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Speaker 4: All right, welcome into another week as we review week
Speaker 4: number two Friday Night Drive here on Shaw Local and
Speaker 4: Steve Susi's with me. I'm Matt Rudiwald. Good to see pal.
Speaker 5: Hey, how we doing.
Speaker 4: I'm doing all right. Let's get right into it. It's
Speaker 4: been an interesting weekend as we've learned quite a bit
Speaker 4: about what's going on around the state of Illinois. And
Speaker 4: let's start with just some of the surprises. The teams
Speaker 4: have come out unscathed a little bit, and I think
Speaker 4: the first one you think of all the things that
Speaker 4: happened this weekend, it's hard to ignore the friend Vikings
Speaker 4: and how that they're two to zero. Johnny O'Brien, Johnny
Speaker 4: on the spot off to the kind of start you
Speaker 4: expect the guy who is a Division one quarterback to have.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, we've talked about it a lot in
Speaker 5: terms of what the Mid the Mid Suburban West Conference
Speaker 5: looks like right now, and you kind of gotten used
Speaker 5: to kind of the pecking order of that league and
Speaker 5: this this year, it doesn't look like you can count
Speaker 5: on almost anything. I mean, we have four undefeated teams
Speaker 5: in that conference. One of them is Fremmed, one of
Speaker 5: them is Schomberg, which is another team in that conference
Speaker 5: that has kind of found itself at the bottom of
Speaker 5: that league. So very interesting when you look at and
Speaker 5: then the grand scheme of things that you have, you know,
Speaker 5: five teams in this in you know, five or maybe
Speaker 5: even all six teams in this league that can make
Speaker 5: a push at the playoffs. It's gonna be hard for
Speaker 5: Conan now sitting at zero to two, But you also
Speaker 5: have to consider the fact that Conan already has fifteen
Speaker 5: playoff points, so obviously they played some people in the
Speaker 5: non conference schedule too, so they might be able to
Speaker 5: factor into the Knicks as well. So it looks like
Speaker 5: that league is going to be a league full of
Speaker 5: mayhem this year. And Fremed and once again Schomberg are
Speaker 5: two teams that have found themselves at the bottom of
Speaker 5: the conference for the last couple of years, look like
Speaker 5: they're ready to try to climb a few runs.
Speaker 4: I think we're going to spend a lot of time
Speaker 4: talking about Fremd over the course of the next couple
Speaker 4: of weeks, so I want to spend some moment. I
Speaker 4: want to spend a moment on the Saxons and what
Speaker 4: are people telling you about what's working for Chambering, why
Speaker 4: they're too and oh, what's changed for them? What's worked
Speaker 4: for them both offensively defensively that you can tell so far,
Speaker 4: as far as I can tell, just based on the
Speaker 4: limited information that I have on that, it looks like
Speaker 4: they're playing some pretty good defense because I.
Speaker 5: Mean, holding an Antioch program to seven points in the
Speaker 5: opening week of the season, and that Antioch team historically
Speaker 5: is a high scoring, prolific offense. I know they've got
Speaker 5: some changes that they had to make, but it definitely
Speaker 5: seems like right now, and you know the fact that
Speaker 5: that probably gave them significant amount of amounts of confidence
Speaker 5: because they roll into that Week two game against Elk Grove,
Speaker 5: they squeak that win out and you know, in past years,
Speaker 5: maybe this was a program that would have said maybe
Speaker 5: would have folded up in a close game because they
Speaker 5: had the confidence bursting that they could get it done
Speaker 5: against a good opponent. They were able to finish off
Speaker 5: that win and nip out Grove by a point. So
Speaker 5: now they got into Week three at two and oh
Speaker 5: against the Niles North program that frankly is struggling a bit,
Speaker 5: follow that up with a Niles West program that also
Speaker 5: is not really playing all that well right now and
Speaker 5: historically hasn't been that strong. I mean, there's a real
Speaker 5: conceivable opportunity for Schomberg to go into the conference schedule
Speaker 5: at four and oh, which is something you wouldn't really
Speaker 5: have bet on at all as a possibility heading into
Speaker 5: the year.
Speaker 4: And if you look deeper into that schedule, Palatine a
Speaker 4: weights Okay, so maybe we check that as but you
Speaker 4: got Conan on the other side of that, and then
Speaker 4: heading into the onslaught that is Barrington and Fremed and
Speaker 4: back to back weeks, you could be looking at a
Speaker 4: five and one team and you know, at two and zero,
Speaker 4: it's one thing to have that confidence that, Okay, we
Speaker 4: got things going. When you're talking about it as you
Speaker 4: leak into October at five and one, that's a very
Speaker 4: different type of confidence we're talking about for a team
Speaker 4: like the Saxons that hasn't been in the postseason in
Speaker 4: quite a while. I hadn't had a winning season in
Speaker 4: a long time.
Speaker 5: Yeah, And it's one of those things. Momentum I think
Speaker 5: in high school football is almost more important at that
Speaker 5: level than almost any other one. Like, if you start
Speaker 5: to get that belief, I mean, let's be honest, you
Speaker 5: don't often really know who you're lining up against on
Speaker 5: the other side. So the fact that you believe, hey,
Speaker 5: we can beat anybody we play, you might not know better,
Speaker 5: like to be completely honest with you, that the guy
Speaker 5: on the other side of you is absolutely loaded. I mean,
Speaker 5: it's it's definitely a situation where that confidence can snowball.
Speaker 5: And that's why you honestly see a lot of the
Speaker 5: same teams repeating over and over and over again because
Speaker 5: they have that belief in their program and their systems.
Speaker 5: Hey we did this last year, why can't we do
Speaker 5: it again?
Speaker 4: So one more. Yeah, and one more thing with the
Speaker 4: mid suburban West, just because you want to circle week
Speaker 4: number six is Barrington at FREMD. That's a road game
Speaker 4: in that rivalry, and point the rivalry is going to
Speaker 4: be back this year.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it certainly does look like that. And and Barrington's
Speaker 5: off to an exceptional start one hundred and five points
Speaker 5: through two games, so obviously they've got that offense clicking.
Speaker 5: So that should be an interesting kind of contrasting styles
Speaker 5: because fronts played really good defense so far.
