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    Bears

    No denying the facility was in great shape, but horse racing in Illinois lost its monopoly on the legalized gambling/betting market with the advent of casinos and sports betting. Times change. If the entire enterprise had been perfectly good, it would have been turning such a profit that the...
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    Bears

    This is all a typical Illinois fustercluck. If AH doesn't happen, it will be because of the dysfunction and small minds that exist in our state legislature. Quite frankly, I want the stadium development in Arlington Heights for reasons other than the Bears. If the Bears alone were driving my...
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    Lake Zurich head coach goes to Barrington

    What with schools recruiting for teachers in the late winter/early spring for the following school year and school boards needing to approve new hires, I'm surprised these kind of late school year coaching moves don't happen more frequently.
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    CCL/ESCC schedules for 2026

    Agreed. With the new playoff qualification structure, it should be easier for schools like Rice to find in state opponents. Perhaps Hoopeston has an opening week 2? ;)
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    Who will we see in Bloomington 2026? ---ok maybe too soon

    Who gives a crap what hometowns they are from?
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    N/M

    What, no Mendel Monarchs? No Marillac North Stars? No Seton Sting?
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    Caravan on ESPN

    At the same time? As these are my two favorite food groups, I'm intrigued!
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    Caravan on ESPN

    Does someone piss in your Wheaties every morning, or is it just your nature to be taking needless shots?
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    IHSA competitive balance committee minutes

    A "fair question" to whom? Trust me, public schools wouldn't share that "common concern" if they hadn't already gotten bounced by private schools in the earlier rounds. What you are suggesting is not only highly discriminatory, but it opens the door to other public schools to have "concerns"...
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    IHSA competitive balance committee minutes

    That 31-point spanking at the hands of ICCP in the 2022 3A title game is still stinging his butt. Disregard the fact that loss to ICCP is their ONLY football playoff loss to a private school since 1995, you know it's sticking in his craw for sure. The ridiculous proposals serve to make him look...
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    IHSA competitive balance committee minutes

    Like most proposals to "even the playing field," it employs a hammer to address a situation that calls for a tweezers. It is also not well thought out. Take a private school like SHG, for example. If you take all the boundaried public schools in a 30-mile radius from SHG in Springfield, what...
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    IHSA competitive balance committee minutes

    You misread my hypothetical NIPL playoffs. It would be three classes of 8-team brackets resulting in 24 qualifiers, not 48. Three games to win a title, not four. Honestly, if the privates and publics split, the boundaried public schools can do whatever they want. A split is a split. The...
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    IHSA competitive balance committee minutes

    I honestly don't know. I have no take. I do think, though, that the early involvement by non-Chicago area private schools would help entice similar schools to join. If the schools you mentioned plus others like QND, Althoff, Alleman, etc. see this as a Chicago area association, they will be...
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    IHSA competitive balance committee minutes

    I've never asked public schools to work harder and get better to win anything other than playoff games or titles in their own classes with similarly sized schools, but you knew that and asked the question anyway because you probably thought it was clever. Instead, it was a specious question...
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    IHSA competitive balance committee minutes

    I would imagine your conference may also have had a relatively large discrepancy in terms of enrollments because, to some degree, beggars can't be choosers. Sometimes, a game is a game, and it can't always be a perfect fit. Although some parts of Illinois are fairly unpopulated relative to the...
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