Lysander

Their own Apostles?

Cheatin’ Publics.....

“Merrillville will destroy them they have 5 plus D1 players”* * see “6A #3 Merrillville @ 3A #1 Bishop Chatard next week” thread

Interesting factoid. Technically, the Circle City Conference (in all sports excepting football) is composed of Bishop Chatard (3A), Brebeuf (3A), Covenant Christian (1A), Guerin Catholic (3A), Heritage Christian (2A) and Roncalli (4A). 1A Covenant Christian and 2A Heritage Christian do not compete against the other 4 schools in football....which is understandable (at least in the case of Covenant Christian). With that, 4 of the 6 “Circle City Conference” teams won Sectionals ranging from 1A to 4A with the only 2 teams that failed (Brebeuf and Guerin) having lost to Chatard in the gerrymandered Sectional 28. Frankly, if you had placed Brebeuf and Guerin in separate Sectionals than Chatard, I’d bet the there would have been at least one more CCC team playing in Regionals. It will be interesting to see how far these teams might progress (if at all) past Regional weekend.

No. They need to gain a total of 6 points to move up in the 2 year cycle. They acquired 2 points last year in winning Sectional and Regional. They would need to win State this year to acquire the 4 additional points needed to achieve 6. They will be staying up in 5A since they have already acquired the 2 points minimally needed to stay “up”.

Consider that remark “stolen” sir. I will make good use of it, though.

I understand that and don’t disagree as to the geography, but Chatard has listed on the roster for many years just where kids attended middle school - it’s a major point of pride at Chatard to win with their home grown kids (not that they’d exclude anyone who wants to come). I’d say well over 95% of the kids listed the last 15 years went to Archdiocese schools. And it has been pretty rare that a starter has come from the 5% that didn’t go to diocesan schools. I’d be truly surprised that, if any, there have been more than 3-5 Chatard starters over the last 10-15 years that attended public middle schools and would have gone to Tech. I’d guess they’ve lost a lot to Cathedral.....couldn’t (wouldn’t) guess as to Scecina....

I must have missed the memo on all those Tech athletes that went to Chatard these last 15 years or so. As to Tech’s decline, it would seem they have reverted back to the Tech I recall around 2010 and thereabout. Clearly, they did have something going just a handful of years ago but it’s going to take yeoman’s work to rebuild that program....again.

My guess is those 3 aberrational Sectionals might well involve COVID forfeits....not that I’ve looked.

We placed our ticket request last night online. My better half did it - I assume with Mike Ford (Chatard AD).

Good to hear from you. Like Gonzo, I hope all is well. No word from “The Dude”, btw, to answer your question....probably been 2-3 years now.

I hear the 5-6 CYO tournament in Indy still has a slot open for a Region team. Keep hope alive.

Chatard 42 Guerin 7 Final Chatard has outscored Guerin 80-7 this season

I’d buy that....this year.

I go back a bit.... my guess is a helluva lot longer than most anyone having to do with Batesville or the EIAC. Raver is a POS. I’ll let it go at that. For the record (I think evidenced in my many years here), I’ll generally put in a good word for Satan himself.

I’m always uncomfortable posting anything on the EIAC pages....though I’d guess I’m the oldest ex-EIAC player here. With that, I’m most likely also the oldest EIAC champion posting here at a couple of sports as well..but I’m just OLD these days....in any event, I just can’t keep up with the language. I most always cheer for both East Central and Lawrenceburg as EIAC schools (lest they play against Chatard) I really find myself torn as to Mooresville. I’m a huge fan of Mike Gillin and think there is no more deserving coach in the state. Add that I’m a friend of Bob Denton. If East Central wins I hope they tear it up (even against Roncalli). If Mooresville wins, I hope they tear it up too. PS - please no one ask me what I think of that Scumbag Ron Raver of Batesville...can’t believe that reprobate has a radio show in Batesville.

Can this audio possibly be found? I corresponded with CJB forever ago.....back in my long ago first years here.....when I thought I might ACTUALLY be able to talk with him as an equal. I have no illusions these days as to that...and will forever find myself daunted by his dazzling brilliance. In a perfect world, these days, CJB would give us appropriate guidance.

