Miner_Pride

Old news.. but I wanted to contribute... a couple Miners are heading to smaller programs.. but it's still cool to say.

I Do like the Co-op plan... always have wondered why Indiana had backed off this?

I dislike the whole NIL thing especially in high school level.... imagine the junior high players coming up... hate it.

My Dad went from Coaching to Athletic Director, so all my high school and beyond years i remember how every night he had to be somewhere at a gym or field or diamond... which he loved...but it wore him out.. those Monday night junior high games, or Saturday morning JV games. These days they have assistants, and JV folks that cover those...but not back when!

and I also would throw in the 'pressure'.... and I'm not sure that's the right word. What I see is a lot of parental interference. "My kid should be playing" type of thing. the whole transfer situation now becomes a factor..even at small schools. I've seen coaches win.. and win the right way... and still get groups of parents/friends/relatives start little packs to try and get him gone. That HAS to nag a coach. From the broadcast booth I hear it in the stands, and I hear it just hanging out. I always think...man... i don't know why anyone would want to be in this profession.

I m bit surprised too. But Coach Simmons really had brought this Cascade program into the bright lights... only lost 1 game in 2 years. You gotta go back to 2006 with Derrick Moyers 10-2 Cadets to see that type of success. Coach Moyers went 18-4 in '05 and '06 but they never won a sectional. We at Linton had a 5 year run facing Cascade from '99 to '03 winning 4 of those 5, but there was a clear improvement in all areas that eventually saw Cascade start winning. Then Moyers left, and it hit rock bottom again. IN the next 13 seasons they had 1 winning season at 6-5. Simmons came aboard in 2020, and it took a while to change the environment, 2 years at 6-15, but then back to back 6-5 seasons ending in an OT loss to Southmont in 2023....and the Mounties came to Linton and beat us in double OT, eventually losing in Semi State. They've gone through some conference changes which didn't hurt not facing Triton Central, Monrovia, Lutheran and Scecina each year. But the Cadets turned into a powerhouse in 2023 running the table to 10-0 til a heartbreaker of a 37-35 loss to Tri-West. Then they truly ran the table last year, with revenge on Tri West 45-14, and deposing of Lawrenceburg, Gibson Southern and finally Luers to win their only state title in Football... which was also their 1st sectional, regional and Semi-state wins! Looking at what Cascade loses roster wise--- its a lot. QB threw from 2,059 and 33 TDs... Trebley started all 4 years at Cascade. 4700+ pass yard and 73 TDs. They nearly had 3 1,000 yard rushers, but 2 graduate, and their top 3 receivers will be gone too. They lose 36 rush TDs and 23 rec TDs in that group. Defense will lose 8 of their top 11 tacklers, but do return their top guy in LB Turner, and it looks like the DB group is solid with top 4 in Interceptions being underclassmen (total of 16 picks). I remember making the trek to clayton a few times.... doing the Miner Broadcasts in both Radio and some basketball games on streams. Great facilities at Cascade!!!

I know I'm late but congratulation and thank you for your dedication for all these years. I hate to see veteran officials leave the field as it just seems harder and harder to replace guys like you. Best of luck in your future!!

He like Monrovia.... he was a fan of their type of grit. He always looked forward to our meetings. Yeah... Rex literally could give you a game summary of a Miner game in 1945 LOL.... so much will be lost forever to history.

we have been blessed with the type of kids that put the effort in year in and year out. Coaches as well. Earning state wide respect was always a goal of Miner Football.

yeah... he could get feisty LOL....Everything was always fun here until someone took it too serious... but hey.. I plead guilty to that too!!! I miss those times. Miner Football is in a weird position right now... a huge class graduated, numbers down, schedule upside down....

It is with great sadness I let all know who remember Rex Tuttle from his many posts and information particularly on the Linton Football Program. King Tut was his handle, and he was born in 1931, and had an incredible memory that provided many stories from years well gone from most minds today. Rex graduated Linton in 1949, and while he didn't play football, he was in band, and the band travelled to most games. He could recollect so many iconic Linton games, good and bad, with such clear vision. I'd interviewed him a few times in my Linton radio broadcasts, in particular the Sullivan rivalry because he was really the source in so many ways. With Rader Media, Kevin had done an video stream session with him that was timeless. I begged him to get a cassette recorder and just record his memories for posterity and history sake. So many others said the same thing. I saved a lot of things he posted from his time here just because there would never be another source for such things. He had to stop going to games in person bein well in his 90's but he always checked in online in our broadcasts. He always posted about Linton sports on his Facebook page, honestly right up to Linton's loss in basketball semi-state in Late March of this year. He even posted videos of himself playing his beloved trumpet, and could still do it well. I hadn't seen Rex in person in a while, but still regarded him as a friend and of course a die-hard loyal Linton Miner fan of every sport. We lost such a great mind, and a great person. I will miss his insight and comments during the seasons...particularly football.

