Frozen Tundra

14 minutes ago, Bulldog15 said:

Dang @Frozen Tundra you are the harbinger of bad tidings for the orange flames.  Maybe your boys will surprise you tonight and catch a spark from former seasons?

Come over to North early, like 5:30pm and get some Colts swag.  The Colts cheerleaders and "players" (I figure it will be a couple retired guys as the team will be playing in Houston) are coming to our game to give the program a check for $1000.  They will be giving away some Colts swag and having drawings for some signed Colts memorabilia.  Also games, food and other fun stuff.  Free entry for first responders and military personnel to honor September 11th.

I’ll be at the Madison at Jennings County game tonight. It’s a rivalry game and homecoming.

The Colts might be a draw for most people around here but not for me. Go Pack Go!!!

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

34 minutes ago, billybob said:

can't remember if i made my picks 

BNL (

Floyd Central 

Columbus East (1-3, 1-1 HHC)

 Jennings County (2-2)

 

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.

3 minutes ago, Impartial_Observer said:

I don’t know man, those late Stafford years…..

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

3 hours ago, Fkfootball said:

It’s still a long way to go. I for one, am not ready to hand any trophies out. FC still has to play a pretty good BNL team at home. And a trip to Columbus that could be a trap game if they don’t come out sharp.

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.

3 hours ago, RetiredCoach91 said:

Would love to see Jennings County win a few of these conference games at the end of their conference schedule and finish in that top 3 of the conference. Know this is Floyd's conference championship to lose at this point in the year, but wont be surprised if East surprises everyone and upsets the conference standings. 

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.

4 hours ago, LawrenceGreene said:

Don't sleep on the Stars.  Seymour, or any other team remaining on our schedule, won't hang 40 on us.  

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?

1 hour ago, Impartial_Observer said:

Yes

I believe he is just working with QB’s.

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

21 minutes ago, Impartial_Observer said:

Retired coaches have a lot to offer younger staffs. Rod Ballart has been at South Dearborn with his son Rand I think since he’s been there. Tyson Moore brought in Zimmerman and another older guy who’s name escapes me, been at Madison and BNL. He may still teach at BNL. Jeff Richey has worked with QB’s at Seymour (under Kelly), North, and now East. 

I’ve always maintained sports are about relationships, I filled in for a crew on Friday at South Dearborn, when Coach Ballart saw me he said I thought you retired, I said I did, I only took this game so I could see your old man. 

Are you referring to Rick Zimmerman?

5 minutes ago, Impartial_Observer said:

I ran across him at a couple of frosh or JV games a few years back. Said he was helping, his grandson was on the team. Time gets away from me, but I would guess in the last 4-6 years. 

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.

On 8/29/2023 at 1:32 PM, RetiredCoach91 said:

Just a curious question for you East fans. Have heard that a lot of their assistant coaches are no longer around. Is this true? Hard to keep the success up they had all those years with many of those coaches moving on.

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

13 hours ago, ptr said:

I haven't seen the Bull Dogs play in recent seasons except for when they played South, but it seems that they have run hot and cold in games in recent seasons, and you never know which team will show up. I don't know whether they have a young or a veteran team this year. Their new coach Logan Haston (in his 2nd season at the helm) is 7-8 with the team so far. I'm certainly not qualified to comment on their program there since all I do is see the results of the games, but the program seems to have regressed from their previous strong seasons. Are the Bull Dog faithful having buyers regret over bringing in Haston or are they still patient with him and he is still on the honeymoon there so to speak?

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.

2 hours ago, ptr said:

My picks for Week 5:

Bloomington South @ Terre Haute South - The Panthers will have a bad taste in their mouth going into this game, but how that game went down against North kind of tempers my expectations going back to Terre Haute. The Panthers will certainly be working on snapping the ball to the QB this week which was a big factor in their overtime loss to the Cougars. The Braves got a taste of victory by beating their crosstown rival in a shutout win after flirting with a win the previous couple of weeks. I think this game will be competitive, but I'm sticking with my Panthers by 10 points.

Terre Haute North @ Bloomington North - When Bloom. South wasn't shooting themselves in the foot, the Cougars played pretty good defense against the Panthers for the most part. The Patriots have not scored in two straight games, and this could be another game with a big goose egg. Bloomington North by at least five TDs.

Indianapolis Chatard @ Columbus North - I thought the Bull Dogs would give Roncalli a better game than they did and they lost by four TDs, and the Bull Dogs had just 62 yards passing with two picks and 89 yards on the ground for the game. About the only advantage I see them having in this game is having home field advantage. Chatard is 3A No. 1 in both the coaches and AP poll and they have already beaten Roncalli. Chatard by 3 or 4 TDs.

Southport @ Beech Grove - Southport lost big at home to a not very good Pike team. They face another not very good Beech Grove team which is 1-3 at this point. With the Cardinals not being competitive against a bad Pike team, I sure can't see them winning this game on the road. Beech Grove by 3-4 TDs.

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