East Side v Geneva 48-28 GAME & TITLE

[SEHSSTORM1]

If you need a few players just ask. I know there are a few 3rd and 4th string guys that would come in and be starters for a team like SE

You're right. There is more talent in the entire St. Louis area than in Bartlett, Il.

 

[Silver Rain]

Nothing would improve Illinois football like ESL moving up to 8A. It would spare the lower divisions of some humiliating losses and add some excitement to the upper classes. The Flyers always say that they are looking for challenges, and this would give them a challenge almost every week. If their conference won't allow it, they should go independent. After all, "it's the Flyer way."

 

[ODirty1]

Nothing would improve Illinois football like ESL moving up to 8A. It would spare the lower divisions of some humiliating losses and add some excitement to the upper classes. The Flyers always say that they are looking for challenges, and this would give them a challenge almost every week. If their conference won't allow it, they should go independent. After all, "it's the Flyer way."

Wow

 

[PowerI66]

Nothing would improve Illinois football like ESL moving up to 8A. It would spare the lower divisions of some humiliating losses and add some excitement to the upper classes. The Flyers always say that they are looking for challenges, and this would give them a challenge almost every week. If their conference won't allow it, they should go independent. After all, "it's the Flyer way."

MC as well? When they aren't forced to?

 

[jha618]

Nothing would improve Illinois football like ESL moving up to 8A. It would spare the lower divisions of some humiliating losses and add some excitement to the upper classes. The Flyers always say that they are looking for challenges, and this would give them a challenge almost every week. If their conference won't allow it, they should go independent. After all, "it's the Flyer way."

Idk if this is sarcasm or not. But I highly doubt ESL would ever voluntarily go independent. Its already difficult to schedule the 4 open dates they have now.

Also, there were plenty of embarrassing losses Friday without the help of ESL.

 

[Silver Rain]

MC as well? When they aren't forced to?

Here is the key argument for MC to remain in 7A: It keeps the doors open. Like most all-boy Catholic schools, MC's enrollment, and thus its finances, are in a precarious state. Its current student population is about 580. And the school isn't located in the most desirable neighborhood. When MC wins a championship, alumni open their wallets. They write checks and put the school into their wills. If MC were a fixture in 8A, we'd have about five championships, not 16, which translates into fewer donations.

A side-effect of winning is that MC is a legacy school. At least ten players on this year's roster are directly related to former players. Would Jordan Lynch have signed on as a coach at any othrer school? What about Frank Lenti? And the family connection to Mount Carmel isn't only through football. Many of us who never played have fathers, brothers, uncles, and cousins who went there before us and influenced our decision to attend. An eighth grader can be dazzled by a row of trohpy cases.

 

[PowerI66]

Here is the key argument for MC to remain in 7A: It keeps the doors open. Like most all-boy Catholic schools, MC's enrollment, and thus its finances, are in a precarious state. Its current student population is about 580. And the school isn't located in the most desirable neighborhood. When MC wins a championship, alumni open their wallets. They write checks and put MC into their wills. If the school were a fixture in 8A, we'd have about five championships, not 16, which translates into fewer donations. And so remaining in 7A is basically a matter of survival.

Here's where I get a conflict of messaging. Posters, coaches, and players have all stated that going to MC is a brotherhood. I have a brother, I don't put stipulations on it.

There's more, but I'll leave it at that for now. I'm sure the marketing department will chime in shortly.

 

[80sRambler]

Here is the key argument for MC to remain in 7A: It keeps the doors open. Like most all-boy Catholic schools, MC's enrollment, and thus its finances, are in a precarious state. Its current student population is about 580. And the school isn't located in the most desirable neighborhood. When MC wins a championship, alumni open their wallets. They write checks and put the school into their wills. If MC were a fixture in 8A, we'd have about five championships, not 16, which translates into fewer donations.

A side-effect of winning is that MC is a legacy school. At least ten players on this year's roster are directly related to former players. Would Jordan Lynch have signed on as a coach at any othrer school? What about Frank Lenti? And the family connection to Mount Carmel isn't only through football. Many of us who never played have fathers, brothers, uncles, and cousins who went there before us and influenced our decision to attend. An eighth grader can be dazzled by a row of trohpy cases.

Whoa. You can’t have it both ways. You can’t say MC needs to stay in 7A but push ESL to 8A. You can’t go on your mocking rants against Loyola and its 6 championships but then correctly acknowledge MC would have many fewer in 8A.

 

[ODirty1]

Whoa. You can’t have it both ways. You can’t say MC needs to stay in 7A but push ESL to 8A. You can’t go on your mocking rants against Loyola and its 6 championships but then correctly acknowledge MC would have many fewer in 8A.

EXACTLY

 

[Silver Rain]

Whoa. You can’t have it both ways. You can’t say MC needs to stay in 7A but push ESL to 8A. You can’t go on your mocking rants against Loyola and its 6 championships but then correctly acknowledge MC would have many fewer in 8A.

The analogies are inexact. ESL's survival doesn't depend on the size of its enrollment or the number of trophies it wins. And Loyola, with more than 2,000 kids, has nearly twice as many boys as MC. Should that not be a factor? As for the other small Catholic schools, like Naz, Montini, and JCA, I've never carped about them playing in the lower classes. Loyola has fielded some very good football teams in the last few years. I don't begrudge them their three-peat, not at all. But many schools have done as well or better. I ask sincerely, not mockingly, where was Loyola for the first 40 years?