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Soucie always does great work and has some good ideas. I hate to be a bit of a downer, but from what everything I'm hearing postseason play will be regionally based according to the 11 IDPH regions. For example, schools in Will and Kankakee Counties are grouped together and can only play postseason games against one another.Looking at that region only for postseason play it might be best to breakdown teams by two sizes. Big Schools and Small Schools. For other regions it may be different and better to separate teams another way. Remember, these teams are allowed to travel outside their region for regular season conference games. For this region its unknown if Plainfield South will be in this region or the region with Kendall and Grundy County teams. Plainfield South is in PSD202, has a Joliet address, but is in Kendall County so that is still to be confirmed by anyone I've talked to. If a school is an IHSA member, but does not have football I indicated that. Best way to do it is if you end up winning your conference you get automatic bid to playoffs. If not have formula similar to playoff formula that we have now or have the coaches or media or a combination of the two vote on seeding and at-large bids. Top 4 Big Schools and Top 4 Small Schools make it with best seed hosting semi-finals. Championship Saturday could be at Joliet Memorial Stadium. For teams that didn't make playoffs. Option for an exhibition game the week of semi-finals. I'm going to go off of last seasons results in the last 7 weeks because most teams are scheduling based off weeks 3-9.
BIG SCHOOLS (15) *16
Bolingbrook 4-3
Bradley-Bourbonnais 3-4
Crete-Monee 7-0 conference champ
Joliet Central 1-6
Joliet West 4-3 conference champ on tiebreaker over PEHS and PSHS
Kankakee 7-0 lost to Crete-Monee in week 2
Lincoln-Way Central 1-6
Lincoln-Way East 7-0 conference champ
Lincoln-Way West 4-3
Lockport 4-3
Plainfield Central 1-6
Plainfield East 4-3 lost 3-way tiebreaker to Joliet West
Plainfield North 4-3
Providence 4-3
Romeoville 1-6
Semi-Finals
4. Joliet West at 1. Lincoln Way East
3. Kankakee at 2. Crete-Monee
SMALL SCHOOLS (13)
Beecher (No Football)
Bishop McNamara 5-2
Grace Christian (No Football)
Grant Park (No Football)
Herscher 2-5
Illinois Lutheran(No Football)
Joliet Catholic 6-1 conference champ
Manteno 5-2
Momence 1-6
Peotone 4-3
Reed-Custer 0-7
St. Anne (No Football)
Wilmington 6-1
Semi-Finals
4. Manteno at 1. Joliet Catholic
3. Bishop McNamara at 2. Wilmington
Minooka would be in region 2 North-Central with LaSalle,Bureau, Fulton, Henderson, Henry, knox, Livingston, Marshall, McDonough, McLean, Mercer, Peoria, Putnam, rock island, Stark, Tazewell, Warren, Woodford, Kendall and Grundy county schools. All though they have kids from Kendall and Will the district office and high school is in Grundy. For regular season conference games you can cross regions but for non-conference and playoffs you can't. Plainfield's with Will and Kankakee in South Suburban region 7. IDPH map is the source.Given this analysis, where do schools who are in multiple IDPH Regions go? I suppose the big Region 11 question is Minooka, where there are schools in both Will and Grundy County, to go with the Plainfield South in Will & Kendall?