Footballking16

And to add on to that, as down as I am on this season, the future looks worse. Cathedrals' JV and freshman aren't very good and it's not because a bunch of underclassmen are playing varsity either.

Only after Cathedral tried to give it away first. Marching with the ball up a TD until they fumbled it away.

Think you'd be more inclined to see Warren kids heading to New Pal as opposed to Mt Vernon. Lawrence Twp has been hemorrhaging kids to Mt Vernon for quite some time now. Probably the best athlete to ever go through Mt Vernon (Luke Ertel top 50 basketball recruit) is a Lawrence Twp kid.

As close to a lock as it gets. Bigger question is: with new two year rolling cycle, does New Pal bump to 6A after this season or next? There’s a very real chance Cathedral is in 4A after the 26-27 school year.

As they should have. Brent Pry was outclassed in the second half in both week 1 and weeks 2 games against South Carolina and Vanderbilt, both totally winnable. I think he lost the locker room after getting outscored by 35 during the second half in a loss to Vanderbilt the week before.

Could say the same thing about Ben Davis. Staggering that a school of that size is playing a freshman at QB.

Lost several guys to NC. They are all sophomores starting for an extremely young NC team who has at least looked competitive through 3 weeks. NC will be a team to watch in the coming years, assuming they all stay put.

Average at best QB play, no big play/homerun threats on the outside, and inconsistent line play has doomed the offense. Haven't scored a TD since the 1st quarter of week 1. Oh yeah, and committing a million penalties a game hasn't helped either. Defense has played well in spurts but still way to susceptible to the chunk plays and they are consistently put in a tough spot by a sputtering offense. There's a few wins left on the schedule, but may have to wait until next week against Southport. They may be back in 4A in two years if New Pal isn't bumped to 6A after the season.

This is the worst Cathedral team I've seen in years.

Expected $20 million fine and Moore gets 1 game suspension.....in 2026. Pathetic. Most severe punishment is 10 year ban for Harbaugh, like who cares at this point.

This rule will affect P/P's in Metro areas (which is almost every P/P out there) more than it will rural small schools.

Smith could have doubled his worth on the open market in the portal but chose to stick around to try and win a championship. TKR as well. I actually admire that in this current climate. Football is a completely different story however and the roster shakeup parallels that.

Purdue is bottom of the barrel when it comes to NIL

IU brought in a coach with an .800 winning percentage that brought several players with him. Cignetti preferenced production over potential in the portal. How many 5th and 6th year guys who had played 50+ games suited up for IU last year? A ton. Purdue is one of the youngest and most inexperienced teams in the country next year. Look at their QB room, the most important position on the field. Not a single receiver has over 400 yards. Purdue’s starting LT hasn’t played a competitive snap since high school…4 years ago after Notre Dame forced him to medically retire. IU caught lightning in a bottle last year no doubt, but there weren’t anywhere close to as many roster unknowns like there are at Purdue. I do think Odom is light years better than Walters and will one day bring Purdue back to a level of respectability, but it’s not going to happen overnight. It’s not likely to happen in year 2 either.

The fact that they went 1-11 last year, lost any and every player worth a salt to the portal, and have EIGHTY-TWO new faces on this years roster. Of the 5 teams projected to finish at the bottom of the B10 not including Purdue who was picked dead last (NW, Maryland, Mich St, and UCLA) they only get Northwestern on the road. 2.5 is an appropriate O/U win total. You might beat NW.

Sales is only a junior, Bardo and Guilford are seniors. Sales is a 5* and a top 20 recruit nationally in the class of 2027.

Monshun Sales is the best receiver in the state and he plays at Lawrence North. He's a 5* recruit and 2nd nationally at his position.

Todd Wagner would be my bet. Former business partner of Mark Cuban and IU alum...worth several billion dollars. Has already contributed immensely to IU's NIL collective.

I read it, it's certainly a hot take...they're called hot takes for a reason. Purdue is the worst P4 team in the country.

Purdue has almost 60 new faces, mostly underclassmen with little to no experience. Good thing Ball State and Southern Illinois are on the schedule because that’s all they’re going to win. I don’t think the question is by how much IU beats Purdue this year (because it’ll be a lot) but whether or not IU shuts PU out for a second straight year.

The SEC has been doing this for years. And they play one less conference game than everybody else to avoid having half their teams adding a loss to their resume. They pad their win totals and pound their chests. Rinse, wash, repeat.

Anyways....back to IU. Hoosiers picked 6th in the B10, behind Illinois and Michigan. Puzzling no doubt. IU has 4 preseason All-Americans varying on the publication and 7 guys that garnered preseason All-B10 recognition. None include transfer QB Fernando Mendoza who has quietly entered the top 10 in the majority of mock drafts with a few having him as the first QB selected. Another favorable schedule should have IU once again in playoff contention. Dare I say some are sleeping on IU? Sure you can. Gene Keady had the better H2H record than Bobby Knight. Not a soul would argue Keady is a better coach, it's why rivalries are great. Not so hot take, Sherrone Moore will be unemployed before Ryan Day.

Where would put Ryan Day? He's 46-5 in the B10. Sherrone Moore will have more B10 losses on his resume before the end of October than Day does in 7 years on the job. Think about that?