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I think Floyd Central will get better. They have some good players. Definitely not sold on their coaching staff though.

Floyd Central has better players on the sideline. I mean, why play your 6”3 Sophomore QB who can throw the ball 60 yards when you have a 5”7 QB that hits his Offensive Lineman in the back of the head.

James Bragg will be fired after this season. This is the worst coached Floyd Central team I’ve ever seen.

James Bragg will be fired after this season. This is the worst coached Floyd Central team I’ve ever seen.

Our starting RB is out for the season but he hasn’t played a snap. Got hurt before the season. A Sophomore. They say he has blazing speed. 2nd string RB is battling an injury. Our starting CB/Slot and the great track sprinter suffered some kind of serious injury. I obviously won’t say his name and I’m not sure of his status. Our 3rd string QB/JV QB is out for the season. Our Freshman QB is out for the season. Thats about where we are. Out of respect for the players, I won’t announce their name or injuries on here.

That’s a good point. We haven’t done much offensively. But we did just play 2 teams that were top 5 in scoring defense in Kentucky last year. Silver Creek is solid but I look forward to a game where we can actually build some confidence.

East vs Seymour East may be down, but they’ll still be good in this conference. East by 28. Jeffersonville at BNL Jeffersonville is the team that I think has the best chance of beating East at some point. They have athletes and size that no other HHC team, including East, has. If Coach Parker can continue to build, Jeffersonville can be tough. They’ll win big against BNL. Jeffersonville by 21. New Albany at Jennings County The Dogs can score. But can’t stop a nosebleed. But JC just isn’t competitive. NA by 17. Silver Creek at Floyd Central Toss up game. Silver Creek is the reigning MSC Champions and they are a really solid 3A team. This is a good rivalry game too. But after playing 2 Louisville Powerhouses, this game will allow FC to catch their breath. I really like how our lines played last week despite the final score. FC should get at least 1 or 2 of their missing RBs back. Bibelhouser needs to really show up at QB or they may stick Robertson in there who a lot of people though would start. I say FC wins this in a very tight contest. FC by 7.

There is no question that our team last year would probably beat the current East team but unfortunately we probably won’t have enough on O to beat them this season. I bet East beats us like 21-10 or something.

East will always be the best program with the best talent in the Conference. But I think we are going to see very soon, just how good Gaddis really was. The guy is one of the best in the History of Indiana HS football. I’d hire him tomorrow.

I don’t get it. We haven’t won our conference since 2003 I think. We’ve been second about a dozen times but really haven’t given East very many good games at all. So, it doesn’t make any sense to schedule powerhouse programs. Why not schedule games that your players, parents, and even fans, can enjoy being a part of?

It’s pitiful. And I found out tonight that we stop playing Louisville Male in 2023 but picked up Louisville St X instead. Smh. Maybe FC should just go Independent and play Trinity, Carmel, Cathedral, Lawrence North, Center Grove, Cincinnati Moeller? Hell, I’m sure we can get Mater Dei California, IMG Academy, and Miami Northwestern on there as well? 🤦‍♂️.

Is this the worst conference in the State in regards to 4A-6A sized schools?

Floyd loses 35-7. Manual had a 4th down TD in the 2nd qtr that looked like it hit the ground so it a was a little closer. I thought they played well. Manual is ridiculously talented and a little undisciplined too. Like Jeffersonville on Steroids. Defensively we were pretty good against the run. Got burned a few times against the pass. We moved the ball but stalled on the Manual side of the field several teams. FC has been missing their top 3 RBs which has hurt our Offense. We have a WR playing RB. Our O-line and D-line help up against the massive size of Manual. I’m encouraged. I think we will dominate the rest of the HHC outside of East.

Floyd down 20-7 at Half. But it’s been closer than the score. Manuel got a couple big plays on broken plays. But FC has been pretty tough against the run so far. Bibelhauser has thrown the ball pretty well so far. I’d say FC has about 180-200 yds of offense in the 1st half and Manuel has about 200-230 yds.

Bloomington North Brown County Columbus East Dupont Manual Gibson Southern Seymour I have very little faith in the HHC at the moment. I also have 0 faith in the River Schools. Jeffersonville is going to be bad. Floyd Centrals program is sliding backwards. And New Albany has been building a team for 4 years that is still average at best, and next year will be in a MASSIVE rebuild. Southeast Indiana is AWFUL in football.

Well, when you give up 50 points, you won’t typically win.

They won’t beat Floyd Central. Is the same thing. They can’t play defense. Floyd Central is the only team in the conference besides East that will at least play “some” defense. And we’ll get walked by East too.

It stupid man. Our most talented FC team of the last 10 seasons lost last season at home by 28 to East. They aren’t ready for big time football and not even progressing towards it.

FC loses 49-0. This is getting ridiculous. It’s time for FC to stop playing a D-1 College team disguised as a High School team. We never once crossed the 50 in this game. The kids looked like they wanted to go home from the start. They don’t want this game and Floyd Central is ridiculous for continuing to force them to play this game.