Speaker 4: You and I spent some time on Friday night talking
Speaker 4: about some of the teams that it's nice to see
Speaker 4: in the next and we talked a little bit about
Speaker 4: a Chamberg. But let's go deeper than that. Let's start
Speaker 4: with a Fenton team that's hadn't been in the postseason
Speaker 4: since twenty thirteen, and of course a ten game losing
Speaker 4: Street coming in. They're two to zero, and I think
Speaker 4: they're the perfect reason why the Upstate eight needed to
Speaker 4: get out of their schedule, out of their locked schedule,
Speaker 4: so they can go get some team, to get some
Speaker 4: confidence to build some programs in that conference.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's definitely an interesting situation when you look at
Speaker 5: the Upstate eight, particularly in the East Division with Fenton
Speaker 5: at two and oh, there's a couple of other programs
Speaker 5: in that division that I feel like they can still
Speaker 5: compete with. So getting out of the box at two
Speaker 5: and oh and then going into league play. You know,
Speaker 5: there are a few teams in there that I don't
Speaker 5: think that they're quite ready to clear that hurdle, Glenbard
Speaker 5: East and Glenbard's South, for example, But the other ones,
Speaker 5: it's it's kind of wide open in there. I know
Speaker 5: West Chicago had a resurgence season last year getting themselves
Speaker 5: into the playoffs, but other than that, I mean Riverside
Speaker 5: Brookfield's kind of a wild card. They haven't been with
Speaker 5: these teams in a while. But there's some teams in there,
Speaker 5: Like I said, they can I think that they can
Speaker 5: get it. They have the momentum right now and they
Speaker 5: can get it moving in maybe maybe get themselves into
Speaker 5: the mix where they've got a shot at maybe claiming
Speaker 5: one of those playoffs first.
Speaker 4: I think it's safe to say, with the exception of
Speaker 4: maybe two or three programs in that whole up State eight,
Speaker 4: that sustaining program numbers and commitment to the program is
Speaker 4: the hardest part. And so when you're looking at a
Speaker 4: team like East Aurora who made the playoffs, can they
Speaker 4: do it again? I don't know. Can Fenton do it
Speaker 4: for the first time in a while. Can teams like
Speaker 4: Elmwood Park or Ridgewood sustain it for a little while.
Speaker 4: That's why Riverside Brookfield has been so good for so long,
Speaker 4: That's why West Aurora might have some success here, and
Speaker 4: that's why Bombard East and South Belgium have been dominating
Speaker 4: the LEA for the last couple of years.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's definitely kind of chaos. And then you look
Speaker 5: at the other side over there, Like you mentioned, West
Speaker 5: Aroor is off to a nice start at two and zero.
Speaker 5: Haven't played the strongest opponents yet, so you don't really
Speaker 5: know how good they are. But they have some talented players.
Speaker 5: They're in good shape. But every other team in the
Speaker 5: West Division is owing too right now. So some teams
Speaker 5: are going to have to, you know, gain gain momentumy
Speaker 5: proxy once we get into the conference play because somebody's
Speaker 5: got to win those games. So maybe somebody gets a
Speaker 5: little fire lit under them and gets going there. But
Speaker 5: I think in the long run, this was a good
Speaker 5: thing for the Upstate eight kind of breaking this up
Speaker 5: and giving these teams an opportunity to go out and
Speaker 5: play the non conference games, hopefully against some opponents that
Speaker 5: they can compete with. So maybe they have a little
Speaker 5: bit of momentum going in there instead of in the
Speaker 5: past when you get some of these teams at the
Speaker 5: bottom of the division, they'd run into the powerhouses at
Speaker 5: the beginning, they'd already dug themselves a hole, and then
Speaker 5: it would just it would escalate downward.
Speaker 4: Before we move on here and bring in a friend
Speaker 4: of ours. And momentarily I want to talk about South
Speaker 4: Belgian and having seen them in person against Batavia and
Speaker 4: we talked about them at the beginning of the season.
Speaker 4: They scheduled up a little bit, they had Barrington and
Speaker 4: they got a sixty four burger put on them, and
Speaker 4: then they found themselves of Batavia down forty two to
Speaker 4: nothing at halftime. I think this is a very important
Speaker 4: week for that program to understand, Hey, if this is
Speaker 4: what you want to do and play with the big boys,
Speaker 4: you're gonna have to come play, you know, for forty
Speaker 4: eight minutes the whole time around. And so there weren't
Speaker 4: a lot of downheads there weren't a lot of There
Speaker 4: is natural frustration that you'd see the football team that's
Speaker 4: down forty two to nothing in the first half, but
Speaker 4: there wasn't any screaming and yelling or anything like that.
Speaker 4: It was more trying to sort things out. So be
Speaker 4: very curious to see how South Elgin moves on from
Speaker 4: two devastating defeats in a non conference format that they're
Speaker 4: not used to.
Speaker 5: Well, I mean, it was something that I felt like
Speaker 5: this program had to do if they were going to
Speaker 5: be able to compete. You know, they have won a
Speaker 5: playoff game or two over the last couple of years,
Speaker 5: but for years before that, they would roll through the conference.
Speaker 5: They'd pile up these amazing numbers, they'd go nine to
Speaker 5: oh and then they'd get beat in the first round
Speaker 5: of the playoffs. So this is this is a this
Speaker 5: is a training ground. This is an opportunity to say, hey,
Speaker 5: we're not there yet, what do we have to do
Speaker 5: to get there? And now they get into that schedule
Speaker 5: where there's a couple of games in there where I
Speaker 5: think that you know, South Elgin will be pushed a
Speaker 5: little bit, but there's quite a few of them that
Speaker 5: are not. So they can take the opportunity to kind
Speaker 5: of make some adjustments, figure out what they need to
Speaker 5: do to get to the level that they want to be.
Speaker 5: So at the end of the season, they're not going
Speaker 5: to be nine to o they have been seemingly for
Speaker 5: multiple years. Now they're gonna They're gonna the best they
Speaker 5: can end up now a seven and two. Maybe they
Speaker 5: end up at six and three, You never know, but
Speaker 5: you know, I still see this as probably based on
Speaker 5: where they've been and some of the other teams that
Speaker 5: they have left on their schedule, I still see them
Speaker 5: as a playoff team. But I think this will be
Speaker 5: a much more battle tested playoff team, even if it's
Speaker 5: seated a lot lower than it's been in the past.
Speaker 4: To be fair, they're facing two of the best quarterback
Speaker 4: receiver combinations that we've seen across the state of Illinois,
Speaker 4: at least in the Chicagoland suburbs. So it's a tough,
Speaker 4: tough sledding it's at the start, but you learn a
Speaker 4: lot about where you need to go when you're a
Speaker 4: team like the South Elgin Storm. This is the Friday
Speaker 4: Night Drive broadcast as we recap week number two. Let's
Speaker 4: check out what's going on in the Northwest suburbs Alex Tech, Kentucky.
