Frozen Tundra

It’s a shame to see how far Shelbyville has fallen. I remember East playing them for three sectional championships since 2004. There were years when they were the second best team in the sectional behind East. When East moved to 5A, Shelbyville had years where they were just behind East Central as the best team in the sectional.

I saw your guy Brian Glesing took yet another coaching job. Five jobs in seven years and he sat out one of those seven years. It’s almost becoming comical at this point.

I always liked the idea of East Central in the HHC but I also realize the unlikelihood of it happening due to current conference geography.

Well-deserved. No more crazy coaches and crazier parents screaming at you.

That’s the danger for them. They’re kind of on an island on their own. The two Terre Haute schools are in a similar situation. Columbus East, BNL, and Seymour could go north, and Jennings County could go East for conference affiliation. The best Jeffersonville, New Albany, and Floyd Central could do after that is hope to pull in Silver Creek and form a four-team conference. They’d have to play six non-conference games though. I don’t want to get too crazy with this because it’s all just theorizing. There’s no rumor of any of this even happening. I just think on a grander scale that what’s going on in other parts of the state may soon creep its way into southeast Indiana. If it was just one or two conferences going through changes then I wouldn’t give it a second thought. However, it’s involving many conferences and teams. Kind of feels like the high school sports landscape is changing. Or I could just be overblowing the situation and @Impartial_Observer could be right.

I hope everyone is doing well. Four months of inactivity in this thread pushed it to page 5 on here. Not sure I’ve ever seen that with the HHC thread. Anyway, all of the conference changes taking place in northern and central Indiana has me wondering how long it’ll be before we start seeing the same thing. Southwest Indiana went through it a couple years back but southeast Indiana has been pretty much unaffected aside from very minor tweaks. Nevertheless, it seems membership changes north of here are driven by demographic changes, student population changes, and competitive balance. How long do you think the HHC can go before this stuff starts to affect us?

We’ve already discussed that to death. While the IHSAA has allowed for a team like Monrovia to make a run, Monrovia still had to make it happen on the field. I’m asking how. Did they get hot at the right time? Did they get healthy? Were the match-ups advantageous to their style of play?

I don’t follow much about Monrovia. So can somebody explain to me how they went 2-7 in the regular season but are now playing for a semi-state title next week?

Not as nice as your boat. I don’t care what the homeowners association or your neighbor to the north, Mitchell, says. It’s not an eyesore. You’re allowed to put your boat wherever you want as long as it’s exclusively on your property. State law.

What you’re describing sounds normal. Unless there’s more to it that I’m missing, that’s not over-exposure. I could be wrong but I believe my football-playing classmates were doing three-a-days at team camp. To me, over-exposure is a coach constantly in your ear throughout the year wanting you to work on your skills constantly without much downtime. I didn’t see that at East. Gaddis always encouraged guys to play multiple sports. But if you weren’t doing anything in the spring, he expected you to get your butt to the weight room after school so that you did conditioning.

Final standings for 2022 HHC Pick ‘Em @LC_Bears_04 39/49 @Frozen Tundra 38/49 @boilerfan87 35/49 @Owls2005 35/49 @mamasa 33/49 @Olympian06 24/29 (.828) @Uncle Bubba 21/29 (.724) @swcgillespie 14/20 (.700) @Fkfootball 7/12 (.583) Congrats to @LC_Bears_04 on winning the competition this year! Hope to see you all and more for next year’s competition.

Final scores that weren’t mentioned: Bloomington South 35 Columbus East 7 Castle 42 New Albany 14 Columbus North 41 Jeffersonville 14

