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weekend it was. You got to see a handful of games, going from up in Chicago down to Illinois State University on Saturday night to see Mount Carmel and East Saint Louis play, and you know, man, it's your favorite time of year. Sounded like you had a good time. Yeah, it was a great day, especially on Saturday. You know, having the opportunity to go and do all that I did, see all the teams that I did, it was. It was really kind of fun to just have that
opportunity at i SU. We usually don't get games like that Saturday night on opening weekend like it was. I hope and I don't know what the future of that particular event might be. I would love to see not only something like that happen again next year, but maybe even expanding it a little bit and turning it into kind of like a Jambo reevent. Yeah, like they do down in st the Saint Louis area. That is it the first or
second weekend? It might be the second. It's the second weekend of the season that they typically have what I don't know exactly what they call it, but but I mean this year is interesting. Saint Louis's playing Saint Francis Academy that in that event. But yeah, but yeah, I think it would be really I think it would be really fun. Yeah, I think it would be really fun if if maybe we had like a two or three game slate. And and I talked about this a little bit before. I mean,
I s U is now hosting the state finals. It was my first time in the venue since way back in the day before the renovations. They only had fans sitting on one side of the stadium for whatever reason. But there was a good, strong crowd I thought for that game, and maybe it's kind of a precursor of what the environment could feel like on state championship weekend. And I'll be honest, I thought the energy in the building was
really good, but really positive experience all the way around. And those are two teams Mount Carmel and East St. Louis that their fan bases really travel well. I mean we discovered that you and I did four or five years ago now when East Saint Louis played Batavia and they I mean we got there that afternoon and there were a couple our vs. They were cooking out. I mean you're talking about a four and a half five hour drive and there
were hundreds of East St. Louis fans. Oh yeah. It was a well attended game in that situation by both sides, you know, kind of cutting the trip trip and half for both of the two schools in that situation. Yea perp kind of made it like I'm meeting the middle type of game, but good representation by both schools. Also a lot of you know a lot of football fans that I knew and recognized. Just having an opportunity to see those your teams play in that that in that situation really kind of made
for a neat thing. I hope, I hope It doesn't necessarily have to be Saint Louis and Mount Carmel playing every year, but I would really really be enthusiastic about maybe having this as an annual event with you know, a couple of kind of key matchups. I think that'd just be great for everybody. I'm completely spitballing here, but like now, you've got the wheels turning, and I want to do so. I'm looking for three games. I'm
looking for small school, medium sized school, in large school. So like you have eat Saint Louis, Mount Carmel's your your nightcap, right, give me some like Lena Winslow, Decatur, Saint Teresa, you know, early in the day, and then I'll about like Joliet Catholic in Rochester, you know. Yeah, yeah, that'd be fun. Yeah, I'm all right, yep, let's let's let's let's let's line it up. Let's let's get
a title for it, and let's get that done. Well, while that does sound like a black we got plenty of time to plenty of time to plan that. After the twenty twenty three seasons. We're only one week in here, and we got a lot to talk about. Thank you everyone who joined us at Friday Night Drive dot Com over the weekend and and also on Friday night for the live stream. It was a lot of fun. We'll be back with you Jimmy Musual and I on Friday night. But Seuss,
let's start out. Let's work our way back from Saturday evening at that game down at I s U where you saw Mount Carmel beat Saint Louis thirty five thirty one, and something that was really interesting there was the hero really for Mount Carmel was Jack Elliott, who was making his first start for Blaney Dowling
after Dowling graduated one hundred and seventy four oars rushing. But as you put it in your what we learned in Week one, which you can find right now on Friday Night Drive dot com, it just seemed like he found a way or had a hand in every late conversion in that game. Yeah, it was. It was a really really impressive performance for him. I mean when you watched him play, you felt like this was a guy who had twenty twenty varsity varsity games under his belt, and in reality it was really
his first notable snaps at the high school football level. It was really incredible, just showed a savvy and a determination and if you've if you haven't seen e Saint Louis's defense play, one of the things that they really like to do is they like to lower the boom on you if they get the opportunity, and they rang his bell a couple of times, and he just popped
