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Q: Top 100 IHSA Football Teams of All Time?

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Anon1754760634

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Pretty hard to think about......but I know you ladies love a challenge. Gonna just pin this thread and see what happens. Whio would you include in your Top 100 IHSA Football teams of all time? Also we are using the IHSA timeline so not going back any farther than 1974.

This post was edited on 1/17 7:51 AM by edgytim

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cornerrat

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All.... They have several that could qualify but the 2002 NLP team was pretty special. Ratsy
 
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Mateesen14

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Best I have seen would have to be 96 wheaton team, and 99 naperville c team. A bit of a homer on this one but close behind is 2008 and 2009 maine south teams, never really challenged in the 2008 season, and they beat the infamous Bartlett frosh team 23-6.
 
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Mateesen14

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That beujter(sp) shweigart(sp) was the team as kid that made me love HS football, then post high school watching Perez, goro, Benz made me proud to be a maine south hawk. Swag High. Never saw a team walk on the field that knew they wouldn't lose. No "big time" recruits, just a great all around high school squad
 
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ignazio

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Originally posted by edgytim:
Also we are using the IHSA timeline so not going back any farther than 1974.
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What, we're going to pretend this game never happened?

 
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DeanOfSelection

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random teams on it: East st Louis 85, Richards 89, PC 94, WWS 98, Nap C 99, JC 99, Lockport 03,JC 04 Morris 05, LWE 05, WWS 06, NN 07, JC07, Maine S 08, Brook 11, MC 12
 
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NazDad

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If my math is correct and we are limited to these years you have a Champions pool of 249 teams. I firmly believe that the Undefeated 2014 Nazareth Academy Roadrunners belong on the list of top 100 and probably fairly high up on the list.
 
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DeanOfSelection

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Just taking the Blue:
MC 1996 (for my $ best MC, 2 future NFL players on offense, best O line they have had, I think the O alone had 6 D1 players, highest scoring MC also)

SR 1978

BR 1981

LA 1993

PC 1994 (my opinion. '14 up there as well)
 
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Mateesen14

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Nov 14, 2003
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Just a question, how much weight is being put on number of D1 recruits? As an observer, almost any game I go to there are a few kids that are better high school players than the D1 recruit. Many times it's just the D1 kid has the height, weight, speed that a D1 coach feels he can mold into a potential D1 football player rather than just a great athlete. As a maine south guy, my example would be Sean Price, maybe the best high school qb I have seen because he was smart enough to pick apart most high school defenses, not many teams had the capability to press cover 4 receivers without getting burned somewhere, he wasn't big time recruit because he didn't have that 20 yd out capability. Not to say that MC team with mcnabb and such wasn't an amazing team.
 
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320

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Evanston 1971, no playoff's then but would've loved to see them against St Rita
 
crusader_of_90

crusader_of_90

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Althoff of 1990 has to be in the discussion.

Hickey Thompson running for 3100 yards. QB passed on D1 to play pro ball - some time time in MLB too. A TE/DE went to Mizzou. Two others on the OL/DL went to Nebraska, another to Notre Dame. One kid tied the interception record and we played a schedule of Belleville East/West, Alton, Edwardsville, Paducah Tilghman (on the road), the Missouri 3A champs Lutheran North and then Provi, which we shut out at home.

MC was not the best team on the carpet at ISU that day in 1990 - they just had more fans, which came early to watch us.
 
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JCHILLTOPPERS

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May 29, 2001
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Originally posted by BHSDEFENSE:
Naperville Central with Clifford/Owen Daniels

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Maine South with Perez/Alviti
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IMO, that Nap Central was the best team we've had. I loved watching them.
 
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DeanOfSelection

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crusader:

Actually MC did not play on same day as altoff in 90. 5 and 6A were the only games on Sat. MC beat Wheaton 24-0. MC also opened the season giving Moeller their only loss in Cincy 20-7.MC had D 1 players in McGrew-Nwestern, Sanders-Ill, Cushing-Ill, Rice-Ill,Nau-ND, Edwards-ILL and Koepke-Vandy. MC was #1 that year
 
crusader_of_90

crusader_of_90

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So all those folks were there to see us then I guess!

We can disagree - that's the beauty of the board.
 
