Indiana High School Football Week 6 Recap, Players of the Week, and Week 7 Preview

Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, wherever you are, however you may be listening. Thanks for tuning in to the Get Indiana Podcast Network. My name is Dominic Miranda and I've been covering sports for nearly a decade. Most of which right here in Indianapolis. This is the Get In Sports Podcast. We're going to be covering everything in the Hooser State, high school, college, pro, in the sports capital of the universe in the greatest state on planet Earth.

Thanks so much for coming on this journey with us. Let's get into it. Hey, welcome inside the Get Indiana podcast studio. Dominic Grand here joined by Nate Spangle. I missed you last week, dude. I know.

I was sad to miss. It was sad, but you had a legend. People were really looking forward to it. Dude, you had a legend sitting in my chair, so that's true. I I accept it. Anytime Rake stops by, it's it's always worth it.

It's money. And yeah, Greg Rick Straw is the absolute man. It timed out perfectly. That That was like a mid-season kind of update review. We're six weeks through the Indiana High School football season. It was an awesome night Friday night.

We have a ton of upsets to talk about, ranked matchups to talk about, great performances to talk about. We're introducing potentially a new sponsor here. Not potentially, we are introducing a new spot. We have a new segment for you. We're going to talk about our Indiana high school player of the week powered by our friends at Ascend Football. I can't wait to highlight the playmakers across the Hooser State, baby, that are doing big.

There were some insane, absolutely insane stat lines. Basically, every time uh there's a couple individuals every time they touch the ball, it's like a 50-50 chance they're going to score a touchdown. Yeah, it's unbelievable. I I love what we're seeing right now in Indiana high school football. Colts got their first win. Hey, shout out.

I We're at the time of recording it is 9:00 on a Sunday evening. The boys are excited. Dom finished up covering the Colts today and it was I mean, shout out to the guy uh big I mean he Spencer Shider. Shout out to our guy Spence, dude. I've had dinner guy. I've had dinner with Westfield Westfield.

Uh I've had dinner with Spencer a time or two. Hung out with him. Dude, salt of the earth human being. Yeah. Really, really cool. He deserves everything he gets.

It was great. I was like on the edge of my seat, a little bit nervous there, but he hit from 58 earlier. He did. He He He had a groin injury come up 15 minutes before kickoff. Thought he was going to have to miss, but he powered through. Four for four field goals.

Uh and the Colts get a dub. Dominic. Also, before we get into high school football, I have a piece of non-foot news that people need to know about. Okay, her name is Emma Grace Hurley. Okay, so she is from the state of Indiana and she I mean maybe a week or two ago ran 10623 at the World Athletics Road Running Championships to become the number three on the US Women's All-Time Half Marathon list. Really?

She ran the third fastest half marathon ever in an hour. 13 13. 1 miles in an hour and 6 minutes and 23 seconds. What's that pace? Cuz that's cooking. I mean, I don't even know like what kind of what I mean that's really impressive.

She's from Indiana. She is from Indiana. Someone in my when I got back from the 50 mileer, they were talking about how uh she had done this and it was crazy. How you how are we feeling after 50 miles? I'm alive. I'm impressed, dude.

It was It was nuts. There's a a Tuesday. So, tomorrow this podcast comes out Monday. Tuesday our YouTube video drops. It is the greatest masterpiece that we've ever put together. I'm really excited for everyone to see it.

Whoa. Yeah, it is. Uh, it is incredible. Awesome. That's really cool, man. Emma, she's from I mean I think she Oh, so she's from Georgia, but she's lived in Indiana for a while.

We'll claim her. Yeah, absolutely. Who's your choice? Literally has his personal life. Uh she coached high school athletes outside of her own running career and worked in sales. She was later based in Indianapolis and a member of the Heartland Track Club and then in 2024 she signed a professional contract with AS6 and she is currently all time third fastest half marathon for an American just ever.

Uh half American female. Wow. Average pace average pace 5 minutes 3 seconds per mile. What? Yeah, bro. That is insane.

What's your fastest mile time ever? Ever. I still We still run it every year. We run our fastest mile. I just ran a five something like high fives. When I was in when my junior year of high school, I ran a 535.

Wow. I could maybe get eight now. I mean, I don't know. You could definitely do. We do a 5K every so often. We can get, you know, dude 9.

Maybe we should do that. Should we track Dom and like you spend just try trying to get 535 again? Well, getting sub six. Sub six. Like it's like, have you ever seen like the golf things where it's like breaking 100 or breaking 90 or whatever? It's like you do like breaking six.

Dude, I'd be down for that. That would actually be a fun series. Yeah, I've been off the running train as just life's getting busy. Sometimes life just kicks you in the teeth. But you got to Spang. We were both at weddings yesterday, by the way.

Yeah. Spangle was at the place in which I was wed. I was at the Hinsdale. I got a picture from my father-in-law of him and Nate Spangle hanging out. He comes up Spangle. Oh, he was like so pumped to see me.

And I mean, who's not pumped? But I love it cuz he was like he was like reciting stuff from the pod. He's a big listener. And I was so pumped up because I was in enemy territory. I was in, you know, this is in Illinois and you know, no one no one knows Indiana sport. No one knows get in Illinois.

So David H knows. But David Hes knew and that made me very very proud. So shout out to the father-in-law. Yeah. By the way, at the wedding I was at or else we would have been at the wedding that Spangle was at conflicting schedules there. Wife was in that one.

I had a lot of people talk to me about Indian Creek. We're gonna mention Indian Creek. I just want to say that right off the top. I see. Before we get into classes, Spangle, can I talk about some scores that stuck out to me? Well, I do think we need to start before even there.

We have to start with the the one. Okay. Yes, we do. And it's I This is the third time that the team that lost has been on this list. And I have something to talk about with them. Not to be rude or anything, but we have to talk about it.

Go ahead. Widest margin of victory. Number seven at 5A, Lafayette Jeff 76 versus Anderson. They they go scoreless. The Indians of Anderson are 0 and6. Okay.

Tough. They have been outscored 62-2 this season. They got a safety on average. No, on average they've only scored 16 points and that was one game. They lost to Indianapolis Washington. Okay.

So, they've been on the uh receiving end of the biggest blowout thrice. 83 to zero against Yorktown, 78 to zero against Cooko, 76-0 against Jeff. They also have scores of 61 to zero and 53 to zero. So Anderson, we feel for you. We're here for you. All right, they're in a rebuild.

It's going to be okay. I will say I always go back to this. I only won six high school football games in my entire career. I was on I was on the the bad side of a lot of those blowouts. It does build character. The thing you have you can't give up.

You just have to keep showing up, keep being persistent, and believe that you're gonna score a touchdown. Yes. And then you're gonna score a couple touchdowns, and you're gonna win a game. Here's the deal. Are you having fun playing high school football with your friends? That's what matters.

Yeah. I had a ton of fun. It's not the end of the world. You're 18 years old. A lot of life in front of you. It's okay.

You'll laugh about it one day. And say, you know what? But that's when I met Johnny, my best friend. So, you know what? It's all good. We also go from that and we say there are still in the state of Indiana 35 unbeaten teams.

That's pretty big number for 6 weeks in, dude. That there are some legit contenders that are unbeaten. I'm really excited to dive into that. Uh, also we have to talk four overtime games. Yeah, this was a crazy week. A lot of ranked games, upsets, overtimes.

Yes. Can you want to go through the overtime? I want to go through Yeah. overtimes, close games, and scores that stuck out to you. Okay, deal. Okay.

Sorry. Well, I mean, we have to start with uh I would say like a pretty big upset at the 3A. I'm seeing this with uh uh West Lafayette. The Red Devils up there take down the number eight team in 3A Twin Lakes. They win 42-21. Yes.

Okay. Love that for West Lafayette. That's a big win for West Lafayette. Yeah. Let's look at Let's look at this. You said they're ranked in 3A.

Twin Lakes was That's Twin Lakes first loss of the season. Okay. West Lafayette. That's West Lafayette's first win of the season. No way. So West Lafayette went into this game 0 and5.

Okay. But look, oh my word, they were do this. Listen to this. They lost 43 to4 to Harrison, 17-4 to McCutchen, 14-13 to Lebanon. So right there, that's three games in a five-point margin of victory. They lost by 1 to Western 29-28.

So they very easily could have gone in this game 4-1. That's one where the coach says, "Hey guys, we're we're almost they're close. We're a couple plays away. A couple plays away. Don't I mean, watch out for West Lafayette. Come state tournament time, everybody makes it.

They're one point away in several games and then they they get their first win of the season over a ranked team. Congratulations to West Lafayette. That's awesome. That is That's cra That's one where you got to dive into the numbers. Like you're on the other side of that. You're Twin Lakes.

You're looking at the thing. Oh, the records. They haven't won a game this season. We We're going to blow through this one. Put the guard down. Uhhuh.

You got to be ready to rock some some OT games. Eighth ranked in class 2A. North Posey beats South Spencer in overtime 56- 55. Highscoring affair right there. Good win for North Posie. Points up.

