Soucie did a lot of this work already, but technically Plainfield North is closer to Edwardsville than Lockport so I tweaked that and by doing that I came up with this. I don't think districts will pass but it will be close. Ultimately I think the proposal put forward is just too incomplete to support so I'm against it, but if it does pass what Soucie came up with, this slight modification or something similar I think will be the 8A districts. 8A is the easiest to model out of the classes because you presumably know who the largest 64 teams are. After that it gets hazy as to which schools from the CPS will be eligible and just a bunch of other stuff. So here are my 8A district predictions if this ultimately does happen.

I'd be curious as to who your playoff picks for next year would be considering the top 4 in each district qualify for the playoffs. My playoff picks are bolded.

District 1
Barrington
Dundee-Crown
Huntley
Round Lake
Stevenson
Warren
Waukegan
Zion-Benton

District 2
Bartlett
Conant
Elgin
Fremd
Lake Park
Palatine
Schaumburg
South Elgin

District 3
Evanston
Glenbrook South
Leyden
Loyola
Maine South
New Trier
Niles West
Taft

District 4
Curie
Lane
Lyons
Morton
OPRF
Proviso West
St. Ignatius
Stagg

District 5
Downers Grove South
Glenbard East
Glenbard North
Glenbard West
Hinsdale Central
Naperville Central
Naperville North
York

District 6
Aurora East
Aurora West
Bolingbrook
Metea Valley
Neuqua Valley
Oswego
Oswego East
Waubonsie Valley

District 7
Andrew
Bloom Twp
H-F
Lincoln-Way East
Lockport
Marist
Rich Twp
Sandburg

District 8
Belleville East
Edwardsville
Joliet Central
Joliet West
Minooka
O’Fallon
Plainfield South
Plainfield North

Someone said it would happen and it did!

Also my video take is linked as well below

https://edgytim.rivals.com/news/video-my-take-ryan-boe-to-northwestern

good luck!

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Question for parents of current or very recently graduated football players.

How, if at all, has your kid's head coach created boundaries for parents? (eg limiting conversation about kids to certain times, not discussing playing time, etc). What coaches do it well?

I am seeing more and more coaches retire from coaching early and almost always the reason is they don't want to deal with parents anymore. Only a few seem to be able to keep parents at bay and most of them have VERY long resumes with lots of success.

We talk about the ref shortage, but I think the coach shortage (at least of experienced quality coaches) doesn't get much play.

I remember when I played a parent would rarely reach out to a coach on any topic other than recruiting and the coaches were pretty much left to do their job (unless there was a MAJOR issue). however, hearing some parents at both of my kids' schools, you would think that parents want to be an extended member of the coaching staff.

To be clear, I don't want this to turn into a thread about the Hinsdale Central girl's basketball situation. However I think it is very similar to the pressure that many coaches, especialy in wealthy districts deal with.

Iowa Western Football playing now on ESPN U. 7 guys from Chicago/Chicagoland area & a few from St.Louis Metro area. Nice to see. They are up big

I'll be back tomorrow night with 20 Minutes and my first guest will be just inducted IHSFCA Hall of Fame HC Tim Racki from Nazareth Academy. Have any questions....then post them here.

Listed below are my running list of quarterback prospects to watch including my quick take on several of the players listed here who I've seen in person either this past season or at various camps etc. Nop mention or comments yet? No worries I'll be breaking down all of the names listed here via film/camp observations. Stay tuned.


QB Patrick Heneghan New Trier 5-foot-10, 170 pounds) 2025

QB Ethan Plumb St Charles North 6-foot-3, 195 pounds 2025- Big, strong kid with a ton of upside physically. Advanced signal caller with impressive maturity and fundamentals.

QB Jack Elliott Chicago Mount Carmel 6-foot-1, 180 pounds 2025- His 2025 season no question helped boost his recruiting stock 10 fold. Has a very strong and accurate arm and also developed into a true RPO threat.

