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and welcome back to the Friday Night
Drive Podcast. I am Kyle Nighbors back

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with you along with Steve Susi.
It is Monday morning, September fourth,

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as we record this in is Labor
Day. Happy Labor Day weekend to everyone

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you're listening it on Monday. If
not, hope you enjoyed the Labor Day

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weekend, the three day weekend,
SEUs I know it's nice. That's Sunday

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yesterday for us here if you're listening
on Monday. We spend the entire month

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of August gearing up for football season. We have a lot, you know,

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it's a lot of work to do
all the previews that we do,

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and then when you get through those
first two weekends of high school football,

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they're a lot of fun. But
like yesterday, like it's so nice to

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just kind of kick back and her
lack to get a little rechard. Yeah,

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it was, and you know,
for me, I'm usually you know,

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looking at results and trying to figure
it all out. But due to

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a you know, I guess kind
of a lighter schedule on Saturday and do

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a game on Saturday, unlike the
previous week where I did two games and

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spend all day driving around the state. So I definitely had a little bit

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of a more time to kind of
a decompress a little bit and really kind

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of get a better overview of what
happened over the course of the weekend.

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I mean last weekend, I felt
like I was still playing catch up into

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like Monday or Tuesday to get a
full look at what actually happened a couple

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of days before, just because of
how much running around I was doing,

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not complaining, love doing it,
but it was a little bit different this

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weekend. Yeah, the Saturday slate
would really light, you know, a

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few games off handed. I think
of we're good Sickamore with a win over

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symean Newark with a close win over
schirard E. Saint Louis with a win

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over at naturally ranked ting will get
into that a little later, anything else

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happened on Saturday. Those were the
three that I can remember too. There

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was a wild one I think we're
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well, up at up between Homewood, Flossmore and Mary and Catholic. Yeah,

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but because that was the one game
that I was actually thinking about maybe

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taking a track to on Saturday,
and I had a little bit of remorse

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choice the choices that I made this
weekend because I was wrestling with a with

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a couple of options on Friday and
uh, and I ended up seeing a

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pretty decent game in Joliet Catholic.
But in retrospect, after watching one of

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the other games that I was considering
play out, I kind of wish I

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would have been in Batavia on Friday
night. But it was definitely one of

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those situations where I wish I would
have had a little bit more hindsight in

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my selection process when I looked at
back, what act should we happened in

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the weekend? Yeah, it was. It was a wild weekend all around,

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And we're gonna dig into that.
But we've really suits like this is

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my this is my favorite time of
the year. Here we're now into it

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September and October. Like when I
was doing some editing on Saturday, had

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college football on the background. NIU
beat Boston College. I'm throwing that out

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there to plug Eddie Carifio and his
NIU football coverage. Also because NIU Grant,

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I want to make sure to give
him a shout out for the bone

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yard win there. But sus like, this is what I really love.

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The weather is still great. We
get football on Friday night at high school

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and even Thursday. Now we get
college football on Saturday. Starting this week,

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we get the NFL and an exciting
Bears offense. Make sure you follow

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Seawan Hamlet's coverage at SHAWL Local dot
com for that. And then you know

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you and I are both big baseball
guys as well. We get the Pennant

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races like, oh man, I
love this time of year. Yeah,

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it's great. I mean, it's
just sometimes it feels like I'm not keeping

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up with everything that I need to
be keeping up with. But it's a

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good problem to have. At least
there are options, there are things that

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you can choose from if you have
to. And yeah, and sometimes it

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gets a little chaotic, but all
good things. To be completely honest,

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with you for the most part.
Yeah, and on the high School's side

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will have coverage of course throughout the
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find myself on Twitter at Kyle Neighbors
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Jimmy Musual and I are doing that, and it was a good thing we

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were doing that, Sus, because
it was a wild week too. We

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knew that it was going to be. It was loaded sleigh going into it,

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and it really did live up to
the billing. Yeah, I mean

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it was one of those things where
you know, I popped in a little

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bit on the live broadcast with you
guys from my game, and I was

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I'm trying to like pay attention to
what you guys were talking about, but

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also scrambling through my Twitter account to
just kind of keep keep abreast of all

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the crazy things that were going on, seemingly all at the same time.

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Too. The fact that game times
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think there was a little bit more
of a smattering, but it seemed like

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there was about a fifteen twenty minute
window there where there were so many things

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going on, and it was it
was really hard to kind of decipher a

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minute by minute like what was really
going on because your chronological order was out

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of whack, and sometimes you were
getting updates that were ten minutes ago when

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three things have happened since since that
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really really nuts. Absolutely Lee,
and we're gonna start out in the you

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know, north central part of the
state where Morrison upset the top ranked team

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in Class three A, Princeton.
Princeton, the Tigers have not been handled

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a lot of losses during the regular
season in recent years, and it was

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a freshman, a freshman taking down
the Tigers. SU's freshman Josh mcderman kicked

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a twenty seven yard field goal in
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twenty twenty or twenty two, twenty
one winning this one man a lot of

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a lot of pressure on a freshman
coming through in the clutch. Though.

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Yeah, it was definitely a game
where I was looking at it on paper

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beforehand, you know, thinking to
myself that, hey, it's probably it's

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probably a situation where you know,
Princeton's a heavy favorite in this game.

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I know Morrison opened strong against Mendota. I wasn't really sure how good Mendota

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was. This is one of those
games that when you have a little bit

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data, maybe you could have seen
this coming a little bit more, but

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I didn't really. I didn't really
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that Morrison. I thought Morrison might
be okay, but I didn't expect them

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to really give Princeton much of a
push. And then as we're watching the

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game kind of develop like, well
maybe we got something here. I mean

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Morrison last year, I mean,
they snuck into the back end of the

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playoffs, they finished five and five, they lost in the first round.

