WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.040 --> 00:00:04.080 Schweiker, Gannison, Krazak Rundio Proudley sponsors the Friday Night Drive. I'm Mike 2 00:00:04.160 --> 00:00:07.240 Krazak. If you've been injured, we are ready to take on the insurance 3 00:00:07.240 --> 00:00:10.480 company and get you to the end zone. We've recovered hundreds of millions of 4 00:00:10.519 --> 00:00:24.519 dollars for our clients. Visit ga nassi n dot com. Welcome Friday Night 5 00:00:24.679 --> 00:00:31.559 Drive Podcast Rural Edition. I'm Daily Chronicle Sports Editor Eddie Carriffio. I'm alongside 6 00:00:31.760 --> 00:00:41.039 Seawan Media Regional sports editor Jtalt No penalty worked on penalty you could call me 7 00:00:41.159 --> 00:00:45.240 Carafio for the rest of the podcast. I can you know, honestly, 8 00:00:45.320 --> 00:00:47.640 you know that this happens to me all the time and people are like, 9 00:00:47.679 --> 00:00:49.479 no, let's pronounced this, And it's like, why do you think I'm 10 00:00:49.520 --> 00:00:52.439 a writer. I don't have to worry about how it's pronounced. I just 11 00:00:52.520 --> 00:00:56.039 have to worry about how it's spelled. I see I would spell it here 12 00:00:56.200 --> 00:00:58.600 and say I don't know how to spell it, but I probably would spell 13 00:00:58.679 --> 00:01:00.880 it wrong given how this is on so far, So we'll just give that 14 00:01:02.479 --> 00:01:04.760 and we'll jump right into it. This is if you haven't noticed the brand 15 00:01:04.879 --> 00:01:10.439 spaking new podcast here on Friday Night Drive, joining the other Just Bang Up 16 00:01:10.480 --> 00:01:15.120 podcasts that we do here. This one different from the others in that it 17 00:01:15.239 --> 00:01:19.480 focuses on, as you might have guessed from the name of the rural areas 18 00:01:19.040 --> 00:01:23.760 like Ottawa Street or La Sale down where JT is based out of, cal 19 00:01:25.840 --> 00:01:29.680 Sickamore, Genoa Up where I'm based out of, and plus others such as 20 00:01:29.680 --> 00:01:33.120 the Sock Valley. We hope to have our regular guests from the Salle and 21 00:01:33.239 --> 00:01:37.879 Sock as the season goes on. But today it's just me and JT and 22 00:01:38.280 --> 00:01:42.640 we talk about week one. Actually little sneak ahead of week two perhaps, 23 00:01:42.120 --> 00:01:48.840 So JT, how was your Friday nights. I'm still catching up on sleep 24 00:01:48.920 --> 00:01:52.000 from it. So if I yawned during the podcast, it's not because we're 25 00:01:52.079 --> 00:01:55.879 boring, because we're not boring. No chance, I assume it'll be my 26 00:01:56.000 --> 00:02:00.400 fault. It'll be But yeah, I had I Had Street or East Peoria, 27 00:02:00.439 --> 00:02:02.079 which we'll talk about a little bit and end up being the highest scoring 28 00:02:02.159 --> 00:02:07.719 game in the state. It had twenty four penalties combined between the two teams, 29 00:02:07.799 --> 00:02:10.800 and uh I was there till about eleven oh five with an eleven fifteen 30 00:02:10.840 --> 00:02:14.520 deadline, So good times. How about you were saying there was the most 31 00:02:14.560 --> 00:02:19.039 penalties in the state too in a game you know it, right or not? 32 00:02:20.400 --> 00:02:27.560 Don't you pronounce a penalty? The most penalties in the state. Uh? 33 00:02:27.759 --> 00:02:30.400 Oh? I was the calp Sycamore obviously a big one up there. 34 00:02:30.240 --> 00:02:34.719 Yeah, it was. It was good for a half going in, I 35 00:02:34.800 --> 00:02:37.960 figured Sycamore would probably win. I wasn't too short what they were going to 36 00:02:38.039 --> 00:02:40.400 look like the Spartans this year with all they graduated. I mean, obviously 37 00:02:40.479 --> 00:02:46.080 coach Joe Ryan as that team very competitive year year in year out. They 38 00:02:46.120 --> 00:02:49.840 are definitely in program territory at this point. But they had to Calb, 39 00:02:50.680 --> 00:02:53.199 despite having a lot of new faces, has a lot of talent. So 40 00:02:53.360 --> 00:02:58.560 it was just not really knowing what what Sycamore or to Calb was bringing to 41 00:02:58.599 --> 00:03:00.800 the table. I thought, maybe, like and I even said it in 42 00:03:00.840 --> 00:03:05.360 the press box, twenty fourteen something in that neighborhood for a Sycamore win fourteen 43 00:03:05.479 --> 00:03:09.639 seven at halftime. So I'm literally nailing my prediction at that point. And 44 00:03:09.719 --> 00:03:14.560 the second half happened. Yeah, And then the calv score very late in 45 00:03:14.599 --> 00:03:17.719 the first half, two really quick scores, and that made. I think 46 00:03:17.759 --> 00:03:22.919 Sycamore took that personally, and then I took that personally, and they just 47 00:03:23.159 --> 00:03:28.120 absolutely clamped down in the second half defensively and answered a lot of questions about 48 00:03:28.159 --> 00:03:30.879 what that team was going to look like defensively having lost all they did. 49 00:03:30.080 --> 00:03:37.719 So that was always a great game. And regardless of the score there playing 50 00:03:37.759 --> 00:03:43.000 at Husky Stadium, get jealous because the way conference formats are set up now, 51 00:03:43.080 --> 00:03:46.039 so many arch rivals and regional rivals are right next to each other, 52 00:03:46.960 --> 00:03:52.080 so that you don't get those week one blood baths arch rival you know, 53 00:03:52.199 --> 00:03:54.199 heated rivalries. You have that one down this way. We have Street or 54 00:03:54.240 --> 00:03:59.400 Ottawa which is just resumed after taking a break for seven eight years, and 55 00:03:59.520 --> 00:04:02.360 that's week that's a week two one, and you just you just you know, 56 00:04:02.520 --> 00:04:05.479 I can't imagine for you know, the Calvin Sycamore. I mean, 57 00:04:06.000 --> 00:04:09.520 everyone's excited to start the season. But you know, if I'm being on 58 00:04:09.639 --> 00:04:12.199 a Street or East pr I've been playing each other off and on for fifty 59 00:04:12.280 --> 00:04:15.439 sixty years, but there's no rivalry there. There's no you know, these 60 00:04:15.520 --> 00:04:17.720 kids don't know each other. It's it's just got to be a cool environment 61 00:04:17.839 --> 00:04:21.600 to not only have all that excitement to start the season, but start the 62 00:04:21.680 --> 00:04:26.839 season against you know, the team that you have to like look across at 63 00:04:27.319 --> 00:04:33.879 a town signed border for. Yeah, obviously the there's always history one where 64 00:04:33.959 --> 00:04:38.560 the other is always a long winning streak. Of course, these Sycamore it 65 00:04:38.680 --> 00:04:42.920 just snapped the Calves along winning streak. But you know that's still on everybody's 66 00:04:42.959 --> 00:04:49.800 minds. Apparently there was a cornerback for the cal that senior came out to 67 00:04:49.839 --> 00:04:55.480 play because of the lost last year, played this year because he didn't was 68 00:04:55.759 --> 00:04:57.800 didn't want to sit on the sideline. I didn't want to sit in the 69 00:04:57.839 --> 00:05:00.519 stands while