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    Florida’s new Open Division for the playoffs

    To my knowledge, this 2026-27 window is the only time they have ever petitioned up. They have been 7A naturally most of the last decade. So this would have been their first time in 6A in some time. Habitual thorn in the side to Batavia Nazareth being bumped up to 6a and ESL being there...
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    Florida’s new Open Division for the playoffs

    Is there anybody in the state who disagrees with that assessment? I’m sure there are a few who pride themselves on thumping their chests and always playing the best. But most coaches in a 20-30 year career would rather look back on that 2024 3A state title as opposed to that one year they had a...
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    Florida’s new Open Division for the playoffs

    Saw that and like most people didn’t like it. So I applied it in a way that made more sense and that more people would prefer. Pool play is dumb. sounds like the rankings I used were a bit off though. I agree with edgy that not many coaches who would be forced up to an open class would love...
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    Florida’s new Open Division for the playoffs

    What's not to like (although admittedly it would be great to have ESL included as well)? A bracket that looks like.... 1 MC 8 Fremd 4 Fenwick 5 Naz 2 BR 7 MS 3 Montini 6 LWE But I agree with Edgy. It is unlikely. Just about 100 percent of coaches would rather win a lower class than be...
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    If You Could Add A Team to Your Conference Who Would You Like to Add?

    I will take Morris to the Mid Illini to get some matchups with Metamora and Washington. Or Morris to the Southwest Prairie. Or Morris to the CCL or Big Twelve. Really anywhere but where they currently are.
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    If You Could Add A Team to Your Conference Who Would You Like to Add?

    I know this is a hypothetical that will never happen, but ESL playing a Chicagoland team once a season makes sense to play in the middle at Bloomington. But if they legitimately had 7-9 Chicagoland games a season, I am sure they would rather do home and homes. 4 trips to Chicago or 8 consecutive...
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    Summer reading sugestions?

    If you havent read Across the River about the New Orleans Edna Karr football program, that is a fascinating book. Totally dysfunctional place for kids to grow up and a football program and coaching staff that obviously cares about the kids but does things regularly that will make your jaw drop.
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    Bears

    Welcome to the 2033 IHSA State Football Championship in Hammond, Indiana! But hey, if it's indoors, I would happily go watch 8 games in 72 degree weather in late November.....
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    MC going undefeated?

    Are these posted somewhere? Are they going to have the exact same division breakdown for all non football sports? Or will basketball and baseball and soccer all have different division breakdowns?
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    New DePaul HC named

    JCA graduate. Good hire. What happened to the guy who won a 4A title there a couple years ago? Did he coach there in fall 2025? Or resign right after their championship season?
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    High Schools doing any stadium or facility renovations?

    Benet building/rebuilding an entire athletic facility on campus. I assumed it was going to take a few years. Are they not playing at Benedictine in 2026? I hadn't heard the timetable, but I assumed 2026 would be constriction and maybe the turf field installed for practices but then 2027 at the...
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    CCL/ESCC schedules for 2026

    I have no inside knowledge on anything, but it is hard to characterize the situation as JC ducking Montini (defending 4A champ) when JC then a few weeks later ends up with the defending 6A champ as their week 1 opponent. They very well could have declined an overture from Montini. But when...
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    CCL/ESCC schedules for 2026

    This is a very interesting week 1 matchup. JCA sure didn't find any soft opening. My non-sandbagging breakdown of their schedule looks like this..... Favored (1) vs Marian Toss-ups (5) Fenwick, SHG, Laurence, DePaul, St. Pat's Likely underdogs (3) vs PC, MC, IC Don't really know what Pat's...
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    April 14 Competitive Balance Meeting Notes

    Interesting at the end that they seem to commit to trying to avoid a boundary/nonboundary split and instead find bylaw revisions to keep the two sides together. With all the details before that about other state comparisons, etc, I foresee additional classes coming into many sports and also the...
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    CCL/ESCC schedules for 2026

    Really not sandbagging at all. Yes the name says Joliet Catholic. But it's a team that went 4-6 that lost their best defensive players and returns essentially no receiving, rushing, or passing yards. And the only rostered QB's appear to be rising sophs. The frosh were pretty good. The rising...
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