I'm having a tough start of the season going 0-2, but if picking upsets were easy everyone would be doing it. For this weeks game we go out to the south suburbs. My upset for this week is ...........the winless Bulldogs of Richards High School over the 2-0 and #23 ranked Indians( not very P.C.) of Lemont High. Richards is having a really tough start of the season dropping games to LWN and Geneva. The bright spot for the Bulldogs has been the offense, putting up a combined 49 points in those losses. Lemont has started off strong, or so it seems on paper. BUT.......the offense has not been getting it done. They only scored 21 vs Plainfield S. and 15 vs Danville. Neither of these teams are ranked in the top 150 in the state. This will be the week Richards needs to right the ship. Final score.....Richards 28 - Lemont 14. That's my upset for this week. What are your thoughts, and who is your upset?
Feeto's Friday Upset Special..........
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I totally agree is one of my picks as well Lemont has zero offense happening so far this season. Great defense as expected but no O
Would a huge win for Rice and really shake up the Blue this year.
yes it would . The D is better this year. Although they lost one starting Dlineman it should be a good game
I agree on the home field - the drive and the day game can throw one out of whack. Fortunately we've already have a day game under the belt. Still they'll be our strongest foe to date - hopefully we can outspeed them
I think that's baloney.
If ANYTHING, playing on Saturday gives teams one less preparation day before next Friday's game. That's as much as I will give you.
Other than that, you are saying that a Crusader would rather wake up on Friday morning at 6:00 a.m., start a full day of classes at 7:00 a.m., hop on a bus after school, and drive to Wilmette for the 90+ minutes it would take on a Friday afternoon to play a 7:30 p.m. game under the lights, 13 hours after he woke up....as opposed to waking at a more reasonable hour on Saturday morning, head to Rice, and hop on a bus for the no more than 60 minute late Saturday morning drive to Wilmette for a 1:30 p.m. game.
You are making it sound like it is harder to play during the light of day...even though teams practice in daylight every day.
Are you talking about it being different primarily for PLAYERS or is it that you don't like daylight games as a fan.?
Are you saying would rather, or it would not be fair to have a 13 hour day with a game? I feel very comfortable saying most kids go through that all season without any issue. Also, why would the kids not be able to stay after school to watch the sophomore game, or have a film session?
The nice thing about a Saturday game is that its' usually at 1 pm and you have time to not rush home from work - you can get up there with lesser traffic. I'm sure Rice would have left at 3 pm to make a 7 pm game today to get up there in time for warm-ups
even for baseball from MC during the week had to leave early and miss last class to make a 430 game. Horrific traffic /location. when it rained in '13 took me 2 and a half hours to get home