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Kyle Neighbors along with my co host Steve Susy, here to get you set
for week four. We are recording this on Thursday afternoon, and actually we
had a chance to do this, well, not exactly in person because we're
in different offices right now, but we are doing this from the Crystal Lake
office because you're up to see some Thursday night football tonight, right, my
friend Yeah again to take an opportunity to come up here and catch Barrington and
Nutrier and action. I'm not one hundred percent sure why there's a heavy slate
of Thursday games this week. I think some of it is in regards to
the officials shortage. Some conferences kind of agreed to move games to Thursday night
to kind of ease some of that pressure, and I think that Barrington and
new Trier were involved in one of those decisions. So I'm going to check
that one out. Looking forward to seeing Barrington for the first time, and
I'm always looking for an opportunity to go see venues where I have not seen
a high school football game played, and Barrington will be added to the list
tonight. Yeah. I was over at Barrington for my first time a few
seasons ago. They had a homecoming game against Conant that I believe they actually
lost in overtime. Ended up being a really really good game. But it's
a terrific place to watch a football game. So but yeah, I think
it's it's fifteen games we have tonight on Thursday night. It's actually more like
twenty five. Okay, it's a pretty healthy pack. So usually you'll have
maybe you know, eight to ten Chicago Public League games and maybe one or
two other loose games that are played on that Thursday night. But I believe
in total, fifty teams they're in action on Thursday evening. Well, thank
you everyone who's tuned in here to listen to the Friday Night Drive podcasts.
As I said, I am your host Kyle Nabors along with Steve Susy.
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Steve Susie and Jimmy Musual. And that might sound a little different to you,
and that's just because last week I came down terribly sick on Friday,
was not in a good place. SEUs was the wonderful, wonderful coworker and
friend that he is, drove up to Christal Lake and you know what,
we enjoyed that dynamic and it's something we want to keep doing moving forward.
Sus looking forward to having you talk with viewers for the rest of the regular
season. You're gonna have a hard time finding a way to get me to
argue with having the opportunity to talk high school football for multiple hours on any
given nights. So happy to do so. So we want to spend some
time today, of course preview in week four, but the third part of
the first part of the podcast today we want to talk about SEUs is updated
playoff projection, because now that we're a third of the way through the season,
this is where the data really starts to paint a picture where you don't
feel like you're throwing dartboar darts at a dartboard quite so much. SEUs.
Yeah, it does come down to that. You're starting to see at least
a little bit of clarity and some of these, uh, you know,
more games where you're having teams that you're like, will they get to five?
You know, is that route going to be too difficult? You start
to have some of those decision making games made for you in weeks three and
especially week four, where the clarity starts to come in a little bit more.
It's not difficult. I mean it's not easy, but it's not difficult
to kind of point out the teams that you think are probably going to get
to the seven eight win level where this process becomes very difficult is indicating which
of those teams are going to get to five and which aren't, and who's
going to be riding that fence. And there are a lot of games every
week that kind of help make those decisions, and you start to see them
more commonly, and they're definitely they definitely stand out more once you start to
get into this week three, week four pattern where the games are that are
extraordinarily pivotal for those teams that are just trying to find their way into the
field. It might not be realistic to see some of these teams getting to
the six, seven, eight win plateau, but getting to five as possible,
and along the way they usually have a game or two that is absolutely
critical to that quest, and there seems to be quite a few of them
in this week. You can find Susan's updated playoff projections live on Friday Night
Drive dot com by Wednesday, usually by suits. This week you always have
an analysis with it, and you talked about how these Chicagoland Christian, the
Chicagoland Prairie and the Lincoln Trail slash Prairie Land three new conferences are making things
a bit more difficult just because you don't have the history of knowing how these
teams are going to stack up. As you were kind of alluding to there,
it's not as much at the top of those conferences, I'm guessing as
more as that kind of that second tier who grabs those final playoff spots.
Yeah, I mean when you get into some especially some of these new conferences,
a lot of the established conferences, you can kind of look at them
and sometimes they're just markers. I mean, you might have two teams that
play each other on a regular basis and one just controls that battle, and
it makes it a lot easier to kind of project what's going to happen because
you have that marked history. And yeah, sure there's always deviation from that.
