Firstly, despite Memorial causing me to lose extremities in a freezing 2008 loss and then squashing the dreams of my kid back in 2009….and just generally doing it to every Chatard team they have played the last 15 years, I’m a huge fan of Memorial.
In part, as a massive underdog, I was rooting for Memorial against Reitz. After watching the game I felt even more strongly about that.
With that, Southeast Indiana is the Rodney Dangerfield of Indiana HS football - NO RESPECT.
Everybody NE, NW and SW p!sses and moans about not getting any respect.
These are generally big@ss populations (I observe as a small town kid) crying about this….50-250,000 populations feeding into the various schools.
Just check out southeast Indiana. 20 squirrels, 10 deer and a school bus driving 3 miles between pickups on a gravel road.
East Central is basically a P.O. Box that gets checked once a week.
And yet they are probably able to play Ben Davis and Center Grove within an inch of their lives this year. Their easy win over Moeller v. Center Grove’s OT win seems to justify that.
That said, being the sole default Indiana suburb (other than Lawrenceburg and South Dearborn) for Cincinnati doesn’t hurt. That considered, I really don’t think that has any d@mn thing to do with it.
They just kick whatever @ss is put in front of them.
Still…love you guys at Memorial….