[Shotimes] Re: (OT) SIU wins

[Donald Mallinson]

Illinois is crazy for high school ball too.  Right now the 
big school teams (AA class, we have a two class system 
unlike Indiana that has what....47 classes?)  :)  are going 
at it and Carbondale IL High (home city of SIU) is in the 
final four and playing tonight.

The state is in an uproar over IHSA wanting to add more 
classes, while the B-Ball purists want to go back to ONE 
class.  Better to have a small school maybe make the really 
BIG win once in a while than have the shame of admitting you 
can't play with the Chicago schools.

Really, the two class system is OK with me, and I might be 
able to live with four, but I would make it this four:

Big public schools
Big private schools
Little public schools
Little private schools

Private schools can recruit from anywhere while public 
schools have a much harder time doing that.  (oh and all the 
big schools recruit just like the pro teams.  in fact one 
coach boasted about it two years ago at the finals, and got 
his school banned for ONE year...yea, the IHSA takes it 
serious!)  :)

Great basketball all around, can ignore the pro teams even 
more completely than I normally do.

Don Mallinson

Ron Porter wrote:
> Actually, I was listening to a high school tournament game today. Indiana is
> basketball-crazy, and the Washington Hatchets played a semifinal state
> tournament game in Seymour today, and the folks have been going nuts here in
> Washington IN. Washington won (beating Indianapolis Roncalli), as did
> Loogootee IN, which is a town 15 miles east of here, and a huge Washington
> rival. I don't totally understand all of the divisions in the IN high school
> tournament, but if they win their next games up in Indianapolis next week, I
> "think" they play each other.
> 
> Ron Porter