Did want to mention this. Mishawaka beats 10th ranked Concord in 5A 3635 in overtime. That's Mishawaka's second consecutive week with a one-point win. Last week a one-point win over Northwood. Ouch. That that one hurts.

That hurts. Huntington North beats Decal in overtime, double overtime, 31 to 28. Okay, so good overtime games. Again, this is when the contenders and pretenders get separated. All right, six weeks in, Spangle said 5-1, 6-0. You have our attention.

I do want to go through scores that stuck out to me. I do have quite a few, but just bear in mind, this was a great week of football. Brownsburg's on their way to a three repeat in class 6A. They went into the halftime break tied with Westfield. Tied 14-14. Outscore them 24 zip in the second half.

They win that game 38-14. If you're beating Westfield, the team that you've ma matched up with in state by 24 points, I don't know who's going to challenge Brownsburg right now. Now, they have a tough sectional. Ben Davis is not going to be an easy out. Okay. They're going to have to face either Warren Central or Center Grove sometime in the state tournament.

And then you're talking about Carmel or Westfield most likely or like a Crown Point or Penn or Carol, okay, in the state championship game or of course Westfield. But Brownsburg just you can't stop them right now. I don't know who's going to contend with them. It's going to take Brownsburg beating themselves more than anything. But Brownsburg, I have to give them a shout out. They're 3-0.

And uh that really impressed me. Southbend St. Joe is unbeaten, folks. 4A fifth ranked Southbend St. Joe 3414 over 12th ranked in 6A Elcart. The Huskys 6-0.

Good win for the Huskies. That was their first real challenge of the year. They get it done over Elcart. So good stuff right there. Cathedral lost to Trotwood Madison out of Ohio 17-10. Again, don't sleep on Cathedral.

They're playing all these out of state teams who are really good in Ohio and Illinois and Kentucky and wherever. Cuz they Cathedral loses that one 17-10. Decatur goes to 5A sixth ranked. Playing field wins 42-27. Decatur lost their first game of the year to Avon. They've won five straight since.

Dude, I feel like there is some but to take Brownsburg out of the 6A. There's a lot of teams that are going to be vying for for a shot at the Bulldogs. It just comes down to your your draw in sectional. There's so many sectionals that are super tough. Spang Decar Central's a good team. Avon's a good team.

Okay. Westfield's a good team. Like there's no shame in getting beat by Brownsburg. Brownsburg's beating everybody. Brownsburg has won 25 straight games. Do you know how crazy that is in high school football?

25 straight games. Warren Central 6 and0. Center girls 5-1. Crown Point pen both undefeated. Carol's five- one. Lawrence North's hitting their stride.

Okay. So, yeah, you're absolutely right, Spang. Um, 6A is no joke. Marville's 5-1. Elcart, that was their just their second loss of the year. So, we'll see who comes down from up north come tournament time.

I'm interested in that. But, uh, Decatur Central, well done. Five straight wins. Shout out to the Hawks. 46th ranked Evansville Wrights also 6 and0. They beat 5A eighth ranked Castle 21 to7.

Let's talk about Evansville Wrights. That's a team that's gonna get my attention. They already have my attention. Okay, so 6 and0. Let's see. Their head coach is Cory Brunson and yeah, they've just been mowing teams down really.

Castle was their first real I mean they beat Tri West pretty good earlier in the season. Had a chance to watch Tri West in person this past Friday. So Evansville writes big time. All right, couple more. Morsville beats 5810th ranked Franklin 4928. Best win of the Casey Gillan era by far.

That was at home. That was homecoming. Morsville jacked up. That's a big-time win right there. Talked about Mishawaka beating Concord. That's back-to-back onepoint wins.

Danville, I had an email, a nasty email from a mad parent of Danville that I wasn't talking about Danville. So, we went to Yorktown who they beat. So, Danville's ranked 14th in the class 4A. They're 6-0. Yorktown's ranked ninth in 4A. And Danville wins 49 to 19 over Yorktown for operation football.

So, I was at Yorktown Friday morning. Yep. So, of course, I'm going to hype up Yorktown cuz where am I? In Yorktown. I'm in Yorktown. Well, there was a parent who said the subject title of the email was operation embarrassment.

Wow. He was dancing on Yorktown's grave saying, "We got to talk about Danville." So, there you go. Dan Warriors, dude. Hey, the West Side. There are some football players at the West Side.

Yeah. Hopefully some class, too. Anyway, 3A third ranked Gibson Southern beats 4A 11th ranked Heritage Hills 4235. That's five straight wins for Gibson Southern. Nick Hart's 150th win at the helm. And those are the scores that stuck out to me, Mr.

Speaker. Dude, uh I got to know though, how was Operation Football? How was it was electric? How were the uh Tigers? They They were fantastic. I'd roll up and they got 100 kids plus principal has her face painted.

Shout out Mrs. Brewer. We love that, dude. The face painted. They have a tongy chant. You should go back and look if this is if this gets clipped for some reason.

Go back and look. I uh they did their Tongi chant. It was like, "Hey, Tongy." Hey. Hey. What's Tongi?

It's some Hawaiian thing. Okay. I don't know. There's a tie there. It was a good time though at uh Yorktown. They really did awesome.

They're our leader in the clubhouse for Operation Football Spirit Award for Wow. Okay. For sure. Was the football team out there? They were not. So, not my fault.

Not my fault. That is true. I I do remember you saying, "Hey, you know, maybe we don't need to maybe we don't need to put the football team out there because if they do lose, then they're mad at you because they woke up at 5:00 a. m. to, you know, hang out with Dominic." But student section, you're there's there principal has the face painted.

Like, come on. That is a total vibe. She was awesome. AD was awesome. Cool facilities, cool place, worth the drive. It was a crisp morning.

I could see my breath. Oh, yeah. It's football weather. It was awesome. So, anyway, those are scores that stuck out to me. Um, but I do want to talk about uh Okay.

Well, I want to know down what all games did you visit? Okay. On Friday. Well, I was at Brownsburg Westfield pregame. Yep. Uh, Brandon Sharp comes up to me.

He's like, "Hey, we got to get a picture together sometime." And I was like, "For sure." My guy. Brandon Sharp's unreal, dude. I mean, honestly, that guy, I'm so excited to watch him at IU. I think he's going to get it on the field early.

Like, wow. He's just a stud. Oscar Fry. Remember the name Oscar Fry? He's going to be balling at the FCS level at Illinois State. season.

Yeah. The FCS national champion runner up a year ago. Runner up. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

So anyway, um but then I went to Tri West Speedway. Tri West went on top 21 nothing in like 10 minutes. So then I left and went to Chitaard and uh Garen Jax Gidri. He's a contender for player of the week. He had 199 yards and four touchdowns. I believe he's had eight or nine touchdowns in two weeks.

And this is off the heels of the Danny Adams injury. So Jax Gry stepping up and I just realized I knew that Jax and Jagger were brothers. They're twins. They're twins. This is news to me. Talk about just like dude, they're Jack muscle.

Yeah, they're jacks. Chard was uh bumping on Friday by the way. Homecoming. I uh said hello to Mrs. Dawson who is the principal I believe at Shelbyville. She asked me about you.

Classic there. Great. Great. And we visited Shelbyville for uh Sunrise Kickoff Operation Football as well. We love that. So uh yeah, a lot of lot of ties.

A lot of people have been talking about the podcast. I really do appreciate it. You guys are awesome. Yep. Absolutely. And if you do like it and you're whether you're on YouTube, you're on Facebook, you're on Spotify, Apple, maybe like subscribe, leave a review.

Leave a review. Five stars. Help us get some more distribution to the rest of the state of Indiana. It helps us immensely. Okay. So, after Shotard Garren, did you go to another game?

No, those were my only Those were the games. And then, uh, yeah, we had eight games on it was a lopsided night. Lot of offense, but not a lot of close games. Um, not in in central Indiana. In central Indiana. Yeah.

They were close to us. We're like, we're not going to be like some other stations who get, you know, 20 games. We usually shoot for eight to 10 of like good ranked and we'll try to get to all the classes. It's just hard. We're low. We're underst staffed at WTHR a bit.

So, makes it difficult. Yeah. And you're all over. I mean, today even you're Colts and then you're here stuff like I know he's all over the place, baby. Should we should we get into a little bit of the the by by the classes? Yeah.

Well, I do want to Well, I'll talk about it when we get to the classes, but yeah, I got I got two teams that people have been blowing me up about. I got Oh, got to talk about them. Well, let's get into that then. A little You want me to get into that? I was going to say I could wait. Okay, so I like I said, I was at this wedding last night, which was a great time, by the way.

Had a great time. Live band. You also had a live band. Double band. It's going by the wayside these days. I love a live band.

Oh my gosh, it was fantastic. Um, it was like Endless Summertime or something. I don't know. I forget the name. They were great though. uh Indianapolis based.

