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BHSS in a lot of minds should beat floyd ''if' they put their work in this week . South has been up and down this year. With an injury here and there (not as bad as the last 3 or 4 years) and a one game suspension here and there and a qb that didn't make his first start until week 4 i just don't think bhss has built up enough continuity/improvement this season to be able to defeat cathedral or new pal or valpo/dwenger for that matter. Those teams are on a different level i believe, even if everything goes wrong for those teams and everything goes right for bhss i think all you would get is a competitive game for 2 quarters. Which i would still like to see happen.

Weather forecast has the game just above freezing friday night. JH site has game time a 7 pm start wish they would move it back to 7 30 or 8 even with the travel distance. Oh well. His site predictor also changed since the weekend. It first had this game 31-21 bhss now it says 38-14 bhss. I think souths offense should 'get theirs'; going have to see if the ';d; can turn in a game like they did last week or better. Anyone going to this game ? I wont be able to make it.

Pretty sure south and floyd played in a holiday tournament last year. South has been playing castle at basketball as well in recent years. But I'm not trying to think about basketball season yet. Mist of the attention is going toward the new goal cathedral game. This matchup seems unimportant. . . . . . . . Likely the winner here loses next week but there are still a lot of good players in this game so im looking forward to seeing how this plays out. Souths rb just broke the bhss career rushing and fc sounds like they have a good rb as well could be a high scoring game

Well I'll tell ya one thing all this banter for nothing everyone knows the winner of Floyd vs bhss will smoke either of these teams 😁

I assume if he played last year he will again. South will be a threat to go deep in the tourney this season. Their wide receiver #9 plays basketball.

@ptr the computer ratings have south by 20 points. John harrell has south by 10 . However you cant take any team lightly. I think south should be fine but fc does have a good rb and if they can pass it will be a tough offense to deal with. I could see this being a high scoring game . South d line seems to be firing on all cylinders , Darnell boyce has missed several games this year for various reasons but with him and cody root and bomba they have some real size there. Inside backer went out last night hope he isnt out next friday.

Kyle Bramble was fun to watch, bhss has a lot of size in the d line . Souths senior inside linebacker went down vs castle with a hamstring problem. Sure hope he will be available vs floyd looks like we will need him. Sometimes you dont need a lot of size with wright all you need is some daylight . Very impressed panthers again will have to bring forth their best effort sagarin and computer rankings i think have a 70 some percent accuracy but 30 % of the time they dont get it right. John Harrells site has south favored 31-21 . Now what i am hoping for is that the game doesnt start until 8 pm that way a can come and catch the second half or so. We will see.

I just watched some of his hudl highlights. Looks like a real good player breaking a lot of tackles with break away speed. South will need to work on wrapping up. Makes fc dangerous with a good passing game to see them operate out of the single back formation . South will have their hands full. The panthers held Castle to 4 yards rushing in the sectional title game on 29 attempts. I believe there were 6 sacks to negate the few rushing yards castle had. Is wright getting offers from anyone?

How does he stack up gainst fc greats? Who was the fc rb a decade ago had a great career cant remember his name . Highlights of him anywhere online? I think i read an article on him earlier this season isnt he from Australia or something . Looks like bhss will have to bring another hard week of practice to prepare for fc.

Castle will be tough in the upcoming seasons , freshman qb with a lot of experience and sounds like a young oline returning .

The southport bd game reminded me of a southport legend. Marlon Fleming. I went to the 1990p semistate game between bd and southport bd womn that as well but marlonm was a beast out there.

I wish i could make it . Hopefully they start the game at 7 30 or 8 because of fc travel then i will be able to see some of it at least. BHSS and FC have never played on the football field. Makes it interesting. Hope thge teams get their injured players back. South lost a senior Inside linebacker to a hamstring tonight. Not sure how bad it is.

