September 2007 Archives

This coming weekend, I'm planning to take a rare detour from my football travels across the state. Missing any football at this time of the year just doesn't happen too much around here unless it's a really good reason.

I will still hopefully be on the road this coming Saturday but this time I'll strictly be Dad in the stands for a change.

My 13 year old son EDGYMike will be a part of the Illinois Elementary School Association baseball state finals when his team travels to East Peoria to play at the wonderful facility known as the East Side Centre starting on Friday evening.

The Joliet St. Paul Giants will open up play on Friday evening against Pawnee in the Class 2A quarterfinals. The winners from Friday's quarterfinal action will advance to the state semifinal and final rounds on Saturday.

So by now you might be asking, what in the world does this have to do with the world of High School football and/or High School sports in general?

It's becoming pretty evident this fall that the game is changing.

From one end of this great state to the other, week in and week out I'm seeing more and more of what I like to call the Attack of the Dink and Dunk offenses.

Dink and Dunk you ask?

The Dink and Dunk, otherwise more commonly known as the Shotgun Spread offense. Teams all over the state are now putting it's quarterbacks in the Shotgun formation and spreading the entire field with a barrage of short to intermediate passing routes along with the popular shotgun draw running play like never before.

Welcome to basketball on grass?

I expected the outrage the minute I added my third Suburban Catholic Conference school to my weekly EDGYTIM.com Chicagoland Top 25 poll.

I knew it was coming.

I knew that throngs of fans of larger enrollment schools would be very vocal once I added Driscoll Catholic into my weekly poll. I'm also expecting that our buddy and Sun Times prep editor Steve Tucker is also experiencing the same responses with his weekly Top 25 poll.

So, the question on the table or blog if you will is can the smaller guys play with the bigger boys?

It's a good question, a really good question.

My-0-My!

Each and every year after the first few weeks of the season are in the books, you can always find a few surprising teams that have yet to post it's first win of the year.

A must win in Week 3?

Welcome to the very short and very important 9 game regular season for Illinois High School Football.