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Luers absolutely should move up after destroying Knox.

There does seem to be a bit of thought put into the 1A sectionals. 31 is the region and friends, minus South Newton, 32 is Lafayette, White and Carroll County, with South Newton and Clinton Prairie as a +1. Sectional 33 seems to be centered around Kokomo, while sectional 34 is the Ft. Wayne, Wabash, Wells, Adams County sectional. I do find it interesting that Pioneer and Caston were kept together, yet the Clinton's were separated. Poor South Newton seems to be on an island, while Pioneer, Caston, and the Clinton's seem to be on the far edges of too many sectionals. In the past decade, Pioneer has been in every 1A North sectional but sectional 34.

Sectional 33 is interesting. Pioneer and Caston to Sheridan and Madison-Grant are a bit of a haul, but it's nothing too terrible, I guess. I do like that this is a completely fresh sectional.

Yep, Pioneer just went back to the state finals running the type of offense that you just described. They kept the first half close by chewing up clock with long drives, and they did the same thing against South Adams. Pioneer is one of the best examples of building a "system" and teaching the fundamentals of it throughout youth league and middle school. I've seen Pioneer field some poor 7th and 8th grade football teams that then went on to win banners at the high school level.

I use MaxPreps for my score updates and the score reversals have been an issue all season.

Will NJ be getting their stud back from injury for the tourney?

Cass had a ton of great teams under Scott Mannering, as I'm sure you're aware. It seemed like every single team was a contender, at one point, and their depth was always fantastic. 3rd and 4th quarters were gut check time against a good Cass team, as Mannering and company continued to send in fresh legs into the backfield and wear out opposing defenses. Fun fact, I worked in the Indiana Department of Correction for a decade and I remember that Rouch briefly worked there for a few months. I was told that he had been laid off from his normal job. He was sporting a mohawk and fit in well there.

Not having a single Zachery-led Sheridan team makes this list a complete farce.

They had Kitt and another 6'6+ 300+ monster in Jake Rouch too, who I believe played at Marian. Pioneer played Cass week 1 and they just stonewalled the Panthers. That was the biggest pair of interior linemen I've ever seen at this level, too.

Of course everything is relative. I've subbed at a charter school that was worse than Taylor and Sheridan combined, but Taylor is the worst high school I've subbed at, although it was probably due to it being my first day ever subbing. I love subbing because if I have a bad day, I can just choose to go to another school. If you really want to see unruly, work in the restricted housing unit of a high level prison, especially after the previous shift was too lazy to feed the population.

I'm not sure, but that thought entered my mind. I normally sub in the Kokomo area. Sheridan was as unruly as Taylor and some of the Kokomo middle schools. As far as rural and suburb schools go, it was the worst I've experienced, by far.

Of course not, but I don't foresee them winning a lot of championships, either, with all of the current disfunction in that school corporation.

Definitely not. On the first day a class was tipping over decks for fun and climbing on them, and on the second day, a student yelled expletives at the principal and I as school let out and the principal did nothing about the situation.

I've been subbing a lot this school year and I picked up a couple of gigs at Sheridan. I won't be back. The school was highly dysfunctional, poorly run, unorganized, and some of the students were completely out of control. It was the worst rural school I've subbed at, by far. The football field and facilities were the nicest I've ever seen at a small school, but I'm not sure if they'll even be put to good use in the future.

I think you might be a little biased too 😆

I remember him winning the D3 Heisman. I'm not sure if he played in Europe.

Best I've seen in the past two decades, in no particular order: Chris Mills, LCC, UIndy Eric Watt (no relation), South Newton, Trine Nick Zachery, Sheridan, IU Jack Kiser, Pioneer, Notre Dame

This reminds me of Pioneer in the early 90s, right before Mike Johnson bought in to using the Delaware Wing-T and implementing it in the youth program. However, Pioneer had a very young program and had never really achieved anything as a program. There's an entire story somewhere chronicling Coach Johnson's journey to using the Wing-T, in which he attempted to attend a Wing-T clinic, in another state, just to realize that he had gone on the wrong date. He and his assistant, I want to say Clay Scott, then located the guy who ran the clinic and the guy, feeling sorry for them, let them pick his brain for a few hours, as the story goes. I absolutely love this story because it shows what can be accomplished when dedication and passion are applied to situations of adversity. Also, remember that this was in the early-90s, so there wasn't any internet or probably even cell phones involved.

He was fired as a coach, but the article didn't disclose whether or not he was a teacher as well.

Was the Indian Creek assistant a teacher? If so, why wasn't he fired?

It's looking like the HNAC championship will be a five team race this season between Knox, NJ, LaVille, Pioneer, and Triton. LaVille might be in the driver's seat if they can beat Pioneer next week.

Which schools have swimming programs? Pioneer does and I know that Caston and Winamac do not.

Unfortunately, Bob Shanks sold his remaining restaurant to the owner of Penguin Point and the quality has basically fallen off of a cliff ever since. Employees didn't even receive their paychecks a few months ago and there was speculation that it was going to close down for good. The ice cream bar hasn't been opened since COVID, and I've seen reports that the buffet is no longer open, either. I've had a drive-thru meal since it was sold and it was okay, but I could tell that cheaper, lower quality product was being used. The other Hap's, on the west side of town, was turned into a pretty good Japanese steak house, however. I also highly recommend the arcade/record store Bonus Pints. It has a bar and really good food too. It's on Broadway.

I'm interested in hearing about how this game became scheduled.

Okay, so what is the actual reason? Transparency is needed here.