It's not like you can just punch in last year's results and say,
Okay, they're going to be duplicated this year. But when you have something
that's, hey, this team has beaten this team eight out of the last
ten times, nine out of the last ten times, it's it's definitely an
indicator of how things are likely to go. So from a projection standpoint,
when you have that kind of history behind it, it makes it a lot
easier than trying to establish, you know, where two teams may fall that
look on paper to be kind of similar, but have no track record against
one another and are coming from just you know, different leagues and different playing
opponents in the past. So you just don't have a lot to go on
other than those first couple of games to start the season, and sometimes those
don't tell you very much. You might have a light non conference schedule,
you might have a difficult one, and sometimes those don't read out a lot
in just two weeks. So new conferences tend to be the trickiest of all
to project early in the season because you just don't have a lot of those
markers like I talked about to kind of guide you down the path. We've
talked in depth, I feel like of the years about how tricky the projection
is when it comes to Chicago Public League. In your analysis this week,
you refer to it as an X factor. You had five new teams from
the Chicago Public League into the projection this week among thirty four overall, and
that caused some pretty substantial changes. You had Morris going back up into five
A Edwardsville to eight A Lake Zerich, seven A will Minted three a those
are some pretty big bumps for those schools of notable programs. At what point
of the season, if ever, do you start to feel confident when trying
to stack up these CPL teams. You know, I think that's one of
the things that I think takes about five or six games of data, because
by that point you've usually you've gotten in maybe half of the conference scheduled games.
And the biggest thing about Public League is, you know, the history
sometimes doesn't hold a lot of water. And a lot of other conferences you
can look to those historical markers and they mean a little bit more because there's
just a track record of consistency. But in the Public League, what you
often get is three or four teams that maybe have separated themselves from the group.
But then in some of these other especially some of the conferences that are
not filled with teams that have much of a history and or pedigree, those
results will sometimes vary wildly from year to year. You will have a team
that maybe one year went goes nine to OZ during the regular season, turns
around the next year and goes oh and nine. I mean, it happens
a lot more often in the Public League than it does anywhere else, which
makes it very difficult to you know, kind of figure that out. Sometimes
you have programs that have numbers issues but talent and I mean, there have
been situations in the past where you've had a public league team show that they're
they're a pretty solid team, at least in public league scheme of things,
actually have to forfeit a game in the middle of the season because they just
didn't have enough players for that week, and then come back the following week
and beat a pretty good team once they got the number situation figured out.
So it's it's kind of a it's it's definitely a chaotic landscape. It's definitely
the most challenging part of trying to put this all together because just when you
think you've got your thumb on one of these conferences in the Chicago Public League,
you'll get a score that completely throws your bend your mind a little bit.
You're like, how did that happen? I mean, how did how
did that team beat that team? And you know, unlike a lot of
the other you know, conferences and stuff like that, that might get you
know, a little bit more coverage and I'll have a little bit more context.
You know some of those lower divisions of the public league. You know,
I'm I'm sometimes I'm doing little more than an educated guest on some of
these results. Let's talk for a few minutes before we take a commercial break
here and get into week four. Well, who are some of the teams
in your projection on seed lines that are starting to surprise you a bit?
Because I got one in two ay that I saw that kind of surprised me.
