WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:04.000 Schwiker, Cannison, Krazak, Rundio Bradley sponsors for Friday Night Drive. I'm 2 00:00:04.000 --> 00:00:06.799 Mike Krazak. If you've been injured, we are ready to take on the 3 00:00:06.839 --> 00:00:10.400 insurance company and get you to the end zone. We've recovered hundreds of millions 4 00:00:10.439 --> 00:00:13.439 of dollars for our clients. Visit G A, N A, S, 5 00:00:13.640 --> 00:00:24.760 S I N dot com. What's up everyone, and welcome into the Friday 6 00:00:24.839 --> 00:00:29.719 Night Drive Podcast. I am Kyle Naghbors along with Steve Seussi. We are 7 00:00:29.760 --> 00:00:34.880 here live on YouTube and Facebook on Monday morning, October thirtieth. We're here 8 00:00:34.920 --> 00:00:39.520 to recap the first round SEUs. You've got to see a lot of football 9 00:00:39.560 --> 00:00:43.359 this week in my man. Yeah, I was finally able to kind of 10 00:00:43.399 --> 00:00:46.240 get out and get back to my old stomping grounds. Are running around on 11 00:00:46.320 --> 00:00:49.960 sidelines and got a little soggy. There's quite a bit of water on Friday 12 00:00:50.039 --> 00:00:54.679 night in at Peoria Juliet Catholic games. So finally around the third or fourth 13 00:00:54.759 --> 00:00:58.960 quarter I started to dry out a little bit, and Saturday I was able 14 00:00:59.000 --> 00:01:03.640 to go over and see Evidence and Morton and then a not so quick jaunt 15 00:01:03.799 --> 00:01:06.400 up a couple of interstates and I was able to catch a second half of 16 00:01:06.439 --> 00:01:10.120 the Saint Charles North Bradley bourbon A game, which is right was right in 17 00:01:10.120 --> 00:01:12.560 my backyard, so, you know, able to catch quite a bit of 18 00:01:12.560 --> 00:01:17.480 football this weekend. And Ben in the studio for the last six weeks or 19 00:01:17.480 --> 00:01:19.840 so, so I haven't been able to kind of get out and see it 20 00:01:19.879 --> 00:01:23.280 live, and it was definitely nice to get back out there. Yeah, 21 00:01:23.319 --> 00:01:26.159 it was. It was great to be out on the sidelines myself. I 22 00:01:26.200 --> 00:01:30.560 was out there on Saturday afternoon, taken in Nazareth and Prairie Ridge. Of 23 00:01:30.599 --> 00:01:34.040 course, a big game on Saturday, we'll get into that. Of course. 24 00:01:34.319 --> 00:01:38.000 Go to Friday Night Drive dot com. We have a ton of content 25 00:01:38.120 --> 00:01:42.480 up there right now from over the weekend. We dropped what we learned in 26 00:01:42.519 --> 00:01:46.319 the first round from SEUs this morning. We'll have everything coming your way this 27 00:01:46.400 --> 00:01:49.959 week for the second round. You can follow us on Twitter at f and 28 00:01:49.040 --> 00:01:53.359 Driver. 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And I already see a few people in the chat 36 00:02:20.120 --> 00:02:24.840 here, starting with go Naz from Mark and you know, sus, I 37 00:02:24.840 --> 00:02:30.719 think that's probably, you know, the most logical place to start here when 38 00:02:30.759 --> 00:02:39.199 we look at the first round, we we I mean, at a minimum, 39 00:02:39.560 --> 00:02:43.039 you know, this game probably should have been played in the corner files, 40 00:02:43.120 --> 00:02:46.280 right, you know, I think everyone would agree with that. It 41 00:02:46.400 --> 00:02:50.199 was an unfortunate way that the bracket broke down, but it is what it 42 00:02:50.240 --> 00:02:54.520 is, you know. And Prairie Ridge came into the game. You know, 43 00:02:54.639 --> 00:02:58.479 I was over there, Alex Kentucky was over there, Joe Stevenson, 44 00:02:58.520 --> 00:03:00.680 all three of us actually taken in that game on Saturday afternoon, and Joe, 45 00:03:01.439 --> 00:03:05.759 you know, made sure to point out at one point that Prairie Ridge 46 00:03:05.800 --> 00:03:08.800 had only had three turnovers all season long. They had three in that game, 47 00:03:08.960 --> 00:03:12.879 lost three fumbles. It's hard to win a football game against a team 48 00:03:12.919 --> 00:03:16.439 like Naz when you have three turnovers, Yeah, I mean the margins there 49 00:03:16.439 --> 00:03:21.439 were slim. You know, looking at it on paper, this is so 50 00:03:21.639 --> 00:03:25.400 far from being what you would expect from a two fifteen game in a bracket 51 00:03:25.439 --> 00:03:30.240 situation. It just I mean logically when you looked at it on paper. 52 00:03:30.759 --> 00:03:32.120 You know, when I went through my first round picks and I picked Prairie 53 00:03:32.159 --> 00:03:36.199 Ridge to win the game. But if I had to make a list of 54 00:03:36.240 --> 00:03:38.800 the five to ten games in the first round that I wrestled with the most, 55 00:03:39.159 --> 00:03:43.879 that game definitely would have been on either of those lists. I struggled 56 00:03:43.879 --> 00:03:47.439 with it. I didn't really know which way to go, and when I 57 00:03:47.520 --> 00:03:52.159 heard through the grapevine, I was following along on Twitter, but you know, 58 00:03:52.719 --> 00:03:55.159 the games kind of coincided with where it was pivotal in my game as 59 00:03:55.159 --> 00:03:59.800 well, so I wasn't watching it minute to minute down the stretch. Somebody 60 00:03:59.840 --> 00:04:02.360 messaged me and all the message said was whoe nas And I was like, 61 00:04:02.400 --> 00:04:06.400 well, I'm assuming that meant nas won. But my reaction, my reaction 62 00:04:06.520 --> 00:04:13.080 to it wasn't really surprise, Like I wasn't like, I wasn't forwored by 63 00:04:13.080 --> 00:04:17.040 the fact that Nasad won the game. So that kind of typifies the way 64 00:04:17.040 --> 00:04:20.079 that I kind of felt about going in the game. Whoever, you know, 65 00:04:20.120 --> 00:04:24.519 it was gonna be those little margins and turnovers in a situation like that 66 00:04:24.600 --> 00:04:28.000 can be the decider and make the difference in a small margin game like that. 67 00:04:28.399 --> 00:04:32.279 Yeah, they Prairie Ridge had a fumble deep and Nast territory in first 68 00:04:32.279 --> 00:04:38.000 half that they lost. They also had another drive stopped in Prairie or in 69 00:04:38.079 --> 00:04:42.519 Nazareth territory, and then so it tied fourteen to fourteen at half. Prairie 70 00:04:42.560 --> 00:04:46.720 Ridge comes out and has another fumble in Nazareth territory. Nas goes down and 71 00:04:46.759 --> 00:04:51.519 scores. You know, at that point it really felt like Prairie Ridge had 72 00:04:51.519 --> 00:04:54.480 a lot of work to do to get back in that game, and then 73 00:04:54.560 --> 00:04:58.279 just never never could quite get back over the hump. I want to say 74 00:04:58.399 --> 00:05:00.800 the first time I really in a while have done in chance to see Logan 75 00:05:00.879 --> 00:05:06.439 Malichuk up close, kick and sling it. He was terrific in the game. 76 00:05:06.959 --> 00:05:12.519 Several key throws for touchdowns. He also had a terrific touchdown run. 77 00:05:13.639 --> 00:05:15.759 Very very impressed with him. I see Mark down here as well. Comment 78 00:05:15.800 --> 00:05:20.839 in Gabe Kominsky Beasts, Yeah, gab Kominsky. Very impressive. That's a 79 00:05:20.959 --> 00:05:26.240 nasty team that's gonna be all very very difficult out in the five A playoffs. 80 00:05:26.240 --> 00:05:29.639 Sers Yeah, I'm really hoping that I get another chance to see them 81 00:05:29.680 --> 00:05:32.160 live because I have to go all the way back to Week one to get 82 00:05:32.199 --> 00:05:38.000 my frame of reference for them. And you know, I saw what you 83 00:05:38.079 --> 00:05:43.360 saw in Logan Malachuck in very small bursts in that game that lost to Kanka 84 00:05:43.439 --> 00:05:46.879 Key. He was trying a lot of low percentage throws that I think he 85 00:05:46.959 --> 00:05:50.279 was accustomed to completing, and kant Key secondary did a pretty nice job with 86 00:05:50.360 --> 00:05:54.920 him. Eventually had to just kind of give up and use his feet to 87 00:05:54.920 --> 00:05:58.639 move the football, and he did that very effectively. And then with Kaminski, 88 00:05:59.040 --> 00:06:00.920 Kaminsky, I don't want to say he got locked up in that game, 89 00:06:00.959 --> 00:06:04.879 but kin he has a Division one tackle prospect who's committed to Georgia, 90 00:06:05.399 --> 00:06:09.879 and he kind of slowed Kaminski down a little bit. So I didn't see 91 00:06:09.920 --> 00:06:13.160 either of those two guys in there with their best foot forward. So I'm 92 00:06:13.199 --> 00:06:16.120 hoping maybe I get a chance to see them in a further round to you 93 00:06:16.160 --> 00:06:20.560 know, to fully see their skills on display. Alex checking in this morning 94 00:06:20.639 --> 00:06:26.560 says, Hello, gentlemen, how about the bb BBCHS boiler Makers. Yeah, 95 00:06:26.600 --> 00:06:28.959 soush. You got to go over there and see that game, he 96 00:06:29.000 --> 00:06:31.120 said, You saw the second half the win for the boiler Makers over Saint 97 00:06:31.199 --> 00:06:34.560 Charles North. What were your takeaway from that? Well, when I got 98 00:06:34.560 --> 00:06:38.519 there, it was fourteen to seven. Bradley and I had been listening to 99 00:06:38.560 --> 00:06:41.319 the game on the radio on my way up to go see it, and 100 00:06:41.360 --> 00:06:45.720 it seemed like it was a fairly evenly matched game between you know, two 101 00:06:45.800 --> 00:06:48.240 teams there. One I showed up, and I don't know, maybe I 102 00:06:48.240 --> 00:06:51.000 can take some credit for this. I showed up. The boiler Makers just 103 00:06:51.040 --> 00:06:55.680 flipped the switch. I mean, an excellent game from Ethan Cole at the 104 00:06:55.759 --> 00:07:00.959 quarterback position. Not really known that much as of running type of quarterback, 105 00:07:00.040 --> 00:07:05.399 more of a thrower. But apparently Bradley saw something in the in the you 106 00:07:05.399 --> 00:07:09.360 know, scouting report of what they they could use him as a runner, 107 00:07:09.399 --> 00:07:13.439 and they did. He broke off like a fifty yard run that I just 108 00:07:13.560 --> 00:07:16.199 did not see as part of his arsenal. I think he's a very good 109 00:07:16.279 --> 00:07:19.920 quarterback, but yeah, you know, but I just didn't see him as 110 00:07:19.920 --> 00:07:24.560 being kind of a dual threat type of guy, but he showed some moves. 