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Shame TC vs Boonville would be a great match-up

Is TC playing Week 8 or not? Boonville also has no Week 8 opponent last I checked.

After Week 7 1. Central (7-0) - Deserved. Could the SIAC end up with a two-loss champion or does Central have this locked up? 2. Southridge (7-0) - Winning. It could get ugly against HH, but if the Patriots can be at full strength historically they have the antidote against the Raiders. 3. Castle (5-1) - Win out and get a share of the SIAC. 4. North (5-2) - What's happened to the North offense? 5. Gibson Southern (4-3) - Props for finding a game. County rivalry won't be pretty for Princeton. 6. Jasper (5-2) - Close doesn't cut it. 7. Tell City (6-1) - Fifth shutout. 8. Mater Dei (3-4) - Haven't lost to a team with a losing record. But still have four losses. 9. Vincennes Lincoln (3-4) - Wouldn't want to see them in the sectional. 10. Memorial (4-3) - VL game will be close. Could play spoiler against Castle. HM: Boonville (4-2) - Bye week this week or are the Pioneers looking? Well, North isn't making this any easier.

Heritage Hills has been very fortunate in having former star athletes (all-state, some collegiate-level) coaching feeder programs in many sports and it has reflected in varsity success. During the Bob Clayton years, a very disciplined man, Robert Compton, coached 7-8th grade for 25 or so years (yes he coached his sons). He understood it was a numbers game, so HH was notorious for losing to schools like Jasper and Southridge in Middle School, but turning the tide in high school. Generations have lined up correctly, so by the time a youth coach's children are active, they either have been promoted to freshman/JV/varsity teams or they step back and take a few years off so they can watch their children on the field/court. HH's only state championship football team in 2000 was the first class to go all the way through a dedicated 5-6th grade feeder program (not directly supported by the varsity team, but the people running Booster Organization for the varsity team were effectively the same as for the youth teams, albeit under a different organizational name). They were also the first class to go through 5-6 years of weight training by a strength coach (former Jasper player under Brewer who went to IU, majored in biology, became a male cheerleader who was 245 of pure muscle, and landed at HH as a science teacher ... in his later years he went on to teach on US military bases and has taken up a love for road cycling ... currently in Italy -- let's just say his 6-3 frame is quite different than Lance Armstrong's). So in conclusion, you need to fill the feeder leagues with coaches who understand the bigger picture and ideally went through the varsity program or at least understand it. This doesn't only apply to football, but I've seen it at different schools in soccer, basketball, and baseball... The "individual sports" can be a bit different, as you typically see more specialization, but a dedicated HC who hangs around the local golf course and can start grooming golfers from middle school can make you a conference and sectional contender very quickly, again no favorites -- field the best four and alternate that you can and let the chips fall where they may. HS sports is a community effort. Period.

It can depend. Obviously in 6A most teams are coming from the Indy area and probably have routines -- it might not be a bad thing for even smaller Indy-area schools to stay in a hotel the night before to eliminate distractions. Much depends on whether the team wants to practice at Lucas Oil and if they prefer to do so on Thursday or earlier in the week. I don't think there is a hard and fast rule for any program -- lots of moving parts.

It's not the IHSAA's job to maintain competitive balance, read its by-laws. Besides there being no reference to "competitive balance," it clearly is more devoted to being an entity to exist so member schools, student participants, and officials have a body to help organize and report to, so they all have an intermediary organization to communicate through. The IHSAA's by-laws are written in a much more "reactive" manner than "proactive." It's quite different than the NCAA, or especially professional leagues like the NFL.

Short of first-hand video footage, a police statement, or a school administrator (like an athletic director) -- who never would, you're just asking for the lawyers to get involved -- not a position any editor/reporter wants to be in. Much different if the subject of the story is an adult. Moreover, everyone who really needs/wants to know, probably already does. Cui bono?

