FarmerFran

27 minutes ago, Coach Nowlin said:

old adage:   Greatest improvement in football is from week 1 to week 2.     

 

Good lord I hope so...

2 Point Games

Central Catholic @ Guerin Catholic

Cass @ Maconoquah

McCutcheon @ West Lafayette

North Montgomery @ Hamilton Heights

Northwestern @ Twin Lakes

Tipton @ Elwood

Western Boone @ Western

3 Point Games

Benton Central @ Seeger

North White @ Frontier

Lafayette Jeff @ Lawrence Central

Delphi @ Carroll

4 Point Game

Rensselaer @ North Newton

16 hours ago, from_the_sidelines007 said:

 

Games involving Hoosier North Athletic Conference this Friday?

Have any thoughts, picks, or rants . . .  now's your chance!

Friday, Aug. 30
Caston at North Judson ©, 7:30 pm
Culver at South Central, 7:30 pm
Knox at Rochester, 7:30 pm
Pioneer at Winamac ©, 7 pm
Triton at LaVille ©, 7 pm

JAYS

SCUM

KNOX

PANTHERS

LANCERS

10 hours ago, TheWaterBoii said:

North White at Frontier
Rensselaer at North Newton,
South Newton at West Central
Tri-County at South Decatur
Happy week 2 everyone! Hopefully everyone has stayed healthy! WHO YOU GOT!

N w

bombers

w c

tc

9 minutes ago, Douglas65 said:

LaVille by 2 scores 

Pioneer begins their 2A run by beating a tough Cass Squad 

Ditmire.... I mean Culver will beat Judson in a game with no passing 

South Central will beat a young Triton Team 

With Castons new offense West Central won’t be ready, Caston by 2 touchdowns 

Knox will have the biggest win in the HNAC this week, Knox by 4 scores

Caston moving from the phone booth??

Tri-County

Frontier

North Newton

Taylor

West Central

Lancers

Panthers

Jays

SCUM

West Central

Knox

2 POINTS EACH

Benton Central @ Delphi

Eastern Hancock @ Northwestern

Hamilton Heights @ Mount Vernon

Cass @ Pioneer

Madison Grant @ Tipton

Twin Lakes @ Western

West Lafayette @ Lafayette Jeff

Guerin Catholic @ McCutcheon

Carroll @ Tri-County

Taylor @ North White

South Vermillion @ Covington

Frankfort @ Clinton Central

3 POINTS EACH

Kankakee Valley @ Rensselaer

Central Catholic @ Tri-West

With weights programs going on and spring practices now allowed any conference news???

A few things I'm curious about:

1. Who will step up on the o-line at Pioneer and as team leaders?How will scheme change without Kiser and Gregorich on Offense and Defense?

2. How will new coaches impact schemes at Triton and North Judson?

3. How much will Laville's youngsters continue to improve off of last years solid team?

4. Will Caston be able to field a team this year?

35 minutes ago, FarmerFran said:

I would assume so. Hopefully they have a better turnout of kids for next season. 

Coach Slocum does a great job with the kids. It’s just tough when you have to throw freshman to the wolves right away playing all three phases just to field a full team. 

37 minutes ago, CoachDurham said:

Caston would hate this, or am I wrong.

I would assume so. Hopefully they have a better turnout of kids for next season. 

Pioneer And Bremen have played each other in JV the last 2 years. 

Only thing I have heard would be potentially adding Bremen and John Glenn. Personally, I would love to see Bremen added from a football standpoint. I would not be in favor of having a full conference regular season however. Pioneer has a great season opener with cross county rival Lewis Cass that I would hate to see go away.

Not to belittle the topic, but is JV forfeiture really a punishment for playing to many quarters? At the end of the day not to many people are going to care if they have to forfeit a JV or freshman game if they feel they can give their kids some extra playing opportunities.

How are teams even kept accountable for this?

Saturday JV games are the WORST! Move them all to Monday nights!

6 minutes ago, DumfriesYMCA said:

Since someone mentioned quarters playing a factor...at some point we have to get it changed where teams are not penalized for having their kids come in during a blowout. 

Rule was changed to allow kids to play a total of 6 quarters as opposed to 5 in the past. Once halftime hits jv guys can sub in freely without penalty of missing time in the JV game. 

2 minutes ago, Coach Nowlin said:

every significant skill player returns to Lewis Cass:   QB, RB, WRs and a couple of OL   

Not to mention they are one of the most physical teams we play every year. 

1 hour ago, MarshallCounty said:

As a Bremen fan, I am excited to be in the same sectional with Cass again, and welcome the challenge that Pioneer offers. I tend to agree with you here, Bremen will be a 2 tiers behind Pioneer and 1 tier behind Cass next year. The Lions graduated a large group of great athletes and leaders. Next year will be a rebuilding year.

Pioneer loses one of, if not, the best classes to ever go through the program as well as the reigning Mr. Football. Large shoes to fill on both sides of the ball and the vast majority of our offensive production b/w Kiser and Gregorich. I think it is more wide open than people think.

-Bremen had a great season last year

-Cass came on strong at the end of the season (losses came against excellent competition)

-Pioneer looking for leadership after our state run last year

-Laville returns a great core of young skill guys who got better every game 

Is there an option for schools that have no football or to low of numbers to participate at neighboring schools?

28 minutes ago, Coach Nowlin said:

hey the state put TIPTON in the SOUTH the last 2 years, TIpton is farther north than TRI WEST 

 

With luers, laville, andrean and pioneer added to the north, Tipton most likely rolls south again this cycle as well

I'll preface this by saying I don't know the situation very well, but is it possible the middle school coach runs the same offensive and defensive schemes as the high school team and they are looking for some consistency therein? Maybe the dude is a good leader on and off the field and he has built some relationships with the kids already. Again, I don't know the situation so I may be way off base, but calling it a bad hire before the coach even has a practice seems a little asinine to me.

I’m personally not a fan of 7-on-7 and prefer light contact 11-on-11 in the off-season. With Pioneers wing-t offense, we were having to work on things we would seldom use during the season. 

I think it’s also important to give kids the opportunity to take a break from football and play other sports. 

On 1/19/2019 at 8:48 PM, AG said:

Ummmmm, I'm not sure if there's anything that Pioneer can be better at than last year. Maybe not winning by so much?

Pioneer will need much better o-line play than last year if they want to be successful. To many times Kiser and co. had to make something out of nothing. Annnndddd they might need to figure a way to somewhat replace the great senior class we had this year.