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I wouldn't have thought that they were
a significant threat to Princeton, who,

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obviously, by virtue of their number
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It just wasn't something that I was
really expecting to happen, to be

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totally honest with you, Yeah,
that was I think that's probably the biggest

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upset of the weekend. There were
a lot of really fun games, though,

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so I feel like it's so easy
to overlook something off hand. But

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let's go ahead and move on.
Because South Elgin was able to come out

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with a seventeen fourteen win over glen
Bard East, but John Getting I'm sorry,

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John Getting with the touchdown pass to
Ishmael George late in that game for

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a seventeen fourteen win that avoided.
They have a twenty four game winning streak

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in the Upstate eight. Became very
close to losing that against glenn BARDISTOSUS.

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You know, glenn bardists has been
an interesting program for me over the last

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couple of years. It seems like
every time I see them, I liked

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something about what they're doing, what's
going on with them, But they haven't

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obviously been able to quite get over
the hump to to take over from South

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Elgin in this situation. I saw
that game and I was like, well,

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maybe, but you know, South
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for the last couple of seasons.
No one's really even gotten close and lead

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play and finally South Elgin their program
has started to get over that humble a

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little bit where they would dominate the
conference and typically they would go into the

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playoffs. Is a really high seed
because they haven't lost a game and they'd

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have trouble getting a playoff win.
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year. So this is a program
that certainly, you know, has established

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that it's capable, but you know, Glenn Barty's trying to get to South

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Elgin's level. They've been in the
mix for second place in that conference behind

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South Elgan for a while. But
a really good sign for them. It's

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one of those games where you look
at it on paper and say, you

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know, hard to say good loss
for them, but that's a that's a

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good loss for them in the grand
scheme of things. It's sure they would

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have liked to have come out with
that win, obviously, but definitely a

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good sign for Glenn Barty's maybe they
are ready to make that next step.

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Sticking up in the sub and of
course, with our theme of just great

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games, Vernon Hills came away with
a twenty eight twenty one win over Lakes

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Chef Right now with two touchdown catches
in the game, but a big play

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from him a pick six to seal
that with a game tide at twenty one

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with under two minutes to go.
Also, he gets named with the week

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for chef. Don't see that very
often nowadays. I love it, Yeah,

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definitely, I mean, and this
is one of those games that when

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you do what I do when you're
projecting the playoffs, these are the kind

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of games that are pivotable for programs
on both sides of the field in that

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situation. These are teams that kind
of float around the five hundred records most

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years. So looking back at it, this might be a really big win

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for Vernon Hills in the grand scheme
of things. Moving on to a matchup

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between number three and number four in
our power rank, and that is linked

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Way Eas versus Batavia maybe the most
anticipated game going into the weekends Shoes.

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It lived up to the billing certainly, with lincoln Way East coming away with

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a fourteen thirteen win. Uh.
Just an incredible, incredible game with lincoln

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Way East stopping a two point conversion
trying the final seconds to seal that,

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and you just knew when Batavias scored
that they were going for two. Yeah,

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you know, it's a gutsy call, but you know, I understand

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why they do it in that situation, and it was it was funny listening

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to coaches comments after the game about
how he usually would probably just play for

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the overtime and then sends something funny
about that that he likes to play around

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with overtime scenarios, and I'm like, that's that's one way of looking at

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it. I know most most coaches
had absolutely dreaded the overtime scenario, but

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but he was talking about how he
you know, went with his team and

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chose to go for the two.
Huge play on the two point conversion.

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I finally saw a clip on that
yesterday. I actually hadn't seen it until

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then, but you know, just
just surged up and had a big play

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on Ryan Bow there the defense for
Lincoln Way East. So but you know,

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it's easy to say this after the
fact, but the game kind of

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played out very much like the way
I thought it might. I mean,

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just kind of a grind it out
where neither team ever seemed to establish full

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control of the game. You know, that was kind of what I thought

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might happen here. And it was
definitely the way that it played out,

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And it's definitely one of those things
where you look at a team like Batavia

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who's now at the five hundred mark, and you think, yourself, I

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don't feel any worse about this team
than I did before, and they just

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are coming off a loss. So
you know, it's kind of looking at

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the rankings, kind of looking at
the rankings. I barely moved them down

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myself. I did my class rankings
the other night when I was finishing up

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some stuff. I didn't move them
at all, you know, So it

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was just like, you know,
it's one of those games that you tip

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your cap to both of those programs
for playing. It might have been a

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necessity for both of those programs.
You probably don't have a lot of teams

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lining up to play them, but
you rarely see a non conference game featuring,

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you know, arguably two of the
best five programs in the state.

