Weird having my name brought up 45 years after I played high school football. I have a brother who played at IC in the 60's and two brothers who were phenomenal basketball players at IC. I (Mark Morgan) played for Jack Lewis from 74-76 and the description of IC football was spot on. Those...
Years ago, I was officiating a basketball game in the old Private School League between Timothy Christian and Nazareth. TC was leading and taunting the Nazareth student body. Their response was classic "We got football, we got football."
JUCO football did a lot of good for myself and a lot of other guys that I went to the College of DuPage with. When I went there we played on high school fields on Saturday nights and practiced at old Lewis University. The Head Football Coach was the only full-time employee of the school and...
I'm sure he'd already retired from the public school system when he left Downers South. He was the head coach there for 24 years. I believe he was assisting Brian Casey ACC when Brian went to Montini. It was a natural fit to hire him with his son being there. His son is graduating, and he...
There is precedent for the state overruling an official's "call" after the game has been completed. A few years back when Jereme Richmond played for Waukegan basketball, he was ejected from the sectional final that Waukegan won. The first T was for arguing with the ref. The second T was for...
I'm not sure where in any of my posts I've stated that I feel oppressed. I most certainly don't. Playing the martyr card-again I'm not sure where that comes from, I certainly don't feel like a martyr. I was just stating my opinion on a subject. Interesting that I bring up a comment about...
I don't know. Everyone has their own line, but in this situation the line has been drawn for us as the law states that it is illegal to lead prayer in a public setting. My issue with this and other similar situations is we have created a society of extreme political correctness - if what we do...