that was happening. So right, that's the sort of stuff that, 70 00:05:00.639 --> 00:05:04.920 like you said that that's week one goodness right there? So yeah, 71 00:05:05.160 --> 00:05:09.879 other week one goodness? What did you see down there? Going on? 72 00:05:10.199 --> 00:05:13.759 All right? Broad question to get us roll in here? Who I was 73 00:05:13.839 --> 00:05:15.920 gonna say, Well, if we're kind of looking around Lassau County, I 74 00:05:16.040 --> 00:05:20.560 was going to mention that we had are close to Lassau County, we had 75 00:05:21.079 --> 00:05:26.279 three teams down this way just pull off. I wouldn't say huge upsets are 76 00:05:26.399 --> 00:05:30.439 esteemed Kylie Steve Susy Actually I think called two of these games, and one 77 00:05:30.480 --> 00:05:32.079 of them when I got to my game, the person I was sharing a 78 00:05:32.079 --> 00:05:34.839 booth in the press box at it Street or was like, you know what 79 00:05:35.040 --> 00:05:40.199 idiot is picking your games? That had Seneca beating Wilmington. Well, Seneca 80 00:05:40.279 --> 00:05:44.360 beat Wilmington, so way to go sus So that was obviously a big one. 81 00:05:44.399 --> 00:05:46.279 They hadn't beat them since two thousand and one, although they'd had a 82 00:05:46.319 --> 00:05:49.560 little break in the rivalry when they left conferences. But yeah, just because 83 00:05:50.839 --> 00:05:55.319 just because you didn't full SIUs doesn't mean it's not an upset because that guy 84 00:05:55.439 --> 00:05:59.839 knows everything. So I mean, exactly exactly when you got that many magnets, 85 00:06:00.120 --> 00:06:02.959 I mean it's got to be attuning his neurons and his brain to uh, 86 00:06:03.120 --> 00:06:05.720 to the future future football results. But yeah, he called uh. 87 00:06:05.959 --> 00:06:11.839 Seneca Saint Bead beat Tuscola down in Illinois Wesleyan, which was a really nice 88 00:06:11.879 --> 00:06:15.560 win for them. They have a transfer quarterback from Aurora, Christian Max Bray, 89 00:06:15.040 --> 00:06:19.079 who say he threw for one hundred and fifty eight and ran for two 90 00:06:19.199 --> 00:06:26.079 fifteen, So they're gonna be just fine speed. I'm sorry, I know 91 00:06:26.439 --> 00:06:30.399 beats obviously been good the past few years, right, or is it longer 92 00:06:30.480 --> 00:06:33.040 than that, I know, No, just just the past three four years 93 00:06:33.079 --> 00:06:36.959 they've kind of that that COVID season right around there, they kind of rebuild 94 00:06:38.000 --> 00:06:41.839 a coach, Jim Jim Eustace their head coach. Uh I mean, he's 95 00:06:41.879 --> 00:06:44.759 a guy who knows his stuff. He has an awesome staff. I go 96 00:06:44.879 --> 00:06:47.839 to their seven on seven with Ottawa every year and and I just enjoy two 97 00:06:48.120 --> 00:06:51.360 awesome coaching staffs who know and just talking football in the middle of summer. 98 00:06:51.439 --> 00:06:56.839 And and uh no, Saint Bede's been on a really nice run here lately. 99 00:06:56.959 --> 00:06:59.680 And and you know when you got kids coming from Aurora Christian to your 100 00:06:59.720 --> 00:07:02.040 school, well that's that's a good sign of where your program is. A 101 00:07:02.079 --> 00:07:04.399 steam wise and then the other ones. You're going to pretend to know how 102 00:07:04.480 --> 00:07:06.879 that works. That seems like it's more than thirty five miles. But you 103 00:07:08.000 --> 00:07:14.040 know, whatever was supposed to be a right I have, I don't know 104 00:07:14.160 --> 00:07:16.720 any of this stuff works. Transfer. Yeah, well, if you move, 105 00:07:16.920 --> 00:07:20.040 you know, if you move, you're allowed to go kid. I 106 00:07:20.120 --> 00:07:24.600 believe so. I believe so. And then and he also had local ties 107 00:07:25.240 --> 00:07:29.000 with his family. So and then yet Flatting Cornell Woodlands our other big kind 108 00:07:29.000 --> 00:07:30.720 of head turner. They beat U West Central, which was the defending eight 109 00:07:30.759 --> 00:07:33.959 man champ, and let them all game. It wasn't flukish. So those 110 00:07:34.000 --> 00:07:36.639 are three that just stood out to me as like, you know, wow, 111 00:07:36.959 --> 00:07:40.079 did you have any up your way or any of you saw around that 112 00:07:40.120 --> 00:07:43.600 were just kind of ones where you refresh the Twitter feed to make sure someone 113 00:07:43.639 --> 00:07:46.720 didn't go, oops, I typed it backwards. Yeah, actually it wasn't. 114 00:07:46.720 --> 00:07:49.879 It was when it came in. Actually, Tyan Reynolds sending in the 115 00:07:49.959 --> 00:07:59.040 story is when I found out about it was Dixon beating still In Valley. 116 00:07:59.439 --> 00:08:03.759 Not that Dixon is you know bad necessarily or having their playoff team every year. 117 00:08:03.800 --> 00:08:07.120 You know they're finishing that six and three win on a good year, 118 00:08:07.199 --> 00:08:11.439 they'll be in attention for the BNC. But but Stillman's just been you know, 119 00:08:11.600 --> 00:08:15.079 well, I'm not the top of the BNC because obviously that's Byron. 120 00:08:15.120 --> 00:08:18.079 Those Stillman did beat Byron last year and the team's ended up time for the 121 00:08:18.160 --> 00:08:24.279 crown. But yeah, and then then Dixon gets a somewhat at Vincent twenty 122 00:08:24.360 --> 00:08:28.959 and fourteen win over Stillman Valley. I believe that was at Stillman Valley to 123 00:08:28.000 --> 00:08:31.799 start the year. So that was one that kind of caught my attention and 124 00:08:33.240 --> 00:08:35.720 gets you thinking about all the possibilities out there now. And the BNC, 125 00:08:35.840 --> 00:08:39.759 I mean obviously Byron Roles. So they're them and they're doing their thing, 126 00:08:41.000 --> 00:08:46.759 but get you it seems like they they get got once in conference play, 127 00:08:46.159 --> 00:08:48.919 you know, every year, it seems like, and then they just dominate 128 00:08:50.000 --> 00:08:54.039 the postseason. So yeah, no, yeah, and like that Dixon won. 129 00:08:54.120 --> 00:08:56.120 You know, that one's always interested to me because you know, conferences 130 00:08:56.240 --> 00:09:00.399 change every three years and it's hard to keep tracked. You know, I 131 00:09:00.480 --> 00:09:03.360 have a soft spot in my heart for the Dixons and the and the Princeton's 132 00:09:03.399 --> 00:09:05.679 and the Sterlings of the world because they were in a conference. You know, 133 00:09:05.799 --> 00:09:09.480 when I was a kid at Street or high school in gym class, 134 00:09:09.559 --> 00:09:11.519 you know, playing ping pong, you know, you'd look up at the 135 00:09:11.559 --> 00:09:13.679 wall and you know you saw the big hall red Devil and the and the 136 00:09:13.759 --> 00:09:16.720 Sterling Golden Warrior and you know, up on the gym wall. And so 137 00:09:18.440 --> 00:09:20.759 it's it's interesting to see how great Dixon has been since they got out of 138 00:09:20.840 --> 00:09:24.120 the old NIB twelve. Do we have to censor out NIB twelve? Who 139 00:09:24.120 --> 00:09:31.759 is that a bad