Silver Rain said:

You probably were on the team but didn't win a state championship. That's okay. You must have gotten the cheerleaders if not the trophy.

I hated being so skinny back then. If I had it to do over again, I'd quit smoking and take up track. I don't know about other schools, but in the '60s MC let us smoke in the cafeteria.

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We could smoke in the senior lounge at Loyola or in a specified area outside. Hell, there were ashtrays in my college classrooms!

West Chicago
Elmwood Park
GBS
West Aurora
Ridgewood
Riverside Brookfield
Lake Park
Grayslake North
St. Pats
Batavia
Fenton

firstdown21 said:

Last week I had chuck north over palatine. This week going with Lake Forest over Carmel

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Carmel at home, I don't see that happening; I do see the Scouts competitive first half. Final CC 35 LFHS 16

I started here in 2002 when I was going to every Driscoll game during their 7x championship run.

Then my old high school went on a long run at Montini to win 6 titles.

Then my old neighborhood team Naz went on a run.

I caught Edgy fever during all those years and where do I go for Edgy Anonymous to get it out of my bloodstream??

I went from watching Tim Weigel's helicopter to a few games on Friday's to Bob Sakomoto to Edgy.

Or something like that.

Plainfield North over York

Plainfield North over York

Oswego East over Sycamore

That 16” Clincher will look beautiful above the bar at Meier’s.

Or maybe I'll send it through Debbie's picture window and get you people banned from Wilmette forever.

danlavalle23 said:

BYE over LWE

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Could see it happening. Not sure if LWE has the personnel for this matchup

Fenwick over Iggy's!

RockSoup said:

Buffoon, on the MC/SR game, you have the score as a push and the spread by St. Rita. Where you put your spread is your pick I assume as it corresponds with your predicted score 99% of time except per the example above.

Then there may be a time when you don’t place a spread by a team ie WSF vs Lol MO. game but your predicted score tells me you pick WSF to cover.

Not bustin chops, your write ups and score predictions are gold but just asking beforehand for clarity to make my Sunday count easier and more accurate.

Thanks Mr. Buffoon

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Mr. Soup, I appreciate your response. I take this as friends helping friends.

The WSF game is me just not even knowing 99.8% of out of state teams, but I should just be an Illinois snob and take our teams to cover no matter what!

And yes, I noticed I picked a push in the MC/SR game. I'm going to make an adjustment.

I hope you will be in a stadium somewhere in this state tonight on what's supposed to be a PERFECT football evening!

BYE over LWE

That’s 4 interconference nocon games. Is it difficult to get a public to agree to a game these days?

CCL/ESCC (Blue)
BR - whoever was getting points, I was taking
MC
Fenwick - lock of the week. Why? Because they should win outright.
GW

CCL/ESCC (Green)
ICP - what are we even doing here? So soft.
Kenwood
SF

CCL/ESCC (Orange)
Oswego - if this was @ JCA they wouldn’t stand a chance
LWC - and I’d also like to take the over
ND

CCL/ESCC (Purple)
SV
DePaul
Larkin - 28 seems like a lot of points for SP to put up, let alone cover
Moline

CCL/ESCC (Red)
Noble Academy - some class by Marmion is the only reason they don’t cover
Amundsen
HF - okay maybe this one is the lock of the week. You’re allowed to have two locks.

CCL/ESCC (White)
SL - the game will be closer than the score.
Hillcrest
Carmel - there will be a point in the game where they should call off the dogs, and I don’t think they will.

Silver Rain said:

You probably were on the team but didn't win a state championship. That's okay. You must have gotten the cheerleaders if not the trophy.

I hated being so skinny back then. If I had it to do over again, I'd quit smoking and take up track. I don't know about other schools, but in the '60s MC let us smoke in the cafeteria.

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If I remember correctly, during my freshman year(1984) at Joliet Catholic, there was a senior lounge, where the seniors could smoke. Maybe some older Hilltoppers could confirm. It was no longer there by my senior year.

9- Geneva
8- Batavia
7- SCN
6- LP
5- WN
4- Wheaton Academy
3- Maine South
2-Glenbard North
1- WWS

Can the Tigers get their revenge on WWS Legend Jon Beutjer?
Will SCE offense continue to fly?
Will SCN need last minute miracles again this week?
MS/Warren....WOW!

Glenbard East over West Aurora 24-23

Brother Rice
Mount Carmel
Fenwick
Glenbard West

Military
Kenwood
Lift for Life

Oswego
Lincoln-Way Central
Notre Dame

St. Viator
Gordon Tech
St. Patrick
Moline

Marmion
Foreman
Leo
H-F

Evanston
Hillcrest
Lake Forest

I also think its important for coaches to put the players in a position to be as successful as possible. For example, if you have a newer (younger) QB, keep the play calling within his natural ability. Don't overcomplicate things. Don't have your student athletes confused on the field about the play, route, responsibilities, etc.
I don't know if that is the case at The 'Brook, but I've seen it at other schools. Just because an energetic and enthusiastic coach has a playbook catalogue with 200 pass plays doesn't mean a 15 year old will always retain that knowledge.
Bolingbrook has such a rich history of being successful. I remember having only27 of 28 winning seasons at one point. So to have that much drop off in such a short period of time is perplexing.

9- Batavia
8- Geneva
7- Lake Park
6- St Charles North
5- WWS
4- St Charles East
3- Lockport
2- Maine South
1- Glenbard North

3 blowouts and a lot of close games this week. LT/ WWS is probably the best match up of the bunch, LT has a very good running back that will test the Tigers. Will also be interesting to see if GBN can get to 2-0 after last years horrible season.

SJR Staff Predictions (Minus QND and U High)
SHG 35 Mascoutah 6
East Peoria 26 Lanphier 20
Chatham 28 North County 6
Cardinal Ritter 42 Rochester 31
MacArthur 28 Springfield 27
Jacksonville 27 Eisenhower 13
Lincoln 28 Southeast 14

MS4EVER said:

Thought about it last week and didn't wear it! You know the result! It will be on underneath tonight!

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Beautiful. My plan is all coming together now…

RockSoup said:

Calling @MS4EVER calling MS4EVER

Have you and the daughter been representing the red and blue up in the Ridge this week and especially Friday night wearing the Mustang gear under your respective Hawk gear?

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Thought about it last week and didn't wear it! You know the result! It will be on underneath tonight!

WEGO 2nd straight shutout
Chicago Christian
GBS
GBE
Ridgewood
Riverside Brookfield
Lake Park
Grayslake North
St. Pats running clock
Batavia
Fenton

9-Batavia
8-Geneva
7- Lake Park
6-St. Charles (North)
5- St. Charles (East)
4- Gurnee (Warren)
3- Wheaton (North)
2- Willowbrook
1- LaGrange (Lyons)

Silver Rain said:

You probably were on the team but didn't win a state championship. That's okay. You must have gotten the cheerleaders if not the trophy.

I hated being so skinny back then. If I had it to do over again, I'd quit smoking and take up track. I don't know about other schools, but in the '60s MC let us smoke in the cafeteria.

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OUCH! That accidently struck a very tender nerve. YIKES!

I was more trying to poke fun at myself for being a Huge 6th grader, who 7 years later became an average size HS Grad.

Rochester 35
CRCP 28