Black Diamond Conference 2021 Preview With Coach Big Pete - Flora Surprise
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Welcome back IHSA Fall Football!!! As is every August I do conference previews and again please remember predictions and previews mean crap. High school football is the greatest thing because of pure parity. What is up last year could be down this year and what is down last year can up this year. ANYTHING AND I MEAN ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN IN IHSA FOOTBALL. Also unlike some prep writers who take credit and copy and past the coaches work. Thank You, to the high school coaches that put the info up on HUDL and emailed me info as well. Also I am not taking that much from the COVID Spring Season. Spring Season was a very weird and crazy time. Was going to do Conference Preview videos, but no one needs to see my face till next week. It will be just article form
Black Diamond Conference 2021 Fall Preview
Black Diamond my favorite conference in the state of Illinois that for some weird reason I love talking about. Always start off with this... When will the Black Diamond Conference have a team at state? Flora enters the Black Diamond this year and I got to say I see them as a surprise top dog team for this 2021 Fall season. Johnston City and Fairfield are also on my top dog list and I got to say this will be a interesting race in the state of Illinois. Fairfield is stacked with talented players along with Johnston City. Johnston City has one of the best recruits in Illinois with Austin Brown. I see Christopher and Eldorado as contenders in the Black Diamond conference this fall. Eldorado with Henshaw and Burtis could make some moves in the BDC. I really see Carmi- White as the surprise team this season in the Black Diamond with the return of King, Harris, and Simon. Christopher to me had nice group of seniors returning and with star OL Mazur returning. It doesn't really help teams in the BDC when Chester leaves and you bring in Flora. For Flora they got a beast athlete in Cole Young that people need to pay attention to. Vienna and Hamilton to me are going to have another tough season this Fall. BUT... Hamilton could be another surprise team if they get things going early. Coach Craig would need his Foxes to get to that 2-0 record after those first 2 weeks.
TOP DOG TEAMS FOR THE BLACK DIAMOND CONFERENCE 2021
Fairfield, Johnston City, Flora
CONTENDER TEAMS FOR THE BLACK DIAMOND CONFERENCE 2021
Christopher, Eldorado
SURPRISE TEAM FOR THE BLACK DIAMOND CONFERENCE 2021
Carmi-White
TOP BLACK DIAMOND PLAYERS FOR 2021
Austin Brown Johnston City
Aden Futrell Hamilton
Issac King Carmi-White
Ezra Burtis Eldorado
Dylan Rhodes Edwards County
Dylan Henshaw Eldorado
Peyton Mazur Christopher
Kit Harris Carmi-White
Camden Robbins Fairfield
Luke Simon Carmi-White
Logan Kreiter Fairfield
Payton Allen Fairfield
Weston Henderson Vienna
Cole Young Flora
Layton Karcher Hamilton
Arion Allen Hamilton
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