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What a week 1 game for the Miners. I’m sure Sullivan is happy with their outcome too.

I think we’re in for another doozie this week. Southridge was still Southridge, but they were definitely down compared to some years. I thought Linton’s defense played well the whole game, and the offense played pretty decent the second half. I will say Southridge seemed to be out of shape which I was surprised to see from a program like that. The second half Linton would pound it a couple times then run a counter and it was nothing but green grass. I expect Sullivan to be a better team and to be more disciplined than Southridge was the second half. Would like to see Linton get their passing game going a little more, but with that said can’t be mad about the week 1 performance they had. Hopefully they clean things up with the turnovers and come out with the energy they had in the second half last week.

Go miners!

I agree with kingtut that this should be the best team since the 2016 team. From what I saw in the scrimmage I liked the defensive change to a 3-4. It should help with the pass defense, and like the fact that Gennicks is playing one of the safety’s. He’s our best tackler in my opinion and I think he’ll be a playmaker there. I liked the move of Drew Smith to OLB. He’s a smart discipline kid that I feel will always do his job and it allows Brenamen to play ILB where I thought he looked really good when he filled in last year. 

As for the offense I thought our first set of plays was rusty, but seemed to kinda click after that. Passing game was hit and miss. I thought it looked like Eslinger and Gennicks have made big jumps.
 

I don’t know much about southridge and would hope somebody that does would come on here and give us a little information from their side.

Not going to predict a score, but I will say based on the past 2 years and this year I feel like this year is the best chance Linton has to compete with Mater Dei. This is the first Linton team since probably the state team that I’ve looked at and said this team is playing some solid football. I am not saying they’re near the caliber of the state team or that they’re going to beat Mater Dei I just feel they’re playing really good right now and can definitely be competitive. Obviously that could all change in an instant with covid and talking about 16-18 year old kids. 

22 minutes ago, tango said:

Yep, it's tough when players are healthy but out due to contact tracing.  I haven't seen Tell City or Linton, but I wouldn't be as confident that Linton would beat Tell City at full strength.  They took Southridge to the wire and Southridge is likely one of the top 5-6 teams in SW Indiana and beat you guys by 4 scores.  

I was kind of same boat as king tut yes they had kids out but I only saw one kid out on the offense unless I was wrong which I could be maybe a tight end too. On defense I saw 3 kids out one being a corner and it’s not like we threw all over them. Again I could be wrong, but yes we did get beat by 4 scores to southridge but that was with a different player at QB and 2 wings that no longer play wing and still managed to have it 0-0 at half time. Like I said I could be 100% wrong about kids that were out just what I thought not trying to argue just didn’t feel like Linton was getting much credit even before that game.

6 hours ago, JQWL said:

So, what you're saying is ND's record really is a product of their schedule and they haven't improved.

Disclosure: Not a ND fan. Just trying to start conversation.

The only thing I’ve been able to find to compare at all was Washington. ND beat them 34-20 and boonville beat them 48-6 or somewhere around there. I would say Linton and boonville are pretty evenly matched considering the went to OT and both got beat by southridge 28-0. Sort of a long out of the way comparison, but I myself was trying to find out if they were actually good or just played a weak schedule and that’s really the only thing I could come up with. 

In past years I would not be a bit concerned about boonville’s running game but it seems the last couple games Linton has had trouble defending the run up the middle. Not sure what that’s all about hopefully they turn it around. As for the offense the running game has looked much better the passing game has also been getting better each game, but I’m curious how it will look against a better team like Boonville. 

16 minutes ago, MinerPower said:

Put Goodman back at quarterback! Just because your dad is the offensive coordinator, your grandpa is defensive coordinator, and your uncle the head coach, doesn’t make you a great quarterback. Gennicks is to short to pass effectively.

I will say he hasn’t necessarily done a bad job although Sullivan is much worse than southridge. I was still trying to figure out where the Padgett kid is. I heard some good things about him leading into the season and he showed good speed on both sides of the ball in the scrimmage still haven’t heard his name the last 2 games. 

Linton seems to have the same problem they’ve had the last 3 years. No sort of honest passing game to keep teams out of the box and running the same handful of  plays they’ve ran every game for the last 6 years. It works against most teams but gets completely exposed against teams that are the same skill or better. Not trying to be a negative Nancy, but I’m tired of people always sugar coating it myself included. If north Knox is down and comparable to a North Davies or Eastern Greene (most years) it could be close or Linton could win by a couple scores. If North Knox is decent like last year I’d say we’re gonna have some Trouble on offense like last week. The way the D played last week I’m  not worried about them either way. 
 

Just my opinion. 
Go miners and good luck to both teams.

Anybody know of anyone streaming the game? I know GCSN usually does, but I saw they are doing the Eastern game.

1 hour ago, itiswhatitis said:

I was thinking the Linton roster has a lot of juniors and sophomores this year.  And with only 5 seniors, that means they should be very good next year.  Congrats to the JV for their big win!  And yes, the JV looked good against Bosse also and scored a few times on offense and gave up no scores on defense.  I was surprised at how fast the Miners looked on both sides of the ball.  I think we are going to see some long TD runs this year and by more than one running  back.  Was also surprised they used 3 different QB's on offense.  Isn't Goodman the starter?

I heard Goodman’s jersey ripped and he had to wear 22 for most of the scrimmage.  That may be why you saw 3 different QB’s.

3 hours ago, wrcsage said:

Valuable content?  Ok, you asked for it:

In this WRC Sectional Championship matchup the Wolfs have:

*the leading passer (by almost double the yards)

*the leading rusher

*the top THREE leading receivers

*the total yards leader (again, by almost double)

*the Wolfs have outscored the Falcons by 47 points in WRC games (133 in all games) 

*the Wolfs have given up 16 more points than the Falcons in WRC games, BUT have given up 3 fewer points on the total season.

