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4Afan

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Who on your favorite team do you wish had a 5th year of eligibility? Has to be the year after the player graduated, you can't put the 1993 QB on the 2008 team and it can only be one player, no taking the entire OL from 2004 and put them on the 2005 team.

Would that player have made the difference between where they ended up and a title? Would he have made the team the year after he graduated even more dominant? Would he have been a better fit on the team the year after he graduated?
 
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JCHillmen

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4Afan said:
Who on your favorite team do you wish had a 5th year of eligibility? Has to be the year after the player graduated, you can't put the 1993 QB on the 2008 team and it can only be one player, no taking the entire OL from 2004 and put them on the 2005 team.

Would that player have made the difference between where they ended up and a title? Would he have made the team the year after he graduated even more dominant? Would he have been a better fit on the team the year after he graduated?
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Chris Jeske getting to play in 05 prevents this whole legend of Dergo.

In the 2004 rain soaked title game, Dergo was held to about 60 yards on around 20 carries.

In 2005, well, something else entirely happened. JC returned almost their entire D line for 2005, but without Jeske and the linebacking corps, there wasn't much the JC defense could do to match up with Dergo.

Jeske was just that dominant in 2004.
 
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cornerrat

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All.... This is an easy one for me. QB Bobby Brenneisen for SHG. In all four years never lost a game at the helm. Back to back 5A titles in 2005 and 2006 as the varsity starter. Now the Cyclones have always had great qb's and 2007 was no different. QB Tim Dondanville but a JR with not much experience. Cycs go 8-1 in the regular season and lose at home round one against PC in Class 6A action. Fwiw the following year Tim leads his team to the 6A title.

Would of loved to see Bobby go up against that very good 2007 Hilltopper team which would of been a semi and get my bucket list almost completed. Ratsy
 
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CCHS-Fan

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I would have simply taken a 4th year of football for Carmel Catholic B-back Brandon Ziemann.

Running TO as a Soph he ripped off (2) 50+yd touchdown runs in week 9 @ JCA in 2001 in an old CMC White conference contest. CCHS missed a FG and an xtra point and lost 28-25.

He played in 2002 and had great production, then hung up his FB cleats to focus on baseball, which earned him a scholarship to Boston College. Hence, CCHS turned to John Popovich as his replacement, and he performed nicely.

What could have been for B Ziemann and that fantastic OL in 2003…
 
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trapps1

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I would have loved to see Gabe Green come back for a 5'th year in 2015. Most likely had that been the case SHG defeats Crete-Monee in a quarterfinal round game (which admittedly) we played very poorly especially in the first half but made a huge come back and made it more than interesting in the second half. I think with Gabe Green we win that game and go on to the semi-final that was played in a snowstorm. Then on to the championship which would have been a third straight title game with Montini, who if I'm not mistaken probably had their best team ever under coach Andriano.
 
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Anon1754760634

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cornerrat said:
All.... This is an easy one for me. QB Bobby Brenneisen for SHG. In all four years never lost a game at the helm. Back to back 5A titles in 2005 and 2006 as the varsity starter. Now the Cyclones have always had great qb's and 2007 was no different. QB Tim Dondanville but a JR with not much experience. Cycs go 8-1 in the regular season and lose at home round one against PC in Class 6A action. Fwiw the following year Tim leads his team to the 6A title.

Would of loved to see Bobby go up against that very good 2007 Hilltopper team which would of been a semi and get my bucket list almost completed. Ratsy
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Saw Bobby at the IHSFCA on Saturday great to get caught up with him.....
 
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rocketnation

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Mike McNicholas started at DE for Rochester as a Sophomore in 2015 and then moved to Linebacker for his Junior and Senior years. He was a key part of the Defense on the 2016 and 2017 championship teams.

