Boilernation

Pure domination. Prior to last year I believe you would have to go back to the '70's for the last time a current Duneland member beat an Indy team in the playoffs.

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Nice. Wasn't he just a 3 star recruit that was kind of a late bloomer? Credit to the Michigan staff for developing him.

Man, he was a very special running back that Senior Year. Carried LaPorte to the State Champtionship game. I'm not discounting the success he had at LaPorte; however, he would have looked incredible running behind a dominant Indy OL. He had a very successful career at Marian. NAIA All American. I have a feeling Calumet is the start of many great achievements for the young man.

Copy. Is it fair to say from a males sport big 3 that they're ready for the Hoosier Hills in basketball and baseball?

Agree with most of this. As a Portage homer I want to say Richards will instantly elevate the Indians, but time will tell if that's the case. Great call on Lake Central. Xavier Williams is a beast and headed to Iowa. LC has the defense and workhorse on offense to grind out some wins. Regarding LaPorte, I noticed Charles Salary is next in line to use Calumet as a stepping stone for a DAC position. Could the former Slicer be destined to eventually give LaPorte a long term option at HC? I'm not sure how long he stayed in Central Indiana after starring at RB for Marian. Perhaps he rather had back to Indy if he succeeds at Calumet. IMO, the spotlight is on French and Seiss. French is inheriting a lot of talent included a Syracuse committ at RB. The way he left Calumet showed some character flaws that need to be corrected. His tenure at City will be off to a very rocky start if the Wolves take a major step back post Phil Mason. Merrillville appears to now have a shortage of talent. Can Seiss keep the Pirates in the run for the DAC when he doesn't have a plethora of talent to throw out on the field?

You say you're not Parkhurst but this was something he mentioned a lot. Can any City fans on here validate this comment? It seems outrageous anyone in City would have complained about Mason. Who else has taken them to a Semi-State? Nobody!

True, but at a place like Northwestern I'll give them the benefit of the doubt that the Boosters actually care about their reputation. I would seriously quesion whether we would even here this story if it happened to Ohio State, Alabama, Florida, LSU, etc. I doubt the student run newspapers at those schools would be allowed to run a story that seriously damages an athletic program.

I'm not going to go back and read 100+ pages to see if it's been discussed before, but I'm curious about Silver Creek. They seem to be located in a growing community and have a well rounded athletic program. Is the potential there for them to quickly outgrow the Mid-Southern and join the Hoosier Hills?

I listed to a lengthy interview with Mike Wilbon on Chicago's ESPN station yesterday. He's on NW's Board of Trustees and was in on a lot of the meetings that took place over the past several months while Northwestern held an internal investigation. Similiar to what you said, he said Northwestern had to raise the bar on their response and the status quo of retaining Fitz with a lengthly suspension wouldn't be good enough. He did say that the new President acted on his own when first suspending Fitz and then firing him. It wasn't a group decision. Regarding the letter from the team, per Wilbon, they had enough corrobarative witnesses to know it was happening and it was known on campus that it was happening. He quickly dismissed the letter. Another comment of his I found interesting is that he talked about the number of high profile NW Alums there are in the Sports industry (Agents, Execs, Journalists) and mentioned he heard from a lot of upset Alums that were going to hold back on the checks they write if Fitz was retained.

This story is wild for various reasons: Northwestern tried sliding the story through with a Friday newsdump and announced he would be getting a brief suspension. The Northwestern Student ran newspaper then runs a story over the weekend shedding light on what actually happened. Were the leaders at NW completely unaware of this soon to be released report? They now look incredibly foolish. What was Fitz thinking!?! The guy had it made. The bar is set so low there that 2 crappy seasons in a row didn't even come close to putting him on the hot seat. It's 2023. You can't get away with barbaric hazing rituals nowadays. It will always get leaked.

I would be surprised if Fitz coaches another game for Northwestern. Not sure how he can survive this one.

I would say Roncalli, Dwenger and Snider all over Hobart as the Brickies couldn't sustain their success past Howell. Though, credit to the Bricks for one heckuva run during the '80's and '90's. I know what it was like to be in the old Brickie Bowl during those years and it was a very special time. Time will tell if Osika can have just a small fraction of the success Howell had.

