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Oh wow. Well that takes it from something funny to something… extra. I guess they were just following Reb08’s lead? 😀

Now that’s just good coaching right there. They don’t do it right? Yell louder!

FWLIW, looking at IHSAA track sectionals Eli McDurmon won the 400M Evansville sectional with a time of 51.26. Gabe Eslinger came in 5th in the 100M at the Bloomington sectional. His time of 11.91 would have put him in a 3-way tie for 9th at Evansville. Drew Smith would have finished the same positions (3rd and 4th) in shot and discus at Evansville. His throws were farther than Wilson and Boots of MD. This means nothing when shoulder pads and helmets go on, I just like looking around at the multi-sport athletes out there.

Memorial or any other singular school doesn't have to play a non-conference opponent for Sagarin to correct itself. Northview-Jasper and Reitz-Boonville could be two games where the lower rated team wins. Week 2 when Castle-Bloomington South play and potentially MD-Linton, that will be two more games of connection with the SIAC and other conferences around the state. The ratings and SOS issues will probably we worked out by then. If I were ranking by likelihood, I would guess Sectional 24 - just based on the # of teams, Sectional 40, and Sectional 15 are the most likely sectionals won by the conference.

Great reference. ‘Are you not entertained?’ Would also be an acceptable answer.

Those middle two games intrigue me. I am fairly certain Corydon has never played Bosse, and have not been to Evansville since 2011 when they beat Memorial in the regional. I have heard Salem is improved this year and I always like intra-conference games with little/no history between the schools.

Quick question. Is this a legal play in HS? I have seen a high school team run this before at the end of the first half, albeit almost a decade ago. I don't know if it is allowable under current rules. Assuming you mean first half, this does change things a bit IMO. As long as the above play is legal.

I think JH uses Sagarin and homefield to run something like 1,000 simulations for each class. Or maybe I'm making that up. As discussed numerous times on here, there are flaws with that method for SIAC schools. Two weeks from now I wonder what it will look like after Boonville/Reitz, Vincennes/Princeton, Bosse/Corydon, and Jasper/Northview. All of those games feature teams that finished roughly the same spot in their respective conferences.

Yet at the same time Sectional 4 and 5 can only be the highest/lowest in their half of the state. Then the higher/lower switches the following year. Heritage Hills had some bad luck in 2000 and 2004 - as those are the years they should have hosted semi-state based on tie-breaker but had to go north. But I think statistically there is no advantage based on sectional #. Completely agree with this. Memorial played at Danville in 2017 under the same rule loopholes. Danville hosted 4 straight playoff games (Sec Semi, Sec Final, Reg, SS) while Memorial played 3 of 5 on the road. And don't even get me started on Indy and Eastern timezone teams getting to sleep in their own beds while the SW/NE Indiana schools generally have a hotel stay for Lucas Oil early start games.

@btownqbcoach kept a list. There was a thread somewhere that has gotten shuffled to a later page. Found it:

I follow your thinking although I doubt either staff would rest a player just to be careful. I think the bye week following this game prior to the 5A/6A playoffs changes the equation. IMO a 1A-4A school would be more likely to do that if week 9 was a non-conference game and first round was a tough opponent.

It’s almost like a run-pass-option can be a run play AND a pass play at the same time. Who knew??

Yes. According to the SF, winning one regional every two years is competitive enough to keep up Southridge in 3A. That stinks, IMO but they had to change the rule when it looked like Cathedral would fall back to 4A. I agree with @fenderbender ‘s assessment, however Memorial and Chatard would also need 2 points to stay up, i.e 2 sectionals or 1 regional in 2021 and 2022.

So Chatard will drop back to 3A if Roncalli beats them in Sectional? (No 4A points) My guess is that they will "keep" the 4 from 2020-21 state title run, even though they were at a lower class. I could definitely be wrong though.

I like the idea but with all-in you can get some really unnecessary travel for Round 1. For example you could see Ev Bosse go to Lawrenceburg and Ev Harrison go to East Central for a Rd 1 game. If those teams had qualified for a playoff appearance like OH or IL I could see it. Otherwise it just seems like a bus trip that is way too long.

I agree that this is the case. But I don’t think it would be a big deal to redo sectionals every year for football. Games are held on home fields, so there is no chance that a host school gets moved. Officials are assigned by the state. There is no qualification/seeding necessary. Redoing every year could also make a rolling SCF possible. That would make too much logic though.

Yes I know and that's a good thing. Luckily the conference removed the by-law forbidding the forward pass when Coach Hart showed up too! 😄

The endzone camera in the PAC is like Bigfoot. There are rumors of its existence but rarely seen.

Now that it's October, Calpreps is doing their projections as well. I think they come out on Monday or Tuesday each week. Last Friday's were pretty close:

In the grand scheme of things this doesn’t matter. But I have a new theory. The Al Gore Rhythm has to be based on some measure of your performance and your SOS. These closed conferences are drastically weighed down by the SOS portion. The worst team drags the whole conference down. Summit - this is FW South who lost a game to COVID. So they are 1-5 which in computer speak would be much better than 1-6. SIAC - Vincennes. They are 1-6. And they have yet to play Memorial (6-1) and Jasper (7-0). So their opponent W/L record has to be awful compared to a ‘normal’ SOS. Again, none of this matters but it beats watching Notre Dame today. Lol

Current roster and stats are never available on-line. Are we sure the Internet exists in Jasper? LOL

Honestly, I was this close to tagging you after my last sentence... but I went with the smiley face instead. Some might say it's the same thing???

I know we've beaten this topic to death, but this one literally made me LOL this morning. # 78 Boonville (0-5) # 99 Jasper (6-0) Even Sagarin knows the PAC really IS that much tougher than the SIAC. 😄

Welcome to the board. Great first post! Go big or go home, amirite?

Day for Jasper did not play last week vs Central. According to the broadcast guys, he was on the sideline in crutches. That could make a difference against Castle if he is not back.