David Lowiscz(5-10, 170lbs, sr, QB) returns as the starting quarterback for the Kennedy Crusaders.
Last Year: 3-6 overall, 5th out of 7 teams in the Intra-City 2 Conference. Was not eligible in the state playoffs.
Quick Take: Kennedy is one of those schools with potential. It's in a good neighborhood in the southwest side of Chicago and not too far from football schools Curie and Hubbard. One of the key players to take them to the next level is returning quarterback David Lowiscz(5-10, 170lbs, sr, QB). At 5-10 he's got decent height. Lowiscz is coming back from a junior season in which he threw for 1373 yards with an average yards per throw of 17.8. So Kennedy, has a QB to work with. The question is if they have enough around him to perform well in their Intra-City conference.
Kennedy will have to find a new starting running back as their main runner, Emmanuel Guzman, last year graduated. Nym Batzaya(5-7, 150lbs, sr, RB/DT.WR) got some quality carries last year and will likely do the same again or play an this year.
Players to look out for:
David Lowiscz(5-10, 170lbs, sr, QB)
Nym Batzaya(5-7, 150lbs, sr, RB/DT/WR)
Team Previews
Washington
do a lane preview and a preview of schools in the illni red bird
Posted by: lane | June 15, 2012 at 10:09 AM
I'll do it for you.....Lane will suck for the 4th straight year and miss the state playoffs and get blown out in 2 pre-season games and 3 conference games this year. Lane will finish 4-5, proesel wil reisign, and an experienced CPS coach will be brought in to get rid of Proesel's catholic league stink and snobbish ways.
Posted by: Lane preview | June 15, 2012 at 10:33 AM
we'll see about that
Posted by: lane | June 15, 2012 at 11:35 AM
Don't be so down on Lane football this year. People are counting them out because of their performance the last few years. This is a new year. Gone are seniors from last year. Replacing them will be juniors from a good soph team from last year. QB with McLaughlin will be good. Line still need improvement, but there are new faces to step in. Execution was sub par last year with lot's of penalties and poor running of plays. Those areas will be improved this year. Speed wise team will be better than last year.
Simeon, Dunbar, Curie, and WY in conference play have all graduated lot's of key players. Lane is improved and will close the gap between Lane and the rest of their conference games. I expect games to be much more competitive between Lane and their conference foes. Lane will beat Whitney Young and CVS if they are still in conference and I think they can be competitive against Dunbar, Curie, and Simeon. How competitive will depend on how much they improve between now and when the season starts.
Posted by: Arrow Cross | June 15, 2012 at 11:42 AM
why are you doing previews of teams from crappy conferences, do illini conference team previews.
Posted by: illini | June 15, 2012 at 11:57 AM
The way Lane played last year, Kennedy could have given them a good game. If you want to look at crappy don't look further than last year's Lane team. Linebackers averaged 5-7 165lbs. Short runts that tried but it's asking them too much to handle Dunbar and Curies beasts.
Posted by: cps | June 15, 2012 at 01:00 PM
@ Lane preview
An experienced CPS coach? Who you crapping?
What does "experienced CPS coach mean?"
What it means to me is someone who can't and does not know football. If they did, they would not be in the CPS coaching football.
I'd prefer anyone with catholic and suburban experience over someone with "CPS experience."
Name someone out there besides Spurlock who is available with "CPS experience" who you think can do a better job.
Posted by: Lane preview II | June 15, 2012 at 01:54 PM
Lane may be dropping out of Illini after this season. Realistically, could finish last in conference. Hope they prove me wrong
Posted by: uhoh | June 15, 2012 at 02:00 PM
CPS coaches available are:
Grazzini (Foreman)
Walsh (Taft)
Fosco (Schurz)
Rociola (Sullivan)
Elbert Kern
Posted by: @Lane preview II | June 15, 2012 at 04:45 PM
can we get some preview of real teams
Posted by: DaTruth | June 15, 2012 at 08:57 PM
Duh. Thats right.
What was I thinking?! All those guys have run programs that have gone deep into the state playoffs.
They all have coached in tough quality conferences in front of sell out crowds.
All those guys will be able to pay and fill a full coaching staff. Dress all 80 plus players in the program with full gear and matching home and away uniforms.
Come on, Dude. Who are you crapping?
Posted by: Lane Preview II | June 16, 2012 at 03:29 PM
All of those guys can coach Lane's program today as the glory years are gone and don't seem to be coming back, especially with a school made up of 60% girls, 5'9" hispanic males, and brainiacs that would rather play chess. Hell, if Rio and Proesel can do it, anyone can.
Lane hasn't won more tha 4 games for the past 3 years, haven't qualified for state in 3 years, and it's season has been done before the last week of October the last 3 years.
