IlliniSaluki
- IL metro east burbs of St. Louis
Not having kept up with local HS sports much recently I just learned tonight/this morning that their is some major shake ups going on in HS conferences here in the Metro East/Southern IL.
1a) This is the last year of the Mississippi Valley Conference (MVC): Mascoutah & Triad are moving to the Southwestern Conference (SWC).
1b) Collinsville is moving it's Football program back into the SWC (all other sports already in SWC) and Granite City is rejoining the SWC in all sports.
1c) Projected FB divisions of. Black Division (Large Schools): Belleville East, Belleville West, East St. Louis, Edwardsville, & O'Fallon. Gold Division (Smaller Schools): Alton, Collinsville, Granite City, Mascoutah & Triad.
2a) Jerseyville, Waterloo and Civic Memorial (Bethalto) are moving to the Cahokia Conference (CC).
2b) Centralia is moving from the South Seven (S7) to the Cahokia Conference.
2c) Roxanna tried to move their FB program to a different division within the CC but instead got voted out of the conference all together by the other schools. They are now looking for a new conference to call home.
2d) Already a large conference just getting larger. Not even going to try and guess what the divisions for FB might look like next year.
3) Highland is moving to the South Seven conference after the MVC's dissolution.
4) Alton Marquette Catholic, Belleville Altoff Catholic, Madison, Mater Dei and Roxanna are forming a football only conference, the Metro Valley Conference. Plans to add a 6th school to make scheduling easier.
Part of me is sad to see the MVC go away. I graduated from OTHS (O'Fallon Township HS) and for my Fr/So years we were in the MVC and I grew up watching O'Fallon in the MVC. My Jr./Sr. years we were in the South Seven. We were basically forced out of the MVC by the smaller schools. Specifically East Alton-Wood River and Roxanna. If we didn't leave on our own they were going to leave because we were too big of a school for them. Then those little turds left the MVC a few years later anyways.
I am really glad to see Mascoutah joining the SWC because that was the biggest, most heated, most hated, Meet Me in the Pizza Hut Parking Lot (MMitPHPL) type of rivalry O'Fallon had in Football and Basketball. I really hope they add a permanent rivalry type game in FB between divisions so O'Fallon and Mascoutah can always play.
On a side note it's kind of interesting that O'Fallon was a Founding member of both the Cahokia Conference and the Mississippi Valley Conference and if the SWC claims it's beginnings back to the mid 1920's before it dissolved and reformed again then O'Fallon would technically be a Founding member of it as well even though OTHS was only in it for 1 year before joining Freeburg and others to form the Cahokia Conference. lol
Anyways hope this might of been of some interest for some of you.
Go Illini! I L L
1a) This is the last year of the Mississippi Valley Conference (MVC): Mascoutah & Triad are moving to the Southwestern Conference (SWC).
1b) Collinsville is moving it's Football program back into the SWC (all other sports already in SWC) and Granite City is rejoining the SWC in all sports.
1c) Projected FB divisions of. Black Division (Large Schools): Belleville East, Belleville West, East St. Louis, Edwardsville, & O'Fallon. Gold Division (Smaller Schools): Alton, Collinsville, Granite City, Mascoutah & Triad.
2a) Jerseyville, Waterloo and Civic Memorial (Bethalto) are moving to the Cahokia Conference (CC).
2b) Centralia is moving from the South Seven (S7) to the Cahokia Conference.
2c) Roxanna tried to move their FB program to a different division within the CC but instead got voted out of the conference all together by the other schools. They are now looking for a new conference to call home.
2d) Already a large conference just getting larger. Not even going to try and guess what the divisions for FB might look like next year.
3) Highland is moving to the South Seven conference after the MVC's dissolution.
4) Alton Marquette Catholic, Belleville Altoff Catholic, Madison, Mater Dei and Roxanna are forming a football only conference, the Metro Valley Conference. Plans to add a 6th school to make scheduling easier.
Part of me is sad to see the MVC go away. I graduated from OTHS (O'Fallon Township HS) and for my Fr/So years we were in the MVC and I grew up watching O'Fallon in the MVC. My Jr./Sr. years we were in the South Seven. We were basically forced out of the MVC by the smaller schools. Specifically East Alton-Wood River and Roxanna. If we didn't leave on our own they were going to leave because we were too big of a school for them. Then those little turds left the MVC a few years later anyways.
I am really glad to see Mascoutah joining the SWC because that was the biggest, most heated, most hated, Meet Me in the Pizza Hut Parking Lot (MMitPHPL) type of rivalry O'Fallon had in Football and Basketball. I really hope they add a permanent rivalry type game in FB between divisions so O'Fallon and Mascoutah can always play.
On a side note it's kind of interesting that O'Fallon was a Founding member of both the Cahokia Conference and the Mississippi Valley Conference and if the SWC claims it's beginnings back to the mid 1920's before it dissolved and reformed again then O'Fallon would technically be a Founding member of it as well even though OTHS was only in it for 1 year before joining Freeburg and others to form the Cahokia Conference. lol
Anyways hope this might of been of some interest for some of you.
Go Illini! I L L