Well, I mean, and I think I know what this is,
but I'll let you lead into it in a minute. But you know there
are teams right now that, like when we look at who is three and
oh at this point in time, I tend to look at that discussion as,
Okay, there are a lot of three and O teams right now that
I know are not going to finish three and zero, But how how much
better are they going to carry out from this point? Is this a three
and O team that has a soft schedule, or is this a three and
O team that's really going to make a move. You know that it's gonna
gonna take themselves up into the upper echelance based on that fast start. You
know, I when I look earlier this week The team that I think made
the biggest overall leap from last week's projection to this week's projection would be Lincoln
Way Central. It was a team that I didn't have in the projection last
week because I thought maybe they would have some trouble on the back half of
their schedule, and they still have a what I would consider to be a
pretty interesting back half of their schedule. But them going down and beating O
Fallon on a neutral field indicated to me that I did not have them graded
correctly. So they went all the way. They went all the way from
not being in the projection to it and you know, an upper half seed
in the seven eight draw, and that doesn't happen very often. We go
from one week to another where you have a team do that. But after
evaluating that O Faulon win against the rest of their schedule, it caused me
to really regrade them. So that's an example of one of the more extreme
cases of a team that like is on a high seed, a higher seed
line now than they have ever been, especially this season. But it's identifying
which of these teams right now that are off to good starts that are sustainable,
and I think that's a real good example of that. Yeah, I
think you are hitting it right on the head with lincolnwagh Central. They've played
really well. You look at their schedule ahead. I'm completely on boardwood gear
analysis there. You know where I was going from this because it's it's where
I grew up. Moments down in two A is off two A three and
oh start And I'll tell you what, I haven't really hadn't really thought about
moments all that much. The Vermilion Valley it's down a little bit. But
I just going back and looking and seeing that they beat Westville back, but
that week two, Now I gotta go find my notes here again. No,
they get beat Westville in week three here, but the fact that Westville
beat Bismarck heading back in week two thirty one to twenty two, and you
know, historically I always consider Bismarck Heading, you know, to be the
favorite here kind of give me a second, makes me want to go back
and look a little more south. You know, when I looked at this
conference at the beginning of the year, I just kind of I give it
a stack a little bit on tradition. I give it a stack a little
bit on what I have heard and what I have seen, you know,
with my own eyes during and I saw Moments in the summer at a seven
on seven event. They looked interesting, but I wasn't convinced. The one
thing that opened my eyes in a week two was that Westville had beaten Bismarck
Kenning, and from everything I had heard about Bismarck Kenning, that was considered
to be an upset. So and then when Moments comes out and beats Westville
and by the transitive, you know, property there, you start thinking to
yourself, maybe Moments is the best team in the Vermilion Valley. I mean,
that's that's just kind of what you have to go to on these levels.
And that's another team that like has a hundred rocketed up the up the
rankings. Yeah, I mean they've scored one hundred and twelve points and only
allowed forty three. That's a pretty good plus minus through three weeks. That
you know, when you start looking for indicators for how teams are playing,
you know, I'm going back down Moments and here let's see three and oh
Moments, where'd you go here? Yeah? Seven point willing against Oakwood,
twenty points against Westville, Blue out Central a week two, you know,
and pressive results. That Westville threty four fourteen man, that's that is really
good. Now they have a fun quarterback, a young guy by the name
of Eric Castillo, who is capable of doing a lot of things, both
throwing the ball and running the football. It's it's a good team, apparent,
you know, Apparently that one of those things just kind of gets lost
in the shuffle. Sometimes it's a relatively young team too. I mean,
you know, with Castillo only being a souphamore and several other contributing players on
that team being pretty young, it's easy to see how maybe they wouldn't be
on the radar. But they're clearly playing with little to no fear, and
sometimes that's enough. Do you have talent combined with that, you can be
pretty dangerous. And they weren't a team that I was really studying that much
at the beginning of the year, but they've certainly got my attention now.
All right, see, you got any other teams you want to hit on
from your projecting before we take a quick commercial break. I think that that's
a that's a good cross section right now. All right, Well, let's
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Whichever school you follow, give him your support. All right, Well,
welcome back into the Friday Night Drive podcast. I and Kyle Neighbors along
with host Steve Susy. Now let's jump into Week four. Susan, you
got one hundred teams left in the state that are three and oh, but
you only have eight matchups this week right between three and oh teams. Not
a lot, no, And that's that's definitely kind of an oddity. I
mean, usually, at the very least see probably a double digit list of
these schools playing each other that we're undefeated. And I think that speaks to
kind of a larger overview of what we're going to have this year. I
think we're gonna have, you know, less undefeated teams than we usually do.
I think we're gonna have less one loss teams than we usually do.
And as a consequence, I think we're gonna have more two and three loss
teams. I'm starting to see it a little bit in the projection, where
there's some classifications where you might have a two loss teams sitting on a three
seed line and that just doesn't happen. That happens very infrequently. You're seeing
three loss teams potentially lining up for home games. It's just one of those
years. I think that we're materializing here. I don't want to say parody,
because I don't think that's what it is. I think it's more of
the fact that we have a lot of very good football teams that when they're
playing one another, obviously somebody has to lose. It doesn't necessarily mean we
have less upper echelon teams. I just think we have a lot of very
good ones and they know on any given night, one or the other team
could win. It's going to be coming down to a final break or something
like that. So I think you're gonna have a lot of teams at the
end of the season sitting there with seven and two, six and three records
that you feel like can legitimately make a run at being in normal because their
schedules were so difficult, and I mean, they're probably a whisper too away
from being one of those eight and one, nine and oh teams. That's
what we have this year. Like I said, I'm real careful to use
the word parody because I do not believe that that's what it is. I
just think we have I think a lot of really good teams that all are
kind of intermeshing schedule wise with one another. And you can't have ties.