111 00:07:24.759 --> 00:07:28.319 I mean I was really surprised by that. And this Bradley defense is 112 00:07:28.360 --> 00:07:30.600 pretty good. I mean, I don't know if it's necessarily got the credit 113 00:07:30.639 --> 00:07:36.079 that it deserves, but it can make some plays. And they really gave 114 00:07:36.120 --> 00:07:40.920 Ethan Plumb a hard time. He couldn't find He really never found a groove 115 00:07:40.959 --> 00:07:45.680 while I was there, and maybe it was something to do with the conditions, 116 00:07:45.680 --> 00:07:46.680 but both teams had to play in it. I mean it was a 117 00:07:46.720 --> 00:07:54.920 steady drizzle, light rain almost the entire second half, but definitely an impressive 118 00:07:54.920 --> 00:07:59.399 performance for the Boiler Makers, especially even Cole. Yeah, Bradley's gonna get 119 00:07:59.399 --> 00:08:03.360 a second round. Man here with normal community suits. You know, I 120 00:08:03.360 --> 00:08:05.600 haven't seen this Bradley team play. Of course, you and I used to 121 00:08:05.600 --> 00:08:09.560 see them play a lot back in the day at our old job, and 122 00:08:09.600 --> 00:08:13.079 I think back to I'm gonna get the year on maybe twenty fourteen, the 123 00:08:13.160 --> 00:08:16.959 year that Bradley made it to the state semi finals against Libertyville. That was 124 00:08:18.000 --> 00:08:20.240 a really, really good Bradley bourbon. A team that has had a good 125 00:08:20.279 --> 00:08:24.360 defense with explosive on offense, can you give me a little like frame of 126 00:08:24.439 --> 00:08:30.519 context, like after seeing them against Saint Charles North, Like how good comparatively? 127 00:08:30.639 --> 00:08:33.080 Like is this a team that you think could be a quarterfinal or semi 128 00:08:33.080 --> 00:08:35.879 final team. I mean, I think they have a pretty tall task in 129 00:08:35.919 --> 00:08:41.879 this game in the second round against a normal Community team that is kind of 130 00:08:41.879 --> 00:08:46.080 flying under the radar because they don't come from an area of the state that 131 00:08:46.120 --> 00:08:52.159 typically produces seven A eight A powerhouses. But they're very interesting offensively. They 132 00:08:52.600 --> 00:08:58.399 have a lot of speed on the outside that they can utilize. Yeah, 133 00:08:58.480 --> 00:09:01.960 and alex Is mentioned a j Mancia in the middle of that Bradley defense. 134 00:09:03.000 --> 00:09:05.960 He's kind of the core there for them. I think what it comes down 135 00:09:07.000 --> 00:09:11.639 to is, you know, when they play someone like normal Community, I 136 00:09:11.679 --> 00:09:13.720 mean, will they be able to match up in type in type of a 137 00:09:13.799 --> 00:09:20.159 shootout game that I think that game has the potential to develop into. I'm 138 00:09:20.159 --> 00:09:22.720 not sure about the answer of that, but they are such they're an interesting 139 00:09:22.759 --> 00:09:26.080 team. They just they have a lot of players that they can go to 140 00:09:28.000 --> 00:09:31.759 and get stuff done. And you know, Ethan Cole runs the show and 141 00:09:31.879 --> 00:09:37.639 shows the signs of not only one being a coach's son that has experience playing 142 00:09:37.639 --> 00:09:41.320 the quarterback position that has passed that along. But a guy who has a 143 00:09:41.320 --> 00:09:45.600 lot of experience under center doesn't seem to get rattled very much and knows how 144 00:09:45.639 --> 00:09:48.480 to utilize his tools for the best of his ability. All right, Suz, 145 00:09:48.480 --> 00:09:52.559 I'm gonna go ahead and if I can get my there we go. 146 00:09:52.600 --> 00:09:56.200 I'm gonna go ahead and throw this on screen here and let's see did I 147 00:09:56.240 --> 00:10:01.600 miss anything in the comments before we move on? You know what, I'm 148 00:10:01.600 --> 00:10:03.120 going to pull this back off just for a second here because I do want 149 00:10:03.120 --> 00:10:07.639 to You got a question from Zachary. We'll do this before we start, 150 00:10:07.720 --> 00:10:09.759 kind of going class by class here. Answer his question, do you think 151 00:10:09.759 --> 00:10:13.559 there's a fix to the public league issue? Zachary asked, the public League 152 00:10:13.559 --> 00:10:20.840 finished twenty two and was outscored, what by a lot? But when you 153 00:10:20.840 --> 00:10:24.320 say in twenty two, they did have a couple winners, right, they 154 00:10:24.679 --> 00:10:28.240 had two wins, but they were against other Chicago public schools. So so 155 00:10:30.240 --> 00:10:33.360 question, I think what the question is asking is clarifying there. I'm not 156 00:10:33.399 --> 00:10:37.840 sure about this, but he's saying in the twenty two games where they didn't 157 00:10:37.879 --> 00:10:41.519 play a Chicago Public League team as the opponent, they were oh and twenty 158 00:10:41.519 --> 00:10:45.799 two. I'm not sure about that scoring margin. It was pretty wide. 159 00:10:46.759 --> 00:10:50.080 The only the only Public League school that actually had a chance to beat a 160 00:10:50.159 --> 00:10:54.279 non CPL school appeared to be Nobel Johnson, who lost by one point to 161 00:10:54.320 --> 00:11:00.240 Stillman Valley in the Class three A ranks. But you know, and and 162 00:11:00.320 --> 00:11:03.480 attempting to answer his question, I think there are some things that could mitigate 163 00:11:03.600 --> 00:11:07.399 this a little bit. I don't know if the ISSA and the Public League 164 00:11:07.399 --> 00:11:11.960 would ever go along with it. Like those that don't know, the Public 165 00:11:11.039 --> 00:11:16.039 League is divided into the red and the Blue divisions, or excuse me, 166 00:11:16.080 --> 00:11:18.720 the red and the white, and then there's a blue division that doesn't qualify 167 00:11:18.759 --> 00:11:24.360 for the playoffs at all. But the red teams tend to be the better 168 00:11:24.480 --> 00:11:28.720 CPL programs, the ones that might have a shot of competing in those games. 169 00:11:30.480 --> 00:11:35.200 The white divisions are developing programs and programs that are unlikely to have any 170 00:11:35.320 --> 00:11:39.440 chance of picking up a win in the state playoffs should they get there. 171 00:11:39.039 --> 00:11:43.600 What I would personally like to see is if you're gonna let the white playoff 172 00:11:43.600 --> 00:11:48.879 teams qualify, then they have to go in at the bottom of the field 173 00:11:48.559 --> 00:11:54.240 like they need to be the bottom seeds after you determine who else gets in. 174 00:11:54.480 --> 00:11:56.159 Like I said, I don't think I don't think anyone would go along 175 00:11:56.200 --> 00:12:01.159 with that. But I mean, there were a couple of White Division teams 176 00:12:01.159 --> 00:12:05.240 that ended up with one seeds in the bracket and they got absolutely destroyed. 177 00:12:05.879 --> 00:12:11.240 So you know, that's something that I think needs to be looked at. 178 00:12:11.279 --> 00:12:16.240 I don't know if it ever will, but I think that would be something 179 00:12:16.279 --> 00:12:20.159 that would mitigate some of these problems. I don't think you can tell them 180 00:12:20.159 --> 00:12:24.000 not to participate in the playoffs. They have that right just like everybody else. 181 00:12:24.200 --> 00:12:28.120 But I think there needs to be some sort of weighted system because this 182 00:12:28.159 --> 00:12:33.200 happened. It's not like this is an isolated issue. This happens every single 183 00:12:33.399 --> 00:12:37.440 year. We get twenty two to twenty five playoff teams in the field from 184 00:12:37.440 --> 00:12:43.600 the Chicago Public League and they all get pretty much pounded in the first round 185 00:12:43.600 --> 00:12:46.240 of the playoffs. So, like I mean, at least if you put 186 00:12:46.279 --> 00:12:52.240 them at the bottom of the draw, it's fair to the teams that are 187 00:12:52.279 --> 00:12:56.480 involved in the playoffs that are not from the Public League, because as a 188 00:12:56.519 --> 00:13:00.039 top seed, you deserve a game like that. What we had happened this 189 00:13:00.200 --> 00:13:03.919 week is we had a couple of sixteen seeds, fifteen seeds, fourteen seeds 190 00:13:03.559 --> 00:13:09.919 winning first round games, and other situations where there were two and three seeds 191 00:13:11.159 --> 00:13:16.039 they got locked up with an absolute powerhouse in origin as for instance, prey 192 00:13:16.080 --> 00:13:18.960 origin as for example. So there's got to be a better way to balance 193 00:13:20.000 --> 00:13:24.039 staff than the system that we're using now, especially that little that little quirk 194 00:13:24.080 --> 00:13:28.159 this year that had two White division teams, you know, ending up as 195 00:13:28.200 --> 00:13:31.159 the top seeds and the respective brackets. And there's just no way that that 196 00:13:31.200 --> 00:13:35.519 should have been that should have been allowed to happen. Yeah, I think, 197 00:13:35.720 --> 00:13:41.080 