Anyway, I had I was swarmed swarmed by Indian Creek fans. Trafalogar was rolling deep at this wedding. Yep. Okay. And they're like, "You got to talk about Indian Creek. We're not getting enough love at Indian Creek."

All right. Indian Creek, this is for you. Max Gooden, head coach. All right. My sister-in-law went to high school with Max Gooden's wife now. Yep.

That's Mackenzie Ruer is her maiden name now. She's Mackenzie Gooden. Max Gooden, I believe he was the defensive coordinator at Decar Central. He went to Indian Creek for the head coaching job and they've just gotten better and better. His first season they were 5-6. Last year they were 8-4, one sectional.

Now they're 6-0. They're beating teams almost 40-7 on the year on average. They got a huge win over Tri West two weeks ago. They blank Shelbyville 42 nothing. They are 6-0 and they are a team you have to look out for in class 3A. All right.

All my wedding goers, shout out Emily Stevens. Yep. Gotta get on her day. On her day. Indian Creek folks, you're for real. All right, you have my attention.

First, you had my curiosity. Now you have my attention. By the fifth person who came up to me, I said, "All right, we're mentioning this. Indian Creek Braves 6 and0. Watch out for Max Gooden's bunch." 6 and0.

One of the 35 undefeated teams in the state of Indiana. And remember, Spang, we talked about how wide open class 3A is. Okay, Trafalar rolling deep. Shout out Matt Leavus. Good stuff. So anyway, and then I wanted to talk about class 1A North Davies.

All right. Been getting a lot of messages about North Davies. That's my neck of the woods there or used to be in West Central Indiana. They're smoking teams too. Just rolling through 1A. I mean North Davies Cougars and that the big Yes.

And at a boy the uh big matchup was Cloverdale two weeks ago and they beat them 54 to7. All right. And I thought I mean Cloverdale is not a bad team. Yeah. I got a bunch of me messages about Cloverdale too. was going to mention them and then you know 547 I mean my hands are tied a little bit.

I got to talk about North Davies. Trent Fine again doing a fine job. Doing a f coach Fine doing a fine job. They're coming up. Yeah, they're coming off a 10-2 year last year but they didn't get out of sectional. So they're probably not pumped about that.

6-0 North Davies Cougars. Watch out for those guys. Okay, so they're both number four. They're both 6 and0. Um what's interesting too if you look who are the teams ranked above North Davies? Okay, we got Riverton Park who's 6 and0.

We got Pioneer who's 6 and0 and North Judson who's 6 and0 somewhere on that schedule. I feel like North Judson has to be playing Pioneer coming up. You think so? Are they in the same conference? Uh yeah, I believe North Judson fresh off a 42-7 win over Triton. Ooh, North Judson plays Pioneer in the last game of the season.

Oh, that'll probably be the conference championship, too. At Pioneer. Okay. I think I think Greg had teased that one. Um so that's going to be one we got our eyes on. Uh North Judson, man, they're looking good.

Judson Blue Jays. The Blue Jays of North Judson, but they got to get through Casten first, dude. And again, this is a good year for Casten. I had someone reach out to me say they think this might be the best Casting team that they've ever had. What? Yeah.

I mean, Castton has had a they've had a good year. Okay. Uh Casten is sitting at five and one. Five- one. Only loss is to Pioneer, so no shame in that. And the downside is Okay, wait.

This is good. I'm looking through the sectional matchup. So, Pioneer is in the same sectional as Sheridan. Shout out Coach Slusher. Uh, he's one of my boys from Triton. He coaches up at Sheridan.

He took over for a legend, too. Oh, no. He's not the head coach. Oh, okay. I mean, that would be huge, huge shoes to fill. Uh, so, but Castston is in that same sectional as Pioneer.

That's not ideal, you know, that's not not what you got to beat the best to be the best, dude. Tough to beat a team twice, too. Whereas North Judson is in the Winnamak, West Central, Culver, Triton, Bowman Academy, North Newton, South Central. Okay. Uh sectional. And so, oh man, the I'm I'm got my eyes on North Judson Pioneer, man.

That's going to be a great game for out the season. That That place has to be electric. Yeah. Okay. Hey, how far does Operation Football travel? I mean, we go an hour plus, man.

Oh, dude. That's like That's probably like two and some change. Yeah, but this is one to keep your eyes on. Maybe uh was it Michigan football? Michigan Sports Michigan. Sports Michigan.

Chuck Freebie and Angelo D Carlo. You guys are awesome, dude. Those legends what I grew up with. Yeah, for sure. Both of them. I always wish they would say my name a little bit more, but I was one of those disgruntled players.

Like, yo, dude, where's my Why did they say my name? Where's my love at Triton? I had like three three fullbacks. Come on. Yeah. Okay.

Uh and then just to parallel here, three teams ranked ahead of Indian Creek in class 3A are Evansville, Memorial, Andrean, and Gibson Southern. Okay. This is a very 3A is interesting because it's so spread out. It is. I I know. I feel like it's going to be tough to find uh like wins against common opponents.

Yeah. You know, like you have Gibson toss up in the state tournament when it comes to 3A. I mean, is Memorial push it all the way? Does Andrean get back? Wait, can we talk about this for a second? We can.

We absolutely can. So, you have Evansville Memorial the uh basically as far south and west as you go. So, you have Memorial Gibson Southern Modern Day down uh along the Ohio River in the Evansville area. Then you go straight up about I don't know five hours or whatever it is. You have Andrean the fighting 59ers who are uh defending state champions by the way and they're they're in the region. Yep.

So like literally you're at Southwest and then you're all the way northwest. Then you go to the southeast and you have Lawrenburg as the number two. Is Lawrenburg on there? Sorry, I just realized Andran's coming to Garen Catholic this week. I feel like I got to get eyes on andran. You got to get eyes on and I got to get eyes on.

Where's Where is Sorry, what did we say? Where is Lawrenceburg in the rankings? Where is Lawrenceburg? They are sixth in class 3A. Okay, they're sixth. Mhm.

Oh, they beat Batesville this last week. Yeah. What was the score there? 3520. Batesville's risky. Okay, that's frisky.

Batesville. Tough two losses. East Central and Lawrenburg. Those are those are good schools. Those are good losses. There's no such thing as a good loss.

So, you have then Southeastern Indiana though with Lawrenburg in the mix there. Yep. Then what do we have? Adams Central, who just had a crazy game. We have to talk about Adam Central. 218.

Who are the Who are the top five at 3A? Oh, dude. I should have included the Adam Central game in my scores. That stuck out. That stuck out to me, man. 1A eighth ranked South Adams beats Adam Central 216.

That's a 1A taking down a 3A. A ranked 3A, dude. And that is like a rivalry that runs deep. Seriously. Oh yeah. Whoa, dude.

Adam Central, South Adams, Belmont, all the schools up there. Adams County, dude, they are they are loyal and they are fierce, dude. That's awesome. Anyway, sorry to derail you there, but that I just top five at the 3A. Okay. Yes.

So, we got Evansville Memorial is number one, 6 and 0. Andrean is number two, 5-1. Gibson Southern is number three, 5-1. Indian Creek 6-0. Adam Central 4-2. That's your top.

And then the sixth one is Lawrenceburg. So, literally, you have Northwest Indiana, you have Northeast Indiana with Adam Central, you have Southeast Indiana with Lawrenburg, you have literally it's Evansville. Andrean is defending state champions in class 2A. They bumped up to 3A. Yeah. Wait, where's And the defending state champion at 3A bumped down to class 2A.

And the defending state champion from 1A is up at 2A. Like we had a little bit of the cards shuffling around. What is the Cascade report? Okay. Yeah, I'll give you the Cascade report right now. Cascade is in 2A.

They're 5-1. Okay. Their only losses to Danville, who we talked about was a good team, and they're 4A. Is Danville in the rankings anywhere? Danville is ranked 14th in 4A, and I suspect they'll move up after beating Yorktown. So, I don't know who that parent was.

I won't reveal your name, but uh I hope you Hey, I wish the Warriors nothing but success. Same. I mean, don't get mad at me. I was operation football. All right, whatever. So, wait, is Danville going to be in the mix then?

Is there going to be a vote? I don't see why not. I mean, I think that they might need to get the rally the troops and give you the old Danville Westside welcome. I'll go anywhere. I'll go anywhere there's coffee. Uh but anyway, so yeah, 3A is really interesting, Spang.

And and and how about Andrean first year in 3A having the season that they're having right now. though you could get a region versus Evansville. Remember we talked about the possibility of that. You could get or you could get the Fort Wayne area versus Evansville. Fort Wayne area versus the, you know, basically Cincinnati metros, Lawrenceburg. Yeah.

How about uh I did want to mention this too. East Central defeated Harrison. Oh, the fighting Jake. I think they call that the border war, right? I think so. I think isn't that a is that a big deal?

