Freshman numbers way down
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Over the past 15 years Barrington hasn't responded well to being punched in the mouth
Bowie what are you hearing in Palatine? Fremd and Palatine?
Also what’d you think of jamboree weekend?
I also find hard to believe they can’t field a soph team
Palatine will be back up and Fremd will be down. Both frosh teams sound VERY strong from my Intel, but curious to hear what others are hearing
I was just going to ask how numbers look at the youth levels and especially if anyone knew about Homer. Thanks for the info here.
Well, Ramblinman, you know where the best Glenview football 8th matriculate to, and it isn't GBS.
To be fair, this is above where GBS was in the spring. Considering the demographics of the school, it isn't fair to compare to many other schools in their conference.
I know where most of the OLPH football players matriculate to, but last time I checked there were two public middle schools in Glenview, both of which have enrollments for grades 6-8 that are larger than the entire PK-8 enrollment at OLPH. Sure, LA will typically get a handful of freshmen football players from Attea and Springman and several handfuls from OLPH, but what are the rest of those Attea and Springman boys doing?
Please don't bemoan the demographics at GBS. They are a bigger school than Maine East and Maine West, both of which have larger freshman football numbers than GBS this year according to Quags, and both of which likely have far less favorable demographics than GBS when it comes to football.
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MC has the QB from that Orland team and he’s going to be special from what I’m told.
Fair point. All I can counter with that Glenview had 24 8th graders on jr titans last spring, so they picked up some kids.
Reality is last week probably saw 2x as many kids at travel lacrosse tryouts than at football practice.
I think the real question is why are there only 24 8th graders on the jr titans in a community the size of Glenview. The kids that GBS picked up could well be OLPH grads that didn't go to Loyola.
I think Soucie's predictions at the end of this article will actually be pretty accurate.
They undoubtedly should have more. That said, Jr Titans lacrosse scheduling games the same days as jr titans football definitely doesn't help thing.
Wow... WWS at 25. I can remember when my NN Huskies and WWS often had 90+ on the frosh team. WN usually had good numbers but always less than WWS.
They have 33 on the freshman squad and 40 eighth graders playing which should bode well since they pick up kids on top of that. The good news the feeder program has seen a ton of growth the last 2-3 years after bottoming out a few years back.
Is it true that the total enrollment will be increasing over the next 5-7 years?
No they are at 1913 right now I would guess they are headed lower, dropping to 6A is realistic in the next few years.
The numbers to get down to 6a are also dropping. Virtually everyone is losing kids.
This is true but over the next few years I think the student loses accelerate at WWS. They used to be the largest school in 7A now each year the slide further down the list of 7A schools.
Finally got a chance to see the Palatine freshman today - WOW!
First off between "A" and "B" squad there are indeed 72 players.
Just watched "A" team dismantle Maine South's "A" squad 52-21. The "A" team has scored over 200 pts in four games. "A" squad is 4-0 after this morning's game and "B" squad is 3-0 and was just starting game against Maine South when I left. I left to come home and watch NIU-Michigan game - probably should have stayed for the "B" game instead..
I saw a number of freshman games of the Oles, Grochowski, Balanganayi, et al squad - and these guys as freshman are much further along in their development.
On Fremd's side they started 0-3...not sure about today. However, they have 2 frosh starting on varsity right now (OLB and CB/WR) and are dressing several as well. Lots of talent on both sides of town!
B Bombers were up 19-7 in the 4th. Glad you finally got to see them. Not often Maine South loses 3/4 program games. Big things coming for the Pirates KP!
Thanks for the info! That JV game was frustrating otherwise it could have been 4 for 4. They had the ball inside Maine South's 10 yard line three times and came away with zero points. More concerned about Elter missing the second half as he's really been great recently. His only problem is being a year behind Dersnah, who after a rocky start has really started to blossom into the next Zach Oles/Ethan Olles/Matt Rossi type everyone expected.
I was wrong - MC Frosh beat Marist frosh 14-0. LA beat Rice frosh.
The Freshman QB MC has from the Pioneers is almost Varsity ready, he’s really good. They have a TE/DL #88 that is Varsity ready. Luca De Rosa, younger brother of varsity RB Enzo, runs just like his brother. And a 6’5 300 pound tackle helps!
Uh oh - possibility that the Varsity losing streak against Caravan might last Marist until past 2024