Frozen Tundra

Tonight is Columbus East’s first home game against an HHC team so I decided to go back and look at some stats about how they’ve done at home against HHC teams in the recent past. -The home loss against New Albany in 2021 is the only home conference game East has lost in the last 20 years (Floyd Central - 2003). When counting postseason games, it’s the only home loss to an HHC team in 18 years (Seymour - 2005 sectional 1st round). -Since East’s rise to power in 2004, East is 67-2 at home against HHC teams (64-1 if only counting HHC games). -Since 2000, East is 77-6 at home against HHC teams (74-5 if only counting HHC games). Two of the six losses are noted above. The other four were to Seymour in 2000 and 2002 and Floyd Central in 2001 and 2003. -East hasn’t lost two home games in the same season against HHC teams since 1999 when they fell to Seymour and Madison. -As for the other three HHC schools not mentioned, East hasn’t lost a home game to Jennings County or Jeffersonville since 1998 or to BNL since 1997. I say all this because East plays New Albany, Floyd Central, and BNL at home this year and I think a lot of these streaks are going to come to an end.

Still need picks from @swcgillespie

You hadn’t yet. Thanks.

Week 5 Picks BNL (2-2, 2-0 HHC) at Seymour (2-2, 2-1 HHC) Floyd Central (3-1, 1-0 HHC) at Jeffersonville (0-4, 0-2 HHC) New Albany (1-3, 1-1 HHC) at Columbus East (1-3, 1-1 HHC) Madison (1-3) at Jennings County (2-2) I don’t think these games are as easy to pick as some might think. Aside from the Floyd/Jeff game, I think the other three could go either way. BNL/Seymour almost has that “irresistible force meets the immovable object” feel with BNL’s strong defense and Seymour’s high-powered offense. I haven’t seen New Albany play but I’ve seen Columbus East play in three of their four games. Can’t stop the pass. Can’t stop runs around the ends. And, offensively, cannot pass the ball consistently or accurately enough to be more than a vanilla, one-dimensional team. If Jennings County is healthy last week then they beat East. They were in that game last week, even with a backup QB who isn’t a passing threat, until the fourth quarter when all the injuries started piling up. If New Albany beat a banged up Jennings County team by 21 and East beat an even more banged up Jennings County team the next week by only 22 then I’m going with New Albany over East. After the first couple weeks of the season, I thought Jennings County would absolutely demolish Madison. Jennings County beat South Dearborn 41-26 and Madison lost to South Dearborn 41-0. However, as previously stated, Jennings County has been decimated by injuries. Nevertheless, Madison hasn’t scored a single point against an Indiana team this season but did put up 34 last week against Carroll County (KY). The rivalry should have them motivated enough to put up points and possibly challenge for the win but I think Jennings County has enough pieces still healthy that they’ll be able to pull out a homecoming victory.

I hadn’t been to a high school football game until I was in the fifth grade (1999) and didn’t really know it existed until that point. So, when I say this year’s team is one of the worst I remember, it’s because I never saw the 1997 or 1998 teams. Lol

I’ve been to three of East’s four games this season. They’ve got nothing for Floyd Central. This is as bad of a team as I can remember at East.

Unfortunately, it’s not going to happen. East maybe gets to 3 wins if they’re lucky. They are very bad. As for Jennings County, they got very banged up the last two weeks. They might have two more wins at best as well.

This week’s games (week 5): BNL (2-2, 2-0 HHC) at Seymour (2-2, 2-1 HHC) Floyd Central (3-1, 1-0 HHC) at Jeffersonville (0-4, 0-2 HHC) New Albany (1-3, 1-1 HHC) at Columbus East (1-3, 1-1 HHC) Madison (1-3) at Jennings County (2-2) Note: - Floyd Central received 4 votes in the media poll this week but none in the coaches poll. I believe they’re the only HHC team to receive votes in either poll this season so far.

Yeah Seymour’s defense shouldn’t sleep on BNL. As for Floyd Central, they definitely shouldn’t sleep on BNL or anyone for that matter. They’ve been in a position before where they controlled their own destiny (such as last year) and then lost games they shouldn’t have. Will they choke again or will they be able to handle the pressure this time around?

I guess I need to start picking up the rosters at games so I can see who’s on each staff.

Are you referring to Rick Zimmerman?

I wish he was around the program more but I believe he lives in or around Indy so it’s not easy to be at our home games consistently.

That’s news to me. I didn’t know he ever got back into coaching. How far back are we talking? In 2019, East honored the 1979 state championship team with a 40th anniversary recognition during the pregame and Stafford was there.

Just a follow-up to your question, East still has Jonathan Martin as an assistant coach. He’s been at East since the John Stafford days. I believe he’s been there about 30 years now.

HHC Pick ‘Em Standings (after week 4): @boilerfan87 19/21 @Frozen Tundra 18/21 @LC_Bears_04 18/21 @Uncle Bubba 18/21 @billybob 17/21 @Impartial_Observer 17/21 @LawrenceGreene 16/21 @Owls2005 16/21 @mamasa 16/21 @swcgillespie 15/21 @Fkfootball 14/14 @Bulldog15 11/14

Week 5 Picks Bloomington South @ Terre Haute South Terre Haute North @ Bloomington North Indy Chatard @ Columbus North Southport @ Beech Grove

I would think they’re patient and they should be. They also have a younger team this year. Give Haston a few years to get something going. I know it took Gaddis four years before he could catch fire at East. That should be the norm timeframe unless the team regresses drastically.

This is going to seem like I’m taking a shot at Columbus North but I promise you it’s not. I was not impressed with them when I watched them play East. They won the turnover battle and field-position battle. However, they didn’t march down the length of the field and get TDs. They just took advantage of a ton of mistakes East made. I think they’re average at best. I’m guessing they go 4-5 or 5-4. They’ll lose to Chatard, sweep the Terre Haute schools, and maybe split with the Bloomington schools.

Louisville Fern Creek 48 Jeffersonville 27 Final

Columbus East 49 Jennings County 27 Final

11 yard TD run by East. They lead 49-27 with 3:29 left. Jennings County was already missing key players tonight but they got really banged up tonight too. If they’re healthy then they win this game.

3 yard TD run by East. They lead 42-27 with 33 seconds left in the third.

2 yard TD run by East. They lead 35-27 with 9:22 left in the third.

First offensive play of the second half and Jennings County once again gets around the end and goes 63 yards for the TD. PAT no good. Columbus East 28 Jennings County 27 11:41 left in the third

Columbus East 28 Jennings County 21 Halftime. Jennings County will receive the second half kickoff.