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I’m aware, but I stated that because Memorial has been one of the top 3a programs for a while now and GS has had some good teams bow out to them sectionals.

No you’re being judged for continuing to lose to schools the same size as you in the postseason lol. Gibson Southern does not belong in the top 10 for public school programs despite what you or your homer buddy @Esso Ayche think. Many schools such as West Lafayette, Merrillville, Zionsville, Western Boone, Decatur Central, Pioneer, Ben Davis deserve to be ranked ahead of them and have shown the ability to have deeper postseason runs outside of one single year. Congrats on GS’s championship, they deserved it and proved a lot of people wrong. Time to go back to reality though.

Are you saying I am wrong? A program advancing past sectionals once since 2016 is a top 10 public program in recent times?

I don’t think Gibson Southern belongs on this list then. Good-Great program but only advanced past sectionals once in Brady Allen’s career. Yeah they’ve had it really tough with Memorial in their sectional, but I don’t think you can be considered a top 10 public program with 1 sectional title in the past 6 years.

I know you stated “at this time” but is there a more specific time frame you are judging these programs off of? Because if you’re going off this past year, Carmel should probably be lower with the huge flop they had against Brownsburg in sectionals. Carmel also majorly disappointed the year before losing to a Ben Davis team in regionals that they had beat 31-9 a few weeks earlier. But if you’re going off, say the past 5 years, HSE doesn’t even belong on this list. Not trying to throw a slight at you or anything like that, just want know your basis for how you decided these.

Take with these with a grain of salt as it is pretty difficult to find information on teams in the off season. Any insight is appreciated 6A favorites: Cathedral Can win it all: Ben Davis, Carmel, CG, Westfield, Warren Central Longshots: HSE 5A favorites: Decatur Central, Merrillville Can win it all: Michigan City, Valpo, FW Dwenger, FW Snider Longshots: Harrison WL 4A favorites: Roncalli Can win it all: Mount Vernon, East Central, Evansville Memorial, Leo Longshots: Kokomo, Brebeuf, Northridge, New Pal, New Prairie, Lowell 3A favorites: Chatard Can win it all: West Lafayette, Mishawaka Marian, Lawrenceburg Longshots: Western Boone, Danville, Tri-West 2A favorites: Andrean Can win it all: Evansville Mater Dei, Eastside, Fort Wayne Luers, Eastbrook Longshots: LCC, Indy Scecina, Linton-Stockton 1A favorites: Adams Central, Indy Lutheran Can win it all: Pioneer, Park Tudor, Covenant Christian Longshots: North Judson, Churubusco, Parke Heritage

Valpo and Michigan City certainly will have something to say about that. We’ll see how Merrillville is this year, losing some talent. DC has a much easier path, south is pretty weak. I agree they’re both probably the 2 favorites

How? Cakewalk sectional then a CG with massive talent losses in regionals is all they could ever ask for. Dodging Cathedral/Ben Davis until Semi State

Initial thoughts: Lafayette schools have to be happy. Jeff avoids any Indy schools until Semi State. Harrison doesn’t have it easy with Decatur Central and Plainfield but they’ll take that over Zionsville any day.

Sectional assignments are out 6a and 5a here

new numbers out

West Side’s toughest regular season game has been Jeff for the past 4 seasons, now their toughest game will be Harrison. Being able to play both of them every year would a bump up in difficulty. Also, Kokomo is probably a step or 2 above Western and trending up. Western lost twice last year to WL 69-19 and 44-0. Kokomo would give them much better games than that. But I agree. If I’m the Hoosier conference, I’m begging WL to stay. With that being said.. if WL were to join the NCC and have a conference schedule filled with Jeff, Harrison, Kokomo, Marion (who has even been to semi-state twice within 5 years), and then have 2 non conference games to schedule probably LCC and a good 3a-6a. That’s a much better schedule to get them ready for the postseason. Yeah the travel could suck some years, but nothing too bad. WL has outgrown the Hoosier conference

Not necessarily disagreeing with you, but what makes you choose Valpo over Merrillville? The pirates have been churning out some really good athletes in recent time

