southend

He is right, EC seems to always be a tough  team every weekend. Win or lose, there opponents know that they were in a game.  They seem to feed off of the Cincinnati aura of football. 

35 minutes ago, MICFan34 said:

COVID concerns with Martinsville's team. The Arties cancelled their scrimmage for tomorrow as well. 

Sh..! Not this all over again.  Man

6 minutes ago, DT said:

The response from the Bremen community has been excellent.  

Some observations :

* Small communities have been far and away the strongest supporters and viewers of the interviews

Top 5

Western Boone

Edinburgh

Rensselaer

Lawrenceburg

Gibson Southern

* Best large school response was surprisingly from Carmel

* Biggest disappointment - Fort Wayne Market.  Lots of high school media coverage exists in the market already.

* Most surprising comment - New Pals Kyle Ralph saying the Success factor is a punishment on elite public school programs.  I found it a bit amusing as NP has been doling out quite a bit of punishment for the past 8 years.  LOL

Best PP Response - Andrean                Worst PP Response - Roncalli

General Observation - given their time constraints, the vast majority of the coaches really surprised me with the depth and detail of their responses.  I would not be surprised to see many of these guys advance into high level administrative positions in the future.

For me,I think the interviews erased the persona that fans like myself,not tight with a particular program, may have had of a particular coach and his program , and replaced it with real dialogue for us to discern. 

3 hours ago, southend said:

By the way, I can read better when the answers are right after each question. 

Iknow Iknow !

Again , good luck this year. I will hold back what I’m thinking as the program goes.  Hope they hammer on to The oil can.

Well, I guess the jury will be out until November, for this team. Hope they snap back into contention. 

By the way, I can read better when the answers are right after each question. 

The man has it figured out, very relaxed. And you can be when you organize and prepare as they do. 
As far as the success factor, he has a valid point. I think no team should ever bump to 6a, and never have to bump more than 1 class, from your enrollment class. 

Home of Doc Bowen one of Indiana’s great legislators. 

I don’t know anything about him but this guy can be successful in any class he wants to coach. Last paragraph, gives you a hint. 

Man, his teams were tough to beat. I remember Bill Mallory taking a decent team to a bowl game against Florida State and getting pretty well dominated in all phases of the game

I like his answer to question 5, adapting his schemes to his personnel. Although I think this is imperative to having a championship caliber team, how many dont do this? And are they ever really successful as far as winning championships? 

The line for Indiana is 7 1/2 wins this year. 
With a healthy QB I could win some money. And conversely.  ? 
Man the quarterback situation seems to be the Achilles heel for the Hoosiers.  After the starter, production goes to the dogs. But maybe not. 

56 minutes ago, DE said:

Fun story...

When I was still coaching at KV, Andrean came down to play.  This was 2012 or 2014.  After the game, our parents would leave us burgers and hot dogs in the coaches office.  We had plenty left over, so I took them out to share with the Andrean coaching staff.  As I was taking the tray over to Coach Komara (one of my former coaches at LC), I see a hand reach in to take one.  I say, sorry, these are for the coaches only.  The person who reached in says, I am a coach.  I look at Coach Komara for clarification and he was laughing.  He says yep, that is Coach Skinner.  😂

Sorry Coach, thought you were a player.

Funny. Yea, everyone now, is starting to look young. 

Seems dedicated to the program.. and in it for the long haul. Hope he has success.

Also for this Bloomington south team, move ins aside, I don’t see how they are in the top 10 mix. QB will be a big question. 

Man it gets tougher at all he top. And his concerns with getting ready for a new season, working with college coaches to help shore up his defensive schemes. A real contrast from some of the other coaches we’ve been hearing from. They may have something for “The Grove” this year.  
Also , again, the success factor. So far every coach has at least one negative comment. But one tweak I will toss out there I think would really be far reaching is, no schools can be bumped up to 6a.

He seems low key, and all business.  Hope he has the success to go with his philosophy. 

5 hours ago, NLCTigerFan07 said:

Yeah I was going to say, SDSU is a heck of an FCS program. I would guess at BEST Becker could have gotten an MAC level D1 offer, and I think one could argue a top level FCS program over a small tier Group of 5 FBS program is a more attractive option.

Or he could have become a “preferred walk”on victim. Glad to see the Jackrabbits pluck a cherry from Indiana.  

Under: others receiving votes

I’m curious to see if the other Bloomington school can break out of Bloomington South’s shadow. Coach Bless has a great offense coming back and if the D can produce, I’m not counting the cougars out of the sectional title game. 

4 hours ago, DE said:

LOVE IT!  You are doing all the work.  You make the choice.  I just appreciate you letting us read your hard work.  Very much appreciated.

I agree. 

It’s the Olympics!

Ok then, we got that out of the way.  Anything positive from this interview?

I’m not sure north will have too many guys going both ways. But still no contest. 

6 hours ago, gonzoron said:

I think this thread shows who truly hates the US. 

Explain, Einstein.  We’re at your mercy. 🙏