Souths senior inside backer hurt his hamstring tonight but they still blasted castle 32-6 . Souths rb broke the bhss all time rushing record tonight.. South has a pretty good d line . One guy going to miami of ohio. Since Moriarity returned to south they have won their 6th straight sectional title a couple regional's in there but not really been a threat to win state except for 2014 when they lost to cathedral in overtime in semistate (cathedral dominated laporte the next week at state) A lot of things have changed in bloomington since the early 2000's ( redistricting , school 'board etc etc. ) and they just don';t seem to pull in the kids they should be (historically have, live closer common sense to bhss) pulling in with the district changes . Been a learning curve as a fan to try and figure it all out. Those things were super important back in the day when we were a top 10 program year in year out . Just seems like we are just going to be a regional champ every now and then and get smashed at semistate. Modern era at bhss i guess .

First ever meeting between the two schools on the football field. Couple of good running backs for both teams. Winner to face Cathedral or New Pal .

Floyd at bhss next week. First ever matchup between the two.

fc jeff score?

12-6 bhss at half. Sounds like a real penalty ridden chippy game so far. Souths mav Thierry all 5 foot 5 of him got the all time south rushing record in the first half . . Stay tuned to see who gets the w .

I think he needs over 110 yards the ht was wrong. He may not get it tonight

South has a nice backfield of senior Rb's as well as some pretty good senior receivers , given castles int total on the year and souths lack of experience at the qb position I would expect to see a run first approach tonight until something opens up in the passing game . South also has a kicker that has hit some clutch fg's from distance this year . Play bend but dont break d and bring hone a sectional title . Good luck to the Panthers .

Zoysia grass can look pretty sweet too. Maybe not far enough south for zoysia to survive the winters.

Out of curiosity i wonder what type of grass they have ? Cool season grasses grow in the transition zone but the southwest corner of the state is not in that zone. If i were to ever start my own business i thought lawn renovation and athletic field renovation and maintenance would be it. Love the turf type tall fescues they have created nowadays. Undoubtedly castle and area schools are using blugrass most likely ..

Awful quiet here since Tuesday. Looks like around game time we will be dipping into freezing temps. The turf probably hasn't dried out from yesterdays rains. Could make things interesting. I still don't want to predict a winner here. Obviously i favor bhss but castle with a big w last week. Both teams beat teams that beat each other so no need to get into comparing wins and scores. Wish i could make this one .... . .. ... . .. . . .. The pressbox will be stuffed with at least three radio announcer teams . Mediafive sports which may be affiliated with wyir , wgcl (bloomington), wvni (bloomington) all have online links . I wanted online streaming video but guess it isnt going to happen. I listened to media five's (wjps) last week so i didnt have to hear the b town radio guys 'gushing' over bloomington norths team. They seem to favor bhsn in town here. Was nice to hear a different perspective. Well stay warm folks.

Any FC fan familiar with the reason why there are no visitor stands? Any plans to put some in? From google maps it looks as though there is not much room but probably enough to put a small maybe long instead of deep bleacher .. . . . .

Out of curiosity does fc have visiting stands? As a fan of the game I follow hhc a bit and if fc and bhss both win they will meet at bhss in the regional. So bhss wont even be playing there if the two teams were to win. I had been told fc had nice facilities but didnt have a visitors stands . The teams have never played on the football field. I would like to see the matchup.

tournament protocol i don't like. Castle High School and Bloomington South will have met 4 times in the ihsaa tournament after this friday and every matchup will have been played at castle. The previous match ups were in the regional round which i believe the protocol is that the bottom bracket is the home team or the team that has not had a home game yet. Which is not a good protocol imo. Default for the regional i think equates to the sectional that is north in the regional bracket is always going to have to travel south if the south team had to play on the road or whichever team had less home games or something like that. This year they are meeting in the sectional final and again are driving all the way to castle . If south wins and jeffersonville beats floyd then south is on the road to jeffersonville again another long drive. I think the protocol needs to be rethought at this point.