Boilernation

Interesting start to the season for Richardson. He'll likely be out for a month now. I read he was also injury prone at Florida. At this point the Colts need to make sure they always have a real Pro like Minshew at backup. They can still win with him.

Yep. But on the flip side the winner of New Prairie and Hobart gets 2 weeks to regroup and heal. I think it's safe to say both squads could get away with not using all starters for 4 quarters throughout the remainder of Sectionals if they play their cards right.

My dad played in the Chicago Public League for Schurz HS when Butkus was on the Southside at Vacational. He said even in HS Butkus was feared man. Regarding the Beloved, Washington's D may stink as much as Denver's, but at least the Bears fully exploited it. That shows some kind of progress is being made. And Fields is looking more comfortable. On to the Vikings with potentially a 3rd string RB and a beat up OL.

I couldn't like this enough. Spot on. The story NEVER returns to mention the presumed guilty were innocent all along. Names tarnished forever. New click bait headlines created. And the beat goes on.

Speaking of streaming, Peacock needs to step their game up. I have You Tube TV and it's so easy to fast forward through the stoppage of play on a recorded game and not miss action. I didn't catch the Purdue/Illinois (Peacock only) game live and went back to watch it on demand. It's impossible to fast forward between plays or stops in action. You inevitably miss 1 or 2 plays while doing so.

40-20 Final. Fields and Moore continuing to find rythm together. Flus lives to see another day. Though I'm skeptical he would have been fired with a loss. On to the Vikings. No reason the Bears can't win that one.

He should be already. The way he’s handled the Chicago media in the past 2 weeks indicates a guy in way over his head. No fire or publicly holding his team accountable. Listening to Tomlinson after Pittsburgh’s latest loss is a complete 180 from Flus’ demeanor. Everything is a positive spin even when he doesn’t even know what’s going on, I.e, Claypool.

Bring in Harbaugh after Michigan wins the Title 😀.

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Agreed. Zionsville can give anyone a fight, but Lebanon is the only team that Zionsville put away before the 4th quarter. And they have lossed 3 straight. I don't think they're going to flip the script. Avon could have a shot to take this one in the 4th quarter. But, I agree with Zionsville by 7 or less Noblesville will be starting a lot of Seniors Friday who have seriously given that program 100% every night since they where starting or getting major PT as Sophomores. I would love to see them finish out what could be their last home game with a major upset. I could see the energy of the night keeping it close and then Brownsburg pulling away for a type of W you're predicting. The 'Dogs are feeling different this year. Two teams who will enter the 6A Playoffs as darkhorses teams nobody wants to play. Both very well coached. Both with a lot of talent, including D1 type of talent. I'll go with Westfield by 6. They bounced right back and beat Avon the way they should have. I'll bet on Gilbert not losing 2 in a row in front of the Westfield crowd. Agreed. FC can compete with HSE. HSE just has too much talent and a very good OL with a TE and some WR's that can play. I'm surprised that Hamilton kid at WR has only fielded 1 Power 5 Offer (Kentucky) unless his offer list is incorrect on 247.

Forgott at add Big Moe took Elder to the woodshed last night to run the table in the GCL South. What Indiana HS Football did to Moeller this year has to be more impressive then the time Cathedral essentially won the GCL South. Congrats to Ben Davis, East Central and Center Grove.

That was about as surprising as the Brownsburg/Westfield game too me. Warren is just completely jekyll and hyde. I wouldn't be surprised if they beat Carmel next week. I'm assuming they're too disfunctional this year to stand a shot against Christian Brothers.

Valpo is too high. Travis Davis is likely out for the year with an ACL injury. Major loss for the Viking offense. We're talkinga about a 6' 230 RB who had over 200 yards rushing in the State Championship last year. Zionsville, FC and Noblesville should all be aobve the Bloomington schools. HCC is cannibalizing itself. I seriously doubt the 3 of them would struggle competing for the top spot in Conference Indiana. Crown Point is probably more in the 13-20 range. I still like Center Grove in the #1 spot, but it's hard to ignore what Brownsburg is doing.

@BobrefYou should find footage of the City/Lake Central game. 3:25’ish mark on City’s game winning drive. WR literally drops the ball behind his back and the ball hits the ground. Judge on field was about to call incomplete when the sideline judge runs in to call it a catch. How does he make that call over the official who actually had the proper view?

And having a very easy schedule for a 6A NORTH "contender". I use that loosely as I rully expect CP's run to end in Regionals. But, I will say they have the talent and coaching to make a run. I just don't think the've seen the comp or have enough jimmy and joe's to beat Carroll or Penn. Valpo lost Davis to an inury in the Crown Point game. There is speculation he may be shelved for the year. I don't know how they could beat Snider in a rematch without him. 2nd year in a row he's been hurt. Last year was earlier in the season and he was healthy enough to run all over their opponents in the playoffs.

