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up everyone, and welcome back to
the Friday Night Drive Podcast. I am

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Kyle Neighbors along with my co host
Steve Susy, here to get you set

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for week four. We are recording
this on Thursday afternoon, and actually we

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had a chance to do this,
well, not exactly in person because we're

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in different offices right now, but
we are doing this from the Crystal Lake

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office because you're up to see some
Thursday night football tonight, right, my

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friend Yeah again to take an opportunity
to come up here and catch Barrington and

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Nutrier and action. I'm not one
hundred percent sure why there's a heavy slate

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of Thursday games this week. I
think some of it is in regards to

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the officials shortage. Some conferences kind
of agreed to move games to Thursday night

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to kind of ease some of that
pressure, and I think that Barrington and

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new Trier were involved in one of
those decisions. So I'm going to check

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that one out. Looking forward to
seeing Barrington for the first time, and

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I'm always looking for an opportunity to
go see venues where I have not seen

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a high school football game played,
and Barrington will be added to the list

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tonight. Yeah. I was over
at Barrington for my first time a few

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seasons ago. They had a homecoming
game against Conant that I believe they actually

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lost in overtime. Ended up being
a really really good game. But it's

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a terrific place to watch a football
game. So but yeah, I think

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it's it's fifteen games we have tonight
on Thursday night. It's actually more like

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twenty five. Okay, it's a
pretty healthy pack. So usually you'll have

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maybe you know, eight to ten
Chicago Public League games and maybe one or

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two other loose games that are played
on that Thursday night. But I believe

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in total, fifty teams they're in
action on Thursday evening. Well, thank

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you everyone who's tuned in here to
listen to the Friday Night Drive podcasts.

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As I said, I am your
host Kyle Nabors along with Steve Susy.

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Drive dot Com. Of course we'll
have all the week for action with hosts

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Steve Susie and Jimmy Musual. And
that might sound a little different to you,

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and that's just because last week I
came down terribly sick on Friday,

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was not in a good place.
SEUs was the wonderful, wonderful coworker and

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friend that he is, drove up
to Christal Lake and you know what,

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we enjoyed that dynamic and it's something
we want to keep doing moving forward.

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Sus looking forward to having you talk
with viewers for the rest of the regular

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season. You're gonna have a hard
time finding a way to get me to

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argue with having the opportunity to talk
high school football for multiple hours on any

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given nights. So happy to do
so. So we want to spend some

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time today, of course preview in
week four, but the third part of

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the first part of the podcast today
we want to talk about SEUs is updated

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playoff projection, because now that we're
a third of the way through the season,

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this is where the data really starts
to paint a picture where you don't

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feel like you're throwing dartboar darts at
a dartboard quite so much. SEUs.

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Yeah, it does come down to
that. You're starting to see at least

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a little bit of clarity and some
of these, uh, you know,

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more games where you're having teams that
you're like, will they get to five?

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You know, is that route going
to be too difficult? You start

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to have some of those decision making
games made for you in weeks three and

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especially week four, where the clarity
starts to come in a little bit more.

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It's not difficult. I mean it's
not easy, but it's not difficult

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to kind of point out the teams
that you think are probably going to get

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to the seven eight win level where
this process becomes very difficult is indicating which

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of those teams are going to get
to five and which aren't, and who's

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going to be riding that fence.
And there are a lot of games every

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week that kind of help make those
decisions, and you start to see them

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more commonly, and they're definitely they
definitely stand out more once you start to

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get into this week three, week
four pattern where the games are that are

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extraordinarily pivotal for those teams that are
just trying to find their way into the

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field. It might not be realistic
to see some of these teams getting to

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the six, seven, eight win
plateau, but getting to five as possible,

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and along the way they usually have
a game or two that is absolutely

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critical to that quest, and there
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in this week. You can find
Susan's updated playoff projections live on Friday Night

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Drive dot com by Wednesday, usually
by suits. This week you always have

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an analysis with it, and you
talked about how these Chicagoland Christian, the

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Chicagoland Prairie and the Lincoln Trail slash
Prairie Land three new conferences are making things

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a bit more difficult just because you
don't have the history of knowing how these

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teams are going to stack up.
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it's not as much at the top
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more as that kind of that second
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a lot of the established conferences,
you can kind of look at them

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and sometimes they're just markers. I
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play each other on a regular basis
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it makes it a lot easier to
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you have that marked history. And
yeah, sure there's always deviation from that.