Having played against the 2002 and 2003 Chatard teams and watched them in person until 2011 or so, when I hear "Chatard's best ever" my mind goes to the 2001-2007 stretch. Teams had multiple D1 players and played the state's best in Roncalli and typically a GCL team. Coach L ran a different offense than Coach D, so maybe those teams don't appear to be explosive, but if those teams are the measuring stick... it's far longer than 1 yard.

Each team doesn't have the same opponents. Central has an easier SoS than Bosse, as Central played Bosse and Bosse didn't play itself. The top team should have the worst SoS and the worst team should have the best SoS, ignoring the Castle-Bosse game because yeah. If all teams some how ended 4-5 or 5-4, I think you could theoritcally have the same SoS, or very close.

Yep. CalPreps or Massey might be slightly better, although Sagarin has to be using some kind of recent program success factor to rank closed conference teams... That or some voodoo statistics (which he is most capable of developing), involving comparing teams with similar records and Class, but then you still have the SoS quandry. No idea how Sagarin does it with closed conference teams.

Good night for Knox county teams.

Video from WTWO (Terre Haute) TV of the Vincennes vs. Evansville North game For the Alices #5, #8, #9, #19 making some nice plays.

The Vincennes Sun-Commercial has it up (everything past the first two pargraphs is behind a paywall). It's true online ad revenue isn't enough to sustain a purely newspaper-turned-online media. I believe there are two realistic solutions: - For "big" stories you don't put them behind a paywall for 24 hours - For all stories, the technology exists to know how long you are "active on that page" after 10 seconds, media websites could deduct a fraction ($0.50) from your PayPal or other online payment services to give you complete access to that story.

Oh wow, I'm 9 hours ahead of you and have some Twitter and C&P reading to do. ETA: The North game isn't on the front of the online sports page... subject to change and I don't want to speak ill of an old employer despite being bought out by Gannett (USA Today) 🙄 I predict in the next two years a SW Indiana sports website will appear... the Dubois County (Jasper) newspaper has also very recently sold, as has the Bloomington Herald-Times. All at one time, provided stellar sports coverage in Southern Indiana. I think b the same goes for New Albany, Bedford, and Terre Haute.

Congratulations, Chatard. Don't know if this was the case in reality, but it was in the smack talk. Just never give the Trojans any locker room material. Either way win or lose, you're going to get smacked in the mouth on the field. And now they know. Run it back at Merrillville or halfway in Lafayette. Same outcome 9 of 10 times. 3A should be very concerned heading into the tournament.

Rather predictable, outcomes. I thought Jasper-Castle would be a defensive slugfest. Interested to read the story and forum commentary. Both need an offensive shock heading into the sectional. Castle still controls a share of the SIAC if they win out. Whoa, I read the North score backwards. Props to the Alices. A 5A school has to be able to put points on the board even without the starting QB. Hopefully that's fixed before the sectional.

Good luck. Looking for Brady Allen to have a coming out game 325+ passing yards, if he gets enough snaps. Get it done Titans. ETA: With the early start, I might be to listen live to The Bash. If there is a hush, hush live video stream on FB or YouTube, please PM me.

Congrats to the Irish and Hoosier state. ETA: Any direct feedback from any of the GCL fans at the games during the tailgate or game? Are they aware at least one other team (Center Grove) is likely on or above Cathedral's level this year and teams like Chatard and Carmel wouldn't be cakewalks?

Bold and italic, too.

You're fine. I disagree with the premise of this thread, but it does not violate forum rules.

Everyone and in particular the one who used inappropriate language. Those user(s) have been warned.

Stay away from forum violations, it's gameday. The thread will be closed and posters warned/suspended if it continues to need constant moderation oversight.

I wish the Dragons good luck tonight. Whose on the slate?

:Flush: making every issue he can in HS football about him. Why is he a afforded this platform? This isn't his first rodeo. Contraction threads have lost traction, so now this is the content he wants to "contribute" to this forum? This thread is such a disgrace compared to the Linton-Rensselear thread that highlights everything right with high school football, the purpose of this forum.

Good luck to the Titans and representing SW Indiana and the PAC.