Baby Indians Feeder Center

If you think Lane sports are good now, can you imagine how much better they will be if/when they develop athletes from their new academic center?

The new Lane Tech Academic Center (LTAC) opened up this fall at Lane. It is an elementary school within Lane Tech open for 7th and 8th graders. Technically, a LTAC student can goto another high school besides Lane. But the reality is most of them are set up to go to Lane after 8th grade.

Below is a list of potential sports LTAC can compete in:

Fall Boys’ & Girls’ Cross Country Boys’ Soccer Girls’ Volleyball Double Dutch (Coed) Girls’ Tennis Flag Football (Coed)

Winter Wrestling Girls' & Boys' Basketball Chess (Coed) Cheerleading Pom-Pons

Spring Boys’ & Girls’ Track Girls’ Soccer Boys’ Volleyball Boys’ Tennis Golf (Coed) Boys’ 16” slow pitch softball Girls’ fast-pitch softball

 

If done right, this looks like the makings of a potentially serious elementary sports feeder program for the school of champions.

Comments

[Urkel knows all]

Not so fast....

FYI: When Loyola was doing their interviews for a full-time, permanent head football coach, after Carl Favaro was the Loyola interim head coach after John Hoerster passed away, the Loyola AD and others in the interviewing process let it be known they didn't want current Lane head football coach on the staff anymore.

The Loyola job went to John Holecek, but, two other finalists were guys Proesel coached with and for (Favaro and current Niles West head football coch Scott Baum). And Baum is as bad as Proesel as he has a lifetime 30% winning percentage, ONE winning season, and NO state playoff qualifiers as a head coach at Gordon Tech, De LaSalle, and Niles West. Baum pulls in $100K/year as a foootbll coach and a four period/day Psychology teacher.

[A CPS football fan looking for good coaches]

Man, the racist stuff is way, way old. Lets stick to facts.
If you look at the rosters, LT has bigger kids almost without exception. LT football players are track runners, but without blocks, it is hard to get going. Without a QB who can throw, who cares how fast the guy is on a vertical route. LT has a better chance of getting talent just in the numbers. They get kids out of several Park and AYF teams that consistently win, at least until they get to LT varsity.
DB has a skinny QB, a line that was small, RBs under 170# and a MLB that looked more like a munchin than a football player.
And they won. 19 kids. The lack of talent is a dead end argument.
They need a coach who will work with what he has and adapt to the talent pool.
If the LT coaches really don't want to be there, they should get out of the way so LT can get some who do want to make it work. it isn't the kids who are making the decision to be mediocre, it is the administration.

[Truth about Lane]

Sorry but here it is the kids that go to Dunbar all 19 of them go there because they want to play football and got recruited to go there. Or didn't have grades to go to a good school and are older than the average seniors because they failed a grade. Any kid Lane Tech gets for football is a catholic league reject or not good enough to go to a top football school in the city. I have watched Lane for the past five years with the exception Trinca Pasat Tomilson and Chris Miles DB 1 they havent had the talent to compete with the catholic schools or the good suburban schools.

[John]

My son is on the Lane football team and not once did I consider enrolling him in a Catholic School.He s there because of the schools high academic standards ,sports are secondary.

[Lane football]

Very nice tell your son get the most out of his education and get a good job. As for football the best players are recruited to catholic schools and go there for freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. So to the guys bashing the lanes coaches there tryin to make chicken salad out of chicken shit. "Its not about the x 's and o's its about the Jimmies and the Joes". Lane may have a few good players but can't compete against a team full of good players.

[bottom line]

@Lane football, that is true. Or very close to free. I've seen student/athletes "working" to pay tuitions during summertime at certain schools. "Working" meant playing wiffle ball for a couple hours after picking up some garbage around campus.

[Catholic Education]

What's the actual dollar number?

[bottom line]

Actual $#??? I saw it a lonngg time ago in another area. Actually, with strict recruitng measures put in place these days and parents opposed to it, I highly doubt it can even still go on these days

[Lane Football]

I KNOW FOR A FACT I HAVE COACHED PLAYERS THAT HAVE WENT THERE. If you are really good you have all 10,000 for tution waved. The good players get 7,000 knocked off of tution. Some are on year to year trial depending on grades and behavior. The sad reality is that Catholic schools all over the state and country do this.

[Catholic Education]

If your kid has the numbers to get into a school like Lane
why spend the money to send them to a Catholic school?
Unless the school is waiving the tuition.