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Lysander

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  1. Doesn’t look good - and it shouldn’t. But lets be clear, the kids that did this should be punished fully....and as openly as the law allows. Honestly, there’s just no excuse for any of this
  2. Hey, I said early, early on I thought they would show up in LOS. All I knew for certain was that they were supposed to have the same level defense returning. That, along with the fact that 3A has simply been better at the uppermost end than 4A the prior 3-4 years, made me feel pretty comfortable projecting that. Still, bummed out that Memorial is the first 3A team to be playing in the 4A Championship....I really wanted my team of favor to be the first. I simply can’t give the Tigers enough credit, though. How the heck a 3A school has 2 Men’s Fall sports teams perennially playing at State Championship level is way, way more than remarkable. “Unbelievable” is the better word. Best wishes to them. Hoping our kids can someday come up and play again. A tip of the hat to the Tigers.
  3. It’s fitting that these two schools meet at LOS now that Chatard has been moved North - lots a tradition between them....and mutual respect, I hope. It’s been a few years now but, for some time, it was almost an annual game.....maybe more like a war. I think this Chatard team is a pretty special one (even for Chatard), maybe even an historically good one, and would like to see them roll just as they have done in every game so far (excepting...that..........one) but Heritage Hills, in years past, has always had an answer for Chatard no matter how good Chatard was that year. I’d be surprised if they didn’t have an answer again. Hoping both teams play their best and when the smoke clears the Trojans come out on top. Seriously though, it just seems right these two particular teams finally meet at Lucas Oil....where they should have been playing all along.
  4. DT’s been too busy to check Harrell’s the past week. He’s been on the road trolling hospitals and checking HS kids’ birth certificates....it’s a 12 hour a day job and a thankless one........I hope. That said, congrats to Indy Lutheran. I have quietly followed their travails over the years and it’s been great to finally see them get to the big show.
  5. It resets to 0 points every 2 years. This is the year you start with 0 points. WeBo started this year with 0 points - no carryover from last year.
  6. Both WeBo and Chatard started at 0 points this year as regards how the IHSAA calculates the Success Factor. Currently they have both earned 3 points so far this year, If they both win this year then all they need to do is win a Regional next year to move up a class.
  7. Thanks to the folks at Mishawaka Marian for being wonderful hosts on Friday. One of my closest friends in college and a groomsman at my wedding was an RB who would have played last on the ‘77 team before he went on to play at Butler (where we both played sports). It was kind of special to me to finally visit his Alma Mater. Also a shout out for “The Evil Czech” recommendation. The chicken and waffles were, in fact, great....although probably not the best thing I could have eaten at 10:00 PM.
  8. Why are those the “natural” pairings? Chatard and Brebeuf have never been a consistent “natural” pairing. Chatard has been in the South forever. Brebeuf bounces back and forth. If we are truly worried only about (A) “natural pairings” then why go down the whole discussion path of (B) “if you send....Brebeuf and Chatard south, then you’ll have people argue there is some kind of bias against the schools in the southern half of the state since they would have to go through the Indy parochial schools”? So, which is it that determines these things? Natural pairings (which seem natural only now but haven’t been the last 20+ years) or using Indy parochials like a missile to apparently punish the part of the State that gets stuck with them (paraphrasing of point “B”). Per the comments above, apparently Tri-West (whoops, did I say that) was “biased” against the northern part of the State this time around when it pointed the Indy parochials North and we ended up with a 3A South so that any team capable of walking and chewing gum concurrently from Sectional 29 (containing Tri-West, shockingly) has a free ride to Semistate. An aside.....but how is it just an accident that 7 of the Top 10 Sagarin ranked 3A schools somehow end up in Sectionals 28 and 32? 4 of the Top 6 in Sectional 28 which has NEVER been a “natural” geographic combination of teams in Sectional. Brebeuf has not anytime recently shared a Sectional with West Lafayette although they have, at times, been North. Now suddenly, West Lafayette, Brebeuf, Guerin and Chatard together are “only natural”? But then, its been admitted that now the Indy parochials are simply a weapon to yield to punish the “losing”part of the state as regards the internal politics of playoff and Sectional structuring. BTW, anyone shedding crocodile tears about somehow disrespecting Sectional 30 teams who are the doormat to Semistate for the Sectional 29 winner can spare me. I’ll save my tears for West Lafayette, Brebeuf (did I just say that?...must be nuts), Guerin, Gibson Southern and Southridge. I have always hated the phrase “get better or get used to it” but it’s the best I can offer Sectional 30. When it comes to the legitimizing of so much of the current playoff system and how the Sectionals have been determined - don’t think for a minute the rest of us believe there is some fundamental purity of intent there.