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It's not like you can just punch
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Okay, they're going to be duplicated
this year. But when you have something

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that's, hey, this team has
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ten times, nine out of the
last ten times, it's it's definitely an

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indicator of how things are likely to
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when you have that kind of history
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easier than trying to establish, you
know, where two teams may fall that

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look on paper to be kind of
similar, but have no track record against

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one another and are coming from just
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opponents in the past. So you
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other than those first couple of games
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don't tell you very much. You
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you might have a difficult one,
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in just two weeks. So new
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to project early in the season because
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markers like I talked about to kind
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talked in depth, I feel like
of the years about how tricky the projection

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is when it comes to Chicago Public
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you refer to it as an X
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the Chicago Public League into the projection
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that caused some pretty substantial changes.
You had Morris going back up into five

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A Edwardsville to eight A Lake Zerich, seven A will Minted three a those

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are some pretty big bumps for those
schools of notable programs. At what point

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of the season, if ever,
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to stack up these CPL teams.
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the things that I think takes about
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by that point you've usually you've gotten
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And the biggest thing about Public League
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sometimes doesn't hold a lot of water. And a lot of other conferences you

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can look to those historical markers and
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just a track record of consistency.
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often get is three or four teams
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But then in some of these other
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not filled with teams that have much
of a history and or pedigree, those

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results will sometimes vary wildly from year
to year. You will have a team

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that maybe one year went goes nine
to OZ during the regular season, turns

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around the next year and goes oh
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a lot more often in the Public
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makes it very difficult to you know, kind of figure that out. Sometimes

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you have programs that have numbers issues
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been situations in the past where you've
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they're a pretty solid team, at
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actually have to forfeit a game in
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didn't have enough players for that week, and then come back the following week

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and beat a pretty good team once
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So it's it's kind of a it's
it's definitely a chaotic landscape. It's definitely

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the most challenging part of trying to
put this all together because just when you

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think you've got your thumb on one
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you'll get a score that completely throws
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You're like, how did that happen? I mean, how did how

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did that team beat that team?
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the other you know, conferences and
stuff like that, that might get you

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know, a little bit more coverage
and I'll have a little bit more context.

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You know some of those lower divisions
of the public league. You know,

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I'm I'm sometimes I'm doing little more
than an educated guest on some of

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these results. Let's talk for a
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here and get into week four.
Well, who are some of the teams

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in your projection on seed lines that
are starting to surprise you a bit?

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Because I got one in two ay
that I saw that kind of surprised me.

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Well, I mean, and I
think I know what this is,

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but I'll let you lead into it
in a minute. But you know there

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are teams right now that, like
when we look at who is three and

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oh at this point in time,
I tend to look at that discussion as,

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Okay, there are a lot of
three and O teams right now that

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I know are not going to finish
three and zero, But how how much

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better are they going to carry out
from this point? Is this a three

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and O team that has a soft
schedule, or is this a three and

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O team that's really going to make
a move. You know that it's gonna

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gonna take themselves up into the upper
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know, I when I look earlier
this week The team that I think made

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the biggest overall leap from last week's
projection to this week's projection would be Lincoln

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Way Central. It was a team
that I didn't have in the projection last

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week because I thought maybe they would
have some trouble on the back half of

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their schedule, and they still have
a what I would consider to be a

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pretty interesting back half of their schedule. But them going down and beating O

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Fallon on a neutral field indicated to
me that I did not have them graded

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correctly. So they went all the
way. They went all the way from

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not being in the projection to it
and you know, an upper half seed

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in the seven eight draw, and
that doesn't happen very often. We go

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from one week to another where you
have a team do that. But after

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evaluating that O Faulon win against the
rest of their schedule, it caused me

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to really regrade them. So that's
an example of one of the more extreme

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cases of a team that like is
on a high seed, a higher seed

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line now than they have ever been, especially this season. But it's identifying

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which of these teams right now that
are off to good starts that are sustainable,

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and I think that's a real good
example of that. Yeah, I

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think you are hitting it right on
the head with lincolnwagh Central. They've played

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really well. You look at their
schedule ahead. I'm completely on boardwood gear

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analysis there. You know where I
was going from this because it's it's where

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I grew up. Moments down in
two A is off two A three and

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oh start And I'll tell you what, I haven't really hadn't really thought about

