Teams with most Returning Starters

[SiuCubFan8]

That was the rumor I heard last week. Who knows, there might be another QB on the move.

Is that just speculation or rumor?

 

[corey90]

Saw Lincoln Riley USC was at LWE. 😊

 

[Dave Brody]

Is that just speculation or rumor?

IDK…more of a rumor

 

[eagles2k3]

Then you saw the end of my playing career!

I was there as well. I knew the Sutton family pretty well! I think Danny Sutton was one of the wings. Kid had wheels!

 

[PowerI66]

I was there as well. I knew the Sutton family pretty well! I think Danny Sutton was one of the wings. Kid had wheels!

Yes, him and Tom Eanes were the two starters. Jamey Silvera got some significant time as well

 

[eagles2k3]

OPRF just dominated the wrestling scene for a couple seasons and then poof....they were gone! IC has now come out of nowhere and has an elite wrestling team that just won the Catholic League Tournament

Yes. They have a strong connection to Izzy Martinez, who although not a coach, is very involved in the development of the IC wrestling program. Nothing, other than maybe CPS basketball, comes close to the recruiting and connections that happen with wrestling. The top programs are always going to be private schools. IC, Marmion, Marist, MC, Joliet Catholic, Montini, Providence. You still have some solid homegrown public schools like Sandburg, Washington, Lincoln Ways, and now Hononegah, but for those schools to compete with the private schools in wrestling is near impossible. Yes St. Charles East won it a few years ago, but that was also built by move-ins of elite D1 wrestlers. They are good this year but not top to bottom like they were the last couple of years.