jakone

Appreciate the kind thank yous. My only problem with non conference games is someone is going to end up with an easier schedule than others.

Homestead by a hair

Dwenger by 30

Snider by 10

North Side by 17

Concordia by 14

Carroll at Homestead

Dwenger at Luers

Northrop at Snider

South Side at North Side

Wayne At Concordia

Dwenger by 14

Northrop

Homestead by 3 td's

Snider

Carroll easily

Concordia at Dwenger

Luers at Northrop

North Side at Homestead

Snider at Wayne

South Side at Carroll

26 minutes ago, OldschoolFB said:

Luers is not very good.  Northrop should beat Luers easily.

Heard the same thing last week.

10 hours ago, Gridiron_Junkie said:

You give Luers too much credit. If it wasn't for some bad bounces Luers should and probably would have lost to Wayne. North obviouslys had other things on their mind. Still they (North) almost pulled it out in the end.

Giving Luers too much credit? They are 3 spots down from a team they just beat. The object of the games is to score the most points not to look the prettiest.

North Sides win over Snider while impressive at the time isn't that good of a win now. Since that win over Snider they won one game against a Team that has one win in their last 15 games.

I will always take scrimmages with a grain of salt after watching Luers outplay North earlier this year.

North Side at Luers

Northrop at Concordia

Wayne at South Side

Homestead at Snider

Dwenger at Carroll

3 minutes ago, Knightmare said:

1	1	Center Grove	110.84	88.05	9	110.86	1	110.68	1
2	3	Lawrence North	101.21	81.13	14	101.83	3	100.62	3
3	4	Hamilton Southeastern	100.11	92.37	5	100.09	5	99.76	4
4	5	North Central (Indianapolis)	99.59	90.75	6	100.79	4	98.42	5
5	8	Warren Central	93.86	106.55	1	92.50	10	94.68	6
6	9	Merrillville	93.85	73.15	34	94.30	7	93.32	9
7	10	Lafayette Jeff	93.59	75.83	24	94.28	8	92.87	10
8	11	Brownsburg	92.46	69.99	48	91.95	11	91.86	12
9	12	Avon	91.30	94.04	4	89.19	12	92.06	11
10	13	Carmel	89.41	100.11	2	88.32	14	89.26	13
11	16	Westfield	86.65	74.85	27	86.09	17	86.34	17
12	20	Lawrence Central	84.77	97.88	3	83.04	23	85.68	19
13	28	Elkhart	80.02	73.16	32	83.84	22	81.77	24
14	32	Fishers	77.06	74.53	30	74.73	37	78.06	32
15	33	Columbus North	76.67	63.49	67	75.54	35	77.33	34
16	38	Ben Davis	74.26	86.29	10	76.48	33	71.83	46
17	42	Carroll (Fort Wayne)	73.45	45.64	169	73.18	43	73.07	42

 

Carroll is grossly underrated.  Brownsburg and Center Grove are the only teams listed above them who I believe would beat Carroll without a doubt.  But as for the rest of the teams on this list, I would put Carroll as the favorite if they played this Friday.

100% agree.

Carroll easily

Dwenger slightly

Concordia by 2td's

Snider easily

North Side kind of easily

Carroll at Northrop

Dwenger at Homestead

Luers at Concordia

Snider at South Side

Wayne at North Side

32 minutes ago, BTF said:

1.   Dwenger - Defense wins championships. Enough said.          Side note.........probably a bit better than their #125 ranking by Sagarin. 

2.   Carroll - One of the most prolific offenses in state. But will it be enough to overcome some of their defensive deficiencies? It may take a Dwenger or a Merrillville to answer that question. 

3.   North Side - Turnovers and holding penalties were the difference against Carroll. Clean those things up and they can play with anyone up north. 

4.   Snider - They make a big jump this week after changing quarterbacks and the addition of a D1 caliber defensive lineman who was ineligible until now. 

5.   Homestead - Didn't see a 25 point blowout of Bishop Luers coming. Is their new quarterback finding his rhythm? 

6.   Wayne - The Generals just keep getting better. That shouldn't surprise anyone. Haydock is a good coach and we all know that there is talent at that school. 

7.   Northrop - The Bruins are a good football team, make no mistake. But the SAC is deep this year. The 9th best team can compete with most teams north of Indy. 

8.  Luers - Trying to predict 4-9 is a crapshoot. This week I have Luers at 8. That could easily change in the upcoming weeks. I thought they were better than their blowout loss against Homestead. 

9.   Concordia - Until they are healthy and playing at full strength, this is where they land. When it's all said and done, they will make a deep run in 3a.

10. South Side - Still working on getting better. 

 

So Luers is two spots behind a team they beat by two td's a weeks ago on the road.

Concordia at Snider

North Side at Carroll

Northrop at Wayne

South Side at  Dwenger

Homestead at Luers

Because I started this topic I make the rules. Mebuck is not allowed to pick Luers anymore! 😁

Dwenger at North Side

Luers at Wayne

Snider at Carroll

South Side at Northrop

Homestead at Concordia

14 hours ago, BTF said:

It wasn't easy for me to dub the Legends as the third best team behind Valpo and Dwenger. After all, they had been a mid level team at best for several years. They just looked different Friday night. They looked complete. They didn't beat Snider because Snider beat themselves. They didn't beat Snider because Snider was unprepared. They beat Snider because they were simply the better team. If they play the rest of the season with that same intensity, they will have a year worth remembering. However, they better stop thumping their chests and prepare for Carroll like their lives depend on it. The Chargers are capable of bringing them back to reality this Friday night. 

North plays Dwenger this week at home. Carroll plays at home to Snider. North at Carroll is the following week.

