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From Hooters? 😀 Lord, I apologize for that.

Oh, I understand old ... I'm probably old enough to be @Coach Nowlin's dad ... not that I'm admitting to anything mind you. 😀

He's kinda old too. 😃 Lord, I apologize for that.

McCutcheon isn't very good this year. Playing in the NCC doesn't do a whole lot for getting Harrison ready for the tourney outside of, very recently, Marion and Jeff. With that said, I think Harrison does look better this season than in past seasons, so I like their chances at home under normal circumstances. The loss of Atisso is definitely going to weigh on them, but as you mentioned, Dixon, the fullback, is a good-looking back. I think he sometimes gets overlooked, but he reminds me a bit of West Lafayette's Woodard from a few years back. Coffing may be the one to step in for Atisso's position ... they are built about the same, although I think Atisso is a faster, shiftier back. This will be a good game to determine if Harrison is really a continuing product of the NCC play or if they are perhaps moving to a next level in their program.

https://twitter.com/hhs_raider_fb?lang=en The Harrison- McCutcheon game can also be found here: https://www.iscsportsnetwork.com/videos/2019-ihsaa-fb-mccutcheon-at-harrison?fbclid=IwAR0xS1MMjxAamPLZq46K2af8JMEXYALfZQaB7pQlesrS2A2JGG5xZ0gYXiE

Here's Harrison vs. Westfield and it looks like the whole game https://www.ihsaatv.org/watch/harrison-vs-westfield

Full film is elusive, but MaxPreps does have the Hudl recap of the games https://www.maxpreps.com/high-schools/harrison-raiders-(west-lafayette,in)/football/schedule.htm You can also check on the opponent's site to get a look at Harrison's defense too since most of the opponents' video is going to be from their own offensive standpoint. There are also several other videos that focus on specific players' activity too on MaxPreps.

I'll see if I can track something down.

I like Harrison in this one. While they lost, they played Jeff tough at home ... dropping the game by a TD. That game has instilled some confidence and also stretched them too.

Unranked Northfield knocked off #3 Southwood in 1A. Sagarin ratings indicate that game should have been a three-TD Southwood victory.

From my experience, it's probably including it. Have known many kids who started education at the Catholic/Christian schools and finished at the public schools, a much more common activity than many might realize, while still being very strong in living and practicing their faith ... including my oldest two kids.

I'm generally familiar with both teams, but interested in hearing from those who know them intimately, what would AC need to do reverse the outcome of the SA-AC meeting from earlier in the season? For example, Lewis Cass, in the Hoosier Conference, was dismantled at home by West Lafayette 58-21. Despite Cass being a top contender in 2A, it wasn't that big of a surprise give that West Lafayette was, at that time, a top 3 contender in 3A and the previous state championship winner with lots of guys returning. Two weeks later, Lewis Cass traveled to West Lafayette for the Hoosier Conference Crossover title game and stunned West Lafayette 49-42. Is that kind of game in the making here for SA-AC?

Depends on the company. I take my boys with me to LOS when LCC plays on Thanksgiving weekend and that makes all the difference to me. At the point that they aren't excited about going, my excitement might drop off, but for now my boys sitting next to me watching a game in person still makes it a special event whether regular season or tournament.

The problem in the analysis is that you are actually talking about programs and not groups/categories winning. For 1A, five of those seven titles come from one team, LCC, and come over a seven-year period. The other two were won by the same program, Ritter. For 2A, seven of the eleven come from a single program, Luers. Two of the most recent ones come from the same 1A team, Ritter, that won two titles in 1A before moving up DUE TO ENROLLMENT. At this point, we're now talking about fourteen games of a possible 36 won by three programs across two classes. For 3A, nine of those thirteen titles come from a single program, Chatard. At this point, we are now talking about four programs winning 25 of 54 possible titles across three classes. For 4A, seven of your thirteen come from a single program, Cathedral, although two of those were in a different class than 4A. Four others come from another single program, Dwenger, so eleven of your thirteen come from two programs. More importantly, what you've shown is that a total of 36 of 44 p/p wins, over 80%, that are attributed across four/five classes to a total of six programs. That's much less an issue of p/p dominance and more an issue of program dominance, which was put forth in @George Orwell 2's nicely presented and informative post.

The same reason that there are two private schools, LCC and Faith Christian, with high schools in the Lafayette area that are IHSAA members and both are 1A ... demand or lack thereof. It's the same reason that the Lutheran school in town ends at 8th grade. Same with one of the other Christian schools, Lafayette Christian School. Of course there's Apostolic Christian Academy, which has a total of 10 students. The 7th Day Adventist school which goes from K-6 and has under 50 students. And before there are any platitudes about capping enrollment for football, note that one of private schools in town doesn't play football ... the smallest one ... and traditionally gets smacked around in many sports that they play. Also, a bit of history on LCC ... the school was scheduled to be closed by the diocese in 1990 until an 11th-hour appeal saved the school from closure ... https://www.lcss.org/advancement/looking-back-25-years/.

I served with @DT. I knew @DT. @DT was a friend of mine. @Cow Bell, you're no @DT.

I doubt there's a single school out there in Indiana ... as I can't speak to Ohio ... that's driven and maintained by revenue, which p/p schools are/have to be, that holds down numbers for football status.

So if open enrollment only works for city schools, then your beef is less with Catholic schools and more with non-rural schools? I mean, you started out with being [not] surprised that a Catholic school was competing for a state championship the weekend after a Catholic school beat the defending 3A champion who is a public school ... albeit a city school. Matter of fact, that public school had just beat a Catholic school the weekend before. It had also beaten four Catholic schools in a row during the tourney last season to win the 3A title. Must have been an act of God ... or perhaps the Devil given that they are the Red Devils?

Not just SF, but open enrollment.

Saw an interesting tweet by Sam King prior to Friday's games. It referenced the fact that LCC and McCutcheon were both playing for sectional titles that night and that the last time a sectional title had been won by both teams, Kevin O'Shea was at the helm. You could also throw North Central into that pot too of having won their last sectional title under O'Shea. With LCC's win Friday, Coach Nay steps out with the first of his LCC sectional titles, his first LCC winning season, and his first LCC winning conference record. Looking to add that first LCC regional win under his tenure this Friday.

Could be a good night for Knight's passing then. LCC's shortest receiver is 5'9" and he's fast. He's not really a "go up and get it" kind of receiver, but instead is the "across the middle" and swing pass guy along with wheel routes. The "go up and get it" receivers are 6'0" and 6'3". Of those three receivers, two of them have seven picks this year between them on defense, so they are ball hawks.

Dang it, I forgot to get my picks in last week. And wouldn't you know it, I would have been 100% too. 😎