Chicago Sun-Times Editorial

[CCLGUY1964]

Read the editorial for yourself but here's an interesting quote from the Phillips head coach:

Troy McAllister, who coaches in the Chicago Public League at Phillips Academy, sees advantages for his team. Under a district format, he expects half of Phillips’ opponents to be top-tier teams. “We like that piece of it,” he told us. But the remaining teams in McAllister’s district likely will include Public League teams that are no match for Phillips, which won state championships in 2015 and 2017.

“We could be paired with Juarez in Little Village,” he said. Juarez went 1-7 this year. “That would not be safe. Neither program would want to play that game.” Teams that struggle could grow discouraged about fielding freshman, sophomore and junior varsity teams against powerhouse programs, which would create haphazard scheduling. That also would result in younger players quitting the sport

https://chicago.suntimes.com/opinio...ts-conference-enrollment-geography-editorial/

 

[SOUTHSIDECFD]

Read the editorial for yourself but here's an interesting quote from the Phillips head coach:

Troy McAllister, who coaches in the Chicago Public League at Phillips Academy, sees advantages for his team. Under a district format, he expects half of Phillips’ opponents to be top-tier teams. “We like that piece of it,” he told us. But the remaining teams in McAllister’s district likely will include Public League teams that are no match for Phillips, which won state championships in 2015 and 2017.

“We could be paired with Juarez in Little Village,” he said. Juarez went 1-7 this year. “That would not be safe. Neither program would want to play that game.” Teams that struggle could grow discouraged about fielding freshman, sophomore and junior varsity teams against powerhouse programs, which would create haphazard scheduling. That also would result in younger players quitting the sport

https://chicago.suntimes.com/opinio...ts-conference-enrollment-geography-editorial/

I’m hoping that the purpose of district football was for the long term health of high school football and not to just fix the inconvenience of scheduling. Like almost any government program once it’s started it’s impossible to go back to the way it was before. Although the IHSA is not a government agency if they go with this it may become almost impossible to go back to conferences, especially if they kill football at a lot of schools just hanging on. In the Terminator movies skynet was programed to kill viruses. It became the virus. Could district football kill it’s host.

Man that’s heavy...

 

[BretEpic]

The IHSA cannot be Skynet, for it would have to live up to the I in AI.

 

[ejande]

One idea that would help with 2 problems of districts is get the CPL to only include schools in districts up to the state having 512 teams. You'd have fewer CPL teams in. You wouldn't have the logistical issue 9 team districts bring. You'd still get some pretty bad CPL teams in there.