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moments all that much. The Vermilion
Valley it's down a little bit. But

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I just going back and looking and
seeing that they beat Westville back, but

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that week two, Now I gotta
go find my notes here again. No,

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they get beat Westville in week three
here, but the fact that Westville

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beat Bismarck heading back in week two
thirty one to twenty two, and you

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know, historically I always consider Bismarck
Heading, you know, to be the

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favorite here kind of give me a
second, makes me want to go back

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and look a little more south.
You know, when I looked at this

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conference at the beginning of the year, I just kind of I give it

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a stack a little bit on tradition. I give it a stack a little

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bit on what I have heard and
what I have seen, you know,

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with my own eyes during and I
saw Moments in the summer at a seven

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on seven event. They looked interesting, but I wasn't convinced. The one

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thing that opened my eyes in a
week two was that Westville had beaten Bismarck

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Kenning, and from everything I had
heard about Bismarck Kenning, that was considered

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to be an upset. So and
then when Moments comes out and beats Westville

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and by the transitive, you know, property there, you start thinking to

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yourself, maybe Moments is the best
team in the Vermilion Valley. I mean,

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that's that's just kind of what you
have to go to on these levels.

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And that's another team that like has
a hundred rocketed up the up the

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rankings. Yeah, I mean they've
scored one hundred and twelve points and only

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allowed forty three. That's a pretty
good plus minus through three weeks. That

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you know, when you start looking
for indicators for how teams are playing,

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you know, I'm going back down
Moments and here let's see three and oh

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Moments, where'd you go here?
Yeah? Seven point willing against Oakwood,

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twenty points against Westville, Blue out
Central a week two, you know,

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and pressive results. That Westville threty
four fourteen man, that's that is really

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good. Now they have a fun
quarterback, a young guy by the name

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of Eric Castillo, who is capable
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throwing the ball and running the football. It's it's a good team, apparent,

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you know, Apparently that one of
those things just kind of gets lost

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in the shuffle. Sometimes it's a
relatively young team too. I mean,

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you know, with Castillo only being
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that team being pretty young, it's
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on the radar. But they're clearly
playing with little to no fear, and

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sometimes that's enough. Do you have
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pretty dangerous. And they weren't a
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at the beginning of the year,
but they've certainly got my attention now.

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All right, see, you got
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from your projecting before we take a
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a that's a good cross section right
now. All right, Well, let's

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week four with you. This is
state Representative Steve Reich, and I'm happy

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Whichever school you follow, give him
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welcome back into the Friday Night Drive
podcast. I and Kyle Neighbors along

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with host Steve Susy. Now let's
jump into Week four. Susan, you

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got one hundred teams left in the
state that are three and oh, but

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you only have eight matchups this week
right between three and oh teams. Not

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a lot, no, And that's
that's definitely kind of an oddity. I

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mean, usually, at the very
least see probably a double digit list of

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these schools playing each other that we're
undefeated. And I think that speaks to

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kind of a larger overview of what
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think we're gonna have, you know, less undefeated teams than we usually do.

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I think we're gonna have less one
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And as a consequence, I think
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teams. I'm starting to see it
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there's some classifications where you might have
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seed line and that just doesn't happen. That happens very infrequently. You're seeing

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three loss teams potentially lining up for
home games. It's just one of those

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years. I think that we're materializing
here. I don't want to say parody,

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because I don't think that's what it
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the fact that we have a lot
of very good football teams that when they're

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playing one another, obviously somebody has
to lose. It doesn't necessarily mean we

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have less upper echelon teams. I
just think we have a lot of very

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good ones and they know on any
given night, one or the other team

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could win. It's going to be
coming down to a final break or something

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like that. So I think you're
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end of the season sitting there with
seven and two, six and three records

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that you feel like can legitimately make
a run at being in normal because their

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schedules were so difficult, and I
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from being one of those eight and
one, nine and oh teams. That's

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what we have this year. Like
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the word parody because I do not
believe that that's what it is. I

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just think we have I think a
lot of really good teams that all are

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kind of intermeshing schedule wise with one
another. And you can't have ties.