New Albany Preview NEW ALBANY — New Albany enters this season with high hopes, and rightfully so. The Bulldogs return a great deal from last year’s 6-3 squad that lost 35-25 to Jeffersonville in the sectional championship game. This year New Albany has its sights set on the program’s first sectional title since 2002. “Our main goal this year is to win the sectional,” senior lineman Sabastian Landon said. “I think we were overconfident last year in not being too prepared for that sectional game. Our goal right now is to get that sectional title.” “We probably have the most experienced team back in the area. Whether we have the best team or not we have to find out,” Bulldogs head coach Steve Cooley added. It’s no secret that New Albany should be able to score points. The Bulldogs return pretty much every key skill-position player off an offense that averaged 39.5 points per game in 2020. “We’ve got over 4,000 yards on offense returning. So we’ve got a chance to score some points,” said Cooley. “We should be fun to watch. We’ve got some experience up front and we’ll be physical. I think we’ve got some athletes that we’re going to try and utilize them the best we can. Triggering the offense once again will be Derell Simmons. The senior completed 56.4 percent of his passes for 1,115 yards and 13 touchdowns, while also running for 498 yards and seven TDs, last year. Also back from last season are running backs Myles Johnson (1,378 yards, 12 TDs) and Kyondre Winford (920 yards, eight TDs), who combined for nearly 2,300 rushing yards and 20 touchdowns in 2020. The Bulldogs also bring back their top two receivers from last year in seniors Ja’Raylan Johnson (27 catches for 713 yards and nine TDs) and DeJon Winburn (17 receptions for 295 yards and three TDs). Winburn moves to the outside this year while DaQuan High will take his old spot in the slot. “Our quarterback Derell Simmons has improved a lot from last season,” Landon said. “He wants to lead this team. Our receivers DeJon Winburn and Ja’Raylan Johnson, who just went off in the sectional, will try to get us back to the position we were last year.” Landon will anchor things up front, along with 6-foot-4, 305-pound Blake Osborne. The biggest question for the Bulldogs is, can they stop anyone? Last year New Albany’s defense allowed 33.7 points per game and gave up more than 40 four times. “Last year we couldn’t stop the run,” Landon said. “The offense was able to keep us in games because we scored a lot of points. We feel like we’ll be a more balanced team.” The Bulldogs made some adjusts on defense in the offseason. This year they’ll use four down linemen instead of three. “We’re trying to change things on defense and get better,” Cooley said. “We were young on defense and gave up way too many points (last year). We’ve got to play better defensively and be sound on special teams and the kicking game.” Landon and Osborne will both also see action on the defensive line as the ‘Dogs utilize several two-way players. The linebacking corps will be led by junior Avarion Chambers. He topped the team in tackles (93) last year in spite of playing only seven games due to injury. “He’s phenomenal off the edge. He’s really talented,” Cooley said. Another outside linebacker, junior Elijah Jennings, has drawn praise from Cooley after missing last season because of injury. “He’s really, really done a nice job for us,” the coach said. “He’s a real physical kid.” Returnees J’sean Groves, Myles Johnson and Dakota Johnson will bolster the linebacker position. “We’ve got some depth. So we just have to go play,” Cooley said. The secondary should be led by junior Darrius Lewis Hickenbottom. The safety earned All-Hoosier Hills Conference accolades last year, when he tallied 89 tackles and five interceptions. The Winburns (DeJon and Tyeese), as well as High, round out the secondary. Sophomore Zach Fleming, a member of the boys’ soccer team, will handle kickoff and field goal duties. He saw limited action last season. “His leg is a lot stronger now. We just may be able to kick more field goals,” Cooley said. “He’s done a nice job.” The Bulldogs begin their season with a huge test at Bloomington South tonight. The Panthers are led by the McCullough brothers, Dasan and Daeh, whose father, Deland, was hired as the associate head coach and running backs coach at Indiana University in the spring. Next Friday the ‘Dogs will host Gibson Southern, which features Purdue recruit Brady Allen at quarterback, before they begin HHC play Sept. 3 against Jennings County. “We did good last year, but it wasn’t where it could have been,” Osborne said. “This can be even better than last year. If we put some pieces together on the line it will be a smooth road.” New Albany will close out its regular season Oct. 15 against archrival Floyd Central. “We’ve got T-shirts that say, ‘Time for talk is over,’” Cooley said. “Everybody is talking about how good we are going to be. We’ve been building for this for three years.”

