Name The New Mega Private Conference
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History lesson:
There used to be 2 Catholic Conferences.
The Chicago Catholic League.
The Suburban Catholic Conference
From the ESCC website:
The conference can trace its roots back to the founding of the Suburban Catholic Conference in 1960. Among the six founding members, only Joliet Catholic, Notre Dame, and Benet Academy (then known as St. Procopius) are currently ESCC members. Carmel joined in 1966.
In 1970, Joliet Catholic temporarily left, with four new schools joining: Marist, St. Joseph, St. Patrick, and St. Viator. With the conference now at 14, the conference divided into two divisions. The East Division included the four new schools, Carmel, Notre Dame, and Holy Cross High School. In 1971 St. Francis de Sales High School joined the East Division.
In 1974, the two divisions split forming the West Suburban Catholic Conference and the ESCC (in 1989, the West Suburban Catholic Conference would drop the "West" and return to using the original conference name). After one year, St. Joseph left to pursue one year as an independent school, and came back to replace St. Francis de Sales which left after the 1975-76 season. Joliet Catholic joined in 1982. The conference elected to expand in 1990 by adding Benet Academy and Marian Catholic.
There used to be 2 Catholic Conferences.
The Chicago Catholic League.
The Suburban Catholic Conference
From the ESCC website:
The conference can trace its roots back to the founding of the Suburban Catholic Conference in 1960. Among the six founding members, only Joliet Catholic, Notre Dame, and Benet Academy (then known as St. Procopius) are currently ESCC members. Carmel joined in 1966.
In 1970, Joliet Catholic temporarily left, with four new schools joining: Marist, St. Joseph, St. Patrick, and St. Viator. With the conference now at 14, the conference divided into two divisions. The East Division included the four new schools, Carmel, Notre Dame, and Holy Cross High School. In 1971 St. Francis de Sales High School joined the East Division.
In 1974, the two divisions split forming the West Suburban Catholic Conference and the ESCC (in 1989, the West Suburban Catholic Conference would drop the "West" and return to using the original conference name). After one year, St. Joseph left to pursue one year as an independent school, and came back to replace St. Francis de Sales which left after the 1975-76 season. Joliet Catholic joined in 1982. The conference elected to expand in 1990 by adding Benet Academy and Marian Catholic.
Below is a link for a blog which details the history of High School Athletic Conferences in Illinois. When I saw Quags post, I went looking. Good work Quags.
http://www.illinoishsglorydays.com/id349.html
http://www.illinoishsglorydays.com/id349.html
I personally don't recognize Indiana. All my maps say "here be dragons" East of Illinois.
I started to post this but then realized Mount Carmel and Rita would be in the conference.
Not it the least. My grandfather is a Rita grad. I am joking and most men would understand that.
Yes. I knew you were from excellent stock. Now about those MC guys......
I can't hate on MC. They have legendary success. Just ask them.
But seriously I like all the Blue programs, CCL for that matter. I support all Catholic programs in general*
Ummm, you're going the wrong way...Kankakee Bishop McNamara, two counties out of Cook, completely surrounded by farmland...have to go past farmland between every community between it and Cook County on I-57 (Bradley-Bourbonnais, farm, Manteno, corn, Peotone, beans, Monee, corn, University Park, beans, Rich Township, fields, Matteson...) The travel time, however, from Kankakee to Soldier Field is about half the time for the western suburban towns (I've done Manteno to Soldier Field in 48 minutes)...
Name The New Mega Private Conference:
"The New Mega Private Conference"
"The New Mega Private Conference"
Remember that the Catholic programs split, at one point to form two leagues, Chicago Catholic and the Suburban Catholic. The Original suburban Catholic than split into the the East and West Suburban Catholic conference.
ChicagoLAND Catholic League does have a nice marketing aspect to it...
ChicagoLAND Catholic League does have a nice marketing aspect to it...
These mega conferences usually make it easier for scheduling across all sports. I'm interested to see how they split the divisions up. Will they do the same for every sport or mix it up based on each sport.
I hope they play baseball within the new conference. Besides football there is nothing like a high school baseball game. I know some people like the area baseball travel teams better from a talent level but i like the high school rivalries in the CCL.
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