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Don't forget beating Guerin in 2011 41-21 at LOS.

Lutherans play good soccer. My son played on a Lutheran soccer team this last season. Matter of fact, he got to play the Calvary Lutheran tournament there at Indy Lutheran in late-September ... which his team won.

Almost gave you an up-vote ... until I saw the score prediction. 😀 Should be a good game.

Or Covenant Christian. It was more recent and during the tourney. That more likely holds the key for LCC.

Tell that to Faith Christian ... or St. James Lutheran High School in Lafayette.

For 2019, it would depend on what you mean by compete. If you are talking sectionals, I don't think they could have won 33, 34, 36, 37, and 40. Could have possibly won 35, 38, 39. The problem for LCC though would be they likely would have ended up in 33 or 34 this go-round, even though in the 2013/2014 they ended up in the equivalent of this year's 35. Assuming equal chance to play across the board in 2A, being able to win three of eight sectionals probably puts them in that "compete" realm.

I doubt that the 2019 LCC team would still be playing if not for their experience in the Hoosier Conference this season. LCC used to augment its schedule back when it was in the HHC with teams like Mishawaka Marian, St. Joe Ogden, CMA, and Benton Central, but that was only a couple of teams in a season. The grind of the Hoosier Conference means that you don't get much breathing room and really conditions a team, especially LCC, for a post-season run.

Here's the picture of the seniors on that squad, back when they were just starting their careers as 3rd graders. This is the 3rd/4th grade combined teams after winning the championship over East Tipp back in 2010.

Of interest is that there are a few kids in that picture who ended up playing ball at other schools including Harrison, Jeff, CMA, West Lafayette, and McCutcheon ... I feel a disturbance in the Force.

Was 17-0 at half.

Will at least be back to full strength. Will be an interesting feeling going in as underdogs this millennium.

LCC returns to LOS. LCC 24 AC 14 Final

LCC 24 AC 7 End of 3Q

LCC 17 AC 0 Halftime

LCC. 7 AC 0 End of 1Q

I understand what you are saying. I was watching 6A and 5A while the Lafayette-area schools were in, but with Harrison being knocked out last week and Jeff knocked out in the first 6A sectional game, I'm kind of done watching those classes until, maybe, Thanksgiving weekend ... and even then, it's probably 50/50 whether I'll tune in to watch. Still kind of watching 3A just to see if Chatard basically smokes the remaining competition like they've done so far or whether there's someone out there to possible slow them down a bit. Haven't followed 4A at all this season and with fellow Hoosier Conference members RCHS and Cass now eliminated, 2A kind of catches my attention on the fringes.

Don't want to speak for @Coach Nowlin and his guys, but I think RCHS fits in nicely with the Hoosier Conference mix despite the time changes that teams put up with.

With no disrespect to Barrett, he isn't in the range of Kiser or Zachery ... especially with regard to his legs. He looks more like previous LCC QBs that were passers and not runners. Also, as a sophomore, he's still a pretty raw talent, but learning very quickly and I think he certainly has the build and potential to make a name for him self at LCC like Mills, Munn, Denhart, and Preston. As has typically been the case with LCC teams, even with Danny/Jackson Anthrop, Cronk, Corcoran, etc., the cast is more the strength than a player. I think this year's team looks more like the 2009 and 2010 teams, not from the depth/ability side of things, but from the "no name" aspect. That's also part of the focus moving forward ... a team of one-way players with duties spread all over the place. I think that's part of the reason that, while LCC has had folks out, like Schrader in the last game, and will have Roach out this game, there's less panic amongst LCC fans.

If there's a team that can exploit a few weaknesses, it would be LCC ... although AC proved last week that they can too.

If it's LCC, then it would be their first loss at LOS aka LaRocca South. They are 5-0 in state championships there and also beat Guerin in a regular-season game there too in 2011.

Already got it. Thanks for your support.

Not at all, just looking for information.

Have no idea. It was a general statement. My kids aren't in LCSS and I don't teach there. Not that it matters. Never seem to miss a chance to take a swipe at folks, huh?

Has nothing to do with get better or get used to it and has little to do with GID sentiments. Has to do with society as whole nowadays, for better or worse. You can't give Johnny a failing grade even if he got every question wrong and misspelled his own name and you certainly can't tell him directly that he's performing lower than the class. Has to do with the fact that everyone's OK with saying move the guys up so that everyone can get a shot when everyone thinks they are the one that might get a shot. Kind of like kids in a classroom with extra credit. They all want extra points for showing up to class, but they all think the teacher is mean/unreasonable for counting off points when they skip class. I would conjecture that the psyche of most folks views success factor as an artificial mechanism in the current scheme and thus it creates something that's "unnatural" to the current process. As such, anything that moves back into the state prior to the introduction of artificial process isn't viewed in as negative a light. Time is necessary for SF to be considered more of the "norm" or less artificial and it may well be that, in the future, it may well be scene as "demotion," but for right now, that's not specifically how it's viewed. Again, that could well change, but as I posted above, this SF thing is only a half a decade old. Needs time to grow on folks. Nope ... just a Texan now. 😃

I think, given today's culture, the IHSAA would be hard-pressed to get enough programs to agree to the idea of having a list of folks names to the relegation list. It took a mandatory mercy rule to get folks to do a running clock that doesn't require agreement. They can't even get folks to even start to think about seeding sectionals or maybe even identifying the top four seed to prevent #1 from having to play #2 right out of the gate. It's one thing to promote/punish successful programs, but having a public list of the demoted isn't likely to find traction from too many circles when it comes down to a vote.