Floyd Central Preview from the Tribune. I’ll post the New Albany and Jeffersonville previews as well, as soon as they come out. FLOYDS KNOBS — For Floyd Central, there’s good news and bad news. First the good news. Just about everyone is back on defense. By all parameters, it should be the strength of the team. Now the bad news. Just about everyone is gone from an outstanding offense that averaged 37.2 points per game last year. “We’re replacing a three-year starting quarterback, a three-year starting tailback, the entire offensive line that graduated is playing college football this year — basically, it’s the entire offense," Highlanders head coach James Bragg said. Gone from last season's 7-3 squad are, among others, offensive tackle Zen Michalski, now a freshman working his way up the depth chart at Ohio State; running back Wenkers Wright, an Illinois State frosh who ran for over 3,300 yards and 42 touchdowns the past two seasons and quarterback Tristan Polk, who threw for over 3,300 yards and 31 TDs as a junior and senior before heading to Marian University. In all, nine off last year's roster are playing college football. In short, the Highlanders have some big cleats to fill. Among those ready to step into the starting lineup is junior Cody Bibelhauser, who'll take over for Polk at QB. The 5-foot-7, 160-pounder will trigger a revamped offense. “He’s small and quick,” Bragg said of Bibelhauser. “(The offense) will be a little different for us." Bibelhauser completed his only varsity pass, for 11 yards, last season. “He’s got a beautiful ball, he’s just young," Bragg said. "He hasn’t had a lot of (varsity) experience yet. He’s gotten better every day at practice. That’s all we can ask for.” Bibelhauser’s backup will be sophomore Tristan Robertson. The Highlanders hope to replace Wright with not one, not two but three players. The projected starter is junior Jake Hausz, who was a slot receiver last year, when he had eight catches for 87 yards and two TDs. He'll platoon with sophomores Grant Popp and Mitch Bernardi. Bragg said Popp is a "speed demon" who reminds him a little bit of Wright when he was a sophomore. Junior Eli Branham (17 receptions for 403 yards and two TDs) and senior Zac Hutslar (nine catches for 219 yards and two scores) are the team's top-returning receivers. That group will also feature Jaxon Farley, a senior who has missed nearly two years with a knee and shoulder issues. Farley said he’s nearly 100 percent now. “I feel good,” he said. “It’s good to be back out here.” Up front senior Brandon Fessel is the lone returning starter. He'll be joined on the offensive line by classmates Jacobi Walker, Gavin Harvey and Lucas Schneider, who'll play tight end. On the flip side, Fessel and Harvey are returning starters on the defensive line, as is Nate Ripley. Harvey is the team's top-returning tackler. He recorded 42 stops, including a pair of quarterback sacks last year. The secondary should also be a strength for Floyd. Several with starting experience return there. They include Hutslar (36 tackles in 2020), Hausz, Branham and Jordan Fonda, a junior. “We’ll ride our defense to the grave,” said Bragg, who is 21-11 as head coach of the Highlanders. ”We’ll be alright this year." Floyd starts its season tonight at Louisville Male, which could be the best team in Kentucky this year. The Highlanders then host Louisville's DuPont Manual, another one of the top squads across the river, next Friday night and Silver Creek on Sept. 3. Floyd Central will close the season with six straight Hoosier Hills Conference contests beginning with Seymour on Sept. 10 and ending at New Albany on Oct. 15. The Highlanders, who are 16-6 over the past two seasons, still have a few players who were on the field for their 31-7 win over Jeffersonville in the sectional final in 2019. One of those is Hausz, who has lofty goals for this year. “My expectations are pretty high,” he said. “I want to win the regional. I don’t want to win just the sectional. I want to be the first to win the regional.”

You guys would definitely hang with those Louisville teams a lot better than we do. We beat Male once, back in 2011, but it was one of their worst teams.

I hear yah there. But I’d trade you in a heartbeat. I’d rather play Whiteland than the #1 team in Kentucky and probably a top 25 team Nationally. I think they said they have “7” D-1 kids in their starting lineup.

Columbus East at Whiteland Floyd Central at Louisville Male Jennings County vs. Norwell New Albany at Bloomington South Seymour at South Dearborn Same for me. I ask my fellow HHC fans not to judge my Highlanders too harshly on Friday. That game is not going to be pretty.

1. East-It’s East. When someone gets close to them, I’ll consider a different outcome, 2. FC- A little bias here for sure. I just feel their defense and O-line will be a lot better than NAs. NA really has a hard time with Floyd even when they have the more talented team. 3. NA-They’ll score a bunch. And they’ll give up a bunch. After this season they will be absolutely gutted by graduation. 4. Jeffersonville-Coach Parker is a great man. So much respect for him. They did upset a FC team that admitted this winter that they basically were looking ahead a week. And then Jeff was shake to dispatch a NA team that was struggling. 5.BNL-I’ve always felt they should be as good as FC. A lot of decent athletes there. Close to Bloomington and IU. 6. Seymour-They’re here by default. 7. JC-I find myself rooting for these guys. I want them to become good so bad. To be honest, I want all these teams to become good. This conference would be so much more fun if we had a bunch of parity and a bunch of conference champions. The East fans won’t agree but their dominance just makes the Fall in Southeastern Indiana, very boring.