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    Who Is Your Second Favorite Team to Follow? Or Huddle App Favorite Teams?

    Favorites to follow - Wilmington, LeWin, Prairie Ridge Love to Hate - St. Teresa, Maroa-Forsyth, El Paso-Gridley,
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    Lena Winslow vs Benet

    Lena is the exception not the rule. Not many small school programs are willing to punch up and still compete like Lena. You also got NUIC Morrison playing Wilmington in week 2. The NUIC doesn't shy away from tough games. Definitely one of the issues of closed conferences, you don't know how...
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    ICE Team Previews

    I wouldn't be surprised to see a Wilmington and EPG matchup late in the playoffs. Of course Wilmington will need to be 2A for that to happen. TV will probably be in the mix as well.
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    What Year(s) Was IHSA Football at its Peak?

    The Old Okaw was dominated by Central A&M but St. Teresa and Monticello had a few good years sprinkled in there. Even Macon made it to a title game. SJO and Tolono were in another conference and had some epic games but both dominated their conference. Then expansion happened when Tuscola was...
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    Litchfield Will Not Play Varsity FB in '26

    You have to take into account the size, abily, and skill of the younger players. Kids aren't as active and don't have the perseverance your group in Kincaid. Why go out and get pounded every week by kids who are 3-4 years older than you? How will that benefit these kids? Then next summer rolls...
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    What Year(s) Was IHSA Football at its Peak?

    Attendance and new playoff system aside, I think IHSA football is in a pretty good in what is happening on the field. With ISU and U of I doing well we have seen a lot of kids stay local for college and even seen some small school kids get national attention. The media coverage isn't what it...
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    Byron Football

    How many IHSA had the opportunity this kid has for his future? Sure there are several but this kid chose his future over a season of football. What is wrong with that? No matter the decision it is the right decision. The kid and the people around him have his best interests in mind.
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    What if bordering districts combined programs?

    Some thoughts... Tolono and SJO Monticello and Tolono Wilmington and Coal City Coal City and Morris Lena and Stockton - already combine for wrestling Washington and Metamora Byron and Stillman Valley
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    What if bordering districts combined programs?

    What two neighboring districts would be fun to see combined into one team?
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    How Many Wins are Needed to make the Playoffs Now?

    Hypothetical, if this is a one and done experiment, and a 3-6 CCL makes a run, are they then multiplied if it goes back to the old system?
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    Byron Football

    No idea if the kid is playing or not. Hope he does but think of this as a Return on Investment. Yes the football culture helped him, that's the Investment and he has a heck of a return coming, NCAA or MLB. He plays, gets injured, he will lose NIL money or the opportunity to play on the MLB...
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    Minonk (Fieldcrest)

    How exactly do you know that these small towns are filled with "hard noses kids?" The issue with Fieldcrest is a multitude of small things. 1. These hard nosed kids haven't been very successful the past few years so losing games usually doesn't help get kids they don't play to play. 2. JFL...
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    Minonk (Fieldcrest)

    Hopefully their enrollment ONLY goes down 10-15% in 3-5 years. In a school like Fieldcrest, that's 20-25 kids, my guess is they will be losing 50+ in that time. Unless they get some type of housing development or the aging farmers start reproducing like bunnies, we will see more of this...
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    The IHSA "We Screwed Up Please Cover For Us" Proposal Has Passed

    I'm not so sure this system lasts more than 1 year.
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    Youth Sports…

    In my experience, which is somewhat minimal in this department, when talking to kids who played a lot of travel ball, after all is said and done, they didn't have very enjoyable experiences. As sophs kids are all in for travel but by junior year, they are burnt out and don't even want to play...
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