right back up, got ready for the next one. I mean, carried the ball over twenty times, showed a solid enough arm to keep opposing defense is honest obviously probably never going to post the prolific passing numbers that Lanny Dowling did last year, But as Jordan Lynch mentioned after the game, they know that this is a different team that they have last year and a different set
of assets that they can exploit. So just kind of used a one two combo of Elliott and Darien Dupree, and Lynch was right, that's a that's a really bad pick your poison type of situation if you're opposing defense can't key on them both, so you gotta pick one or the other. Saint Louis did a pretty good job of limiting dupri He never really got loose for any long runs, but Elliott just churned up the yardage because maybe it was the St. Louis saying, Okay, you're gonna beat us in other ways than
Dary and dupri and they could not reign in Elliott. So that means we will have a new number one this week in the Friday Night Drive Power Ranking. You'll find those live online at Friday Night Drive dot Com Tuesday morning, and you'll also find SEUSS projection after week one, going live on Wednesday morning. You can follow sus on Twitter at the SEUs. You can follow myself on Twitter at Kyle Neighbors, and you can follow Friday Night Drive on Twitter
or x whatever you want to call it at at fn Drive. You can also find Friday Night Drive on Facebook, Instagram, Ram, and TikTok sus. Sticking to the Saturday games, these two teams played a thriller a year ago in the season opener. They played another close one here, not nearly as high scoring, though Glenbard West came away with a seven to six win. That game was tied at half and into the fourth quarter. Michael Dwojak
was over there covering that game for US. Marris took the lead midway through the fourth quarter or so on a sixty two yard touchdown run by QBO and Winters, only to have Glenbard West Mason Ellen's returned the ensuing kickoff ninety four yard for a touchdown, Glenbard West able to make that stand up and pick up a win SEUs. Yeah, just kind of an interesting game on a lot of fronts. I mean, last year it was a wild game where it felt like we were scoring every two minutes, and this time it was
just an absolute scuffle that took forever for someone to break through. And I was talking to Michael a little bit about that game this morning, and and he, you know, he was expressing that he wasn't sure exactly what was going on there. Was it was it two really tough defenses or what's a the struggles of kind of a young offenses on both sides trying to figure out their way as they went. So I think both teams are probably going to
end up being pretty proficient offensively. We just haven't seen it yet, so that that kind of turned into a slugfest. Maris a whisper away from making this different mister field goal at the end of the game that would have won it for him obviously missed the extra point that you know that you know, caused them to be down in the first place. So a really interesting result. Not exactly what I was expecting from the game, but certainly something to
keep an eye on with those two teams. One of the many, many coaching cliches that are out there, and this is one of the very few that doesn't irritate me because it actually makes sense for high school football, is teams make their biggest improvement between week one and week two, right and yeah, yeah, And we were talking about that on the on the live stream on Friday night when you checked in with us with Jimmy and I about the
sloppiness. We were seeing a lot of penalties, a lot of offenses just seeming to be kind of, you know, slogging around there. But you know, after we let you go, it felt like things really kind of took off on Friday night, including that year game you were over at Kankakee NAZ and NAZ was down twenty to six at halftime, really was struggling to get much going to get to K's. All of a sudden that game was
tied up and came right down the wire. Yeah, it was, it was kind of it was it felt like a very odd game for Nazareth just in a lot of ways. I expected them to be a lot more proficient in the passing game, and while watching that first half, I was like, there's, you know, there was something just off. They weren't clicking very well. But I do have to give a lot of credit to Kankakee Secondary. They did an excellent job a lot of man coverage where they just
kept making it extremely difficult and gave very small windows to Logan Malichuk. Finally, it just came down to I think Nazareth recognizing that Kinky Secondary wasn't having it. So a lot of their gains came from Logan Malichuk, who has proven to be a very uh, you know, prolific runner when he decides to do so, ended up just talking it away and taking you know, chunks of yardage, ended up bringing Nazareth back with his feet rather than his