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But now we've seen them in consecutive
weeks. So the kudos to both of

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those teams for just getting that game
done. Thank you. You tuned into

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the Friday Night Drive Western Suburbs edition
of our podcast. Josh Welgie and Jake

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Barleston will get a deep dive into
that game. Jake was overcovering that for

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us on Friday night, and also
Eddie Cariffio and jat Pendelty will be back

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with you this week for their second
episode of the Illinois Valley Podcast here hitting

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Everything. I'm sure they'll be talking
more about that Princeton game. Moving on,

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sus I want to talk about Mariston
brother Rice. These were two teams

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that in week one. In week
one did not have a lot of offense

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that was playing out in a similar
fashion in week two, and all of

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a sudden I looked up and saw
that the game was boom, you know,

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way up into the twenties and Maris
ends up winning this one thirty to

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twenty four. What's your takeaway from
that? Well, I mean, I

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was, to be honest with you, frankly, really surprised with you know,

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how Marist came out of the house, you know, with the offense

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that they did, because, like
you said, struggled the week before,

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you know, six points in the
loss against Glenbard West, but you know,

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jumped out and took that. I
believe it was a twenty four and

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nothing lead over Rice before Rice finally
started to get some things going on there

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and brought it all the way back
to tie it at twenty four in the

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second half. And like you said, based on the week one production of

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these two teams, I would have
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couple of overtimes to get both of
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Maris scored late wins thirty to twenty
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a little bit more offensive capability and
we thought they did. Yeah, definitely

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looking like they found some offense there. Speaking of offense, so wild game

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up close to up here in mckenry
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Reid Custer. It starts with Red
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traffic trying to get up here to
the northwest suburbs. I'm guessing on I

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fifty five because it's just a complete
ninth fare right now under construction. But

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they end up getting up here and
combining for eight second half touchdowns in this

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one. Johnsburg, though, pulls
it out in the end for a forty

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thirty seven win. Johnsburg running back
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that one right for one hundred and
eighty four yards and two touchdowns in this

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one. Suits Yeah, definitely a
game that between two teams that are trying,

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you know, Red Custers trying to
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last couple of years, Johnsberg trying
to a little bit of a step up.

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Definitely got into a little bit of
an offensive duel there. You know,

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Johnsburg just kept scoring in that game, especially late. Red Custer couldn't

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quite answer it. If you're not
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seven hundred points last season, was
scoring all over the field. But the

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fact of the matter is nearly every
key player on that team graduated. So

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for Recuster, hanging in a game
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program is a good sign for them
moving forward. It doesn't look like their

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conferences as deep as it's been in
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even though it was a loss,
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a confidence boost heading into conference play
that they can put some points on the

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board against pretty good teams. So
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though Red Custer took the loss of
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I wouldn't have I wouldn't have scripted
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teams in the Kishwaukee River Interstate eight
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certainly assumed that that was a possibility
for Richmond Burton, but Johnsburg joins the

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list of teams that also includes Sandwich, who didn't even play varsity football last

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year, and Plaino, another team
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So winning games like this for Johnsburg
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like it's going to be a pretty
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once we get into league play.
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be able to stop anyone, but
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We'll have Joe Stevenson on later this
week to telcol McHenry County. I

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want to get his take on the
Skyhawk. But they have qb aj Robieri

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back from last year. He was
really, really solid and he's off to

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a good start. Three passing touchdowns
and the win on Friday Night. The

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thing I noticed seeing the clips from
Tim Frolig that was who was out covering

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that game for us, was just
how big Johnsburg still is at wide receiver,

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and then you add in if they're
gonna be able to get this kind

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of production out of Centara Witz at
running back, I think that can be

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a pretty dynamic offense. So interested
to hear what Joe has to say about

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them later in the week. But
sus So, let's move on to a

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couple of Saturday games before we take
a quick commercial break. Homewood Flossmore played

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an absolutely wild game with Mary and
Catholic fifty four forty seven. What's your

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takeaway from that one? You know, I looked at this on paper,

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and you know, Marrying Catholic is
a program that I've heard encouraging things about

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that got Austin Alexander, a Kansas
recruit that kind of leads the way for

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them, you know, kind of
a wide receiver, defensive back type of

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guy. But when I saw this
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that may have been a little bit
too much apple to be trying to

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bite into. With an Ada program
and Homewood Blossomore that consistently has had some

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pretty good success, I didn't know
if that was the best bit for Marrying

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Catholics nonconference schedule, but they nearly
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and earned a victory in this one. It was a crazy game that was

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going back and forth. There were
seven lead changes in the game. It

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looked like Marrying Catholic had wrapped up
the win late, but an onside kick

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by Homewood Glossmore was recovered inside of
two minutes. They went down scored a

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touchdown in the last minute of the
game to win that game four to forty

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seven. Just an absolutely wild one
that seemed to be It was played in

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a pinball machine. There were things
that were just zinging around and I was

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getting it seemed felt like I was
getting scoring updates on that one about every

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thirty seconds. It was quite the
entertaining game. But it's another one of

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those games where you look at it
and say the losing team might have actually

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benefited a little bit more out of
that. I mean, they Mary Catholic

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isn't the Red division of the CCOL, and despite a good start for most

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of the teams in that league,
it certainly looks like maybe this is a

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division of the Catholic League that Mary
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at one and one right now,
if they can if they can actually do

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that, then that really all they
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inside of their schedule if they can
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it would have been great for them
to win that game and going to the

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Catholic and schedule two and oh,
but a good sign as to how far

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that program has come recently. All
right, one more game, Susan.

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It involves East Saint Louis with a
trip out to Baltimore to play nationally league

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ranked Saint Francis Academy. East Saint
Louis took that loss in week one down

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at Illinois State University to Mount Carmel
was in danger here a fall and oh

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and two. Of course, I
don't think that really matters to the long

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run for this East Saint Louis team, But you know what, it didn't

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matter either way because Saint Louis the
Flyers come out o here with a with

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a win against Saint Francis Academy.
SU's hot. Were you surprised, Well,

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Saint Francis is obviously a really good
program. I actually watched them,

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they were broadcast at ESPN the previous
week. They lost the game that they

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were playing, and actually entered that
game and now they're owing three. But

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for them to be oh and three
with the equality of opponents that they've played

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so far, it's kind of understanding
because I believe they've now played two top

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ten teams in the ES in the
national rankings and now lost to eat St.