Speaker 4: From the Northwest, Harold joins us Alex you saw some
Speaker 4: some good stuff this weekend. That that conference. I can't
Speaker 4: figure out the Fox Valley. It's Kerry Grove and everyone
Speaker 4: else trying to figure it out.
Speaker 6: It's the usual suspects. It's Kerry Grove pr who won
Speaker 6: the conference last year at nine to zero. Huntley's up
Speaker 6: there too. They're all three of those teams are two
Speaker 6: and o at this point, and you know, those are
Speaker 6: kind of been the the three teams that have been
Speaker 6: kind of the top for the you know, the last
Speaker 6: few years.
Speaker 4: I saw Kerry Grove week one. They did not have
Speaker 4: logan Abrams. I don't know how you got a chance
Speaker 4: to look at them with low logan. And that's just
Speaker 4: how different it was. I've bang banged up a little
Speaker 4: bit to start week one, but having him makes a
Speaker 4: whole heck of a difference, I would say for that program.
Speaker 6: Oh for sure. So they didn't have logan Abrams. Who's
Speaker 6: you know, six foot three, two thirty five. I believe
Speaker 6: they're big junior fullback. They also didn't have their running
Speaker 6: back holding Boone. He was he was in Alabama doing
Speaker 6: a international CrossFit competition because he's he's ranked really highly
Speaker 6: in the CrossFit.
Speaker 5: Interesting, Hey, Alex, I mean Chris prairidge Ridge, how have
Speaker 5: they I mean, how in your mind have they I
Speaker 5: guess transitioned to a new coaching staff there. Obviously, defense
Speaker 5: is playing at a high level right now. They haven't
Speaker 5: allowed any points in the first two games of the season.
Speaker 5: You see that as the team's calling card this year.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and I think that easily gets lost with praier
Speaker 6: Ridge because they're running that, you know, the triple option
Speaker 6: as well as they do scoring all these points. But like,
Speaker 6: like you just said that, the defense is you know,
Speaker 6: has been as good as the offense these these last
Speaker 6: two years. They allow an FBC low eleven point six
Speaker 6: points a game last year and you know this year,
Speaker 6: two games no points. So I mean, yeah, I think
Speaker 6: their defense, you know, huge part of that team. Defensive.
Speaker 6: They have a senior defensive lineman, Gavin Tinch, who is
Speaker 6: six four to ninety five. He's getting a lot of
Speaker 6: Division one looks. And uh they they brought their leading
Speaker 6: tackler back from last year to Jace Kranig, the middle linebacker.
Speaker 4: I look at a team like Jacobs, and I think
Speaker 4: the Golden Eagles have an opportunity to slide up in
Speaker 4: that to that tier one echelon of teams. What needs
Speaker 4: to happen for Jacobs as you look at their schedule
Speaker 4: and what they have left here and not exactly an
Speaker 4: overwhelming win against Hampshire and Friday night, They've got to
Speaker 4: put some teams away in order to be taken seriously
Speaker 4: like those. But what do they got to do to
Speaker 4: get better?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 6: And I mean I think coach Brian Zimmern would say,
Speaker 6: you know, anyone in the FBC is a is a
Speaker 6: big win. I know they got Hunty this week and
Speaker 6: that's another huge test for them. I saw Prairie Ridge
Speaker 6: Jacobs that first week where pr beat them seventeen zero,
Speaker 6: and coach Zimmern was just you know, looking back at
Speaker 6: all the mistakes, the turnovers they had. You know, they
Speaker 6: had a couple of close drives, you know, get into
Speaker 6: the the red zone, get close to scoring and you
Speaker 6: know they go, you know, get turnover on downs like
Speaker 6: That's what's kind of happened to them in these these
Speaker 6: big games the last couple of years, and you know
Speaker 6: they fix those things they're they're gonna be right up
Speaker 6: there at the top of the conference.
Speaker 5: I'll switch out go ahead with Prairie Ridge, Kerry Grove, Huntley,
Speaker 5: and Jacobs kind of considered the four teams maybe at
Speaker 5: the top of the conference. In a close conference, you
Speaker 5: typically get five playoff bids. What I can't figure out
Speaker 5: looking at the Fox Valley is who do you think
Speaker 5: the front runner is for that fifth spot.
Speaker 6: So I went into this year and I think I
Speaker 6: told you this use uh. I thought Burlington Central was gonna,
Speaker 6: you know, make a make a little jump this year.
Speaker 6: I think they've finished four and five the last two years,
Speaker 6: just playoffs. Yeah, they earned a big win, you know
Speaker 6: last week against Dundee Crown. They they had to get
Speaker 6: a thirty thirty seven yard field goal from the kicker
Speaker 6: David McCoy with three seconds left to win that one,
Speaker 6: twenty four twenty two. Yeah, those teams that are trying
Speaker 6: to you know, be that that fifth team in the conference, Like,
Speaker 6: those are the games that you gotta win. I mean,
Speaker 6: all these games are going to be close. I know
Speaker 6: Burlington brought back a lot from last year, and like
Speaker 6: I said, they were so close last year, so close
Speaker 6: the year before. I know that team's you know, really
Speaker 6: gunning for the playoffs this year.
Speaker 4: Yeah, two years ago they had they got four and
Speaker 4: four after beating Kerry Grovid overtime in Week eight, and
Speaker 4: then stumbled at mckenry to get knocked out of the playoffs.
Speaker 4: Last year a little more conventional, trying to get knock
Speaker 4: out Huntley to get to five and four. Couldn't do it.
Speaker 4: So they're trying to get to five wins at Central
Speaker 4: and it's been kind of tough sledding. As they are
Speaker 4: starting to make some progress in that conference.
Speaker 5: I want to.
Speaker 4: Switch over to the Kishwaukee River because Susan and I
Speaker 4: want to give some love to the Harvard Hornets.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, twenty game losing. Forget all about that now if
Speaker 4: we're talking playoffs now, right.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean I'm looking at the Kishwaukee River Conference
Speaker 6: and I don't really know who the front runner is.
Speaker 6: I mean, going to the year, I would easily have
Speaker 6: said Richmond Burton. But even like you know, this last week,
Speaker 6: Richmond went down to Quincy Notre Dame and struggled.
Speaker 4: I forget the score that.
Speaker 6: I think it was twenty two to ten, I believe,
Speaker 6: and they scored their last Yeah, they scored their last
Speaker 6: touchdown I think pretty late in the game. And the
Speaker 6: first week they beat Marion twenty one to seven. Last year,
Speaker 6: that was a game I think they won pretty handily.