QB Jackson Alcorn Central High 6-foot-1, 180 pounds 2025

QB Colton Gumino York 6-foot-2, 165 pounds 2025- Had a huge 2023 season. Good size kid with a big arm talent and a player who will add much more strength down the line. Very accurate passer along with plays with a high football IQ.

QB Chase Hansen Breese Mater Dei 6-foot-0, 180 pounds

QB Logan Malachuk Nazareth Academy 5-foot-11, 170 pounds 2025- Big time talent who is a fierce competitor. Has been just simply a winner for the Road Runners who just finds a way to win and comes up clutch in key situations time and time again.

QB Cooper Kmet St Viator 6-foot-2, 180 pounds 2025- A name to watch this winter and spring. Had a big 2023 season and has been highly productive so far as a starter for the Lions.

QB Jacob Bell Naperville North 6-foot-2, 190 pounds 2025- Big, strong athletic signal caller who made progress as the season wore on for the Huskies. Has upside and checks and box in several catagories.

QB Jack Reilly Providence Catholic 6-foot-1, 185 pounds 2025

QB Marcus Thaxton Morgan Park 6-foot-1, 180 pounds 2025- Also made impressive progress this past season and transformed from an athlete playing quarterback to a quarterback playing with high level athlete ability.

QB Tony Chahino Geneva 6-foot-2, 195 pounds 2025

QB Bradyn Little Quincy 6-foot-0. 190 pounds 2025- One of the state's top overall passing leaders in 2023. Has a great arm and feel for the spread offense who already has a ton of varsity seat time and will lead the Blue Devils into the post-season again in 2024.

QB AJ Bravieri Johnsburg 6-foot-3, 190 pounds 2025

QB Brandon Parades Plainfield East 6-foot-0, 160 pounds 2025- Has another season under his belt and Parades has been a very solid signal caller over th4e past few seasons.

QB Danny Van Camp Lake Forest 6-foot-4, 230 pounds 2025- Big strong kid who will no question draw recruiting looks at more than just quarterback this winter and spring.

QB Ryan Fitzgerald Loyola Academy 6-foot-3, 190 pounds 2025- Also had a very strong 2023 season. A coaches kid who plays with a combination of smarts and physical tools, has a big and accurate arm and developed into a nice threat running with the football as well.

QB Gaetano Carbonara Montini Catholic 5-foot-11, 180 pounds 2025

QB Chase Helfleisch Lincoln Way West 5-foot-11, 160 pounds 2025

QB Nick Peipert Barrington 6-foot-2, 190 pounds 2025- Highly impressed with Nick Peipert from this past season. Peipert has a live arm with impressive arm talent. Peipert also has good size, is effective inside or outside of the pocket and just seemed to find open receivers along with having the ability to check down and make multiple reads in the same play if needed. Peipert is also mobile, runs pretty well and will also add more sixe and strength over the next year.

QB/ATH Kaleb Sims Simeon 5-foot-10, 170 pounds 2025- Talented overall player and athlete whop was also solid at running back anbd receiver for the Wolverines.

Another fantastic Barstool Eddie interview. Interesting topics like public/private, Lenti, and more.
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The Morris Community High School Board will decide whether or not the school's new mascot will be either the Riverhawks or the Mustangs at its school board meeting at 6 p.m.next Monday....Wonder if it's open to the public....
https://t.co/cUsdo0hgaV

Nothing major to note. Looks like an adjustment to qualify for state tournaments done in reference to what happened with the volleyball/soccer fiasco this fall. Some eligibility rulings.

Noted a discussion took place on football districts. Also discussion on state seeding for all sports.