I think it's a big rivalry cuz it's the Okay, so for anyone that doesn't know, I believe, again, I might need a southeastern Indiana person in the comments to totally correct this. I believe East Central is like one of the first, if not I, it's not the first because Lawrenceburg is right there on the river, but it's one of the first big schools when you come up 74 from Cincinnati. Correct. So, it's like the border war because Harrison is one of the first schools on the Ohio side and they've played each other for a bunch of years and it's a pretty big rivalry. Okay. East Central, man, they're good.

I mean, they lost their only losses to Cincinnati Elder. All right. No shame in that. They're really, really good and they're just mowing people down. And obviously they have the win over New Pal. So, and now do we know sectional alignments?

Like do we know? Go back and listen to uh Greg Rickstro's podcast. He broke it down in a beautiful way. I can't remember. But who like will Chitaard feed into East Central? So, okay.

I forget what he said. I Yeah, I think I think so. Or is it Ron? I feel like it's See, that's just it. He was talking about how Chitaard and Ronali sectionals are different and one of them is going to have to face East Central. It it's 4A is tough.

4A is loaded, guys. Okay. East Central, Chitaard, Dwanganger, East Noble, Southbend St. Joe, Writes, Ronali, Northridge is really good. Wow. It's going to be interesting.

Spang I Yeah. Wait, so how many undefeateds? We have Northridge, Evansville, Writes, Southbend, St. Joe, East Noble, North View, Danville, Loganport, who are at least ranked is what I'm seeing. And then you have one loss teams in Dwinger and East Central. Yes.

And then two losses with Roni with a impending new quarterback. Yeah. So that's like that's pretty that's not really like taboo I guess whether or not like if a kid transfers mid-season like let's say your family just moves like your you know parents get a new job like you shouldn't you shouldn't have to be like a crazy punishment for a kid. Yeah. You don't have I mean Yeah. He's a kid.

Yeah. You know like you know everyone has decisions and maybe you don't know the stuff off the field going. Yeah. I mean look I'm not claiming to know anything. But what do they say? I think it's 30 days right?

Yeah. Sorry. Okay. Um, oh, by the way, shout out to Brady Lewis's parents. Both Depaw alums. Oh, Brady Lewis, running back at Brownsburg.

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Uh is it's Jack Quillin who played significantly last year at Warren Center. I remember talking. I didn't know he was a freshman, but wait, is he a sophomore now? Uh, well, let's see right here. Okay, ready? Information on the Ronali player swap.

He went to a Southside Ronali feeder school. In 8th grade, he didn't see a spot on Ronali's team for him. He made the decision to go to Warren. His parents supported him, but he went there for football. No other reason. He started all of last year in the QB spot.

That's what I mean. So, as a frost, sounds like. And I I remember covering him saying his name cuz I would always make the pun. Jake will. Yes. I love that you knew that.

How did I know? Where's Jake Quillin at? Um, no, he was good. Um, so yeah, his parents supported him, went their football, no other reason. He started off last year in the QB spot. Someone played below him.

Over this past summer, he got sick, missed a few weeks of practice, but still studying film, studying plays, etc. The kid who played below him is now the starter. I believe that's uh Anthony Dennis we're referring to, who's been having a good year. Warren Central doing very well this year. They're undefeated. Yeah.

Jack wants to play college football. He knows he needs his junior film to make that happen. He's not getting much film at Warren and has a much better shot after the 30-day suspension to get film around college. So, he is he is not a sophomore. He's a junior. I class of 28.

I'm wondering. Okay, he's class of 28. So, yeah, he needs to get on the field. I mean, junior year is a big year and they he's going to get there right at the right time for Roni. Although, this Dom Chromemer kid is doing really well. We've been at Ronali's last two weeks and he's killing it on the ground.

Um, they're surviving. Um, who knows what happens when he gets there. Does he just like go into the starting spot? Does the team rally around this Dom Chromemer guy? Yeah. Uh Kyle, I don't know.

Our guy Kyle at uh Indie Star wrote an article says uh in the quote marks for the the tweet was it was the right time for me to return. He was a 2,000 yard passer as a sophomore. He transfers back to a school that's familiar with them and he have a 30-day sit out period. Okay. So, it seems like there's no foul play and uh I mean, no, I think that it's like that is what it is. He grew up in the Bronali system.

though. Now, okay, now now this person continues. Now, what people are mad about is that he's allowed to transfer. See, this is where I think this gets interesting. Two years ago, kids transferred to Cathedral from Mount Vernon. That was a huge deal.

These boys lost their parents. Mount Vernon couldn't support them. A family took them in and they were a Cathedral family. I mean, I don't see a problem with that. The boys played basketball and practices has started. IHSA blocked those boys from playing.

So, you heard about this situation? I remember that being a big deal and it was like lawyers and stuff were involved. Okay. The rule changed to a 30-day sit out y or like suspension in quotes. I don't know that's kind of a harsh term, but so the boys could play. It's not a suspension.

You're not technically suspended. You have to sit out. You have to sit out. That that feels correct. That story was two years ago. So this Jack Quillin, he's a southsider through and through.

He the kid just wants to play. I understand that. He's a great kid, amazing family, and a lifelong Roni fan. I'm so happy to have him back where he belongs. Okay. Well, it seems like fans are in support.

Do you use any of this? Just Yeah. So, this uh I won't reveal this person's name obviously, but source close to the um that was that was a lot of good information though. I'm going to like it right now. Give it a like. There you go.

But uh yeah, so that's that's that's Look, this all seems above board to me. No, I remember seeing this. They like whatever the bylaws are, it's all above board. Yeah. I I think the 30-day sit out is fair. Yeah.

So, I mean, you're giving up a lot of your season. So, uh, Rake tells me he's going to be there just in time for the East Central game. All right, let's say this. I want to put yourself in a coaching conundrum. Okay, let's say Ron Kali wins out from here. What's the schedule look like?

Well, so they have New Pal. Feels like that might should have been like our game of the night. We have Lawrence North, Warren Central, game of the night. That's pretty good. That's a good game, too. I mean, come on.

So, Roni hosts New Pal. Okay, very excited. They go to West Lafayette to play Harrison and then they go to East Central. That is a pretty tough Okay, so here's a question. Collie's schedule's been brutal, too. Dude, here's a question.

You're the Royals. You're the coach of the Royals. Samley, you're Sam. I'm Sam. Sam, Sam, if Dom Chromemer, if he leads your team past New Pal and past Harrison, do you make a switch? See, I Well, I've watched them and their their offense I mean is different without the starter and this Dom Cromer is a running guy.

So this Jack Quillin can can toss the pill a little bit. I mean yeah 2,000 yard pass but you've gone through what will have been you know an eightgame season with the other guy that's on the team and practice with the team. Blood, sweat, and tears you know and I'm sure this Jack Quillin's a great guy. This person's telling me he is. I have no doubt character witness. I have no doubts that he's a great dude.

But I'm just saying if they win those two games, like are you a little bit like if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Or do you like say ah we and is the right time to make this shift the last game of the regular season where you're playing the best team in your class who you might have to face in a regional semi-state state? I again I forget how the national I mean that that might be interesting then. Do you do you ride the hot hand until it dries up? Yeah. So it's like hey if we don't beat E Central then great we're going to then we'll give the cards over to Jack.

So, so if they get like pummeled by New Pal, maybe it's like, okay, maybe it tastes a little sweeter when Jack comes in and he plays. But yeah, Jack's been not playing. So, like, I'm just saying if they do win the next two games, the hypothetical is if they win these two games, East Central comes around, you got two aces, both eligible, play them both. I don't know. Two QBs, one passer, one's a runner. If both are in charge, no one's in charge.

That's true. That was the Brian Kelly way. Little Gooson, Tommy Reese situation. Somebody's got to Somebody's got to be the guy. This is interesting. And that was really good information, by the way.

So, thank you, uh, source. Appreciate that. Um, yeah, hit us up about this information. Look, we just want to learn more about the inner dwellings of football in this state. I will also say it doesn't have to be like skeptical or like it doesn't have to be a controversy. It doesn't have to be controversy.

It could also be just like your team again. Maybe I love getting reached out to. You guys are great. I mean again like remember uh where two guys that are making it happen and doing our best. So like maybe like not like a crazy angry subject line operation embarrassment. Come on man.

I mean well wow that was some good elite talk though right there for Okay, so I think where we're resting on this is that class 4A is loaded. I think what we're resting on is that like they're Okay, so like way too early state predictions and I hope you prove me wrong. I hope that every school that But I'm saying like 6A disagree. Brownsburg is just Brownsburg, you know, like we've talked about. I'd be a thousand% shocked if they didn't win again. Yeah.

Then we go to 5A and I feel as though uh feels like New Pal is still rolling. I mean, you know, you have Cathedral there. Cathedral is going to come in battle tested. You go through I mean, Bloomington South still undefeated. Warsaw still undefeated. Yeah, we're going to learn a lot about Bloomington South.

Last game of the year, they go to Center Grove. M. So, we'll learn a lot about them. Uh, Floyd Central, the Highlanders down there. Do not discount Warsaw. Could 100% see them coming out of the North 100%.

