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When I was in school in the 90s, most of the kids I knew HATED participation trophies and ribbons because they basically meant that we didn't win. It was a bit of the proverbial "slap in the face" to me.

I pretty sure that Western and Northwestern do. Kokomo public schools is academically a bottom 50 school system in the state. As a result, there is a big demand for the other, higher performing public schools in the area.

Pioneer has played multiple semi state games at nearby Logansport due to facilities not meeting the standard of a semi state crowd.

I'm actually quite fond of Rick Astley. I think that Lutheran takes this game. Hopefully it's not a blowout.

I thought this would be a link to the game....

Can't compete with Lutheran's city speed! LCC might as well not even show up.

He's a Pioneer guy, so I'm guessing that he was too lazy to look up how long Eastern Greene had been playing football before making it to the state finals.

The biggest case for not splitting up 1A is the fact that the two most successful 1A programs of the past decade are in the bottom 32 of enrollment. LCC and Pioneer have both won multiple state championships and are the only back to back champions to be moved up to 2A due to the success factor. Both schools were actually smaller in the past decade too. LCC was in the bottom ten in the past decade.

I had this as well at Pioneer. When I attended Winamac for a year, every Friday was stuffed crust pizza day.

I've heard that Andrean is big up front and very fast all over the field. Should be a great game.

What were some of the upsets that happened in round 2? 6A had a couple for sure.

North Judson 16 Winamac 0 FINAL Harrell erroneously has the score posted as 60-0.

Who is White? You and I couldn't be in more disagreement right now. Why would an NFL team hire a 2-4 win coach?

Brohm signed two OL grad transfers in his first year, one from Rhode Island and another from Northern Illinois. Both were solid starters and sniffed the NFL as UDFA. He then signed another OL from Western Kentucky last year and he was a starter as well. Unfortunately they all graduated and he struck out on securing any OL grad transfers this past year. He had one, but that player changed his mind at the last second. Purdue also had a projected starting OL retire during the offseason. Brohm knows that his OL was going to struggle and he tried to correct it. He tried and failed. Don't forget to invite me to your team building seminar. Also, during Brohm's first year he brought in approximately 10 grad transfers and JUCOs.

You're wrong. Brohm didnt recruit these seniors, and only recruited a handful of the juniors. THESE ARE HAZELL RECRUITS. Brohm has actually signed quite a few promising OL. The only problem is that THEY'RE ALL FRESHMEN. Stop with your hot takes on a team that you know barely anything about and go do some research.

It was a step up from Kent State and any of us would have done the same thing. I'm just not big on talking bad about Hazell because he was classy and he actually tried. He's not a terrible football coach, which is evident because he was immediately hired as an NFL position coach. I believe that he was set up for failure from the start and his style wasn't s good fit for the program. Programs like Purdue often have success with gimmicky pass heavy offenses or option type offenses. Unfortunately Hazell was from the Meyer coaching tree and tried to play like OSU at Purdue.

Hazell wasn't as bad as his record was because AD Morgan Burke had the program on a shoestring budget. He had made the comment before that football was a "$5 million" opportunity. He chased off Tiller and didn't give Hope much help either. Purdue had horribly outdated facilities and didn't even have stadium lights for night games. They were literally decades behind the times. They also had probably the lowest assistant coach budget in the conference and hired a former Nebraska LB coach who was an assistant high school coach to be the DC at one point. I'm not saying that Hazell would have been Bill Belichick or anything, but he would have st least won a few more games. Hazell wasn't allowed to bring his own staff from Kent State and was forced to use Shoop as his OC, probably the worst OC in the history of the Chicago Bears. I'm also going to guess that his recruiting budget didn't amount to much, either.

Yep. Pioneer had a lead in the 4th quarter but let it slip away.

You're right. The Kiser brothers lost to LCC in their last game together.

Technically they weren't "Kiserless" because Jack's older brother Sam was a senior QB.

Yep. I was disappointed with the draw because I was excited to see Pioneer potentially play some of their other area sectional opponents, like Rochester, Wabash, or Delphi. Instead they lost in round 1 to a yearly opponent.

I also know of a team that lost in the sectional when they were in 2A.

LaVille beating Cass will be a MAJOR upset if it happens.

QB depth is really thin right now actually with Sindelar hurt. Our actual backup is walk-on O'Connell and the 3rd stringer is either walk-on Carrollo or true freshman Piferi. Next year they'll be in better shape as far as bodies, but it will be interesting to see if Brohm gets a transfer QB as an emergency backup type.