined the Hoosier Conference again in 1980. They had to play WL, Harrison, and McCutcheon. Coach Lehnen had concerns about whether football might die out at LCC. The Freshman team only had 13 players in 1981. Here are the names of some of the Football players on the 1981 team. Tim Metzinger Shawn Hamilton Jim Bollock Truong Ngugen Doug Schrader Doug Grupenhoff Chris Anderson Tim Gates J.R. Porter Jeff Deerr Ted Dudzinski Bill Bullock Jerome LaReau Steve Hannon LCC went 5-5 in 1981, and only won 3 games the next 3 years. Two of the 3 wins were against Seeger. A football program can go from good to bad in just a few years.

The weekend went about how I thought it would, except for 2A and 5A. I didn't think Luers would win by that many points. LCC's 28-7 loss to Luers doesn't look that bad, now.

The game ended in a 0-0 tie. The 2nd half was never played.

In 1983 the Frankfort/Clinton Prairie game was called at the half after 2 Frankfort players were taken to the hospital with heat exhaustion. The score of the game was 0-0 at the half.

I know LCC thinks Luers has a good team.

I never said DC would win the game. I know many people up north want Snider to win, because if they don't it might be a clean sweep for teams south of Lafayette, just like in 2020. Many people on here think Ben Davis, East Central, Chatard, North Posey and Lutheran are going to win. It looks like its up to Snider

Snider is not going to think DC is boring after they play them.

I considered it stupid a decade ago. I said the SF was the dumbest thing the IHSAA had done since they went to class basketball. I don't think the IHSAA wanted to have a SF, but they felt they had to because LCC and Luers had both just finished winning state 4 years in a row. The way the SF is set up now, it could ruin your program. I don't think it helped Pioneer very much.

It lasted 2 years and in the 2nd year the 1A champs, Tecumseh, did very well against the 4A champs, Indy North Central. Indy North Central won 69-64. I don't know why they stopped the TOC?

I didn't think EC would ever have better team than the 1994 EC team, but this years team is much better than 1994. In 1994 EC won state 35-0 over DeKalb. DeKalb was 13-0 and beat New Haven 97-0 the 2nd game of that season. The closest game EC had in 1994 was 35-18.

Before the BD game, Coach Moore did say something about how the long season had taken a toll on his team. Anyway, BD is going to score 30+ on CP and CP knows that. I think CP will have to use trick plays and maybe get a punt return for a td or something like that to stay in the game.

When it comes to high school football, Chatard does things the right way. They don't just win because they are a Catholic school. SB St. Joseph, Mishawaka Marian, Hammond Noll, and Indy Ritter used to be good, but they don't win much anymore. Did those school let in some bad seeds? Public schools can win state 5 years in a row and nobody will say anything. When LCC won state 4 years in a row, some people on here were going crazy. This year they are after Chatard again.

So, you think Catholic schools should not be members of the IHSAA?

I think some people would like to go back to the 1930's, when Catholic schools were not allowed to be members of the IHSAA.

It was the Outsiders!

"The odds are as even as we can get. You stay close to me, kid." Patrick Swayze said that line in what movie from the 1980's?

I think LCC would have beat Dwenger in 68, but they were without their starting fullback, Gordon Halsema. Dave Metzinger had to take his place. Dwenger scored in the 3rd to go up 6-0. LCC had a fourth and seven at the Saints 7 yard line with 41 seconds left, but the Saints intercepted Bush's pass.

LCC is 2-2 against FW teams. Dwenger beat LCC 6-0 the first game of the 1968 season. Dwenger went 8-1 in 1968. LCC beat at FW South 32-21 in 1972. South was 1-8 that year. LCC beat Concordia 13-6 in 1977 and Concordia beat LCC 40-12 in 1978

LCC gets to play FW Luers! LCC played FW Dwenger in 1968, FW South in 1972 and FW Concordia in 1977 and 1978, but never Luers. I don't know who is going to win. LCC fans think Luers is going to win and Luers fans think LCC is going to win. Its looks like a 50/50 game. How did Homestead only score 10 points on Luers? Homestead scored 23 on Snider when they beat them in OT.

At the state finals, Lowell beat Roncalli 28-27 in 2005. Some people thought that was a big upset. Snider beat Ben Davis 24-21 in 1992 at State. Castle beat Hobart 26-23 in 1982. Many people thought those games were upsets.

I'm sure there are some people in every state that think their state is doing it wrong and the system is broken. I wonder what Indiana would do if LCC appeared in that many state championship games?

There are a lot of things in this world that I find comical. What does Coach Hart say about enrollment? It would be interesting to know what all the Indiana High School football coaches have to say about this.

I don't like class basketball, maybe they should do away with class sports. I would like that better than enrollment. The IHSAA thinks enrollment has worked for 50 years. They are not going to change. If you hate the system that much, maybe you should move to another state. Every time the IHSAA does change something, it gets worse. The IHSAA does not agree with you. I don't know what else to tell you. Call the IHSAA and maybe you can get them to get rid of class basketball.

Sagarin Ratings has GS ranked 6th in 4A. Maybe GS should be in 4A this year. Chatard should be in 5A. East Central should be in 6A this year. Lutheran should be in 3A. Frankfort has been bad for a long time, they should be in 1A. Nobody seems to be in the right class. What he says is beyond most people.