Zachary, they're down the road. I could also see Susan. This 198 00:13:41.200 --> 00:13:46.840 is a far more radical thing. But you know, at some point we're 199 00:13:46.879 --> 00:13:50.320 going to see like an eight man playoff be incorporated more closely. I think 200 00:13:50.320 --> 00:13:56.240 with the IHSA, you know we're seeing fallen and role I mean participation numbers 201 00:13:56.240 --> 00:14:00.240 where we're seeing you know, eleven man teams drop out. I think at 202 00:14:00.240 --> 00:14:05.080 some point we could see like a private school playoff, an eight man playoff, 203 00:14:05.679 --> 00:14:07.879 you know, maybe six classes, and then you know, like if 204 00:14:07.919 --> 00:14:11.919 you wanted to, you could do a public league playoff. Too, and 205 00:14:11.200 --> 00:14:16.080 just give the option to play up into the IHSA main field each year or 206 00:14:16.120 --> 00:14:18.600 something like that. Yeah, I think that might be, you know, 207 00:14:20.080 --> 00:14:24.159 a potential solution. It's for me, it's like when we when we start 208 00:14:24.200 --> 00:14:28.360 talking about districts again. You know, if we end up going to some 209 00:14:28.399 --> 00:14:33.399 sort of district system, I don't know how you solve this problem. Yeah, 210 00:14:33.440 --> 00:14:39.360 because you're going to have to infiltrate those CPL programs into these districts and 211 00:14:39.399 --> 00:14:41.519 what we're seeing in the playoffs will see on a weekly basis in the regular 212 00:14:41.559 --> 00:14:48.159 season. If we end up, you know, kind of throwing everybody in 213 00:14:48.240 --> 00:14:52.159 the pot and then sorting them out into districts with you know, half public 214 00:14:52.240 --> 00:14:56.159 league half non public league, and those will be really, really sloppy. 215 00:14:56.279 --> 00:14:58.279 So uh, you know, for whatever you have to say about whether or 216 00:14:58.320 --> 00:15:01.919 not the districts will work, they need to solve that problem. Whether we 217 00:15:03.039 --> 00:15:07.039 stay in conference system or district system, they need to figure out some way 218 00:15:07.480 --> 00:15:11.639 to accommodate for that. This is a perfect time for me to plug being 219 00:15:11.639 --> 00:15:16.600 a subscriber for Friday Night Drive and all of sy'all local dot com because you 220 00:15:16.639 --> 00:15:18.320 know, just because the season is going to be ending here, in four 221 00:15:18.360 --> 00:15:22.159 more weeks. Doesn't mean our coverage can be going to be concluding. We'll 222 00:15:22.200 --> 00:15:26.600 have all of our postseason stuff like husual. But you know, beyond that, 223 00:15:26.799 --> 00:15:30.240 the district measure is back or probably going to be back on the ballot 224 00:15:30.279 --> 00:15:33.399 for a vote this year in December. You know, it was passed onnth 225 00:15:33.480 --> 00:15:37.759 before and then rescinded. I have no idea how this is going to go, 226 00:15:37.799 --> 00:15:41.720 but there's definitely gonna be a lot going on to talk about football wide 227 00:15:41.799 --> 00:15:45.600 right zoos. Yeah, you know, it's like you said, it hasn't 228 00:15:45.600 --> 00:15:46.919 been put on the ballot yet. I've been led to believe that it probably 229 00:15:46.960 --> 00:15:52.320 will be. But I think once again it becomes a discussion of transparency. 230 00:15:52.360 --> 00:15:56.320 What does this district proposal look like? How does it deal with some of 231 00:15:56.360 --> 00:15:58.720 these things? And people ask, well, why did it get rescinded last 232 00:15:58.720 --> 00:16:03.240 time? That was the problem, Like a lot of people did not know 233 00:16:03.279 --> 00:16:07.759 what this system would look like, and they got cold feet because we saw 234 00:16:07.840 --> 00:16:10.240 some mock districts. A lot of people did not like them, and they 235 00:16:10.279 --> 00:16:11.519 were like, hey, hey, hold on a minute, yeah, so 236 00:16:12.000 --> 00:16:15.919 this is not what we signed up for. No, yeah, what you 237 00:16:15.960 --> 00:16:19.240 signed up for? Yeah? If if we want, If districts is something 238 00:16:19.240 --> 00:16:23.480 that we want, I think for the benefit of everybody, it needs to 239 00:16:23.480 --> 00:16:26.519 be a transparent process. It needs to be said, hey, these are 240 00:16:26.519 --> 00:16:30.039 the problems that we see in the conference system. This is how the districts 241 00:16:30.080 --> 00:16:36.879 fixed them. Guys like and show you how it works instead of some random 242 00:16:36.919 --> 00:16:41.879 grouping of teams that doesn't really make sense. So, you know, like 243 00:16:41.960 --> 00:16:44.720 I said, you like you said, there'll be a lot to discuss in 244 00:16:44.759 --> 00:16:48.200 this off season. Obviously, you know, changes in this and changes in 245 00:16:48.279 --> 00:16:52.039 that, and sorting it all out as kind of, you know, one 246 00:16:52.039 --> 00:16:55.120 of the chores of the off season. But this year might be a little 247 00:16:55.120 --> 00:16:59.240 bit more interesting. I still have my doubts whether or not the district proposal 248 00:16:59.279 --> 00:17:03.480 will pass unless we're shown something that says, hey, this is a superior 249 00:17:03.559 --> 00:17:07.920 system. Because from talking to people, there are some people that are advocates 250 00:17:07.920 --> 00:17:12.960 for districts in a big way. But when you start really digging into it, 251 00:17:14.000 --> 00:17:17.799 does the Catholic League want the Catholic League to disappear? That's what districts 252 00:17:17.799 --> 00:17:22.920 does. Does do the Public league want to be infiltrated in with everybody else 253 00:17:22.240 --> 00:17:26.640 or do they want to keep doing their own thing. That's what districts does. 254 00:17:26.039 --> 00:17:30.799 I mean, some of these conferences, as much as people complain about, 255 00:17:30.799 --> 00:17:33.000 you know, conference jumping, some of them are really stable and they 256 00:17:33.039 --> 00:17:37.079 work for people. So I mean, you know, and there are reasons 257 00:17:37.119 --> 00:17:42.559 why people don't play people and you lose that autonomy as an athletic program if 258 00:17:42.599 --> 00:17:45.680 you say here, I just say, put us in a district. So 259 00:17:47.279 --> 00:17:49.720 I mean, that's I think that's we struck a nerve with the district talk 260 00:17:49.799 --> 00:17:53.240 today. Well we talked about this before. I can go all day on 261 00:17:53.319 --> 00:17:59.079 this, but it's what I want. I mean, if you have a 262 00:17:59.079 --> 00:18:03.759 better system, that's fine, because I have problems with the current system and 263 00:18:03.799 --> 00:18:07.759 I can go on those all day too, But show it to me. 264 00:18:07.920 --> 00:18:11.359 Don't just tell me it's better. Trust us, because that's kind of what 265 00:18:11.440 --> 00:18:18.240 happened last time. Yeah, absolutely what happened last time. But all right, 266 00:18:18.359 --> 00:18:19.519 that's well, we'll get to more of that in the off season. 267 00:18:19.599 --> 00:18:22.720 Let's go ahead, sus. I'm gonna pull the brackets back up on the 268 00:18:22.759 --> 00:18:26.079 screen. We'll go through one one a through eight day. If you guys 269 00:18:26.119 --> 00:18:27.559 have questions that we go along. I'll try and keep up with those, 270 00:18:29.759 --> 00:18:33.759 Sus, and we don't obviously have to hit on every every game and in 271 00:18:33.799 --> 00:18:36.920 each class here. So let's just pick out some things that you found interesting 272 00:18:37.000 --> 00:18:38.960 and we'll work our way from there. What do you so, where do 273 00:18:40.000 --> 00:18:44.759 you want to start? Where do you want to by me? Well, 274 00:18:45.359 --> 00:18:48.400 you know, I you know, one A was pretty predictable. I felt, 275 00:18:48.440 --> 00:18:52.599 you know, Rova beating Newman Central Catholic a little surprising, I guess, 276 00:18:52.680 --> 00:18:59.880 but you know, not not all that much. I'll talk Catholic Man 277 00:19:00.319 --> 00:19:03.680 seventy six points against Tuscola. I know this Tuscola team is down, but 278 00:19:03.400 --> 00:19:07.559 that caught me a little bit by not by surprise, it just kind of 279 00:19:07.559 --> 00:19:11.799 reinforces that this all tough team is. It's gonna be a really, really 280 00:19:11.799 --> 00:19:15.279 tough out in one A. Yeah, And it's one of the things when 281 00:19:15.480 --> 00:19:18.160 when you look at it, they're in one A and a lot of people 282 00:19:18.160 --> 00:19:23.599 aren't real thrilled about that. They they had lost their multiplier because because of 283 00:19:23.680 --> 00:19:27.480 the you know the fact that they were basically playing like a five A six 284 00:19:27.519 --> 00:19:33.799 A equivalent schedule and we're having a hard time getting into the playoffs because of 285 00:19:33.799 --> 00:19:38.839 that. Well, they're still playing a pretty pretty large group of schools that 286 00:19:38.920 --> 00:19:42.400 have, you know, large enrollments, but this is a really talented group. 