word? We have along. So there was a pleap 140 00:09:31.799 --> 00:09:35.240 there for that. Yeah, they had do you follow on Twitter? There's 141 00:09:35.240 --> 00:09:39.840 an account like a NIB twelve minus zero and it's just a account about the 142 00:09:39.879 --> 00:09:41.879 ni. They just posted one the other day. I don't think they posted 143 00:09:41.919 --> 00:09:43.639 in years. And they just had one the other day and it has like, 144 00:09:43.759 --> 00:09:46.799 you know, the lady walking with our grandma. Yeah, and it's 145 00:09:46.840 --> 00:09:50.159 got the nip the old ladies like, oh, we used to be a 146 00:09:50.639 --> 00:09:54.320 public school powerhouse. We had twelve schools. And he's like, okay, 147 00:09:54.399 --> 00:09:58.039 let's get you to bed, grandma. Yeah, that was That was a 148 00:09:58.200 --> 00:10:03.759 very good one. Obviously. It's yeah, rest in Peace twelve and I 149 00:10:03.080 --> 00:10:07.480 I just would say NIB. I would said NIB because well, yeah, 150 00:10:07.759 --> 00:10:09.879 I don't want to have to beat myself for saying I think a black. 151 00:10:11.240 --> 00:10:15.519 You say NIB, I think of black Sabbath, Nativity and black. I 152 00:10:15.759 --> 00:10:18.279 think, m I that's where my brain goes. Men in black. Yeah, 153 00:10:18.840 --> 00:10:22.080 they got a brain one letter off, so kind of and we mentioned 154 00:10:22.120 --> 00:10:24.320 one scores that kind of surprised us or turned our heads. You know, 155 00:10:24.399 --> 00:10:28.519 a couple that are not surprising at all that I think would include our little 156 00:10:28.679 --> 00:10:33.600 arc here of non suburban schools would be Princeton and Morris. Both just rolled 157 00:10:33.039 --> 00:10:39.240 Princeton forty nothing over Monmouth Roseville and Morris forty three three over coal City. 158 00:10:39.279 --> 00:10:41.799 And you know that's not a down Cole City team. Obviously, it's a 159 00:10:41.840 --> 00:10:46.080 smaller community, smaller program than Morris, and they're testing themselves. But if 160 00:10:46.080 --> 00:10:50.000 you're beating Coal City forty three to three, you can put up some points 161 00:10:50.039 --> 00:10:52.879 because Coal Cities not a team that gives up points. So I'll be really 162 00:10:52.919 --> 00:10:58.840 interested to see when h Morris hosts Joliette West next week and when Princeton hosts 163 00:10:58.879 --> 00:11:01.919 Morrison. Could be kind of a fun one. Yeah, no, Morris, 164 00:11:03.000 --> 00:11:05.840 I mean, obviously they've been top of the well. I was about 165 00:11:05.879 --> 00:11:11.360 to say that I hate the still not defunct Interstate Hats. Anyway, the 166 00:11:11.480 --> 00:11:16.360 sharing that they have with the KRC is they're about to share two teams with 167 00:11:16.480 --> 00:11:20.799 the KRC stucking next year. But it's gonna be very interesting what happens to 168 00:11:20.840 --> 00:11:24.159 the IA. But we could put a pin at that for some other time. 169 00:11:24.399 --> 00:11:28.320 Well, actually there they left this year with the KRC Sandwich and plane 170 00:11:28.360 --> 00:11:31.080 on. Oh it was for other sports sports other than football. I don't 171 00:11:31.120 --> 00:11:35.799 know what the future holds for the that cross schedule sharing thing that they have. 172 00:11:37.039 --> 00:11:41.200 I don't know if that's I believe it's dead from and it would make 173 00:11:41.240 --> 00:11:45.759 sense for it officially with anybody yet. But I hear that that is done. 174 00:11:46.879 --> 00:11:48.440 It's going to be interesting next year. It's probably gonna be grab it 175 00:11:48.480 --> 00:11:52.399 out of a hat or something. But well, we'll see what ends up 176 00:11:52.440 --> 00:11:56.759 happening with that. No, Morris is just obviously it has been at the 177 00:11:56.799 --> 00:12:01.799 top of that conglomerate for you know, a few years out of them in 178 00:12:01.840 --> 00:12:07.200 Sycamore and shared the last two titles. Scary to see them put up some 179 00:12:07.279 --> 00:12:11.799 points. You know that's their outfence is always good, but you know they've 180 00:12:11.919 --> 00:12:15.360 got that reputation as a defensive team and see them put up that level of 181 00:12:15.440 --> 00:12:20.440 points, it's it's gonna make for some fun conference battles with obviously when they 182 00:12:20.519 --> 00:12:24.399 face Sycamore, and should be really interesting with Kayalen put up some points to 183 00:12:24.600 --> 00:12:28.480 it, so that should be a very very fun game. Yeah. I 184 00:12:28.720 --> 00:12:35.559 edited Bilodinsky's story on Morris from Friday Night and I covered Morris a couple of 185 00:12:35.559 --> 00:12:39.159 times last year, including the playoff game, and I thought a lot of 186 00:12:39.200 --> 00:12:43.840 those kids were seniors. But it's the same name. So I they're they're, 187 00:12:43.080 --> 00:12:46.720 they're they're gonna be awfully tough again this year. And I don't think 188 00:12:46.759 --> 00:12:50.399 that surprises anybody. And what's the deal with Princeton as I go into my 189 00:12:50.519 --> 00:12:56.200 full brick wall, what's the deal? They just have like a factory where 190 00:12:56.200 --> 00:13:00.519 they make guys or they could put it in and get two hundred yards like 191 00:13:00.720 --> 00:13:05.240 like, I'm sure you'll know the name right off hand, but and I 192 00:13:05.360 --> 00:13:09.799 am can't find them my notes give but they have a dude then two hundred 193 00:13:09.840 --> 00:13:13.080 yards after the graduated guy who's just so good there for years and they have 194 00:13:13.679 --> 00:13:18.120 to just found someone else. And that's just well they you know what it's 195 00:13:18.200 --> 00:13:20.000 uh, you know, it's one of those things. And I think you 196 00:13:20.039 --> 00:13:22.919 could say it about Morris. I mean there's programs are on where you talk 197 00:13:22.960 --> 00:13:26.679 about it's you know, you have great when you have a great program and 198 00:13:26.759 --> 00:13:31.279 you put things in place like Ryan Pearson has there and you have a great 199 00:13:31.320 --> 00:13:33.720 program and you have that success and you build that excitement in the community and 200 00:13:33.919 --> 00:13:39.039 then you start getting the top tier athletes. You know, when those two 201 00:13:39.080 --> 00:13:41.679 things come together, that's how you get runs like Princeton has been on, 202 00:13:41.799 --> 00:13:43.120 Morris has been on. You know, Princeton, great chance they're gonna end 203 00:13:43.200 --> 00:13:46.159 up being, you know, ranked number one in the state at some point 204 00:13:46.240 --> 00:13:50.240 here. I believe they opened it number two. You know that when you 205 00:13:50.679 --> 00:13:54.000 build the program, you're good. You build the floor up, you know, 206 00:13:54.120 --> 00:13:58.279 you raise your floor where. Yeah, maybe we might miss the playoffs 207 00:13:58.320 --> 00:14:01.080 and go four and five, but you know we're not gonna o nine seasons, 208 00:14:01.120 --> 00:14:03.759 two and seventh season. So