Who is your top rival?
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Marist v Brother Rice is classic. Rice likes to minimize it. But it’s real.
For playoffs sure, but to be a rival I feel like it needs to be an annual game, or at least meeting on a regular basis.
Very strange to see the new mascot (see update above) adorning field, helmets, etc. I wonder if the cannon has been retired as well.
For MC it's Rita. Always has been, always will be. 105 games played between them. MC holds the advantage in the W column but a lot of those wins didn't come easily. It's a Rivalry but there is also a great amount of respect.
The WIVC has some very good, hated rivalries! Coached against Dan B at Greenfield and Ric Johns at Hardin-Calhoun and played against Carrollton... its always a great environment!!!
In Steve Soucie’s latest playoff projection, he has both JCA and Naz going South.
All.... JCA 100% for sure. Nazareth still a bit of wait and see when the qualifiers are announced where they get slotted. Ratsy
Yep, and it's not even close. However, when I was in school we always got along with CC kids. We actually disliked the Braidwood kids. Maybe it's changed now but who knows.
Braidwood can't be our rival because the skill level (for football) is not on the same planet.
Same here. I still have plenty of Coaler buddies. Although I will add that I/we had friends from Braidwood as a lot of R-C kids grew up in Wilmo. At least around my era.
Coal City is Wilmo’s chief rival in football, but there definitely seems to be a mutual respect between the two programs.
Coal City QB’s father and also his uncle were both very good players for Wilmo back in the day.
R-C would/could be up there as a rival for sure, but their football program has beaten Wilmo like once in the past 20 years. I thought maybe something would have developed over there, but they seem to be going backwards again and we’ve already had that discussion.
I really thought this read "Coal City QB's father is also his uncle" when I first read it.....and I thought "makes sense"
HahaI really thought this read "Coal City QB's father is also his uncle" when I first read it.....and I thought "makes sense"
Not cool. (But kinda funny)
Yeah CC QB1 dad was a defensive end. I think he played college ball at St. Francis. He was on Reents’ first playoff team.
His uncle was starting QB for Wilmo a couple years before Reents got there, but they made the playoffs.
You are correct with Sycamore this day in age as that was a Little 7 conference foe from way back when, but I must disagree with you a bit that Minooka was a far bigger rival than Morris had with Oswego. I can remember some bloodbaths between the two than I can with Oswego.
I'm the opposite. I remember battles with Oswego throughout the '90's. I did think about Minooka, but they rarely had good teams back then and I can only remember them beating Morris twice. When it came to winning the conference it was usually between Morris and Oswego with Geneva sprinkled in every few years.
SHG vs Rochester is recent and well-known. Father vs son. Teams that scrimmage in the offseason. Often the top 2 teams in the conference.
SHG vs Springfield HS because the schools are literally down the street from each other. The kids know each other. They grew up together. It's not always a competitive game due to program ebbs and flows, but the emotion is there. I remember seeing a "God Loves Us For Free" sign around 2008/2009 while watching my brother's game on the SHG side.
SHG vs Springfield HS because the schools are literally down the street from each other. The kids know each other. They grew up together. It's not always a competitive game due to program ebbs and flows, but the emotion is there. I remember seeing a "God Loves Us For Free" sign around 2008/2009 while watching my brother's game on the SHG side.
Fewick Naz was a basketball rivalry for a bit in the 90s into 2000s. The hatred was there...
From the mid-70’s through the early 90’s the Geneva/Morris rivalry made Geneva/Batavia look like child’s play.
If I recall correctly, Geneva is one of only two schools to have a historical series advantage on Morris.
I'd like to see Morris and JCA renew their rivalry with some non-con matchups.
It used to be Geneseo for sure but after last Friday Sterling has won the last 10 straight so they havint been as much of a rivalry as of lately.