287 00:19:42.880 --> 00:19:45.400 I was kind of tipped off to him in the summer by one of 288 00:19:45.400 --> 00:19:49.119 my friends down that way. Was like, he was like, you know, 289 00:19:49.400 --> 00:19:52.079 Bellville Autos is going to be dangerous in three A. And I looked 290 00:19:52.160 --> 00:19:56.440 him in the face and I said, they're not three A. He's like, 291 00:19:56.519 --> 00:20:00.000 what two? I said, no, they're one and and his job 292 00:20:00.200 --> 00:20:03.079 just dropped. So he was like, I mean, he didn't even realize 293 00:20:03.079 --> 00:20:04.680 that. He thought they were like a three A program that was gonna make 294 00:20:04.720 --> 00:20:08.279 some noise up there. And when I told him they weren't multiplied and they 295 00:20:08.279 --> 00:20:11.920 were going to drop the one A, like, he was floored. And 296 00:20:11.960 --> 00:20:18.880 he was absolutely right. The extremely fast team athletic makes place can score seemingly 297 00:20:18.920 --> 00:20:22.599 at will, and at the one A level, they're bringing a level of 298 00:20:22.599 --> 00:20:26.640 athleticism that you don't often see at that classification. Yet anything else than one 299 00:20:26.680 --> 00:20:30.359 A suis I mean, I felt like it was it was pretty chalky to 300 00:20:30.400 --> 00:20:33.920 me, Like I really felt like when I when I finally sorted through the 301 00:20:33.920 --> 00:20:37.960 results a little bit on Saturda late Saturday afternoon, early evening, you know, 302 00:20:38.279 --> 00:20:41.279 I didn't see anything that really kind of threw me. There were a 303 00:20:41.279 --> 00:20:47.160 couple of games that I thought might go the other way, but nothing, 304 00:20:47.599 --> 00:20:49.200 nothing was like, oh my goodness, you know, I just didn't see 305 00:20:49.200 --> 00:20:52.680 that coming. So I thought this week was going to be where we saw 306 00:20:52.720 --> 00:20:56.200 a lot of interesting matchups, and we'll get to that later in the week. 307 00:20:56.279 --> 00:21:00.559 But the first round I didn't see a whole lot of games that were 308 00:21:00.559 --> 00:21:03.079 going to be all that compelling. And they did. They certainly didn't play 309 00:21:03.079 --> 00:21:06.000 out that way. Yeah, all right, let's go to two A here. 310 00:21:07.000 --> 00:21:11.400 The you know, we talk about that two A North bracket being loaded. 311 00:21:11.519 --> 00:21:15.920 The top seeds on that side pretty much held serve that rock Ridge score. 312 00:21:15.960 --> 00:21:18.160 I mean, I think we've talked about rock Ridge a little bit in 313 00:21:18.200 --> 00:21:22.000 recent weeks. Not surprising to see them pick up the win against Westville there. 314 00:21:22.720 --> 00:21:26.599 I wasn't surprised at all. They they've played so well in the three 315 00:21:26.680 --> 00:21:30.920 rivers with the eight and one record, you know, beat handed Morrison their 316 00:21:30.960 --> 00:21:33.680 only loss, and I like that Morrison team a lot. You know. 317 00:21:34.480 --> 00:21:38.319 The only thing for them I thought might be challenging was that significantly long road 318 00:21:38.319 --> 00:21:44.000 trip. But other than that, they they did a really nice job getting 319 00:21:44.079 --> 00:21:45.920 through there. The thing that really stood out to me, and I knew 320 00:21:45.920 --> 00:21:49.559 this was going to happen kind of regardless of the way the results came out, 321 00:21:49.599 --> 00:21:53.319 barring a couple of upsets, but the collective record of the North bracket 322 00:21:53.319 --> 00:21:57.559 is seventy six and four as we head into the second round. And I 323 00:21:57.599 --> 00:22:00.559 had a couple of people asking me this week if I can ever remember anything 324 00:22:00.640 --> 00:22:03.799 like that, and I'm gonna be honest, I can't. I can't ever 325 00:22:03.839 --> 00:22:08.759 remember a collective record of one side of the bracket being that good heading into 326 00:22:08.799 --> 00:22:14.799 the second round of the tournaments. So, you know, I kind of 327 00:22:14.799 --> 00:22:18.119 compare it a little bit to the three A North of last year. But 328 00:22:18.319 --> 00:22:22.599 even that group I looked it up, had seven collective losses. So it's 329 00:22:22.720 --> 00:22:27.839 definitely a really unique group. And some thunderous second round matchups being set up 330 00:22:27.839 --> 00:22:30.839 in the North, It's probably a good time to pull up this question from 331 00:22:30.839 --> 00:22:33.880 Adam. He says, do you think the push for one two thirty two 332 00:22:33.880 --> 00:22:40.039 seating gets louder from smaller schools after round one results. I don't know if 333 00:22:40.039 --> 00:22:44.440 it gets louder. I think it starts to resonate a little bit more when 334 00:22:44.440 --> 00:22:48.920 people talk about it. It's a discussion that seems to not really come up 335 00:22:48.000 --> 00:22:52.480 until now, and then it disappears again. It just kind of falls off 336 00:22:52.519 --> 00:22:57.039 the wayside, and then everybody gets charged up about it when we actually get 337 00:22:57.039 --> 00:23:03.559 into playing the games or when the act brackets are released. It's now now. 338 00:23:03.599 --> 00:23:06.519 It seems that discussion has seemed to be been put on the back burner 339 00:23:06.559 --> 00:23:11.359 for the time being, but I think it probably comes raging back if we 340 00:23:11.440 --> 00:23:18.920 still have this playoff system in place in the future. My so, my 341 00:23:18.039 --> 00:23:22.480 nephew texts me asking who moments played, and at first he goes, is 342 00:23:22.480 --> 00:23:26.160 it an Aurora team? And I go no, And then he got excited 343 00:23:26.200 --> 00:23:27.759 because it wasn't an Aroa team. I thought, I'm not even sure who 344 00:23:27.799 --> 00:23:30.799 he thought it was gonna be. But then I told him role Foresight. 345 00:23:30.880 --> 00:23:33.720 He goes, is that good? I go no, But really, in 346 00:23:33.720 --> 00:23:37.200 too a North, there was never gonna be a good answer that I was 347 00:23:37.240 --> 00:23:40.000 going to give you, buddy, So yeah, there's there was no I 348 00:23:40.000 --> 00:23:42.920 mean, like if you said, if you said, if you offered a 349 00:23:42.960 --> 00:23:47.680 team to the opportunity to pick their poison here, I don't know if they're 350 00:23:47.680 --> 00:23:49.799 really getting a good choice, Like if you said here I'm going to give 351 00:23:49.799 --> 00:23:55.319 you these six teams you get to pick. I think you wrestle with it 352 00:23:55.359 --> 00:23:56.519 a little bit. And I don't think there's anyone on the list that you 353 00:23:56.559 --> 00:24:00.440 go, yeah, we got those guys. I mean, it's that's how 354 00:24:00.480 --> 00:24:03.119 deep it is. It's just, you know, I was kind of of 355 00:24:03.279 --> 00:24:07.519 the opinion that maybe biz Mark Kenny would pull off that upset and upset the 356 00:24:07.599 --> 00:24:11.079 you know, the apple cart a little bit here. They were close, 357 00:24:11.160 --> 00:24:14.799 but they weren't able to do that. But everybody else just kind of, 358 00:24:15.160 --> 00:24:18.119 you know, man handled their way into the next round moment struggled a little 359 00:24:18.119 --> 00:24:22.839 bit with Knoxville, but a really strong defensive effort from them. They're going 360 00:24:22.880 --> 00:24:26.599 to need that this week against Merriall Foresyth. Yeah, on the south side 361 00:24:26.640 --> 00:24:30.079 of the bracket. Our first what I would say, you know, Quincy 362 00:24:30.119 --> 00:24:33.359 Notre Dame, Arthur Lovington, what did you think that? Well? I 363 00:24:33.480 --> 00:24:37.319 kind of called that one. I kind of sensed that one might be coming. 364 00:24:37.759 --> 00:24:40.960 Yeah. I don't want I don't want to talk badly about Arthur's conference 365 00:24:41.039 --> 00:24:45.480 because I don't know that much about it. But I wasn't sure if if 366 00:24:45.519 --> 00:24:48.599 it had prepared these teams, you know, in the right way for the 367 00:24:48.599 --> 00:24:53.079 two way playoffs. I guess that's that's proving to be correct, as all 368 00:24:53.119 --> 00:24:56.880 of those teams did not advance out of the first round. But you could 369 00:24:56.960 --> 00:25:00.799 kind of sense that maybe that was going to be one of those sixteen to 370 00:25:00.880 --> 00:25:07.680 one games where the team might win. Quincy Notre Dame playing a very eclectic 371 00:25:07.759 --> 00:25:11.599 schedule, let's just say that open with a couple of Illinois teams and much 372 00:25:11.680 --> 00:25:17.400 larger classifications that kind of handed it to them, Yeah, including crosstown rival 373 00:25:17.480 --> 00:25:22.200 Quincy. A seven a school that advanced in the playoffs, played five games 374 00:25:22.200 --> 00:25:26.079 in the Missouri so getting a really good feel for them was hard. But 375 00:25:26.119 --> 00:25:30.279 you got the sense in this one that they were a little bit more prepared 376 00:25:30.400 --> 00:25:34.920 for the Riggers of the two A draw than Arthur. Was Nashville doing Nashville 377 00:25:34.920 --> 00:25:40.759 things, Suce. You know, I expected Nashville to win that game. 378 00:25:40.799 --> 00:25:42.880 I didn't expect him to win by that margin, But I don't know ninety 379 00:25:42.880 --> 00:25:47.440 seven. Yeah, I don't know what happened to Paint in the second half 380 00:25:47.480 --> 00:25:49.440 of the season. I don't know if it was injuries or what went on, 381 00:25:49.920 --> 00:25:52.920 but they seemed to be a much stronger team in the first half of 382 00:25:52.920 --> 00:25:57.519 the season, they kind of struggled down the back half. So when I 383 00:25:57.519 --> 00:26:00.599 didn't see the score, I I kind of went whoe for a second. 