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    ESCC merging with the CCL for all sports

    If this merger leads to football changing away from its 4 team divisions with promotion/relegation, then I am officially against it. I am hopeful that this will lead to a continuation of 4 team football divisions and 6-10 team divisions in all other sports. Just have to figure out if those...
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    Bears to compete with IHSA

    I have completely come around to the idea that none of the state championship logistics debate actually matters. What weekend it is held on, what time the games are played at, and where the games are held will all have minimal impact on attendance. At most, these factors may swing the attendance...
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    Bears to compete with IHSA

    NFL teams can provide "input" to the league. That input is largely limited to bye week preferences, international travel preferences (not vetoes, just preferences on timing) , and facility bookings which would prevent hosting on certain days. With all the media partners now, this is not like 30...
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    Lisle

    If a school offers 20+ sports programs and 40+ academic and social programs, by definition, they cannot all be a priority. Some schools pour disproportionate resources into football. Some choose baseball. Some have chess teams with great resources, coaching, and enrollment. Nobody has it all.
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    Lisle

    I I believe the majority of Lisle is actually in the Naperville North district and maybe a few others. The school Lisle is not inclusive of the town. I think it is actually a fairly small-ish subsection of Lisle. If kids in the Lisle district play in feeder programs with kids who go to NN, the...
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    ESCC merging with the CCL for all sports

    My hope would be that the football formula doesn't change. Other sports do need some type of geography consideration. Football should continue to be dictated by competitive balance and maximizing playoff opportunities for the league with geography not even in consideration. I hope they don't...
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    ESCC merging with the CCL for all sports

    Marian had to be the roughest. The ESCC was a really good boys league. It was a good girls league for lots of girls sports too, but the quantity of girls schools was just too low. Only 7 schools, sometimes only fielding 5-6 varsity teams in each sport. So this makes sense most of all for the...
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    Are we just going to act like this didn’t happen?

    I am pretty sure Matt Rhule was disappointed when he saw this all play out too. Doesn't matter the program, it is not a good look. I would think there would be more people up in arms if a program with the eyeballs of Michigan was the hat picked up and tossed aside. Wouldn't want the program I...
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    Are we just going to act like this didn’t happen?

    I find it impossible to believe that, if a kid is going to put forth a big production like this, that the parents are not either a) heavily involved in the planning to the point of basically planning it themselves or at least b) having long, meaningful conversations about what a blessing...
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    JCA 25 SCHEDULE?

    I agree 5 wins looks hard to find given how that may be the toughest schedule in the state, or at least among the top handful for sure. That said, I would have looked far and wide for a few winnable week 1 and 2 games to help find 5 wins. That said, with the bump to 6A and knowing you need to...
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    JCA 25 SCHEDULE?

    Week 1 LT @ Joliet Catholic at Joliet Memorial Stadium. JC's first 5 weeks are LT, GW, Fenwick, Marist, Naz. They must feel really good about what they have coming back and coming up the pipeline at JC to schedule that aggressively. Those first 5 weeks are brutal. Then the back half of the...
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    Q of the Week: So who is the Preseason #1 ranked IHSA Football Team in Illinois?

    Yes SR petitioning up is an interesting one. Kind of puzzling after getting smacked around by Rochester, a perennial 4A power that was bumped up to 5A one year, that they felt the need to abdicate the 5A/6A bubble and head to 7A. I assume it is simply a case of 3-4 peer schools (MC, SR, BR, and...
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    New Stadiums/ Renovations

    I really don't understand the opposition. I get the NIMBY movement that have held up improvements at many suburban campuses over the years, but this one seems like a choice between an academic/athletic setting or getting rezoned to commercial (Dollar General) or residential (fairly low cost...
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    Q of the Week: So who is the Preseason #1 ranked IHSA Football Team in Illinois?

    Yep. They have interesting pieces. Great to have a returning QB who showed some ability to make plays, a standout DE, and a LB type who I believe can help out at FB/RB as well. But the sheer volume of needing to replace just under 20 starters puts a strain on a school of around 300 boys. That...
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    New Stadiums/ Renovations

    In looking at the GPS and because they mentioned tennis courts, I assume they may be planning on knocking out the current tennis courts along Ingalls to make a walkway or parking lot heading to the new facility. Agree that it is aggressive, especially if it includes overhauling existing...
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