How come Loyola is the only team ever to petition up to 8a?
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Lets be honest. Everyone is chasing titles. No team is going to petition up unless they feel they are almost guaranteed semis in that class.
Exactly. If my team has a legit shot at winning 6 or 7a, I'm staying put lol
I'm sure there are plenty of CPL teams looking to petition down. Any chance we ever get something like that in place, at least for them?
I guess if you’ve been to the moon, why settle for a joy ride to the edge of space?
It’s because only the top class, er, TWO top classes count. Or so we’ve been told.
I’d like to see 4 and 8 considered open divisions. Those two would be only teams considered large school state champions and small school state champs. 1-3 and 5-7 could be considered sectional champions. If you want the title opt in. First 32 in each to opt in are in. If you don’t fill the bracket it would go to enrollment until it’s filled. 1-32 no north and south in each.
What if you don’t get 32? Or what happens if a 5-4 is told “only way in is via the open division”?
Let’s be honest LA should be in 8A. The loop hole in the IHSA rules allowed this to happen because of covid and no playoff last year.. LA is smart enough to know they are an 8A team.
I give total respect for them not staying down.
I give total respect for them not staying down.
Not surprising to me. They are fearless. To me they are the clear cut favorite in 8A. Also that QB is so good. Next years early POY favorite. But I’ll still take the beloved in the King’s Challenge.
Totally agree. They are fearless and that starts at the top with Holecek. In many ways, he reminds me of Lenti when he was in the middle of his career…no fear, bring it on, to be the best you have to play the best.
I though MC also petitioned for a couple of years a while back? Can any Caravan confirm that?
I though MC also petitioned for a couple of years a while back? Can any Caravan confirm that?
I do not like Loyola, but I respect them for always looking to schedule the best in all sports
You're looking for a bunch of teams that would want to play in the 'open' divisions, but even now teams can petition up, and there are only a few that do it (seems like 3 or 4 get talked about here, are there more?). Some people here like to talk about wanting to "beat the biggest and best and nothing else matters". However, my guess is, if you could wave a magic wand and give 1000 random players/coaches/fans a 'whatever'-A championship trophy or an 8A quarter or semi-finalists, the response would be 95%+ 'whatever'-A.
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If you told me The Brook could drop to 1A I would be against it. Don't think the coaches would either. I know earlier in the summer our schedule had CICS Longwood on it and was later upgraded to Simeon. This was with a schedule I already saw us as underdogs in 5 games.
I know when we leaped from 7 to 8A our non-conference schedule added the two participants in the 8A championship game the year before. I got to see the immediate difference between the classes with no speculation.
Do you think with a continued CPL enrollment decline we will start to see more and more schools in the smaller classifications?
I’d assume so. It will never happen but they need to start Co-Oping some of those lower Chicago Division teams
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