PantherPride2020

Panthers just didn’t have any answers for the size and strength of CAL tonight. They fought hard but only so much you can do sometimes. Panthers are 0-3 but have played a brutal first 3 games especially with the inexperience of the team. I look for them to jump into the win column next week at Thomas Nelson.

Etown destroyed Monroe in their scrimmage. FS should have acrunjung clock well before halftime!

Loads of talent lost on both sides of the ball. The upcoming Senior class isn't very big so a lot of young guys are going to have to step and see starting varsity time for the first time. The good news is that Etown returns the bulk of their offensive line and gets back two incoming senior linemen that were injured the bulk of their junior season. They have skill players that should see success behind an experienced line. Junior to be Joe Becherer (Jay's Brother) is a stud and will be a leader on both sides of the ball. The first 3 games could be tough with Franklin Simpson, CAL and North Hardin but there is talent in the incoming Junior and Sophomore class and I look for Coach Brown and his staff to have these guys ready by the time district play starts.

South Warren CJ Hayes- Michigan State

UK and UL had offers to both

I'd be surprised if we don't see John Hardin move to 3A. I don't know their male enrollment but last I heard they were under 800 total students and trending downward.

Chidi Akukwe CB for Elizabethtown was added last week.

Does Corbin not have a kicker??

33-21

As an Etown fan I am still heart broken from last Friday but with that said, I hope Boyle takes the championship. Boyle 24-21

I'm confused on how Central Hardin and John Hardin are part of the Louisville Roster but Elizabethtown isn't. They are all in the same county!

Elizabethtown is getting ready to practice on Thanksgiving for the 3rd year in a row! Morning practice so players can spend the rest of the day with their families. Such an awesome accomplishment for those boys to be practicing that day.

Well, why stop there? Let's take the top 4 from each district and put the 1s together, the 2s together, 3s together and 4s together. Each could have their own state championship. 6A-A, 6A-AA, 6A-AAA, 6A-AAAA. Then take all the 5 or 6 seeds, because obviously we don't want to hurt anyone's feelings and they could be the 6A-AAAAA state champs. And then anyone who loses in the above Class/division playoffs could branch off and have their own state championship. We could keep going until literally every team in the state could call themselves a state champion. Doesn't that sound great?

I agree that there needs to be more that goes into the seeding process. Currently it is only based off the points you get for wins based off the class those opponents are in. Most middle schools are only playing around 8 games and if you are in a large conference you have to play your conference opponents. You have no choice if those are D1, D2, or D3 opponents. To me if 2 teams are both placed in the same region, Team 1 is undefeated and team 2 has 1 loss and it is against Team 1 then there is no way that team 2 should be seeded higher which seems to be the case for Newburg. Not only is it unfair to them it is also unfair to the teams that matchup with them. They have to play a much higher quality opponent earlier in the tournament than they should have to. For the record i'm not involved with Newburg so I have no dog in the fight. Teams also don't get punished for losses.

Yep. Central is back at almost 2000 students and North is around 1600. John is under a 1000 and trending down. The whole point of the district building JH in the first places was to relieve pressure from Central and North. At this pace JH will be a 3A football school before long.

95% of the players at Elizabethtown have been in that school system since they were kids. A couple of players moved in from Collins a few seasons ago and maybe 1 kid that used to go to Central Hardin so I don't think Elizabethtown is the problem with the County schools downfall. North Hardin won't come off the spread offense even though they have nice athletes and the ability to run forcing the clock to continuously stop on incomplete passes and their defense to be on the field constantly. John Hardin as a whole is down in enrollment and unless the county redistricts it will continue to be a problem. The freshman RB at North should be at John so that doesn't help. They are going to see some pretty lean years in the future unless something changes. Central Hardin is decent. They've played some good competition but they are young in the secondary.

Prep football: DeSales has outgained North Hardin 282-28 in total offense at the half.

Someone tell me the last time JH lost a district game...Has to be the 1st couple years they were open

According to the 2017 rules crackback blocks are only legal if the arms are extended and lead with the hands. I too hate the rule but the officials have to enforce and it is up to coaches to properly teach the new technique.

I think Boyle is a great team and obviously has a Hall of Fame Coach. I hope we get to that Nov 24 matchup. Boyle's size in the trenches worries me the most.

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Boyle handled their business and is very good but don’t get it twisted, North Hardin is terrible! They beat a bad John Hardin team and a 1 win North Bullitt Team. Their 4 losses have been complete blowouts and 2 of them to 3A teams.

Thought Engstrand was still going to run the wing t just with some variations....Was that not the case on Sat?

Does anyone know if the semi state matchups will remain the same. Region 1 vs Region 2 and Region 3 vs Region 4?

According to the article in the News Enterprise they are still going to run the wing T with some variations. Coach Engstrand had already been implementing it during spring ball.