they built the floor first, and then 209 00:14:03.840 --> 00:14:05.360 you start getting the great athletes coming in and all of a sudden, the 210 00:14:05.440 --> 00:14:09.080 ceiling goes up, and that's when you see, you know, programs like 211 00:14:09.159 --> 00:14:13.639 Princeton is now where you know nobody wants to play them. I think we'll 212 00:14:13.720 --> 00:14:18.840 turn our attention north here in a second. But first got to pay the 213 00:14:18.919 --> 00:14:24.399 bills. So we're gonna take a quick break and we'll come back and shoot 214 00:14:24.399 --> 00:14:31.200 around the cal County a little bit. Schweiker Gannison, Krazak Rundio Proudley sponsors 215 00:14:31.279 --> 00:14:35.240 to Friday Night Drive. I'm Mike Krazak. If you've been injured, we 216 00:14:35.279 --> 00:14:37.399 are ready to take on the insurance company and get you to the end zone. 217 00:14:37.519 --> 00:14:41.120 We've recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for our clients. Visit the GA 218 00:14:41.399 --> 00:14:50.600 nassi n dot com and welcome back everybody to the Friday Night Drive Podcast Rural 219 00:14:50.840 --> 00:14:54.720 Edition. I'm here with Eddie Carriffio. I'm JT. Penalty And you know, 220 00:14:54.799 --> 00:14:58.120 we kind of take a took a look around kind of generally the area 221 00:14:58.159 --> 00:15:01.399 and hit some of the schools that maybe aren't in our wheelhouses. But now 222 00:15:01.480 --> 00:15:07.240 we're gonna go right into your soft underbelly and talk a little bit about the 223 00:15:07.320 --> 00:15:11.200 cal County out what'd you see up there? Ready? It was? It 224 00:15:11.320 --> 00:15:16.600 was an interesting week one, obviously there was. It was. It was 225 00:15:16.720 --> 00:15:22.799 funny because there were some things I wanted to see and I would say, 226 00:15:22.919 --> 00:15:26.679 like, what are all the pretentious people say about Chazz? It's like the 227 00:15:26.799 --> 00:15:30.639 stereotype of it is the notes you didn't see, man, It's that's what 228 00:15:30.840 --> 00:15:33.279 mattered, the notes you didn't play, you know, the sort of thing. 229 00:15:33.600 --> 00:15:39.039 I think there was some very interesting. There were some questions and seeing 230 00:15:39.159 --> 00:15:43.679 some things like, for instance, we talked Sycamore in that forty two seven 231 00:15:43.759 --> 00:15:48.559 win over to calbat Husky Stadium. Sycamore has a new quarterback this year, 232 00:15:48.639 --> 00:15:54.519 Burke Gaucher. He was already he's a junior. It's been heavily recruited Iowa, 233 00:15:54.559 --> 00:15:58.679 Illinois, Northern Illinois. I think it's five or six do you one 234 00:15:58.720 --> 00:16:03.559 offer? And it was a wide receiver last year for the first time playing 235 00:16:03.639 --> 00:16:07.240 quarterback this year, So like moving someone who was that good at wide receiver 236 00:16:07.320 --> 00:16:12.480 to quarterbacks. Obviously, Jarring has a lot of faith that they're a better 237 00:16:12.559 --> 00:16:18.080 team with him there, obviously, So okay, what can he do a 238 00:16:18.200 --> 00:16:21.200 quarterback? Well, he had two packs. He ran for like one hundred 239 00:16:21.240 --> 00:16:25.279 and thirty five yards and he looked like just the stride on him, you'd 240 00:16:25.360 --> 00:16:27.240 blink it. It was like one of those and obviously a big chunk of 241 00:16:27.279 --> 00:16:30.759 that is to do with the Sycamore line just as good as they are, 242 00:16:32.200 --> 00:16:36.120 but he'd blink it. He's like twelve yards down field, like one of 243 00:16:36.159 --> 00:16:37.039 those like where you look at it and like you think, oh, what 244 00:16:37.200 --> 00:16:40.879 was that three and then you look in they're moving, the chains gone. 245 00:16:41.039 --> 00:16:47.480 So so, but how can you throw the ball And the answer to that 246 00:16:47.759 --> 00:16:52.879 is good, maybe because he attended two passes. One of them was a 247 00:16:52.919 --> 00:16:55.960 shovel pass, so it probably didn't even go to you know, especially at 248 00:16:55.960 --> 00:16:59.919 the high school level, they tended. Yeah, so it was two yards 249 00:17:00.000 --> 00:17:02.960 if they even had to count those as runs, even though technically it was, 250 00:17:03.399 --> 00:17:07.519 you know, a forward pass that a professional statistician at college or NFL 251 00:17:07.599 --> 00:17:11.599 would definitely have had as a call that up as a pass. So the 252 00:17:11.720 --> 00:17:18.000 other pass was like this fifty five yard just a beautiful bomb right into the 253 00:17:18.359 --> 00:17:23.559 bread basket at Tea Allahan in stride fifty five yards just just a virgeusly there 254 00:17:23.599 --> 00:17:26.279 was a long time we ye throw and they were up. That was in 255 00:17:26.319 --> 00:17:29.440 the second half. They were already up at the well. Yeah, you 256 00:17:29.519 --> 00:17:32.720 know, you get you get ahead, and then it opens up those possibilities. 257 00:17:32.759 --> 00:17:34.079 But the big thing is that you see he can cash in on them 258 00:17:34.119 --> 00:17:37.680 for those games down the stretch when okay, we're in a tie game down 259 00:17:37.759 --> 00:17:41.720 the stretch, we've got it, you know, defenses creeping in, you 260 00:17:41.799 --> 00:17:44.799 know, can you hit those big plays and the other things you put it 261 00:17:44.880 --> 00:17:47.920 on. I still call it film because everyone calls it film, even though 262 00:17:47.960 --> 00:17:51.599 I'm even sure films, unless you're making up an Oppenheimer, I don't think 263 00:17:51.640 --> 00:17:55.759 film exists. But you know, honestly, you get it on tape, 264 00:17:56.319 --> 00:18:00.279 and that changes how their next four opponents are going to play them because play 265 00:18:00.400 --> 00:18:02.640 is going to be in the back of their heads. That's one less step 266 00:18:02.680 --> 00:18:06.200 a cornerback and creep in on a running play because they know that's in that 267 00:18:06.319 --> 00:18:10.720 playbook, and which is exactly why he which is why uh he said he 268 00:18:10.799 --> 00:18:14.960 called that pass there was because they saw the cornerback sneaking in coming in on 269 00:18:15.000 --> 00:18:18.359 the exactly. So the next cornerbacks. Yeah, so the cornerbacks the next 270 00:18:18.400 --> 00:18:21.480 three weeks and the safeties they'll take that step and they're like, oh crap, 271 00:18:21.559 --> 00:18:22.559 I don't want to be I don't want to be the one on someone 272 00:18:22.599 --> 00:18:29.000 else's recruitment video to be fall behind by three steps and fall down trying to 273 00:18:29.079 --> 00:18:32.680 tackle them. So well, that's that's such so huge for a team to 274 00:18:32.720 --> 00:18:34.200 show that balance, even if you don't need to use it most weeks, 275 00:18:34.240 --> 00:18:40.079 as I'm sure Sickamore probably won't. Yeah, it's definitely there, but I 276 00:18:40.960 --> 00:18:44.039 we'll see if this was just what they thought they could do against the calb 277 00:18:44.519 --> 00:18:48.759 But for a team that's been balanced in a lot of attacks, it was 278 00:18:48.000 --> 00:18:53.759 a lot more towards the run because they were successful. So exactly anything stand 279 00:18:53.799 --> 00:18:56.880 out to you on the the calb side head coach Derek Schieman. There's an 280 00:18:56.920 --> 00:19:00.319 old baseball player of mine in my baseball coach days. Yeah, I know 281 00:19:00.440 --> 00:19:06.240 your boyd Derek. He No, he's not a really good job. I 282 00:19:06.319 --> 00:19:14.039 mean, obviously, the Cows just did a tough situation be playing in THEER. 