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I'm not as familiar with the D3/NAIA ranks. If I'm not mistaken, @Irishman has pretty good knowledge in this area. You might also check in with @Lysander too as I think he has pretty good knowledge there ... or maybe it was @Impartial_Observer. @LCCAlum has pretty good knowledge on D2 too.

I'm thinking it's going to be more than Year 2 before that happens given that Kokomo dropped their sectional to McCutcheon ... although they did win the regular season matchup, but it was close. By comparison, Harrison smoked McCutcheon. Right now, NCC supremacy sits in Jeff's hands for the past four seasons with Harrison pulling up on the inside lane to challenge.

Usually it's a specialized version of Latin. If you ever convert, your wife will teach it to you ... along with the secret handshake. 😀 Lord, I apologize for that.

O'Shea went in the other direction, although still in the north part of the state, leaving 1A LCC to go to 6A North Central.

It's that Apple product. I always tell my students with Apples, when they have problems in the programming class, that if they'd get a real computer, that would solve their problems. 😀

Might be a combination or browser/platform. On Android using Chrome with Nokia, the envelope and bell appear in the upper right-hand side like it does on a desktop machine ... albeit really tiny.

I don't know if this works in all browsers on all phone or all O/S platforms, but: Go to the GID website on your mobile device Look in the upper right-hand side of the browser next to the URL/website address ... you will see three vertical dots or whatever your browser uses for settings/options Click on the three vertical dots ... down the list, there should be an option that says "Desktop site" and it has a box to the right. Click on that and the box should now have a check or x or be filled in You should then be able to see GID as it would appear on your computer. It's not perfect and it's still pretty clunky, but I think at that point, it should give you the ability to get to the notifications bell and envelope that takes you to the inbox. I think it also gives access to the sub-menus where you can get to things like Clubs, etc. Disclaimer: On my phone, I'm running Android, Chrome, and it's a Nokia.

Coach ... if they sent messages to you via GID and you got an e-mail message saying that someone had contacted you, go to GID and then click on the envelope in the upper right-hand corner and that should take you to your GID inbox with messages sent via GID. Hope that helps out.

Then why does the initial post not say anything at all about forward motion and focus specifically on the idea of a "new pick concept" and directly mention defense/defenders twice and indirectly at least once? Wouldn't a clearer post have been something like, "Penalty or not? Does the offensive player in motion turn upfield too early?" as opposed to two sentences about picks and none about forward motion?

Sounds like a defensive problem, not a foul. Plenty of ways for defense to avoid the pick without losing coverage as opposed to trying to avoid or getting picked offensively. Is this an add-on? It's not part of the original post question. I think @Bobref's call is correct. The fault in this defensive coverage, which gave the lateral advantage, is 82/32 moving up into 20's path which was clear on the first trip over. Had 82/32 not stepped up, 20 would have not had to drop back behind him to avoid the collision, thus giving the receiver lateral advantage. It's a good thing they weren't playing youth league ball because 20 would have been flagged for having that mouthpiece out.

Some of these guys are learning this stuff in the college careers ... no doubt a few aspiring theater arts majors.

Spelling the name correctly? 😀

I don't know if Harrison High School does it or not, but their youth travel baseball recently rolled out a black jersey/hat alternative with the Harrison orange writing on it that looks downright sharp. The primary jersey colors are still orange, blue, and along with white, and the traditional blue with the orange writing is still my favorite. Every once in a while they bring out the black ones and they do draw positive attention, especially when paired with the white pants.

If you take Indy out of Indiana, Indiana's not that much of a force either. Actually, per capita, Indiana ends up on the bottom rung and, surprisingly, KY jumps up. Based on Blue Chip prospects in 2020, the rankings would be: Kentucky Michigan Ohio Illinois Indiana And for general reference, Texas would be about twice the ranking of KY and about, three times the ranking of Ohio, and twelve times the ranking of Indiana. For Florida, it's even a bigger gap as Florida tops Texas per capita. Florida would be three times KY, five times Ohio, and over eighteen times IN. https://www.bannersociety.com/2020/2/4/21111828/college-football-recruits-by-state

Definitely a dangerous sport. I recall the first tournament that I went to back in the early-80s at A&M. I think there were three or four fields side-by-side with games running simultaneously. The thing that struck me were the three ambulances parked on the road adjacent to the fields. Sure enough, within five minutes of the start of the first game, the gurney came out and the lights came on one of ambulances ... and then there were two.