So yeah, I think I’ll change my prediction:  Wolfs 178, Falcons 20.

 

You forgot the part where Brian Moore still can’t beat Crabtree.

NV wins in a close one.

Also another thing I wanna throw out there as someone did earlier according to Max preps Mater Dei’s QB has 10 interceptions. To me Mater Dei is still the favorite I don’t care what any rankings say, but I don’t doubt the miners can play with them at all especially with those stats. Just speculation and opinion but if a QB was to come into a game like this and throw an interception or 2 early that could be a HUGE momentum swing especially if the miners could capitalize on them. Not saying the miners couldn’t do the same I’m just pointing out something that could definitely help them in this dog fight they got coming up.

Word on the street Linton will be without MLB and leading tackler Gabe Eslinger. Gonna be hard to replace that athleticism.

I thought for the First time last night Linton came out fired up and played like they’re capable of on offense. I liked the way they spread it out on offense some and changed some things up. I know providence wasn’t up to what they usually are, but I was glad to not see all the penalties and fumbled/bad snaps. Also I only watched the first half. Assume there was a lot of subs in second half. 

Tyrone Walker from Ritter

52 minutes ago, Tanka Jahari said:

Linton smoked North Vermillion and Parke Heritage is better than Linton. That tells me that the Wolfs should beat North Vermillion twice and win the sectional. 

There is no theory of evolution. There's just a list of creatures that Coach Brian Moore allows to live.

PH might be better than Linton. None of us will ever know because they won’t play this year. I’m just wondering what PH has done to prove themselves. Like I said they’ve beat basically the same teams this year as they did last year and last year “the great Brian Moore” turned around and lost to Attica in sectionals a team he had already beat once. Who says that doesn’t happen again. Not to mention PH beat Attica worse last year than they did this year before they lost to them. 

52 minutes ago, Tanka Jahari said:

Linton smoked North Vermillion and Parke Heritage is better than Linton. That tells me that the Wolfs should beat North Vermillion twice and win the sectional. 

There is no theory of evolution. There's just a list of creatures that Coach Brian Moore allows to live.

PH might be better than Linton. None of us will ever know because they won’t play this year. I’m just wondering what PH has done to prove themselves. Like I said they’ve beat basically the same teams this year as they did last year and last year “the great Brian Moore” turned around and lost to Attica in sectionals a team he had already beat once. Who says that doesn’t happen again. Not to mention PH beat Attica worse last year than they did this year before they lost to them. 

22 hours ago, Tanka Jahari said:

Good morning to all of my haterzzz. I'm sure you've all had a nice glass of Haterade to get your morning started. Now let me offer all of you a tasty and aromatic fart sandwich to chew on:

I went to Calpreps and chose the predict a match-up function. I entered Parke Heritage and Linton to see what they said the outcome would be. Final results?

Parke Heritage Wolfs 31 Linton Miners 24

Hopefully now that I can provide evidence based on prediction formulas you people will start to believe me when I say that Parke Heritage is better than Linton. 

The Great Wall of China was originally built to keep Brian Moore out. It failed miserably. 

Maybe if PH beats NV twice and wins sectionals then maybe everyone will buy into the ignorant stuff you put on here. As of now they’ve done nothing different from last year at this time besides last year PH lost to NC. 

This is one game I’m curious about. NV’s offense is setup to beat Linton by spreading it out and throwing the ball. I don’t see the miners having any problem moving the ball or scoring, but I also don’t know much about NV defense so I could be wrong. I like this Linton team and think this is a good test for our pass D because I think NV pass game is better than Sullivan’s. 

Im gonna take Linton 35-21 just cause I’m biased, but we better not come out slow and sloppy because I think NV is capable of beating us. 

I’d assume Linton will be in their traditional 4-4 instead of the 5 front they were in last week. Hopefully that will help the passing defense, also expect the offense to look a little better than it did last week. Linton by 2 touchdowns. 

4 hours ago, kingtut said:

I don't think Coach Oliver would agree with you.  He was obviously  disappointed and angry after the game and said if the players don't learn to do what they're supposed to do they might not win a game all season.  of course that was a bit of hyperbole, but they did make a ton of mistakes.  I know I expected much better from a veteran team.   

Oh I agree you’re probably right he wouldn’t have agreed with my opinion, but he’s also seen a lot more of the team than I have he knew what to expect . I didn’t know much about them  besides who they returned and how they looked last year. My personal opinion I expected a sloppy offense no I didn’t expect them to commit as many fumbles as they did, but they did play better than I expected. I think they looked like they had good potential, and I’m excited to see how they learn from this and how the rest of the season goes. Go miners beat Sullivan! 

I thought Linton honestly played really well for the most part. Gotta cut out the big play on defense and the fumbles but that’s expected week 1. I would like to see us establish the run a little more, but the pass game I thought looked good. Think this team has a lot of potential once they get everyone healthy and clean things up. Should be an exciting year!

Any predictions on this game? I actually don’t have a score prediction, but I do think SR wins this one. However, I will not be surprised if Linton finds a way to win. Either way I don’t see either team winning by more than 2 TD’s. I do think this Linton group has good potential, but I think it will take a few games before the offense gets in a good groove. 

I watched the Linton scrimmage seemed like it took a minute but the offense eventually got into a decent flow. Obviously hard to tell a lot with all the switching in and out. Defense looked decent at times. Heard something about southridge’s QB from last year quitting to focus on different sports. Don’t really know how true that is but if it is I’m sure they have another good athlete to replace him with. Just ready to finally watch some football. Good luck to both teams and go miners