384 00:26:00.640 --> 00:26:03.720 But then I really started to think about it, and I'm like, going, 385 00:26:03.160 --> 00:26:06.960 that kind of fits with what we saw over the second half of the 386 00:26:07.039 --> 00:26:10.519 year. Let's go on to three A unless you've got anything else here, 387 00:26:10.960 --> 00:26:15.720 No, we're good, all right, let's do it. Seventy two points 388 00:26:15.720 --> 00:26:21.680 from Byron against the Chicago Public League team. Man, that's I don't even 389 00:26:21.680 --> 00:26:23.799 know what to say about that. Well, I will say this on the 390 00:26:23.799 --> 00:26:27.000 one comment about it. They passed the six hundred point mark on the season 391 00:26:27.559 --> 00:26:32.759 with that. With that point total from this week, I'm not sure any 392 00:26:32.799 --> 00:26:37.480 team has ever passed the six hundred point mark after ten games. Like, 393 00:26:37.680 --> 00:26:42.200 that's what we're talking about here, like a historic amount of offense. I 394 00:26:42.279 --> 00:26:47.440 mentioned it in today's column. But they are. They are within striking distance 395 00:26:47.480 --> 00:26:51.039 of the state record for points scored. If they were to run the table 396 00:26:51.079 --> 00:26:55.279 and get to the state championship game, it's within their sites so which is 397 00:26:55.440 --> 00:26:59.039 just over eight hundred points by Peoria, by the way, so they may 398 00:26:59.079 --> 00:27:03.960 have four more crack at it, so it'll be interesting to see if they 399 00:27:03.960 --> 00:27:07.279 can run that down because it's so it's it's not like you think about that 400 00:27:07.279 --> 00:27:11.279 with Peoria, like Peoria just running that insane wide open offense. It's not 401 00:27:11.319 --> 00:27:15.839 like Bayronett is out there slinging the ball around. You know, No, 402 00:27:15.400 --> 00:27:19.720 they probably have They probably have a dozen pass attempts on the season. Maybe, 403 00:27:19.799 --> 00:27:23.519 Yeah, it it's in. It's incredible how well they run that system. 404 00:27:23.599 --> 00:27:27.160 It just really is. It's just I mean, I've seen them live 405 00:27:27.359 --> 00:27:32.640 several times, and you know, it's it's similar to it's kind of similar 406 00:27:32.640 --> 00:27:34.880 to what Wilmington does. And it's the same argument that I've heard about Wilmington 407 00:27:34.920 --> 00:27:38.720 football for for so many years. You know what's coming, Why is it 408 00:27:38.880 --> 00:27:42.319 so hard to stop it? Well, it just is, guys. I 409 00:27:42.359 --> 00:27:45.880 guarantee if you went out there and tried it, it's it's not as easy 410 00:27:45.920 --> 00:27:51.920 as you think it is. And they run it so so well. Yeah, 411 00:27:52.079 --> 00:27:59.759 all right. Elsewhere in three A, we're looking at Son MoMu Roseville 412 00:27:59.799 --> 00:28:03.680 when thirty five fourteen over North Boon. I know you and I we've had 413 00:28:03.680 --> 00:28:07.119 some questions about those second level teams, second tier teams in the Big Northern 414 00:28:07.119 --> 00:28:11.920 Conference. Between that and Stillman Valley really struggling to get by that CPL team. 415 00:28:11.279 --> 00:28:14.559 I kind of had that one. I feel like that was confirmed for 416 00:28:14.680 --> 00:28:18.119 US. Yeah, I mean, and then look you look higher up on 417 00:28:18.160 --> 00:28:21.400 the bracket and I expected this too. Oregon US another team that lost in 418 00:28:21.440 --> 00:28:25.039 the three y of bracket kind of handily to a very good do Peck team. 419 00:28:25.039 --> 00:28:27.680 But we had talked, like you said, we mentioned it before, 420 00:28:27.839 --> 00:28:32.880 just that second tier, the big Northern not quite at the level that they 421 00:28:33.000 --> 00:28:37.799 usually are at this point. Everybody was chasing Byron like usual, but the 422 00:28:37.880 --> 00:28:42.640 gap was much wider than it usually is between Byron and the rest of the 423 00:28:42.640 --> 00:28:47.880 conference. It appears one of my favorite first round matchups in any class this 424 00:28:47.880 --> 00:28:52.799 weekend was Tolno Unity and Williamsville, two teams that were used to seeing playing 425 00:28:52.839 --> 00:28:56.559 state semifinals and state championship games. Tolno Unity thirty five to twenty one win 426 00:28:56.599 --> 00:29:03.119 over that over Williamsvild's. Yeah, and you look at that game, and 427 00:29:03.160 --> 00:29:06.920 obviously both of those two teams have a lot of postseason pedigree. We've seen 428 00:29:06.960 --> 00:29:10.480 them in three A finals, you know, as recently as just a couple 429 00:29:10.480 --> 00:29:14.160 of years ago. In both of those cases, so to see them on 430 00:29:14.279 --> 00:29:18.880 those lines in the in the first round, kind of telling a good week 431 00:29:18.960 --> 00:29:22.000 in general for the Alaini Prairie Conference. You can look down there you see 432 00:29:22.039 --> 00:29:26.279 Saint Joe Ogden with a victory to Lono Unity with a win, Bloomington Central 433 00:29:26.319 --> 00:29:32.599 Catholic winning in two A. So overall that was a good showing for that 434 00:29:32.680 --> 00:29:36.279 league, which I think, honestly is one of the better two way three 435 00:29:36.359 --> 00:29:38.640 A four A type of conferences in the state of Illinois. That doesn't get 436 00:29:38.640 --> 00:29:42.759 a lot of respect for that, but it's a it's a very deep league. 437 00:29:44.160 --> 00:29:47.799 I'm gonna keep us moving right along, sus because we are already past 438 00:29:47.880 --> 00:29:51.079 a half an hour. Thank you everyone who is joining us live on YouTube. 439 00:29:51.119 --> 00:29:55.440 You can give us a question or comment in the chat there. We 440 00:29:55.480 --> 00:29:57.720 will get to those as we can. Of course, please do subscribe to 441 00:29:57.720 --> 00:30:00.680 the channel and leave us a up. We appreciate if you can do that 442 00:30:00.759 --> 00:30:07.559 for us. Uh suits over here in Class four A, you know, 443 00:30:07.640 --> 00:30:12.279 one of the bigger surprises, I guess it is Saint Vider fourteen zero. 444 00:30:14.200 --> 00:30:17.640 You know, you know I was talking with Joe Steven said about this on 445 00:30:17.640 --> 00:30:22.200 on on Saturday watching Prairie Rige Naz and I mentioned it on the podcast couple 446 00:30:22.200 --> 00:30:25.839 of times that I was concerned with the RB offense. They had not fared 447 00:30:25.839 --> 00:30:30.400 well against you know, top competition this year, so I thought Saint Vider 448 00:30:30.480 --> 00:30:34.920 had a chance in this game. Still, I was frankly shocked to see 449 00:30:36.079 --> 00:30:41.640 RB shut out at home by Saint Vider. Yeah, I mean, after 450 00:30:41.680 --> 00:30:44.720 it's over, in hindsight, I was like, you know, maybe I 451 00:30:44.720 --> 00:30:48.079 should have sniffed that one out. You know, Saint Vider, you know, 452 00:30:48.319 --> 00:30:52.039 plays such a difficult schedule they have. They had what I classify as 453 00:30:52.160 --> 00:30:56.119 as kind of a signature win for that program over Montini, a team that 454 00:30:56.160 --> 00:31:00.200 I really like to do a lot of damage in the three A bracket. 455 00:31:00.720 --> 00:31:04.759 And you know, there were some signs that maybe but it's just so hard 456 00:31:06.160 --> 00:31:10.119 to I don't want to say right off Richmond Burton, but it's so hard 457 00:31:10.160 --> 00:31:15.759 to discount them just based on their track record. It's so very difficult to 458 00:31:15.799 --> 00:31:18.759 say, Okay, maybe this isn't where Richmond Burton has been in the past, 459 00:31:19.200 --> 00:31:22.440 and maybe pick an upstart like Saint via Er to win that game. 460 00:31:22.960 --> 00:31:27.160 But you could see some of those signs. But I never in a million 461 00:31:27.240 --> 00:31:30.440 years would have thought that they would have been shut out at home in this 462 00:31:30.559 --> 00:31:36.759 game. I just wouldn't have seen that coming. Yeah, I did not 463 00:31:36.960 --> 00:31:40.759 at all. Dixon, there's a big northern team, picks up a win 464 00:31:40.920 --> 00:31:45.599 over Plano. You know, this bracket for the most part, suits went 465 00:31:45.640 --> 00:31:48.559 as I expected. On the north side. I see Zachary down here in 466 00:31:48.599 --> 00:31:53.920 the comments. I can pop that over. Let's see here where I wanted 467 00:31:53.960 --> 00:31:56.960 to go. There it goes. Any thoughts on Keiwani Peoria Notre Dame. 468 00:31:56.960 --> 00:32:02.039 That's Peoria Notre Dame. The fourteen seeds picked up a twenty eight to thirteen 469 00:32:02.079 --> 00:32:07.960 win over number three Kiwani. This is one of those situations where you kind 470 00:32:07.960 --> 00:32:13.039 of look at it on paper and you wonder how the disparity in the two 471 00:32:13.079 --> 00:32:15.640 schedules is going to play out. Peorian Notre Dame playing in the Big twelve, 472 00:32:16.119 --> 00:32:21.200 you know, playing almost a schedule exclusively of five A, six A 473 00:32:21.279 --> 00:32:25.119 and seven A teams, and Kawani almost the polar opposite, you know, 474 00:32:25.200 --> 00:32:30.839 the big fish in you know, a pond of mostly smaller schools in the 475 00:32:30.880 --> 00:32:36.720 three rivers. Usually that will catch up with you in games like this, 476 00:32:36.799 --> 00:32:40.759 and I think that did a little bit here Pori Notre Dame solid but not 477 00:32:42.000 --> 00:32:46.160 spectacular football team did okay in the Big Twelve this year, beat who they 478 00:32:46.160 --> 00:32:50.920 should be, struggled against the better teams in the conference, which is to 479 00:32:50.960 --> 00:32:54.759 be kind of expected with that kind of enrollment disparity, so not really sure 480 00:32:55.200 --> 00:33:00.839 where they were at coming into this game. I wasn't Let's put it this 481 00:33:00.880 --> 00:33:02.839 way, I wasn't surprised when I saw the result. It was the way 482 00:33:02.839 --> 00:33:07.319 that I picked the game to go, and primarily because of those reasons. 