Rita (11-2) advances for the second time in a row to the state title game. Prospect's magical Class 7A playoff run ended with a thud Saturday night in a 42-20 loss to St. Rita during the Class 7A football semifinal game in Chicago Saturday. There`s nothing you can do about it.''īeyond the players, the big losers are the fans, who miss out on the chance to see some potentially outstanding matchups.Prospect players hug one another following their 42-20 loss to St. It`s a little bit frustrating, but not that bad. ''We`ll just have to get our practice in and be ready for the third game. ''It`s a disappointment because you`ve got to wait two weeks for another game,'' said linebacker Matt Kingsbury. Maybe a controlled scrimmage and some work on fundamentals. So I imagine there would be some commotion with that question.'' ''I would say probably most public schools try to avoid playing Catholic schools if possible,'' he said, ''because they have the opportunity to select players throughout the state, don`t they? Where we have boundaries. But he acknowledges that, given their druthers, most public schools prefer to play public schools, in football anyway. Athletic directors in the 33-member South Inter-Conference Association or the 14-school West Suburban Conference, for example, point out that many of their nonleague dates are committed to conference crossover games.īut what about their remaining open dates? Like many of his colleagues, Reavis Athletic Director Ted Caiazza says he has no rule against playing a Catholic school-that in fact he tried to schedule independent Marian Catholic this year. It`s difficult to find a coach or athletic director at a suburban public school who will come right out and say he doesn`t want to play a parochial school in football. It was the upbringing their parents had.'' Rita would go to a Catholic school anyway. ''They fail to realize 90 percent of the kids who go to Mt. ''I think it goes back to they think we are taking kids out of their neighborhoods,'' Lenti said. The problem, Lenti believes, is that public school coaches think Catholic programs have an unfair advantage by being able to recruit players from anywhere while they must stay within district boundaries. The school everybody loves to beat but no one wants to play.` '' ''We had some of our kids at a college passing camp, and one of the ''They supposedly have an unofficial ban on playing Catholic schools.'' ''None of the suburban schools wants to play us, particularly the south suburban schools,'' said Lenti, who is working on scheduling an out-of-state opponent for next year. Caravan coach and Athletic Director Frank Lenti says he would love to play top suburban teams but can`t find any who are willing. Carmel, which pounded Kenwood 34-0 last week and faces a tougher Public League opponent Saturday in King. The remaining 21 involve opponents from other parochial schools, Public League members or schools from outside the Chicago area or the state.Ī case in point is defending Class 6A state champion Mt. A lot of Catholic League teams, and some parochial schools in other leagues, have problems finding suitable early-season opponents.Īmong the 23 games Catholic League teams are playing the first two weeks, only two are against suburban public school opponents-Fenwick against Oak Park and Loyola Academy against Evanston. Had he looked earlier, Angsten indeed may have found an opponent, but the odds are it would have been one of the Public League`s lesser lights-in other words, a 40-0 victim. The process has always been a year at a time, not two-three-four years. It`s been a headache, but I`ve always been successful. It`s a situation I should have seen coming and didn`t. ''I dragged my feet thinking it`s not a problem. ''The bottom line is, I`ve started (scheduling) for next year and the year after now,'' he said.
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