I was at the Zionsville/HSE game. The final score was a little deceiving. Zionsville jumped out to a 14-0 lead and HSE took it back at 17-14 going into the half. It was 24-17 HSE with only 4 minutes left and HSE was lining up for a punt. They converted a fake punt for a long gain and then ended up kicking a FG. HSE picked off a pass on the following Zionsville posession that turned into a 26 yards TD pass to Hamilton and then Zionsville scored on a 70 yard pass to Hilton. Donovan Hamilton finished the game with 8 catches, 225 yards, and 3 TD's. For Zionsville, Hilton had 3 catches, 118 yards, and 2 TD's. HSE makes Hamilton a focal point of their offense. For the life of me I can't figure out why Zionsville doesn't do the same for Hilton. His 1st TD catch was a short screen that he took 37 yards for a TD and used some nice spin moves to alude HSE defenders. Other than a short slant that he caught every other pass thrown to him was on a long fly route. They typically just line him up out wide and have him run fly routes. They need to find ways to get the ball in his hands near the line of scrimmage and not just relying on him to out maneuver DB's on poorly thrown fly routes. Anyways, like you said, Zionsville (outside of the Noblesville disaster) puts up one helluva fight every Friday night. They also played HSE with their backup QB who is a Sophomore. He played very well for his first varsity start against a stout HSE defense. The starter left the Noblesville game late in the 4th quarter. Not sure how serious his injury is. I agree though. Brownsburg should roll.

Yeah, he makes NFL caliber throws. I didn't realize he was injured that many times. Agree it could hurt him in the draft and if he falls he has the potential to be a huge steal. I just looked at 3 different mocks. One had him at #3 overall and the other 2 didn't have him in the 1st round.

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That I can agree with it. In fairness to Lovie, he was exactly given most dynamic offenses to work with from his GM's. At one point his defense was more likely to generate a TD than the offense. I question if guys like Lovie are mean for NFL HC gigs nowadays. If I'm a GM I much rather have an offensive genius as HC. It's a QB/WR friendly league and I wouldn't want to be losing talented OC's to HC gigs because I have a defensive minded HC.

So true. And yet I'll uncomfortably watch every Purdue game. I'll also add seeing Maryland, Iowa and Ruters at 5-7 (hard to argue against these rankings) reminds me once again that I'm looking forward to the West Coast additions. I tried watching the Iowa/Iowa State game on 3 different tries and had to switch away everytime. Just too boring for me to watch. Maryland and Rutgers really don't move the needle as well in terms of must watch games.

Which bets the question is Penix more a product of the system or should he be in the conversation with Maye and Williams for which QB goes first. I've heard some analysts suggest Williams has some red flags in terms of how he plays against good defenses.

I watched all 3 of those: 1997: Andrean led 23-20 very late into the 4th quarter on the back of Bobby Finn putting on a show. Chatard scored the go ahead TD on a QB keeper to make it 27-23. I think it was with under a minute to go 2001: A defensive barn burner that Chatard won 3-0 2002: A decisive 31-12 victory for Chatard I agree. This was the worst year possible for Andrean to schedule Chatard. I don't know about the running clock though. I think Chatard's coach being an Andrean grad will try to avoid humiiation.

IHSAA blocked his transfer to Crown Point. I think he's at Kenwood Academy in Chicago.

Is the problem that they fired Smith or hired complete boobs like Trestman, Fox, Nagy and now Flus? To Fox's credit he was hired to bring professionalism to the locker room. Trestman had no control of the team and the locker room was a complete mess. The story of Lance Briggs putting his coat on and walking out on Brandon Marshall giving a team speech was the typical locker room under Trestman. Personally, I think Lovie was overrated. The Bears had 3 soild years under Smith: 2005, 2006 and 2010. Looking at those years: 2005 and 2006: Ron Rivera was D Coordinator 2010: Lovie was relieved of his defensive playing calling duties His post Chicago Bears career was less than stellar at Tampa, Houston and U of I. I feel like the pedestal he gets put on by Bears fans is a testament to how awful the franchise is.

That's one problem right there. They will always sell out Solider Field. Regarding Lovie, didn't the Bears start out hot they year he was fired and then went on a massive losing streak? Combine that with going 8-8 the previous season and I can understand why he was let go. They made the playoffs once in his last 6 seasons. That gets a lot of NFL coaches fired.