483 00:33:07.960 --> 00:33:13.079 This is state Representative Steve Reich, and I'm happy to sponsor this year's Friday 484 00:33:13.160 --> 00:33:15.680 Night Drive. There'll be plenty of time for politics down the road, but 485 00:33:15.720 --> 00:33:20.759 for now, let's enjoy some high school football. Whichever school you follow, 486 00:33:21.119 --> 00:33:28.519 give him your support. All right, let's go down to Class five are 487 00:33:28.640 --> 00:33:31.440 Actually was there's something else I wanted to check on No. Five A. 488 00:33:31.839 --> 00:33:37.799 Suits we already hit on Nas Prairie Ridge, so we'll go ahead past that. 489 00:33:40.079 --> 00:33:44.680 Trying to scan here quickly, Saint Francis really put a hurting on Rochelle. 490 00:33:45.920 --> 00:33:47.519 I can't say I was too shocked, although I do want to say 491 00:33:47.519 --> 00:33:50.559 that was a really nice season for the Hub. That was a tough first 492 00:33:50.640 --> 00:33:53.400 round matchup. Yeah, it was a brutal draw, and they were kind 493 00:33:53.440 --> 00:33:58.920 of dancing between the four and five A brackets, and at one point in 494 00:33:58.920 --> 00:34:01.240 time, I was kind of feeling like maybe both Morris and Rochelle were going 495 00:34:01.279 --> 00:34:05.759 to end up in the four A bracket. And my immediate response was to 496 00:34:05.839 --> 00:34:10.400 that was that's gonna be a problem for the four A bracket because I thought 497 00:34:10.400 --> 00:34:14.079 both of those teams could make quite a bit of noise in the fur A 498 00:34:14.199 --> 00:34:17.519 bracket. I still think Morris is still going to be heard from deep in 499 00:34:17.559 --> 00:34:22.360 this five A bracket, But yeah, like you said, tough draw for 500 00:34:22.440 --> 00:34:25.280 them in the middle of the draws, especially considering some of the other first 501 00:34:25.400 --> 00:34:29.800 round draws in that north bracket. If it would have tweaked one way or 502 00:34:29.840 --> 00:34:32.000 another for Rochelle, they could have had a much more for two of this 503 00:34:32.159 --> 00:34:37.280 draw here than they ended up getting. Anthony Jones asked, biggest surprise scores 504 00:34:37.360 --> 00:34:42.000 in five A. I think that's certainly on the south side of the bracket, 505 00:34:42.039 --> 00:34:45.719 And I don't know. I don't know if I would say surprise scores. 506 00:34:45.719 --> 00:34:52.840 Maybe the Troy Triad that game Joliett Catholic over Peoria. I don't know. 507 00:34:52.920 --> 00:34:54.960 Sus did you how did you pick that game? Oh? I did 508 00:34:54.960 --> 00:34:59.880 pick Joy Catholic on thoughts of yeah, it was. It was kind of 509 00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:04.159 in a situation where I felt like, if push came to shove, joli 510 00:35:04.199 --> 00:35:08.039 At Catholic could just put the plow down and run behind their offensive line and 511 00:35:08.159 --> 00:35:13.199 move it effectively enough, I think. And once again, this is another 512 00:35:13.239 --> 00:35:16.840 situation where both teams had to play in it pretty steady rain for like almost 513 00:35:16.880 --> 00:35:22.400 the entire first half, and I think that limited Peoria more than it did 514 00:35:22.519 --> 00:35:27.039 Joliet Catholic. They weren't kind of able to throw it, maybe as much 515 00:35:27.079 --> 00:35:31.599 as they would have liked to. But that being said, Peoria needed to 516 00:35:31.599 --> 00:35:35.920 get some stops at some point in time, and they really didn't do that. 517 00:35:36.039 --> 00:35:38.920 Jolie Catholic was able to sustain drives. So no matter what Peoria would 518 00:35:38.920 --> 00:35:42.599 have been able to do offensively, eventually they were gonna have to get some 519 00:35:42.639 --> 00:35:47.719 stops and they really didn't do it. Providence over Morton. That surprised you 520 00:35:47.719 --> 00:35:52.320 at all, You know, I saw that game too, and I picked 521 00:35:52.360 --> 00:35:58.639 Providence. I didn't feel good about the pick at the time. It to 522 00:35:58.679 --> 00:36:02.440 be frank, it was a really leaf football game. An a ton of 523 00:36:02.480 --> 00:36:08.559 turnovers, a ton of penalties. The second half was one of the strangest 524 00:36:08.599 --> 00:36:13.920 situations I had ever seen. We went into halftime with Providence leading the game 525 00:36:13.960 --> 00:36:19.079 twenty one to fourteen. Nobody scored in the second half, but there was 526 00:36:19.239 --> 00:36:22.800 so much going on that like it felt like we were scoring, if that 527 00:36:22.840 --> 00:36:27.360 makes any sense. It was like Morton kept driving, driving, driving, 528 00:36:27.639 --> 00:36:30.119 Providence would pick off the pass or they you know, they'd make they'd make 529 00:36:30.119 --> 00:36:35.639 a play. You know, Providence's offense was struggling moving the ball, but 530 00:36:35.719 --> 00:36:37.840 they'd get it down to like the twenty and then something strange would happen, 531 00:36:38.239 --> 00:36:40.519 like it was. I mean, they went for it on fourth down and 532 00:36:40.599 --> 00:36:44.320 inches, they didn't get it. You know, Morton gets the ball back, 533 00:36:44.360 --> 00:36:45.880 they fumble it back to them. There's just so much stuff that was 534 00:36:46.199 --> 00:36:51.159 Is this going back and forth? Is this a game where the uh, 535 00:36:51.320 --> 00:36:54.559 I'm blanking the three interceptions, Yes, that's there, you go, thank 536 00:36:54.599 --> 00:36:58.679 you. Yeah, three interceptions, and he also had a pick on a 537 00:36:58.760 --> 00:37:04.079 two point conversion at ten. Yes. And he almost had another interception for 538 00:37:04.159 --> 00:37:07.159 what would have been the game tying score in the end zone that just went 539 00:37:07.199 --> 00:37:13.280 off his fingertips. So I mean actually had the potential to have four interceptions 540 00:37:13.320 --> 00:37:16.599 plus the two point pick, so I would have thought it. I would 541 00:37:16.639 --> 00:37:20.239 have thought at some point in time they would have said, hey, maybe 542 00:37:20.239 --> 00:37:23.239 we should stop throwing at this guy. But yeah, it was. It 543 00:37:23.280 --> 00:37:25.840 was. It was quite the effort, and I was I was actually surprised 544 00:37:25.840 --> 00:37:30.760 to learn after the game. I looked it up eight other guys had picked 545 00:37:30.800 --> 00:37:34.079 off three passes in a five A playoff game, so I fully expected that 546 00:37:34.159 --> 00:37:37.559 to be maybe a shared state record with one or two other guys, but 547 00:37:37.599 --> 00:37:40.679 it had happened eight other times in five A playoff games where someone had had 548 00:37:40.679 --> 00:37:45.880 three interceptions in one game. So, uh, just a really interesting game 549 00:37:45.960 --> 00:37:50.519 for him. And and uh, like I said, never, I don't 550 00:37:50.519 --> 00:37:52.400 know if I've ever seen a game that featured no points in the second half 551 00:37:52.400 --> 00:37:57.960 that was so interesting to watch from a I don't know what's going to happen 552 00:37:58.039 --> 00:38:05.800 next here, because just about everything did happen that could happen. Let's see 553 00:38:07.440 --> 00:38:10.519 anything else in five A. Now, I think that was that was about 554 00:38:10.519 --> 00:38:14.679 this about the way that I kind of expected that bracket to kind of play 555 00:38:14.719 --> 00:38:17.360 out for the for the most part, a little bit of hiccups in the 556 00:38:17.360 --> 00:38:21.679 South. Like like you mentioned, treads went over. Mohammed Seymour surprised me 557 00:38:22.159 --> 00:38:25.480 a little bit, but uh interesting, interesting that we're gonna get a more 558 00:38:25.559 --> 00:38:29.119 sacred Heart Griffin game in round two. But we'll talk about that later. 559 00:38:29.840 --> 00:38:32.679 Yeah. Absolutely, We'll be previewing the second round at eleven am on Thursday 560 00:38:32.760 --> 00:38:37.280 right here live on YouTube and Facebook. Uh looking at six a. Uh, 561 00:38:37.360 --> 00:38:40.280 you know, starting up in my neck for the words Fox Valley Conference 562 00:38:40.639 --> 00:38:45.599 Friday night. A couple of games there, Lake Zurch and christ Lake Central 563 00:38:45.639 --> 00:38:49.320 were tied seven to seven at halftime and into the you know, well into 564 00:38:49.360 --> 00:38:52.760 that third quarter of Lake Zurich. I was able to put that one away. 565 00:38:53.920 --> 00:38:57.719 It was a little surprised to see how long Central held into that game, 566 00:38:57.719 --> 00:39:01.039 particularly because they were about their starting quarterback Jason and then Kerry Grove. 