Hey, anytime I'm on this chair, we're going to talk about Bart Curtis. We're going to talk about Bart Curtis. Okay. Yeah. I mean, they're rocking Central's interesting. I will say I feel like the depth at 4A Yes.

and 3A is just next level. It is next level. I like that the middle classes, man. But yeah, I mean, New Pal and Brownsburg both going for three pets, so how about that? It's a pretty cool thing. That is pretty cool.

Um, Cathedral, obviously do not sleep on Cathedral, but uh, and then yeah, you got like Planefield and Pendleton Heights. Like I'd probably draw the tier line after Warsaw. Now, I haven't gotten eyes on Floyd Central, so I mean, hey, anyone who's 6 and0, if you're undefeated, you have my attention. I'm drawing that line after they beat Gibson Southern FC. They beat Gibson Southern. They're beating up on some bigger schools, so like Highlanders, it's all good.

Yeah, that's where I draw my line after the All right, deal. After the the FC then in 4A, you're going like eight deep. That can make some noise. Yeah. Was it eight or seven? Something like that.

Yeah. Oh, Northridge is in the mix there. I know. Anyway, yeah, we can uh we've been talking a lot, Spang, but we can go through some scores and classes. We can just keep it tight. Uh I do want to say a team that I just saw on my radar that is uh what's up?

They're still undefeated. The Royals of Eastern Hancock down at 2A. I know. Okay, so they have a big game this week. Um, they're playing Lapel, I believe. Let me let me double check that.

That's a good 2A matchup. Yeah, Lapel 6 and0. They're What are they ranked at? 2A. Lapel is ranked second in class 2A. And what's Eastern Hancock?

Ninth. They're both 6 and0. So, someone reached out to me and said, "You got to go to that." And I really want to. Eastern Hancock's just like a far way away. And like I said, we're underst staffed.

It's hard to do. Yeah. Well, I really want to get a stream on that. Who's going to be in the uh Operation Football? Uh the battling teams this week for the morning are Arsenal Tech and Christmas Addicts. Oh yeah.

So getting a little uh IPS love. Are they both IPS uh tech? I don't know if Tech No, they are. They are. So um yeah, like I said, Christmas Addict has a really good team last year too. Yeah, I thought I think they had like a like a almost undefeated regular season.

Yeah. So, but Easter Hancock lapel, you got my attention. Yeah, we do got to talk about matchups coming up because that's gonna be fun. Mhm. Um but anyway, you know, this has been some really good talk. Oh, absolutely.

Do you want to just like we're going to go rapid fire rounds, talk about uh some of our favorite scores from each class there. Starting. Uh I mean, let's let's breeze through 6A and go down to the 1A and talk let's get our meat and potatoes in the middle there. Okay. All right. So, starting off with 6A, Dime, what's going on?

All right. So, obviously Brownsburg is ridiculous. Okay. That that just goes without saying. Caramel gets right after a loss to Lawrence North 6531 over North Central. North Central may be 1 and5 this year.

They're going to be good. Is that uh Chase Grove? Did he just Iowa? He just committed to Iowa recently, right? Yes. Shane Ryder Raider.

I always mess that up. Shane Ryder's pumped. Okay. Uh Kirk Ference pumped after hanging that poetic justice on Michigan. That was amazing. Avon beats Fischers 36-26.

Okay. Fischers is another team not good this year. They will be good coming forward because their quarterback is good. He's a froch. I forget his name, but he's good. I love it that I was saying he's a true freshman.

Uh yeah, they're really young, but they're going to be good. Uh Center Grove beats Lawrence Central 42-21. Crown Point stays unbeaten 2814 over Valpo. Franklin Central in a close one over Nolesville 24-20. Penn beats South Ben Adams 42 nothing. And uh Lawrence North beats Ben Davis and Warren Central beats Pike.

Both at Lucas Oil Stadium on Saturday for the Circle City Classic. Oh, I did see that they were all out there uh hanging out at Lucas Oil. That's fun. I woke up to the band. Oh yeah, you could. There's a parade.

There's a parade right outside my place. Hey, we're not going to do where Dom lives, but now they know it's downtown. It's downtown and it's where the parade route was. Yes, sir. Take your pick. Uh also the one we didn't mention, uh number eight, Carol takes down Fort Wayne South 5217.

I like Carol. I want I want to know more about Carol. So, just give me some info about Carol and Crown Point. Okay. And Penn. I want some.

Did Whitland get their first win of the season? Is that what I saw? They did indeed. Beaten Martinsville 0 and they're 0 and6. They beat them 26 to zero. That hurts me.

I like Martinsville. Martinsville. They're looking to get right and get one in the win count before the end of the year. And uh shout out to the Warriors down in Whitland for getting their first win of the season. Let's go into 5A. Okay.

a little uh a little southernish Indiana battle. We had Bloomington South taking down Columbus North 24-7. The Panthers of Bloomington South. They move to 6 and0. Are they Are they for real or are they not? They're knocking on the door.

We'll see. They've been knocking on the door. We've been That's been the theme of the year. We've been talking about that all year. Uh up in the region, Chesterton gets right over Portage 4112 down uh just on the Ohio River. I I think the game was at Columbus East, but Floyd Central takes down the Olympians 41-21.

Void Central undefeated. Uh Tech beats Washington 40-30. Jeff beats Anderson again, 76 points. That was that's a heck of a Hey, this looks like a close one. McCutchen beats Lebanon. Okay.

2016. Now, talk to me. Early on in the season, I feel like Lebanon had a hot start. They did have a hot start. They well they lost to Pendleton Heights by one and that loss is proving to be you know no shame in it I guess I should say. No I mean yeah it was Pen Heights is solid.

Um Penel Heights is 5-1. So Lebanon loses in overtime that first game of the year. They win three straight but then lose to Danville and McCutchen in close games. So close games and and again Danville Puchin good teams there. There's a there's some opportunity there when the postseason comes around. I like the Tigers.

Uh, Newal takes down uh, Greenfield Central 50-8, Pendleton Heights 55, Mount Vernon, Fortville 20, Worsaw over Gian 48-3. So, you weren't here last week, but Goan beat Plymouth 5-2 in overtime. I needed Do we get a box? They went into overt uh, two to two and then double safeties. Double safeties. I mean, and then a game-winning field goal.

No way. I would stormed the field. Storm the field on a game-winning field goal. Five to2. That has to be a a scorami. I think so.

It's got to be. Who's going to OT2 these days? I Who is ever like how many football games in the history of history have ever been at 22? Do you think there's been like a 100,000 football games played in the history of history? Higher than that certainly. I mean, how many football games I mean there was 151 football games last week in the state of Indiana.

So, yeah, let's say there's a million a million football games have ever been played. How many have gone to the end of regulation tied 2-2? Probably not many. Probably not many if any. Uh now we dive into the 4A. Dom 4A into 4A.

Uh we got Chitaard over Garen Catholic. That was a beatd down 427. Ron Kali beats Brabbuff 25 nothing. Beach Grove over Monrovia 20 to4. Hey, let me tell you something. Beach Grove is 5-1.

All right, we have not talked about Beach Grove on this program. So Beach Grove's only loss is to Triton Central who's pretty good, right? Beach Grove is five, four, five and one. Who do they beat this year? Perry, Meridian, Edgewood, Shelbyville, Greenwood, and Monrovia. So, this is a test.

Who do they have the rest? Uh, they have Tri West this week and then Indian Creek and Speedway. So, they're they're those three are going to be pretty tough. Speedway's all right. Um, they're three and three. Um, who's your Legends Conference, man?

I like it over there. But, uh, yeah, that'll be a a test with Tri West right there. Okay, so back to 4A. Culver Academy beats Cane Valley. Danville beats Yorktown as I mentioned. Delta beats Newcastle.

That's got to feel good. Delta 3 and three. What else am I seeing here? The Mishawaka win huge. Morsville win huge. Mishwalk over Concord and OT 3635.

Moresville over Franklin 4928. Coverage of WTR operation football. I love that it notes that Leo beats Belmont 4813. Writes beats Castle 217. That was a big one. Dwanger beats Northrup up in Fort Wayne 357.

Dang, a lot of 4A games here. And then yeah, Southbend St. Joe unbeaten. They beat Elcard. That's a huge win. Uh it is time for our weekly Sorggy report.

Oh yeah, I watched him. I had eyes on him. Uh did they pull him early? I I mean probably. So they take the opening kickoff back. Yep.

Then they get a 90 yard pick six. O. Then a punt goes over Speedway's head. The punter just kicks it out of bound out of the back of the end zone. And Tri West declines the penalty cuz it's you can't do that. And so they take over at like the 5 yard line.

Wait, what do you mean the punter kicked it out of or the punt returner? No, dude. The punter. So Speedway is punting. Punt goes over his head. People are rushing him.

He just goes back to the ball and kicks it out of the back of the end zone instead of, you know, allowing a touchdown. It's a penalty, but Tri West declined it. They take over. So they're up 21 nothing in like 20 minutes. So, I left. Wow.