arms, so they were able to get it back to Tide. Kanki Kei made some mistakes and kind of let them, you know, play with some short fields, let them get back to Tide. But when when push came to shove, Kanki Ki was able to utilize really really fast running back, A talented running back in Tony Phillips. He had a long touchdown run early in the game, ended up with over two hundred yards in the in the contest. Really kind of Kankakee as a whole. Their speed gave Nazareth a
lot of trouble. This is another one of those situations where I think, in the cases of both teams, we didn't see the product that we're going to see five or six weeks down the line. Especially with Nazareth, it just felt like something wasn't quite there for them over the course of this entire game. But I have complete confidence that they'll get those things fixed. I picked naz to win the game. I thought they probably win the game by
ten or fourteen points. I was wrong. And despite the fact that I thought this Kankae Heat team was in good shape coming into the season, I don't think I had them ranked highly enough in my own book Suis. I think this case team after seeing the way they played in that game, not just the fact that they beat naz but the fact that they that they hadn't lead at halftime, let naz back into the game and didn't no offensive Kankakee,
but I've seen the program enough over the years and even recently. You go back to the state title game a couple of years ago where they got behind in it, right, this was a team like they didn't panic, They found a way to finish off the game. That is a great sign for Miles Ose as he gets it first win there and what this team is going to be able to accomplish come October. Well, I was kind of
concerned about Kankakeep coming into the season for multiple reasons. You know, I wasn't sure how much they'd be able to offset the loss of a really talented jayere Hill who's now at Michigan. But one of the things that he did last year that I think might have been to their detriment was they were trying to utilize a whole bunch of people on offense, and sometimes that gets that gets messy, like you start to get guys that are, you know,
not happy with their roles or whatever, and it just you don't get into a rhythm because you don't have the same people in the same places. I thought it really benefited them the other night that they just basically said Tony Phillips is our running back and we're going to give him the lion's share of the cares carries. And when that doesn't work, you know, when we decided to run the ball, we'll use our quarterback, Lorenz Walters on a quarterback
keeper, something on that nature. He had a long touch on running the game. It was just the I guess almost the simplicity of what they were doing that made it difficult for them to be stocked. I mean, when you have the athletes, and they certainly have the athletes, keep it simple, right, you know, go out there and make plays, don't get crazy with it. It's a good strategy. If that's the way kank Key is going to run their offense, they're gonna be in good shape this year.
Sus all right, So let's hit one more game before we take a commercial break here. I want to go up into the North Suburbs for a game. Another one where I picked Warren to win. Barrington comes out on top forty to thirty three. But maybe the biggest surprise out of all this suits was the fact that there was seventy three points scored in this game. I just never saw this coming. Well, I mean, I'll give you
credit on this one. You you were a little bit more on the Barrington train turnaround that maybe I was at the beginning of the year, and you know, I thought this was a game that Barrington would be good to be competitive, and I certainly didn't think that they would win the game. And like you said, the points scored in this game another layer of surprise eyes
to this. You know, Warren pro prototypically doesn't give up hardly anything on the defensive side of the ball, So it's it's definitely a game that kind of was a little eye popping for me when I saw the result on Friday night. Yeah, it was a back and forth fourth affair and that one Matt quarterback, Matt Marusitch, I'm sorry if I'm butcher in that name here, I was able to hit Nick Piper for a twenty one yard touchdown along
the sideline. Suits. I don't know if you saw the replay of that anywhere, but what happened was Piper caught the ball along the sideline, was able to absorb a hit turn up field without stepping out a bound and break it, break it off and get into the end zone late in that game. Was a hell of a play. Good win for the Broncos. Yeah, I mean I did see a clip of that, and it was it was a heck of a play. And I mean in the grand scheme of
things, I mean, obviously this is a huge win. But you know, with Barrington, this was one of those teams that I started noted well, I was keeping an eye on right from the get go because their schedule is so difficult. So I mean, you don't want to start counting wins now, but that could turn out to be a critical win for Barrington in the grand scheme of things, looking ahead to everything that it was, you
