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My post was tongue firmly in cheek. I didn't mean it as a slight to Webo but as a criticism of the 2 year SF rule. Because they won state championships in the "wrong" two year window as opposed to Scecina who lost in the state finals in the "right" window. And I agree on the impact. Freshmen at Evansville Memorial set foot on campus this fall knowing they would play 4A football until their senior year, regardless of enrollment which currently sits in the 575 range.

Back to back state championships wasn't enough to bump them up. But by gosh, that regional sure did! Contrast that to Scecina's bump up for losing in LOS back to back years. I know I'm preaching to the choir here, but geez the two year cycle is way too short.

You raise some interesting points to consider. I wonder if it's more or just the same student athletes playing multiple sports? What I mean is that yes, there is no doubt Memorial and Castle compete annually for the all-sports trophies. But if you look at the rosters of the sports at Memorial you will see many of the same names. Lindauer, Combs, and Hart all are currently playing D-1 football, yet their senior years you saw them playing basketball and baseball/track. Three sport athletes. Glancing at Castle's roster from last year, I only see 2 of their 12 basketball players that also played football. Memorial had 5 football players on the roster. A quick glance at the Westside - Mater Dei shows 5 FB/BB players while Reitz's 2019 basketball roster shows only 1 football player. Maybe it's a function of school size? Maybe it's paid for expectations? Maybe it's being surrounded by similar like-minded, driven students? Interesting questions and it's probably some combination of the three. And I personally resemble Weber's "Protestant Work Ethic." LOL

I would guess most of them. There is additionally McCutchanville elementary, which was built just a few years ago when Scott outgrew its walls and was split into two. McCutchanville elementary was literally built next to a golf course. (Or maybe on the golf course as I think the golf course has gone bankrupt and the land has been sold to a developer.) The lives of Evans kids and McCutchanville kids are drastically different.

I don’t think you can wait until the week of- just too many variables. With WB/MD, are you going to call up one of the TH schools, a Bloomington school, or maybe Jasper? Those schools put up their goalpost pads, down markers, locked up the concession stands and locker rooms 3 weeks ago. They have moved on to basketball. But if it’s set ahead time, for example it was set in summer that Bloomington North would host a semi - state, imagine a MD/WeBo game at 1:00 pm and Castle/Cathedral at 5pm. (In a non COVID year of course.) If BHSN happens to advance to semi state - well that would be no different than what we have now with Castle hosting the 5A south.

An AWAY girls tournament at Southmont? That would be a flimsy reason, IMO. http://scoreboard.homestead.com/girls/tnySugarCreek.htm#loaded I stand correct on MD though. I didn't realize they set a 10:00 AM start time in the past with Brownstown, so I don't think they have any room to talk. Count me in the camp for Saturday neutral site doubleheaders. Especially now that the state won't set Friday/Saturdays at LOS until they see the teams. Playing Saturday would put MD/WeBo at a day disadvantage anyway against the Luers/Pioneer game that would be Friday night.

Digital scout shows Lawrenceburg as currently have 6 turnovers. Is that correct? 4 INTs, the Kickoff that was misplayed. I guess there might have been another that I am forgetting. But losing the TO battle 6-0 is a tough way to win. Yikes.

Better to have squib kicked and lost... than to kick deep to the fastest player on the other team. Sometimes I just wonder What the Heck were they thinking?

Can anybody see the Dwenger-Zionsville or Heritage Christian - WeBo scores? I can’t seem to find them on here.

I think the coldest game I have ever attended was Nov. 21, 2008. Chatard/Memorial semi-state. According to the almanac it was 25 at kickoff and 20 degrees at 10pm. https://www.wunderground.com/history/daily/us/in/evansville/KEVV/date/2008-11-21 I think @Lysander and @tango were there and can confirm the cold.

In a perfect world (meaning no-SCF) we could have had Mater Dei vs Southridge for the 40 title and Memorial vs Gibson Southern last week for the right to face Lawrenceburg this weekend. That's not the case. Good luck to MD and SR in their actual games.