Someone has to win, someone has to lose, and and those games are
gonna be you know, you're gonna coordinate. You hear that NFL you can't
have ties. Yep, Yeah, boo boo ties. Oh dude, it's
that's just awful when an NFL game ends and the tide it's the most anti
climactic thing. Oh, I hate it every time. Well, I love,
I love. I love the overtime rules of both high school and college.
Actually prefer college rules for overtime. Yeah, but I love the overtime.
Overtime is fascinating. There's so many machinations with the way you can play
it, what you can do, how much thought process has to go into
it. I always get jealous of the people that said, this is my
third overtime game this year. I want to go see every overtime game that
exists because I just love watching the way that they unfold. You know how
coaches make decisions on you know, if they score second, do I go
for two and win this thing? Or do I try to push it into
another overtime? You know, is my kick game? Okay enough for me
to convert here? Am I taking too big of a gamble? I love.
I love all the things that go into the high school overtime format.
So anybody who tries to tell me that we should go to ties, I
mean I want to go into that. So good stuff. We got some
games that come right down to the wire this week. Let's dive into them.
And let's starting the Catholic League. Sus. You got Saint Rita three
and oh heading to Mount Carmel this week and a fun rival rematch up.
We know it's going to be a good game. Mount Carmel I would say
comes in as a favorite. But Saint Rita's played better than I expected so
far this season. Yeah they have. And I mean one of the things
that I noticed a little bit from what I little I was able to watch
of the Saint Rita and Juliet Catholic game last week where they rallied from ten
nothing to end up win twenty ten. This is a team that doesn't that
doesn't quit. They just keep going, They keep churning. They hope to
make what they can do work. DJ Stewart's a really good running back,
so they have that going for them. You know, Mount Carmel is just
kind of like a machine. It was last week. It just kind of
felt like they just kind of like, Okay, we're gonna eventually just wear
you out and we'll finish you off later. We'll win by a comfortable margin.
That just kind of seems to be the blueprint for them right now.
But I do think Saint Rita will push them a little bit. I agree.
I think Mount Carmel's the favorite here. I think Mount Carmel's the favorite
about it against about anybody you would line them up against. But you know,
Saint Rita brings in a little bit of an interesting pet. I agree
here. It wouldn't shock me if we had a football game in the second
half here. One of the most intriguing three and O matchups this week involves
Sandwich and Richmond Burden, and it's another game where I'd say, Richmond Burden
comes in as a substantial favorite based on past president, but I did have
this is the team I want to hit on Sandwich. We were talking about
teams that are causing me to give them a second look. They played really
well against against Plano last week. We're talking about a Sandwich team that did
not play a varsity schedule last week and then goes out and puts up over
four hundred yards of offense against a rival, and Plano now sitting in at
three and O sus Well, I think what it really comes down to was
Sandwich is I gotta stop being surprised by it? You know, every week
this season so far, they've kind of raised my eyebrow with the result that
they came in because I mean they won comfortably in a game last week that
I thought would be kind of a dog fight they took. They absolutely dismantled
Piatone the week before, a team that I think ultimately will be in the
playoffs, you know, and opened up the season with a fairly comfortable win
over Mantino. So for a team that did not play varsity football last year,
I would have thought gradual progression would have been more than enough for Sandwich,
you know, and right now we're talking about, you know, going
into a three and oh, three and oh game with Richmond Burton that if
you would have asked me what would be the situation record wise, you know,
heading into that Week four game, I wouldn't have picked three and oh
against three and oh. I'll just be honest about that. Not surprised by
Richmond Burton being three and oh, but you know, I wouldn't have guessed
that a program that did not play varsity football last year and played some pretty
decent teams to start the season would be in the same situations. It's certainly
one of the best stories storylines of the season so far. But let's go
over. We got Hutley three and ozho at Prairie Ridge three and oh,
a matchup of Fox Valley Conference on beatings. That's not uncommon for this game
to take place with both of these teams undefeated sus both of these teams we
knew would be good Defensely, that's been the case. The offenses have been
progressing each week. I've been really impressed with Huntley's quarterback Raylan Bauer is playing
playing really well. That entire Red Raiders offense so playing well. I'm kind
of going back and forth here, like I think this game could be a
shootout, but I think both of these offenses are sorry, both of these
defenses are good enough of causing this to be one of those games where it
ends up being seventeen to fourteen, twenty one seventeen. You know, I
think this is just a primer for what we kind of have to expect almost
every week in the Fox Valley schedule this year. You're gonna have one game
or multiple games where you've got two teams where you're just not quite sure how
you want to lean in terms of who is a favorite. And I don't
think that's the only game this week. It's just the marquee one. Due
to the fact that these two are undefeated, I think you can look at
a couple of other games in the league and do the same thing. But
Huntley has impressed me again and prayer Ridge. You know, I guess I
sometimes take their success for granted. It's almost like I expect them to be
in this situation every year, and Huntley has done a really nice job of
kind of maintaining you know what. You know, they were a little bit
their success last year was a little bit surprising to me. I wasn't quite
expecting it, but this year I think I learned to know better. So,
you know, having these two teams at three and zero, the only
thing that's going to do at least four at the time being, is clear
a little bit of the log jam at the top of that league. I'm
not so sure it will solve anything and the ultimate end of things because you've
still got other factors here and other teams that are probably going to be biting
at their heels for the rest of the season. So but a fun one.