283 00:19:14.839 --> 00:19:18.359 I mean, that's just it's tough. Your non conference schedule includes one 284 00:19:18.400 --> 00:19:22.039 of over the last couple of years, one of the four best teams at 285 00:19:22.079 --> 00:19:26.079 the very least mathematically technically anyway in the Class five Egg playing them every year. 286 00:19:26.400 --> 00:19:32.279 So it's a tough schedule. That got the best of Barbs in his 287 00:19:32.400 --> 00:19:37.799 first year, but obviously last year into the playoffs. So one of the 288 00:19:37.880 --> 00:19:41.319 things I was most interested in seeing, and again I think this is one 289 00:19:41.319 --> 00:19:45.440 of those incompletes, is their defense. And I think a lot of teams 290 00:19:45.480 --> 00:19:48.039 are gonna suffer the fate at the hands of Sycamore that the Cow did, 291 00:19:48.279 --> 00:19:53.000 possibly even worse. So the cam only has one starter back. That's the 292 00:19:53.079 --> 00:19:57.880 thing about the Barbs is there if it all goes apart in the plan anyway, 293 00:19:59.039 --> 00:20:02.240 just should be getting or better. To hear Boson like, even more 294 00:20:02.359 --> 00:20:04.119 so than your average team. You know that well, we want to be 295 00:20:04.240 --> 00:20:08.279 better every week, one percent better blah blah blah. Even more so. 296 00:20:08.480 --> 00:20:11.920 And they have one starter back on defense, two starters back on offense, 297 00:20:12.240 --> 00:20:18.000 so even more than that normal improve every week, there's an even higher ceiling 298 00:20:18.119 --> 00:20:23.039 for them with that. So I was particularly interested in seeing the defense, 299 00:20:23.079 --> 00:20:30.440 and for a half they did a really good job against Sickamore containing the run 300 00:20:30.960 --> 00:20:34.039 what you would call and I'm sure it makes a coach of cringe a fend 301 00:20:34.079 --> 00:20:41.880 I, but don't break defense. The only Sycamore scores came from turnovers drives. 302 00:20:41.920 --> 00:20:45.640 I started on turnovers for the Caps, so that was another one of 303 00:20:45.680 --> 00:20:51.240 those big incompletes I kind of wanted to get a feel of. But it's 304 00:20:51.279 --> 00:20:53.720 like, Okay, I still don't have answers. But I don't think that 305 00:20:53.839 --> 00:20:57.559 was as bad as it looks. You know, it definitely wasn't. Steven 306 00:20:57.599 --> 00:21:02.000 said it after the game that he doesn't think they're thirty five points that are 307 00:21:02.240 --> 00:21:04.839 that's signal more thirty five points better than that they were on that night. 308 00:21:04.920 --> 00:21:10.839 But I think that that's definitely, like I said, probably accurate what he 309 00:21:10.920 --> 00:21:15.079 said. Right, Well, it'll be interesting to see other season plays all 310 00:21:15.079 --> 00:21:17.759 like you said, just for the CALB, you know, and second more 311 00:21:17.799 --> 00:21:21.039 both both have you know, demanding schedules. You know, the CALB Conference 312 00:21:21.160 --> 00:21:25.440 cheez. You know, it's you're you're trying to, you know, build 313 00:21:25.720 --> 00:21:29.559 build something up into being a perennial playoff team and then you know, maybe 314 00:21:29.680 --> 00:21:32.160 take that next up. I mean, the Calb's never had a problem having 315 00:21:32.200 --> 00:21:34.640 great athletes, and now it's kind of you know, now it's it's okay, 316 00:21:34.680 --> 00:21:37.319 can we get to that level of these other programs that we're playing and 317 00:21:37.400 --> 00:21:42.400 get these great athletes into the point where we're in that conversation. Yeah, 318 00:21:42.839 --> 00:21:49.039 interested to see if whatever I hate solution moving forward involves the CALB in some 319 00:21:49.200 --> 00:21:53.839 manner. Yeah, because they all wanted to get away from the cal All 320 00:21:53.839 --> 00:21:56.640 of a sudden, the CALB gets good and then NIP twelve blows up. 321 00:21:56.960 --> 00:22:02.279 So that's kind of how it goes. It's well, I don't think Sycamore 322 00:22:02.359 --> 00:22:06.680 was originally in the game plans for the Interstate eight. I think that was 323 00:22:06.759 --> 00:22:08.880 kind of like they were at seven Or was that Kinlan No, it's both. 324 00:22:08.960 --> 00:22:11.400 Actually, I think there were two other teams that ended up dropping out, 325 00:22:11.440 --> 00:22:15.720 so Sycamore and Klin. Like you said, weren't originally I know Canlan 326 00:22:17.079 --> 00:22:19.079 or I'm pretty sure Caitlin was the late team to the party. And I'm 327 00:22:19.079 --> 00:22:22.519 pretty sure it happened earlier with Sycamore two. But they had had other plans. 328 00:22:22.559 --> 00:22:26.200 I don't remember who, but they had had other teams and they needed 329 00:22:26.279 --> 00:22:30.160 to scramble and find Sycamore, and then they needed to scramble and find Kanlin. 330 00:22:30.240 --> 00:22:32.680 And yeah, if you look around at a map and and boy, 331 00:22:32.759 --> 00:22:36.559 this is just right in exactly what this uh, this, this version of 332 00:22:36.640 --> 00:22:38.359 the Friday Night Drive podcast is all about his name and a bunch of towns 333 00:22:38.400 --> 00:22:41.720 that people are like, where the heck is that on a map? You 334 00:22:41.799 --> 00:22:44.920 know? You know, Pontiac I think was one of the teams that I 335 00:22:44.960 --> 00:22:47.839 don't know if they were ever offered it, but you know, maybe considered 336 00:22:48.839 --> 00:22:51.960 for that spot, you know, right down Route twenty three from street. 