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Louis, So they've played some really
good teams. They look incredible.

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I mean they've really they really looked
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was going to be in real trouble. And even though I really think they're

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a very talented team, and you
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it doesn't matter that much if they
lost that game, but considering that as

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of this moment, East Saint Louis
does not have a Week nine game scheduled,

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it mattered a little bit more,
to be completely honest with you,

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because they don't have a Week nine
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so I mean, just to get
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lose three. So if this would
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they would have had really only one
more loss that they were allowed before,

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you know, getting into a Southwestern
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Conference, but Edwardsville O'Fallon on a
good day. I mean, we saw

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O'Fallon at the prize them. Was
it two seasons? They go say,

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yeah, yeah, so, I
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I mean, and when? And
they still have one more nationally ranked

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team on their their schedule when they
travel to Texas next week. They're going

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to Humble. I'm not going to
say the name of school because I'm gonna

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butcher it. I can't pronounce it. But they're they're a top ten team

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in Texas and their rank I believe
in the top forty nationally. So and

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they just beat another top ten team
in Texas this week, so that's no

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slouch either. So really, it
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be a pretty darn important win for
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the grand and the grand scheme of
it all, but a really really impressive

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when in doing so, late touchdown
pass from Pop's battle to Rico Bond provided

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the difference in that one. It
was it was basically a seven seven game

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for most of the contest before East
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thirteen to seven. But speed and
athleticism all over the field. I watched

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about a half of it on a
on a sketchy screw stream that I found

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of the contest. I think someone
was shooting it from their phone from the

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stands. But what I did see
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of skills on sides of the ball. All right, we'll stick with us.

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Sus I had talked about chet rap
now earlier for a team or for the

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best name of the week. He
also I think should be in the running

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for the Team of the Week MVP. Make sure you go to Friday Night

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Drive dot com right now that voting
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certainly in that conversation. Another name
is Sean Winton, quarterback out of York

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through four touchdowns at a forty two
thirteen win over Nazareth, including three touchdowns

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and a quarter of which York scored
twenty eight points us. Both of us

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liked the Dukes coming into this season. I'm feeling really good about them after

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this one. Yeah, I mean
this was a game that obviously I felt

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like York was the favorite going into
the game, don't get me wrong,

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but I did not expect them to
take Nazareth the task in the way that

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they did. Even after seeing some
of the struggles that Nazareth had in Week

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one, I thought maybe they'd be
able to bounce back a little bit here

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and do a few more things,
especially offensively. Wasn't happening. I mean,

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it too much, but accept the
ascension of York to not only probably being

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the best team in their conference,
but being one of the better programs in

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the state. Any alarm bells going
off yet for Nazareth. I mean,

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you've seen them live, so you
like, wouldn't have a pretty decent feel

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on it at this point. Well, I mean, nobody wants to be

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O and two. I mean,
I guess. But one thing that you

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can say for Nazareth in this situation
is it's not like they haven't gone through

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some of these things before. I
mean, they were they were two and

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four last year before catching the groove
that allow them to win their next eight

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games and win the state championship.
But I mean you have to take note

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of the whole that they've now dug
for themselves. I mean, and on

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top of that, it's it's a
schedule that is unforgiving. There's gonna be

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games on here where you look at
it and you say they're an underdog in

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that game. I mean, I
don't think. I mean, you can't

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look at what's happened so far and
not you know, not real in the

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fact that they've still got to deal
with brother Rice and Fenwick and an icy

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Catholic before this season's over. And
you know, and all of them,

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and I didn't even mention some of
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Yeah, all of them are capable
handing them a loss. Yes,

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this is here's here's the remaining schedule. It's Montini. I see Catholic,

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Saint Ignatius, Fenwick, Brother Rice
marrying Catholic, and Saint Francis. There's

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not particularly if marrying Catholic is able
to score in the fashion that they date

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as they did it. We discussed
earlier. There's not a guaranteed win left

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on the schedule for the Roadrunners.
And I'm gonna go ahead and say it

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right now. I don't think now
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no, I can see that argument. I mean, it's definitely one of

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those situations where I mean, it's
too early to really look at this and

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count on it. But well,
I'm not. I'm not counting on it.

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I mean strength, but I'm just
getting to a different points. Strength

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of schedule for them is number seven
in the state right now of four hundred

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ninety nine programs. And you know
that's that's what we're talking about here.

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I mean, yeah, that I
wanted to I wanted to finish up there

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with saying that if as long as
they get to four wins, if they

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if we do have four win teams
in the field, they have to be,

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if not at the top, very
close to the top, because every

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single team on this schedule is going
to be I mean, is it is

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every team on this schedule Little gonna
make the playoffs? I think so.

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Well, it becomes tricky to maneuver
because just as you're saying that, you

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know, you think Nazareth might have
some losses, several of the other teams

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on here are going to have losses
by design. I mean, yeah,

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the Catholic every week, now twelve
Catholic League teams are going to pick up

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a loss. It's not like it's
not like the non conference season where they

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were going, you know, every
week, it seemed like they were,

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you know, collectively the whole league
was losing five or six games. Now

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now that look total is going to
double. Some of these teams that you're

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looking at and going, man,
these are really good teams. They're going

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to finish six and three or five
and four just because they have to.

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I mean, someone has to accumulate
these losses. So yeah, yeah,

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yeah, Like I'm looking at Monty
started. Montini finished three and six last

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year, is off to a two
and oh start, like looking at their

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schedule, like I think they can
get to five, Like I think Saint

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Ignatius at one on one can still
get to five. I see Catholic off

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to a two and o starter.
I know, like they have to get

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they have a really tough schedule coming
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uh, it's gonna be really tough
for nowther to get to buy wins.

