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silvertone1696

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  1. Cole Solomey represented BIG time finishing 7th along with Hickman. Congrats my Jasper County comrades! Aiden Sneed for KV is every bit a state caliber wrestler. I know his brother Randy was a solid player for the football team. @DannEllenwood is Aiden a footballer?
  2. All four of those are good jobs but they definitely have distinctly different flavors. Roncalli is a cornerstone of the Catholic school system of the state's largest city, with proven tradition and a nice steady stream of tested athletes coming from the CYO leagues. Certainly a nice job to pad the record and trophy case but not a financially enticing prospect I would presume compared to public counterparts. Excellent rivalries with Chatard and Brebeuf, and a nice undefeated title run in 2016 during the Scifres swan song. However from 2006-2019 they had the title run in 16 a regional in 15 and a sectional in 14. Most programs would take that success but for a school with 9 titles in 12 appearances this would be considered a bit of a lull. Shout out to that 2005 Lowell team I watched in person knock of the Rebs, what a special game. Evansville Reitz is another school with some nice tradition albeit not on Roncalli's level but still a couple undefeated title runs coupled with some sectional/regional championships from 2003-2010 put this blue collar Midwestern city school on the map. However the past decade has seen them slip into more mediocrity with just a couple sectional titles as other city schools like Memorial and Central have surged. Have to love a chance though to coach in such a cool spot like the Reitz Bowl though. Also Ole Miss has to be one of the largest enrollments without a pool.
  3. Bob Prescott is more than qualified for this job, he is indeed one of the good guys in the business. He gave me a volunteer assistant job at Kankakee Valley when I was a 19 year old college student in need of a community service project. I always appreciated his refreshing honesty and realist views on things. I know at least part of the deal at Peru was that he also got a chance to coach his son Kordell, who was just another rugrat with ice cream on his face when i saw him last at KV back in the mid 2000s. I mean honestly who really gives a damn if he has a middling W-L record, because we know a multitude of factors play into the success of a football team. You can't control the talent in the pipeline, only how you develop it. Prescott is skilled in the art of molding football players into not only good athletes but also respectable young men. If we measure success in that regard, Prescott is an elite coach no matter his average W-L record, and given the right circumstances I'm convinced he can turn HN into a contender.
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