337 00:22:52.880 --> 00:22:55.200 You know, you got you have your Pontiac, which you know as a 338 00:22:55.240 --> 00:22:59.400 history of a strong program most years. Uh, you know, you look 339 00:22:59.440 --> 00:23:03.680 around, who are some of the other schools you're talking like you're talking, 340 00:23:03.640 --> 00:23:07.640 they're not that much smaller. They're usually four ACE, so they'd be at 341 00:23:07.680 --> 00:23:12.640 the smaller end of this conference. But I think they fit in exactly well. 342 00:23:12.720 --> 00:23:15.400 That's and that's always the thing with the comfort when you're dealing with Sycamore 343 00:23:15.480 --> 00:23:18.519 kneland kind of the rest of the conferences, like, uh, you know, 344 00:23:18.960 --> 00:23:22.839 Ottawa was a big school and then they're trying to rebuild their football groum, 345 00:23:22.880 --> 00:23:23.920 you know, and kind of you know, shifting down here, dumbout 346 00:23:23.920 --> 00:23:27.119 out. You know, lasal Peru got a really nice win, uh Friday 347 00:23:27.200 --> 00:23:33.000 night at United Township twenty four to fourteen. They're big thing with LP this 348 00:23:33.119 --> 00:23:38.079 year, reading Kevin and Clone the sports that are over in LaSalle, reading 349 00:23:38.119 --> 00:23:41.440 all his preseason content and everything is you know, LP has been a playoff 350 00:23:41.440 --> 00:23:44.759 team last few years, and it's five and five, five and five, 351 00:23:44.880 --> 00:23:47.759 five and five, five and five, and they're trying to take that next 352 00:23:47.839 --> 00:23:49.119 up and they've kind of opened up their offense a bit. They're saying, 353 00:23:49.440 --> 00:23:52.960 Okay, we're getting to the playoffs and we're not able to score with these 354 00:23:52.000 --> 00:23:56.240 other teams. What can we do to get there? So, you know, 355 00:23:56.359 --> 00:24:00.720 they had a new co Brendan Boudreau through for one and fifty nine and 356 00:24:00.839 --> 00:24:02.880 ran for one hundred and three, and you might say one hundred and fifty 357 00:24:02.920 --> 00:24:04.759 nine is not a lot. That's that's pretty good for you know, LP 358 00:24:06.480 --> 00:24:11.000 uh and and a new offense. Yeah, for a team that haven't they 359 00:24:11.039 --> 00:24:14.640 have been very run heavy in the past too, right, not only new 360 00:24:14.880 --> 00:24:18.519 was a totally new offense changed things around one hundred eighty degrees. Yet, 361 00:24:18.599 --> 00:24:22.519 No, that's pretty impressive. Yeah, not bad at all. They have 362 00:24:22.920 --> 00:24:26.119 LP has Metamora in week two, so you know that's gonna be a tough 363 00:24:26.200 --> 00:24:27.960 one. They you know, they have a tough schedule, and there's a 364 00:24:29.000 --> 00:24:32.079 reason they end up every not every year, but they more often not end 365 00:24:32.160 --> 00:24:33.599 up on that five and four four and five bubble is because you know, 366 00:24:33.640 --> 00:24:38.039 they play some tough non conference. Anyone who's listening to this and knows how 367 00:24:38.480 --> 00:24:44.200 that Interstate eight Kshwaukee River is made up is you know there's some big time 368 00:24:44.279 --> 00:24:47.079 halves and there's some big time half not So you know, when you look 369 00:24:47.079 --> 00:24:48.680 at that schedule, you don't want to say there's only this many winnable games, 370 00:24:48.720 --> 00:24:52.880 but a lot of times for teams like LP Ottawa that we'll talk to 371 00:24:52.960 --> 00:24:55.680 and we'll talk about a little bit. You know, when you look at 372 00:24:55.720 --> 00:24:56.920 that schedule, you never know what's going to happen, but you know, 373 00:24:57.079 --> 00:25:00.200 for those people who look at it and trying to project it out, a 374 00:25:00.279 --> 00:25:03.519 lot of times there's a one or two games that it's like, these are 375 00:25:03.519 --> 00:25:04.480 the ones that are going to decide, you know, these are ones that 376 00:25:04.480 --> 00:25:07.599 are going to swing you. So United Township with one of those ones for 377 00:25:07.720 --> 00:25:11.759 LP and and they got it, so have to have to feel good moving 378 00:25:11.799 --> 00:25:15.880 forward. Yeah, I mean, obviously, like you said, it's depending 379 00:25:15.920 --> 00:25:21.920 on just with the way this conference is struck, the way the conference structure 380 00:25:22.039 --> 00:25:25.599 is in the state. Obviously, you know, it's designed to get your 381 00:25:25.640 --> 00:25:27.519 five wins, and that's the goal is to get to the five. And 382 00:25:27.960 --> 00:25:30.319 you know you pick out like you said, there's some and that was a 383 00:25:30.359 --> 00:25:36.200 big one for United that that's halveshold thing, especially these days in the DBC, 384 00:25:36.359 --> 00:25:38.960 trying to find where those five wins are going to come from. So 385 00:25:40.480 --> 00:25:44.759 yeah, that's it's a common thing. Week twos, they're they're one of 386 00:25:44.799 --> 00:25:49.079 those week two games down there and one of those on the five checklist for 387 00:25:49.160 --> 00:25:52.079 somebody for you. You know, this is one of those ones where you 388 00:25:52.119 --> 00:25:56.799 know, probably our biggest game down this way. It's the state's third oldest 389 00:25:56.880 --> 00:25:59.920 rivalries Street or versus Ottawa. I mentioned it earlier about twenty three. Right, 390 00:26:00.440 --> 00:26:03.839 they're meeting for one hundred and first time. They started in eighteen ninety 391 00:26:03.880 --> 00:26:10.079 four, so they've been paying eight years off. They had eight years off 392 00:26:10.119 --> 00:26:15.039 and it's still oh and they had they had much longer breaks before that too. 393 00:26:15.119 --> 00:26:18.279 They they they you know, back in the day, would accuse each 394 00:26:18.279 --> 00:26:19.720 other of running it up and we're not playing for a while, you know, 395 00:26:19.799 --> 00:26:25.559 and then start playing again or so. So it's it's kind of always 396 00:26:25.599 --> 00:26:27.119 been that sort of rivalry. Now it's the conference thing that kind of had 397 00:26:27.160 --> 00:26:30.400 them not playing for a few years. But they're back and they're in Week 398 00:26:30.480 --> 00:26:33.200 two every year, which is you know, really exciting for the kids down 399 00:26:33.279 --> 00:26:36.920 here. And like you mentioned, you know, these are two teams that 400 00:26:37.559 --> 00:26:40.200 you know, Ottawa was five and four. Last year in the regular season, 401 00:26:40.240 --> 00:26:44.880 they beat Streeter Uh you know this year out was coming in a tougher 402 00:26:44.960 --> 00:26:48.440 spot. Last year they beat Plano in the final seconds. This year they 403 00:26:48.519 --> 00:26:52.119 lose a Plano in the final seconds. So, you know, Ottawa absolutely 404 00:26:52.240 --> 00:26:56.440 needs this game with that conference schedule coming up. If they want to reasonably 405 00:26:56.519 --> 00:27:00.200 think playoffs, they have to beat Streeter Streeters coming off of seventy four to 406 00:27:00.359 --> 00:27:04.400 twenty nine win that. As I said, I'm still trying to recover sleep 407 00:27:04.480 --> 00:27:10.559 from. But you know the story. There was Christian BENNINGU Streeters senior quarterback. 408 00:27:10.640 --> 00:27:14.440 He's also their leading scorer in basketball. They're clean up hitter and shortstop 409 00:27:14.519 --> 00:27:18.200 in baseball. He's just one of the best all around athletes you know that 410 00:27:18.279 --> 00:27:21.880 you see at that five A you know, three A in other sports five 411 00:27:21.920 --> 00:27:25.680 A and football level. He threw for two seventy nine and four touchdowns. 