Tim

@TrustTrost Love this.

High school conferences. They’ve been broken by adult egos over football, selfishness and at times continue to hurt innocent student athletes, who are being rolled out onto courts and fields just to check an adult box. Before I get into how they’re physically hurting kids, I’ll ask you this once again: Do most kids care about a conference title? Nope. I talk to high school student athletes all the time throughout the Chicago region, throughout Illinois and nationally. It’s a question I ask continually, and most kids have no idea the name of the conference their school is in. It’s 2026 - not 1970. Conferences only exist these days to check a football-scheduling box. That’s it. Each spring, there are 1,000s of high school games rescheduled due to weather. You can’t control the weather they say, but you can control common sense. Why are we forcing rescheduled conference games to be played that result in blowout victories? The kids don’t want to play them, and they’re an utter waste of financials from busing and cost of game. Most of all, what these rescheduled blowout conference games are causing are student athletes to play too many games in a short window of time. You have some coaches literally running up the score as quick as possible to get the games over with, because of their team’s physical health and lack of bench. It happens every year, and the same damn hamster wheel continues year after year because adult school leaders get to the June finish line, checkout for a much-needed break and get right back on the same hamster wheel in August and go around and around again. The kids are the ones paying the price with their physical health because adult school leaders are forcing these games, playing 3 games in 4 days or 4 games in 6 days. Most kids and schools don’t have access to elite recovery, and data shows that overuse in a short span is not good for teenage athletes. What is the goal of high school sports? No matter you think the goal is, health/safety has to be the No. 1 priority - always. #MoreThanJUSTGames #IHSA

@TrustTrost Last one to get their own. They all shared at one point or another (EHS and Larkin at EHS - Streamwood and Bartlett and S Elgin at Streamwood)

#DYK: Larkin, which opened in 1962, is the only school in District U-46 to not have its own stadium. It’s been sharing Elgin’s stadium about four miles away as its home location for events since 1967. #MoreThanJUSTGames #IHSA

#ICYMI on #CBS: 100s of high school students from St. Edward in #Elgin were in different communities creating a wave of service to enhance the lives of others. The school helped support nine different organizations on Wednesday, with students on-site at seven of those locations. Two great stories by #CBS spotlighting kids, a school that opened 85 years ago in 1941 with 82 students and just finished a $6 million dollar enhancement and local organizations making a true difference for others in the #GameOfLife. Keep this in mind: February is #RandomActsOfKindnessMonth. You don’t need money to make a difference, just a little effort and time is what local organizations need more than ever these days. When you provide kids with opportunities, more times than not they’ll exceed expectations. #MoreThanJUSTGames #IHSA

@TrustTrost Or, even crazier, multi school districts (u46 for example) dome only one field and schedule sharing. You aren’t saying EVERY school get one. Like you say - problem solve

WAVE of Service

@TrustTrost Probably could have found you one from when he knocked us out in Regional semis back in 1996 🤪🤪

On Friday, female and male student athletes across different high school sports will be in the TV spotlight for three hours LIVE on #WGN. #DYK: One Chicago-area school has countless Chicago Bears connections from current and former players and even connections to team owners. Two of its most famous athletic alums actually starred in soccer and baseball before moving to football full time. And guess what? They played big roles in helping the soccer and baseball programs win #IHSA trophies. #MoreThanJUSTGames

@Peter_Bukowski Then getting a delay of game coming out of the timeout.

Blowing a timeout you might need because you can’t get lined up

@Peter_Bukowski I find it humorous that Gary had the same results in this game as he has had the last 8 or 9 games. O wait, he isn’t playing today…

Warren Brinson tried to shoot the gap on that TD and ended up getting buried 2 yards into the end zone.

@TrustTrost Great man. Great father of a great family. Awesome neighbor. All the best buddy on your retirement

From Streamwood for 17 years to Burlington Central for 2 years to Grayslake Central for 2 years and Dundee-Crown for 12 years, that’s 33 total years - nearly 400 consecutive months - helping 1,000s of kids, families, schools and communities…on AND off the courts and fields. #MoreThanJUSTGames #IHSA

@WesHod Is LVN playing yet? Haven’t seen him but he is active.

Kamal Hadden is in at cornerback

@Peter_Bukowski the quick WR screen has replaced the inane jet sweep today. Both no bueno.

@Peter_Bukowski This is a dumpster fire.

298 yards of offense, 4 trips to the red zone and 6 points is really something.

@RossUglem How is he still on the team?

how is hobbs still in the game

@LilySZhao Nate Hobbs in coverage. That’s funny. What coverage.

3rd & 14... Jacoby Brissett and Marvin Harrison Jr convert. Nate Hobbs was in coverage. #Packers secondary struggling today.

@TrustTrost @Meteor_Soccer @meteorathletics A great program. We got to see them in the early days of this run and knew they were building something good!!! Go Meteors!!!!

Unbeaten in 64 of its last 76 games. Not bad, right?  Now imagine if the program hadn’t had a winning season prior to that stretch in more than a decade?  Little better than not bad, right? Say hello to the De La Salle (#Chicago) boys soccer program, which has suffered a mere three losses this season: Two to 3A powers (South Elgin 3-0, Lyons 1-0) and a one-goal loss to rival St. Laurence.  A year ago, the two losses coach Frank Martinez's squad suffered took extra time to beat the Meteors. If you want to look at the last two years alone, @DLSMeteors is unbeaten in 47 of its last 52 games. And that's just on the boys side. We'll talk about the girls side on Wednesday. #IHSA

@Peter_Bukowski I believe one more jet sweep to get to MLF minimum 4 per game.

@Peter_Bukowski and number 4

@Peter_Bukowski that would be 3. Two to Golden. One to Williams. One more for the standard.

@Peter_Bukowski MLF will run the jet sweep till he dies. Over and over. Minimum 4 times a game. All of us can see it coming from couch so guessing so can D.

Think I'm all set with the Golden jet sweeps too. He's not an elusive runner in space, especially going sideways.

@madswag4315 Until Jerry won’t pay him and trades him for a low minor catcher.