I was loath to discuss 3A Sectional 28 this year despite the fact I think it is accepted as the most intentionally (no accident there) “loaded” Sectional pound for pound in the State of a Indiana. In part, because I thought it was a lot more interesting last year because I, frankly, assumed it was the unofficial State Championship last year.....I accept that many might disagree...but I believe that was the case. LAST YEAR. Sectional 28 has taken an interesting turn. Guerin beating West Lafayette, in my opinion, was the shocker of the week last week as regards games that might actually affect the State Championship. It might end up being the shocker of the playoffs.....we’ll see. To be clear, I “get” how West Lafayette not having Yanni Karlaftis has had a major effect on them but, still, I was very surprised at just how Guerin was matching West Lafayette play for play. Guerin’s win was no fluke by ANY stretch. They won that game straight up and almost gave it away those last 2 minutes. I will admit that the Chatard/Guerin game earlier this year was not as competitive as in year’s past but during this COVID weirdness who knows just what is going on. Still, Guerin needs to make up some ground from the 38-0 loss at Chatard earlier. More worrisome, admittedly are the Preppies....who I am, maybe unfairly, assuming will defeat Yorktown (I’d love to go to Yorktown again, though, since the last time I was there I was with Procter and Gamble in 1984 at the Marsh HQ). Brebeuf, in my opinion, outplayed Chatard the first half in the first game of the season before losing 27-14 at home. Some of their efforts this year seem to not match up with that game but I just view the Preppies as a totally legit threat to go to LOS if they can pull this off. Okay. Done. Trying not to be as long (this was long, though) as those “Lipton” posts per Donnie Baker....certainly not as defensive.

Gip.....errrrr......I think they’ve been having a bit of fun from what I can tell...but who knows what ugly thoughts go through the mind of Donnie Baker and Nowlin. Scary thoughts....

......and the correct water vs. ice ratio.

Never considered that but you are spot on. The game takes on a whole new dimension and level of importance. GS has the opportunity to position itself nicely not just this year but for the next 2 if everything else falls into place.

I wouldn’t worry too much about him. Dude can’t even grok Muda’s frog avatar even after his own self-contradictory link regarding it. Those “Woke” would do well to actually wake up. But then, I am hoping too much.

Yes. Usually the updated ratings come in overnight after the Friday games. As often as not there are yet unplayed Saturday games and often unreported Friday games. I’ve assumed that was why there was an adjustment. I think it’s also a mistake (not that you are Making it but I think others are) to assume that after Week 1 of Playoffs and adding 20 new teams everything just magically snaps into place. If it takes the first 5 weeks of the season for Sagarin to start to make sense (which seems to be the consensus), I think it’s a safe assumption that it’s going to take another 2-3 weeks (minimally) for it to calibrate those 20 new teams. We have been missing over 6% of the teams season long up to this point. I think numbers as regards those teams are, literally, going to be all over the place with big moves both up and down until at least Regionals.

Although I have some ties to East Central and Roncalli.....and would like to see both teams do well, I’d really like to see Gillin and Mooresville go all the way. He is one of the great Indiana HS coaches and he has done an incredible job there. The guy is more than deserving. I know many are excited about Mt. Vernon (and Kirschner is all class) but I’m thinking that there is nothing but long term up side there. They have Geist demographics and likely continued growth. I have to think they are going to pull some HSE and Fishers athletes away in the future (if they already aren’t). I do wonder if they don’t end up a 5A school or larger in terms of growth and capacity over the next few years.

Big game this weekend with East Central at Mooresville. East Central just wore Silver Creek down in a really decisive win against previously undefeated Silver Creek in a delayed game last night. Still, East Central has (or at least has “had”) some COVID related issues, as I understand it, that might be dogging them. It’s almost an ashame these two teams are playing this early but then there are a lot of good playoff teams down South this year....and it inevitable some of them are going to bump into one another early (Evansville Central v. Jasper already playing as an example).