Rodney

4 hours ago, gonzoron said:

The only foul I can see is that word 'Member' right under your name. Why not change that to 'Booster'? 

https://gridirondigest.net/clients/donations/

C'mon man, with your loquaciousness just Take The Time for a donation. It's quick and easy. @temptationtook the time. @Donnie Bakereven took the time.

Take the time, then send us a pic of your giant clock around your neck please!

 

 

I will donate 20 dollars if you beat me in a pokemon battle

against the wishes of my court appointed therapist (she don't know nuffin)

I will be gracing a team with my presence for the 2023 season

If you're a head coach looking for some help in the next year then look no further

I will be taking over the role of defensive coordinator

and due to my philosophical beliefs; the best defense is a good offense

I will also be taking care of the offensive coordinator position.

I don't believe in punting, kicking field goals, the one point conversion, sportsmanship of any kind, the mercy rule, throwing the ball before the final moments of a blowout victory, or the curvature of the earth

in order to garner more practice time for glorious tackling drills

we will only be running two offensive plays

Dive, and the fake victory formation touchdown pass

we will be splitting practice into two sections everyday

3 and a half hours of weight training

and 3 and a half hours of tackling drills

I'll refrain from exposing my defensive strategic genius here

yes I absolutely will be taking over a teaching job at your school

I fancy myself a shaper of young minds

However I will only teach Calculus, US Supremacy History, or Art

please refrain from any offers below 2a

I need the space in my inbox

p.s. your town must have a dive bar with at least one old crazy dude in there daily, and I mean absolutely nuts

p.p.s. this has been sent to my editor, and he has assured me there is no foul language of any kind.

lets knock it down to 2 classes and play till christmas

50 minutes ago, BTF said:

You'll be at Piratefan's secret hideout by 2am. I don't plan on seeing you here. 

Can I come?

I know plenty of drinking games

I want to see teams that deserve to get beat by 80 getting beat by 100.

27 minutes ago, Komets2727 said:

Considering I have either coached or played sports for my entire life, how in the **** can you say it is a moot point? Man, I just don’t get it…

there is no logic behind this type of statement.

considering I did this, how can you think that?

let me rephrase for you

considering I have driven 30082092374 miles this year, how can you possibly think a simple bus ride will have an effect on the game.

(whichever side of the argument you're on I think we can agree that we should use sound logic in our arguments, and then we should remove the mercy rule because it is an abomination).

9 minutes ago, temptation said:

What are the home team players doing while the visiting team is traveling to the game?

Eating, sleeping, playing video games?

This is an overstated idiom that has grown legs with zero to little factual supporting data.

probably watching film for next week since this one is in the bag by virtue of playing at home.

I see you lurking

1 minute ago, temptation said:

My marathon personal best came on a night where I got 3.5 hours of sleep the night before, lost an hour due to the time change and traveled 3.5 hours the night before...and I was twice the age of a high school football player at the time.

imagine how hard life is for the kids who have to get on the school bus first every morning throughout their schooling.

1 minute ago, temptation said:

Not at 18, you don't.  Its a built in excuse.  

I've had some of my best performances where I traveled 2+ hours and/or gotten little sleep the night before due to anxiety/excitement.

 

I don't think you understand! if you get on a bus for 2 hours, your entire body shuts down. You basically forfeit the game.

1 hour ago, BTF said:

I can live with that. I'll concede and say that the advantage is slight. Although Rodney made a good point regarding field conditions. A muddy field isn't going to do any favors for a team that is used to playing on turf. 

to elaborate I wasn't talking about field conditions, I'm simply stating if there exists a home field advantage, to think that it exists for every team equally is laughable. We could make a team out of Gridiron Digest members and waltz into any IPS school and mercy rule them (remove the mercy rule). Hell, we'd probably bring a bigger crowd with us as well. But Roncalli was absolutely wild on Friday, and not a place I would like to have to play at.

this is boring, why are you all even arguing about it still. (all in format sucks)

 

4 minutes ago, Footballking16 said:

-78 first round match-ups that pitted a top half Sagarin team vs a bottom half Sagarin rated team. Bottom half teams went 2-76 and both promptly lost the next round.

-Monrovia was the ONLY bottom half Sagarin team in the entire state to advance to a sectional final by virtue of beating a top half Sagarin team. Literally a statistical anomaly. They also drew the worst rated team in the entire class by virtue of a postseason format that doesn’t reward regular season success.

-A run like Monrovia is on happens once in a blue moon, they’d happen even less if the IHSAA put on a tournament that acknowledged a 2.5 month regular season took place prior. Keeping a flawed postseason for the sake of a statistical anomaly doesn’t make sense, it never will.

This exercise I believe has run its course and the numbers don’t lie. They never have. Add a tenth regular season game, eliminate half the field at the conclusion of the regular season, acknowledge, reward, and seed teams based on regular season success just as it’s done everywhere else and hope for a better, more competitive tournament throughout. 

can we compromise and add 6 games to the regular season instead, 15 seems like a good number.

48 minutes ago, BTF said:

Are they? At the high school level? Aside from long road trips. What about games where the team only travels 20 minutes across town?

depends, there are some fields you really don't want to have to play at.

for a lot of schools it won't be a factor though.

counter proposal

play semi state games friday AND saturday with a tie breaker on sunday

13 minutes ago, GOLDRUSH1985 said:

But yet we all supposed to believe the Almighty Temptation when he says it doesn't make a difference . Where is your Spreadsheet that says it doesn't make a difference?  Any long ride , rather it be Plane , car, bus, and train has an effect on the human body . Rather it be sports , academics etc. 

Some people are just built different.

I once drove 36 hours straight through the night  in order to make it home in time to go to the bars Saturday.
 

straight out the u haul and to the bars at 6pm 

side note: a 2 hour bus ride ain't shit.

@temptation looks like he gave em a fighting chance in the pre season.

here is one of my favorites of the season

lol apparently math isn't taught well in the region?

ok thatl be all the digging I do tonight I'm hemorrhaging brain cells

Carroll's gonna win this thing

5 hours ago, Boilernation said:

Valpo doesn't have Charles Salary (great RB at LaPorte and Marian U) or a long time HC eyeing his final shot at a State Final's appearance. The stars aligned for the Slicers in 2014. Snider is fine this year if they just show up and play their game. Valpo doesn't have enough offensive talent to win a shootout. The fact Valpo is still alive is a testament to how well Marshall is coaching them and they were fortunate enough to only have Duneland opponens on their playoff schedule up to this point. I think the run ends Friday night at Northrop.

WOAH THROWING SOME SHADE AT THE PREMIERE 5A FOOTBALL CONFERENCE

41 minutes ago, temptation said:

Still irrelevant.

Anybody got time to dig up @Piratefan101's receipts about Valpo from the preseason?

I'd be happy to look into it for you.

4 hours ago, psaboy said:

I believe Pirate Fan is in the witness protection program and will be gone for a bit

He's still out at the after party after a dominating performance by our pirates.

We sure are lucky that Valpo came out with their entirely one dimensional offense.

I got snider by 30

this may very well be the most impressive necro of all time

I just don't see a world where the pirates don't run away with the title this year

The DAC is the premier 5a football conference

5 minutes ago, Footballking16 said:

Cody might have to go into witness protection.

he stopped updating maxpreps 45 minutes ago, I think he's already on the run.

2 minutes ago, psaboy said:

Go Valpo !!

Hope Snider doesn't pull a 2014

I feel bad for the actual Merrillville team, but i've never wanted a team to lose so badly lmao