know, taken into account. There So just a game that has evolved into a rivalry over the last decade or so that that Warren frankly has dominated que quite a bit in recent years. But just a really nice bounce back for Barrington. It certainly puts them on the radar as being, you know, a top contender to make noise in their conference and maybe make noise statewide. All right, we're going to take a quick commercial break stick with us here
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in the North Suburbs. And another game that came down in the wild the wire with Saint Charles North winning thirty seven thirty four Ethan Plum that Keaton Ryan Key with just over two minutes left there to give Palatine. I'm sorry, give Saint Charles North that thirty seven thirty four win. Plum with three hundred and thirty two yards passing in three touchdowns in this game. Another really good
game on Friday Night. Yeah, this was a game that when I looked at it on paper heading into Week one, I was like, boy, that's that's probably gonna be a doozy, just because I thought both teams had the potential to be really strong programs this year. That's the kind of game that I know, it's a non conference game, and it has to be played early in the year. That's a game that I would have if given
my druthers, I'd push it back on that schedule. So both teams had a chance to kind of get their bearings and get going before uh, you know, busting out of the gate here in Week one with this one. But turned out to be a pretty dynamic game to begin with. And you know, Palatine running back Dominic Balls a real talent for them yea and forty yards and a couple of touchdowns in the first half of this one. And
this is a senior dominated team. So kind of felt like heading into this one that this was a game that Palatine, uh maybe would be your favorite in. But Saint Charles North has had a knack for kind of pulling some of these games out of the fire in recent years. Definitely a great effort from Ethan Plumber you listed off as statistics there. Guy made big plays all
the way through the back end of that game. It just seemed like following along with that on Friday Night, you know, as a back and fourth type of contests and played at a pretty high level for a week one game. Absolutely do want to point out if you go to Friday Night Drive dot com, now we have a new feature on the site this year. If you go to a team page. Let's say you are a fan of Saint Charles North. You go to the upper left menu there and you hit the
drop down menu for the individual team pages. Let's say you're on Saint Charles North. You'll now find their upcoming schedule and results all season long, right there, A nice little feature we've added this year through a score stream. Now, Sue's I want to head over to Brother Rice and Main South. Brother Rice was able to grind out a ten seven win in this game. It was a low scoring game throughout, not much offense. Honestly, it
was kind of how I expected this one to play out. Yeah, Brother Rice, to be honest with you, heading into the season was kind of a complete mystery to be I mean, I know they have they had some things back, some very notable things, particularly Christian Pearson the defensive side of the ball, but overall a lot of questions. Didn't really know like what was gonna you know, how they were going to do a lot of things that they were going to do, just a lot of new names kind of
slotting in there. But you know, I was really reluctant to say, well, even though there's a bunch of change there, you know, you still got to respect them, their Brother Ice, And it looks like they just figured out a way to you know, grind one out here, and that might be a situation that Brother Rice has to employ in many of their games this year. Obviously one of the team teams in the state that has one of the more notable schedules that they have to get through just in their
conference alone, in the in the in the Blue. So uh, just a really gritty effort from Brother Ice, but also puts puts it on alert. If you were thinking maybe Brother Ice might take a step back this year, not so fast. I mean, this is a quality win for them. They went heavy on the running game, particularly in the second half.
Dick Quagliano was over there coming of the game for The Daily Herald. Our partner here at Friday Night Drive. And you know one thing that did definitely impact this game was main South Loloucester starting quarterback Jack d Philippis in the first quarter there he did not return, so you know that that had an impact on that game. But still brother Rice rallying in that and finding a way
to grind out, grind that out in the second half. Now, I want to go to one of the most surprising results of the week, Sus. If you were watching Live on the Friday Night Drive or Live with Friday Night Drive on Friday night, you probably were able to understand that I was a bit shocked, and I still am. Several days later, Rochester the forty fourteen win over Peoria, and even then it wasn't that close. It was a running clock with Rockchester scoring the first forty points in that game.
