My two cents is that IL should keep what they have going. In fact there is a pretty good contigent in MO especially on the St Louis side that would love to see MO model IL's system because we feel it in the end it makes for much better basketball.
Ours is so watered down to five classes and has what roughly half the population of IL?
Of course it will never happen but makes for a good conversation on the fanboards over here.
One thing that does not make sense to me though in IL is you go all the way thru the state playoffs which is IMO is pretty rigourous by most state HS standards (hence why I like it)and then you get to the final 8 and you play the 1/4s one day and then play the semi's AND finals on the next day? Can anyone in IL explain that? Is it a travel thing? Shouldn't they just take the final 4 to state? or again a travel thing?
One other thing is that IL seems to promote its basketball more than MO. I remember when I was a kid where I grew up we had a big antennae and we could turn it north and get TV out of Quincy, mainly for Football Cardinals games as they were never sold out, but back on topic, one other thing we could get was IL HS basketball, I think it was like the sectional maybe supersectional out of Peoria. Here in MO the only TV cast that I know of is the 5a finals.
Edit: for sp and content
[Edited by eyezen on Nov 25th, 2005 at 01:47 PM]
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