412 00:27:25.720 --> 00:27:29.480 He ran for one hundred and seventy seven and four touchdowns, and yeah, 413 00:27:29.559 --> 00:27:32.720 why not he ran back a seventy one yard pick six on like one of 414 00:27:32.799 --> 00:27:34.799 maybe the four plays he played defensive leagues. It was an obvious passing down. 415 00:27:34.880 --> 00:27:38.400 So anything he had a bit of a day. Yeah, you know 416 00:27:38.440 --> 00:27:44.359 what he did kickoffs two. The team never did punt. Even though they 417 00:27:44.400 --> 00:27:47.880 had a first quarter fourth and forty two. The team never punted, So 418 00:27:48.279 --> 00:27:51.279 I don't know, he might punt two. They're on the road at Ottawa. 419 00:27:51.319 --> 00:27:55.519 Maybe they convert the fourth and forty two or what they did not. 420 00:27:55.839 --> 00:27:57.400 They did not, but you know they could have. It was a drop. 421 00:27:57.640 --> 00:28:02.440 It was a drop. They probably could have. But you know the 422 00:28:02.720 --> 00:28:04.200 kind of for Ottowan Street or both. This is gonna be one of those 423 00:28:04.279 --> 00:28:08.759 games, great environment, you know, huge rivalry, you know, right 424 00:28:08.799 --> 00:28:15.599 there on the confluence of the Fox and Illinois Rivers, and it's gonna be 425 00:28:15.720 --> 00:28:18.920 it's gonna be a great game, and they both need it with what they 426 00:28:18.960 --> 00:28:22.039 have coming up on the schedule, so so it'll be very interesting. Yeah, 427 00:28:22.240 --> 00:28:29.240 definitely, this podcast definitely for people that know where that confluence is where 428 00:28:29.599 --> 00:28:37.160 twenty three runs through. So yes, so up here. I'm interested. 429 00:28:37.240 --> 00:28:41.400 For Genoa, I thought originally they got North Boone up at North Boone, 430 00:28:41.440 --> 00:28:45.359 two long road trips to start to hear they were at Rockford Christian enrolled and 431 00:28:45.640 --> 00:28:49.440 one Rocker Christian has some roster issues. I think last week you'd seen they 432 00:28:49.519 --> 00:28:53.920 only have like fifteen players on their roster. So so the big win was 433 00:28:53.960 --> 00:28:59.680 expected for GK. North Boone has been a fringe playoff team for a couple 434 00:28:59.720 --> 00:29:02.119 of years. I thought this would be a little better measuring stick. They 435 00:29:02.200 --> 00:29:08.160 lost the organ, so U six nothing and the just not a score you 436 00:29:08.240 --> 00:29:12.440 see every day, although it is a little more common I think in the 437 00:29:12.480 --> 00:29:15.920 BNC, but still, I know we had a lot of problems I had 438 00:29:17.160 --> 00:29:19.400 in in Street or our game just with people holding onto the ball. It 439 00:29:19.559 --> 00:29:22.960 was hot, it was humid, it was especially earlier in the game. 440 00:29:23.000 --> 00:29:26.839 I mean, they couldn't get snaps in. They couldn't, you know. 441 00:29:26.960 --> 00:29:30.160 And and some of that's week one jitters, week one sloppiness. You know, 442 00:29:30.240 --> 00:29:32.160 you expect some of that, but it seemed like there was a little 443 00:29:32.160 --> 00:29:34.119 more of it, and maybe that played into some of the And then here 444 00:29:34.160 --> 00:29:37.680 I am saying, maybe that played into the low score after I covered, 445 00:29:37.119 --> 00:29:41.240 you know, a game that finished seven four point nine. But you know, 446 00:29:41.359 --> 00:29:44.799 I think you saw that pretty much around pretty much all over the place, 447 00:29:44.880 --> 00:29:48.000 you know, just kind of some lower scoring games here and there, 448 00:29:48.519 --> 00:29:51.599 and uh, you know, but six nothing, Yeah, you don't see 449 00:29:51.640 --> 00:29:56.680 that much these days. Then the cal I think it's a big one for 450 00:29:56.759 --> 00:29:59.319 them. One of those five we were talking about, this is this is 451 00:29:59.400 --> 00:30:03.799 one of them, and they got as you're quite well aware, the Cowboys 452 00:30:03.920 --> 00:30:11.119 hosting Plainfield South in a big non conference game. I'm sure Plainfield South this 453 00:30:11.200 --> 00:30:15.240 is one that they need to get as well, if I'm not mistaken, 454 00:30:15.319 --> 00:30:18.319 but I know this is if they if they're getting the five, this is 455 00:30:18.480 --> 00:30:22.559 they've got to get these next two non conference games, and then that includes 456 00:30:22.599 --> 00:30:25.960 this one. I believe, I don't have an up front of me right 457 00:30:25.960 --> 00:30:29.279 now, but I'm very very certain to cab one at Plainfield South last year. 458 00:30:29.839 --> 00:30:32.079 Yeah, I think you're right on that, And they know the other 459 00:30:32.119 --> 00:30:36.519 one kind of down my way that I'm really interested in. Seneca is going 460 00:30:36.559 --> 00:30:40.200 to visit Lyle this week. And Lyle looked pretty good. They took care 461 00:30:40.240 --> 00:30:42.200 of Harvard. Harvard's you know, maybe not the strongest program, but that's 462 00:30:42.240 --> 00:30:45.839 a bigger school. You know. I don't think they're twice the size of 463 00:30:45.559 --> 00:30:49.640 of Lyle, but it's probably pretty close. So I think Lyle might might 464 00:30:49.680 --> 00:30:52.000 be a decent test for Seneca. And you know, Seneca's coming off a 465 00:30:52.039 --> 00:30:57.480 nine and oh season where they won that Vermilion Valley Football Alliance North Division. 466 00:30:57.640 --> 00:31:00.960 I'm just going to keep saying pronouns. Yeah you have, but you know 467 00:31:02.000 --> 00:31:04.480 they won that and uh but now they're coming in this new Chicago Land Prairie 468 00:31:04.559 --> 00:31:07.160 and you know, they don't know you're playing. You got some five eight 469 00:31:07.160 --> 00:31:10.839 teams in this conference, and you got some one eight teams in this conference. 470 00:31:10.880 --> 00:31:14.000 So it's gonna be a big year of just everyone kind of feeling themselves 471 00:31:14.039 --> 00:31:18.160 out and and seeing how do we stack up against against these other programs. 472 00:31:18.200 --> 00:31:22.480 So Seneca Liles should be should be an interesting one to tell. Is Seneca 473 00:31:22.640 --> 00:31:23.440 gonna be? You know, are they going to threaten to be a nine 474 00:31:23.480 --> 00:31:27.000 and o team again have a home playoff game, you know, because they 475 00:31:27.039 --> 00:31:30.279 haven't. They have their sight set on a pretty deep run this year. 476 00:31:30.319 --> 00:31:33.960 And you know they run that power te offense that uh, you know, 477 00:31:33.359 --> 00:31:37.279 just no one sees it all year, so usually they blow you off the 478 00:31:37.319 --> 00:31:41.559 ball and beat you up before you know what's happening. So I'm very interested 479 00:31:41.559 --> 00:31:44.559 to see how they deal with Lyle and how that game turns out. That's 480 00:31:44.559 --> 00:31:48.480 a that's a week two when I got my eye on. I think that 481 00:31:48.720 --> 00:31:53.480 Chicago Land Uh Conference is the reason why is the biggest poster child for why 482 00:31:53.519 --> 00:31:57.920 they need to just go to districts at this point, And just that is 483 00:32:00.799 --> 00:32:04.880 exhibit one through one hundred billion. First of all, that you have Seneca 484 00:32:05.000 --> 00:32:13.680 playing in Chicagoian Conference. That's I don't want to put words in people's mouths 485 00:32:13.759 --> 00:32:15.759 or thoughts in people's heads, but I don't think they see themselves down there 486 00:32:15.960 --> 00:32:22.279 as as Chicago or Ottawa Marquette or Peru sain't be They're all in this conference. 