Speaker 6: I mean they lost you know, a good amount of
Speaker 6: a talent from last year. But yeah, like you said,
Speaker 6: I want to give a credit to the Hornets. You know,
Speaker 6: enter the year on a twenty game losing streak, win
Speaker 6: their first two games. They won the first first game
Speaker 6: forty two seven over over Lyle. Last week it was
Speaker 6: twenty one to fourteen over over Reed Custer senior Adam Cook,
Speaker 6: the quarterback. He's had three rushing touchdowns both those games.
Speaker 6: You know, I mean, they're they're excited at Harvard and
Speaker 6: they should be.
Speaker 4: And they go to Woodstock this weekend before having Richmond Burton.
Speaker 4: So we're gonna find out. Yeah, it's coming quick for
Speaker 4: the Harvard Hornets. Alex, what else jumps out at you?
Speaker 4: What's caught your eye as we take a first to
Speaker 4: first to look at the first two weeks of the season.
Speaker 6: Do you know I think I mean, I think we
Speaker 6: touched a lot of you know, a lot of it.
Speaker 6: I'm just really interested to see when these big games
Speaker 6: get going in the in the Fox Valley when we
Speaker 6: were matching up you know, PR and carry Grove. I
Speaker 6: think next week, week four, it's PR and Huntley. That's
Speaker 6: going to be a huge game. It's going to determine
Speaker 6: you know, who's going to be, you know, ending up
Speaker 6: on top of the in this conference. So you know,
Speaker 6: the next couple weeks, those are like the big games
Speaker 6: coming up. I'm just looking forward to, you know, seeing
Speaker 6: who comes out on top of those ones.
Speaker 4: Well, Alex, we appreciate your time, thank you so much
Speaker 4: for jumping on, and we're looking forward to reading everything
Speaker 4: going on in the Northwest ere these next few weeks.
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Speaker 4: Yes, all right, Alex Kentucky the Northwest Harold the new editor.
Speaker 4: I believe that the Northwest Harold a post that had
Speaker 4: not been vacated in many, many moons. For thanks Joe Stevenson,
Speaker 4: good buddy of ours. So, you know, when you look
Speaker 4: at what's going on up north, let's talk about Richmond
Speaker 4: Burton a little bit here, because that that kind of
Speaker 4: it sticks out, just because the scores don't indicate the
Speaker 4: dominance that we've seen in the past. We know what's
Speaker 4: a good program, we know that's a good football team.
Speaker 4: What do you think they're thinking and what do you
Speaker 4: think is going into their mindset as they head into
Speaker 4: conference play for the first sense weekend.
Speaker 5: You know, it's interesting with that program. You just you're
Speaker 5: just like Alex said, you're just kind of conditioned to
Speaker 5: believe that that conference is Richmond Burton's for the taking.
Speaker 5: So when you have to look at what's going on
Speaker 5: so far, and I think Quincy Notre Dame, for you
Speaker 5: know all that it is is a pretty solid program.
Speaker 5: But it's also when it comes right down to it,
Speaker 5: it's also a two way program. I mean, that's that's
Speaker 5: the truth of the matter. So the fact that that
Speaker 5: Richmond Burton had trouble with them might indicate that not
Speaker 5: that they can't win the conference again, but they might
Speaker 5: be a little closer to the pack than we're used to.
Speaker 5: It will be interesting to see, especially when we get
Speaker 5: into league play, to see how these first couple of
Speaker 5: games come from through in conference play, because you know,
Speaker 5: some of these are some of these other teams are
Speaker 5: complete wild cards right now you look at granted they
Speaker 5: haven't played the best competition, but Woodstock North is putting
Speaker 5: up a ton of points right now. I think Woodstock
Speaker 5: is supposed to be a little bit better. Just in general,
Speaker 5: it looks like that league has some guys that might
Speaker 5: be able to take a shot at Richmond Burton. Might
Speaker 5: not finish it, but they but most of them have
Speaker 5: not had the ammunition to even try to take the
Speaker 5: shot in past years. So it looks like the it
Speaker 5: looks like the gap has closed. We'll see how close
Speaker 5: it's closed here in the next couple of weeks.
Speaker 4: Let's be as fair as possible, because when you look
Speaker 4: at the schedule, they open their season with four or
Speaker 4: five on the road, so they finally get their home
Speaker 4: opener coming up with Johnsburg this week, but then they
Speaker 4: go to a Harvard atmosphere that could be completely different
Speaker 4: than what they've gone to in the last few years.
Speaker 4: And then they'll go to Woodstock, which could be a
Speaker 4: very key measuring stick as to where they sit in
Speaker 4: conference play. But the good news for them is they
Speaker 4: don't have to go to Sandwich. They don't have to
Speaker 4: go to you know, they both come to them, so
Speaker 4: we're not talking about long road trips. And then they
Speaker 4: get backloaded. Three their last four are at home, so
Speaker 4: maybe they're just depending on the youth of their roster too,
Speaker 4: could be figuring things out and just one in one
Speaker 4: on the season. So that's a look at Richmond Burton.
Speaker 4: You're watching the Friday Night Drive podcast week two in
Speaker 4: the books as we all recap what we saw. It
Speaker 4: was the weekend of the Kicker, Mister Sussie, I don't
Speaker 4: know if I ever recall as many games coming down
Speaker 4: to the wire like that. You know, one thing that
Speaker 4: Alex Kentecky hinted at was the Central Rockets also got
Speaker 4: a game winning field goal as time expired. But we
Speaker 4: had all sorts of game winners around the state, and
Speaker 4: they feel like they were happening like like right on
Speaker 4: top of one another too. There was no gapping of
Speaker 4: them when you look up there, oh there's another game
Speaker 4: winning field goal. I mean, it was just like they
Speaker 4: were all just kind of swarming all at the same time.
Speaker 4: And it's one of those things that over the past
Speaker 4: few years, I've noticed the place kicking has got a
Speaker 4: lot better, Like just in general across statewide. We've had
Speaker 4: some elite kickers at certain schools in some places, but
Speaker 4: in general now, like I used to think that you know,
Speaker 4: a team had to have, you know, a lock solid
Speaker 4: kicker to have a chance at making a thirty five
Speaker 4: to forty yard field goal, it feels.
