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    July Competitive Balance committee minutes: Must read

    IMHO, already Week 0 Friday as early as August 14th has a bad feel. I sense a Week 10 with 96 qualifying teams sitting at home could be similar. One and done for this format more likely than not?
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    H-F Delays Start of School Year

    As logical as much of the above seems, off-site work-arounds for sanctioned practices never materialized. "You were either 'in' or you were 'out' with no such thing as 'life in-between.'" I would imagine insurance issues ruled to override alternatives.
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    H-F Delays Start of School Year

    https://www.hfhighschool.org/ With athletics on the same storm delay, one wonders how getting enough practices to participate in a Week 1 game works. I know "back in the day," during an active time of August teacher strikes, games were forfeited as striking schools could not participate in...
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    How Many Wins are Needed to make the Playoffs Now?

    Current softened playoff qualification brings back to my mind 1 anecdotal story of an 8-1 IHSA team in 1978 that stayed home from the tournament. On a Week 9 Saturday afternoon, two 8-0 teams from the same conference met for "all the marbles" in a "winner take all" game. The contest went into...
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    With the season 2 weeks away what teams do you miss?

    LW North, if only to see how things might have played out for the 4 D210 schools (along with the rest of the SWSC) without that closure.
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    Competitive Balance July tidbits

    The NCAA attaching no eligibility for post-season games of any kind (CFP. conference championship) for a transfer would effectively close the portal at that level - likely a low probability occurrence, however. With the IHSA, though, no playoff participation or varsity play for transfers might...
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    Competitive Balance July tidbits

    "Interesting," you bet!! Furthermore, the participation restrictions for players using athletics-influenced transfer would be a bombshell. Wonder if the latter idea has even been floated for NCAA portal chaos.
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    What Year(s) Was IHSA Football at its Peak?

    I should have included in this post the on-air Blazing Trojan stunt by the duo in illustrating the former Bloom Trail HS mascot. That created a buzz at the time.
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    Top Conferences

    Stripping the 3 "Valley" schools and Dekalb from the league, leaving straight Southwest Suburban Conference membership, definitely greased a path for the SWSC in the ranking here.
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    Will BR Clock LWE to Open?

    Two southwest and south suburban examples come to mind from recent years and you can fill-in-the-Xs: LEXXXX & HX. No disrespect intended to either program and the high bars still trying to be reached at both places.
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    Will BR Clock LWE to Open?

    The carry-over effect of tough non-cons in Weeks 1 & 2 may be further diminished for those teams idled for an extra week due to qualifying for the bye in the playoffs. These squads potentially face 2+ months between their biggest tests.
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    Favorite TV Announcers for IHSA Football,

    Going W-A-Y back in college football, a mini-golden age was in place for color commentators from the mid-70s to mid-80s. Using successful former head coaches in the booth like Bud Wilkinson (OK), Darrell Royal (TX), Ara Parseghian (ND), Frank Broyles (ARK) and Lou Holtz (ARK before ND) was...
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    SouthWest Prairie thread 2026 also SouthWest and West Burbs talk

    During the '24 and '25 seasons of the now-disbanded Southwest Valley Conference, here are the records of all 15 teams when playing a SWC opponent in either a in-division, playoff, cross-over or elective non-con game: LWE (12-2), NN (11-4), LWW (10-4), SNDBRG (10-5), LCKPRT (10-7), B-B & LWC...
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    What Year(s) Was IHSA Football at its Peak?

    How about the days of Pat Disabato and the late Jeff Ponczak from the south and southwest suburban local cable Coaches Corner Show along with their writings in the Tinley Park Star newspaper? A real couple of characters were they.
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    What Year(s) Was IHSA Football at its Peak?

    To me, the IHSA peak was reached before the ego-driven and unsportsmanlike behavior on the field starting filtering down to the HS level from the pro and college ranks. The IHSA officials (or those leading them) let the genie out of the bottle on the antics and it has diminished the playing...
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