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Please notify Coach Hart or the IHSAA. Not very classy to call out a HS player by number (effectively by name) and then hurl comments at him. How about you stay on topic and give us some insight on South Spencer and your expectations for the Rebels in Reo this week?

Linton Mount Vernon NP at HH - Winner by the turnover margin South Spencer - even if sloppy, SS in Reo Gibson Southern (not a great week to be playing at Ft. Branch) Tell City - again when in doubt siding with the home team. Props to Springs Valley though. Larry Bird would've made a great DE in 1978 Washington - I guess? Chargers are yet to score a point this year. The schools are only 12 miles a part. Series has been dominated by the Hatchets with a few Chargers' wins in the early 2000s... also a weird one in 1989 when Pike Central won 0-1 (forfeit?) Chatard AND Roncalli, I believe was his point.

Back on track, after I steered this off the tracks... POCKET ALL TIMES CENTRAL Big School Division CONFERENCE ALL GAMES W-L Pts OP W-L Pts OP Streak Mount Vernon 2-0 70 22 4- 0 153 52 Won 4 Gibson Southern 1-0 68 6 3- 1 181 92 Lost 1 Heritage Hills 1-1 29 35 3- 1 92 35 Won 3 Princeton 0-1 7 47 1- 3 67 133 Won 1 Boonville 0-1 12 14 0- 3 53 71 Lost 5 Washington 0-1 6 68 0- 3 14 128 Lost 3 Small School Division CONFERENCE ALL GAMES W-L Pts OP W-L Pts OP Streak North Posey 3-0 89 50 4- 0 142 56 Won 4 Southridge 1-1 86 40 2- 2 129 82 Won 1 Tell City 1-1 28 45 2- 2 69 86 Lost 1 South Spencer 1-1 63 14 1- 3 80 90 Lost 1 Forest Park 0-1 10 14 2- 2 59 59 Won 1 Pike Central 0-2 0 113 0- 2 0 113 Lost 26 Week 5 Boonville at Linton, 6:30 pm Forest Park at Mount Vernon, 6:30 pm North Posey at Heritage Hills, 7 pm Princeton at South Spencer, 7 pm Southridge at Gibson Southern, 6:30 pm Springs Valley at Tell City, 6:30 pm Washington at Pike Central, 6 pm

Arlington? Fond (but also bitter) memories. I thought the field was abandoned a few years ago?

One of the few programs in the state undefeated against Roncalli. Depending on when the success factor was instituted, HH would have likely been playing in 4A against Chatard/Roncalli (might have been 5A) from 2001-2007. Playing Jasper twice in one season would've been a treat. The local game that has never happened and looks like it never will is Heritage Hills vs. Reitz. As always don't dismiss HH or MV or SR yet against GS. Kryptonite seems to appear at the most inopportune times. That being said, I fully expect the Titans to run the table in the PAC and 3A this year. Highest prospective PAC QB in 20 years (since Cutler; albeit, because of circumstances which prevented HH from going on a run in 1999, being a legitimate collegiate athlete prospect in three sports, and the changes in exposure/recruiting for Allen). Side note... Bob Griese's brother, Bill, has lived and is now retired in Santa Claus and can most often be found on the golf course.

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There's nothing to measure or relate. CalPreps and other systems have a "program" factor, but unless it is accounting for the 18 starters a team loses or retains every year, coaching changes, off season training, it's a crap shoot!

Just selfishly wished that the SIAC weren't closed. Drop the scrimmage week and effectively make Week 10 an out-of-conference game week for most schools...despite programs having different regular season "philosophies" and may want to shy away from playing a good/traditional Jasper team the week before the tournament. Jasper-HH and I'm sure other matchups need restored.

Re Q5: Other than 6A, how does the success factor penalize public schools?

The event Kirk Herbstreit organized about a decade ago sought to showcase Ohio HS football to the nation. Perhaps it's time for the Colts, Jack Doyle, or some other entity to entertain a two-day event at Lucas Oil, inviting some of the aforementioned teams from Ohio, Louisville, and even Illinois.

Football is a team game. While you're probably right in that Chatard should've had more defensive selections, I have also read on several Chatard game threads about this Trojans squad having few stars, but find success in the collective perhaps more so than the individual (as in years past).

