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" CONGRATS to the MPHS volleyball team and Coach Dulle. You all have worked very hard all season. You had some bumps in the road but you climb the hill when it counted most. MP plays a tough schedule for a small school. THe tourney in Belleville they play in has some of the top teams out of MO and IL. The GLendbard tourney has some of the best teams from the Chicago area. 3 out of 4 of the teams in the finals for 4A were in it along with powerhouse Joliet Cath and NCHS.It is always said that once regionals start, records don't mean a thing. I think we proved that yesterday. "

" Well i played in the state championship game for mp and let me tell you that its not our fault that they changed the classes and it doesnt mean its easier to win, but it does give smaller teams a chance to compete. who cares about our record! we played 8 single A teams in regular season and only lost one! everyone else we played was either double or triple A. for heavens sake we played bloomington high school! so we play heard comeptition to get us prepared for state! we just won state, and got first and thats better than second! sorry! WE ARE THE STATE CHAMPS! NO MATTER WHAT EVERYONE SAYS!!!! "

" You girls fought hard, definately deserve it! Don't listen to these jealous, bitter fools. They're an embarrassment to their schools. Notice they did'nt put their names down? "

" Ok well if you look at their schedule all they played was AA, AAA, AAAA schools they maybe only played about maybe 8 to Single A teams they only lost to one or two of them which they should have won! So dont start on the record. Second the four classes system is more even....I think their should be more than two classes but maybe only three so there still is compition....But dont even start on how they came in with the worst record....and how in the hell is state runner-up better than STATE CHAMPS? Seriously "

" Being runner-up in a tournament with 375 schools is better than winning one with 200. Sorry. Do the math. "

" Hmm, so you are convinced that Mt. Pulaski wouldn't have still been taking home the class A 1st place trophy had we still been in the old A/AA class system this year? Maybe, maybe not. It has never mattered how many games you win BEFORE regionals start. It only matters how many you are able to win in a row once regionals do start. I suspect the whining about the new classes will die down in a year or two. I seem to recall there was a lot of similar mumbling and moaning when IHSA expanded the classes in football several years ago. "

" Are you from Hartsburg-Emden? "

" They have the class system in football, why not every other sport? What's good for the goose is good for the gander, right? I doubt the girls would agree that any runner up is better than a state championship. You were right, MP's losses came at the hands of several "Class AA" schools as they used to be known, including NCHS, & several Chicago area schools who have consistently made the trip down to Redbird Arena for the "AA" state finals the past couple of years. That's why records don't mean a thing when the post season starts. It's about "playing up" in your competition instead of padding your records and egos with easy wins. Coach Dulle learned this a long time ago, and year after year her team is at Redbird Arena in early November. Congrats MPHS!!!! "

" Proof the state tournament now is watered down? Mount Pulaski has 14 losses and wins a title. I know a lot of those losses were to pretty good schools, but still ... They will dominate this class for a long, long time. That isn't right. That's not the fault of Coach Dulle or the girls, who deserve congratulations. That's the fault of the IHSA, for taking what was a great tournament and degrading it. Being runner-up in Class A is a bigger deal than winning a 1A title. "