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Somebody’s big mad in Antioch…and it’s only Friday

Plenty of public schools can compete. I really thought this was Lincoln Way East’s year personally. Then again Lincoln Way does take and seek transfers who only transfer for football so not really a traditional public. Not knocking them I root for them don’t get me wrong. Just not really the same as most public schools.

My only fear with further private school domination is our big private boys in the state, Loyola/Mount Carmel…Will start to think of the state title as an afterthought and focus more on national schedule. Although it would be fun to see us compete nationally, we don’t want the state title games to be watered down. The state title should be the end all be all biggest game of the year for all teams. It’s still that way now. I just hope it stays that way. Mount Carmel in 8A next year will go a long way towards that. 8A champ will have to get through at least 2 of LWE/MC/Loyola next year. Somebody’s got to get knocked down a peg and that’s a good thing.
 
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OHHHH - aside from Dixon himself harping during semi-final week about playing Althoff, he said we were a one-man show and that all they needed to was shut down Dierre. That made the first play from scrimmage, a qb run for 60 and a TD, very sweet.

Last year, one of their chain gang members, situated on the Althoff/visitors' side as per custom, dropped the N word. He was ejected. The remainder of the game, the gang was salty and getting in the way of folks = players and coaches - on the sidelines.
 
Plenty of public schools can compete. I really thought this was Lincoln Way East’s year personally. Then again Lincoln Way does take and seek transfers who only transfer for football so not really a traditional public. Not knocking them I root for them don’t get me wrong. Just not really the same as most public schools.

My only fear with further private school domination is our big private boys in the state, Loyola/Mount Carmel…Will start to think of the state title as an afterthought and focus more on national schedule. Although it would be fun to see us compete nationally, we don’t want the state title games to be watered down. The state title should be the end all be all biggest game of the year for all teams. It’s still that way now. I just hope it stays that way. Mount Carmel in 8A next year will go a long way towards that. 8A champ will have to get through at least 2 of LWE/MC/Loyola next year. Somebody’s got to get knocked down a peg and that’s a good thing.
ESTL plays a national schedule and doesn’t see the state title as an afterthought im sure these programs would think the same especially with the history behind them
 
He broke out the map and Jack thanked him!
That’s map is small compared to Jackie Robinson West Little League pool they had kids come in to play for them lol. My little league was in District 15 with West Lawn who had many cops kids playing for them. Many attended Private Schools that played on West Lawn. I was at the Sectional & rooting on West Lawn in the 12 year old tournament. One of the friends(who was a police officer) of the West Lawn dad who had son playing said what is that kid for Jackie Robinson doing playing in a 12 tournament? He said he was 15 years old & he arrested him for armed robbery a few before. He went to his car & came back showed the mug shot of him. They reported JRW but nothing was done
 
ESTL plays a national schedule and doesn’t see the state title as an afterthought im sure these programs would think the same especially with the history behind them
Maybe not anymore since Cary Grove. But I mean didn’t their coach two years ago say verbatim that they can’t find competition in the state so they go elsewhere? If so, that’s the start of it.
 
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Last year, one of their chain gang members, situated on the Althoff/visitors' side as per custom, dropped the N word. He was ejected. The remainder of the game, the gang was salty and getting in the way of folks = players and coaches - on the sidelines.
I hope the refs wrote up that they ejected a member of the chain crew for that.

I hope Althoff did as well.
 
Maybe not anymore since Cary Grove. But I mean didn’t their coach two years ago say verbatim that they can’t find competition in the state so they go elsewhere? If so, that’s the start of it.
I don't believe he said it's hard to find competition in the state. But hard to schedule ooc games in general. The last 2 years they had neutral sites vs Loyola and mc. Prior to that it's been NC, NV, Batavia etc all on the road. Id guess it's been 10 years since they had a home non con game vs a team from illinois
 
That’s map is small compared to Jackie Robinson West Little League pool they had kids come in to play for them lol. My little league was in District 15 with West Lawn who had many cops kids playing for them. Many attended Private Schools that played on West Lawn. I was at the Sectional & rooting on West Lawn in the 12 year old tournament. One of the friends(who was a police officer) of the West Lawn dad who had son playing said what is that kid for Jackie Robinson doing playing in a 12 tournament? He said he was 15 years old & he arrested him for armed robbery a few before. He went to his car & came back showed the mug shot of him. They reported JRW but nothing was done
So your cop friend is openly sharing juvenile records? That's fun!
 
I don't believe he said it's hard to find competition in the state. But hard to schedule ooc games in general. The last 2 years they had neutral sites vs Loyola and mc. Prior to that it's been NC, NV, Batavia etc all on the road. Id guess it's been 10 years since they had a home non con game vs a team from illinois
LOL LWE said they'd rather play Kankakee
 
I don't believe he said it's hard to find competition in the state. But hard to schedule ooc games in general. The last 2 years they had neutral sites vs Loyola and mc. Prior to that it's been NC, NV, Batavia etc all on the road. Id guess it's been 10 years since they had a home non con game vs a team from illinois
Looks like they hosted Provi in 2017?
 
If you can read what I said was the cop was a friend of the dad having a kid on the West Lawn team. I was 12. This was back in 83
Oh, my fault. I should learn how to read this very clear sentence: "One of the friends(who was a police officer) of the West Lawn dad who had son playing said what is that kid for Jackie Robinson doing playing in a 12 tournament?" Anywho, still weird he was carrying around and openly sharing the mugshot of a minor. Carry on!
 
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