With 5 of their opponents this season having losing records last year and the other 4 losing in Round 1 of the playoffs, their schedule looks indicative of a potential turn-around
I bet big on that over of 5 wins. Great new Coach and speed everywhere. Saw them in two 7v7's and they really stood out. It seemed like they've been doing it for years. York was Superior vs. a very very good Naz team. I agree that 8-1 is a stretch, but this team should be playing in November. GREAT Call!
Yes...and Naz looked very good also. Very good program but not for the 180 discussion. A lot of those kids seemed to know each other.
I have no skin in the game...either way. Impartial...and just my opinion. I'm not posting to make anyone mad and I'm sorry if I did. Just replying to another post in which I had some knowledge.
St. Chuck East 8A playoffs last year.
Look at the run Burbank had.Imagine(and I loved St.Laurence) if the Burbank kids all went to Reavis.Many of the studs at Laurence were Burbank kids.Reavis would have won state a truckload of times.Many of the studs who went to Larry & Reavis left Burbank & had kids who were stars @ Oak Forest,The lincoln Ways,Lemont,etc.Back in the day you NEVER left Burbank.Burbank is still pretty safe but not the same.It used to be people with Polish,Irish,German backgrounds.Football players.Now it is spanish,arabic,polish speaking kids very few who play football.The Titans feeder team were a monster & won many championships.Top Coaches helped too.
I'm very excited to see what happens in this conference, I think it will be extremely competitive. I definitely see CG as the favorite in the conference again but I am not willing to count out Huntley. After that I think there are a good handful of teams, where depending on how things play out could be bubble playoff teams. I look at Central, McHenry, South, PR, and Dundee Crown, and I think all of these teams should have pretty good squads, but the 9 team conference and only having 1 non con game really hurts the teams in this middle ground of the conference. From what I am hearing from other coaches in the FVC Crown has a ton of players returning and they look to be competing for a playoff spot. Central is coming off a playoff birth last year after a hiatus for a few years and I am hearing they have a pretty athletic quarterback that is more athletic than what Staples was, also it will be year 3 of this staff in place and numbers are up in there program, so we will see if they can take another stride in the right direction. South has possibly the best and biggest line the state, but lets see how it works out for them this year. PR is the ultimate question mark as they go back to the well to see if there is enough talent there to reload that team that was lead by many seniors who were 3 and 4 year starters. Finally, McHenry after looking great two years ago to just missing the playoffs last year, and now losing their HC due to legal troubles (to say the least) you have to wonder how that will affect the kids. I sure hope the kids are able to get past this and enjoy a successful season. Either way this conference sure is going to be fun to watch and see how it plays out and which teams make it to the playoffs.
Absolutely JCA is a dark horse.
Great post and to add - I think Huntley plays Naper North, PR plays Waub Valley and Cary plays Naper Central. I would bet on the Fox Valley winning at least two of those games. They will have a major impact on who, if any, of the Naper Valley Conf teams making the playoffs.
So if they are just from a Polish background, they probably will play. However, if they know the Polish language few of them play.
Not that I need to explain anything to you but here goes.Back in the day the Mexican kids were pretty big(on a side note I'm still friends with quite a few of them & they don't want to be called Hispanic) & played football.There was no soccer but it was talked about but none of them would bolt football for soccer.Some of them spoke Spanish some didn't.These days you have just a slice of those left but most others speak full Spanish,are not as big & play soccer not football.Same thing with the Polish/European kids.Were pretty big, few spoke Polish,there were a couple that liked soccer but not as much as football, big kids.Peoria Newspaper put such a article in their paper.Now you get just a slice of Polish kids that play football over soccer.Not as big.Polish speaking & love to play soccer.Didn't makeup of the community is all I meant.So if they are just from a Polish background, they probably will play. However, if they know the Polish language few of them play.
Those are going to be some great games! All of the FVC teams will be one the road. If I wasn't coaching at my high school those would be some games I would make sure to head out to the burbs for.
Reavis schedule helps them out 100%
Rewind to 2016. Rams qualify @ 7-2 including 2 non-con CPS wins. They host 6-3 LW Central and lose 50-20.
As a polish speaking football player most kids my age from our my polish school class play soccer only the larger kids will play football. As you get further from the first generation however more tend to play football .