And I want to believe it was early in the second half that they got the running clock. Sus. Yeah, I didn't see this coming. I kind of expected Rochester to win this game, but I certainly expected to be a lot closer than it than it turned out to be. Peoria, obviously a five A state finalists last year, did lose some big pieces, but one of the things that Peoria never seems to lose is an ability to put up some points against almost anybody. I mean, they scored seven hundred points
last year. Uh in the in the regular season. I mean it's it's the season, including the playoffs. Obviously, a program that knows how to scored. So the fact that Rochester was just able to completely bottle them up is a good sign for the Rockets moving forward. But also, uh, you know, after maybe taking a little bit of a step back from the level that rock that we had come to expect from Rochester, maybe puts us back in the mix of thinking about you know, maybe they're back at the
higher level than that we're accustomed to see from this program. I'm yeah, I'm very very interested to look back on this game about a month from now, because right now I'm going, well, is the Rochester defense this good or has the por E offense fallen off this much? And I don't think we can answer that right now. We'll know a lot more, as I said it, in a bottom month. Yeah, it's definitely kind of telling it. It was. It was kind of a confusing weekend in the Central
State eight, with Rochester winning in the fashion that they did. I mean, and then Sacred Heart Griffin got beat up pretty badly by Normal Community and one of those crossover games are the Big Twelve. So yeah, that's you know, you know, I expected there to be a fall off with Sacred Heart Griffin. They I know, they lost a decent amount obviously, you know, coaching change with Ken Leonard retiring the big difference. But yeah, that was that was another result that I was I was looking at kind of
sideways. Yeah, so, I mean, it was just it was kind of a layered, weird weekend and central you know, Central Illinois type conferences, the larger schools. I mean, glen Wood, another team that usually does well in the Central State, really scuffled to get past Danville, a team that, you know, it's usually around a five hundred club, but
not the kind of team that I would think Glenwood would struggle with. So already, that little Big twelve Central State Aid arrangement that we talked about a little bit earlier in this preseason is is netting some interesting games and some interesting results. Thinking of kind of the middle part of this state. So if teams didn't move their games off from Friday night and here's something I was dealing
with. Being live on air kind of made it a little more difficult for me to follow things from other you know, like if it wasn't a game that I was trying to really focus on, to give updates on all of a sudden on the periphery kind of my thought process, I noticed like games weren't moving along, and it took me a while. Did you like how many how white spread? Was the weather issue on Friday night? Down there?
It was pretty bad. I mean there were, Yeah, there were at least twenty games that were suspended from Friday night and finished on Saturday, and another probably fifteen to twenty that had long delays before getting finished. There was one downstate that actually didn't even kick off until nine thirty. And then I saw that I saw that finishing it. Yeah, yeah, you know, I'm up here in mckenry County. I'm although almost up in Wisconsin.
It was actually a gorgeous night up here when I got into the building to start prepping for the show and got some dinner right before, and it was gorgeous. Then. Yeah, didn't not realize that was coming for the central part of this state. But anyway, we got two more games that hit
on suits. Before we wrap up this edition of the Friday Night Drive podcast, let's go over to Seneca Wilmington. This was a rivalry game that had not been played in a while with the Interstate the former Interstate eight Conference have been being reconstructed over the last several years, but Seneca and Wilmington got together here in Week one, Seneca pulling off a twenty seven twenty one win.
These are programs that had both a lot coming back. Wilmington was young last year, still put together a Wilmington types even got bound from the playoffs, maybe a little earlier than usually because they were young. Seneca obviously a great year, a lot coming back, but still, I mean, it's just it's just as you and I we've been around this area long enough, it's just weird to see as Seneca win over Wilmington's even knowing that they're both very
good programs. They might not lose again for the rest of the regular season. Yeah, it Wilmington in a Week one for you know, forever, seems like they win every year. Yeah, I say, when was the last time Wilmington had a start at oh and one? Well, it was all in one. It goes back not quite that far. I believe it's
twenty twelve because they did lose one game early in the season. The one that got me was I went and looked to see if they happen to lose this week, and they're playing an interesting Aurora Christian team in Week two who they happen to lose this destroy Ottawa Mark Hut. Wilmington is would be oh and two if they lost that game for the first time since two thousand and one, so that that doesn't happen very often. No, I mean week
one losses are rare. A slow start for Wilmington as almost non existent. But let's give Seneca a lot of credit here that this is a really good football team. They took a big step last year. They have almost everyone back from that team. There was a reason why this game got scheduled. Seneca felt like they had a good chance to beat Wilmington in this game.