567 00:39:01.159 --> 00:39:05.679 I expected Kerry Grove to win, and I expected Kerry Grove to win by 568 00:39:05.840 --> 00:39:08.400 several touchdowns. But they, I mean, they really put a hurting on 569 00:39:08.480 --> 00:39:13.239 Libertyville. You know, I'm feeling pretty good about the Trojans here in the 570 00:39:13.239 --> 00:39:15.559 postseason after the scene and the way they played there. Yeah, that was 571 00:39:15.599 --> 00:39:20.159 the game that I wasn't quite sure what to make of I favored Kerry Grove, 572 00:39:20.239 --> 00:39:22.159 but like you said, didn't expect them to kind of take the margin 573 00:39:22.239 --> 00:39:27.159 that they did. And I really felt like, if if this game went 574 00:39:27.239 --> 00:39:30.559 their way, second round looks favorable for them, then you get into, 575 00:39:30.880 --> 00:39:34.559 you know, a potential quarterfinal round, and when you're at that point, 576 00:39:34.599 --> 00:39:37.840 you expect to see good football teams. But I felt like this bracket opened 577 00:39:37.920 --> 00:39:39.480 up pretty nice for Kerry Grove if they could get on a little bit of 578 00:39:39.480 --> 00:39:43.480 a role. Yeah, I'm feeling good about the Trojans that I said. 579 00:39:44.440 --> 00:39:50.079 You know, after the way the first round played out, I think they're 580 00:39:50.119 --> 00:39:53.679 the favorite in six s A North. So yeah, I can see that 581 00:39:53.840 --> 00:39:58.519 argument. I mean when I'm looking at it now and seeing how Lake Zurich 582 00:39:58.599 --> 00:40:01.360 kind of struggled in that game. Yeah, I'm really interested to see how 583 00:40:01.400 --> 00:40:06.599 the second round game plays out for them. And I wasn't really convinced that 584 00:40:06.599 --> 00:40:10.719 that was going to be as questionable in my mind as it is now. 585 00:40:12.000 --> 00:40:15.840 Ye Like when we started the playoff situation, I agree. On the south 586 00:40:15.880 --> 00:40:22.679 side of the bracket, the top seeds held Serve Blue Island Eisenhower with a 587 00:40:22.719 --> 00:40:28.079 double overtime game there against dunlap suits anything interesting. You know that that was 588 00:40:28.119 --> 00:40:30.880 a game that from what I was picking up on, was kind of a 589 00:40:30.880 --> 00:40:36.559 wild one on Friday night. And and Eisenhower does have a pretty significant weapon 590 00:40:36.639 --> 00:40:40.360 and Andre Lovett who is kind of a do everything guy for them, and 591 00:40:40.760 --> 00:40:46.039 he made the difference I think ultimately in that game. But big challenge awaiting 592 00:40:46.079 --> 00:40:50.599 them in the next round. So a nice win for Blue Island Eyes an 593 00:40:50.599 --> 00:40:54.079 hour. I believe it's the first for that coaching staff in several years there. 594 00:40:54.360 --> 00:40:59.599 But they've been building that program up from the point where it was pretty 595 00:40:59.639 --> 00:41:02.760 much the bottom depths of the conference that they're in and now they're a consistent 596 00:41:02.800 --> 00:41:07.519 playoff qualifier and nice to see them have a little success. All right, 597 00:41:07.639 --> 00:41:12.960 let's go over to Class seven A. We talked about Bradley Bourbone there with 598 00:41:13.000 --> 00:41:16.239 a nice win over Saint Charles North you know, glen Bard East, Uh, 599 00:41:16.440 --> 00:41:21.199 glen Bard East with they win and then Glynbard South one and eight A 600 00:41:21.280 --> 00:41:27.559 didn't they uh they're at five A yeah they yeah, oh yeah, they 601 00:41:27.599 --> 00:41:35.800 went. Yeah. Yeah. Nice weekend there for for the upstate eight Yeah, 602 00:41:36.239 --> 00:41:38.480 you know, definitely South Elgian winning an eight A as well. Yeah, 603 00:41:38.559 --> 00:41:42.280 you know, you know, they picked up some wins there. The 604 00:41:42.280 --> 00:41:45.079 the other schools that qualified from the conference more and more in the vein of 605 00:41:45.760 --> 00:41:50.840 UH kind of happy to be there type of situation with East Aurora and UH 606 00:41:50.880 --> 00:41:55.239 West Chicago. But the big three in that league did work this weekend, 607 00:41:55.360 --> 00:41:59.440 so advancing into the next round, and it's it's probably been a while. 608 00:41:59.480 --> 00:42:02.360 I'd have to look since the Upstate eight has had three teams moving into the 609 00:42:02.360 --> 00:42:08.760 second round. Let's see, well, Batavia, I there's another one. 610 00:42:08.880 --> 00:42:12.960 I expected Batavia to win the game against Brother Rice. I did not expect 611 00:42:13.000 --> 00:42:15.679 it to be forty six to zero. It was a weekend where, for 612 00:42:15.719 --> 00:42:21.239 the most part, I didn't really have any strong reactions to what was going 613 00:42:21.239 --> 00:42:24.119 on in any games. I had a strong reaction when I saw what was 614 00:42:24.159 --> 00:42:28.960 going on in that Batavia Brother Rice game early on, trying to dodge the 615 00:42:29.039 --> 00:42:32.480 rain drops as I was following, you know, the results of the games 616 00:42:32.519 --> 00:42:36.159 on Friday night, I'm like, WHOA hold on a minute. I mean, 617 00:42:36.599 --> 00:42:38.639 I did expect Batavia to win that football game. I expected it to 618 00:42:38.639 --> 00:42:45.239 be a much larger fight. And now now I'm of the opinion that whoever 619 00:42:45.400 --> 00:42:47.840 gets in Batavia's path better or strap it up, because not that I didn't 620 00:42:47.840 --> 00:42:52.519 think they were a threat to do some major damage in this bracket before, 621 00:42:52.599 --> 00:42:58.320 but it appears this team is firing on absolutely all cylinders right now. I'm 622 00:42:58.360 --> 00:43:02.480 going to apologize to Willebroo. I overlooked Willibrook all season long. I picked 623 00:43:02.480 --> 00:43:06.519 them to lose against Yorkville, came out and played a really good game, 624 00:43:06.519 --> 00:43:09.639 picked up a twenty one to thirteen wins. Is I didn't expect it. 625 00:43:09.639 --> 00:43:15.960 It's Willowbrook is really really tricky to try to figure out based on the results 626 00:43:15.960 --> 00:43:19.199 of their season, and this has been this way for a while. If 627 00:43:19.199 --> 00:43:22.800 you go back, and sometimes this doesn't mean a lot, but Willowbrook has 628 00:43:23.239 --> 00:43:29.239 had one of the smallest playoff point totals in the state for any team of 629 00:43:29.280 --> 00:43:32.800 any record. They simply haven't played that many teams this year of quality, 630 00:43:34.360 --> 00:43:38.719 so it makes them a very very hard read heading into a postseason. In 631 00:43:38.840 --> 00:43:42.960 past years, you kind of would give them the benefit of the doubt. 632 00:43:43.039 --> 00:43:45.599 They've made some deep runs when they were backward, when they were in six 633 00:43:45.679 --> 00:43:52.320 A, made the semifinal round a couple of times, and you kind of 634 00:43:52.320 --> 00:43:54.360 said, well, it's the playoff time that schedule doesn't matter. They've done 635 00:43:54.400 --> 00:43:57.639 it, and they've done it before. Well, they kind of took a 636 00:43:57.679 --> 00:44:00.880 little bit of a step back, so you're wondering if that's still held. 637 00:44:00.800 --> 00:44:05.639 There were just some, you know, some lateral concerns with Willowbrook heading into 638 00:44:05.639 --> 00:44:08.159 this game. I too picked Yorkville. I thought I thought Yorkville had been 639 00:44:08.199 --> 00:44:12.760 better battle tested for this game and had the kind of defense that you would 640 00:44:12.800 --> 00:44:15.440 want in this game. So I kind of overlooked them too in this situation. 641 00:44:15.639 --> 00:44:21.159 So and now looking ahead, I kind of think they have a little 642 00:44:21.159 --> 00:44:23.079 bit better shot that round two game than maybe I would have initially thought. 643 00:44:24.599 --> 00:44:29.199 Alex says, how about colin Fille, big win for them, twenty eight 644 00:44:29.280 --> 00:44:31.880 seed. I'll tell you what, Alex, I I'm not surprised about that 645 00:44:31.920 --> 00:44:36.719 at all. I actually picked collum Field to win the game. Yeah. 646 00:44:36.920 --> 00:44:40.599 Yeah, that's That's no disrespect to Main and West. It's just they, 647 00:44:40.639 --> 00:44:44.840 I mean, they have not done much postseason wise, and their their school 648 00:44:44.920 --> 00:44:46.320 history. I look at the conference, I just you know, and I 649 00:44:46.400 --> 00:44:52.719 like Collinsville. Actually that's a pretty solid program. So yeah, Collinsville, 650 00:44:52.760 --> 00:44:54.599 you know, plays that independent schedule, plays a lot of a lot of 651 00:44:54.599 --> 00:45:00.239 the smaller mid range teams in southern Illinois because it's really the only teams that 652 00:45:00.239 --> 00:45:05.599 they can get to schedule them in that situation, but usually does pretty well. 653 00:45:06.559 --> 00:45:09.480 It is a program that has come on fast because if you go back 654 00:45:09.519 --> 00:45:14.880 four or five years, there wasn't much to talk about in Collinsville Football lands. 655 00:45:14.920 --> 00:45:20.480 So nope, they have definitely a massive turnaround there. An interesting team 656 00:45:21.360 --> 00:45:23.280 and the kind of team that I think you go in as kind of a 657 00:45:23.320 --> 00:45:28.880 wild card in this postseason and they teach you real quick that they're they're ready 658 00:45:28.880 --> 00:45:32.280 to be here. Noah Battle put in some work for downers Grove North against 659 00:45:32.320 --> 00:45:37.400 Kenwood. Now downards Grove North a forty two thirteen winner over Kenwood. There. 660 00:45:37.880 --> 00:45:42.559 You know, we've talked about how wide open this bracket feels. SEUs 661 00:45:43.440 --> 00:45:47.159 on that north side or on the upper side of the bracket really kind of 662 00:45:47.199 --> 00:45:52.079 feeling that way after the first round. Still yeah, I think So, 663 00:45:52.679 --> 00:45:54.480 you know, there are a lot of teams in here that I think are 664 00:45:54.840 --> 00:46:00.960 good football teams yep, but haven't really shown me that there. I guess 665 00:46:01.079 --> 00:46:07.400 great football teams they might be, but I just haven't seen full evidence of 666 00:46:07.440 --> 00:46:10.159 that yet. So I think a lot of teams are gonna have an opportunity 667 00:46:10.239 --> 00:46:15.320 to uh, you know, basically put up or shut up in the second 668 00:46:15.400 --> 00:46:20.440 round in regards to, you know, their futures anything else. In seven 669 00:46:20.440 --> 00:46:23.360 AM, you know, I think that it was it was an interesting bracket. 