They absolutely need to. Don’t see it happening for many years sadly. Really should be 3 schools all with their own town and sense of community.
No doubt Dekalb is in a geographic and competitive bind. The DVC was the least awful of their few options. They are about 40 miles to Naperville. SPC a little worse geographically.
Had it on the EDGY Nation board over a month ago.....\along with much more potential conference shakeups coming
The Oswegos aren’t going to leave the Plainfield’s and Yorkville/Minooka.
And they went to the Upstate Eight for a few years before joining the SPC. They had a couple of 9-0 seasons.
The Oswegos turned down the DVC multiple times over the years despite the fact that the Plainfields and Oswegos are a nice fit with the Naperville 203 and Indian Prairie 204 schools (Waubonsie, Metea, Neuqua).
I guess that's why they want back in. If I was the Upstate Eight I would tell them to F off, as they have bolted twice on the Upstate Eight.
Yeah, not sure why they stacked all of the good teams on one side, and the mostly crappy teams on the other. It's not enrollment based. Weird.
And being next to Romeoville, Joliet, Plainfield if they keep it geographic that's the side of the conference we'd be in. I suppose they could move Plainfield Central over. If they were to just sub us in for West Aurora that could be interesting. But I'm still driving to Yorkville.
No they aren't leaving. This was in response to the comment that Minooka should split, and they should and will eventually down the road. If the Minooka district ever builds a third building in Shorewood and splits into Shorewood, Minooka, and Channahon schools, then Minooka would no longer be Minooka. It would be one third of its current self.
Indeed it would, might be a struggle in many others though. Baseball would be real tough. That being said, my window of attending more than 2-3 games a year is closing
It's not. Kids who go to minooka literally live across the street from Plainfield South. The split has never made sense other than to make the lesser than schools accept the split
That latter scenario would be... interesting. Where would NC/NN end up? WSC Silver (PW slides over to Gold) or DuKane?
When the DVC broke up the WWS, WN, GN & LP all did not want NV due to size they were content to stay as a 6 team conference and try to wait for Bat/ Gen or StE & StN to leave the U8 and join them instead they all left and formed a new conference without NN & NC. The break up of the original DVC wasn't football driven it was driven by other sports which is rare. The relationship between Wheaton and Naperville schools isn't what it once was so I don't know if the would ever take them in the DuKane.
