If you could bring back one program....
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They consolidated and still exist, but I miss the Carthage Blueboys before they consolidated and became Illini West. There had some great teams in the late '90's, early '00's.
Too many to list 1. Check out my profile pic here & see if anyone knows who that is. Imagine if Chicago(land) were like it was back in the 70’s & 80’s. They would have a Conference with say St.Joseph, Weber, St.Francis De Sales, Seton Academy, Mendel Catholic & Hales Franciscan. Then another with Christ The King, Leo, Holy Cross, St.Gregory, Luther North & Luther South. That would be so awesome. With the right scheduling you’d get 3 or 4 teams in each Conference in the playoffs!!!! Schools who never or rarely made the playoffs!!!! Also keep the population booming. If that kept happening now only would Lincoln Way North still be going but on here we’d be talking about another school who never came to be but was in the works. Manhattan Illinois was going to be the home to Lincoln Way South High School
It’d also have to be the right situation as stated. If Kankakee Eastridge & Kankakee Westview were open now it’d have short of 800 students each & probably no way they’re playing Crete Monee or schools almost double. I wonder what Conference they’d be in. If only the Sica mess hadn’t happened. Now put them in a situation like back in the 80’s & 1,000 kids each. Joliet East too. If the area were like the 80’s & not a mess then that’d be great. Today? No. I’m a Illini 8 & Sica guy so any of those schools who are gone(Rich East,Rich South,Rich Central open as 3 football programs,Bloom & Bloom Trail separate football programs, Kankakee Eastridge & Kankakee Westview as mentioned, The brief Joliet Township merger never happened)
Gordon Tech. They are DePaul, so the Red Horde! Weber!
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IMO They were never going to beat East unless Z retires. Just wasn’t going to happen.
At the time, North was not in the same conference nor playoff class as East due to smaller enrollment.
Mendel Catholic for football
The Old DePaul for basketball
The Old DePaul for basketball
My father in law is a DePaul Academy alum... he'd love that
The plain old SICA.
Football teams moved up/down based on success.
Worked well and eliminated Stagg vs LWE or Joliet West/Central vs HF
Football teams moved up/down based on success.
Worked well and eliminated Stagg vs LWE or Joliet West/Central vs HF
The Walnut Blue Raiders.
13x Blackhawk Conference Champs
9x Indian Valley Conference East Champs
Streak of 10 straight 1A playoff appearances from 79 to 88. During that time the school made the quarterfinals 6 times, was a semi-finalist 1 time, and made the championship game in 1982 where they lost to Zeigler-Royalton 7-6.
Co-op with LaMoille to start the 1989 season. School closed in 1995.
13x Blackhawk Conference Champs
9x Indian Valley Conference East Champs
Streak of 10 straight 1A playoff appearances from 79 to 88. During that time the school made the quarterfinals 6 times, was a semi-finalist 1 time, and made the championship game in 1982 where they lost to Zeigler-Royalton 7-6.
Co-op with LaMoille to start the 1989 season. School closed in 1995.
Division membership was based on enrollment and geography. Re-alignments and division addition/subtraction happened when schools or districts joined or left SICA.
The old Chicago Prep Conference. PSM, Holy Trinity, St. Benedict, Hales, Luther South and North, Quigley South and North
What year was this? I know W.V. was booted and Kaneland left after I graduated but don’t recall Yorkville and Minooka replacing them.
Coach Percy, what years are you talking here ? As long as I can remember Luther South and North were members of the Private School League.
Late 80s early 90s......I went to PSM 90-92. Had some great wars in basketball vs these teams
Holy Cross. It was always a guaranteed win and a chance to pad your stats.
I would bring back Cheers or Seinfeld. Those were great programs.
We finished runner up to Luther South in the state finals in track my senior year.
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Weber was a class program ... the priests who ran the school messed up badly. They decided to put all their support behind sister school Gordon Tech.
I just think Weber had a lot of competition in its diasporal pathways (Viator, ic, Dris, NND, HC-Gue, LA and publics in associated suburbs) and competition for becomng a MC/SR type campus in the changing FW/NW side. and GT had the advantage of being closer to the gentrifying north lakefront (which it finallyserms to be paying off).
Some dominant Class A track/field teams from Luther South for a decade-plus starting in the early '80s. That included a year (80-81) when Mike Conley, Sr. won 4 individual events (100, 200, LJ, TJ) to score all 40 of South's points to win the runner-up trophy single-handedly, behind champ Chicago Leo at 46 points. Conley went on to excel at the highest levels at both the collegiate (Arkansas) and world (Olympic gold medalist) stages. In hoops at Luther South, his team won Class A title his junior year and runner-up as a senior. A most-decorated, elite athlete from a modest 87th & Kedzie.
Not sure what that has to do with anything.
They were on the other side of the conference and in a different class size in the playoffs.
But, just a reminder, Z never won a state championship without the kids who would have gone to LWN attending East.
People in Frankfort Square need to move on. The school should have never been opened. It was a huge mistake and a waste of tax payers money. No fault of the kids but this entire situation was a travesty. My kids grew up in Frankfort Square and went to East long before North was ever opened. In my mind these kids in the square are now back home at East. I think it’s the parents are having a more difficult time with the closing. I think coach Z has done an excellent job managing the north kids and parents to bring them back together.
Some good assistant coaches also came over from North and some still remain on the varsity staff there at East.
The Luther South team that won the state basketball title had 3 or 4 of their starting 5 end up playing D1 basketball- not including Conley. They had some unbelievable athletes pass through their hallways
Conley only played as a freshman for the Razorbacks before concentrating totally on track/field using HOF hoops coach Eddie Sutton's guidance.
Also, and this could be "Frankfort Square disinformation," but I remember hearing after LWN closed, that every all-conference player from LWE the next season was a kid that played at North the previous one. Tough to verify, but maybe some poster reading this thread might have the input on this statement?