Speaker 5: Like they're almost commonplace now. There's a lot of kids
Speaker 5: that are coming over either from soccer backgrounds that are
Speaker 5: contributing in that way or just focusing on that in particular,
Speaker 5: you know, the general kicking games. So that's something that
Speaker 5: like five ten years ago, I wouldn't envision that as
Speaker 5: even being possible. That there were so many last second
Speaker 5: field goals and it seemed like everybody made them. There
Speaker 5: weren't any stories out there somebody having a last second
Speaker 5: chance that didn't go, that didn't go. I mean, they
Speaker 5: were all good so I mean, that's that's been an
Speaker 5: impressive story just to kind of watch now that teams
Speaker 5: now it's in your playbook if you're down, if you're
Speaker 5: down two points, get yourself a field goal range. You
Speaker 5: might have a chance to pull that out. In the past,
Speaker 5: it doesn't seem like that was something that was a
Speaker 5: card that a lot of teams could play. Yeah, a
Speaker 5: whole bunch of people have that in their deck now.
Speaker 4: As we were talking Friday night, I think it was
Speaker 4: I forget where which game it was, but we were
Speaker 4: thinking where do they have to get to? And I
Speaker 4: think I blurted out the fifteen yard line to be
Speaker 4: ultra conservative, I think you can back that up a
Speaker 4: good ten yards to at least take an educated shot
Speaker 4: at field goals. And I'll give you this story of
Speaker 4: my playing days back twenty five twenty seven years ago
Speaker 4: on a two and seven six eight team, by the way,
Speaker 4: not very good. We still had a specialist kicker back then.
Speaker 4: That was a rarity. He ended up walking on in Iowa.
Speaker 4: The names Nate Campbell's up part of the coaching staff
Speaker 4: down at Yorkville. But he was the strongest kid on
Speaker 4: the team and he was the specialist. When it came
Speaker 4: down to it, he had the length. We just could
Speaker 4: never get him in position. Now, as you see everywhere
Speaker 4: there are nets on the sidelines, just like Natehead, you
Speaker 4: have the holders that are also working with them. They're
Speaker 4: constantly working and constantly practicing, you know. And to see
Speaker 4: these kickers working on their own, they're coming from soccer
Speaker 4: and not just the big schools, it's the smaller schools too.
Speaker 4: And I'll tell you this from last year being down
Speaker 4: at the state and I've seen this for years at
Speaker 4: the state level, But when you have Wilmington, who's notorious
Speaker 4: with good kickers. By the way, they're talking about forty
Speaker 4: five fifty yarders at the class two way level, that's
Speaker 4: when you know that everyone not only has one, but
Speaker 4: should have one. And if you haven't had one in
Speaker 4: a fourteen hundred enrollment school, you're not doing it right.
Speaker 5: Right, And that's definitely one of those things that, like
Speaker 5: I said before, ten years, fifteen years ago, this was
Speaker 5: something he just did not have. It's the point where
Speaker 5: I almost look at the big schools and they don't
Speaker 5: have a kicker. I'm like throwing my heads up, like
Speaker 5: you have how.
Speaker 4: Many soccer teams. You have how many kids in this school?
Speaker 4: You tell me you can't find one. And that's why
Speaker 4: we also left at College Kickers as well. So it
Speaker 4: was quite the weekend. And by the way, it was
Speaker 4: manooka Nahporville Central, Saint Joe Ogden, the Central Rockets, and
Speaker 4: a favorite of yours, the Plainfield Central Plainfield South Cougar's.
Speaker 4: Apparently they they were very very happy to get that
Speaker 4: win and try and look for you at the sidelines
Speaker 4: afterwards on Friday night.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I wasn't there, apparently, not real happy with my
Speaker 5: prediction of them finishing fourth in the conference. So but
Speaker 5: good for them. I mean, it was definitely not the
Speaker 5: best of the season for them. Last year they went
Speaker 5: two and seven, right, you know, they they laid a
Speaker 5: new foundation down there. But they've picked up wins to
Speaker 5: start the season here over Yorkville and and then you know,
Speaker 5: winning on Friday night against the cal yep.
Speaker 4: Hey, Hey, you know what, when it comes to motivation,
Speaker 4: you do what you gotta do, right, Coaches, go ahead,
Speaker 4: whatever thing you can use to get to get going
Speaker 4: and get your kids going, you go ahead and use it.
Speaker 4: Some of the surprises and maybe not so much as
Speaker 4: a surprise, but it's the rather the dominance that we've
Speaker 4: seen in some of the conferences. So the Catholic League
Speaker 4: has had some dominant performances, maybe the records don't look
Speaker 4: as dominant, and we know they're gonna be a good league.
Speaker 4: I'm sure you didn't have Marmion as two and oh
Speaker 4: to start things off, though.
Speaker 5: No, I didn't. And it's like the funniest thing to
Speaker 5: look at about the CCL. At this point, half of
Speaker 5: their teams are two and oh, but none of them
Speaker 5: are from the Blue. That's the first thing that's very interesting.
Speaker 5: The supposed power conference in the state and all of
Speaker 5: their teams are one and one at this point in time.
Speaker 5: And then with half of their teams, the list of
Speaker 5: those teams that are two and oh include some teams
Speaker 5: that just I wouldn't have put a lot of chips
Speaker 5: on them being two and oh out of the gate.
Speaker 5: Nile's notre Dame Bennett Marmion, like you mentioned, you know,
Speaker 5: these are teams that I think are okay, but they
Speaker 5: have to get it was very important for them to
Speaker 5: be two and oh at this point in time. They're
Speaker 5: gonna need that cushion heading into their conference. Schedule, so
Speaker 5: accomplishing that, you know. De Paul Prepp is another one
Speaker 5: that like needed to go to and o because once
Speaker 5: they get into their conference schedule and their crossovers are
Speaker 5: are are potentially problematic. You know, getting off that two
Speaker 5: and oh start is really really impressive.
Speaker 4: And Bennett of course getting a win against Moulin on
Speaker 4: Friday night and rather dominant fashion and having to do
Speaker 4: it on a short week after playing Hillcrest on Saturday,
Speaker 4: they'll get De la Salle and they could add another
Speaker 4: win there before Saint Vider then Mount Carmel's Saint Pats
Speaker 4: Fenwick Nazareth and DePaul Prepp, who all of a sudden
Speaker 4: becomes a story and De Paul Prep, you know, for
Speaker 4: them getting to where they are they since they I
Speaker 4: think you had when they since they've renamed, they only
Speaker 4: had what one winning seasons in the last ten years,
Speaker 4: Is that about.
Speaker 5: Right, Deaul Prepp?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean you have to go back into the
Speaker 5: Gordon Tech days to find winning seasons on the regular
Speaker 5: for that program. So I can recall, I want to
Speaker 5: say it was four or five years ago I went
Speaker 5: up to a Saturday afternoon game with the Paul Prepp
Speaker 5: and they were playing joli At Catholic, and granted it
Speaker 5: was a very good joli At Catholic team, right, they
Speaker 5: got absolutely ran off the field, and I mean in
Speaker 5: like the first quarter, so they've obviously made strides up there.
