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Depending on configuration, it's about 67,000. A better way to probably figure it out is that, at the end of September, Marion County was allowing about 7,500 for the Colts game ... the one with the Jets. My guess is that, if we go on lockdown levels again, that might be what they go with ... given that they've done it before and have a blueprint already for it. The next level would be when they increased to around 12,500 back at the start of October in the game with the Bengals. Both of those would be blueprint configs that they've run with and managed, so those are likely decent starting points for conjecture.

Quantity or quality?

Historically, although I've not dialed in this season to verify, LCC's speed on defense has often made up for lack of size ... especially when paired up against size with minimal speed. The angles they tend to get, coupled with the setback they use ... if they are still using it ... typically has them playing bigger than their size would indicate. Size ends up being more of an issue on offense when the QB has lower mobility as in with Barrett. LCC has typically had decent-sized OLine with less mobile QBs ... Denhart comes to mind ... and traditionally tend to usually have a decent receiving corps that doesn't rely on one or two receivers only. That plays into the issue with someone like Barrett, who as you pointed out will pick you apart if he has time. Again, I've not dialed in to LCC much this season, so I don't know if they've continued that tradition of having like 12 receivers on the field or not, but if they have, even with a smaller line, Barrett will have plenty quick targets to get to. Earlier on in his career, he had trouble reading that many folks and taking advantage, but with age has come experience ... and last year's run to LOS certainly helped him mature into a better receiver reader.

Snow's the least of your concerns at The Pit.

Convenient. Faith Christian?

Yet 6A is still stale?

Wouldn't it make a whole bunch more sense, especially given your arguments in the past about competitiveness, for the regular 6A folks who don't regularly compete to get a whole bunch better rather than artificially adding others into the mix?

Irregardless of that ... 😃

Is that kind of like "going to Denny's?" No one ever goes to Denny's; they just end up at Denny's.

True, but I've not typically seen the chain crew need a sheriff's escort to their cars after some games. 😃

If IHSAA treats COVID missed games as forfeits by the team that bows out, then it makes it easier as it would just be handled the way it always has been. Even if you didn't play, if you were scheduled to play at home you "won" a home game and if you were scheduled to be away you "won" as an visitor. The potential problem comes in with treating them as byes due to the way that IHSAA treats byes with the team with a bye being considered a visitor as there's a potential for two teams to end up with "byes" via COVID.

Is that likely to still hold true with the potential COVID impact? For example, Wisconsin pulling out also dings anyone else who was depending on Wisconsin as a potential win. There was, at best, an 8-game season on the books. All it takes is a couple of teams to not even end the season, but just go on 14-day quarantine, and the ripple effect could put that 6-game requirement at risk for a team through no fault of their own.

Is that a euphemism for something else? 😁 Lord, I apologize for that.

@LCCAlum ... in the driver's seat.

I think they are actually on a rolling basis based on a 24-hour window.

Yep. They changed it from four a bit ago.

Pioneer would need to pick up a sectional and then get past, likely, Andrean, to stay in 2A. Will be a heck of a game either way.

Have to win regional to get six points.

MaxPreps is showing Traders Point withdrawn for tonight's game ... which, if true, would mean the winner of LCC/Clinton Central this week advances to the regional: de facto sectional champion. https://www.maxpreps.com/tournament/J3aHmvaiEeqAzqREozo6lw/J3aKP_aiEeqAzqREozo6lw/football-fall-20/2020-21-ihsaa-football-state-tournament-presented-by-the-indianapolis-colts-class-1a-state-championship.htm

Unless they ended up with a positive test within the team which would put just about everyone on the team under two-week quarantine. They might also be stretched on numbers too. I recall last season, when they played LCC in the sectional championship, that they were thin on the sidelines ... I think they may have had 18 suited up for the game with a few on the sidelines injured in jerseys only. For a team with those numbers, they were still pretty competitive. MaxPreps shows their roster at 24 this season including 10 freshmen/sophomores, so they seem pretty young this season and may also be thin if injuries have hit them again ... they faced both Lapel and Lutheran earlier in the season. I don't know, however, what their injury/illness situation looks like.

TPC was pretty tough last season. They only lost two games last season and they were to the two teams that battled it out in LOS last season for 1A. The gave LCC all they could handle for a half and took a 10-9 into the locker room at half before succumbing 34-16 in the sectional championship. They look like they are struggling this season ... then again, LCC's not slicing through the competition this season either.

In actuality, they finished 2nd in the conference against 1A teams ... SV and Seeger are both 2A schools ... and they only dropped their one game this season by a touchdown against SV. Beating South Putnam for the sectional would be the more impressive item in this case.

If LCC wins this weekend, it'll setup a rematch of last year's sectional championship with TPC.

Russia Today? 😀