407
00:29:26.200 --> 00:29:29.519
They can do it, of course, and if they get into the fun

408
00:29:30.240 --> 00:29:33.319
I can honestly see all nine teams
on their schedule making the playoffs. But

409
00:29:33.400 --> 00:29:37.200
weirdly enough, I could also see
five of them making the playoffs because of

410
00:29:37.240 --> 00:29:41.720
the strength of the Catholic League.
That's that's that's the situation. Like sometimes

411
00:29:41.759 --> 00:29:45.000
you look at a team schedule,
you say a playoff team, playoff team,

412
00:29:45.000 --> 00:29:47.880
playoff team, and you can say
that with confidence. But in the

413
00:29:48.039 --> 00:29:52.240
Catholic League, these losses got to
go somewhere. And I think some of

414
00:29:52.279 --> 00:29:56.240
these teams on the schedule, unfortunately
for them, while they're off to good

415
00:29:56.319 --> 00:30:00.720
starts, I don't know if they're
gonna finish on the the note that would

416
00:30:00.720 --> 00:30:03.640
indicate that their playoff teams. So
it's tricky to kind of read that,

417
00:30:03.799 --> 00:30:08.079
but you're right on that. If
Nasareth does only get to four wins,

418
00:30:08.400 --> 00:30:14.079
their point situation is going to be
very strong because I can easily see a

419
00:30:14.119 --> 00:30:18.920
scenario where there are two non conference
games give them eighteen playoff points, which

420
00:30:18.960 --> 00:30:22.519
means they're both undefeated. I mean, I can completely see that happening.

421
00:30:22.000 --> 00:30:26.519
So that gives you a tremendous base. And even if you get you know,

422
00:30:26.319 --> 00:30:30.240
average playoff point totals from everyone in
here, and I think that's potential.

423
00:30:30.759 --> 00:30:34.640
I mean, right there, you're
looking at fifty plus points and that

424
00:30:34.880 --> 00:30:40.599
should be good enough to get you
in. The Catholic League is just sick

425
00:30:40.680 --> 00:30:42.839
man, Like, I'm looking down
at Benwick now two an old start,

426
00:30:44.720 --> 00:30:48.160
and they're playing Providence this week,
and you're like, all right, well,

427
00:30:48.160 --> 00:30:49.240
if they lose a Providence two and
one, it's not a big deal.

428
00:30:49.359 --> 00:30:52.599
But then I start looking down.
I'm like, all right, after

429
00:30:52.759 --> 00:30:56.160
that, the only win I feel
confident about is DePaul because then they have

430
00:30:56.279 --> 00:31:00.440
Nils, Notre Dame, Naz Mount
Carmel, and I see Catholic and again,

431
00:31:00.519 --> 00:31:03.200
like Fenwick could end up winning six
or seven of these in total,

432
00:31:03.400 --> 00:31:07.079
and I wouldn't be surprised. They
could end up still lying in a way

433
00:31:07.079 --> 00:31:08.440
to end up going like three and
six or four and five, and I

434
00:31:08.480 --> 00:31:11.880
wouldn't be shocked. Yeah, And
I mean you could do that with a

435
00:31:11.920 --> 00:31:15.039
lot of these teams. Like the
one that got me was when I saw

436
00:31:15.160 --> 00:31:19.759
that Saint Ignatious lost that Fenwick.
My initial thought was up because if you

437
00:31:19.880 --> 00:31:25.079
look at Saint Ignatious the schedule after
this week where they dropped at one and

438
00:31:25.160 --> 00:31:30.039
one with that lost to Fenwick,
they go Brother Rice Maris Nazareth and I

439
00:31:30.119 --> 00:31:33.880
think an underrated Notre Dame team all
in a row four games in a row

440
00:31:34.000 --> 00:31:38.880
right there, and then they finished
the season with Joliet Catholic. So think

441
00:31:38.920 --> 00:31:42.920
about that for a minute. They're
in Nager. I mean, that's a

442
00:31:44.079 --> 00:31:47.920
treacherous stretch there in the middle of
the season and then have to finish with

443
00:31:48.039 --> 00:31:52.519
Joliet Catholic with possibly your playoff lives
on the line. All right, Well,

444
00:31:52.599 --> 00:31:57.200
let's go out to the Fox Valley
Conference where Chris da Lake South took

445
00:31:57.240 --> 00:32:01.960
a fourteen old lead on Prairie Ridge
in the in the first half of that

446
00:32:02.079 --> 00:32:06.440
game suits and I went, man, what is wrong with you know,

447
00:32:06.559 --> 00:32:09.279
the pr offense here? You know, six points last week against Jacobs,

448
00:32:09.319 --> 00:32:13.799
who win that game six zero.
But they end up getting it together,

449
00:32:14.319 --> 00:32:17.319
getting up seventeen fourteen and a half. They end up scoring thirty eight on

450
00:32:17.400 --> 00:32:22.160
a half unanswered to win that game
thirty eight fourteen. I guess the lesson

451
00:32:22.200 --> 00:32:25.559
there is don't count out the Wolves
too soon, right, Yeah. I

452
00:32:25.640 --> 00:32:30.960
mean it's one of those things when
I when I looked at that early result,

453
00:32:30.640 --> 00:32:35.440
I was taken aback a little bit. But you know, over time,

454
00:32:35.519 --> 00:32:39.720
I've learned, don't count Prairie Ridge
out of anything until we're absolutely done.

