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It depends on how long Marcus Freeman stays at Notre Dame. If he stays 2 or 3 years, then yes. Notre Dame will catch Alabama.

Good stuff DT.................thanks!

I'm not quibbling. Indy can be as big as they want to be. I hope Fort Wayne's 'Road to a Million' plan is a total failure. We don't need traffic to get any worse. For the record............I had Indy at 2.1 million and Fort Wayne at 450,000. Depends on the source I guess.

City limits is three times the size, metro is four. Anyways. But yeah, it's a pretty good city for football. The 7 on 7 national championship at IMG was epic.

Just seed it. Who cares how they do it. I like the all-in format, but there has to be some kind of reward for having a good regular season.

Good question. It's hard to put any stock in it after 4 or 5 weeks, but I like the Sagarin Ratings after the entire regular season is played. Although the SAC is hard to gage since it's an island conference. The state of Indiana is lucky to have a sophisticated rating system like this, it could certainly be utilized in a positive way by the IHSAA.

They could lose to Snider, Homestead, and Carroll and still be a Top 12 team in 5a.

Historically, Fort Wayne has sent 30 players to the NFL. By comparison, Indianapolis is just shy of 90. I know this was an SAC thread, so that number will vary. The thirty players noted identify as being born in Fort Wayne. But on the flip side of that, I'm sure there were some SAC kids in the NFL who were born outside of the city.

Rensselaer School Corp is getting a great leader. I can tell by the way you ran this forum. Blessings to you!

Lol

Jason Fabini - Dwenger Roosevelt Barnes - Wayne Bill Boedecker - North Side John Diettrich - Homestead Sewlyn Lymon - Harding

Can't argue with that.

The fun in engaging in these forum discussions is pointing out teams who could 'possibly' make some noise from the north. Last year it was Merrillville, and why not, they had some pretty darn good talent. The year before was Homestead. Their hopes were dashed when they lost their "all everything" running back during week 8. This year? I'm gonna have to roll with Penn. Why? Because there is no one else if Westfield is as good as they were last year. Or maybe it is Carroll if they can improve the defense. "Believe it when you see it?".................sure, don't blame ya.

Of course, Carroll has yet to prove anything in football. I'm not sure what you are referring to with the "this time every year we hear it," comment. I think the most anyone said last year with regard to Carroll was that they could give anyone a scare with their potent offense. But it seemed like as the year wore on, the defense got worse. The odds of Sectional 3 beating Sectional 4 this year is about 1:7 (Sectional 3 took a huge hit with the loss of Snider). The communities of Homestead and Carroll could rival any in the state with regard to facilities, household income and overall success in sports. So I think everyone just keeps waiting for it to happen. I don't see it happening this year, Westfield is just too good it appears.

HCC is offense heavy?

That pretty much sums up Carroll's team last year. With the return of their QB, the offense should be dangerous once again this year. The defense can't get any worse I don't think.

Looks good. From Fort Wayne it will be interesting to see who comes out on top between Homestead and Carroll. Not sure it will matter though, Westfield is pretty good I hear. Keep an eye on Carroll. If they can shore up their defense, then they might pose a threat.

Looks good DT. Dwenger is a bit of a mystery going into 2021. They lose a bunch, but will they reload? Coach Garrett has that program playing at a high level. I will be interesting to see how good of a team they put on the field this year.

Seventeen D1 recruits? They would have mercy ruled Center Grove. Yes, sounds like I missed the hyperbole.

Either I didn't catch that, or I forgot.

Maybe there was just a big gap between the Top 6 and everyone else? Merrillville was highly touted last year, so you know Chatard and Westfield gave them their best shot. And quite frankly, Merrillville hadn't seen the level of competition that those two programs offered. It was like running into a ton of bricks.

All the more reason to dub Moore as Fort Wayne's most highly coveted lineman? And for the record, Dwenger's Jason Fabini is currently the top lineman to come out of The Fort.

Westfield was undoubtedly the state's third best team last year, as Sagarin suggests. Merrillville's 18 point loss to them doesn't make them unbefitting of their #13 ranking.

Merrillville still finished 13th according to Sagarin despite their poor performance against Chatard. Ahead of Zionsville, Homestead, and Dwenger, who were all in the Top 18. Concordia was more competitive against Chatard than Roncalli was last year, but that doesn't necessarily make them the better team. Let's just write off Merrillville's loss against Chatard as a bad night.

Trai Essex was good (3rd round draft pick), but DE Moore is off to a better start from a recruiting standpoint. Moore has offers from Ohio State, Texas A&M, Oregon, Penn State, Tennessee, IU, and Minnesota..........just to name a few. Essex didn't get that kind of attention.