Still need picks from@Owls2005

Week 11 Predictions Columbus North (4-5) at Jeffersonville (1-7): After a five year absence, these two meet again. The Red Devils dominated this series in the 70s and 80s to take an 8-2 lead. After 21 years apart, the two teams played again in 2007. Since then, the Bull Dogs have won three of four, including the last two, as Jeff’s advantage is now 9-5. After starting the season 2-1, North dropped four out of their final six but shouldn’t have any trouble this week. Jeff is the worst team they’ll play this season and that includes their 47-14 drubbing of a winless Southport team. North wins by a blowout. Seymour (6-3) at Bloomington North (5-4): For a second game in a row, the Owls play a former South Central Conference opponent from the city of Bloomington. Seymour leads the series 8-4 and has won the last five games. However, the last game was in 1996 and much has changed in 26 years. While I think Seymour can compete, I’m not sure they have the horses to win. It would take a nearly perfect game by them and an off game by the Cougars to pull this one out. Bloomington North wins. #3/#4 Bloomington South (7-1) at Columbus East (4-5): These two meet for the first time since the 2016 5A semi-state game in which East came in and shocked the world by laying a thumping on a really good South team. It would be East’s first ever win against the Panthers and looks to remain that way for now. South leads the series 2-1 and shouldn’t have any trouble with the nearly zero-dimensional offensive attack of the Olympians. I expect a running clock in this one. Bloomington South wins bad. Floyd Central (4-5) at Evansville North (5-4): The Highlanders play the Huskies for the first time in 12 years and lead the series 3-1. Evansville North is looking for its first sectional win in nine years and they have a very good chance to do so this year. Floyd Central comes in after a bad last three games. The injuries and the long drive don’t make things any easier. Evansville North beats Floyd for the first time since 1992. Castle (5-4) at New Albany (2-7): This series resumes after a three year break with the Knights leading 18-5. Castle has won nine out of the last ten as well as 17 of the last 19. Unfortunately, the Bulldogs are young and inexperienced. A run to semi-state or even a sectional win are far from likely to repeating this year. Castle wins big. Bedford North Lawrence (5-4) at Martinsville (6-3): In our only rematch of the postseason, BNL faces the Artesians once again. After falling 28-14 at home in week 1, the Stars are hoping for revenge. Unfortunately, Martinsville has gotten much better since then and is the only team to beat former 5A #1 Whiteland this year. Martinsville leads the series with BNL 20-3. While the Stars hope to beat them for the first time since 1992, it’s the Artesians that will defeat them for an eighth straight time. Martinsville wins easily.

Again, not upset about it. Silver Creek could’ve easily spiked the ball. I just wanted to make sure it wasn’t a result of a rule that I was unfamiliar with. Thank you for the info.

That’s weird. The scoreboard showed them having no timeouts left at the time and I was pretty sure they had legitimately used up their timeouts rather than it being a scoreboard error.

Week 11 Games Just to clarify, Floyd Central is at Evansville North.

HHC Pick ‘Em Standings (after week 10) @LC_Bears_04 33/43 @Frozen Tundra 32/43 @boilerfan87 31/43 @Owls2005 30/43 @mamasa 29/43 @Olympian06 24/29 (.828) @Uncle Bubba 21/29 (.724) @swcgillespie 14/20 (.700) @Fkfootball 7/12 (.583)

Silver Creek at Jennings County

Interesting. Both teams were lined up and ready to go. The mystery remains unsolved I guess. Oh well. It didn’t decide the game so it doesn’t matter too much. Thank you for the response.

Hoping to get a rule clarification from either @Impartial_Observer or @Bobref. On the play I have quoted above, Silver Creek picked up the first down. They had no timeouts remaining and I know the clock starts once the chains are set, but the receiver on the play was down hurt (not sure if he was faking or if he had the wind knocked out of him). Regardless, once the injured player goes off the field, shouldn’t the clock start since the chains were set and Silver Creek was out of timeouts? The clock never started until the snap. Even if it had started, Silver Creek could’ve easily spiked the ball to stop the clock. Just curious as to why the clock never started.

Jennings County tries laterals on the kickoff but fumbles it and Silver Creek runs it in for the TD with no time left. Silver Creek 53 Jennings County 42 Final

2 yard TD pass by Silver Creek. 2 point conversion is no good. Silver Creek 47 Jennings County 42 4.7 seconds left

28 yard pass down to the 2 with 14.8 seconds left

Silver Creek will start at their own 27 with 48 seconds left and only 1 timeout In two plays, Silver Creek is already at the JC 30. Just used their last timeout. 26.2 seconds left