I'm looking forward to seeing how it shakes out. I don't know if
I'm comfortable labeling a favorite. That's how I feel like this is. This
is I use the term toss up game a lot, but I genuinely mean
it in this situation. I know, and at the end of the day,
I don't really care who wins the game. But from a personal standpoint
here, if PR wins, I'll be a bit happy. And the only
reason I say that is because PR and carry Grow. The indistrict rivals for
the Fox Valley Conference are playing on Saturday at one o'clock this year. I
love Saturday afternoon games. If you give me an opportunity to see those two
teams both unbeaten on Saturday afternoon, I don't want to miss out on that.
So that's the only reason I find myself like, all right, I
kinda want pr to win this game. It's not because I think pr is
a better team theoretically, you know, than Honley. It's just for that
reason. Yeah, I can see that argument. There's no doubt about it.
And you know, I have to admit, even though it's not the
easiest commute for me, you might have a hard time keeping me away from
that game too. So you know, definitely it would be fun if that
comes together. And I'm not necessarily saying I wouldn't make the venture even if
pray Ridge may be happy to lose this game tonight. So but it's it's
you know, on Friday night. So that's one of those situations where it's
it's fun all around. But I think it's just gonna be that way in
this conference this year. You're gonna have a lot of those. I gotta
correct myself. That is not the game they are not playing on Saturday this
year. Yeah, I just look, you threw me off there. Yeah,
it's Carry Grove and Hully. They are playing on Saturday, so now
I have to reverse court. See now I'm going with the Red Raiders.
There you go, and that's not until week seven, so you have to
wait a little while. Yeah, I know that's gonna take the Carry Grove.
Still with man, you get a match up against Jacobs this week,
Prairie Ridge the week after the Voch Valley Conference. It's just ongiffing, But
all right, let's go. We got some other games to talk about here,
sus Let's move on and talk about Batavia and Saint Charles North, the
matchup in the UKAE Conference, pair of two and one teams. It's just
weird to think, at the end of the night, these are both very
very good teams that one of them can be sitting at two and two.
Yeah, I mean, and that's one of the conditions of playing the schedules
that these guys do. I mean, Batavia's loss obviously came at the hands
of Lincoln Way East, you know, Saint Charles North looking to bounce back
from a loss to Wheaton North last week. But get used to it,
because I mean, this is this is the Duke Kinge Conference. This is
what this is. I mean we're talking about two teams here. I mean,
Geneva's dancing around and that late doing some good things. Uh. You
know, Wheat North beat Saint Charles North last week. They're in the mix.
Uh you know Wheaton Warrenville South trying to get back to the standard that
that program has had for a while. Uh. You know, it's just
it's it's a very deep league. You can't take a week off. If
you do, someone's going to burn you. That's really what it comes down
to right now. You know, it feels like almost any team in that
league is capable of bringing Max's effort and catching someone off guard and a game
to where it feels like, you know, maybe the favorite is an overwhelming
favorite. It's just so much depth there and so many programs that have done
it before. You just simply cannot take one off. But this game in
particular, pretty fascinating when it comes right down to it. A long history
of very interesting outcomes between these two teams. You know, I lean Batavia.