In 2018, a Rocket Offense with mostly new starters made major strides under Junior QB Clay Bruno as the season progressed. The Defense had some good moments as well, except for a 45-6 Week 5 drubbing by SHG, until their vulnerability to the run was exposed in the Semifinals. Bishop McNamara RB Tyshon King was pretty much unstoppable in a 52-42 shootout Fighting Irish victory, running for 344 yards. McNicholas had a good mix of size and speed and his presence that day might have at least slowed King down.

Had they won, Rochester would still have faced a very good IC Catholic team in the finals.
 
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Every senior who lost their Fall of 2020 season because of Covid.

Individual player, I was a huge fan of Mike Gentile, class of 96, at MC. He was an outstanding receiver in a veer heavy offense but also played DB. He held MC's career receiving yardage record for over 20 years until it's been recently broken with MC's passing displays the past few years. Mike never won a State Championship at MC. Lost it in a heartbreaker in 1995 but had 2 TD's. MC won it in 96 with a pretty strong passing attack with Jeff Welch, I think he would have had a huge year with him.
 
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DMurph11

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TJ McMillen on SF’s 2023 team. One of the more dominant 2-way lineman I’ve seen at the high school level. High IQ coaches kid with a super high motor.
 
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johnndoe

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5th year? Me: Got hurt during doubles senior year, missed Game 1 and was never the same. My son: Got hurt during a Thursday special teams run-through collision as a senior, missing 1 mid-season game and similarly never the same.
 
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SiuCubFan8

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I was really trying to think of kids that got robbed of their Sr year by injuries or at least of good portion of Sr year.
 
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RoaminCatholic

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Ser Whitaker, Illini West, Class of 2011.

I don't know Ser, but I know Ser was fast. Still the fastest human I've ever seen in football pads in person. Not even kidding. I'd have paid decent money to see him play us 2nd time after the classic that was QND/Illini West in 2010 regular season. But he only go one chance, and he crushed our hearts on a 60+ yard play where the whole world though he was going down, and he just popped up and in a flash, he'd pulled off the biggest regular season upset in Carthage/Illini West history, downing the #1 team in 4A at the time.
 
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Doctor_D

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RoaminCatholic said:
Ser Whitaker, Illini West, Class of 2011.

I don't know Ser, but I know Ser was fast. Still the fastest human I've ever seen in football pads in person. Not even kidding. I'd have paid decent money to see him play us 2nd time after the classic that was QND/Illini West in 2010 regular season. But he only go one chance, and he crushed our hearts on a 60+ yard play where the whole world though he was going down, and he just popped up and in a flash, he'd pulled off the biggest regular season upset in Carthage/Illini West history, downing the #1 team in 4A at the time.
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Best game I think I ever saw (at least top 3) involved him making an incredible play to score a game tying 60+ yd TD on 4th and 20 something very late in the 4th quarter. That dude was faaaast.
 
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rocketnation said:
Mike McNicholas started at DE for Rochester as a Sophomore in 2015 and then moved to Linebacker for his Junior and Senior years. He was a key part of the Defense on the 2016 and 2017 championship teams.

In 2018, a Rocket Offense with mostly new starters made major strides under Junior QB Clay Bruno as the season progressed. The Defense had some good moments as well, except for a 45-6 Week 5 drubbing by SHG, until their vulnerability to the run was exposed in the Semifinals. Bishop McNamara RB Tyshon King was pretty much unstoppable in a 52-42 shootout Fighting Irish victory, running for 344 yards. McNicholas had a good mix of size and speed and his presence that day might have at least slowed King down.

Had they won, Rochester would still have faced a very good IC Catholic team in the finals.
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I would have said Hank Beatty...not just because he got hosed with the Covid year, but because he was just so damn fun to watch.
 
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LTHSALUM76

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SiuCubFan8 said:
Get off my lawn!!!!!!!! Nothing wrong with a fun hypothetical question in the offseason...geez.
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Let's go the other way, then. How about six years of eligibility? Hell, why not make it eight or ten? Why stop anywhere? Eligible till you're 40. 😄 😄
 
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