Speaker 5: You know, the program has grown under Mike Pasarella, and
Speaker 5: they I think they're in position now where they can
Speaker 5: make a run at that playoff berth, where in past
Speaker 5: seasons it looked like it was going to be an
Speaker 5: overwhelming accomplishment for them to even be competitive in any
Speaker 5: Catholic League game, And this one's key.
Speaker 4: For them this week as they go down to Chicago
Speaker 4: Heights to take on Mary Catholic at one and one,
Speaker 4: they really need to win that one because the road
Speaker 4: does not look friendly after that the rest of the way.
Speaker 4: Switching from the Catholic League over to the Duquine, I
Speaker 4: got to see them in person. I noted this on X.
Speaker 4: I had never Geneva Grad. I had never been to
Speaker 4: both a Geneva game and a Batavia game that started
Speaker 4: at the same time on the same night. So I
Speaker 4: did a little like runner back and fourth here probably
Speaker 4: a good four mile drive, so I made good time
Speaker 4: and what I saw were two games that were not close.
Speaker 4: So it was it was not It was not fun
Speaker 4: to watch from from a from an energy perspective. But
Speaker 4: I will tell you lamont As, we suspect it might
Speaker 4: be a little bit down, a little undersize. They tried
Speaker 4: everything they could defensively, they were They held on as
Speaker 4: long as they could. But Talon Taylor is about as
Speaker 4: healthy as I've seen him, about as fluid as I've
Speaker 4: seen him. And they've been having him do crossing routes,
Speaker 4: which makes him even more dangerous. Putting him an open field,
Speaker 4: you've got to figure out where he is. He's not
Speaker 4: flying down the field on doing flyouts. And but Tavia,
Speaker 4: I got to look at body Anderson who did not
Speaker 4: look like he had surgery at all of the offseason.
Speaker 4: He was moving just fine. His arms, his arm strength
Speaker 4: was okay. And I tell you what, Isaiah Brown has
Speaker 4: turned into quite the receiver. He is very difficult to
Speaker 4: guard man on man on the line.
Speaker 5: You can't check him.
Speaker 4: So whoever's gonna be able to guard him in that conference, Uh,
Speaker 4: it's there's gonna have to be some bracket help no
Speaker 4: matter who is playing. Both Talon Taylor and Isaiah Brown
Speaker 4: for Geneva Batavia.
Speaker 5: You know, it definitely looks like, you know, that's a
Speaker 5: collision course that is eventually gonna come to fruition between
Speaker 5: those two programs. But man, you just look at that
Speaker 5: week to week schedule and it just feels like every
Speaker 5: week you're gonna have two or three games or maybe
Speaker 5: all four games where you're just like, I don't know
Speaker 5: what's gonna happen here, because it's just there's ridiculous depth
Speaker 5: in this conference. There are six teams that are still
Speaker 5: two and oh. I mean glen Bard North and Lake
Speaker 5: Park right now are at two and oh. They haven't
Speaker 5: played the level of competition, but you play who's in
Speaker 5: front of you. I mean, and like I said, now
Speaker 5: you're two and oh, and you go into the league,
Speaker 5: maybe maybe you pull a rabbit out of your hat
Speaker 5: and you beat one of those teams that you're not
Speaker 5: supposed to beat, and then all of a sudden things
Speaker 5: look a lot different. I mean, that's really what it
Speaker 5: comes down to. The only team right now that I
Speaker 5: mean is a step behind it looks like to me
Speaker 5: is Saint Charles East that I mean, they're zero and
Speaker 5: two out of the box. But I mean they also
Speaker 5: played some pretty decent competition out of the gates, so
Speaker 5: you can't just look past them. I'm sure in the
Speaker 5: grand scheme of things, every single week in the Duke
Speaker 5: Cane on your schedule is going to be an absolute war.
Speaker 5: And I have a feeling as we go through the
Speaker 5: regular season it's going to be very similar to what
Speaker 5: was happening last year in that conference. It felt like
Speaker 5: you had all at the same time. It felt like
Speaker 5: you had two or three games in that league coming
Speaker 5: down to the wire, coming down to that last possession,
Speaker 5: can someone tie the score and send it into overtime.
Speaker 5: I don't know how many overtime games we had in
Speaker 5: that league but last year, but it felt like every
Speaker 5: week there was at least one on the conference schedule
Speaker 5: that it was a ridiculously deep this year league last year.
Speaker 5: I think it's even deeper this year, which I didn't
Speaker 5: wouldn't even have thought was even possible based on how
Speaker 5: deep it was last year.
Speaker 4: And it's impressive, and you feel bad for a guy
Speaker 4: like Nolan Possley, the head coach of the Saints in
Speaker 4: Saint Chorrele's East. You could feel the urgency from him
Speaker 4: in his program to try and get past where they
Speaker 4: are one and eight last year. That's not good enough
Speaker 4: in that town. And so they have homecoming this week
Speaker 4: and that's what Gleunbar North walks into this weekend. And
Speaker 4: their next six opponents right now sitting at two and zero,
Speaker 4: so that's how their schedule shakes out. Wheaton South is
Speaker 4: the last one on that slate at one and one,
Speaker 4: so it's gonna be tough sledding for Saint Charle's East,
Speaker 4: Saint Charles North and Wheaton North. That's gonna be a
Speaker 4: doozy of the game on Friday night. I'm probably gonna
Speaker 4: slip over there to take a look at that one
Speaker 4: for the first time in a while. Ethan Plumb is
Speaker 4: probably the one quarterback nobody's talking about in the entire
Speaker 4: state after he had a lot of conversation these last
Speaker 4: couple of years.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I saw him last year in the playoffs and
Speaker 5: I felt like that they were knocked out by Bradley
Speaker 5: Bourbone in that game in the second round contest last year,
Speaker 5: and I felt like watching him play in that game,
Speaker 5: that was the kind of effort that was gonna drive
Speaker 5: him to work really hard for his senior year because
Speaker 5: I know he was really disappointed with the way that
Speaker 5: he performed in that game. He was outpaced by Bradley
Speaker 5: Bourbone as quarterback in that game, and that did not
Speaker 5: sit well with him. And I saw him in some
Speaker 5: some offseason showcases and he just looks like a guy
Speaker 5: who's ready to just explode in terms of putting together
Speaker 5: a mammoth season. And and definitely, I mean, he's gonna
Speaker 5: have a lot of opportunities to try to guide that
Speaker 5: team to some big wins this year, especially in the
Speaker 5: schedule that they have remaining. But but I really like
Speaker 5: his potential moving forward, and I think he's going to
Speaker 5: have a very big year. It's just that's a fun
Speaker 5: team and and I've seen them in the past and
Speaker 5: they they never hesitate to maybe make a risky or
Speaker 5: take a gamble. They're just a very a very good
Speaker 5: team in that way that you know, Robert Toomazak just
Speaker 5: went for two in a game already this season when
Speaker 5: a kick would have tied it and sent it into overtime,
Speaker 5: just rolled it out there and said let's go for
Speaker 5: the win. Right now. That's the way they tend to play.
