BTF

I'll use George Foreman's line: If there are 49 teams better than Carroll, "then cows lay eggs."

Boring? What's boring about seeing Homestead ranked ahead of Westfield in the coaches poll? What's boring about Huntington North being ranked 12th in 4a. *That's exciting stuff! *But not necessarily reality.

Doesn't seem to happen often, but thanks.

I don't have a problem with HSE at #3, they've earned it. The blender in my opinion is 8-18.

The D will step up in this one for the Irish and the North Carolina D is pitiful. Notre Dame 31, North Carolina 24.

I appreciate Sagarin as much as anyone, but until playoff time, it's out of whack when it comes to Fort Wayne schools. It's hard to rate an island conference.

I think Ralph knows that the recipe for success against enrollments twice that of New Pal is to take your best athletes and keep them on the field the entire time. I don't think New Pal could play 22 different players and expect to compete with 6A schools.

I don't think anyone is dismissing Andrean. How many did they return from last year? Bowen is just one guy.

Can't argue with that.

Just sayin. Notre Dame wasn't the only high profile program to take a chance on a successful coordinator. Sink or swim. Sometimes the risk is worth the reward, sometimes not.

I hope you're wrong just for the sake of him coming across as a good guy. Ryan Day made it, why not Freeman?

All three of those teams have a better defense than North Carolina. I think Pyne will feel less pressure playing away from home. Whatever, I'm normally wrong anyway.

Fort Wayne is 15 minutes from Ohio. They come here wearing their OSU gear in droves. Makes me nauseous.

Wait, hold the fort here. You were wrong about something?

You're being humble. Flip Michigan and Ohio State.

I'll take Notre Dame. Should be able to score on North Carolina.

Concordia could give Dwenger fits, but I like the Saints by 21. Luers by 35 over Northrop. North Side by 7 over Homestead. The Spartans offense will have to be sharp to keep up with the Redskins. Running clock in the Snider game, but not until the second half. This score could be very ugly, but I don't think Carroll will take it there.

Unless it's a 3 pointer. That should be negative 3 since we all know the shooter missed the rim by 2 feet.

Ralph always seems too get the most out of his best athletes. It's pretty impressive that they can play the whole game without running out of gas.

Them boys in Butler can play some football. I could see them meeting up with Luers again this year in yet another game decided by a touchdown or less.

You're the one who follows Michigan football, you tell us. I don't remember this college playing days. Was he Book good, better, or worse? Book was the ninth quarterback drafted in his class. Brady was sixth.

When you failed to mention any Fort Wayne teams as contenders in 5a, I knew right off the bat that you didn't know much about football in Northeast Indiana. I'm guessing it has something to do with your age, 18-22 if I'm guessing right. But your "it's not close" comment really takes the cake here. I would argue that Luers has the harder schedule and it's not close. Andrean is a great program and it's a compliment to say that 2a starts with them. But to Luers credit, they do have 11 state titles in that class. In 2020 they somehow allowed two scores in the final 1:30 that prevented them from number twelve. I'd also argue that they had the best team in 2a last year, but were the victim of an upset early in the tournament. No offense to the Eastside team that beat them last year, but Luers defeated Carroll, Dwenger, Homestead, and North Side. You won't find a better resume than that for a 2a program going back any number of years.

Lured me in.

Are New Pal's best guys playing both ways as usual. Sorry if that's a redundant question. I feel like it was discussed in another thread.

Lol, agree. I thought maybe Wayne would be a contender in the north, but now I'm not sure they can get past Leo or East Noble.