Lysander

Curious. I know all the archdiocese and their schools seem very different from one another in each of the cities in which they exist but I have often wondered if Marian and Chatard are possibly counterparts of one another. One in Northern Indiana, one in Central. Can anyone familiar with both schools speak to similarities and differences? I am talking more as to the schools and their makeups as opposed to any specifics regarding football. Again, curious.

A tragedy....

Sorry about the injuries. I had heard they were down last week. Hopefully they will be available Friday. Any word as to whether this game might be on WHME TV? I think they do a great job. Chatard/NorthWood earlier this year was broadcast on WHME. Since they are out of a South Bend, I assume this Semistate game would be their Game of the Week considering Marian is the closest area team still in the playoffs.

Tiapride is normally recommended for individual auditory hallucinations. The fact that it’s being heard en masse is troubling, though.

Urban sprawler.

Yeah, I was just browsing John Harrell’s upcoming game capsules and saw that Chatard and Mishawaka Marian had not played one another in football in at least 35 years (which is as far back as Harrell goes) and out of curiosity I scanned the other classes realizing that the same situation existed for all the 2A-5A games. Just one of those weird and interesting things that appealed to my short attention span.

Me either - one game in particular. People never learn. I pick EM to win that one by at least 3TDs. BTW after Friday’s game at Marian, Chatard will have had 4 of 5 tournament games away (80%), spent about 11.5 hours on the road and traveled roughly 650 miles (back and forth miles/time). Crazy. Wonder how that matches up to the remaining teams.

Interesting factoid about the Semistate games in general. Of the remaining teams playing one another in the 2A, 3A, 4A or 5A Semistate games, none have played one another in at last 35 years - if ever.

Curious, is anyone looking at him as a defensive player? He wouldn’t be the first Successful HS RB who became a college linebacker (ie. Joe Holland at Purdue).

He was drunk. He must have finally passed out around 4:00 AM this morning....or his minders finally caught him wondering the halls in the dementia wing. The admins deleted about 80% of the inane, profane lunacy he spewed about Lawrenceburg, Columbus East, “Catlicks” and all the “sons a b#tches” (My edit)from East Indiana by around 5:00 AM. While I was sitting in an emergency room, talking with nurses and Docs all day and all night with a elderly parent yesterday until about 9:00 AM this morning, it provided some entertainment. I’m assuming the nurses have him back on his meds at the home - hopefully taking his phone and computer until Christmas.

They were wrong.

Andrean’s situation was complicated. They were 3A in size when they factored out of 3A to 4A. If I recall correctly, they were then bumped to 4A but their enrollment fell to 2A at the same time. They still had to spend 2 years in 4A but then only dropped down to 3A (even though their enrollment was 2A by that time). They then had to spend 2 more years in 3A before they could go back to 2A. In summary, it took them 4 years to get back to the class that actually matched their size. Memorial now has 2 points which will keep them in 4A during the next cycle. They need 4 more points to move up to 5A. Basically you receive 1 point for every “level” you win. One point each for Sectional, Regional, Semi-State and State cumulatively. Sorry for the digression.

Cathedral, New Pal, Dwenger and Columbus East. All started as 4A. Cathedral and Columbus East both actually qualified to move up 2 classes (from 4A to 6A) based on their success after the initial bump up. Still, its rarified air and Memorial is the first non-4A team to do it from what I can tell.

Good size crowd....I was surprised how many showed up when I arrived. Tenderloin was HUGE....my wife took 1/2 her’s home. I liked the chili, too. Called them at Noon to confirm the chili, btw. Fun time!

The great thing for smaller schools in the SAC is that you are going to play against a variety of schools that typically are bigger than you, some maybe a lot better.....but you will be better in the end. The negative is that your probably going to lose a fair amount of those games. That might not fit well in the video game mindset where if you are losing you just reset the game until you win. That mind set isn’t isolated to certain kids Concordia, by any means. That said, I’m no shrink so what do Iknow? I thought the kids from Concordia played their @sses off last night.....right to the end. They went down throwing roundhouses. BTW, Acme was a great recommendation for pregame last night. Thanks. Hope our folks weren’t too rowdy and tipped well. Thanks for ALL of the food recommendations.