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USD24

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Originally posted by DeanOfSelection:
crusader:

Actually MC did not play on same day as altoff in 90. 5 and 6A were the only games on Sat. MC beat Wheaton 24-0. MC also opened the season giving Moeller their only loss in Cincy 20-7.MC had D 1 players in McGrew-Nwestern, Sanders-Ill, Cushing-Ill, Rice-Ill,Nau-ND, Edwards-ILL and Koepke-Vandy. MC was #1 that year
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The JCA team was pretty good that year as well. Undefeated, which included a 36-10 playoff win over Morris, which was ranked #4 in USA today at the time. Great line play highlighted by USA today all-American John Horn.
 
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DeanOfSelection

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maybe he has JC confused with MC since they playd in 4A after 3A in the Friday games. Morris and MC opened up at #1 in each the suntimes/trib-not sure which was which. I think base don MC giving Moeller only loss and beating Wheaton 24-0 I mean power poll MC is 1. lets put it this way-in no equation is altoff over JC MC
 
crusader_of_90

crusader_of_90

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It must have been JCA, but your North of 80 bias shows. Just not sure those boys could have dealt with a team as big or bigger, plus our superior speed.
 
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MS4EVER

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Just to name a few.

Several of MC,PC,JCA,ESTL and Driscoll teams.

A few MS,Montini,SHG and WWS teams.

A couple Naperville N&C,Rochester,Marian,SR,Richards,Morris,Geneseo,BCC and Prospect teams.
 
crusader_of_90

crusader_of_90

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Since 1963, two IL teams have been named "national champs," including Rita and ESL in 1985. That should hold water.
 
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jwarigaku

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I think Dean is losing it, that's 4 years into the streak I don't think so, no matter how good you think MC was!
 
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mc140

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May 29, 2001
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I would say 1990 was the best MC team. I wonder if Frank still considers 88 to be his best team?

The 96 team was 16 seconds away from losing to Loyola. It took a hail Mary catch from Gianacakos grabbing the ball from a Loyola DB and a FG as time expired to win.
 
crusader_of_90

crusader_of_90

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Nov 1, 2003
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It's more complicated than I thought. He suffers from both "north of 80" and "east of the Mississippi" bias.
 
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DeanOfSelection

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1996
1. Mater Dei, Santa Ana, Calif. (14-0)
2. Hampton, Va. (14-0)
3. De La Salle, Concord, Calif. (12-0)
4. Berwick, Pa., (15-0)
5. Lewisville, Texas (15-0)
6. Mount Carmel, Chicago (14-0)
 
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illini14

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I would say the 1993 Belvidere team that won 5A should be on the list somewhere.

Went undefeated that year against Rockford Boylan (beat them twice), beat ESL in the playoffs, and Bolingbrook (who was #1 at the time in the state) featuring Greg Williams and Corey Day in the state final. The bucs ran a no-huddle offense out of the wishbone that was a little before its time with all of hurry up offenses that are used now, Vern Pottinger was the head coach who lead the Bucs to being the best high school program in the Rockford are during the 80's and 90's before Rockford Boylan took over in the 00's. And yes, Rockford area football was respectable back then, unlike now. Didn't have any D1 players, but some how found a way to go 14-0, run the ball, and play great defense.

Bucs finished 12th in the country in the USA today poll ahead of 14th ranked Marian Catholic out of Chicago Heights.

They also followed it up with a 1994 title in 4A with many returners from the previous year.
 
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jwarigaku

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Dean,

The trusty USA super25 I see. Including MC in that list is politically correct for regional paper sales in 1996. The DLS team was 12-0 that season and out scored their opponents 594-53. Please don't continue this nonsense MC would have gotten smack by this Berwick team as well even though it had less than 60 on the roster. Not a big ND fan here but Berwick is the school Ron Powlus graduated from in 1992.
 
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mc140

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May 29, 2001
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Originally posted by jwarigaku:
Dean,

The trusty USA super25 I see. Including MC in that list is politically correct for regional paper sales in 1996. The DLS team was 12-0 that season and out scored their opponents 594-53. Please don't continue this nonsense MC would have gotten smack by this Berwick team as well even though it had less than 60 on the roster. Not a big ND fan here but Berwick is the school Ron Powlus graduated from in 1992.
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I saw Powlus first star his Sophomore year at Berwick down in Cincinaitti. They didn't play very well. Besides MC, Massillon and Jenks were the best teams I saw that day.
 
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