455
00:32:40.240 --> 00:32:45.319
Like that's just the reality of the
situation I've come to. If I

456
00:32:45.400 --> 00:32:49.680
see a score where they're down in
the first half or something of that nature,

457
00:32:50.480 --> 00:32:54.279
you know, I figure there's going
to be a bounce back. I

458
00:32:54.400 --> 00:32:59.640
don't know coach Shrimp as well as
you do, but in my experience with

459
00:32:59.759 --> 00:33:02.400
him, I would expect that it's
not too fun to not be playing up

460
00:33:02.400 --> 00:33:08.799
to your potential on his sideline.
So it was interesting to see how quickly

461
00:33:08.880 --> 00:33:15.039
they snapped back into form and got
things done. But you know, I

462
00:33:15.759 --> 00:33:21.359
year and year out. I have
a hard time being talked out of the

463
00:33:21.440 --> 00:33:23.599
fact that Prairie Ridge isn't going to
be one of the leaders in this conference

464
00:33:24.559 --> 00:33:28.599
from a year to year basis,
And here we go again. It appears.

465
00:33:29.799 --> 00:33:34.119
Yeah, it's it's gonna be wild
to see how this conference plays out

466
00:33:34.599 --> 00:33:37.920
because you look over and you have
Carry Grove and Crysta Lake Central. Also

467
00:33:37.039 --> 00:33:42.400
on Friday evening with Carry Grove pulling
out of seventeen fourteen win and that one

468
00:33:42.480 --> 00:33:45.960
Crystal Lake Central falls to O and
two. But you're talking about two losses

469
00:33:45.000 --> 00:33:50.000
where they were right there at the
very end of the game. It gets

470
00:33:50.079 --> 00:33:53.680
Huntley and Carry Grove. This Carry
Grove defense looks legit. As soon as

471
00:33:53.720 --> 00:33:59.039
we've talked before how young the Trojans. This Trojans team was last year,

472
00:33:59.119 --> 00:34:01.960
coming off the twenty only one state
championship. You got some guys and Andrew

473
00:34:02.039 --> 00:34:07.000
Prio, Peyton Sieberg and Logan Abrams
that are really starting to get into that

474
00:34:07.079 --> 00:34:10.239
triple option offense. Logan Abrams Abrams, there's only a sophomore and he's just

475
00:34:12.239 --> 00:34:15.199
he's already he's gonna be just running
kids over for several years. In the

476
00:34:15.280 --> 00:34:23.840
FBC suits it's it's really difficult right
now to discern this could be another case

477
00:34:23.880 --> 00:34:27.840
where we end up with co champions
like we did last year with four teams

478
00:34:27.920 --> 00:34:30.960
at the top. I'm sorry,
three teams at the top in Prairie Ridge,

479
00:34:30.000 --> 00:34:37.119
Crystal Lake South. I'm Prairie Ridge
Hutley and Prairie Ridge Hutley go my

480
00:34:37.159 --> 00:34:42.920
Free Ending, Susy Growth Kry No
Carry Grow Bits the playoffs last year.

481
00:34:43.440 --> 00:34:50.280
Yeah, Jacobs, Jacobs. See, that's what I'm saying. That's how

482
00:34:50.320 --> 00:34:52.599
competitive this conference is. It Literally, I mean, it could be Crystal

483
00:34:52.679 --> 00:34:54.719
Lake South or christ Lake Central at
the end of the year. In this

484
00:34:54.840 --> 00:35:00.159
conversation, it's been so damn closed, So it's I don't know if I

485
00:35:00.320 --> 00:35:06.360
have much more information after two weeks
than I feel like I had, you

486
00:35:06.440 --> 00:35:09.239
know, before the season. The
big dog I guess right now is Hotly

487
00:35:09.440 --> 00:35:14.519
and followed by Prairie Ridge and Carry
Grove. But it's really close. I

488
00:35:14.599 --> 00:35:20.559
think. Well, the dangerous thing
about this in a closed conference format is

489
00:35:21.079 --> 00:35:23.679
if it stacks the way it's supposed
to stack, which is one you know,

490
00:35:23.840 --> 00:35:27.599
with everyone knowing you know, zero
loss is one lost, two loss,

491
00:35:27.639 --> 00:35:30.400
three loss, four loss, you
get five playoff teams, But you

492
00:35:30.480 --> 00:35:35.840
can have a conference like this,
one might end up being where the losses

493
00:35:35.880 --> 00:35:40.119
get more scattered, and there is
a mathematical way where you could potentially get

494
00:35:40.239 --> 00:35:45.119
six teams in the playoffs by doing
that, But there's also a mathematical scenario

495
00:35:45.199 --> 00:35:49.760
that could play out where you can
only get three. I mean, there's

496
00:35:50.840 --> 00:35:54.000
it can happen. So that's one
of the tricky things about having a deep

497
00:35:54.119 --> 00:35:59.840
closed conference. If everyone starts to
take losses here and there, I mean,

498
00:36:00.039 --> 00:36:02.320
we might get into a situation where
we get to Week nine and there

499
00:36:02.400 --> 00:36:07.239
might be three games out there that
are win and get in situations where for

500
00:36:07.400 --> 00:36:13.119
both teams, I mean, it
could happen. It's I mean, it's

501
00:36:13.239 --> 00:36:17.119
not likely to happen. But this
is a dangerous situation. When when I'm

502
00:36:17.159 --> 00:36:22.920
doing my playoff projection, closed conferences
are usually the easiest ones to decipher.

