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North Decatur at West Washington I am having a hard time picking against WW, but doing my best to be objective here. I hope WW wins, do not get me wrong. I have to go with my gut here and say ND gets the win. Paoli is the common opponent here. WW beat Paoli 34-30. ND beat Paoli 41-0. As I recall, there were some injuries or something that Paoli had suffered against WW the week before that maybe led to their game against ND not being so close. Good luck to both teams!

You can't throw it away in high school football, so any intentional throw out of bounds is grounding no matter where the ball is thrown from.

I was able to be there for the previous two sectional titles. The one in 98 and 09. Unfortunately, I was under the weather and was unable to make it last night. In the 1998 regional, they lost 22-12 to Indianapolis Cathedral. That was quite a game. Cathedral barely beat East Central in semi-state, then destroyed Concord for the state title. In 09, they had to travel to Center Grove and did not fare well, losing 42-7. Center Grove lost in the semi-state to Warren Central. BHSS will be quite the challenge next week, especially having to travel. Best of luck to the Highlanders.

Congrats to Floyd on their 3rd sectional title in school history. Bloomington South will be quite the challenge. They don't have any common opponents, but BHSS did play Martinsville and lost to them. Martinsville destroyed BNL early in the year. BHSS also lost to Columbus North, who defeated Columbus East. It should be an interesting matchup!

Jeffersonville at Floyd Central

I believe it has to do with bracket placement. The winner of sectional 16 will host the regional.

They do not, but the bleachers have a very large capacity. I may be wrong, but I feel like they did bring in temp stands for the visitors side for an event at some point. Regardless, the facilities are very nice.

West Washington at Perry Central

Good luck! I've heard that's not a friendly place to be! Brohm said in his presser this week he does not expect Sindelar back this year. He didn't rule it out, but said he didn't expect it. I would think it would be nice to have, but given his injury history, would he even hold up?

I have never seen such a star-crossed season. I didn't even know how to react when Plummer went down. It was beyond "are you kidding me?" because there have been so many others. I think it was more like "well of course he is hurt." O'Connell has looked decent in limited time. Odds are they won't get a bowl game anyway, so hopefully they can beat Northwestern and keep the bucket in West Lafayette.

Center Grove vs East Seymour vs Franklin New Albany vs Jeff BNL vs FC

Charlestown at Lawrenceburg Southridge at North Harrison Providence at Eastern Pekin Triton Central at Paoli Perry Central at North Central North Daviess at West Washington

The reality of this season has been clear since early on. There are far too many inexperienced players, coupled with numerous and often significant injuries that would be too much for a veteran team to overcome. It is largely a lost season from a going to a bowl perspective, but it is completely different to me than the Hazel years. I still watch these games to see the young talent develop. There is more ability out there than there has been since Tiller's early days. Once it grows up and some depth is established, this could be a very solid program. If the recruiting trends are any clue, I think they will get there.

In 2016 they went 6-4, and finished 2nd in the conference. In 2011 they went 5-5 with a talented RB and a coach who has since won a state title at his new school. It sounds like things are on a good track in JC. Perhaps the wins will follow. They've had some better seasons in recent memory. Best of luck to the Panthers.

Greenwood (3-6) at Madison (1-8) Jennings County (3-6) at Martinsville (3-6)

Thanks for putting this together. It is like March Madness on steroids!

They are already way over on commitments from this class, so there is going to have to be a fair amount of attrition other than Sipe if they are to sign all of these guys to stay under the 85 scholarship limit. They only have 10 scholarship seniors and already have 19 commitments secured for 2020 and they are still actively recruiting. It will be interesting to see it shake out. Good luck to Mr. Sipe on finishing his academics at Purdue.

Silver Creek at East Central Brownstown at Charlestown Scottsburg at Lawrenceburg Heritage Hills at Corydon Gibson Southern at Salem Bosse at North Harrison Providence at Clarksville Eastern Pekin at Union County Paoli at Switzerland Co. Mitchell at Triton Central Mater Dei at Crawford County Perry Central at Tecumseh West Washington at Springs Valley

Sorry.. should have quoted you. Just kind of expanding on things. We're on the same page!

Just the opposing thought here... If you are building a program, perhaps there is something to be gained by playing your starters longer in a blow out. They get more Friday night experience and the JV kids they are going up against may be equal to some of the varsity guys on their team. Being able to score against (insert your conference dominant team here) could be a confidence booster, regardless of which of their players you are going against. Your JV guys get four quarters on Saturday or Monday, so it would be unfortunate for your starters to only get two. Yes, the concern for injuries must be considered, but I think it is something you weigh.

Clarksville 62 - North Harrison 60 Barnburner! Congrats to Clarksville on an improved season.

BNL (2-6 overall, 2-3 in HHC) at Jeffersonville (3-5 overall, 3-3 in HHC) Madison (1-7, 1-4) at Columbus East (6-2, 5-0) Jennings County (3-5, 1-4) at New Albany (3-5, 2-3) Floyd Central (6-2, 4-1) at Seymour (4-4, 3-3) You certainly have to wonder if the weather was a player for Seymour last week in being able to stay so close with East. They started out the season well, then have struggled since. Seymour is a tough place to play, especially for the Highlanders. This one could go either way. The same can be said for BNL/Jeff. I wouldn't be surprised to see it go either way. And while I'm at it, you can't count out JC sneaking up on New Albany. I think the East game is the only sure fire thing this week! Good luck to all teams and stay healthy heading into the tournament.

Brownstown at Scottsburg Charlestown at Eastern Pekin Corydon at Silver Creek North Harrison at Clarksville West Washington at Salem Crawford County at Tecumseh Indianapolis Washington at Paoli MItchell at Perry Central Springs Valley at North Daviess

In general, yes they are. What people are not satisfied with is the fact that they went from 4 classes to 6 classes with only 220 teams playing. That has severely watered down things. Many coaches are in favor of going down in the number of classes. However, people liked the playoff system. Now, this year, they added some type of RPI feature to the playoff that I think coaches hate. It was some state-level decision that was thrown on them and coaches were pissed. I will never forget my first season on staff at a school in Kentucky. I explained the Indiana tournament system to them after having coached in it and played in it. I was laughed out of the room. They thought it was the dumbest thing in the world. The more coaches I connected with there, the more dumb they thought it was. Many on this thread talk about how awful such a tournament would be. I'd be willing to bet the majority of them have never had the opportunity to experience another system. I'm sure I've told this story before, but one of my most memorable games there was our last regular season game for the district championship. I have never seen such an atmosphere at the high school level. The game was so full, people were standing around the entire track to see the game. There was so much that led up to that game. And if we won, we got the better seed in the tournament. But we didn't, and we got the lower seed. We still won round 1, but it set us up with a tougher round 2 that we couldn't get past. I don't advocate dumping the all-in. That would never pass in Indiana. I've always thought if we took the sectional groupings and made those into districts and based seeding on place finish in those districts that it would be a simple, effective way to do it. People complain about losing conference affiliations, but the thing is, most sectionals are loaded with conference opponents. Play a 10 game schedule, play 7 district games and then schedule 3 of whoever you want and relive your conference affiliations if you want. In the playoffs, your seed yields you a game with a matchup with a different sectional so you don't repeat your regular season schedule. But I am realistic. This is Indiana and nothing will change in the near future. I just hope they figure out a way to go with the top two seed that keeps getting tossed around. At least it's a start.

Salem is a classic, true triple option flexbone team. They have a talented quarterback and they run the system well. If you don't see that all season long, preparing for it on short notice can be challenging. However, I don't see GS having any trouble with them as they will have not seen anything like GS all year.