Walsh's Taft squads has made state the last 3 years. Grazzini of Foreman is up and coming. Rociola has turned Sullivan around in 2 short years. Fosco fields squads of 40+ players at each level each year. And Elbert Kern (formerly of Steinmetz) is dying to get back into the public league.
Any catholic or suburban league coach looks at the public league as street football with equipment. Basically, undisciplined, unorganized, and poor example of high school football.
Maybe Lane could lure a losing coach like Scott Baum of Niles West (33% winning pct.) or Gabe Corey of maineEast (22% winning pct.). But, the days of talk of maine South's Charlie Bliss are long gone, especialy with Bliss making $8000/season to coach there with CPS head coaches making $3500.
maybe it'll take a trip to the Chicago Conference to wake Lane up and hire ahead coach more accustomed to city kids. Who knows?
But, one thing for sure is Lane will finish 4th in the conference again. Miss state. Lose 2/3 pre-season games. Get a bullshit 9th game against a poor CPS team. And finish no better than 4-5.
Posted by: @Lane preview II | June 16, 2012 at 05:11 PM
Lane might not be the best in the city anymore, but they will improve slowly. Land is so focused on bringing in nerds that they seemed to forget about sports as big as football. Proesel runs a complex offense that takes very smart players to learn, which means most cps teams would fuck it up as well. but we wont know until the season starts, I think they will go 5-4 at least
Posted by: 4real | June 16, 2012 at 10:09 PM
If Lane can steal a win from Whitney Young, as they're sure to lose vs. Dunbar, Simeon, & Curie, Lane will finish 2-3 & 3rd in conference and make the CPS Playoffs. Then Lane will be seeded against a #1 seed CPS team.
Here's How I see Lane's year playing out:
Pre-season:
Game # 1 vs. Unnamed Suburban School (Loss, 0-1)
# 2 vs. Unnamed Catholic School (Loss, 0-2)
# 3 vs. Unnamed CPS School (Win, 1-2)
Conference Games:
Dunbar (Loss, 1-3, 0-1 in conference)
Simeon (Loss, 1-4, 0-2)
Curie (Loss, 1-5, 0-3)
Young (Win, 2-5, 1-3)
Unnamed conference Opponent (Win, 3-5)
9th CPS game to qualify teams for State:
Lane vs. Unnamed CPS (Win, 4-5)
1st Round CPS Playoff:
#3 seed Lane vs. #1 Seed CPS team (Loss, 4-6)
So, I'm predicting Lane to finish 4-6 overall and 2-3 in conference. And, done by Nov. 1st.
Posted by: Lane preview III | June 17, 2012 at 08:31 AM
I believe you are forgetting a conference game against CVS for Lane
Posted by: CVS in Lane's conference. Taft didn't move up | June 17, 2012 at 09:10 AM
Is CVS still in the Conference? They finished in 5th place and that team normally gets dropped out of the conference. Wasn't Foreman the other Chicago Conference team to make state and earn a move to an Illini conference?
Taft's decison to not move up is a self-realization that their team is where it should be. Was it cowardly? Yes, but, Taft will continue to be one or two in the Chicago Conferance, get a state game, get their asses handed to them, buy t-shirts acknowledging their trip to state to get their asses, will save their coaches jobs, and nobody is the wiser. Only real followers of CPS football will know what they're doing.
One thing I think needs to be done is to not allow Chgo Conference teams to get a state bid. Instead, they should geta CPS playoff bid, at least their playoff game(s0 would be more competitive. But, Calvin Davis and Mickey Pruitt don't have the smarts to do this.
If CVS isn't in Lane's conference, then either Foreman or another lowly CPS pooch team will be Lane's easy win in conference
Posted by: CVS< Foreman, or another Pooch | June 17, 2012 at 10:15 AM
No one can get dropped from Lanes Conference. Their conference consists of all the bigs schools with more than 2 thousand students. That why Lincoln park got switched with CVS! So teams that will move up move into Hubbards division or Julians division. Urban Prep will be in Hubbards conference next year.
Posted by: Boom | June 17, 2012 at 11:15 AM
? Taft is a big school
Posted by: big | June 17, 2012 at 02:09 PM
@lane preview
Really. Are you still trying?
Taft? The school who does not want to go up the illini conference. Lets play in the lower conference and play scrubs. Have suburbans travel down to Lane stadium to blow us out in the first round of state playoffs.
Grazzini?
Before he gets hired, let him win a couple state playoffs games.
Coach Roc,
Good guy. But, Sullivan? Really? Any coach who shows up to practice every day could win in that conference.
Coach Kern,
He beat Lane with a couple of stud 19 year olds.
Lane got beat by De La Salle, GBN,
Simeon (City champ) Curie(gave Maine South a run for their money & D1 athletes), Dunbar (check out state meet results, IDIOT!),and WY ( went down to the wire and beat MP in city play-offs).
How do you think the coaches with their current teams would've faired in that conference?
Who you crapping? Dumbass.