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Someone has to win, someone has
to lose, and and those games are

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gonna be you know, you're gonna
coordinate. You hear that NFL you can't

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have ties. Yep, Yeah,
boo boo ties. Oh dude, it's

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that's just awful when an NFL game
ends and the tide it's the most anti

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climactic thing. Oh, I hate
it every time. Well, I love,

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I love. I love the overtime
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Actually prefer college rules for overtime.
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Overtime is fascinating. There's so many
machinations with the way you can play

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it, what you can do,
how much thought process has to go into

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it. I always get jealous of
the people that said, this is my

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third overtime game this year. I
want to go see every overtime game that

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exists because I just love watching the
way that they unfold. You know how

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coaches make decisions on you know,
if they score second, do I go

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for two and win this thing?
Or do I try to push it into

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another overtime? You know, is
my kick game? Okay enough for me

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to convert here? Am I taking
too big of a gamble? I love.

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I love all the things that go
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So anybody who tries to tell me
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mean I want to go into that. So good stuff. We got some

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games that come right down to the
wire this week. Let's dive into them.

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And let's starting the Catholic League.
Sus. You got Saint Rita three

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and oh heading to Mount Carmel this
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We know it's going to be a
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comes in as a favorite. But
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far this season. Yeah they have. And I mean one of the things

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that I noticed a little bit from
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of the Saint Rita and Juliet Catholic
game last week where they rallied from ten

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nothing to end up win twenty ten. This is a team that doesn't that

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doesn't quit. They just keep going, They keep churning. They hope to

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make what they can do work.
DJ Stewart's a really good running back,

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so they have that going for them. You know, Mount Carmel is just

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kind of like a machine. It
was last week. It just kind of

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felt like they just kind of like, Okay, we're gonna eventually just wear

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you out and we'll finish you off
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That just kind of seems to be
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But I do think Saint Rita will
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I think Mount Carmel's the favorite here. I think Mount Carmel's the favorite

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about it against about anybody you would
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Saint Rita brings in a little bit
of an interesting pet. I agree

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here. It wouldn't shock me if
we had a football game in the second

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half here. One of the most
intriguing three and O matchups this week involves

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Sandwich and Richmond Burden, and it's
another game where I'd say, Richmond Burden

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comes in as a substantial favorite based
on past president, but I did have

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this is the team I want to
hit on Sandwich. We were talking about

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teams that are causing me to give
them a second look. They played really

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well against against Plano last week.
We're talking about a Sandwich team that did

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not play a varsity schedule last week
and then goes out and puts up over

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four hundred yards of offense against a
rival, and Plano now sitting in at

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three and O sus Well, I
think what it really comes down to was

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Sandwich is I gotta stop being surprised
by it? You know, every week

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this season so far, they've kind
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they came in because I mean they
won comfortably in a game last week that

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I thought would be kind of a
dog fight they took. They absolutely dismantled

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Piatone the week before, a team
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playoffs, you know, and opened
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over Mantino. So for a team
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I would have thought gradual progression would
have been more than enough for Sandwich,

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you know, and right now we're
talking about, you know, going

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into a three and oh, three
and oh game with Richmond Burton that if

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you would have asked me what would
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heading into that Week four game,
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against three and oh. I'll just
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Richmond Burton being three and oh,
but you know, I wouldn't have guessed

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that a program that did not play
varsity football last year and played some pretty

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decent teams to start the season would
be in the same situations. It's certainly

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one of the best stories storylines of
the season so far. But let's go

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over. We got Hutley three and
ozho at Prairie Ridge three and oh,

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a matchup of Fox Valley Conference on
beatings. That's not uncommon for this game

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to take place with both of these
teams undefeated sus both of these teams we

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knew would be good Defensely, that's
been the case. The offenses have been

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progressing each week. I've been really
impressed with Huntley's quarterback Raylan Bauer is playing

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playing really well. That entire Red
Raiders offense so playing well. I'm kind

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of going back and forth here,
like I think this game could be a

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shootout, but I think both of
these offenses are sorry, both of these

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defenses are good enough of causing this
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ends up being seventeen to fourteen,
twenty one seventeen. You know, I

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think this is just a primer for
what we kind of have to expect almost

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every week in the Fox Valley schedule
this year. You're gonna have one game

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or multiple games where you've got two
teams where you're just not quite sure how

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you want to lean in terms of
who is a favorite. And I don't

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think that's the only game this week. It's just the marquee one. Due

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to the fact that these two are
undefeated, I think you can look at

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a couple of other games in the
league and do the same thing. But

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Huntley has impressed me again and prayer
Ridge. You know, I guess I

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sometimes take their success for granted.
It's almost like I expect them to be

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in this situation every year, and
Huntley has done a really nice job of

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kind of maintaining you know what.
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their success last year was a little
bit surprising to me. I wasn't quite

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expecting it, but this year I
think I learned to know better. So,

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you know, having these two teams
at three and zero, the only

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thing that's going to do at least
four at the time being, is clear

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a little bit of the log jam
at the top of that league. I'm

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not so sure it will solve anything
and the ultimate end of things because you've

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still got other factors here and other
teams that are probably going to be biting

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at their heels for the rest of
the season. So but a fun one.

