The goal isn’t to get the best 2 teams in the finals. They want geographical representation. A couple years ago they changed the rule with private schools losing their multiplier and that has been a big L
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The goal isn’t to get the best 2 teams in the finals. They want geographical representation. A couple years ago they changed the rule with private schools losing their multiplier and that has been a big L
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That's why I say I hope they are proud of themselves. They have just messed this whole thing up from conferences affiliations, the amount of classes, how some schools are classified all the way to the seeding process.
It really is a joke. Just ones man's opinion.
I really think alot could be resolved just by going back to 6 classes. Maybe 5.
They should go back to 6 classes but it’ll never happen. Pretty soon they will have everyone make the playoffs
Maroa had higher enrollment, a bigger roster, and two D1 recruits, while Chicago Christian had 9 two-way players that were all on the same team last year that lost to Maroa 42-6. The only problem seemed to be that Maroa expected the same game as last year but didn't get it.
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That is a game that did catch me surprise for a lot of the reasons you just mentioned. The speed and physicality from CC blew me away. Very impressed by them today.
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How does Mt Zion look? Can't find any TV coverage in the Chicago area
The issue is outside of Althoff which is an outlier the south bracket is horrible. Chicago Christian, Montini and DePaul all played much more competitive games to get to the finals
Indiana does that already but the way they do it geographically, similar to the regional system in other sports, is kinda messed up.
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Getting rocked. It is on channel 230 on xfinity. It's on the U-Too
Illinivek23
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Ugh. The U Too not on YTTV.
You didn’t miss anything. I paid $10 to watch it on nfhs and it definitely wasn’t worth it. The games were trash
next year Naz and jca will be in 6a. Cary grove can drop to 5a. 7a will be wide open with mt Carmel gone
Not a fan of 4 blowouts with private schools destroying public schools in the smallest classes. Boring games.
Keep in mind that a year ago, there were 4 blowouts in the smallest classes with public schools winning all 4.
Not to say there isn't a problem with, say, Althoff being 1A or Montini being 3A, but today's results overall were more of an anomaly than a trend.
Besides Althoff those private schools played much tougher games leading up to the finals. Montini was a foot away from losing to Byron. The issue is how uneven the bracket is.
Next year Althoff if 3a, montini 4a, jca and naz 6a and mt Carmel 8a. I know Iccp, Marist and brother rice can drop their multiplier it’ll be interesting to see if any of them petition up. Marist and BR would drop to 6a and Iccp 2a
Congrats to the privates…what competitive games
And no offense to anyone that likes ISU’s experience, but the state title games should always be in Champaign. Getting to play in Memorial Stadium is a far bigger treat for players than ISU or NIU when they hosted.
The problem is all classes will never be seeded 1-32 because the fear that it’ll just be Chicagoland teams in the finals.
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One thing that is important I was reminded of from a thread on Michael O'Brien's twitter and a thing was I was incorrect about, the IHSA just governs as the membership dictates. The principals must make proposals and must get a backing. This is really on the schools.
I just want to see competitive games and I think the kids deserve same.
I just want to see competitive games and I think the kids deserve same.
Cool you mentioned 1 team from the south that has competed consistently. I guess because 1 team in 6a can compete the south bracket isn’t trash. Rochester is another team that has had a lot of success.
It’ll never change because of the schoooe outside of Chicagoland. The sycamore ad wanted to get rid of the prep bowl because it gives ccl schools an unfair advantage. If that ever passes the cpl will allow all their teams to qualify for the IHSA playoffs
The new ccl has made the Chicagoland schools a lot better. LWE only played in in 4 quarter game until they played Loyola. Look at the competition that Montini played all year. Then they go in the 3a playoffs and roll.
Allowing the private schools to go down classes based on previous years' lack of playoff success makes zero sense to me. In high school, what happens one year often has little to do with the next year or two. It has way more to do with what a team loses to graduation and how good the JV or freshman team is. I'd be more in favor of increasing the multiplier to 2.0.
The two-year thing is very weird. If playoff success is going to be a multiplier factor for football, it should be a rolling count of success and go back a full HS enrollment (4 years). I think I like the idea of "football enrollment" a little better (your enrollment number is the average enrollment of the teams you played rather than your own enrollment), but the CCL/ESCC is a different beast all together.
Full disclosure, I am the parent of a current Chicago Christian senior boy athlete (doesn't play football this year, played a bit soph year and got hurt), and we've known this class was full of boys athletes since they were in kindergarten together. Nobody else really saw it coming this football season, which is why they were picked to finish 6th in their conference. New coaching staff this year really got the boys conditioned to play 4 quarters both ways and they kept getting better every week. Yesterday was a surprise to everyone, but all those guys earned that chance and that team was correctly classified as 2A (their enrollment is 316, low end of 2A, they were borderline 1A).
Sometimes one team is just much better prepared to play than the other in a given day.
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