I wish Linton would/could join a compatable conference.. I mean nothing seems perfect.. lotta drive time being the pAC for Linton... Perry seems logical but they've been loyal Patoka Lake forever...

the site is awesome to browse!

and...they win right. they never hooted and hollared.... they never danced around... never taunted. just took care of business and very sportmanslike the whole time. They coulda put more points on us;... they called off the dogs in the 2nd half. We hung about a quarter. They opened with a long TD drive, we responded with a long drive ourselves into their 30 yard line but failed on 4th down. Then they hit on 2 long TD passes.. and we fumble on our own 36 setting up another score. It was a long 2nd quarter getting hit with 28 points and being down at half 42-0. 3 turnovers didn't help... but it sure was an education...and our kids responded to it. I have nothing but respect for Marion Local.... I did all the research leading up to our week 1 meeting...and I saw nothing but hard work, small town ethic and support from their community...

Very proud of the Miners who made all state and junior all state. Hank Gennicks on DL and Jesse Voigtschild at RB, Hayden Feltner at TE. Paul Oliver and Corey Andrews on junior all state. Andrews broke a long standing record for single seasons tackles with 195.

I have a great memory of going to Sheridan when Linton went up in 2013. I went up ridiculously early.. they were still in classes when I got there. So I just strolled around the field...took in the sites of Sheridan. .the bell. Finally just went up to pressbox, set up gear, computer, and sat. The door opened and in walked Bud. I had never met him. He opened up saying he liked my Grid posts "Miner Pride"...and proceeded to talk football for maybe an hour... We had been decimated in 1998 semistate by Sheridan. We won both this meeting in 2013 and in Linton 2014. I felt it was an honor to meet him.

yeah. the 3 fumble recoveries for Linton is misleading. I fixed it on my copy... but Linton fumbled twice and Franklin recovered for Linton both times... or this could have been a 6 turnover game. In reality AC fumbled only once...