If it isn’t already obvious, IQ testing isn’t mandatory with ADs in Central Indiana. Sweet Jesus.......smh.

I did take along a bag of chips like people told me to. They were right about that. I did get hungry just standing there....

Is it like getting high on the pot? I tried it once, told you guys a few years ago I didn’t much care for it. I stood on that toilet lid for hours and all I got was dizzy and leg cramps.

I was sugar coating. I can’t imagine Sectional 32 was the result of a bong hit either....whatever a bong hit is.....sounds like it might hurt, though.

Since this thread is now premiering on The Food Network (admittedly my fault), I am leaning heavy toward the Acme. Going to call them to confirm the chili, though I’m thinking “Big Eyed Fish” as a fallback (liked their menu) if no chili at Acme. Considered impressing the better half and getting reservations at “Club Soda” but me being that thoughtful might be too much of a shock to her system. Add that I’m cheap. Safe travels to everyone attending. Just an FYI to Fort Wayne HS football junkies that might be looking to go to a live game. This Chatard team is pretty fun to watch. I know Carmel is in town and will be having their standard wine and cheese event pregame and a cotillion postgame.....but if you just like football.......

It wasn’t only in drawing up Sectionals South of the Line of Disrespect that they were hitting the bong.....

Yeah PBJ, with you on the whole “golf” thing....never have cared much for it and finally gave away the clubs. As to partying, well........I’m a mobile party...

“The Line of Disrespect” - One of the pithiest and, yet, most astute observations/questions I have ever seen on the GID. I would suggest that there is probably another line somewhere around Lafayette based on certain other Northerly grumbles I have heard over the years as well. For the record, Tango, consider that phrase stolen.

Good question. Wondering the same. Or is it number of years as an HC?

Lip, I played against that ‘77 Tiger team for Brookville and the late HOF Coach Joe Codiano. We played that game at Brookville. Both Lawrenceburg and Brookville were undefeated at the time and both were ranked - I believe it was probably 5-6th game of the season. Tigers were No. 1 and the Greyhounds were No.4-6 (can’t remember....and didn’t even know they ranked HS teams until I saw it in the paper) in a bigger class per the Enquirer. Since Southeast Indiana wasn’t exactly rife with a lot of ranked teams it got good coverage in the Cincy Enquirer and they (apparently) had a reporter and photographer there. We ran the Houston veer offense and passed maybe 2-3 times per game. We had been getting stuffed the whole game and, in ABSOLUTE desperation, I was sent downfield on a streak route and somehow miraculously ended up catching (probably) a 60 yd pass. I thought I was in the clear but the safety for the Tigers ran me down like I was running through concrete. Ended up being the longest single gain we had that night, I believe. I also, had an open field tackle of Bryan Way (?) that ended up as a feature picture of the game in the Enquirer that my Mom still has in an old scrapbook (probably the only tackle I had in the game). We were beat soundly that night - can’t remember the final score. That was one helluva Tiger team, though. We were pretty solid and they laid waste to us. Found out 2-3 weeks afterwards that Lawrenceburg had to forfeit the game and we were (at least technically) undefeated. We were 9-0 the last game at Aurora - at Aurora HS’s last football game ever. If we won, we were in the playoffs (however they figured them in those days). We lead the whole game and through some bad decisions and equally bad execution found ourselves up 2 points with seconds left on the clock after Aurora had scored late on a desperation heave. I was a corner when I bit on the wrong que and my assignment got a 2 point conversion and sent it into OT. Furious, Coach yanked me out in OT. They ran the exact same play in OT against my sub and scored easily....winning the game. No playoffs. Long bus ride home. Season over. Funny thing is, I can’t hardly remember anything about the other 8 games we won that year. Yeah, I remember the ‘77 EIAC season like it was yesterday. Apologies for the digression.