Starting a thread on whether IL (like CA, AZ, HI, NV etc..) should implement an “open” division? An open division where a rotating set # of teams gets selcted from an unbiased committee each year based on certain strength criteria. (Like in CA with Mater Dei, St. John Bosco, Centennial etc)
This could end the eternally exhausting Catholic vs. Public debate because of recruiting/lack of boundaries and allows the best set of teams each year to play each other regardless of class. Catholic schools can recruit and pull in kids from any city like they always do without criticism from public schools since the best of those schools will play for the open division. What is the best argument for and against this? It seems to me that the larger football states might also want to consider this as well. (e.g. IL, OH, FL, TX, AL, etc..)

Is there a way to get rid of Pass Interference on the Defense on underthrown balls?
The DB does everything right, ball underthrown, WR comes back and runs into DB, PI on DEF.

It just seems like the DB is in a no win spot.
Offense gets rewarded a first down on a poorly thrown ball.
Would this be too hard to enforce?

Peoria HC Tim Thornton resigns heading to Fl;orida to coach with former Rock Island HC Ben Hammer

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D3 North Central College (Naperville) , trailing in the 4th quarter, comes from behind to knock off undefeated (13-0) Wartburg College (Iowa) 34-27. The Cardinals advance to the National Championship game next week, seeking their 3rd title in four years. Today was the first time NCC had trailed in any game all season. Wartburg had the ball deep in NCC territory in the final minutes but were turned away by the Cardinal defense. Super exciting game linked below. https://www.espn.com/espnplus/player/_/id/a7db2ac2-2033-4fda-bdcf-ea3782bdfbc6#bucketId=7952

What team(s) do you guys miss? Tell me about their school,good/great teams they had,helmet logos,football field,etc . I miss all but I'll start with Joliet East the Kingsmen. Kelly Green,Gold & White. Unique looking E on the helmets like E on Eckrich Sausage. Closed at the end of the 1982-1983 school year by a vote of 4-3. The deciding vote to close was cast by a board member who had kids at East. Never made the state playoffs but had a pretty good team in 1978 6-3. They went 8-1 in 1967 & won the Illini 8 & finished 4-5 playing a brutal schedule of much bigger schools. They were supposed to play Joliet West,Joliet Central but the Sica took over those 2 schools schedules & cancelled East. Joliet Central was originally supposed to close at the end of the 1981-1982 school year by a 5-2 or 6-1 vote but a board member owned a store down the street from Central so they put it in limbo & new board members were voting the next year. The school is now a job corps & they have/are supposed to tear down the stands,lights & scoreboard,field & ticket booths & build a warehouse there I believe

I have two state championship coaches lined up for the next few weeks....let me know if you'd like to hear from anyone in particular.

Surprised to not see any thread about this story.


Missouri's Class 6 title game this past weekend was stopped with over 3 minutes left in the 4th quarter. Perennial power CBC was going for a 3rd straight title, but Liberty North was out for revenge after losing to CBC the past two years.

To me this seems like a school who isn't used to losing having a hard time accepting their fate. Story mentions 4 unsportsmanlike penalties (3 on CBC) in 4th quarter. Sounds like the game was getting out of hand, but would expect the CBC coach to get his team under control and finish the game.

Seems to be sending a poor message to his players by asking for game to end early. Maybe he comes from the same coaching philosophy as IC's coach...when it gets tough, just give up.

First MC players since 1981 to be named Sun Times POY and so very deserving. I know some people may disagree because other players may have had better overall numbers but Dupree was a special talent that did as much for his team when he didn't get the ball then when he did, because every team focused on him, which free'd up so many more options for MC. When he did get the ball he had jaw dropping after jaw dropping touchdown runs and receptions. And even as a decoy he still had 1,100 yards rushing and 800 yards receiving and 24 touchdowns, and did so playing a schedule that included State Champion LA, Runner Up ESL, Semifinalist and 4th ranked Batavia, rival St. Rita twice and quarterfinal teams Carmel, Morgan Park, and semifinalist Providence. Well done Darrion, I think we will be hearing about him in College and possibly beyond.

Heading to the D3 football national championship next Friday night at 7pm. Go, Cards!! 4th year in a row in the championship game!!

Simple yes or no vote.