Well, the Storage Report this week, uh, nine for 12 for 66. Yeah. I mean, he he didn't have to play. Like I said, they were up. Oh, he did throw a pick. Touchdown and a pick.

No, he's a gunslinger. He and his Wisconsin Badgers went into Happy Valley and beat Penn State this week. Big. He uh then he ran it six times for 41 yards. Longest was 15. I'm My gut says not a lot of PT.

No, I mean they just were smoking them. It was 567 final. So Mhm. Um but that was in 3A. But anyway, not that it matters. New Prairie got in the win column.

First win of the year. 244. Is crazy to me that you have a New Prairie team that has that is one and four. I know. I totally agree. They're usually good.

Okay. So what I RAS tells me East Noble's legit. So I'm I want to see the Knights get down to Indie, boys and girls. All right. Show Show me something. We we got to you know what's beat high school against those guys.

I believe this was a big game. I mean good for the Red Devils of LOL to take down Hoert. Uh 41-26. Hobert is ranked in the They're ranked in the 4A. And is LOL ranked? Looks like Hobert is ranked ninth.

That would be 5A. 5A. No, you're right. 4A. They're ranked ninth at 4A. Was lol unranked?

Looks like it to me. How did that not make it on our upset report right there? H. Okay. Wait. Well, I think LOL's a bigger school.

Are they in the Is LOL in the 5A? Okay. So, Hbert loses to LOL. That's after losing to Andrean. Huge win for Andrean. I got my eyes on Andrean in class 3A.

You're going to get your eyes on them this weekend. LOL is 4-2. They are our 4A team. So, I don't know if they're ranked, though. Oh, well, that's a big win for them then. That's a huge win.

Yeah. Shout out to the Red Devils. I'm not seeing LOL in the rankings, but I feel like the Red Devils should get in there. Yeah. Good. Good call, Spang.

That was a good call right there. Um, but I think that about does it there in 4A. All right, let's go down to the 3A. Mhm. Andrean, I'm I'm pumped about Andrean. I want to see Evansville Memorial.

Talk to me about Evansville Memorial people. They're unbeaten. They were number one in 3A. Gibson Southern 5-1. They beat Heritage Hills. That was a big time win.

Like I mentioned at the top, Modern Day beats Evansville North by seven. So, man, these Evansville teams, it's got to be just just like Fort Wayne. I want to see Fort Wayne Evansville battle for supremacy, you know, behind Indie there. Um, you know, I'm just being honest. But, uh, 420 Indian Creek beats Shelbyville. We gave you your love.

Indian Creek. Hamilton Heights beats Oh, whoa. Hamilton Heights beats 1A 9th ranked Lafayette Central Catholic 28-26. How about the Huskies there? Hey, dude. I got five for five on the mascots the other day.

At a boy. Yeah, I was pretty pumped about it. There we go. Tippy Valley beats Gym Town 176 1715, excuse me. Uh, West Noble beats Fairfield 2014. Hey, West Noble's 5-1.

Uh, you know who we're not talking about in the Is this a 3A? This is a 3A. The Bluffton Tigers. Bluffton is ranked. Bluffton is 6-0. Bluffton is 6 and0.

Bluffton has beat Shannondoa 42-6. Curbusco 40 to nothing. They beat South Adams 50 to 15. And South Adams is a team that just beat Adam Central. Okay. Okay.

That is a lot of pair. They beat uh Woodland Woodlon, but then they beat J County 40 to7 and then they blanked Southern Wells 64 nothing. They're going to finish out their year with Heritage. Well, they lo or sorry, okay, you're talking about Bluff Bluff. They're going to finish out their season with Heritage, Adam Central, and Fort Wayne Blackhawk. Now, the Bluffton Tigers might be legit, dude.

So now we're 12 teams deep in 3A and we're talking about good teams. Like this is crazy. Again, this is the I always go to common opponents. So yes, agree. Bluffton beat South Adams 50-15. Correct.

South Adams beat Adams Central 2116. Yes. So tell me why Adam Central is ranked fifth in 3A and Bluffton's all the way down at 12th. I don't think that the Tigers are very happy about that. No, I'm sure they're going to be when they see this, they're going to be pumped up about it. There should be some serious movement in the rankings this week.

Yeah. After all that we do we know when when do the rankings come out? I guess Monday or Tuesday. I don't know. But I I always base it off the USA. I wonder if the coach's poll is really the more accurate cuz you know these guys they they see what's going on.

I like the coaches poll. Okay. Maybe I should the coach see that's your media. Coaches poll has bluffin at six and AC at six or no sorry no AC at six. Bluffton at nine. So, our document does coaches poll, it seems.

Yeah, I like the coaches pull. Okay, maybe I should switch. I'm a coach pull man. I think that dude, you got to get guys on the inside. Got to shake this media bug I got. Why on earth would I have it?

Keep working through. Anyway, yeah, 3A, man. We've given 3A a lot of love today. Uh, modern day the close battle at 35 over Evansville North 28. The Wildcats move to 5 and one. Get your head in the game.

Mhm. Oh. Oh, there's another team. Are we Are we still on 3A? Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Okay. Sorry. Never mind. Oh, it's a 2A team. We can move to 2A.

Lawrenburg, Batesville. Batesville, man. We love the fighting Laurensteines for sure. Um, Tri West. Yeah, Tri West. Here's a Northern Indiana one.

Yeah. Tippy Valley takes down the Gymtown Jimmies 17 to 15. Yeah. Tippy Valley 5-1. They're ranked. South Ridge beats Mount Vernon.

Posie. Oh, Owen Valley beats Sullivan. That was an upset per our document there. So, good stuff going on over in the ter. So, uh yeah. Hey, in 2A there's another team blowing me up.

I got to we got to talk about Brownstown Central, right? And Reed May. Remember we talked about Reed May who's 332 and 66. I have some people talking to me about Brownstown Central and then I have other people who must have like mind readading capabilities and can see my DMs cuz then they're like, "Oh, cupcake schedule, Brownstown Central, blah blah blah blah blah." So, I don't know what to believe. Wow, dude.

I just love how much how many a ton of DMs, dude. It's dude. I think I need to read I need to get him. I just there's a lot to go through. So, Brownstown Central's had the same head coach for 34 years. No state championships.

They went to state last year and lost to I'm assuming it would have been Andrean. Was it Andrean? It would have been Andre. That had hurt. That had hurt. After 34 years.

34 years. Okay. Can we get Reed May on the pod? We got to get Reed May on. We should just do like a IHSA coaches round table. That's like my dream on Tuesdays or whenever we do it is just to have him like call in or something.

Yeah, dude. If Budright definitely has a flip phone and I would love for him to actually call in. Yeah, we might need to get him here. Dude, that someone's got to do it. Okay, Brown Central ranked first in 2A. Uh the Lions of Breamman moved to 5 and one.

Hey, how about Breamman? Dude, they're they're good again. Never in my life was Breamman good. And now they're like pretty good. That's crazy because they were so much better than us. No, dude.

They went to semi in our lifetime. No. Yes. Uh oh my gosh. Nate Leaper. Dude, people forget.

I know that name. Yeah. People forget that team was legit. Uh they Well, they beat John Glenn 40 nothing. Continuing to roll down uh Clarksville takes down Perry Central 40 to nothing. Eastern down in Greentown.

They take down Clinton Central 5718. Really pumped up about Eastern Hancock and Lapel. I mean, really pumped up about it because Eastern Hancock took Park Tutor out to the woodshed 68 nothing. So, yeah. Talk to us about Lapel Eastern Hancock, guys. Uh, dude, I wish I wish I had uh highlights sent to us from North Posey and South Spencer 565 and OT.

That had to be a crazy game. I know we mentioned that one off the top there. That had to be a good one. I love that our document has good matchups here. Yeah. And uh Poli South Decar 3634.

The Rams of Poli get it done. Uh Poli has an elite logo. I believe uh Nate Baker went to Poli. Did he really? I have no idea. I think so.

Uh Poli has the P and it's a Ramad. You like that in the logo? Wait, let me look at it here. Let me get Let me get a little little look here. Hagerstown is 6 and0. Hagerstown is 6 and0.

Just wanted to say it. Look at this P. Oh, that's cool. Like a ramhead P. Okay, that's cool. That's pretty sick.

Good logo. That's nice. Uh Htown, you have Dom's attention. You definitely have my attention. Scott Snodgrass. Really cool guy.

Very menacing and intimidating, but uh cool guy. You love that in like a small town rural football coach. They're not disrespecting him. I'll tell you that for free. Yeah. Now we move into the 1A.

Hey, this interested me real quick. Uh 4214 Ritter beats Heritage Christian. Heritis Christian is 0 and6. I really like their head coach though. He's a good guy. U Okay.

1A. Yeah. What's up? Talk to me. Uh what do we see here? Well, Carol in Florida beats North White.

Carol's ranked uh 4-2, 48-6. Carol's ranked 10 in the coaches poll. That's what it looks like to me. Then Casten gets it done. How is Casten not ranked in the 1A? Who's ranked in the 1A?