Very true. A good coach adapts his and his coordinators' schemes to the players. We're long past the days of Cathedral/Jasper/Roncalli running I-formation tight with a flanker or Power I and just feeding a back or two 45+ times per game on power tosses.

From my understanding, Mater Dei was quite young and somewhat "overachieved" after a rocky start. Give them a wrestling season and another off season with Coach Goebel and the SIAC schedule, I think we'll see them competing to go to Lucas Oil next year from the south -- of course Western Boone is king until dethroned.

What schools have fields or stadiums named after coaches or ADs? I'm not a fan of corporate naming conventions, which often occur in large urban/suburban communities. What schools in Indiana have fields named after coaches/ADs/players/other unique community icons/contributors?

Do you have contact details for Union (Dugger)? I hear they may need some support and end zone cameras might just do the trick.

Gosh, I'm getting old being in the same class as him, but Nick Hart at Gibson Southern -- especially interesting given his father's coaching path and the rumors that he has turned away several coaching jobs in Evansville. Perhaps the only one he would leave for in the Evansville area is Mater Dei once Coach Goebel steps down (pure speculation). Evansville North is in much better hands now with Coach Paridaen, as is Luke Messmer at Mount Vernon (Posey) -- all three my contemporaries graduating around 2004. Mac Webb had an outstanding year at Tell City and still being in his 20s has plenty of time to determine if he'll stay committed to the Marksmen for a long time or wants a challenge elsewhere.

Yeah, living abroad for four years now and being paid into a foreign bank account. I'm going to need "a guy" very soon to make sure everything is correct as immigration is processed for my wife (who we already have "a gal" [lawyer] on retainer who specializes in this type of immigration).

Much of Terre Haute's population is originally from the coal mines of West Virginia. One of my grandmothers was born in Brazil, Indiana. There is a documentary on YouTube about Slick Leonard. It's a good watch.

Mater Dei could, but I think I've seen in other threads that they have smaller classes coming up (not 100% sure)... There's been talk of the establishment (maybe re-establishment) of a "northside" Evansville Catholic school, but of course that's up to the deanery. Evansville Day is the largest (and only non-Catholic private HS in Evansville), but have very low numbers and usually are barely able to field a competitive basketball team, but who knows -- the eastside and northside of Evansville are growing and some non-Catholic families will want to send their children to private schools. There have always been rumors of a Catholic High School in Dubois County and that would pull talent from Jasper, Southridge, Forest Park, Heritage Hills, and some surrounding schools which don't have football but have some very good athletic programs... It's unlikely to happen the high school (not the new one) baseball field is so close to the Church that if you hit a foul ball it goes into their cemetary...

Brebeuf... Then Evansville Memorial will return to 3A (I believe) in two years. That Sectional 32/31 will be loaded depending on who goes where with Southridge always a contender, bounce backs by Gibson Southern and Heritage Hills, Vincennes Lincoln (possibly moving south if they stay in 3A). I don't know if the Mater Dei numbers have them close to the 3A line again... At least when Chatard was in 3A South, they didn't run their mouths like a certain team from Hendrix County. Speaking of which, are Danville and Tri-West flirting with 4A due to the never ending Indy suburban sprawl (less the eastside)?

Stirring the pot, can't have gravy sticking and burning on Thanksgiving... So besides this going to the best player in the IndyStar's coverage area, what about other players across the state? Kids like @Mockstangboyz (headed to Navy) deserve all the individual accolades they can. Shame Boonville didn't have more team success.

Beautiful time of the year to travel down SR-37 and I-69... God's Country, I tell ya! BTW: As someone who hasn't been in Indiana in two years, but will be in a month (for a holiday visit) -- how far north has the I-69/SR-37 project progressed? Does it still basically end at Martinsville? If I come from Jasper, I'll take US 231 to I-69, but if coming from Santa Claus, it'll be I-64 to I-65 (hopefully no construction around Louisville/Jeffersonville).

Coaches can win games, but players win championships... Coach Goebel has cobbled together a successful season from what at the beginning of the season looked like a wash of a season. That's what HoF coaches do though and I believe Coach Goebel is easily one of the Top 10 coaches statewide over the past two decades... I believe polling to IFCA would support that. That being said "Jimmies and Joes, Not Xs and Os" ... "Players Win Championships" ... I'm not sure Mater Dei has the horses of to reach the finish line first, but I know the Wildcats will scratch and claw the whole way. First possessions should tell us a lot!