Carroll

Concordia

Snider

Homestead

Dwenger

Carroll at Luers

Concordia at South Side

North Side at Snider (game of the week)

Northrop at Homestead

Wayne at Dwenger

Who ya got?

18 minutes ago, Justasportsfan said:

The legends of northside may be a sleeper..heard their new dc(ex Luers guy) has some crazy schemes n may give snider fits in game 1 of the season. That being said I do think snider has the capability of running the table if they fire on all cylinders..weapons all over the field..young guns..old guns..they all do damage.. dwenger usually have their playmakers on d, curious if their offense will still give u 3 to 5 yds/play or open it up a little..at wayne..haydock will get the speed eventually..wonder if he has the hogs..homestead won't lose many games..maybe 2 ..if that..losing goode not only hurts physically..mentally he had the juice..chargers bring back decker who has winning in his genes n Dinan has made that program a legit matchup nightmare every friday..still wish he n tippy could have stuck together..ive seen kids grow up in the Luers feeder programs..they're getting bigger..2a may not be able to handle them in a year or two..heck this year even..archers..eh..maybe next year..cadets n Bruins share a coaching tree now..both could/should be above. 500..both have athletes..every now n then we get a team that shakes up the conference..this could be the year. 

Panthers

Saints

Sparty

Legends

Chargers

Bruins 

Cadets

Generals

Knights 

Archers

I know it was just a scrimmage but Luers looked very good against the Legends.

On 8/12/2020 at 3:30 PM, BTF said:

Schools in Northeast Indiana continue to practice and are scheduled to play scrimmages on Saturday. Here is my early prediction for the SAC.

Tier 1

1) Dwenger will once again be one of the top teams in 5a. Enough to topple the mighty Vikings of Valpo? Maybe or maybe not, but good enough to win the very deep SAC. If defense wins championships, the Saints will conquer 2020.

2) Will the NHC newcomers run the table in 2019 and 2020? Homestead did it last year, Carroll has a chance this year. I think Carroll could be fielding their best team to ever take the gridiron. They may boast the best passing attack in all of Northern Indiana this fall. That's a bold statement, but it's possible. 

3) Snider is young, but talented. They have some Division 1 studs with some major offers, including a young quarterback with D1 potential. If their supporting cast can step up to the standard that the Snider program has set over the past four decades, this team could sneak in an SAC title and a possible run to semi-state.

Tier 2

4) I think Homestead will have a pretty good team this year. Like I said in an earlier thread, they were my pick to represent 6A North this year before their quarterback decided to focus on basketball instead of football (a D1 talent in both sports). That being said, the Spartans drop to #4. Still enough talent to be dangerous, but I think the SAC is a three team race.

5) Concordia will have another solid year. They have to enough returning in my opinion to close the gap between them and Chatard in this year's semi-state. I don't see them taking the SAC, but they can beat any of the top 4 on any given night. Don't sleep on the Cadets, because if you do, you'll be ringing up a loss...............that includes you Chatard.  

Tier 3

6) Northop seems to improve just a little bit each year. If that continues, I look for them to place somewhere between 4-6. This year, there is no shame in placing 6th in the SAC. And with all the talent roaming the Northrop halls, it won't surprise me WHEN they finally have a breakout year. Their coaching staff is solid. 

7) I almost forgot about the Redskins of North Side. That's OK though, because as dangerous as they may be, I think the six I have ahead of them will be more dangerous. They have a D1 quarterback prospect to lead the way, but it remains to be seen if they have a supporting cast to compete with the upper echelon.

8 -  The Luers contingent will have my head for this, but I still don't see them as the program they once were. And I just happen to like Concordia, Northrop, and North Side this year. So I have no qualms with placing them at #8. I hope they prove me wrong though. I'd love nothing more than to see them back to a prominent level. 

9) Enter coach Sherwood Haydock. He's proves his worth with a state championship at Harding and a state championship appearance at Woodlan. He compares Wayne to Harding, only 3 times larger. If he's right, there will be a new kid on the block in the SAC. Actually, I'd be surprised to see them finish 9 in a 10 team conference. But I don't know how I can place a team that was 0-9 last year in the SAC any higher considering the depth of the conference. 

Bottom

10) With marquee names like Lattimore and Norfleet suiting up in green, do the South Side Archers have something in store for the rest of the conference? Remains to be seen. Good luck to them. 

I remember last year everyone picked Luers dead last in basketball and they ended up conference champs. Will lightning strike twice? NO! but just judging by the scrimmage they will be much better than last year, but so could everyone else.

3 minutes ago, BTF said:

When Northrop and Wayne were constructed, the stadiums were meant for two schools to share. Maybe why that is why they pumped so much money into them. If constructed today, I'm guessing it would take 15 million. 

Northrop has shared with Snider since 1971.

When Wayne was constructed, South Side played their home games there until the recent reconstruction of South Side High School which included a new football stadium.

Concordia and Dwenger shared Zoller Stadium across the street from Concordia until Dwenger built their own stadium last year. Zollner was constructed in 1947 for the World Champion Zollner Piston softball team. In 1958 Lutheran Education Properties purchased it for the Concordia Campus. 

Luers and North Side always had their own stadiums and never had to share. 

 

 

 

Luersfield didn't open till 1980. For the first 20 some years Luers shared Zollner stadium and Dwenger shared North Side.

11 hours ago, Panther86 said:

I see talk on here about Ft Wayne fields and now see 3 private schools and the talk of upgrading their fields.  The question that I am curious of are how many fields are used in Ft Wayne and are they at public schools or private.  Here in Evansville all public schools now have their own field but the 2 private schools do not.

I haven't heard if Luers are planning any upgrades, but Concordia caught me off guard. 

Concordia Lutheran is renovating Zollner stadium including field turf new track new scoreboard and sound system.

Dwenger last year, Concordia this year, Luers you are now on the clock.