Champ Champ for Althoff???

[crusader_of_90]

After the futbol team won 2A this weekend on the pitch, can the real football players follow suit and win 1A on the gridiron? So strange hearing the names Gomric, Ysursa and Myatt playing that other game and I know some of those boys would be starters.

Not bad for a little ol Catholic school in the 618!

 

[k1867]

After the futbol team won 2A this weekend on the pitch, can the real football players follow suit and win 1A on the gridiron? So strange hearing the names Gomric, Ysursa and Myatt playing that other game and I know some of those boys would be starters.

Not bad for a little ol Catholic school in the 618!

Cool man.

 

[crusader_of_90]

They pulled off the improbable for a little Catholic school.

 

[SEHSSTORM1]

They pulled off the improbable for a little Catholic school.

Hopefully they can keep those doors open. It's a struggle out there in the 618.

 

[crusader_of_90]

Hopefully they can keep those doors open. It's a struggle out there in the 618.

It's Hell, man!

 

[SEHSSTORM1]

Most of 618 is a dump, so it must be awful.

 

[FB1976]

They pulled off the improbable for a little Catholic school.

I mean...is it really that improbable? They have a lock on recruiting in Metro East don't they? Is Alton Marquette even any competition?

 

[crusader_of_90]

Most of 618 is a dump, so it must be awful.

Some areas are, but there is a lot of natural beauty in the farm field, the forests of the Shawnee, the bluffs of the River, especially the River Road.

 

[rjjtwest]

After the futbol team won 2A this weekend on the pitch, can the real football players follow suit and win 1A on the gridiron? So strange hearing the names Gomric, Ysursa and Myatt playing that other game and I know some of those boys would be starters.

Not bad for a little ol Catholic school in the 618!

Cool story bruh…..

 

[SEHSSTORM1]

Some areas are, but there is a lot of natural beauty in the farm field, the forests of the Shawnee, the bluffs of the River, especially the River Road.

Have to live somewhere...can't live in the forest.

 

[crusader_of_90]

I mean...is it really that improbable? They have a lock on recruiting in Metro East don't they? Is Alton Marquette even any competition?

Mater Dei, Father McGivney, which opened within the decade and has great new facilities. SLUH, CBC, DeSmet ... TOP-TIER prep schools. There is also Cardinal Ritter and Lutheran North, not to mention the all-girls Catholic academies like Nerix and non-seculars like John Burroughs. MANY choices for private education.

 

[crusader_of_90]

Have to live somewhere...can't live in the forest.

Millstadt, Smithton, Columbia, Waterloo - oh yea, I forgot about Gilbault Catholic.

 

[FB1976]

Mater Dei, Father McGivney, which opened within the decade and has great new facilities. SLUH, CBC, DeSmet ... TOP-TIER prep schools. There is also Cardinal Ritter and Lutheran North, not to mention the all-girls Catholic academies like Nerix and non-seculars like John Burroughs. MANY choices for private education.

Good point...I wasn't considering cross the river options.

 

[rink62221]

Although not private, I would imagine Althoff competes with East St. Louis for many of the same players as the Flyers seem to draw in players from all over the metro area.

 

[crusader_of_90]

It was said that Coach Schott brought more black kids to Belleville than the Bi-State bus. Austin is going to do the same - not to mention, lots of kids were crossing the river, passing Belleville, for schooling if they did not want to go to East Side.

 

[daveje]

State playoffs is my annual reminder that lots of people willingly choose to live in a lot of places that I’d never be caught dead in.

 

[crusader_of_90]

I was born and raised in Belleville. College in Bloomington and Edwardsville. Single professional years in Wicker Park. My kids were born in Naperville. I raised my children in Palatine/Inverness - Pleasant Hill, to Plum Grove to Fremd. Spent 18 months in Waukesha then 28 months in Old Irving Park.

I CHOSE to move back to Southern Illinois - first a temporary place in Smithton with goats, cows and a donkey in my neighbor's backyard. My permanent home is in Sauget - a fine village, Exit 1 across the Poplar Street Bridge.

Maybe you just have not experienced much.

 

[crusader_of_90]

State playoffs is

State playoffs ARE ....

Schools are important when choosing a place to live.

 

[gobears25]

I was born and raised in Belleville. College in Bloomington and Edwardsville. Single professional years in Wicker Park. My kids were born in Naperville. I raised my children in Palatine/Inverness - Pleasant Hill, to Plum Grove to Fremd. Spent 18 months in Waukesha then 28 months in Old Irving Park.

I CHOSE to move back to Southern Illinois - first a temporary place in Smithton with goats, cows and a donkey in my neighbor's backyard. My permanent home is in Sauget - a fine village, Exit 1 across the Poplar Street Bridge.

Maybe you just have not experienced much.

go grizzlies

 

[rink62221]

Lived in a couple of different towns in NW Illinois before moving to Belleville in 2000. Relocated to a very nice part of O'Fallon, Ill. in 2020, and don't plan on moving back north anytime soon.

 

[crusader_of_90]

Lived in a couple of different towns in NW Illinois before moving to Belleville in 2000. Relocated to a very nice part of O'Fallon, Ill. in 2020, and don't plan on moving back north anytime soon.

I remember when O'Fallon was farmland and we traversed rural routes to get to the kennel where we'd house our dogs.

 

[daveje]

I was born and raised in Belleville. College in Bloomington and Edwardsville. Single professional years in Wicker Park. My kids were born in Naperville. I raised my children in Palatine/Inverness - Pleasant Hill, to Plum Grove to Fremd. Spent 18 months in Waukesha then 28 months in Old Irving Park.

I CHOSE to move back to Southern Illinois - first a temporary place in Smithton with goats, cows and a donkey in my neighbor's backyard. My permanent home is in Sauget - a fine village, Exit 1 across the Poplar Street Bridge.

Maybe you just have not experienced much.

As I was saying, people make strange choices.

 

[Sparty Jones]

As I was saying, people make strange choices.

Why on Earth would you rip where someone lives on a high school football forum? Do you feel better now? Run along.