Prop goes to the Illini conference. It is a tough conference.
Lane used to be in a northside conference with LP, CP,
Shurz, and their tougher opponent used to be mather or curie (Coach Ace).
Posted by: Lane Preview II | June 17, 2012 at 10:28 PM
it was a close game between lane and whitney young too that went down to the last 30 seconds
Posted by: ye | June 17, 2012 at 11:07 PM
Watch out for Curie this year! There looking real good and they should be a team to watch out for and not taken lightly despite their ranking on Neilski's ranking of teams. ALOT OF PEOPLE ARE OVERLOOKING THEM WATCH OUT!
Posted by: HEHE | June 18, 2012 at 12:32 AM
they're not overlooked tard, they're second on the rankings
Posted by: no | June 18, 2012 at 06:18 AM
LP II,
Lane used to be in the NORTH conference. WY, Schurz, Mather, and Taft and usually a rotation of Steinmetz, Clemente, Prosser, LP as the sixth team. Curie was part of various SW conferences usually compteting with Bogan for the championship. CVS and Lane are now paying for being 20+ in conferences (the SE, and the N, respectively) where they were the only comp. Coach Potocki of CVS was famous for "throwing", by playing subs, the CPS opening round playoff game in the mid-80s so that they would be rested for the opening round of state.
Posted by: urbanleftbehind | June 18, 2012 at 08:46 AM
"How do you think the coaches with their current teams would've faired in that conference?"
Taft, Foreman, and a team coached by Kern would finish with the same record as Lane. And, that's my point. Lane's program has gone so far in the dumpster that Lane can only beat other crappy CPS teams.
And to do anything with a Sullivan squad, you have to be a miracle worker. Though, Sullivan's coach's ethics, morality, and credibility are huge questions and very hazy.
Besides beating a CPS team in state playoffs (which Kern did), how many wins did Lane's Rio have against other state teams? One (Stevenson). So, please don't make it sound like you need the second coming of John Hoerster to be Lane's head coach.
Lane needs a head coach and assistants that wants to be at Lane, not at another school
and not reliving their glory days of coaching and playing in the suburbs or in the catholic league. Lane needs a city guy with a staff that knows what it's like to play CPS football and coach middle class kids, not rich kids.
For the first time in Proesel's life, he's a colossal failure. I'm interesed to see how he responds this year, most likely his last at Lane.
BTW: The only reason Proesel got the job over similarly qualified candidates is he didn't need a position inside the school, which lane didn't have because they have 5-6 PE guys either doing driver ed or coaching elsewhere.
Posted by: @Lane preview II | June 18, 2012 at 09:32 AM
Again,
You are coming up short. You think there are a group of guys out there who will just come in and coach at Lane. How will they get paid? Who is going to do it for free? For the love of the game and kids? Who are you crapping?
Give me real names, dude. Who can turn this program around. When you are a head coach in the city, you where many hats (i.e, AD, trainer, fundraiser, and coach). Who can do all that?
"What it's like to play CPS football."
I tell you what its like. IT SUCKS! Kudos go out to coaches and athletes who do put in the hard work. But if I want to be successfull, I dont want to play CPS football. I want to play Loyola football, Maine South football, WWS football.
I want to get as far away from CPS football as possible and do what winning programs do.
Again, give me some real names not recycled CPS coaches. Coaches who have experience success elsewhere not in the lower conferences in the CPS.
Who you crapping?
Also, that person better be able to bring in athletes who can pass the entrance exam. New principle will not do what Dr. Kenner does at WY.
Posted by: Lane Preview II | June 18, 2012 at 02:56 PM
The one guy that could turn Lane around and bring in talent would be St. Pat's Dan Galante. Galante works as the Admissions Rep at Pat's and knows where the talent is in the city, gets 10-15 kids to college every year to play football, and can field state contenders every so often.
There's your real name that doesn't fall short. The only problems are: would Galante leave Pat's and would he being able to operate at Lane with many peple running their own fiefdom's there?
The pay at CPS would be better for Galante. And why not hire him for administrative position or open PE job?
Posted by: @Lane preview II | June 18, 2012 at 03:22 PM
Thank you,
Thats all I was asking for. Names out of the cps. Don't know much about the guy but St. Pats runs a decent program.
The one of the major difference between St. Pats and Lane is admissions. Long are gone the days when you could get a stud athlete into Lane. Downtown changed its policy and the new principal at Lane is all about AP and the Alpha program.
You can know where to find the talent in the city but can they get in?
He will never use his Principal choice on a kid who didn't do well on the test.
Thanks again for a real name.
Posted by: Lane Preview II | June 18, 2012 at 05:45 PM
So are we saying that Stud football players can't be studs in the classroom? That's the challenge for all of us is to get the two to work; not just at Lane but at all CPS schools.
Posted by: steveej2 | June 18, 2012 at 07:20 PM