Sandburg still manages to pull some athletes in wrestling and baseball. Certain girls sports seem to have taken a big hit in recent years, too.
Let’s have some fun: Most overrated program each year is….
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I don’t believe Sandburg is overrated. I can’t remember the last time they were good. In the past 20 years when we’re they a threat to win the state title?
Ever since Driscoll closed I’ve thought their program has been over rated. Montini’s and IC’s success is always looped in Driscoll.
“Montini and IC are great now and are doing it with the Driscoll kids”.
“This program is good now because they have Driscoll coaches”
When Driscoll closed it’s doors, the team wasn’t as good as the previous teams.
“Montini and IC are great now and are doing it with the Driscoll kids”.
“This program is good now because they have Driscoll coaches”
When Driscoll closed it’s doors, the team wasn’t as good as the previous teams.
The team was not overrated but the coaches never scheduled higher enrollment tough non-con games. But during their run they always had the top 2 or 3 players (Turner, Schwabe, Tranchatella, Jenkins) in the conference as well were the toughest team mentally and pound for pound easily in the SCC. They also had a great weapon at kicker named Rick Albreski who would never miss a kick even going as far out as 58 yards.
That conference, the SCC has 2 or 3x more state titles then any other conference since year 2000. So that itself shows they were great teams.
Upon closing they still had some talent but lost to a new upcoming power Aurora Christian in which Chad Beebe now is playing for the Minnesota Vikings.
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I always really liked the tradition that was Driscoll, but I really wish that they would have played better programs for their nonconference games. I argue with some colleagues all of the time that those Driscoll teams could’ve hung with some bigger schools. Too bad we will never really know.
They did have some really good players, but I also agree that they were pound for pound extremely tough kids.
After Greg Turner's senior year JCA came to Driscoll to play a 7 on 7 in the summer. It was a lot of fun to watch the two schools on the same field but in the back of my mind was why did not these 2 teams schedule a non-con game in the past?
Another time both Driscoll and Addison Trail were playing a playoff game at the same time. For those of you who do not know the two schools are right next door to each other. Driscoll was blowing out their opponent and Providence beat Addison Trail bad right next door. All I could think about during the game was how great it would be if Providence was playing at Driscoll that day.
I'm sure Driscoll could compete with the larger schools but sometimes you just have to play them first before learning how to beat them.
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Makes me think about how many games could be played simultaneously at Joliet's Motor Speedway....even the drag racing venue could have a sod or field turf bed rolled.
Half of my hometown's still hangin' around
Still talkin' about that one touchdown
They're still wearin' red and black
Go Bobcats, while the other half
Of my hometown, they all got out
Some went north, some went south
Still lookin' for a feelin' half of us ain't found
Even Kelsea Ballerini is on the red and black theory.
Still talkin' about that one touchdown
They're still wearin' red and black
Go Bobcats, while the other half
Of my hometown, they all got out
Some went north, some went south
Still lookin' for a feelin' half of us ain't found
Even Kelsea Ballerini is on the red and black theory.
As a member of the Lake Park community the issue is not that we are a large school (IHSA has us our enrollment at 2,593) and should be achieving more, but that our other boys sports are excelling in State Playoffs & football cannot even qualify. Boys track won 4 straight State Championships in 2010, 11, 12 & 2013, and took second in State in 2014. Boys baseball had a 2nd place finish in State in 2021 & a 3rd place finish in 2018. Boys VB took 2nd in State in 2021, 3rd in 2017, and 4th in 2014. Boys soccer took 3rd in State in 2014. This winter either the Tribune or Sun-Times did a piece on the winningest basketball programs in the past decade and LP was listed.
It is not as if we do not have talent on the gridiron; one former player is in the Carolinas Panthers camp, one is playing for Oklahoma, one for Michigan State, as well as many others.
So yes, we have been underachieving. New football coach (Kradman for Maine West) will hopefully turn things around for us!
Huntley needs to get out of the FVC if they ever want to do anything in the playoffs, Playing in a closed conference with most of the schools smaller than them is doing nothing but padding their regular season records. They need to get into a 8A conference if they every want to do anything in the playoffs.
