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    Round 3 games prepay???

    I operate in the dark ages - the nightmare of being self-employed with no employees, and having no kids, so my tech skills were never forced to improve. My business does not accept electronic payments like Venmo, PayPal, CashApp, etc. I have eliminated all credit cards over the years, have no...
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    Round 3 games prepay???

    Wilmington @ Sterling Newman has announced that there will only be prepaid tickets for round 2 this weekend...apparently you now have to have a smart cell phone to watch a game live.
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    ICE Playoff round 2 Predictions and reactions

    One thing confuses me a bit this week. Newman won the 2A title in 2019. Winning the title gives them 5 wins, which is enough for them to keep the multiplier despite not having playoffs last year. But what happened to the success factor? And I assume that losing to Wilmington will result in...
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    (Somewhat) annual first round playoff blowout rant

    I like your forest concept, but the problem is you encourage looking at the forest, and then step into the forest to find the "infected" trees. One key issue is that the forest dies every year, as the teams are different every year. Maybe a better analysis is a garden, where there are some...
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    (Somewhat) annual first round playoff blowout rant

    People with the Cook and collar county perspective will never get this argument. The average 1A school community in the northwestern part of the state is going to be pretty similar to the average 1A school community in the southeast part of the state...and the system has to be designed to work...
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    Joliet Catholic 48 Marengo 0 FINAL nm

    16/1 games this year (1-32, 2-31 7A & 8A): 1A...N 14-8, S 48-14 2A...N 55-0, S 62-7 3A...N 58-0, S 46-6 4A...N 48-0, S 48-0 5A...N 41-14, S 38-7 6A...N 42-8, S 45-0 7A...53-29, 37-0 8A...44-0, 24-13 Only 2 remotely close games... JCA, just like the rest of the 1 seeds, can take their foot off...
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    ICE Playoff round 2 Predictions and reactions

    Lisle @ Byron: Lions aren't as good on grass, and Byron's field gets pretty chewed up by this time of year. Its a battle of a pair of power run teams, both who can run some clock when necessary. But the Lions have been beat by their power running foes in conference, and I don't see any change...
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    ICE Playoff round 2 Predictions and reactions

    I think that the pregame intros are good for 30 point first quarter leads against Public League schools...55-0 Wilmo, 58-0 Byron...
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    ICE playoff outlook and Round 1 predictions

    The game against Corliss was similar...my facebook post early that night was to the effect that if you have more touchdowns on your first two possessions (2) than the defense has tackles (0) you probably are going to have a good game...Corliss got some yards against the backups, however...
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    ICE playoff outlook and Round 1 predictions

    Reed Custer 26 - Peotone 0. Expected. Wheaton Academy 36 - Coal City 3. Coalers without Harvey had little chance. Lisle 49 - Carver 0... Expected. Wilmington 44 - Julian 0 half...only thing slowing Cats down is the decision to work on the passing game 🤣 :cool: ...soph backfield has taken...
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    Joliet Catholic 48 Marengo 0 FINAL nm

    Marengo's problem is that they apparently overscheduled for this year...5-5, but their losses are to teams that are a combined 48-2, all making the second round... They opened with 23-0 loss to 10-0 (assumed, 23-0 1st quarter & now passing...oops, 30-0) Wilmington, 2A North #1 seed, and helped...
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    ICE playoff outlook and Round 1 predictions

    I hope the Julian staff has at least enough preparation to show the team a pregame entrance video for Wilmington...I'm pretty sure the shock to the Corliss team helped the first quarter slaughter by the Cats.... 2A North bracket review... Julian @ 1 Wilmo...slaughter... 9 Sterling Newman @ 8...
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    Early round “state championships”

    Wilmington's other example would be 2016, when IC pasted everyone on the way to the title but the Wildcats scored 14 points in the quarterfinal game at IC, while IC only gave up 14 total points in the other 4 games...
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    ICE playoff outlook and Round 1 predictions

    Coal City @ Wheaton Academy: Both beat McNamara. The Coalers 3 losses are to teams with a combined 26-1 record, and they beat 3 other playoff teams. But the Coalers have had problems most of the year on offense, and if Harvey is dinged up the Coaler O is in big trouble...I would have loved...
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    Pairings on directv??

    Comcast 230...ihsa page feed is about 2 minutes behind the tv feed.
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    ICE week 8 preview and reactions

    Wilmington is the second largest in 2A in the outlook this week, and there are a boatload of 4-4 teams in the upper classes...but a number of small schools with 4-4 records and a bad opponent this week as well. This cutoff is going to be interesting...
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    ICE week 9 preview and reactions

    Hmm...top three playing the bottom three...kinda takes the edge off of week 9. Wilmington @ Manteno: The conference championship, as the week 8 outlook 4A north No. 1 seed Panthers host the 3A north No. 2 seed Wildcats in a battle of vicious purple & white felines...oh wait, that was my...
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    What did we learn week 8!?!?!

    Reed Custer, long a doormat in the I8/ICE, has officially broken out...after torching six of their first 7 opponents but being shut down by Wilmington, the Comets flew over Coal City resoundingly. The Comets dropped 33 points on a Coaler defense that had only given up 14 in its worst...
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    Week 9 forfeits/reschedules

    The life of a vagabond independent team is interesting...I know nothing of TDW, but I have a perhaps helpful Manteno story... When Manteno started football, the program operated year one with just a fresh-soph team who played whoever needed either a freshman or soph game. Year two in 2001...
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    ICE week 8 preview and reactions

    The difference between 2A & 3A for Wilmington primarily is that they won't be as familiar with their opponents. Both classes, in any given year, probably have about 8 schools that have a realistic shot at winning the state title - while 3A has a higher probability of an IC or Mac running amok...
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