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I'm looking forward to seeing how it
shakes out. I don't know if

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I'm comfortable labeling a favorite. That's
how I feel like this is. This

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is I use the term toss up
game a lot, but I genuinely mean

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it in this situation. I know, and at the end of the day,

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I don't really care who wins the
game. But from a personal standpoint

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here, if PR wins, I'll
be a bit happy. And the only

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reason I say that is because PR
and carry Grow. The indistrict rivals for

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the Fox Valley Conference are playing on
Saturday at one o'clock this year. I

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love Saturday afternoon games. If you
give me an opportunity to see those two

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teams both unbeaten on Saturday afternoon,
I don't want to miss out on that.

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So that's the only reason I find
myself like, all right, I

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kinda want pr to win this game. It's not because I think pr is

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a better team theoretically, you know, than Honley. It's just for that

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reason. Yeah, I can see
that argument. There's no doubt about it.

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And you know, I have to
admit, even though it's not the

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easiest commute for me, you might
have a hard time keeping me away from

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that game too. So you know, definitely it would be fun if that

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comes together. And I'm not necessarily
saying I wouldn't make the venture even if

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pray Ridge may be happy to lose
this game tonight. So but it's it's

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you know, on Friday night.
So that's one of those situations where it's

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it's fun all around. But I
think it's just gonna be that way in

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this conference this year. You're gonna
have a lot of those. I gotta

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correct myself. That is not the
game they are not playing on Saturday this

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year. Yeah, I just look, you threw me off there. Yeah,

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it's Carry Grove and Hully. They
are playing on Saturday, so now

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I have to reverse court. See
now I'm going with the Red Raiders.

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There you go, and that's not
until week seven, so you have to

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wait a little while. Yeah,
I know that's gonna take the Carry Grove.

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Still with man, you get a
match up against Jacobs this week,

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Prairie Ridge the week after the Voch
Valley Conference. It's just ongiffing, But

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all right, let's go. We
got some other games to talk about here,

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sus Let's move on and talk about
Batavia and Saint Charles North, the

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matchup in the UKAE Conference, pair
of two and one teams. It's just

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weird to think, at the end
of the night, these are both very

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very good teams that one of them
can be sitting at two and two.

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Yeah, I mean, and that's
one of the conditions of playing the schedules

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that these guys do. I mean, Batavia's loss obviously came at the hands

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of Lincoln Way East, you know, Saint Charles North looking to bounce back

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from a loss to Wheaton North last
week. But get used to it,

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because I mean, this is this
is the Duke Kinge Conference. This is

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what this is. I mean we're
talking about two teams here. I mean,

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Geneva's dancing around and that late doing
some good things. Uh. You

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know, Wheat North beat Saint Charles
North last week. They're in the mix.

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Uh you know Wheaton Warrenville South trying
to get back to the standard that

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that program has had for a while. Uh. You know, it's just

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it's it's a very deep league.
You can't take a week off. If

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you do, someone's going to burn
you. That's really what it comes down

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to right now. You know,
it feels like almost any team in that

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league is capable of bringing Max's effort
and catching someone off guard and a game

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to where it feels like, you
know, maybe the favorite is an overwhelming

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favorite. It's just so much depth
there and so many programs that have done

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it before. You just simply cannot
take one off. But this game in

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particular, pretty fascinating when it comes
right down to it. A long history

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of very interesting outcomes between these two
teams. You know, I lean Batavia.

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I'm of the opinion right now that
Batavia could very well run the table

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in this conference. But you could
also really make an pretty easy case against

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me to point out a couple of
times where they may fall, but that's

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the that's the margin of difference between
some of those teams in that league.

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All right, Well, I've been
kind of guiding us with the games that

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I find most interesting so far.
Sus, how about you, what game

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one game that we haven't talked about
do you still want to hit on?