Lots of folks thought Lutheran was gonna win that state final... then again... lots of folks thought brownstown Central would win it. We'd never know how Linton would have fared against Andrean. lots of folks thought we would not beat Lutheran nor Brownstown. Adams Central got on us early. the two picks put us in a hole, but I won't say that's what beat us. Unable to stop the jets on key 3rd downs. i lost count. they were 8 of 11....5 of those were 3rd and 5 or more... and the 4th and 7 conversion was brutal. Then the flurry of insanity with 2 more Jet interceptions amidst 3 Adams Central scores in a span of 2:24 in the late 3rd. went from 19-6 to 39-6 before I could think. As some of you know I keep insane stats...I have a word document that I do each week... I am attaching here if anyone is interested.... High points were pretty much all Jet numbers.... 360-190 total yardage advantage. AC 351 on the ground. Linton's 2nd worst offensive showing of year (behind week 1 with Marion Local (Oh)) of 190. Key numbers that stand out.... Linton 1 of 10 on 3rd down. Of course 4 Turnovers to the 1 for AC. Adams Central had only 1 negative plays (-1), Miners took 7 negative plays. Average start was a huge Jet advantage... near midfield was the average 47.6. Linton was pinned most of the night on great kicking from Cowans, and great coverage. The one Jet fumble gave us the only real time deep in AC territory. Linton started at the 20, 18, 8, 24, 16, and 19 in 6 of 10 possessions. AC was 6-6 in Red Zone, they ran 43 of their 61 plays in Linton territory, only 20 Miner snaps happened in Jets turf. Suprisingly the TOP was closer than I thought with SAC 26:17 Linton 21.43 AC led with Roach's 141 yards... killed us with keepers... I though Linton would do good on that type of stuff. Roach was the difference. 3 TDs. Heiser always was good it seemed for 4-5 yards... had 22 carries 92 yards 2 TD, Hirshy had a big run at the end for 59 yards on 10 touches 2 scores... and Everett was big too... 5 touches 59 yards. again...we run that type of play and thought we'd be looking for it.. but it was wide open on 3 occasions for big plays. Obivously AC didn't need to pass... was 1-6 for 9... but that 9 was the 4th and 7 play. And of course I realize that Jerit Smith dropped a sure TD or close to it. Another situation where I bet Roach could mass some good passing yards with Reber, Kaehr and Smith if they so wanted to. Linton just couldn't get the pass game to work. If it works, then the running game opens up. Starting 0-4 and 2-7 with 2 picks didn't get it done. It's usually better, but AC was ready for what we do. Passes were thrown into traffic as well. Kaehr played the 1st one perfectly, I don't think McBride saw him sitting down there. I also think Braylen had been counting on both Felter and Oliver to make the plays... but the Jets weren't gonna let that happen. Reber did a great job all game. So the pass was just 11 of 23 for just 58. Last week McBride had 280+ and 2 receivers over 100 each. Running game struggled as well. 132 on the ground for Linton was well below the 222 average ,but in games where we've been 120-150 rushing we;ve have 160-254 passing yards.. so the total O still rocks with 366.6 per game. We just put 459 on Lutheran... So hats off to the Jet defense. I had Hayden Bluhm with 11 stops, Max Kaehr with 10 as well as Cameron Fravel. 9 from Drew Kaehr was well. Fravel with 1.5 for loss, Reber with 1 TFL as well as Bultemeier. Hammond Max Kaehr and Schniz each with .5. For Linton it's a tough way to go out. I think Linton folks, including myself, thought playing a running style offense similar to our own, and something we had history with running it many years ourselves would help us. Brownstown was in the same vein. I also knew that they opposite would be true.... Adams Central would certainly know the rules and discipline to play defense against this set up. I had hoped the passing game would be the difference maker. it was.... but for the wrong reasons! A side note== Linebacker Corey Andrews #52, A junior had 18 stops total.. .bringing his year talley to 195. I do the stats myself, painfully going over the video to be sure who gets credit and who doesn't. I hold to a strict 2 credit per play no matter how many take a guy down. He broke a record from 1986 of 186 tackles, which I never thought would be broken. Course he'd rather have the blue ring... but it's still an awesome stat. And there were 3 games he never saw the field in 2nd half. Also the might mite for Linton #8 Jesse Voigtschild all 5'7 165 of him playing at Fullback, and both ways all year had 1,419 yards on 214 carries in his senior year. A true warrior if ever was. I think the last thing worth mentioning was Paul Oliver. He had a huge year as a sophomore with 1,164 rush yards in an offense where everyone knew he was gonna run the ball. He did pass for 687, but it was mostly smashmouth football run til you stop me. Coming into this season we knew that Coaches were going to mix things up to put him in different spots on the field...so McBride and well as #6 Goodman were gonna see QB time. This was the plan all along. When Paul hurt his shoulder late in 1st half against Marion Local it forced that to happen full time. He came back the next week to play some defense but not much. By week 3 he was back at WR, but we would not see him at QB until week 6 when he came in and played the 2nd half in a 46-14 win. But even after that, McBride started at QB and I'd say was there 80% of snaps. Partly because the offense was more dangerous with Paul at WR with Feltner giving McBride great options, plus McBride had shown he could be effective and elusive running the ball. The Coaches shifted guys around those first 5 weeks. Voigtschild has always been a wingback. Oliver would come in with situations like Lutheran where you wanted to grind out a time consuming drive. In saying that... he did come in on back to back plays. both short distance on 3rd and 4th and was stood up.. so clearly AC was looking for this as well. I just think its worth pointing out a kid who took a step aside for the better of the team as a whole. He could have been unhappy about not getting QB time.. not getting the big rushing totals or the spotlight... He ended up still being a huge part of why Linton was 12-3. 33 passing yards 5 of those TDs, 344 rushing with a 6+ yard per carry and 7 TDs on just 55 carries... but his 54 catches for 958 and 13 scores was the difference this year---with Feltner adding 56 catches and 744. It's been a while since LInton has had 2200+ pass yards in a season! OK.... File attached. I got Lutheran/Linton.. and Brownstown/Linton as well.... Adams Central Game Stats.docx