  9. Heard them Marshals are confiscating those tonight from the ‘Ville. Taken’ em back to schools that don’t recruit all their quarterbacks. Good clean, God fearin’ people like Chatard or Heritage Hills folks. Not folks doin’ dirty deeds back in the double wide park. Good authority.....real good.
  10. Just trying to help a brother out.....give you a warnin’ I heard those IHSAA Marshals might be comin’ straight to your double wide lookin’ for that missin’ football team. I have it on good authority. HH+35
  11. Dunno about that, heard there’s a lot of dirty doins’ going on in your double-wide park there in the ‘ville. Lots a dirty doins’.....I have it on good authority. HH+35
  12. I take It English is your second language? BTW, Commissioner Cox will be there tonight with those IHSAA search warrants and IHSAA Marshals. I have it on good authority.
  13. ”Bree-buf” Is the proper phonetics in Franklin County were I grew up. That how we say it down there.....actually that’s how I still say it if I am hanging around with folks from Brebeuf. They seem to really like that.
  14. My guess is Chatard will look much the same as they did at Northwood for anyone who has viewed the game. There have been a few dings but for the most part, it’s the same ballclub playing the same way. When they are “on” they are a lot of fun to watch and can pile up a bunch of points in no time. I think they scored 42 points within about 13 minutes after the half last week. Very different from the grinding (but effective) style versus St. Joe in 2010 and 2011 (although the 2011 guys would throw the ball around). I know Chatard and Marian have played lacrosse against one another recently but that might be the only HS games they have played one another in near memory. I am looking forward to visiting their facility.
  15. Yeah....that guy was deep, deep into his cups last night. I am thinking “The Evil Czech Brewery” is early dinner tonight based on what I have seen, btw.
  16. STC - You aren’t inferring that certain Sectionals 29 and 30:were redrawn/realigned by certain HS administrative types from a certain school bearing the letters TW somewhat prominently so that said certain school might be able to flow through certain Sectional 29 and over the winner of Sectional 30 to land easily in a certain Semistate slot annually as easily as crap flows through a goose are you? Are you certain? I am certain about one thing - that’s the longest run-on sentence I have ever written in my life.
  17. PhilLee - If I didn’t know better, this insightful, succinct and thoughtful post certainly sounds as if “Dan Jones” has returned to the GID fold. Always my “go to” when I need to get my head set straight regarding my thinking about HS Football. If not, then thanks for the insightful, succinct, and thoughtful post. And I have just found my new “go to” thought leader. As to the events of last evening, I can neither confirm or deny alcohol was involved before I passed out.....err.....calmly went to bed but I am forever puzzled as to whether I am catnip for drunk posters or they for me......but God, I do love them.... HH by +35
  18. First met Bill Lynch as an undergrad at Butler. Quality guy.
  19. Larson is cut from the Tony Stewart mold. Pure racer....midgets, sprints, late models.....anything with four wheels....dirt or asphalt. Lot of respect for him.. My neighbor is a fan too. Haven’t talked with his cousin’s neighbor quite yet. edit....not to offend but I just freakin’ hate Joey Logano.
  20. It’s pretty serious. I heard the local PD has been called At least that’s what my neighbor’s cousin’s neighbor tells me.
  21. Jeeez....bummer. Saw him race at Anderson in the late 90s with ASA. Just like 20:years before that I used to watch Mark Martin, Rusty Wallace and the late Dick Trickle (greatest short track late model racer ever) race ASA locally. I’ve become a fan of Erik Jones who made his bones on Indiana and Michigan short tracks just a couple of years back or so.
  22. He’s searching for a missing football team....apparently no one has seen it this year. That’s what my neighbor’s cousin’s neighbor tells me anyway.
  23. Well...he told me they plan to tear the school up looking for any evidence.
  24. It was my neighbor’s cousin’s neighbor...he told me Bobby Cox was coming down to hand out the IHSAA search warrants Friday.
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