Did Crown Point hit the transfer portal? I see D1 recruit Patrick Clacks (WR: Andrean) and Junior QB Noah Ehrlich (Hobart) who supposedly holds a Miami(OH) offer are both listed as playing for Crown Point in 247Sports. Either the Fort Wayne schools beat Crown Point to the punch in scheduling Central Indiana schools or the 'Dogs settled on not testing themselves in the OOC schedule. I get that Lowell is a very old south Lake County rivalry game that's not going anywhere, but scheduling a mediocre Chicago Public School program like Taft is a headscratcher. The 'Dogs ran the table in The Region last year and fell to Lafayette Jeff in the Sectional Championship. They're going to try running it back this year without a litmus test from Central Indiana. Penn, Lafayette Jeff, and the Fort Wayne 6A schools will all face tougher OOC comp in the regular season. Seems like a disadvantage for Crown Point.

One thing Valpo really has going for them is they are built to win in November. As mentioned above, they killed Snider and Whiteland by continuing to run off tackle over, and over, and over again with a power running game. It'll be the same story this year with a presumably healthy 6'0 220 Travis Davis at RB and a huge OL anchored by 6'6 270 Toledo committ Matt Hofer at Tackle.

Well, it appears I'm relatively clueless when it comes to Logansport athletics. No offense to the HC when I say this, but I just assumed Logansport as an Athletic Department played at a level above the HC. Guess I'm wrong. It still makes zero sense to me that Jeff and Kokomo wouldn't want to side with Harrison and McCutcheon. The irony in that NCC meeting that resulted in Harrison/McCutcheon getting the boot is the remaining members go from seeing Harrison dominate to it now being Jeff or Kokomo.

Eh, I saw Heights in person twice last year and Central Catholic once. I think Logansport could have taken them. But, I wasn't just referring to football. Considering all sports, wouldn't Loganstport dominate most of the current HC? Maybe I'm completely wrong. Your last line is why I think there needs to be some teaming up. McCutcheon and Harrison don't want to be on Independant island. Kokomo and Jeff should be seriously thinking about why they're holding onto the old glory of NCC basketball. Move on for the benefit of your entire athletic departments. Logansport seemingly left the NCC because Harrrison and McCutcheon were booted. I'm assuming they would much rather join up with Lafayette schools and Kokomo than the HC. West Lafayette? IDK. They pretty much dominate the HC in football. Is that not the case in most of the other sports? Maybe Western and/or Northwestern was a reach.

This is interesting. A lot of potential dominos could fall depending on the decision the HC makes. I don't know why they would vote them in. Logansport is too big for them. Does this Conference work if certain members can swallow their pride and/or make big changes? Logansport Harrison West Lafayette Lafayette Jefferson McCutcheon Northwestern Western Kokomo

I was hoping they would go with Wright after some stuff I heard about him in the past week. I'm going to need to go back and watch the Alabama/Tennessee game. Will Anderson is on record saying Wright was the best OT he played against this year.

Seemed inevitable. Sounds like he was QB #3 coming out of Spring. I know nothing about QB #2 other than he won an 8A Title in Florida.

Agreed! A lot of people don't realize that any development east of Summer Road and South of 216th Street goes to HSE and not Noblesville. HSE's district goes all the way out to the edge of Lapel and up to the border with Hamilton Heights (216th Street). I know that Whitestown is booming and a decent portion of it goes to Lebanon while the other portion goes to Zionsville. Is Lebanon the town growing as well? I agree that they should be looking to the future and reaching out to Harrison/McCutcheon to explore opportunities.

Makes absolutely Zero sense to me why Jeff would choose the travel nightmares and lack of overall competition in the NCC over sticking with Harrison and McCutcheon. One could argue it would benefit Kokomo all around to get out of the NCC and follow the Lafayette schools.

Totally see your point of view. I just have a gut feeling he'll create a way to play with a major chip on his shoulder and prove certain people wrong. Totally seems like a boom or bust situation.

And the Jets legitimately join Buffalo as a contender to the Bengals/Chiefs with the anticipating trade for Rodgers. That team was a QB away from being very solid last year.

You would think the Bears are definately going QB in the 1st round next year if Fields doesn't progressive this year. The question is how much progression is good enough for Poles and Flus.