Congrats to the Flying Jets.... they did an excellent job shutting down anything Linton tried to do... they kept to their assignments perfectly. Our pass game was non-existent, and the early picks put us in a bad hole against a team who loves being ahead and grinding the clock. But 13-0 early wasn't how we lost. We couldn't stop the Jets offense. i don't feel bad about it... Most people didn't. Everett had huge holes on every one of the counters.. and Roach ate us up on those keepers that got huge chunks of yardage. When we did get a break on the kickoff fumble to start 2nd half... and managed to score on 4th down.. I thought that was the moment we needed to get some ol' mo.... but no dice. When AC drove 75 yards with relative ease after stopping us on a key 4th down, to score... well I knew it would take a miracle. 2 more picks didn't qualify as that miracle. i hate to see us lose so badly because Linton is better than that score indicated. Perhaps we would not have won, but 4 picks certainly put our D in bad spots. But like I said...we were unable to move the ball against the Jets. They stayed disciplined. They knew where were going. I think we pressed a bit getting down early. Being down 25-6 in 2nd half you realize you'll only get the ball x amount of times...so you realize you "Gotta" get points. Clearly the Jets were not going to let Oliver get open, or let anything get outside. We couldn't do the same with Everitt or Roach. and it seemed they got4-6 yards on every 1st down. Linton had chances to get the Jets off the field on several 3rd and 3, 6, 7 's... and could not. the 4th and 7 conversion on the only completion of the game to Reber at the Miner 10 was giant play too. Conversely... Linton did real poor on 3rd downs...which resulted in punts, and in a couple occasions turn over on downs. Like I said.. wasn't out day. Doesn't reflect on a terrific season many in Linton are calling the best coaching job Coach Brian Oliver and his staff have done. Linton beat 4 year end Coaches Poll top 10s, and 3 top 5's to reach Lucas. it will be a season MIner Fans and the folks in Linton to remember to ages. Congrats against to a great team in the Flying Jets and Coach Mosser.... and thanks for the run and not just the memories of this year, but of each of the graduating seniors who gave their all for 4 years in the red and blue: Jesse Voigtschild, Braylon McBride, Hank Gennicks, Hayden Feltner, Collin Webster, Tyson Walker, TBone Howard and Josh Singleton.

True .. in sk.e ways that's not so bad lol

Definitely gonna be awesome to be back up there again. Yeah I think both programs will have a lot of respect for each other.... obviously no built in animosity! Seems like we are similar is so many ways. You know I will be bringing some stat work soon!

I was in the booth... sweating it out.... in the cold LOL

QB 7 Braylon McBride 12 5'9" 165 RB 8 Jesse Voigtschild 12 5'7" 165 WB 6 Russell Goodman 11 6'2" 185 WB 2 Cooper Smith 11 6'2" 175 WR 15 Hayden Feltner 12 6'3" 170 WR 13 Paul Oliver 11 6'4" 215 LT 54 Tyler Franklin 10 5'11" 195 LG 75 Chris Lyons 11 5'11" 185 C 59 Dresden Kenworthy 11 5'11" 185 RG 52 Corey Andrews 11 6'3" 250 RT 69 Hank Gennicks 12 6'2" 250 McBride 95-152 1,472 yds 15 TD 6 Picks. Team 121-197 1,908 yds 21-8 Rushing- 519-3,150 242.3 per game 37 TD #8 Voigtschild-181-1,322 10 TD; #7 McBride-74-404-4; #6 Goodman-103-389-7; #2 Smith- 67-356-6, #13 Oliver 34-245-4 Receiving: #13 Oliver 44-780-11; #15 Feltner 49-622-6; #2 Smith 12-195-2; #8 Voigtschild 8-144-3; #6 Goodman 6-118-1 Defense-tackles 166.0 Corey Andrews; 93.0 Russell Goodman; 72.0 Jesse Voigtschild 56.0 Cooper Smith; 51.0 Aiden Sparks; 47.0 Hayden Feltner 43.0 Trentin Howard; 43.0 Hank Gennicks; 41.0 Harrison James 40.0 Braylon McBride TFL 20.0 Cooper Smith; 15.6 Corey Andrews ; 13.0 Hank Gennicks; 11.0 Aiden Sparks; 10.0 Paul Oliver; 9.0 Russell Goodman 8.5 Trentin Howard Sacks 6.5 Cooper Smith 4.0 Paul Oliver 4.0 Aiden Sparks 2.5 Hank Gennicks 1.0 Russell Goodman Interceptions 5 Hayden Feltner 4 Braylon McBride 1 Russell Goodman 1 Jesse Voigtschild 1 Paul Oliver 1 Corey Andrews