503
00:36:22.639 --> 00:36:28.239
The Fox Valley is terrible because I
can't There's gonna be one team that I'm

504
00:36:28.239 --> 00:36:30.360
going to leave out every time that
I do it that I think as a

505
00:36:30.400 --> 00:36:37.199
playoff caliber team, maybe two that
because I just do I simply rank them

506
00:36:37.239 --> 00:36:40.559
in order, and I stick by
the ranks, so I don't play around

507
00:36:40.599 --> 00:36:45.280
with well, these three teams,
they'll all win one game when they play

508
00:36:45.360 --> 00:36:47.719
each other. I don't do that, So it may play out that way,

509
00:36:47.840 --> 00:36:52.159
But for projections purposes, there's gonna
be a team that I'm going to

510
00:36:52.239 --> 00:36:54.599
leave out that I think as a
playoff caliber team because I know that the

511
00:36:54.719 --> 00:37:00.880
losses have to end up somewhere.
So it's I still, like you said,

512
00:37:00.199 --> 00:37:06.320
I don't know how much more we
know now than we knew before the

513
00:37:06.360 --> 00:37:10.639
season started about how this conference really
stacks up. We got two more games

514
00:37:10.679 --> 00:37:14.440
we want to hit on before we
get out of here today, sus.

515
00:37:15.039 --> 00:37:20.280
The first is Belleville Altough really taking
it to Decatur St. Teresa on Friday

516
00:37:20.320 --> 00:37:24.719
night forty six to thirteen. Listen, we knew that Decatur St. Teresa

517
00:37:25.039 --> 00:37:30.159
a lot of turnover from that state
championship last team, including a coaching change.

518
00:37:30.760 --> 00:37:37.119
That being said, I did not
see this margin of this margin coming

519
00:37:37.280 --> 00:37:42.000
to fruition this weekend. I didn't
either, But I mean there are a

520
00:37:42.079 --> 00:37:46.639
couple of things here that come into
play. We knew going in that Saint

521
00:37:46.800 --> 00:37:51.000
Teresa was probably going to experience a
little bit of a falloff from that state

522
00:37:51.119 --> 00:37:55.199
championship team. The underlying thing that
some people don't realize is that Decatur Saint

523
00:37:55.320 --> 00:38:00.599
Teresa was essentially kicked out of their
conference after last year, which made their

524
00:38:00.679 --> 00:38:07.719
schedule a bit of a nightmare to
try to put together. They had to

525
00:38:07.800 --> 00:38:10.679
travel over to Indiana to play one
of the state's better small school programs.

526
00:38:10.719 --> 00:38:17.760
They lost that game by two touchdowns. They they had to play Bellville Altof,

527
00:38:19.760 --> 00:38:23.920
a good, solid program that I
had started to hear buzz about earlier

528
00:38:24.039 --> 00:38:29.000
this summer. I was talking with
some of my friends that are down from

529
00:38:29.039 --> 00:38:35.079
that area at a seven on seven
tournament and and I relayed the information to

530
00:38:35.199 --> 00:38:38.079
them that Belville Altof was probably going
to be a one A playoff team.

531
00:38:38.440 --> 00:38:43.800
And one of the guys I was
talking to was not facing me director directly,

532
00:38:44.239 --> 00:38:45.719
but when he heard me say that, he turned around and had this

533
00:38:45.880 --> 00:38:51.599
look of terror on his face,
like they're a one A team. I

534
00:38:51.679 --> 00:38:55.119
mean, this is a legitimately good
Belleville ALTALF team that I think is in

535
00:38:55.239 --> 00:39:00.719
the mix to be at I su
to be completely honest with that's how good

536
00:39:00.760 --> 00:39:02.800
I think they are. And then
you look at the rest of the DECAYR.

537
00:39:02.840 --> 00:39:07.599
Saint Teresa's schedule. They've got Tolono
Unity on there. They've got Leno

538
00:39:07.719 --> 00:39:10.639
Winslow on there in week five,
They've finished with Breeze Modern Day in week

539
00:39:10.719 --> 00:39:15.239
eight, and then you know a
four a school that's been pretty solid in

540
00:39:15.480 --> 00:39:20.239
Highland to close out their schedule.
So just do some counting there. They're

541
00:39:20.280 --> 00:39:24.679
already at OZ and two. They've
got two legitimate small school powerhouses in the

542
00:39:24.719 --> 00:39:30.239
middle of their schedule and finished with
Breeze Modern Day and Highland. They also

543
00:39:30.320 --> 00:39:34.760
go to Missouri and play Quincy Notre
Dame in week seven, So it's it's

544
00:39:34.840 --> 00:39:40.360
just an absolutely stacked schedule for a
two way program that honestly doesn't quite have

545
00:39:40.559 --> 00:39:45.079
the talent level that they had in
the past. I would, to be

546
00:39:45.159 --> 00:39:50.559
honestly, looking at their schedule,
I think they're going to be hard pressed

547
00:39:50.760 --> 00:39:57.239
to get to to four wins to
even get themselves into conversation. If we

548
00:39:57.360 --> 00:40:00.320
take at large teams at four wins
five months, I think is a really

549
00:40:00.400 --> 00:40:05.639
hard mountain for them to climb in
the schedule. All right, Sue's final

550
00:40:05.840 --> 00:40:10.400
game, You're ready to get on
the Barrington bandwagon full suits. Because Nick

551
00:40:10.480 --> 00:40:17.679
Piepert threw five touchdowns in this one
fourteen win for the Broncos over Prospect.

