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    Conferences with Super Bowl Winners

    Nick Allegretti got one his rookie year with the Chiefs. LWE HS / SWSC
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    Q of the Week: Who's the best IHSA Football player you've ever seen

    In person, not on TV, it is easily Carlos Polk - LB from Rockford Guilford back from 1993-1995. As part of a successful opposing team during his time, it was the only player I‘ve ever seen basically an entire team fearful for their physical well being by stepping on the field with. A true man...
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    Upcoming 2021 NFL Draft: State of Illinois names?

    OL Kendrick Green Peoria/Illinois 3rd round pick to the Steelers last night. Some really neat reaction videos on Twitter. Had his name called by Run DMC. Very happy for a kid who spent both his HS and College career in the state.
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    Kaleb Brown

    It was class of 2021 Brother Rice’s Willie Shaw who just committed to Toledo. Kaleb is a year younger and yes has been picking up some big time offers as of late but not committed anywhere
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    Anything to sell newspapers.

    In my experience the more rural single public high school towns do fit this public vs private pattern - very difficult or not feasible to get around public boundary rules in these towns so recruiting is only a private thing. In suburbs and big metros everyone is moving around to position...
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    Super Bowl: Illinois connections

    I think you answered your own question for the most part. Not only physical development, but developing the mental side of football, and keeping motivation high. HS rankings are far from perfect too. With so many variables they are just directional.
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    Super Bowl: Illinois connections

    Great article. Almost all 3* or lower players.. a lot of hard work and persistence by these (former) kids to get to the biggest stage in football
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    So which players would make the Team of the Decade?

    Names that I’d put on the list below. Admittedly skewed toward skill position players as those are who my individual player watching skews to when just catching a handful of games per season of some of these guys (and therefore skewed to playoff performance) JJ McCarthy - QB Ty Issac - RB...
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    IHSA scheduling just right for the 1960s

    Interesting discussion. Good points all around - my gut would be that the incremental advertising or sponsorship dollars by marginally increasing television viewership of the games isn’t really much/any. There could be other reasons to rotate class game times, but I don’t think maximizing...
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    Best Illinois High School Players to play for Nebraska

    Great call with Polk. As an old school Nic-9 guy he was hands down the most intimidating HS player I’ve seen. Coaching against him he would just crush people - kids didn’t want to get the ball on offense going against him. Grabbing the specifics of his Wikipedia he had a very successful HS...
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    Illinois over Wisconsin

    I feel like the Illinois HS kids and their parents & peers are too close to UI’s “warts”. In state recruiting has to get significantly easier with winning. It seems much easier to recruit a prospect from Texas who doesn’t have preconceived notions nor the active coverage of Illini football vs...
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    Luke Ford....

    The ridiculous thing about Fields is that comment was apparently yelled from the stands. His sister is still at Georgia. How one could argue well being around racism but then keep your other child at the university is beyond me. If the NCAA believes there is racism impacting athletes at GA...
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    Luke Ford....

    I think the main issue here is inconsistency. Particularly the very quick and public approval of waivers for big name QBs (Fields and Martell) to big name blue blood programs (OSU and Miami). Looks really bad when everyone knows Martell and Fields transferred for starting QB jobs Heck Justin...
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    Corrected:: Class 8A thru 1A IHSA Proposed Districts

    Ugh... there are certainly groupings where this looks like it will work great, but it seems that for every problem with the self selected conferences it solves, it will create a different problem somewhere else. I’m not convinced the rigidness of aligning school sizes should trump geography...
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    Big 10 commits

    Not sure what benefit these sophomores get in committing so early. Seems like you’d want to go through the process, evaluate all your options, and see how your personality/goals grow and the schools situation shape out almost 2 years from now closer to signing day.
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    Benefits of District Format

    Some good commentary here. I do agree that potential competition drop of the Catholic league teams and the small school co-op scenarios are some initial big unknowns to this. I feel like the IHSA can answer the travel question though. They should have all the data to figure this out. They...
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    Texas HS Championship

    I watched this entire game on a crappy twitter periscope live stream last night. Wanted to just watch a few series of one of the Illini commits but could not turn the thing off. Legitimately one of the better football games I’ve seen in a while. Was much more like watching a college game than...
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    Easiest Path to semi’s in 6A, 7A and 8A

    I think that 6A bracket is interesting. I was surprised at the top quartile of the North from someone like a Phillips perspective - their road is brutal. Start with a tough Lake Forest who has beaten LZ and Stevie only to likely get Prairie Ridge and then Cary Grove (doubt they’ve seen triple...
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    To the top teams, does seeding matter that much?

    Beyond maybe a bit of pride in an artificial number, I doubt it. Luck of the draw in the bracket is most important in facilitating a deep run. At some point you play the best though. Given wide disparity in conferences and reg season schedules, records driving seeding doesn’t yield a true...
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    They've conquered Illinois now to go national...

    Certainly wasn’t a good showing but I’m not going to be down on Phillips for losing to a nationally ranked school almost 3x enrollment. With a kicker and without a bonehead final 60secs it’s a tie game at half. That last 60 secs and the long td to start 3rd turned a tie game into blowout in no...
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