670 00:46:23.360 --> 00:46:25.920 I was really kind of looking at and we didn't talk about this very 671 00:46:25.960 --> 00:46:29.800 much, but I was really kind of looking at how that middle of that 672 00:46:29.920 --> 00:46:34.360 draw bared it out because we had that weird situation where there was that I 673 00:46:34.400 --> 00:46:38.239 brought up last week about the double forfeit, and some of these matchups weren't 674 00:46:38.320 --> 00:46:43.880 actually supposed to be the matchups that they were, So I was kind of 675 00:46:43.880 --> 00:46:46.599 glad to see the upper seeds were able to kind of advance in that fourteen 676 00:46:46.639 --> 00:46:52.320 fifteen, sixteen seventeen range because they actually weren't playing the opponents that they probably 677 00:46:52.320 --> 00:46:57.079 should have played in the first round. So uh so, you know, 678 00:46:57.159 --> 00:47:00.480 seeing those teams all move along, I guess justices served in the long term, 679 00:47:00.599 --> 00:47:04.320 so uh, you know, good for them and getting it done. 680 00:47:04.320 --> 00:47:07.960 But I think seven A is the most intriguing bracket other than having Mount Carmel 681 00:47:08.039 --> 00:47:13.639 on the top line and feeling like they're the favorite. Beyond that, I 682 00:47:13.960 --> 00:47:15.920 think it's it could be open season. We could have a crazy week two 683 00:47:15.920 --> 00:47:21.119 and seven A bracket, all right, one more to go, suss Class 684 00:47:21.199 --> 00:47:25.679 eight A. What do you think here? Where do you want to start? 685 00:47:27.280 --> 00:47:30.519 You know, this was you look at it after the fact. So 686 00:47:31.000 --> 00:47:37.000 few underseeds were able to actually pull off the win. And when I looked 687 00:47:37.079 --> 00:47:42.480 in this bracket beforehand, I want to say I probably had maybe six or 688 00:47:42.599 --> 00:47:46.599 seven of them that I felt like at least had a chance to pull off 689 00:47:46.599 --> 00:47:51.840 that win. And in reality, that was not the way it played out. 690 00:47:51.960 --> 00:47:54.800 I mean, we had a lot of wide margins in the first first 691 00:47:54.920 --> 00:48:00.400 round. There were very few what I would consider to be close in here, 692 00:48:00.920 --> 00:48:04.559 and some of them were just, you know, to be frank, 693 00:48:04.599 --> 00:48:08.760 flat out routes. So you know, that's that's strange from the ad A 694 00:48:08.880 --> 00:48:15.679 bracket because usually there's a depth to it that almost requires that we have four 695 00:48:15.760 --> 00:48:17.679 or five first round games that come down to the wire. I mean, 696 00:48:17.760 --> 00:48:22.400 yeah, usually you're talking. I mean we you know that this bracket is 697 00:48:22.440 --> 00:48:27.000 twenty seven to twenty eight teams deep. We feel and to see this few 698 00:48:27.239 --> 00:48:31.480 teams on the you know, from the lower seeds advant in the second round 699 00:48:31.559 --> 00:48:37.639 is is jacking in probably pretty unheard of. Actually yeah, I mean I'd 700 00:48:37.679 --> 00:48:39.840 have to go back and look, but I mean, I can't remember the 701 00:48:39.920 --> 00:48:45.480 last time we only had, you know, two teams from the bottom half 702 00:48:45.480 --> 00:48:49.920 of the draw winning games. And to be honest with you, those two 703 00:48:50.000 --> 00:48:52.679 games were kind of games that I thought were going to go that way, 704 00:48:53.119 --> 00:48:57.000 right, So, so I mean it was like, I felt like sant 705 00:48:57.000 --> 00:49:00.599 Ignatius was the favorite in that Joliette West game and while Lions Stevenson was kind 706 00:49:00.639 --> 00:49:02.760 of a toss up. In my mind, I did pick Lions. So 707 00:49:04.880 --> 00:49:07.519 you know, it was, like I said, there's usually one or two 708 00:49:07.559 --> 00:49:12.400 teams that just kind of rise up out of this bracket and are like, 709 00:49:12.440 --> 00:49:14.519 hey, we're gonna hang around a little while. We don't care if our 710 00:49:14.519 --> 00:49:16.760 seeds twenty four. And that may still happen with the two that are remaining, 711 00:49:16.960 --> 00:49:21.239 but usually we have more options to choose from on that list. He 712 00:49:21.360 --> 00:49:23.639 is Steve Seussie. I am Kyle Nabors. You are watching live with Friday 713 00:49:23.719 --> 00:49:28.039 Night Drive. We are recapping the first round the playoffs. We're gonna be 714 00:49:28.039 --> 00:49:30.280 here for just a couple more minutes, so if you have any more question 715 00:49:30.360 --> 00:49:31.920 to comment for us, get those into the chat right now if you're watching 716 00:49:31.960 --> 00:49:37.039 on YouTube or Facebook, sus, I'm gonna go to you for now, 717 00:49:37.079 --> 00:49:38.480 though, you know, kind of just give us a little bull on this 718 00:49:38.559 --> 00:49:44.119 first round. Man. You know, it's one of those weird years where 719 00:49:44.119 --> 00:49:47.400 we you know, had a lot of teams pretty much do what we thought 720 00:49:47.400 --> 00:49:52.280 they were gonna do. I mean, that's there always seems to be in 721 00:49:52.360 --> 00:49:55.880 this especially in this first week. You know, five or six games where 722 00:49:55.880 --> 00:49:59.639 we're like, hey, look at these guys. Didn't know that was gonna 723 00:49:59.639 --> 00:50:04.719 happen, and we're not having that conversation this year. I mean we're having 724 00:50:04.760 --> 00:50:09.320 There were some conversation pieces, but like they were Prairie Ridge Nazareth and that 725 00:50:09.440 --> 00:50:13.800 was a conversation piece before the ball was ever kicked off. Yeah, it 726 00:50:13.840 --> 00:50:15.840 wasn't like we were waiting, you know, we were waiting to see the 727 00:50:15.880 --> 00:50:20.280 result and then we had this big blow up conversation about it. This was 728 00:50:20.360 --> 00:50:23.199 expected. So there was a lot of those games out there that I thought 729 00:50:23.239 --> 00:50:28.840 were interesting first round matchups. They proved to be, but most of it 730 00:50:29.000 --> 00:50:35.119 was favorites acting like favorites and moving on to the second round. So history 731 00:50:35.159 --> 00:50:40.119 shows that that's not going to last. So I'm very very interested in what 732 00:50:40.320 --> 00:50:44.000 happens in the second round since we didn't get much of it, much of 733 00:50:44.039 --> 00:50:46.280 it at all in the first round. Where's it going to come from? 734 00:50:46.800 --> 00:50:52.679 Who? Who's going to do that? Because very very chalky first round in 735 00:50:52.719 --> 00:50:57.400 regards to you know what, we got what we were expecting. Yeah, 736 00:50:57.599 --> 00:51:00.920 it really was. But make sure you stick to Friday Night Drive dot Com 737 00:51:00.039 --> 00:51:02.639 all week long and we get ready for that second round. A couple more 738 00:51:02.679 --> 00:51:07.000 comments coming in here. Let's see here, Fred Truss, I didn't see 739 00:51:07.000 --> 00:51:09.639 too many surprises. Were you guys were surprised with any of the results. 740 00:51:09.639 --> 00:51:14.719 I think we just hit on that. Thanks Fred. Benji says Caitlin. 741 00:51:16.000 --> 00:51:20.480 Is there a specific question about what about Caitlin? I think he had asked 742 00:51:20.519 --> 00:51:23.840 earlier. We hit on Kyane Lit a little earlier. Let's see, they 743 00:51:23.840 --> 00:51:30.000 had the fifty six win over fifty six to twenty win over Riverside Brookfield. 744 00:51:30.039 --> 00:51:32.280 You know, they played really well, I think, as we said earlier, 745 00:51:32.280 --> 00:51:37.840 so it's like between that the way they played and Lake Zeric struggling a 746 00:51:37.840 --> 00:51:40.079 bit with Crystal Lake Central. I think we both feel like this is an 747 00:51:40.159 --> 00:51:45.039 interesting matchup in the second round. Well, you just look at what Caitlin's 748 00:51:45.039 --> 00:51:49.320 schedule is, who they lost to. They're not your typical six and three 749 00:51:49.320 --> 00:51:52.559 team. We knew that going in this was a win that I expected them 750 00:51:52.599 --> 00:51:55.239 to get, you know, and now moving into this next round, Like 751 00:51:55.280 --> 00:52:00.679 you just mentioned, I looked at this bracket beforehand. My initial I raised 752 00:52:00.679 --> 00:52:05.960 a little bit eyebrow at a potential Caitlin Lakesert game, feeling like the Exert 753 00:52:05.960 --> 00:52:08.639 would still be a pretty strong favorite. Not sure I feel that way anymore. 754 00:52:08.760 --> 00:52:12.079 I feel like this is a little bit closer to a fifty to fifty 755 00:52:12.079 --> 00:52:15.880 game in the second round than I would have originally anticipated. All right, 756 00:52:15.920 --> 00:52:17.639 guys, we got to run for Steve Seussie. I am Kyle Naghbors. 757 00:52:17.679 --> 00:52:22.199 Thank you everyone who joined us live this morning. Come back with us on 758 00:52:22.320 --> 00:52:25.199 Thursday morning to be sus and I along with Joe Stevenson and Michael Duojack. 759 00:52:25.239 --> 00:52:30.079 You can also get the Friday Night Drive podcast for the Illinois Valley edition that 760 00:52:30.119 --> 00:52:32.639 I'll be coming with JT. Penalty and Eddie Carriffio. For now, we're 761 00:52:32.679 --> 00:52:35.679 going to go ahead and sign off. Thank you once again. Everyone. 762 00:52:35.719 --> 00:52:40.800 We'll talk to you guys later. Schwiker Gannison Krazak Rundio proudly sponsors the Friday 763 00:52:40.840 --> 00:52:44.800 Night Drive. I'm Mike Krizak. If you've been injured, we are ready 764 00:52:44.840 --> 00:52:46.800 to take on the insurance company and get you to the end zone. We've 765 00:52:46.840 --> 00:52:51.519 recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for our clients. Visit the g A N 766 00:52:51.639 --> 00:52:52.480 A S s I N dot com