I'm of the opinion right now that Batavia could very well run the table
in this conference. But you could also really make an pretty easy case against
me to point out a couple of times where they may fall, but that's
the that's the margin of difference between some of those teams in that league.
All right, Well, I've been kind of guiding us with the games that
I find most interesting so far. Sus, how about you, what game
one game that we haven't talked about do you still want to hit on?
Well, there are a couple that, like you know, from around the
state that feature undefeated teams that I don't know exactly how good they are.
And that's really what it comes down to. I'm really kind of looking forward
to some of those one of them that I'm interested in just because I want
to see how much of a gap they have on the rest of the league.
I'm interested in Kankakee and Riverside Brookfield this week. Riverside Brookfield is kind
of in the conference for you know, the first time in the Southland Conference.
They're they're kind of staying there before they move on to another league.
They just needed to kind of find some partners to play this year. Kankakee
is just flattening people. I mean, last last week they just rolled to
an absolutely huge victory, moved up into the number one spot in the ap
pole in Class six. AM not sure I agree with that, but that's
besides the point. But Kankakee needs tests. I don't know if Riverside Brookfield
can provide one, but I'm interested to find out. That's one of them
right there. Another one that I'm really interested in also going into Central Illinois.
Not between two undefeated teams, but Normal Community is playing Peoria this week,
and Normal Community is a team that has absolutely been trucking people so far
this season, just running rough shot over everybody that they've run into. Peoria
seems to have gotten back on track after that Week one lost to Rochester,
so I'm interested to see if Normal Community can keep that up against a quality
opponent like Peoria. I think we've got to start paying attention to them in
the grand scheme of things. In that seven A mix, Another game I
want to make sure to mention is Bradley bourbon A at Lincoln Way East,
US. You you mentioned this in your Week four games to watch for some
reason. When these two teams get together, they're both coming in here at
three, you know, things get weird and we're talking not a small sample
side. This goes back to our days working together at the Daily Journal down
in Kankakee, where I can remember a pretty good Bradley Bourbon eight team host
in Lincoln Way East. I covered the game, Cam Horrell, It's a
player I remember on that roster that really sticks out. But that was a
really good Bradley Bourbon A team. I want to say they had two players
in their in their secondary that were Division one recruits and they upset them.
That night. They Bradley bourbon A took down lincoln Way East. But that
was really just the first it felt like in a what has become a series
of weird game between these two teams. Yeah, last year Bradley had Lincoln
Way East on the ropes all the way until the end of the game.
And I mean heading into that game, I mean you would have pegged Lincoln
Way East is a comfortable favorite to win that game. Yeah, I mean,
let's let's and I don't mean to be meaning to Bradley bourbon A,
but like this, that Bradley Bourbon eight team last year, Like in comparison
to that team I was mentioning with, like Cam Hoarel, not in the
same league, but there they were still with a Lincoln Weight East team that
was among the best in the state going down the wire last year, Yeah,
and it's it's definitely it's there's been a trend, like you said,
I mean, last year came right down to the wire. Lincolna East wins
by seven. The year previous they won by two, I mean, and
in both situations Bradley was, you know, okay, but not at the
level you're you've come to expected to from lincoln Way East. So it's definitely
Bradley has some sort of mojo over over them right now that gets them amped
up. But it's another game. Like we were talking about teams that are
three and oh that I'm not quite sure about. I think Bradley has some
pretty good talent Ethan Cole at the quarterback position, aj Mancia on defense.
It's a good football team, but they're three and oz right now against three
opponents that frankly don't don't match up very well with almost anybody. They're one
and eight collectively. They played a tiny school out of Wisconsin last week just
to fill an open date on their schedule, man handled them pretty good,
annihilated Thornwood the week prior to that, and Plainfield East to start the season.
They're winless and have been given up a bunch of points. So it
will be a violent step up in competition level for Bradley this week, and
it'll be interesting to see how they respond to that. All right, we
gotta get out of here. See if you got any final words. No,
I just think this is a great week to take a look at the
results and kind of see where they fit in the puzzle. All around.
There might not be a whole bunch of games where you go, oh boy,
that's a matchup of Titans, but there are a lot of games kind
of in the middle pack which I think are real big determiners on where and
if we're going to find these teams in the postseason in a couple of weeks.
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