8 seasons ago but yeah. Jeff was getting blown out by everyone at the time. Pre Shanley era. They haven’t had any other opportunities to prove themselves against other DAC teams. They would fit right in the Duneland from a competitive standpoint. Down year this year they will be back. 2019 Jeff team very well could have won the DAC

Not really accurate. Apart from Jeff blowing out Lake Central a couple times in sectionals, Merrillville is the only Duneland team they have played in the past 3 seasons. 2 were blowout losses while one went down to the wire but they still lost. But yeah they have certainly struggled with Merrillville

Why though? Outside of Jeff, Harrison and Kokomo the NCC is full of 4a and 5a cupcakes who have been stuck at the bottom of their class for 10+ years. The NCC is an overall weak conference in all sports, not just football. Not to mention Harrison and Jeff are probably 2 steps ahead of Kokomo at this point. If Kokomo landed an opportunity to be in a package deal with them, they should jump all over that

Yeah I didn’t remember your username or I would have. I knew you were gonna see it, wasn’t a slight at you.

Lol okay dude. They still have to play teams like Carmel and Brownsburg in regionals to get to semi-state. Not exactly pushovers. I know their sectional is a joke and they have the easiest path to semi-state. Just because they get blown out by one of the best hs teams Indiana has ever had doesn’t mean their program is down the drain. You act like anyone in the world besides the BD poster on here actually thought BD would win lol. Complete ignorance.

7. Really? You’re speaking like Ben Davis is some underwhelming program or something. They made it back to Semi-state once again. They are fine. CG has blown almost everyone out. 11. Speak for yourself saying Brebeuf was flying under the radar and “wasn’t expected to make it out of the sectional.” Most people were picking them to beat West Lafayette and make it to the title game. They were arguably the favorite in 3a from the beginning of the postseason. Don’t know where that came from.

Lafayette Jeff 0 Merrillville 0 end of 1Q Jeff drives to Merrillville’s 1 on first drive but get stuffed. Merrillville currently in the red zone Jeff responds with their own goal line stand. Score still 0-0 10:26 2Q

It’s impossible to take this as a parlay lol. These aren’t picks, simply the spreads I created. So Columbus North and Decatur Central will lose by less than 10 to Center Grove and Cathedral? Come on… This is the early postseason of high school football in Indiana, not the NFL. There will be lots of blowouts this week, there are many subpar teams playing. There is a 3-7 team playing this week. There are multiple teams with losing records playing. I left out dozens of games.

Tons of great games across the state this week. Reminder these are made up point spreads. Lots of good games so will be leaving out some, apologies if your team isn’t included. Example: (-7) indicates team is favored by 7 points. (+7) would indicate team is a 7 point underdog. pk (Pick ‘em) indicates there is no favorite or underdog Example: HSE at Westfield (-4.5) is the exact same thing as HSE (+4.5) at Westfield GOTW: Carmel (-2) at Brownsburg HSE at Westfield (-4.5) Merrillville (-25) at Lafayette Jeff Chesterton (-5) at Penn Warsaw at FW Carroll (-11) Columbus North at Center Grove (-36) Lawrence North (-4) at LawrenceCentral Michigan City at Mishawaka (-6.5) FW Snider (-5.5) at FW Dwenger Cathedral (-31) at Decatur Central Whiteland (-2.5) at New Pal Evansville Memorial at Northview (-5) Hobart (-3) at Lowell Chatard at Roncalli (-7.5) Eastside at FW Luers (-9) Eastbrook (-12) at Tipton LCC (pk) at Speedway

Not incredibly surprising to me. Harrison was up 21-14 going into the 2nd quarter, which means they did not score for the final 3 quarters of the game. They are a run heavy team that runs the triple option I believe. Hard to be that one dimensional and beat a team of Zionsville’s caliber. I think it all boils down to strength of schedule, the NCC is horrible aside from Jeff and occasionally Marion and Kokomo. Harrison and Jeff will never truly be ready for the postseason until they ditch the NCC. Harrison scoring 21 in the first quarter shows they have the talent to compete, but these Indy schools go to war each week, they know how to win a dog fight. Harrison had 2 tough games all year, week 1 against Westfield and week 4 against Jeff. Until these Lafayette schools ditch the NCC, it would take a really special team to beat programs such as Zionsville.

Penn won the first game 31-3. You know something I don’t?