Can't help but feel for Coach Schlemmer. He's a great coach and an extremely positive guy, but there wasn't much he could say during the post game interview. He's built a phenomenal program at Sterling that I think has arguably been the best public school program in class 5a over the past 4 years. As a long time Sterling fan, I would love to see them eventually bring home a state championship, but games like this...and Montini last year...and Philips the year before just show the enormous talent gap that exists between the top level private schools in the Chicagoland area and Sterling. It stands to reason though. Those private schools draw from a population of over 1 million people and compete against sterling who draws from a population of 15,000. It's a completely different set of rules that those teams are constructed under, and it takes a generationally special public school team to win against these private schools that reload the exact same level of teams almost every year.