Certainly didn't take it for granted, but they wanted They wanted to schedule up in the non conference to prep themselves for what they think could be a pretty productive run should they slide into the two A field. They were a three A playoff team last year. Looks like they're going to be on the two A three A bubble again, but strangely enough, so is Wilmington, so
they're also on that two A three A bubble. If let's just say, if they both ended up in the same classification, whatever, I don't think it would be the last time that these two teams are going to meet this year. If they both end up in the same class I could easily see
this being a potential semi final game in the North bracket. Two games I want to quickly get too out in western part of the state and don't want to spend a lot of time on them because if you're listening, if you're a regular listener to the Friday Night Drive podcast, we got something new for you this week and throughout the regular season. Eddie Cariffio and JT. Penalty are coming along this week. That podcast will drop on Tuesday. It's called
the Illinois Valley edition of the Friday Night Drive Podcasts. They're going to cover the western part of the state, whether that's Eddie's based out in Decalb, JT's out in Ottawa. Dan Russo will be joining them out from the Sauk Valley area. They would have a lot coming for you guys out in the western part of the state. But two scores I do want to mention from out there that I found interest in sus interesting sues Forrest in Fulton and uyc
battle came down to the wire twenty two eighteen Forest and win. And then Dixon won against Stillman Valley on the road. The Duke's quality program. But you kind of look down at the breakdown of the Big Northern I had Byron at the top. I saw it still or thought Stillman Valley was right there. Honestly, I thought the Dukes were probably a rung below those two teams.
A hell of a win for Dixon in my book, Well, you know, when you look at that game in particular, like you you kind of get used to, like the stacking of the Big Northern Conference kind of remaining consistent Dixon has has been, you know, towards the upper half for the last couple of years. Isn't totally out of the blue that they won
this football game, but it definitely raised my eyebrow a little bit. And you know, sometimes when I see a score that maybe looks a little bit off, I go confirm it in a second place, just to make sure that the score didn't get reversed or whatever. But a good solid win for Dixon here sets them up well in a big Northern conference that obviously has Byron at the top, but it looks like it's open season for who stacks up directly behind them so far in the early going. How about that forced in
Fulton game. Anything out of that or out of the n U s in general. You know that conference also has kind of a pecking or distributed to it. And I was really interested in this game because I kind of feel like these are the two teams that slot in right behind Lena Winslow. So uh, you know, in ferreting out who who won that game, that game played out exactly how I thought it would play out, really close, kind of down to the wire, two fairly evenly matched teams. And it's
another one of those situations like we were mentioned with Seneca and Wilmington. It would be very easy to see a scenario where this isn't the last time that these two meet. It's always tricky to kind of figure out how north you know, northwest up state of Line I teams are going to factor into the playoffs because they play so many good games during the year that one or two of them are going to be a really good football team with two or three
losses on the ledger. That's just the way that has to work. So they're going to be an underseat. So predicting those teams into the semi finals in a North South bracket becomes very, very difficult because they can't all make it and they all tend to run into each other pretty early in the brackets. So but that's that remains the premier one eight conference in the state, and I don't think second place is close. All right, Well, we're
gonna go ahead and close the books on week one. Stick at Friday Night Drive dot Com all week we have more podcasts coming for your way. Of course, as I said, Eddie and JT will have the debut episode of the Illinois Valley Podcast Joshwaukee. Jake Barlston will be along to talk about the western suburbs, and then join us on Friday night as we have Live with
Friday Night Drive from eight to eleven PM. Jimmy Musual and I will be your host, and of course Friday Night Drive dot Com all week long, we'll have everything that you normally would get from us there, power ranking, playoff projections, Week two game previews. It's gonna be a good week. We'll be back with you on Thursday to talk the week Week two preview. For now, though, we're signing off for Steve Susy. I am Kyle Nabors. Thank you for listening. Talk to you guys later. Schweiker,
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