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LCC 27 TPC 10 Start of 4Q

TPC 10 LCC 9 Half

I wasn't questioning Chatard's O-line. Merely stating that it's less a question of how Chatard's QB/WRs match up with West Lafayette's secondary and the focus should be on the line. There are many times where a secondary helps the line by creating the ability for coverage sacks; however, West Lafayette tends to be the opposite of that where the D-line makes its own sacks regardless of secondary activity. West Lafayette's D-line has been the focus of that team for a while and this year isn't much different. Keep them off of your QB and you will end up with yards and TDs on their secondary.

I'll be down it Whitestown tonight for LCC-Traders Point Christian. All the cool kids are doing it!

Assuming that you'll be setup near the Hi-Pod X31?

I would say "yes," but the bigger question is less QBs and WRs and more the West Lafayette D-line. West Lafayette's D-line is a tremendous asset to their secondary's performance. There are plenty hurries and just plain old bad passes thrown because of the pressure from West Lafayette's front D-line. From my perspective, the question is less about West Lafayette's secondary and more about Chatard's O-line. Can they keep WL's D-line off of the QB so he can find the WRs? If they can, the WL secondary will give up yards and points in the air. If they can't, then the secondary only needs to be average.

Maybe @Coach Nowlin will need to revive a lost thread from crashed GID forum ...

I expect that Harrison will likely emerge from that meeting on to regionals.

Participation in high school activities in Colorado hits an all-time high ... https://chsaanow.com/2019-07-15/participation-in-high-school-activities-in-colorado-hits-an-all-time-high/ FTA: This year, a total of 82.53% of the total membership enrollment participated in high school activities in one form or another. That includes 59.35% in sports, and 23.18% in activities. This marks the 21st consecutive year that sports participation has been above 54% of the total membership enrollment, and eighth of the past nine that it has surpassed 58%. CHSAA's largest activity is music, with 41,499 participants. Football is the second-largest with 16,888 participants, the sport's highest figure since 2012-13, and is followed by boys basketball (11,723), girls volleyball (11,672), boys track (10,243), and girls basketball (9,045). Boys basketball saw the largest increase in terms of percentage, growing 27% from 2017-18 to 2018-19. Girls basketball had the second-biggest growth, jumping up 24%. Girls volleyball showed the third-fastest growth (23%) and hockey and spirit (both 13%) were fourth. Overall, 14 sports and two activities showed growth from the previous season.

That video is something that all players, coaches, fans, communities, etc. should watch regardless of program origin. There's much more going on than what the game tape or the scoreboard shows. Sometimes need these kinds of things to remind us to stop and take a breath and to be grateful for whatever program we have. I kept listening to the kids in that video and, despite everything going on that they deal with ... whether its classes, jobs, mistakes, family situations, etc. I just kept hearing hope, positivity, and character. If you haven't watched the video, like @Coach Nowlin said, I'd highly encourage you to spend the 17 minutes to watch it. I won't lie, it is emotional in many directions ... but well worth the watch.

Likewise!

I lived a couple of exits south of Moore in Norman and it's named Moore because it's "moore" likely to be hit by a tornado than Norman.

@Coach Nowlin ... any idea when the Booster tags go on the accounts? The ads hadn't bothered me much on a PC, but I recently broke down and got a cell phone and they take up a decent amount of real estate there, so having them gone, via the member status, would be particularly advantageous on that platform.

That was a while back, ...

Yeah, but think of the IHSAA as the gift that keeps giving ... GID's thread count would be halved if the IHSAA changed things.

Anyone know the actual address for Traders Point's stadium? Do they play at the Christian Schools / High School address, 5608 Whitestown Parkway, Whitestown, IN 46075, which is what MaxPreps shows for the school location or is it the Academy address which is 5770 Whitestown Pkwy, Whitestown, IN 46075 per Google or is it 6600 S Indianapolis Rd, Whitestown, IN, 46075 which pops up in Outlook when you type in Traders Point Academy and also what John Harrell has listed on his site when you click "Map to School"? They are all in proximity to each other, but I'd prefer to not spend extra time seeing the sights in Whitestown.

Once you get to tourney season, it's all about the point in time as opposed to a stretch of time. If you can't muster enough to be the better team by the end of the gametime, all the stuff before or after doesn't really matter to that final score. Similarly, if a team has struggled all season long, that doesn't matter if you can get it together for 48 minutes on that one night. Of course, to stick around, you have to get it together for the next time too. I'll tell the players that I coach that they should be humble in victory and gracious in defeat. The gracious in defeat means not taking away from an opponent's victory over us by making excuses or talking about luck or talking about what might happen next time ... it ultimately comes down to the opponent was the better team when it mattered; when the game clock read 0:00 at the end of the 4th quarter.

Might want to reconsider that. The Falcons have something the Wolfs don't, and it's a game-changer ... a Hi-PodX31 endzone camera.

Almost not even worth pulling the bus out of the garage.

Are you threatening me?

Being a somewhat homer ... although I have ties to three different schools ... I'm most interested in seeing how LCC-Traders Point plays out. The convention wisdom said that LCC would walk through sectionals; however, Traders Point is 10-1. While their schedule strength is relatively low, they have played Class A #1 Lutheran ... although it resulted in their solo loss, 63-27 at the end of the regular season. They are a relatively unknown quantity in terms of IHSAA play having just played in their first IHSAA tourney last season where they made it to a sectional championship game before being unceremoniously bounced by South Putnum. I'm interesting in seeing Traders Point play given that they are appearing in the second sectional championship in the two years that they've been IHSAA-eligible.

Knights will be OK on penalties. There were at least three last night that were, and I'm being kind, questionable; including an interference call on a tipped ball. There was also a little extra-curricular activity that seemed to be overlooked. On one play, there was extra-curricular activity that ended up with both players crashing to the ground, a flag came out after the play, and the call was 5-yard facemask.

It's official now that four HC teams will be playing for sectional titles this Friday. Of interest is that three of four teams are playing p/p schools with 9-2 RCHS playing 8-3 Andrean, 9-2 West Lafayette playing 10-1 Chatard, and 8-3 LCC playing 10-1 Traders Point Christian. 10-1 Cass rounds things out against 9-2 LaVille. While the semi-conventional wisdom has been that LCC would walk through sectionals, of note is that Traders Point Christian has only dropped a single game to #1 1A Indy Lutheran 63-27. The question at hand ends up being how much that encounter with Lutheran readied them, since the rest of the schedule was fairly light, compared to LCC's prep of playing the Hoosier Conference schedule. In honesty, I'm not seeing any of the four teams as having a sectional title cleanly in hand, although if I were a betting man, I'd say that the odds are that Cass likely has a clearer path to their title than the other three right now.

LCC's looking at a 45-mile trek south down I-65 toward Whitestown to play 10-1 Traders Point Christian whose single loss has come via #1 1A, Indy Lutheran.

LCC 45 Clinton Prairie 14 Final