Speaker 5: They're they're an entertaining program.
Speaker 4: Riverboat Robert running the running the program for the North Stars.
Speaker 4: And we know the Buquine Conference is good, and we
Speaker 4: don't know who's gonna win that league. Who's gonna win
Speaker 4: the Upstate Eight or the I'm sure, I'm sorry, the
Speaker 4: Interstate Eight. That's the one I want to talk about,
Speaker 4: because that league looks about as deep as I've seen
Speaker 4: that league in a long time as well.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's definitely a very entertaining conference just to kind
Speaker 5: of look at and kind of speculate on where we're
Speaker 5: going to go. I mean, there's just a lot of
Speaker 5: really sturdy football programs in that conference. And now that
Speaker 5: you have that, now that conference has now went back
Speaker 5: to itself after we had a couple of years there
Speaker 5: where they were emerged with the Kishwaukee River. Now that
Speaker 5: it's just those six programs you've got, you know, the
Speaker 5: four at the top, and all four of them I
Speaker 5: think have enough of a pedigree to talk about you know, hey,
Speaker 5: they can potentially win this conference. So that makes for
Speaker 5: a really really interesting discussion as we go. And then
Speaker 5: you know, even with losal Peru and Ottawa, there are
Speaker 5: teams feel like they are ready to maybe try to
Speaker 5: make a step forward as well, so those all six
Speaker 5: of those programs I think are are going to try
Speaker 5: to give themselves a puncher's chance where they're at the
Speaker 5: very least in the conversation for trying to get to
Speaker 5: a playoff Berth.
Speaker 4: It's amasing because those four to two that the four
Speaker 4: teams you talk about that are at two to zero
Speaker 4: and the two that are one and one, Ottawa and
Speaker 4: lasal Peru, one of the oldest rivalries in the state
Speaker 4: of Illinois. They're gonna play this week and then they're
Speaker 4: gonna play in three more weeks because they're gonna play
Speaker 4: each other twice, and I'm not sure they've ever done
Speaker 4: that in their in their rivalry history. I'm sure we
Speaker 4: could find that out at some point as we keep
Speaker 4: an eye on what goes on the Illinois Valley this week.
Speaker 4: I certainly don't think that they have.
Speaker 5: And I mean it was one of those things that
Speaker 5: was born out of kind of schedule need and a
Speaker 5: situation like that. They made an interesting choice to leave
Speaker 5: Week nine as a non conference date rather than backloading
Speaker 5: the schedule like most leagues do, and they quickly discovered
Speaker 5: that there aren't a lot of teams that are looking
Speaker 5: for non conference games in Week nine, so that was
Speaker 5: why that's why we got what we got there. They
Speaker 5: ended up doing a little creative mishmash to have them
Speaker 5: move that second game up and then they bracketed it
Speaker 5: back and got Week nine games, So it was kind
Speaker 5: of it was kind of an off season problem for
Speaker 5: all of the teams in that conference. I mean, Morris
Speaker 5: Is going to Michigan, Caitland is going to Belleville. All tough.
Speaker 5: I mean these are I mean Rochell's actually doesn't currently
Speaker 5: have a Week nine game. They scheduled the Missouri team
Speaker 5: that dropped them. That'll end up being a forfeit win
Speaker 5: if it has to be. But all of those teams
Speaker 5: ended up having to get really creative to fill that
Speaker 5: Week nine non con game. So it's definitely it's definitely
Speaker 5: something I think they're probably gonna look at, maybe try
Speaker 5: to readjust for the future.
Speaker 4: I don't want to look too far ahead because we
Speaker 4: don't want a preview Week three too much, but boy,
Speaker 4: Rochelle and Highland at Illinois Wesley is really intriguing to me,
Speaker 4: So I'm curious to see how that's gonna go Friday night.
Speaker 4: Keep an eye on that. To Calvin Caitlin, and of
Speaker 4: course we'll see how this goes with the you know,
Speaker 4: a Sycamore as a Mohammed Seymour. That's a nice long
Speaker 4: trip for them. So there's a lot of long trips
Speaker 4: to the Interstate eight this season, then pretty much all
Speaker 4: the way through Week nine. As we wrap things up here,
Speaker 4: a couple more minutes, some nuggets and tidbits. Let's go
Speaker 4: back to Sycamore for a minute. That three fumbles there
Speaker 4: trailing oswego East, which is an eight day school, still
Speaker 4: found a way to win. They're gritty club this year.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they I mean they're doing what they have to do.
Speaker 5: I mean, obviously they had had a bit of an
Speaker 5: intriguing one in Week one as well. So there's a
Speaker 5: lot to be said for being a football program that
Speaker 5: knows how to get it done by whatever means necessary,
Speaker 5: and Sycamore has definitely done that so far.
Speaker 4: Can we give it up for the Dixon Dukes a
Speaker 4: ninety nine yard touchdown pass, which is a school record.
Speaker 4: Let make sure I get it right, color Cullin Shaner
Speaker 4: to Eli Davidson. I think I got that right. But hey,
Speaker 4: you know what, when you break a record, that's one
Speaker 4: thing ninety nine. You figured that'd be a record, but
Speaker 4: it broke a record that was set back in nineteen
Speaker 4: fifty six. That's when you know your name's gonna be
Speaker 4: on the board for several, well forever. Now at this
Speaker 4: point with ninety nine yards, Dixon looking good early.
Speaker 5: Off to a good start. I mean, ninety one points
Speaker 5: in their first two games of the year I noticed
Speaker 5: earlier today. I mean, I'm not saying they're gonna go
Speaker 5: after Byron, but at least they're setting the tone that
Speaker 5: they that they would be willing to, Hey, let's go
Speaker 5: let's go see later on in the season and see
Speaker 5: what happens when we play Byron. And a lot of
Speaker 5: teams aren't looking for that challenge, but I think Dixon
Speaker 5: might be. I think there, I think they're ready to say, hey,
Speaker 5: let's let's strap them up and see what happens, guys,
Speaker 5: Let's see if we can duplicate you know, a nice
Speaker 5: offensive shootout here. So definitely, it's been building for Dixon
Speaker 5: over the last couple of years. They've done a nice
Speaker 5: job last year into the second round of the four
Speaker 5: A playoffs. They definitely are a team that I'm keeping
Speaker 5: an eye on in that four A North bracket. They
Speaker 5: get a nice bracket, they could be pretty dangerous.
