micahjones said:

You want old school football go see ... Warren vs. York ... for the Semi. I love it ... both were lower seeds. Warren 🎢 is the 27th seed. Just curious what is the lowest 8A seed to make it to the Semi and Finals game ?

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Warren would be the lowest seed to make the semi's in 8A. Lowest seed to win the 8A title was Maine South in 2016 as a #26 seed. Edwardsville made the semi's as a #26 seed in 2017. Other low seeds to make semi's include 2019 when Marist made semi's as a #23 seed and Rice made semi's as a #24 seed.

RPG24 said:

REJOICE!!! I’m leaning towards attending Naperville Central at Lyons Township, does anyone have any intel on this one? I saw LT once at DGN earlier this year and they look great he part. No studs, just a well coached group of guys that play very good team football
Is the Stevenson at LWE game the better choice ? Where should i go Friday ?
I’m also hitting a game Saturday, still undecided on that too, but leaning DGN at Batavia, I’ve never been to a game at Batavia

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NC/Lyons should be a good game with Lyons coming out on top. Don't see Stevenson staying close to LWE. Expect DGN to be favored but Batavia with the home field. IMHO DGN the only team with a chance to knock off Mt. Carmel. MC hitting on all cylinders with QB now more mobile.

LTHSALUM76 said:

Well you gotta have a scapegoat. I was wondering how in hell Eberfool keeps his job. Then it dawned on me. The Bears don't feel like it is punishment enough to fire him. They must feel it is far more punishing to make him stay on this Titanic of a team.

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Yep. Flus is gone on Black Monday. It's obvious they won't fire his ass during the season.

LTHSALUM76 said:

Nine games in and already Williams will be on his second OC. Typical.

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And Eberflus and Poles hired the guy. Another poor personnel move.

ClownBaby said:

The guy was bad but even when he called decent plays Williams has held the ball or had trouble completing easy passes. This may help or it may be more of the same??

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Nine games in and already Williams will be on his second OC. Typical.

MMA_Det said:

This is a game that seems to be on no one’s radar

LWC switched coaches and within 2 years completely turned the program around

I know very little outside of looking at their records

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IMO... Bradley has been flying under the radar all season as a very overrated team. The fruits of a very favorable schedule. LWC should handle this one rather easily. It's been a pretty dream path for both teams in the playoffs. However, it's always an adventure playing down there!

Prep writer said:

Waldron canned. Too little too late.

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Well you gotta have a scapegoat. I was wondering how in hell Eberfool keeps his job. Then it dawned on me. The Bears don't feel like it is punishment enough to fire him. They must feel it is far more punishing to make him stay on this Titanic of a team.

Prep writer said:

Waldron canned. Too little too late.

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The guy was bad but even when he called decent plays Williams has held the ball or had trouble completing easy passes. This may help or it may be more of the same??

Waldron canned. Too little too late.

You want old school football go see ... Warren vs. York ... for the Semi. I love it ... both were lower seeds. Warren 🎢 is the 27th seed. Just curious what is the lowest 8A seed to make it to the Semi and Finals game ?

😬

Keep your head on a swivel and protect yourself at all times.

RockSoup said:

And a new leader emerges in the Season Long Race. Thank you all and see you Wednesday!

name	games	WINS	PCT
@k1867	137​	89​	64.96%​
@3OrangeWhips	137​	87​	63.50%​
@pjjp	137​	82​	59.85%​
@ignazio	136​	81​	59.56%​
@refref01	135​	80​	59.26%​
@BillyTheBuffoon	137​	80​	58.39%​
@tuccs	136​	79​	58.09%​
@80sRambler	137​	76​	55.47%​
@MsDavis10	136​	75​	55.15%​
@Stella5	137​	75​	54.74%​
@BornNRazed	137​	75​	54.74%​
@ESCC fan	114​	70​	61.40%​
@RockSoup	106​	68​	64.15%​
@stl705	103​	61​	59.22%​
@BoundaryCorner	83​	48​	57.83%​
@McCaravan	72​	45​	62.50%​
@ChicagoRambler	54​	33​	61.11%​
@SiuCubFan8	32​	17​	53.13%​
@DMurph11	32​	16​	50.00%​
@Crusaderfan19	23​	14​	60.87%​
@K3D88	11​	6​	54.55%​
@RameyJacoby	11​	4​	36.36%​

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Awesome

And a new leader emerges in the Season Long Race. Thank you all and see you Wednesday!

ChiTown Chuggers said:

Yep, he was the one who ‘unfortunately’ injured their all-state LB on a MS kickoff. No intention to injure, just a big hit and losing that LB was arguably the turning point of the game.

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Well, it was a payback hit. Cortez had a tendency to head hunt on kickoffs and nailed somebody on MS earlier. Both hits were fairly blind sided, but if you’re gonna do it gotta expect to get it back.

PowerI66 said:

There are levels to this. I'm not saying Stevenson is a bad team, they just aren't on the same level. The one major passing attack they faced this season was Libertyville, and they gave up 43 points.

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Yeah, but outside of that their defense has been pretty solid. 114 points in the other 9 games, most given up is 21 to Lake Forest - who considering they're still alive means they're pretty good - and Zion Benton - and I'd bet some of those points were against Stevenson second string late in game.

Not saying they'll win, but thinking it'll be a closer, lower scoring game that most think.

The 2024 Post-Season Race Standings:

Week 11 Results:

EdgyTim said:

You certainly can include the South but also understand this was for the Daily Herald area only....

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I completely understand the DH area coverage. That’s the audience.

15th overall and currently a prince?! I'll take it!

For those in the arena, week 10 results:

Kevin JCHS 81 said:

I'm not good at supplying links, just search under Peoria HS on Hudl.

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Okay I'm going to make an attempt to post the link.

JCA at Peoria

WARNING: some of these links for Hudl, DO NOT ACTUALLY MEAN the game is streaming there.

ignazio said:

SCN @ MC Sat 11/9 5pm
If the Caravan somehow pull this off, it'll be by 7 points.

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No comment.

Yea…. I just didn’t copy and paste the late ones into my original tables.

4Afan said:

Please stop citing the tourney. The two are not remotely the same. You have automatic qualifiers, conference champs in this instance, and then at large teams are chosen based on a multitude of criteria. So who are your at large teams for high school football? 5 win teams? Is it based on power rankings or just wins?

The formula to get into the NCAA tourney and seeding them are relatively the same(SOS, good wins vs. bad losses, computer rankings, etc.). You're talking about two different systems to qualify for the playoffs in football and then another entirely to seed them once in the playoffs.

If you go that route teams like Provi get screwed; sorry you didn't have 5 wins so you don't get in, but if you had made it in then using our power ranking system you likely would have been a top 20 team in your class.

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The first sentence of my post, which you quoted, was what I suggested makes no mention of changing how playoff teams qualify. Then you proceed to go on a tangent about how I propose to modify the qualification process.

Ihsa has automatic qualifiers, just like ncaat. They both have "at large" teams. So you are wrong in that regard. It is not remotely unique to have a system to qualify for a tournament, then a separate, or additinal system to seed them. The ncaat in both baseball and bball is a great example of that.

Your provi example is beyond silly. No one with a losing record got screwed by being left out of the playoffs. Additionally, as stated before, any "power ranking" would be for the top 4 or 8 teams. Not 20. Are you even attempting to read or comprehend what I'm saying? Because you are constantly bringing up scenarios ive explicitly said I'm not even attempting to change or address.