I feel like they are ranked. No, you might be right. The Comets of Casten. I just remember you saying Cass. Oh, 1. This is Oh, and okay, they're 13th.

They have Okay, so is the number I would always love to know what this means. Is the number on the right like when you're looking at rankings, uh, first place votes, I believe. First place first place votes. Someone's given them a vote at first place. Who? I don't know.

That's not That can't be what that means. Oh, the bold number. Those are the number of people that think they need to be vote or first place votes are in parentheses. So, what is that number on the right? I have no idea. Is that just votes in general?

Like to be in the top 10 maybe. I don't know. Maybe. Maybe that's I don't know if someone can explain how a coaches and why on earth am I not a part of the the media poll here? I've always wondered. How are there 160 people and I'm not one of them?

We're not one of them. How's that happening? Can we get a vote? All right. So, oh, I would I would put so much time and effort doing this. In the one, dude.

What if you did it live? That'd be crazy. In the 1A, you have Riverton Park at the one. Yeah. Pioneer at the two, North Judson at the three, Milin at the four. The Indians are five and one.

Uh, North Davies. Don't forget about North Davies. Madison Grant. The Argyles are also undefeated. They took down Eastbrook 3A school. They won 2614.

Springs Valley 5-1. Springs Valley. I'll be down there tomorrow. They beat Oh, yeah. They beat Crawford County 60 nothing. The Wolf Back.

Milin beat Brown County 64 nothing. Mhm. South Adams is at 8. Yeah, huge win. Huge win. Uh LCC lost to Hamilton Heights.

Now this is crazy. Lafayette Central Catholic is two and four. Brand bias. LCC is always good, dude. Or do they just play non one? Well, they've lost four in a row to Typton, Logan'sport, Twin Lakes, Hamilton Heights.

So, they are a 1A school playing 4A, 3A, 3A, 3A. Yeah, that's fair. Okay. So, when they get to that uh sectional schedule, see, I I appreciate coaches who do this. It's not about your winning percentage. It's about winning state championships.

All right. Uh, Carol, they're at the 10 spot. West Dell, West Dell's 5-0, dude. There's a lot of good one teams now. Wait, how do they only have five games? We They have a They played Brigham Young East this week.

Bye. Oh, Greg Ra did that exact joke to me. I was like, "No way. I didn't see that." He's like, "That do you have buys in high school?" Well, um, who are we discussing?

Uh, Cathedral has a buy cuz they couldn't. They're like independent or whatever. So, it's like if you just don't And it looks like Westell is also independent, so that makes sense. Oh, they don't have a Westell's mowing people down, man. Look at this. Good for them.

Yeah. Okay, you might need to put Westell on your list. So, they beat Tri Central 74 nothing. Blackford 7236, Blackhawk 32-7, Southern 50 to Heritage Christian 50 to6. Now, they've got North Central and Farmersburg. Name that mascot.

Are they the T-Irds? I think they're the Thunderbirds. I think you're right. Thunderbirds. So that means Eastern Green and North Central are the Thunderbirds are both the Thunderbirds. That's crazy.

Mhm. Then you have they have Union County and Cambridge. See, this is an interesting one. Not a lot of like that. That's not a crazy schedule. I'd like to crowdsource information on 2A and 1A from the people.

Can you get us some info? Yes. Thank you for the North Davies shout out. Uh Pioneers obviously good. North Justin's good. Milin, but you know, talk to me about like Carol.

I got some Carol fans. We went there for operation football last year or like Madison Grant. Talk to me about them or Spring Valley. We'll get Larry Bird on the line. I don't know. It is time for our Indiana high school football player of the week powered by our friends at Ascend Football.

Dominic, who are the studs we got to watch out for? All right. I think I've narrowed it down to two. Two. Okay, we can do two. We're not like a one hit wonder kind of place.

You know what? We're here to pick winners and we're here to give high school football players their roses. Absolutely. And this is from all around the state, folks. There's no indie bias here. Yes, we live here.

Yes, I cover Indian Indian Indianapolis football, but we're talking all over the state. So, I got a kid from East Side and a kid from Franklin County. Oh, you want to hear these stats? I want to hear the stat lines. All right. I think I'm going to give the edge to the East Side kid here, but we can we'll talk about both.

We're going with Job Richmond from East Side. Seven carries, 167 yards, five touchdowns. Meaning, not only did five of the seven times he carried the football result in touchdowns, but he averaged 23. 8 yards per carry. Nate Spangle as East Side, I have to believe, got it done. How many How many touchdowns?

East Side did in fact get it done over Garrett 51 to 15. And the Blazers are 6-0. Probably because of Joe Richmond. Job? Dude, can I Okay, I need to know how many touchdowns did he score? Five.

seven carries. You're saying it's better than a coin toss when you when you give this guy the ball that he's going to score. Joe Richmond is the truth. All right. He's Miles Mclofflin in the flesh, it seems like. Wow, dude.

This is It says Eastside quarterback Job Richmond. So, that's up around Fort Wayne area. Am I correct on that? Okay, got it. Okay, well, nice work, Job Richmond. But we will also I do want to mention it doesn't say how many carries here but Parker Gilman for Franklin County had 250 rationing yards 250.

There's some good I got to tell you Spang, there's some good running backs in this state. Yeah, there really are. We love to see that. I wish this is the thing. The athletes of the week. Congrats.

Yeah. Shout out to our athletes of the week. Thank you to our friends at Ascend Football for helping put that on. Joe Richmond. Yeah, we love to see that. Okay, what I'm looking forward to this week, Spangle.

You want to know what I'm looking forward to? We got a battle down in Evansville. Okay, I'm going to class 4A because why not? That's where we do. We got 4A number six unbeaten Evansville rights taking on 3A top ranked and unbeaten Evansville Memorial. Someone's got to tell me if this is some sort of rivalry.

We playing for a bell or a hammer or what? Evansville writes Evansville Memorial both 6 and 0. Memorial's ranked first and 3A. writes ranked sixth in foray. That doesn't get you fired up down in Evansville, I don't know what does. Spang, that is fantastic.

Wow. The Battle of Enllo Field. Oh, everything's This is a massive massive local rivalry. Oh, is there a trophy? Are we playing for a trophy now? Got to be a trophy.

Got to be a trophy, right? Wow. Okay. Google says they do not have a dedicated traditional traveling trophy. Thank you, Google. But the winner frequently stakes claim to the local city title a little bit.

Sometimes you just got to play for for pride. Okay. I'm really looking forward to that matchup. Tell tell me what you know about that matchup. All right. What you know about me?

What you what you know about me. Um Okay. Sorry. Do you want to you want to go? Yeah. Uh I'm looking forward to this Friday night out just east of Indianapolis in Hancock County.

The Lapel Bulldogs are traveling to the east side, Hancock County, to Eastern Hancock. Really excited for that matchup. So, those two matchups are all six and0 teams. Yeah, this is where somebody Hey, we had 35. We're guaranteed to have 34 next week. Yes.

33. Oh, yeah. Two undefeated teams. So, that's really fun. Oh, wait. Another one.

Oh, I'm excited for that. Wait a minute. How did this miss here? Okay, so South Putham in class 2A and they've been mowing people down. Spangle, remember, I don't think their varsity's played a second half this season, dude. They're playing half a season of football.

South South Putham just beat West VGO 70 to nothing. So South Putham is ranked fourth and 2A and they got 12th ranked in class 4A Northview. Both 6 and 0. So that's three undefeated matchups in a row off the job. All ranked. Wow.

So 4A. So South Putinham, I don't think your JV's playing the second half of this game. Who knows? If they do, if they do, that's impressive. We got to get them in the mix for Operation Football. Yeah, if they do, if they're seven and0 sad, dude.

We only have three weeks left, dude. Yeah, I think you're right. We got to get them in the mix 100%. I need you to get eyes on Maury Shields. I He is He is a Lynenwood commit. Okay, so South Putt and North View.

Excited about it. No, dude. Hey, if the ink's not dry, man, if the ink's not dry, get on it, Deets. That's all I'm I mean, I'm talking about like who knows who calls this guy. Tell me he couldn't play for like a Mac school. Yeah, coach you.

Yeah, coach you, friend of the program. Appreciate it. Friend of the program. So, South Putham's hosting North View. So, that's going to be serious test. Now, we have a little We have a little east side battle, too.

It's your game of the week, right? Yeah, it's our game of the week. We got Lawrence North and Warren Central. Hey, Lawrence North after losing to Brownsburg opening week. All they've done is win Spangle. In fact, they beat Caramel two weeks ago, which I thought was incredibly impressive.

Z Moore, he's going to Purdue. Sure, you can call him undersized if you want, but this dude has heart. He runs hard and he is electric. Z, I saw the highlights from that game. I tweeted one, dude. He runs like he's angry at the ground.