487 00:32:22.400 --> 00:32:30.960 Dwight as just this this uh out the necessity this conference being for. 488 00:32:31.039 --> 00:32:35.240 When I first saw that put the proposed name Chicago Land Prairie, I always 489 00:32:35.279 --> 00:32:37.559 thought of the fact that, you know, when I go on vacation, 490 00:32:37.640 --> 00:32:38.920 and I'm sure this happens to you too. You know, you say you're 491 00:32:38.920 --> 00:32:43.880 from Illinois or you're wearing a shirt that says something Illinois, and oh, 492 00:32:43.960 --> 00:32:46.279 you're from Chicago. That's probably right by Chicago, isn't it. And then 493 00:32:46.880 --> 00:32:50.759 no, we're about one hundred miles from Chicago where I live. But you 494 00:32:50.839 --> 00:32:53.200 know, to them, that's all Chicago. And I feel like this conference's 495 00:32:53.279 --> 00:32:58.279 name is like out a heck with it, it's all Chicago. Yeah exactly, 496 00:32:58.599 --> 00:33:02.880 I'll say, like, you're fifty miles outside right there. It's it's 497 00:33:02.920 --> 00:33:08.440 just not sometimes it's not even worth explaining. But yeah, so that that's 498 00:33:08.480 --> 00:33:12.400 just Oh my lord, just do districts already? Come on, guys, 499 00:33:12.440 --> 00:33:15.480 what are we thinking? You know, I have mixed feelings on that. 500 00:33:15.599 --> 00:33:19.359 I I love the benefits of it and some of the conference things that could 501 00:33:19.440 --> 00:33:21.759 that could tear it up. But you know, if you do districts. 502 00:33:21.799 --> 00:33:24.839 You're gonna lose some of these, some of these you know, games you'll 503 00:33:24.880 --> 00:33:29.480 make for example, you're decalb Sycamore or my Ottawa Street or they'll almost certainly 504 00:33:29.519 --> 00:33:31.559 be in a district together, I would think, or pretty close to it, 505 00:33:31.680 --> 00:33:36.519 depending on where class rankings cut off and and whatnot. But you know 506 00:33:36.799 --> 00:33:38.680 some of those rivalries will be lost. You know that you won't just won't 507 00:33:38.759 --> 00:33:42.759 get to play them because there won't be a whole form. Well, that's 508 00:33:42.799 --> 00:33:46.720 why you do uh larger, That's why you don't do a full ten team 509 00:33:46.920 --> 00:33:51.759 district. That's why you go eight and leave to still scheduled the first two 510 00:33:51.799 --> 00:33:53.519 weeks with whoever you want. If you've got more than two rivals than you 511 00:33:53.599 --> 00:33:55.880 know what, I don't know what to tell you, that's weird. And 512 00:33:57.000 --> 00:34:02.119 they're not geographically the same size of you. Yeah, not in the districts 513 00:34:02.839 --> 00:34:07.440 down a little bit. The problem with that is that then those games essentially 514 00:34:07.480 --> 00:34:09.039 are meaningless. And I know they're not meaningless, and I hate that term 515 00:34:09.079 --> 00:34:12.679 meaningless game, but you know, if they're not going to count towards the 516 00:34:12.719 --> 00:34:14.960 playoffs, how long are you going to play your best players? Even if 517 00:34:15.000 --> 00:34:16.920 it is the calib Sickamore Ottawa Streeter. You know, how long are you 518 00:34:17.000 --> 00:34:21.559 going to risk your chances at the playoffs and the games that actually means something 519 00:34:21.559 --> 00:34:25.199 for the postseason in what are essentially are becoming you know what NFL preseason games 520 00:34:25.239 --> 00:34:28.480 are. You know, here's a couple of games to get tuned up for 521 00:34:28.519 --> 00:34:30.360 the games that matter. And I don't know. I go back and forth 522 00:34:30.440 --> 00:34:34.079 on it. I can tell you and I you know, we share the 523 00:34:34.159 --> 00:34:38.280 same job description. I'm sick of every three weeks they can okay, I 524 00:34:38.360 --> 00:34:42.920 can have a nice relaxing day. I don't have to go to work until 525 00:34:42.960 --> 00:34:45.079 I go cover a baseball game at four thirty. Oops, someone's leaving a 526 00:34:45.119 --> 00:34:49.079 conference again. I've got to make seven phone calls. And it feels like 527 00:34:49.159 --> 00:34:52.480 it's you know, every third week we're doing that. So I definitely agree 528 00:34:52.519 --> 00:34:54.880 that some sort of stability has to be granted, and districts is one of 529 00:34:54.920 --> 00:34:57.719 the ways to do it. If you can find the right way to do 530 00:34:57.800 --> 00:35:00.519 it where the schools are excited about it, the games would come meanless. 531 00:35:00.599 --> 00:35:04.920 The games will not to be a meatball here, but games. It's it's 532 00:35:04.960 --> 00:35:09.679 football, it's football, it's somebody, Yeah, it will hear if it's 533 00:35:09.719 --> 00:35:13.639 not a rivalry game, let alone it being an Ottawa Streeter or at the 534 00:35:13.679 --> 00:35:17.880 calp Sycamore, it would never be. Those games aren't meaningless. You only 535 00:35:17.920 --> 00:35:22.280 get nine games guarantee. Now, I'm I'm actually a I'm one of Illinois 536 00:35:22.440 --> 00:35:27.880 like four Los Angeles Chargers fans. But you know, you say that, 537 00:35:28.079 --> 00:35:31.599 and then it's all fine until Mike Williams gets hurt in a meaningless Week seventeen 538 00:35:31.679 --> 00:35:35.840 game. Oh no, everybody, and then everybody wants the coach's job. 539 00:35:35.920 --> 00:35:38.800 So yeah, it's it's all fine until you know, someone gets hurt in 540 00:35:39.039 --> 00:35:43.079 the you know, the quarterback gets hurt in at the calp Sycamore game, 541 00:35:43.199 --> 00:35:45.679 that doesn't matter, and it's gone for the season. And then all of 542 00:35:45.719 --> 00:35:50.320 a sudden, it's like, I guess, so maybe we need to rethink 543 00:35:50.400 --> 00:35:52.719 this, you know. But but I I agree with you. I think 544 00:35:52.800 --> 00:35:58.960 something has to be done. You when you've got Dwight playing Peru Saint Bede 545 00:35:59.039 --> 00:36:01.400 in a Chicago Land Prairie game in Week eight or whatever, it is, 546 00:36:02.119 --> 00:36:07.519 something's something, something's amiss. Absolutely, that's probably where we should end this 547 00:36:08.159 --> 00:36:13.159 inaugural edition of The Friday Night Drive. Speaking of something amiss. This was 548 00:36:13.199 --> 00:36:16.039 our podcast is something that we has put a pin in that for the name 549 00:36:17.000 --> 00:36:21.159 shot down this time, I'll know we want this to be the name. 550 00:36:21.880 --> 00:36:25.599 So that's week won in the books. We'll be back next week taking a 551 00:36:25.639 --> 00:36:32.719 look at what we saw from week two and previewing week three. So forth. 552 00:36:34.199 --> 00:36:43.760 J D Penalty. I'm Eddie Carafitte Caiffio. This is the firday Nerd 553 00:36:43.960 --> 00:36:52.119 Drave have a great week. Thank you very much. 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