2024 High School Football

[An-Cap Frog]

My daughter's school just announced a week 0 game against their in-town rival for next Friday. Just a scrimmage, but hard to believe it is almost here.

Here's a conference preview:

2024 season preview: Scouting the Chicagoland Christian Conference

Who will be the top dog after Aurora Christian, Wheaton Academy and Hope Academy shared the title? Can Wheaton Academy and Hope Academy match their playoff runs? And can Marian get to the playoffs? Team breakdowns, players to watch and more in the Chicagoland Christian preview.

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[An-Cap Frog]

Crazy stat. Wheaton Academy went 11-2 in 2023 with two 1-point losses.

 

[Cougar/Frog]

I am excited for son's junior season.

My son's team did a scrimmage last week and they finally let him go both ways and he played some NT and DE. He did great.

He also is one of the top OL in our state in his class and started on varsity since freshman year.

Last year his team reached the state semifinals.

 

[An-Cap Frog]

 

[froginmn]

 

[Cougar/Frog]

A great start to the season for my son and his team. Not only did they get a blow out win, he had multiple tackles for a loss and made the QB run for his life.
He dominated on the o-line and the running backs enjoyed the giant holes he created.
One of the players on the other team was a Polynesian senior he has trained against for several years. My son dominated him, which is a compete reversal from a couple years ago.
Can I just say that I love watching my son play football--yes.

 

[NewFrogFan]

Never for NFL, but for another season, yes to College.

 

[An-Cap Frog]

Week 1 for Illinois schools...

 

[allclearforfrogs]

Collin County does it right.

 

[An-Cap Frog]

Second Baptist (Houston) edges out Wheaton Academy (Illinois) 19-17. Wheaton's o-line seemed to struggle with protection in the passing game, but found something late in their final drive which came up just short. Second Baptist, got a safety with 6 minutes to play in the 4th. Wheaton forced a stop on deference, marched down the field and took a shot at the endzone under a minute, but the receiver could not come up with the ball. Wheaton never made into field goal position to secure the victory.

 

[Cougar/Frog]

My son's team is 2-0. The game was over in the 1st quarter (up by 3 TDs) so he barely played defense, to give more reps to other players. He played left guard and left tackle and a few plays at NT. He kept creating huge holes for the RBs and pancaking the DL.

The schedule gets harder now with 4 of the next 5 against national top 150 teams. Then a couple easier games. Then the season finale against a national top 15 team.

However, having watched the next 3 teams live or on game film this season, my son's team looks better than all of them. His team could be undefeated when they play the season finale. It might even be likely.

 

[froginmn]

Wheaton forced a stop on deference, marched down the field and took a shot at the endzone under a minute, but the receiver could not come up with the ball.

I believe the correct term is "in deference".

 

[An-Cap Frog]

I believe the correct term is "in deference".

 

[Cougar/Frog]

Just an update on my son's team and how things are going.

His team blew out the long time #2 team in the state (which had not lost a single game in any other team in the state except the all-dominant #1 team in the state in a decade and is the only team in the state to defeat the state's top team in the last 15 years).

A co-worker who is a former assistant coach for the #3 team in the state told me recently that coaches he knows from multiple other programs around town were taking up my son's team and how great they look, especially the O-line (which is really just my son and 4 guys who are just ok).

His team only lost a game so far to a nationally ranked out-of-state power. This week they play the #3 team in our state, the 3rd of 5 top 150 nationally ranked teams they play this season.

A win will set up his team to have home field advantage through the playoffs until the state championship, which is played on neutral site venue. His team has a ton of seniors with multiple players committed to D1 schools, so the time is now to best the #3 team and set the path to play for the state championship this year.

We have only done one game day D1 college visit this season so far, but will go another this Saturday at a Top 25 team.

Given Saturday's result, I thought I should revive this thread and provide some distraction.

BTW, my Ft Worth born son would look very good in purple. If I had known he would be this good maybe we should have stayed in Texas, since we were zoned for one of the current top schools in north Texas.