Yes and I had long brown hair and viewable abs back then! I am thinking more over last 15-20 years as Prospect also had a great run in early 2000s but what have you done for me lately.
And right on cue, Mike O'Brien has Hinsdale Central at No. 8 in the Sun-Times preseason ranking. Mike O'Brien, though, is far from infallible. Yesterday he claimed that JCA has won 14 state football titles, which is verifiably untrue. 13 is good, 13 is outstanding, but 13 isn't 14.
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Did you see Wheaton North last year? I guess @EdgyTim is pandering to with his ranking of them right? They have two loaded classes and return a ton of starters from last years team that went 5-1. If you don’t think they are top 10 team you are crazy.
Meh. He’s got them 5th in 7A behind all my CCLB boys. Good luck to North. Again, they won’t accomplish anything in the playoffs. They aren’t even a top 20 team. Go 9-0 or 8-1 and lose in the 2nd round. Guaranteed. That’s top 10 worthy? Yikes. Let’s just rank everyone in the Top 10. Garbage.
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Ah, but they’ll be in the playoffs every year.
I will say with confidence, HC’s goal every year is to be conference Champion, and State Champion. Do they reach the goal every year? No. But that is the attitude and culture for HC Football.
They do get a lot of kids every year to try lay at the next level - partly because universities know they’ll likely graduate. So don’t knock the kids who are going out every week, playing the team in front of them, and giving that team everything HC brings.
I wouldn't sleep on the Falcons this year..
As far as overrated, I would say most Naperville schools..
Will someone please think of the children?!?!?
13 is not 14 but 14 is 14:
| Title | Year | Class | Head Coach |
| 1 | 1975 | 4A | Gillespie |
| 2 | 1976 | 4A | Gillespie |
| 3 | 1977 | 4A | Gillespie |
| 4 | 1978 | 4A | Gillespie |
| 5 | 1981 | 5A | Gillespie |
| 6 | 1987 | 5A | Boyter |
| 7 | 1990 | 4A | Stone |
| 8 | 1999 | 4A | Sharp |
| 9 | 2000 | 4A | Sharp |
| 10 | 2001 | 5A | Sharp |
| 11 | 2003 | 5A | Sharp |
| 12 | 2004 | 5A | Sharp |
| 13 | 2007 | 6A | Sharp |
| 14 | 2018 | 5A | Jaworski |
Okay, excuse me while I wipe the egg off my face. I was looking at JCA's Home Page, which should be updated.
While we're at, it would be great if Mount Carmel added the rosters their site.
Don't beat yourself up because Lake Park has had to play in a very tough football conference the last 15 years. Not the easiest place to go even 7-2.
A few schools over the past 10 years IMO that haven't lived up to expectations or just maybe caught a bad bread in the playoffs include Hinsdale Central, HF and Huntley.
Not understanding the reasoning here. I am no HC apologist, as a matter of fact we should eat them. But if they dont win 8A they were overrated at #8? Even if there are 8A teams ranked higher than them? Can someone explain it?
i think the criticism isn’t that they haven’t won a title, it’s the fact that they have not advanced beyond the second round in each of their last 9 playoff appearances.
Outside of a loss to Sandburg, who everyone here thinks should be champs every year somehow, I don't see them losing to any bad programs in the post season. Sure, you'd like to see more deep runs, but each and every one of those games they lost is a pick em by name or they were the dogs.
Although I never thought Sandburg should be a champ! Hahaha
Bones I believe your Raiders will put up a fight against Minooka, keep the faith. 👍
Yeah, I don't think anyone inside the conference does. But we've seen plenty discussions here about how Sandburg should be in the semi's at a minimum every year, somehow. Of all the lunacy I see here that is probably the most inexplicable.
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But the fact remains that they have not advanced in the playoffs. Every year they finish the regular season ranked pretty high and then fold in the playoffs.
But still pretty high on overall 8A wins. That tells me there's a lot of parity outside of the top 3. So, who should be there instead? For example, I just looked at Edgy's top 30. SCN is above us......again. SCN will probably go farther than we go in the playoffs (if we make the playoffs). Are they better though?
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