552
00:40:20.199 --> 00:40:23.519
I will put up the little asterisk
that Prospect did have some turnover after this

553
00:40:23.719 --> 00:40:29.840
year. I mean that was But
with that being said, Barrington sus now

554
00:40:30.000 --> 00:40:34.920
back to back big wins. Yeah, I mean, I gotta be honest.

555
00:40:35.000 --> 00:40:38.960
I mean I considered, you know, forty forty five teams when I

556
00:40:39.000 --> 00:40:44.119
was spitting together my preseason rankings,
and and Marrington wasn't on the list.

557
00:40:44.239 --> 00:40:47.960
And it looks like that was a
major screw up on my part. Barrington's

558
00:40:49.079 --> 00:40:52.360
really brought it out of the box
here. Just it's really done a nice

559
00:40:52.440 --> 00:40:58.159
job. I've always I've been an
enthusiastic supporter Prospect, and what was going

560
00:40:58.239 --> 00:41:00.719
on with them. I certainly thought
they had an opportunity to win this game

561
00:41:01.280 --> 00:41:06.519
against Barrington because I still wasn't one
hundred percent on board. Consider me a

562
00:41:06.519 --> 00:41:10.480
one hundred percent on board. Now, this is a team that still has

563
00:41:12.159 --> 00:41:16.440
more arduous games to get through on
their schedule. It's it's incredible the schedule

564
00:41:16.559 --> 00:41:21.760
Barrington has put together. But they
are too and oh now, I mean

565
00:41:21.960 --> 00:41:24.800
so that makes it a lot easier
to breathe. Uh, you know,

566
00:41:24.880 --> 00:41:29.679
they still have you know, a
good Glen bricks out team. Even though

567
00:41:29.719 --> 00:41:32.280
they're O and two out of the
box in conference. They've got to deal

568
00:41:32.360 --> 00:41:37.480
with Palatine later in the year.
But all of a sudden, this schedule

569
00:41:37.599 --> 00:41:42.280
looks like being at the beginning of
your look like an overbearing beast. Too

570
00:41:42.920 --> 00:41:47.519
pretty manageable now for Barrington. So
a tremendous start for them, and all

571
00:41:47.599 --> 00:41:52.239
props to them one more time before
we get out of here, and SEUs

572
00:41:52.280 --> 00:41:54.360
gives us his final thought from week
two. Make sure you go to Friday

573
00:41:54.400 --> 00:42:00.320
Night Drive dot com. This week
will have updated projection playoff projection from the

574
00:42:00.880 --> 00:42:05.679
from the SEUs from Suits going up
on Wednday will have power ranking. We

575
00:42:05.719 --> 00:42:08.039
have what we learned in week two
as well. We'll get you set for

576
00:42:08.119 --> 00:42:13.519
week three. Of course, tune
in on Friday night to listen to Jimmy

577
00:42:13.639 --> 00:42:19.360
Usual I take you through everything happening
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578
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579
00:42:22.079 --> 00:42:25.639
Drive dot com or any of the
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drive and find us on Facebook, Instagram

581
00:42:30.480 --> 00:42:36.320
and TikTok SEUs. What do you
take away from week two? Man well,

582
00:42:36.480 --> 00:42:38.360
I mean, they are a little
over one hundred and fifty teams in

583
00:42:38.400 --> 00:42:43.320
the state right now that are two
and oh. That's a normal number for

584
00:42:43.480 --> 00:42:46.559
this stage of the season. But
what's not normal about it is there's quite

585
00:42:46.559 --> 00:42:52.519
a few teams on there that you
wouldn't expect to be on that list.

586
00:42:52.599 --> 00:42:55.239
And that's kind of one of my
favorite things about this early portion of the

587
00:42:55.320 --> 00:43:01.039
season, kind of seeing some of
those surprise teams starting to materialize that you've

588
00:43:01.039 --> 00:43:05.679
got to take a better look at
because you're like, hey, what's going

589
00:43:05.719 --> 00:43:07.159
on with these guys. I'm not
used to seeing them with a two and

590
00:43:07.239 --> 00:43:10.360
old records, So it's gonna be
fun to see, you know, how

591
00:43:10.800 --> 00:43:15.159
much more that list gets paired down
in week three, some interesting matchups for

592
00:43:15.280 --> 00:43:19.320
some of those teams, and you
know, we'll get into more of that

593
00:43:19.480 --> 00:43:24.719
later in the week. But really, it's been so interesting to see how

594
00:43:24.880 --> 00:43:29.199
these first two weeks of schedule played
out for a lot of these programs,

595
00:43:29.280 --> 00:43:32.239
because when you looked at it before
the year, you knew this was gonna

596
00:43:32.239 --> 00:43:37.880
be crazy. I expected it to
be crazy. It was even crazier than

597
00:43:37.920 --> 00:43:42.360
I thought it was going to be. Just so many key matchups that we

598
00:43:42.599 --> 00:43:46.880
usually don't see until later in the
season to kind of give us a better

599
00:43:47.079 --> 00:43:52.679
impression of who the best teams are
likely to be. I appreciate that,

600
00:43:52.199 --> 00:43:55.119
but now I got to catch my
breath and get ready for week three.

601
00:43:57.719 --> 00:44:01.639
Stay right here for Ogi and Jake
Barleston, who will bring you the Western

602
00:44:01.679 --> 00:44:06.119
Suburb podcast, and Eddie Carrifio and
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603
00:44:06.159 --> 00:44:08.880
Illinois Violey podcasts. Then Susie will
be back later this week to preview Week

604
00:44:08.960 --> 00:44:12.159
three. But for now we're going
to go ahead and sign off. Everyone.

605
00:44:12.239 --> 00:44:15.880
Have a good week. We'll talk
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