The (non)American Conference: Delphi Peru Lebanon Avon Angola Alexandria Edinburgh Milan Munster Warsaw Monrovia Salem Expansion members if needed: Cambridge (City Lincoln) Switzerland (County)

Defensive coordinators are a different breed. Offensive coordinators: Defensive coordinators:

Saw that in a youth football game where the coaches on the same team got in a fight with each other. It was strangest thing I've ever seen.

Usually it's football on band violence ...

Harrison and McCutcheon both were members of the Hoosier back in the late-20th century. Harrison racked up conference titles in over a third of the seasons that they were a member.

McCutcheon plays Guerin fairly close ... last three years saw McCutcheon at 1-2 with 14-7 being the score this year. Harrison lost to Roncalli 49-45 this year in a back-and-forth event.

McCutcheon's fairly well-situated in 5A ... kind of in the middle of the pack with regard to size. They are roughly 250-300 students above 4A cutoff and about 250-300 below 6A. McCutcheon also plays Guerin fairly regularly and also plays against WL annually. Of course, they also face off against Harrison and Jeff regularly too as part of the NCC. I think @HoopsCoach is correct in that, since Harrison and McCutcheon are the two high schools of TSC, with Harrison on the north side of the county and McCutcheon on the south side, they tend to be more of a package deal.

There are two open dates. In the coming season, LCC, e.g., opens their season against Tri-West and Guerin ... neither of which is in the Hoosier Conference. West Lafayette will play McCutcheon and Jeff. RCHS will play KV and NorthNewton. Tipton is playing Frankton and Elwood. The HC schedule allows for within division, crossover, crossover championship, and a couple of open dates to allow teams to maintain more historical rivalries, such as LCC and Guerin or RCHS and KV or Tipton and Elwood. In the past, Benton Central has typically played against Delphi/North Montgomery and Seeger. HH typically plays North Montgomery and someone else like Mount Vernon. Cass typically plays Pioneer and someone else. A couple of the schools, like Twin Lakes, Northwestern, and Western, try to schedule everything within conference, but even Western and Northwestern normally pick up at least one outside of the conference. Only seven of the nine games is REQUIRED infra-conference and, as I pointed out and you did too, the last game of the season is like a "bowl game" where there is division-against-division crossover based on records. If the conference ever ends up as an odd-number league, that crossover championship game will either require someone to get blocked out of playing or one more flexible date added to the schedule. I'm not sure that long intra-state travel is an artifact of open-conferences. I've seen it much more as opportunities for experimentation, growth, new experiences, etc. Having the open dates provides opportunities for a team to take on a new challenge or to do something a bit different to shake things up. An argument might be made that being an independent might put you more in the position of having to make longer treks to fill in the gaps of a season, but I'm just not seeing the issue for most open conferences. Do some make that trek? Certainly. Do they HAVE to because they are in an open-conference? Again, I'm not seeing that as a result of the open-conference.

Actually, COVID would be more likely to encourage more open conference schedules if it actually has any real impact at all on conferences ... and I'm not convinced that it does. More open schedules provide for more options should there be an issue with COVID; especially if you are talking cross-county. If you look at most of the COVID-cancelled matches and who filled in those cancellations to allow games to continue on, it was teams that were outside of the conferences and, often, outside of the county. As for 10-team conferences, I'm not specifically seeing the correlation between the number 10 and a closed conference. Yes, 10 ALLOWS you to do a closed schedule, but there are 10-team conferences that still have open schedules ... e.g., the Hoosier Conference is a 10-team conference that plays seven games in-conference ... four within division, two cross-division, and an end-of-season crossover match-up based on standings ... and two games open.

He was a math teacher when he was at LCC.