Gonna channel my inner Tom Cruise for a moment.... Why the two orders, Colonel? Why do we need a 2.0 multiplier to even out competitive balance? You just said every school has an opportunity to be successful in football, but some simply choose not to make the necessary investments. Yet in your very first post in this thread your justification of a multiplier is to combat the deep pockets and resource advantages of the P/Ps. I can have the court reporter read it back to you if you have forgotten. So which is it? P/P's have deep pockets and resource advantages that require a multiplier, or every school can be successful but refuse to help themselves? [Note: I am amazed at your ability to call other posters uneducated when your post makes my head hurt with all the misspellings and grammatical issues. Proofread just once, please.]

The Southridge obsession with Mater Dei and 2A football is starting to reach unhealthy levels.

I have been a proponent of Indiana adopting the Illinois model for regional and semi-state where the day is Saturday and teams agree on a kickoff time between 12 and 7. (Maybe it's 1 and 7, but still the idea remains.) That is primarily because their tournament is seeded and everyone has to travel, but I don't want to open that can of worms. Our geography based tournament means that regional is the level where the corners of the state really start to get the short end of the stick. Just looking here locally- Mater Dei and Triton Central are about 3 hours minimum by car. The other 2A regional in the south (Western Boone and Heritage Christian) is only about 45 minutes. In 4A Mooresville takes on Evansville Central (2.5 hours) while Roncalli plays MtV Fortville (40 min). The logistics of being the road team is completely different for Sectional 39/40 winners and Sectional 23/24 as opposed to the central Indiana ones. PS - I don't know what @Lysander is talking about. Regional and Semi State games in Evansville on Friday night is always a fun time. 🙂

Thanks. Now I have to clean the coffee off my computer screen. I will be laughing about that all day. LOL

Why 2.0? I'm curious if you can rationally lay out an argument why 2x instead of 1.25, 1.33, 1.5, 1.67, etc. Heck, why stop at 2x? Let's go to 2.5, 3.0, or how about Pi? Let's implement a multiplier of 3.14159265... we can even put you in charge of the math.

It was 7-0 at half, and Lawrenceburg's QB was injured on the last play of the first half. That could have made for a tighter score in the second as well. I'm a big fan of SEI local sports and will be watching the stream. Should be a good one.

You have some great ideas for spending other people's money. Perhaps you can chime in on their curriculum as well? Why didn't they just let the players out of school Friday so they could travel up and play that night? School isn't THAT important and they probably weren't learning anything anyway.

Technically both. A 3+ hour bus ride and losing an hour due to time change. Triton set kickoff for noon EST, which is 11 AM here in Evansville.

Count me as a big supporter of Mater Dei this week. I’ve not wanted a team to get revenge over BS gamesmanship from the year before so much in a long time. Can MD set kickoff for Friday at 4:00pm? That seems fair.

I wish I could blame autocorrect. I typed it correctly the first time, but it was later in my post. I deleted the sentence. Then re-typed it incorrectly earlier in my paragraph. Like Donnie Baker would say... Swear to god I did. 🙂 I was a fan of driving the 57/67 path from Evansville to Indy, mainly because I loathed driving US 41.

Wow. I learned something new today. After all these years in Indiana, I had no idea Green County had all those high schools. I knew Bloomfield and Eastern were not that far apart, but didn't know there were 5 in the county. Population wise, it is similar to Gibson, Knox, and Daviess. (mid-30k) All of those counties have 3 public high schools based on geography and population. Although you could argue that Rivet and Wash Catholic show a 4th HS could be supported, a 5th just seems to be a lot.

I have been wondering this as well. Not to parse words, but the rules state sectional final ‘non-host.’ So in my interpretation that means if no game exists. Then the team would be a non-host for purposes of determining the next round.

Hmm. I just assumed there was an Eastern European guy named Boris broadcasting the games. Seemed legit. 😀 In past years, these phishing attempts really didn't start popping up until playoffs. Thanks to COVID I know they were around as early as week 2, as my extended family out of town almost fell for one. Crazy times

With all due respect to Washington (Sectional 30), Sullivan probably won the sectional championship last weekend over Vincennes Lincoln 28-26. That sectional was a victim of the blind draw as opposed to COVID. Now that I look at it, this may be Sullivan’s first sectional championship in school history.