VQB 12 Mason Shrum 11 6'2 165 RB 5 D'Marco Wilson 12 5'10 165 WB 85 Hudson Mills 11 5'11 185 WR 8 TJ Clark 11 5'11 165 WR 1 LJ Ward 12 5'11 165 WR 6 Landyn Hazelwood 11 5'11 160 QB 14 Austin Ridenour 9 5'9 145 RB 15 Braylon Ridner 10 5'11 175 WB 21 Isaiah Jones 12 5'11 155 WR 11 Ja'varrea Cooper 12 6'0 155 WR 10 Jackson Willis 12 6'3 195 Shrum has been back up all year for Sr Jackson Willis. Willis was evidently injured late in 1sthalf in the Monnrovia Sectional game. The 2nd half saw Shrum play, and then again last week against Lapel. Willis has undergone surgery on his throwing hand. Shrum was 13 0f 17 for 201 with 3 TD passes in the 35-0 win over Lapel. Willis is widely considered one of the best QBs in the state and had big time numbers: 134 of 171 for 2,633 Yards…that’s a 78.4% completion rate. 39 TD passes and only 3 Interceptions. Add to that 7 rushing touchdowns on 51 carries for 277 yards. That put him 3rd in rushing behind the other weapon the Saints possess; D’Marco Wilson. He has 20 TDs and 1700 yards on 187 carries, 9.1 yds per game. Not bad for not having a single carry in 2023! He replaced Braydon Hall and his 2,117 yards and 32 TDs! Willis has been the starter for three years, throwing for 4,186 yards and 55 TDs as a sophomore. Wilson has 7 100+ rush games, of those three are 250+ with a high of 262 on 25 carries against Heritage Christian. The only other guy with any action at RB was Ridner #15. 323 yards on 58 carries 2 TDs. He did have 175 yards, 25 carries in week 2’s win over South Putnam. Wilson had 5 carries so I assume he had injury in the game. Lutheran runs a 4 wide spread offense with QB in shotgun, single back. Two receivers with 30+ catches: #6 Hazelwood 32-590 6TD and #1 Ward 35-601 11TD. #21 Jones has started most of the year and had 12-221-3. #85 Mills 22-479-8 and #8 Clark 18-397-6. #11 Cooper has 19-412-4. Wilson adds 11 catches for 179 4 TDs as well. So lots of targets all with tremendous speed. Shrum just needs to put the ball out there. Ward had 6 catches for 176 yards and 4 TDs against Speedway. Hazelwood 9-167 vs Monrovia. LT 76 RaiShaun McHaney 12 6'7 250 LG 66 Samuel Cohn 12 6'1 255 C 61 Owen Lecher 12 6'2 215 RG 71 Davis Blankenship 11 5'11 225 RT 77 Logan Kennerk 10 6'5 230 Lutheran averages 408.2 total offense. 183.7 rush 224.7 in the air. They had a season high 300 rush yards against Scecina, and a total of five 200+ rush games. Passing high game was 399 vs Monrovia, and five games of 250+ in the air. ILB 61 Owen Lecher 12 6'2 215 ILB 85 Hudson Mills 11 5'11 185 OLB 54 Joseph Luna-Nix 11 5'9 180 OLB 13 Zander Scearce 11 6'2 185 DT 71 Davis Blankenship 11 5'11 225 NG 77 Logan Kennerk 10 6'5 230 DT 76 RaiShaun McHaney 12 6'7 250 CB TJ Clark 11 5'11 165 s 1 LJ Ward 12 5'11 165 S 6 Landyn Hazelwood 11 5'11 160 cb 21 Isaiah Jones 12 5'11 155 Others 15 Braylon Ridner 10 5'11 175 33 Brice Garrison 10 5'9 155 51 Marc Mackay 10 5'8 130 66 Samuel Cohn 12 6'1 255 63 Nathen Hicks 12 5'11 205 11 Ja'varrea Cooper 12 6'0 155 22 Kelan Ford 10 5'7 145 Defensively… I have all info except in their one loss against Triton Central. In those other 12 games they allow 205.0 yards per game. 88.3 ground 116.7 air. Monrovia has 269 rushing yards in their midseason meeting. Heritage Christian 242 passing yards. Only 2 opponents had individual 100 yard rushing games- Eric Montgomery of Scecina 104, and Noah Bryant 176 from Monrovia. The above lineup was from Lapel. VS Monrovia, a run based opponent, they used a 4 front lineup with #63 Hicks at DT, and three DBs Ward, Hazelwood and Jones. #33 Garrison seems to alternate with Luna-Nix, as well as #13 Scearce. #85 Mills leads in tackles with 129, #76 McHaney 98 from DT (22 TFL 12 sacks). #66 Lecher is 3d with 88, #6 Hazelwood from safety with 87, then #77 Kennerk with 78, including 17 for loss and 8 sacks. Ward has 3 interceptions, McHaney 3 fumble recoveries. 2 Dax Lockliear 11 5'10 170 Is the kicker 67-73 PAT 91.8%. 1-5 FG.

Oh I've been lurking around. Thrown a few things out there but they don't stick lol. Definitely wanna try getting back to my long winded past. We've had some very good teams in 2A .. just trying to get past Southridge (when 2A) and of course Mater Dei.