LWE?

[MS4EVER]

How many starters are from LWN?

 

[illini14]

QB is, no clue besides that but I'm not close to the program at all.

How many starters are from LWN?

 

[WIU@78]

A can of worms when you talk that way old friend! Let's say 1/2 the QB. The school has really become LWNE with 6A players upgrading the schedule. Coach Z should be credited with this outcome of mixing 116 varsity players.

 

[Cross Bones]

A can of worms when you talk that way old friend! Let's say 1/2 the QB. The school has really become LWNE with 6A players upgrading the schedule. Coach Z should be credited with this outcome of mixing 116 varsity players.

I wondered how they would adjust to facing H-F but then I thought, "It's just football."

 

[MS4EVER]

A can of worms when you talk that way old friend! Let's say 1/2 the QB. The school has really become LWNE with 6A players upgrading the schedule. Coach Z should be credited with this outcome of mixing 116 varsity players.

Good to hear from you WIU78! Not meant to open a can. I was just thinking how unique that situation is.

 

[anon_4vszfu35bv677]

It's a LOT tougher to put together, than it is to split apart. Give Zvonar and his staff a lot of credit!

 

[illini14]

It's a LOT tougher to put together, than it is to split apart. Give Zvonar and his staff a lot of credit!

Tougher
-Personalities
-Egos
-Parents

Easier
-More depth than you know what to do with.

Being a product of a class that was split in half after sophomore year due to a new school being built, I would somewhat have a different opinion based on my own experience. However, you also have a different viewpoint than I have and I respect your point of view.

I'll give my experience from my Belvidere experience.

My senior year we (North) finished 5-5 in 5A, the other side of town (Belvidere) finished 3-6 in 5A. Belvidere's 3-6 campaign followed the following.
2005 - 12-1, lost to prospect in semis in 7A
2006 - 8-2, lost to Jacobs 1st round in 7A
2007 - 9-3, lost to Morris in Quarters in 5A. Seniors had a choice of where to attend, so every kid choose South. Most of the seniors should have attended the new high school based off of address.

Together we finished 7-2 as Fresh. and 8-1 as Sophs. North a roster around 60, Belvidere had a roster around 30 for my senior year. My guess is we would have had somewhere around 70-80 as one school as seniors. School would have been around 2400-2500 kids and been either the biggest in 7A or the smallest in 8A.

Growing up a lot of the lineman went to south, and the best RB. And most of the skill players ended up at North along with a few late bloomers on the line, and kids that moved in.

Belvidere went from being a traditional 7-2, 8-1, 9-0 program to now having both schools typically scraping to post a 5-4 record and make the playoffs in the NIC-10. North had an 8-2 campaign in 2014, and South I believe has won 6 games only once since the split, not including in 2007 when they had every senior in town and dropped to 5A.

South didn't even field a freshman team this fall, and has roughly 60 kids in the entire program for 2016.

In my eyes, that's tougher on a program then trying to mesh together a team for a couple years from two rival HS's.