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Best of luck to both teams here in about an hour or so. Curious if some WeBo poster can shed some light on a question I’ve been pondering. Before this 3 year explosion- was it safe to say WeBo was just a “middle of the road 3A school” ?? Meaning- had t won a sectional since the early 90s?? Why the sudden drop in enrollment to 2A??

While good in theory, the SF publishes PUBLIC schools who, like it or not, do not have the inherent advantages that P/P's do. Again, it's really that simple. While I agree with your premise in that really the SF rose with the Cathedral's and Chatards and Luers of the world, it has conversely affected classes in PUBLIC schools who really, had no impact on the success of their previous classmates. Your approach I believe is a little to "narrow" in scope- focused solely on the "big dogs" of the football world so-to-speak. There are Mater Dei's of the world...the Memorial's...the Guernin Catholics, etc...that are still playing with a "loaded deck of cards" in comparison to their public school counterparts. It is just the facts of the matter. Playing up a class is the simplest and easiest solution - but as stated previously - the IHSAA will never/doesn't have the guts to pull that trigger.

Parochials/Private play UP a class. It’s really that simple. I’ve walked the halls of a public school- I’ve walked the halls of private/parochial- They(P/P) just have a different clientele. It’s really that simple. The IHSAA are just cowards when it comes to the subject.

Don't get off-track there fellas...this week/thread should be about the 2 teams remaining. We'll have plenty of time to discuss the JOKE of a sectional the IHSAA put together and how to fix it.

As long as SOMEONE fixes Sectional 30 !! I was going to start a thread about 3A sectional re-alignments - but thought it best to wait until the season ended. (Danville moving up is a possibility)

I'll throw my 2 cents (if it's even worth that much) on the match-up this weekend. First of all, I know ZERO about Chatard, so I'll just assume they are the juggernaut they always are. Danville has some D.U.D.E.S that can flat out play. Physical, aggressive, skilled - and seemed to be very well coached. If there is one thing that might hold them back from taking down Chatard, it could be their lack of "creativity" on offense. You pretty well know what you're going to get - it's just a matter of if you can stop it. No one in the South put up much of a fight, so hard to tell. Good luck to both teams this weekend. ps...How in the world is Chatard 3A?? This SF thing seems awfully "flawed", IMO

Well-thanks for that.

Sorry for that performance- but Danville is dang good. Congrats to them and good luck next week. Am I allowed to lets not forget that was a 2A school playing in the 3A Semi-State?? I feel like I’ll get burned at the cross so maybe I should retract it.............na Proud of our guys for stepping up and answering the Bell. Just ran into a damn good team

This was debated/confirmed last week from the IDOE website that the current enrollment would IN FACT have SR in 2A. Usually we hover around the cut-off mark in that regard. I don't believe it's out of line to point out the fact a 2A enrollment school is having success in the 3A tournament (and it's also natural to wonder "what-if" ) . I think it's a pretty cool accomplishment. Danville is good, no doubt about it.

Is “Mr. Six-Shooter” still the coach at Danville?? I seem to remember reading somewhere that he was moving on- but don’t remember and actually have no clue his name. Just will never forget a HC doing the six-shooter routine after a score.

Any live stream for this one?

Per the Deparment of Education website. 1587 0 3 6 419 2110 Southwest Dubois Co Sch Corp 1588 Southridge High School 130 125 124 115 6 500

Not sure where you pulled those #’s from. But a quick IDOE search will show your are about 25+ off for SR. But point taken. I’ll shut my trap from now on

HH was good no doubt. But don't dismiss knocking out a team's "do everything" QB mid 2nd quarter - changed the course of that game last year. Also most of those dudes were "young bucks" compared to this year, another year older, etc... Totally different game, circumstances, environment , etc this year. Let's not also forget SR is a "success factored" school punching above its weight all season. Find the STC Hanner references funny....

Grass fields in the playoffs. Gotta love it. (I don't know where the sarcasm button is, or I'd press it X 100)

Per IHSAA by-laws - the visiting team can request "day of game" - home team can then set the "time of day" the game will be played. If Saturday is requested, it's more than likely understood that travel is an issue. Last year, MD requested a Saturday game, having to go more than 3+ hours on a bus - Triton then sets the game time at 11 am, or noon, can't remember. Pretty busch league on their part Takes a lot for me to root for our ol parochial rivals in the South, but just this one time, I'd like to see them lay the hammer down for last year.

Before we move onto Regional- can we just recognize that a 2A school (by success factor and enrollment) manufactured this tough-as-nails Sectional?? I mean- I don’t believe many people gave this team much attention/chance when “the big dog” decided to hang it up in terms of football- but here they are.

Linton still can’t seem to crack the MD code... For anyone attending the game- what was the atmosphere like with no fans?? That had to be really strange.

I was a "Rockers" fan all the way. Marty Jannetty and Shawn Michaels - what a team! The betrayal in the barber shop still haunts me to this day. And, the bushwackers were awesome as well! Kinda like how Linton draws from all over Greene County.....(sorry, couldn't help it)

I agree that MD is NEVER out of the sectional conversation. But I’m not sure I’d label them favorites every year. Going back to ‘07 (year after MD spent a 4 year hiatus in 3A) - I believe that it is an even 5-5 split between the Raiders and MD, when both are present in the same sectional.

Someone else will eventually have to beat MD at some point in this sectional. Linton is too good of a program to continually no-show vs MD. They’ll get it figured out soon enough. Maybe this year??

Can't help but think about all the fun this sectional would be if the Raiders were playing in good ol 40! Who'd of thunk the Raiders would be success-factored up before all powerful MD huh?? Anyway- I completely wiffed on the TC-Linton game, so obviously Linton has all wheels churning. Again, from having played both NP and Linton, I'd say Linton has a big advantage. Good luck to all teams.

Don’t want to discredit the big win for Linton last night- but you gotta feel a little bit for Tell City last night being hit by the Rona bug at absolutely the worst time. 2020 in a nutshell I guess... Having played both teams- at full strength, I believed it would be a nip/tuck type of game. Kuddos to Linton for getting it done- but now TC will be left to wonder “what might have been” had they had their full compliments of players. Best of luck to the teams moving on and congrats to TC on a good year. Just a tough way for it to end

So does this mean that “contact tracing” isn’t a thing anymore as long as you test negative??

I was wondering to myself how a team with a Power 5 D1 commit QB can be a “darkhorse” 🤔🤔