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He took wheeling to the playoffs... completely agree on that win over MC, I thought the caravan would roll but we're out coached.What was the effect at Wheeling?
I think that championship game win vs MC was the 1st time I was ever absolutely shocked by a Championship game outcome.
To become the defensive coordinator at Fremd.
What he did at Prospect in taking a dead program and making them to 3 7A titles and a decade of highly consistent play is one of the great coaching jobs in Illinois history. Especially with not having many kids playing at FCS/FBS. Even making Wheeling relatively competitive in a district not known for strong sporting pipelines is quite an accomplishment.
Absolutely. Prospect was a consistently sub-.500 program before him and has returned to that since he left; his time there was an anomaly for the program.
That said, it seems hard to recapture whatever that was it seems. Stortz did not have the same level of success at Rock Island that he did at Lake Zurich(and now he's at Conant). Pearlman was only able to get Wheeling to one 5-4 season, and Donatucci was only able to manage one 6-3 season at Hoffman Estates.
For me i was most shocked by 5A in '93. Lol!What was the effect at Wheeling?
I think that championship game win vs MC was the 1st time I was ever absolutely shocked by a Championship game outcome.
Offense got shut out the week before by DLS, and they barely squeaked by JCA in the 1st Rd. I was definitely disappointed, but not shocked.For me i was most shocked by 5A in '93. Lol!