my boy got called up to varsity for the playoffs

gets to hold the bag during practice then stand on the sidelines

If Mount Carmel doesn't win, you're off this board

As someone who grew up in Wilmette, I will offer the wish that the entire Loyola squad and cheering section gets fucked up the ass with the Pope's socialist cock.

Any day a Loyola team loses is a very good day. Same for Ignatius. I'm ambivalent about Mt. Carmel.

Ignatius moving the Ohio St commit to FB was smart.

Ignatius wins 39-6 in an away game against a higher seeded Joliet West.

Even more importantly, my boy played most of the 4Q at center with his older cousin at guard. It was a fun moment.

They play Huntley next at Ignatius for some reason, even though Huntley is the higher seed. I won't question it after being in Joliet two weekends in a row. Tough draw and it should be one of the best games in 8A this week.

If you play away and win the first week, your next game is at home, if your opponent played week 1 at home.

The fuck? They penalize good teams for being good?

Seeding is simply a process of wins and opponents wins. No one votes on seeds. Therefore the team with less home games hosts. In a case of a tie, the higher seed hosts.

Doesn’t that penalize a great team that beat other good teams? I feel like I’m missing something here.

Sometime it does, most of the time it evens out for the better teams who go 7-2 or 6-3 in better conferences. Walter Payton Prep was the #1 seed in class 5a. They were 9-0 and probably wouldn't have made the playoffs if they were in any other conference. They lost 50-0 to the 16 seed in round one. The top 256 teams by record are sorted into 8 classes on pairings night. Voting on seeds is not practical.

Sometime it does, most of the time it evens out for the better teams who go 7-2 or 6-3 in better conferences. Walter Payton Prep was the #1 seed in class 5a. They were 9-0 and probably wouldn't have made the playoffs if they were in any other conference. They lost 50-0 to the 16 seed in round one. The top 256 teams by record are sorted into 8 classes on pairings night. Voting on seeds is not practical.

I saw that Payton seeding. Those chooches really do think they are a legitimately good program, as they beat down on schools who start foreign exchange students. I have had to bite my tongue around a couple of people in the neighborhood. I have another friend whose kid started on varsity at Northside since freshman year. She (yeah, I know) really thought that meant her kid was going to be a big time recruit.

That explains it. I saw that Sterling beat the living hell out of them and I was a bit surprised at a 16 doing that to a 1.

Add that to things I learned this fall about high school football. Apparently there is 8 man football in the state.

This "GoFan" app you have to use to get in games now really sucks

Pedo vibe.

If your football team attracts condescension from an Ignatius guy, your team must be pitiful indeed

I don't think there is a tournament for 8 man yet, but one of my relatives who lives downstate thinks that they will have one starting in 2025.

Some of those 8 man teams have 12 total players on their squad, from high schools with total enrollment under 100.

It's true

but ignatius has been pretty prominent over the last decade beyond its normal strengths like girls sports and yachting

30 teams was the last thing I saw. Amboy/Lamoille/Ohio apparently coop for a year. I thought Ohio cooped with Princeton but apparently I am wrong. Ohio has 24 kids last I saw, they should probably fold into Bureau Valley. Lamoille has less than 100 (Probably should fold into Mendota or Princeton if there is room) and Amboy has a a couple hundred. From what I saw there is tournament but it is not IHSA sanctioned.