Yeah. And he he's shifty as all get out, too. So, Lawrence North's won five straight. I I like Pat Mallerie's group. Okay, they're ranked seventh and Warren Central obviously unbeaten ranked third. So very excited.

That's going to be going down on the east side. Uh can we get an update on Sure Manin? Not sure what's going on with Munchin. I know he's battled injuries this year, Spangle. So wishing him the best. Hopefully he gets back for this game.

I don't know the severity of it or what's going on, but you're going to need a guy like Munchin Sales against Warren Central. Okay. Because you're talking about Caleb Elkins on the defensive side of the ball going to Purdue. You're talking about Shawn Fox on the defensive side of the ball going to Kentucky who just beat Texas A&M by the way the other week. You got what is it? Keon Thomas I believe his name is running back going to Iowa going to team up with Chase Grove of North Central.

So like look Warren Central's for real. JT Whitaker's for real. I also heard about this. JT Whitaker is a viewer of Operation Football on Friday nights. So, appreciate that. He's a big big fan of the program.

So, thank you, sir. So, yeah, I'm excited about Lawrence North and Warren Central, Mr. Spangle. Yeah. Uh, we got I mean, another one to keep your eyes on, New Roni. I think this is a deciding game for what to do with the quarterback battle.

I think that's a fair assessment. I think New Pal's ranked second in 5A, but I think we all know they're ranked first in 5A. And uh they got Ron Kie who's had a brutal and I mean brutal schedule. Okay. Dwanganger Chitaard Newal East Central on the schedule. That's insane.

So yeah, I think that's going to be a really fun one. Spangle and I think that is going down at Newal. It's at Roni Valley. Okay. Thank you. Then we go up to Northeast Indiana where Columbia City takes on East Noble.

This is a battle of the 5-1 Columbia City Eagles versus the undefeated East Noble Knights. That's a top 15 battle. Central No, wait. Is East Noble Knights? East. Yeah.

Yeah. The East Noble Knights. I've been hearing East Noble solid. Okay. And like we talked about before, Alex Stewart is 30 and three at the helm. I mean, what are we talking about here?

That's a good winning percentage. That's a pretty dang good winning percentage, Spangle. I'm going be real honest with you. All right. That is, I believe, let me see the math. 30 out of 33.

So 10 of 11 that percentage is like 90 some percent. So I think that's how that works. Yes, you guys see how my brain works, right? So yeah, I think East Noble gets it done. Are we going to look through? We saw that one milestone for a coach.

Yes. Uh gets Gibson Southern's coach Nick Hart notes his 150th career win. Better believe it. Shout out to the coach. Dude, how about these matchups, Spang? I mean, honestly, I don't think we've had matchups this many to look ahead to.

Dude, this is a this is a good I mean, even Ben Davis and Caramel is a great matchup. Ben Davis is frisky, guys. I'm telling you. Okay, do not That's a 2014 state final rematch. Do not sleep on Ben Davis. All right, Caramel is vulnerable.

And I like Kevin Wright's bunch. They score a lot of points, but uh Ben Davis is frisky as can be. Really excited about that. That seems to be at Caramel. Avon and Westfield. Now Avon, remember we said, "All right, Brownsburg, this is are is Avon like legit?"

And then Brownsburg mowed him down. But again, no shame in that. Can they give Westfield a game on the road? Avon beats Fisers. Maybe didn't look their best, but got it done. They're five and one.

Can they can they kick Westfield while they're down? Or do the Rocks respond? That's what I'm interested in. Wow, buddy. Uh I mean, I think that's a good look for for this week. I do have to say, Dominic, unified flag football sectionals.

They announced the pairings. I have a little trivia question for you. Okay. Do you know the teams with the most sectional championships in unified flag football? Are these like indie schools? Are these all over?

They are all over. Okay. So, who's good at flag football? I need you to know who's good at flag football. Um, give me I'll give you a hint. Uh, the number one and two school.

One of them you will know. One of them you will be very, very surprised. It will it will blow your mind all the way to the stars. Bedford, North. Bedford. Yes.

I like what you did there. Eight sectional titles for Bedford. Then we drop down to a two-way tie for second. Warren Central was my guess. Negative. No.

How about Lawrence Central? Negative. How about Ben Davis? Uh, negative. We're looking back to the draw. Uh, you like this team and they're in Northeast Indiana.

I think they're five- one in football. Okay. East side. Bigger Leo. Closer. Norwell.

No. Come on, dude. Fort Wayne. Carol, Fort Wayne. Yes, Carol. The Chargers.

The Chargers have six. McCutchen has six. Nice. That's the top three. Then we have a one, two, three, four-way tie for third between Caramel, Tecal, Franklin Central, and Valpo. Okay, that is your update on Unified Flag.

I wasn't going to get those, so thank you. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Sectionals uh this week, so keep your eyes out. Shout out to all the unified flag football teams out there.

Uh the final thing we want to wrap out this episode with damn what's going on in college football in Indiana. Well, IU had a scare Friday night. All right, I know. I mean, fans have the championship hangover. Kurt Signetti does not want to hear you complaining about a win. Okay.

Now, did the Hooers look great? Not really. And Aiden Childs kind of diced up that defense in the second half, but at the end of the day, they won. Spangle getting a win. I don't know how I feel about Friday nights. Friday night messes with people.

They're they're good in theory. They're good. They're good in fun, but they for sure mess with people. Spangy. Uh then, uh unfortunately, coach, you and the Cardinals couldn't get it done over Kent State. Yeah, I was sad about that one.

We got to start winning some Matt games, boys. Yep. Yep. Uh your Irish, they looked they looked good. They looked good. They needed a game like that, Spang.

They needed a game. I hate that it had to be on our Boiler Makers. I know Barry I believe in Barry ODM personally. Okay. Hey, how about Butler four- one. How about Kevin Lynch?

4-1. Can we talk about that? The Who's Your Helmet? It's going to Butler, baby. Staying in Butler. 33.

Oh, it's staying in Butler, I believe. 33 to 28 over Valpo. All right. Hey, how about this? Right now, Indiana State only lost by seven to North Dakota. North Dakota perennial top 10 team in FCS.

When you're talking about Missouri Valley, you're talking about South Dakota, South Dakota State, North Dakota, North Dakota State, Montana, Montana State are all unbelievable at football. And Indiana State has to play all these guys and they only lose by seven. That's impressive. I believe what 24 teams make the FCS is because Indiana State's FCS. Yes. So 24 teams make the tournament.

Yes. Yeah, they do. That sounds right. No, they do. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. So I wonder I wonder what's What does that move Indiana State to? Uh they're two and three on the year. Uh, okay. That's going to be tough. Yeah, it's a tough place to win.

It's It really is. It's not easy. In terms of SCS, though, I do have to say Butler moves to what are they? Four in one, man. And that's five consecutive Who's Your Helmets. Fantastic.

One, two, three, four, and that was all right. So, this is something I did not have on my bingo card, and that is you, Indie being one and four. Spang the last year in the GLVC. Not idea. That's not what you want to see. 2927 the Truman one and four all are the Greyhounds so not great.

Okay, so uh Depaw bounces back. Hey uh shameless plug October 31st Dep John Carroll yours truly will be on the playbyplay call. Hey there very excited about that. Yep. Dep number 22 in division 3. They take it down the Kenyon um 313.

Try gets it done over the Kazoo Hornets 58-12. Tony's pumped and the Waw Bash Little Giants undefeated 4-0 beat Worcester. I mean, that's a good win. The Little Giants I I like it when the game when the Mon Bell game means something. I 100%. When does it not mean something?

Well, I mean, when it like also has like implications, you know. Well, that wash you lost is going to loom large for old Dep. John Carroll is not going to be easy. Wobbash isn't going to be easy. Wobbash beat Hampton Sydney 29-20. Then they beat Whittenberg 31- nothing.

They beat Oberlin 34 to7 and they beat Worooster 34 to7 as well. So I mean the Little Giants are rolling. They have a really really telling three-game streak here. Dom. They're going to go on the road to Dennis. They're going on the road to John Carroll and then they're going to host WashU.

Okay, that's a big three games. Washu new to the conference and making some serious waves here. Let's see. Let's see Wash. And then they'll round out the season with oo Kenyon and then we'll be playing the 132nd Mon Bell. Can't wait at Ball State in Muny.

Indiana Wesleyan is just good at everything all the time. They're pretty solid. Shout out to Vincent Miranda. Hey, he went to Taylor. Don't be saying that. Come on.

His wife went to Indiana West. Yes, that's what I knew there was a I knew there was a wild cat. He's got to be hurting after Sorry, Vinnie. All right. Hey, this has been fun, Dom. I mean, it's late on a Sunday night.

I appreciate you coming in here, dude. Of course. Everyone, please remember if you don't go follow Dom Miranda. He is doing all things sports in the state of Indiana from covering Colts games to putting out the podcast to Operation Football Sunrise Kickoff the all the stuff. Go follow Dom. What's the uh what's the at just in case anyone do Miranda TV and then get in sports of course Nate Spangle too.

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