kabookieman2007

Instant classic in Elkhart. Full 50 minutes with no clear winner until the clock hit 0.

DAC for Penn on paper might seem like a good fit, but as mentioned the time change cant be ignored, the kids likely wouldnt be back home before midnight on a gameday; not horrible on a Friday but exhausting if its a Tuesday baseball or basketball game. Not to mention the travel cost and risk, how many winter basketball games would be canceled or have almost no away team attendance because travelling on 80/90 and US 20 or even US 6 is downright dangerous sometimes in the winter. Then you get into the rescheduling or all together lost games; no one wants that. Ft. Wayne is no better except for the time zone. Their is good competition in this area; Penn just needs to get over itself and seek out competition closer to home. The NLC has plenty of schools that are lightyears ahead of SB schools with enthusiastic fan bases that care about their teams. Also in the NIC, being split into two divisions like it is kind of deprives other schools of opportunities. I guarantee you Jimtown (another historically significant team), or Northwood could give Penn a better game than most SB schools. Just look at Mishawaka's record in the NLC, they have done well but they have also been beat, just like Warsaw another 6A team. Bottom line I think Penn needs to look closer to home and find meaningful games outside of St. Joe County, but less than an hour away. Just my opinion.

My thoughts this week Goshen vs Concord- Could be ugliest loss of the year, could be closer than anyone expects. I havent seen Goshen play but the scores and Sagarin ratings say alot. Concord has had opportunities to win games by much larger margins a few times this year (Northridge and Mishawaka) but collapsed at the end. On the other hand I may have never seen a team come out so flat as they did against Warsaw. If Concord plays a full 4 quarters they are tough to beat, but they have almost beaten themselves several time. But also it cant be denied that Concord has won and I think its safe to say when your on top you get every teams best shot. Concord 49 Goshen 21 Mishawaka vs Warsaw- Game of the week on paper but a snooze to watch. Dive, vere, counter, sweep, option, repeat. 2 very very similar teams, I personally think Mishawaka has the edge having seen both play Concord, I look for Mishawaka to win a close one. With that said if Warsaw turns the ball over like they did last week they risk getting blown out of the water!!! Mishawaka 13 Warsaw 10 Game is over by 8:30. Northwood vs Plymouth Could be a very interesting game, If Northwood is healthy they could give a Plymouth team that 2 weeks ago was fighting with Wawasee and Goshen at the bottom of the barrel. Not sure on the injury situation for Northwood at QB but they put up a heck of a fight last week against Concord and Plymouth with a stunner even if helped by a few turnovers. Ive heard good things about the Plymouth QB and I loved the heart Northwood plays with, this one is tough. Northwood 31 Plymouth 24 Wawasee vs Northridge Haven't seen Wawasee play, but Northridge has a real possibility of closing the season out 4-5, Warsaw is the only team that might give them trouble and this is a great time to start building confidence and momentum for sectionals. Wawasee 7 Northridge 42