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Well, there are a couple that, like you know, from around the

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state that feature undefeated teams that I
don't know exactly how good they are.

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And that's really what it comes down
to. I'm really kind of looking forward

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to some of those one of them
that I'm interested in just because I want

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to see how much of a gap
they have on the rest of the league.

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I'm interested in Kankakee and Riverside Brookfield
this week. Riverside Brookfield is kind

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of in the conference for you know, the first time in the Southland Conference.

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They're they're kind of staying there before
they move on to another league.

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They just needed to kind of find
some partners to play this year. Kankakee

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is just flattening people. I mean, last last week they just rolled to

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an absolutely huge victory, moved up
into the number one spot in the ap

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pole in Class six. AM not
sure I agree with that, but that's

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besides the point. But Kankakee needs
tests. I don't know if Riverside Brookfield

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can provide one, but I'm interested
to find out. That's one of them

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right there. Another one that I'm
really interested in also going into Central Illinois.

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Not between two undefeated teams, but
Normal Community is playing Peoria this week,

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and Normal Community is a team that
has absolutely been trucking people so far

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this season, just running rough shot
over everybody that they've run into. Peoria

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seems to have gotten back on track
after that Week one lost to Rochester,

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so I'm interested to see if Normal
Community can keep that up against a quality

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opponent like Peoria. I think we've
got to start paying attention to them in

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the grand scheme of things. In
that seven A mix, Another game I

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want to make sure to mention is
Bradley bourbon A at Lincoln Way East,

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US. You you mentioned this in
your Week four games to watch for some

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reason. When these two teams get
together, they're both coming in here at

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three, you know, things get
weird and we're talking not a small sample

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side. This goes back to our
days working together at the Daily Journal down

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in Kankakee, where I can remember
a pretty good Bradley Bourbon eight team host

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in Lincoln Way East. I covered
the game, Cam Horrell, It's a

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player I remember on that roster that
really sticks out. But that was a

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really good Bradley Bourbon A team.
I want to say they had two players

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in their in their secondary that were
Division one recruits and they upset them.

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That night. They Bradley bourbon A
took down lincoln Way East. But that

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was really just the first it felt
like in a what has become a series

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of weird game between these two teams. Yeah, last year Bradley had Lincoln

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Way East on the ropes all the
way until the end of the game.

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And I mean heading into that game, I mean you would have pegged Lincoln

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Way East is a comfortable favorite to
win that game. Yeah, I mean,

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let's let's and I don't mean to
be meaning to Bradley bourbon A,

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but like this, that Bradley Bourbon
eight team last year, Like in comparison

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to that team I was mentioning with, like Cam Hoarel, not in the

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same league, but there they were
still with a Lincoln Weight East team that

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was among the best in the state
going down the wire last year, Yeah,

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and it's it's definitely it's there's been
a trend, like you said,

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I mean, last year came right
down to the wire. Lincolna East wins

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by seven. The year previous they
won by two, I mean, and

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in both situations Bradley was, you
know, okay, but not at the

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level you're you've come to expected to
from lincoln Way East. So it's definitely

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Bradley has some sort of mojo over
over them right now that gets them amped

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up. But it's another game.
Like we were talking about teams that are

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three and oh that I'm not quite
sure about. I think Bradley has some

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pretty good talent Ethan Cole at the
quarterback position, aj Mancia on defense.

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It's a good football team, but
they're three and oz right now against three

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opponents that frankly don't don't match up
very well with almost anybody. They're one

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and eight collectively. They played a
tiny school out of Wisconsin last week just

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to fill an open date on their
schedule, man handled them pretty good,

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annihilated Thornwood the week prior to that, and Plainfield East to start the season.

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They're winless and have been given up
a bunch of points. So it

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will be a violent step up in
competition level for Bradley this week, and

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it'll be interesting to see how they
respond to that. All right, we

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gotta get out of here. See
if you got any final words. No,

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I just think this is a great
week to take a look at the

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results and kind of see where they
fit in the puzzle. All around.

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There might not be a whole bunch
of games where you go, oh boy,

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that's a matchup of Titans, but
there are a lot of games kind

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of in the middle pack which I
think are real big determiners on where and

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if we're going to find these teams
in the postseason in a couple of weeks.

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All right, Well, that'll wrap
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will be back to wrap up Week four

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