Speaker 4: Speaking of Byron, I would imagine Williamsville is gonna be
Speaker 4: a place to be this weekend too.
Speaker 5: That that's going heck of a fright in eight matchup.
Speaker 5: Well you have to like that, that that's even happening.
Speaker 5: I mean, we had, you know, we had we had
Speaker 5: two teams right there, two elite teams in the three
Speaker 5: A mix that both had their opponents basically drop out
Speaker 5: of varsity football for this year. So they looked at
Speaker 5: each other and said, hey, you want to come down
Speaker 5: and get this done. I mean, and you got to
Speaker 5: you gotta respect that. First of all, both both of
Speaker 5: those teams are going to get their wins and they
Speaker 5: know it. So the fact that they're just willing to say, hey,
Speaker 5: these were games we knew we were going to win,
Speaker 5: to put that w aside and say, hey, let's go
Speaker 5: challenge ourselves, give it ourselves an opportunity to uh, you know,
Speaker 5: to get this done. Not that far removed from these
Speaker 5: two teams meeting in the state championship games. So you know,
Speaker 5: really really two of the top tier three A programs
Speaker 5: taking an opportunity to take a bad situation and make
Speaker 5: it into a really interesting one.
Speaker 4: Coaches, if you're watching us, do more of this. We
Speaker 4: talk about it. We don't want to talk about your
Speaker 4: sixty to nothing win. We want to talk about that.
Speaker 4: That's more fun for us and more fun for you
Speaker 4: as well. Remember when we were worried about Forreston, Well,
Speaker 4: they had four hundred yards rushing last week. I think
Speaker 4: they're fine. What do you think, Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 5: I mean, it was definitely it was definitely a little
Speaker 5: bit shocking to see what happened to them against Fulton
Speaker 5: in the first week of the season. I think we'll
Speaker 5: find out over the course of the year that Fulton's
Speaker 5: pretty good in their own right. But Forreston did a
Speaker 5: really nice job of riding the ship. And let's not
Speaker 5: bury the Cardinals just yet. Flannagan, Cornell Woodland. It was
Speaker 5: homecoming last week. They had military nights, so they came
Speaker 5: on camel Oh, and they're honoring the nineteen seventy four
Speaker 5: state champions fiftieth anniversary. That had been a fun atmosphere
Speaker 5: to start things off. In week two, we're already in
Speaker 5: homecoming season. Yeah, I know, that's crazy, isn't it.
Speaker 3: It?
Speaker 5: Seems weird that we're twenty percent done with the regular
Speaker 5: season already one third after this week. That just seems crazy.
Speaker 5: It seems like we just started yesterday.
Speaker 4: We say this every year, right when we get into
Speaker 4: the first two weeks, it's like, oh, a third of
Speaker 4: the season is done. And you know, these coaches are
Speaker 4: saying that to their players as well, because those seniors
Speaker 4: better feel that sense of urgency because their football career,
Speaker 4: they've probably been playing maybe since they were eight years old,
Speaker 4: ten years of football. It's coming to an end fast
Speaker 4: if they're not paying attention. So that one and I'll
Speaker 4: leave you with this in your backyard. Wilmington fifteen straight wins.
Speaker 4: They held Sandwich to what one hundred and thirty three
Speaker 4: total yards. That's a good Sandwich offense. That's not supposed
Speaker 4: to happen to But Wilmington they're back and they're probably
Speaker 4: ready to get back down to normal.
Speaker 5: Wilmington took a forty two to nothing lead midway through
Speaker 5: the second quarter in that game, so they completely controlled
Speaker 5: that and the grand majority of those one hundred and
Speaker 5: thirty three yards were very very late in the game,
Speaker 5: if you know what I mean. So Wilmington just really
Speaker 5: looking like they've got everything firing on all cylinders.
Speaker 4: All right, what's ke what's catching your eye? Maybe you
Speaker 4: might head out to if you can this weekend. What
Speaker 4: do you think for your week three? As we take
Speaker 4: a peek.
Speaker 5: I haven't dug that far into like what is directly
Speaker 5: in front of me yet. I mean, it's it's one
Speaker 5: of those things when we look at at the schedule,
Speaker 5: I start picking through what is left over from week two,
Speaker 5: but I haven't really lined up exactly what my game
Speaker 5: plan is going to be for week two. I snuck
Speaker 5: out a little bit and watched a little bit of
Speaker 5: an old school rivalry between Bishop McNamara and Hersher last week. Yeah, hope,
Speaker 5: and I can find uh. I'm hoping I can find
Speaker 5: at least at least a half that I can sneak
Speaker 5: out to this week in week three. But I haven't
Speaker 5: decided what that is just yet.
Speaker 4: I have been to Hersher, I have played at Hersher.
Speaker 4: I have never been to Bishop Back. That's usually it's
Speaker 4: the opposite, right, because successful that program has been for
Speaker 4: a long time. I think I'm gonna sneak up to
Speaker 4: Saint Charles North and watch Saint Charles North and Whek
Speaker 4: North and the and the weekly Slugfest and the dou Cane.
Speaker 4: But if I change my mind, I might slip over
Speaker 4: to Caitlin and get a look at the Caitlin Knights
Speaker 4: in the Decal barbs because that's a fascinating playoff point
Speaker 4: possibility for Caitlin. As you look at the internet State
Speaker 4: eight and you know how much of a grind that is,
Speaker 4: and that non conference schedule is not easy, especially that
Speaker 4: week nine games. You mentioned alt off in week nine
Speaker 4: not exactly one, that they'll be fired up when you
Speaker 4: go down there too. Yeah, Alts after Saders. That building's
Speaker 4: gonna be ready to go for a team like Caitlin
Speaker 4: coming in there in week nine, So I might see
Speaker 4: if I can sneak the one, if not both that
Speaker 4: might be pushing it. I don't know. The country roads
Speaker 4: are not that friendly for me to get that far
Speaker 4: that quickly. So should be fun. And that's our look
Speaker 4: a week two sus. You have a good week. We
Speaker 4: will see you as we get ready for week three
Speaker 4: coming up.
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