Soucie breaks down who's moving where next year success/multiplier

[Comiskey Park]

Since it looks like the BR bashing is starting before we really know anything on all fronts (IHSA, what BR will decide) just a quick look at the last three BR seasons:

BR Varsity, '22 Quarterfinals lost to MC state champs, '23 lost to Batavia semi finalists, '24 round 1 lost to Fenwick by 5.
Lost three games all by 7 to solid teams in Marist, St. Rita and Loyola, beating MC, while losing to Fenwick in the playoffs.

BR Sophs-23-4 the last three seasons, CCL Blue co-champs in 23.

BR Fresh-26-1 the last three seasons, CCL Blue champs all three.

To say this school / program does not care is wrong. As we all know this is a brutally tough conference, all working hard to attract the same students to attend. Also, all of these upper division schools, your first two games are hard to find anyone who wants to play you (Marist plays Mo Po, SR plays MC, MC played the Hun, BR plays Marist).

BR is closer than some think, but let's all see what happens.

Happy Thanksgiving to you all and good luck to ALL CCL/ESCC teams this weekend. Bring it home!

 

[colin2229]

Wonder what Althoff will look like next year when all those dudes graduate and they end up in 3a.

 

[USD24]

Wonder what Antioch is thinking right about now. We moved up to 6a and for the 2025 season 6A north is going to be LOADED with private schools.

Kinda interesting that Antioch made all the noise about private schools. The AD is a JCA guy who played and coached at Joliet Catholic.

 

[Dave Brody]

SF has some work to do.

SF is definitely not a fan of the projected 5A teams for 2025. Ouch.

 

[MC63]

JCA? Anyone who really believes JCA is a 5A school and belongs in the 5A playoffs should probably get their head checked. The sad part is the majority of that fan base seems to think it's not a problem to sit in the lower classes and pick off public schools (in multiple sports). Low hanging fruit for them.

I've been saying this for years - the gguys from these schools go ballistic, Exceppt for the tiny schools, no CCL team should be below 6A.

 

[Irish LB]

Someone mentioned JCA baseball in 2A & it’s the same exact thing.

Actually it’s not the same thing, not even close. JCA was down in 2a because they were unmultiplied. Naz baseball has never been unmultiplied and actually is being success factored for the second time.

 

[Irish LB]

I've been saying this for years - the gguys from these schools go ballistic, Exceppt for the tiny schools, no CCL team should be below 6A.

Easy to say when your team is above that threshold isn’t it?

 

[DeanOfSelection]

Wonder what Antioch is thinking right about now. We moved up to 6a and for the 2025 season 6A north is going to be LOADED with private schools.

Law of unintended consequences

 

[MC63]

Easy to say when your team is above that threshold isn’t it?

That threshold should be your goal. Nothing easy about it

 

[Irish LB]

That threshold should be your goal. Nothing easy about it

You suggest other teams petition up, why hasn’t Mt Carmel petitioned up?

 

[Irish LB]

That threshold should be your goal. Nothing easy about it

Naz got success factored up and went to 2 titles in 6a, winning once. Then they got success factored up and went to 2 titles in 7a, winning once. Spare me the bs.

 

[mc140]

Kinda interesting that Antioch made all the noise about private schools. The AD is a JCA guy who played and coached at Joliet Catholic.

Well he should be the one making noise as he knows the difference between the situations.

 

[chakazulu89]

Let's recall that St. Rita was in 5A and got curb stomped by Rochester several years back.

Were BR to fall to 5A, they would not even be the prohibitive favorite. SF and a PC who has some solid lower levels would likely be more favored to win 5A. Programs like Prairie Ridge and Sycamore also very capable of playing with a program like Rice.

I can definitely see them petitioning up to 7A especially since that class seems weaker than any of the other top 4 classes, but it really doesn't seem necessary until they prove that they are head and shoudlers beyond the rest of 5A.

LOL. BR too had solid lower levels with one being undefeated in the Blue. Not a Rice fan, but they would beat SF and PC easily....

 

[JCHillmen]

LOL. BR too had solid lower levels with one being undefeated in the Blue. Not a Rice fan, but they would beat SF and PC easily....

Maybe they win, but I doubt it would be easy against SF as they are and PC as they will be the next few years.

I like Rice. No reason not to. But to think they would dispatch of the best of 5A so easily really seems strange to me.

 

[Snetsrak61]

Wonder what Antioch is thinking right about now. We moved up to 6a and for the 2025 season 6A north is going to be LOADED with private schools.

They can just not opt up right (although they'll likely be right on the edge either way)

 

[Alexander32]

Kinda interesting that Antioch made all the noise about private schools. The AD is a JCA guy who played and coached at Joliet Catholic.

Perhaps that is why he knows the truth about the lack of competitive balance between private schools and public schools, and has the courage to then speak the truth.

About once a year a CCL/ESCC power loses to a public school in the playoffs, and then the privates use that game as an example for the next ten years that things are balanced. [Rochester over St. Rita, Mascoutah over Joliet Catholic, Batavia over Brother Rice, and this year Downers Grove North over Fenwick.] For every game like that, the remainder of their losses in the playoffs, by a factor of 4 or 5 times, are losses to their fellow CCL/ESCC teams. This year in the playoffs Marist lost to Loyola, Brother Rice lost to Fenwick, St. Rita lost to Mt. Carmel, St. Francis lost to Nazareth, St. Laurence lost to DePaul, and either Nazareth or Joliet Catholic will lose in the 5A championship game. With results like that, the CCL/ESCC might as well have its own playoff.

The whys and wherefores can be debated, the past results cannot be debated. They are facts.

 

[gobears25]

I've been saying this for years - the gguys from these schools go ballistic, Exceppt for the tiny schools, no CCL team should be below 6A.

Agreed, CCL blue and green to 8A, orange and white to 7A, and purple and red to 6a. remove all multipliers and success factors. Then all of the CCL teams that play in a classification below where they belong to chase easy trophies like that Chicago Mt Carmel school will be correctly classified.

 

[ignazio]

DePaul going from 4A to 8A.

Enjoy your weekend, Rams!