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I find it interesting Edwardsville has 3 playing now and Belleville 2. When most people up North think of that conference the just think of ESL. When I think of MC, Loyola, SR, JCA, Marist .... I think of how many are now in college getting quality education. In fact I'd like to see a stat of how many young men are currently in college playing football that attended CCL and ESCC high schools.
Steve Wirtel is an MC Alum and was the Packers long snapper last year but did not make is not on the roster this year. Outside of him it’s been many years since MC had a player on the active roster. Steve Richardson, Jordan Lynch and Arthur Ray were the last 3 to my memory that were in NFL camps.
I stumbled on to this today and thought it was kind of interesting it is the historical list of Illinois NFL players by high school.
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Illinois High Schools
Golloday didn’t have the best year but he made the catch of his life yesterday!! Great grab!
1990’s Thornton football had unmatched talent they were amazing and such a consistent power, sad to see them fall off.
Sunk talks about hetting boys out of the coty, not into the pros. He is successful at that.
Not only that, but Loyola only had one player in the NFL since 1986, and he only lasted one season. Over half of Loyola's 13 players were from the 1920s and 1930s.
A lot of web sites list 3.3 years as the average NFL career, so lasting one season is not uncommon. Looking at MC's players they had three that lasted more than a decade. Donovan McNabb, Simeon Rice, and Chris Calloway all played for more than a decade. That's well above the norm.
