Antioch three-sport athlete Zach Grindley, who finished his senior year by qualifying for the state track meet in three events, is the Daily Herald’s Lake County Male Athlete of the Year.

Fomer Marian Central and Johnsburg head coach Mike Maloney is taking over the football program at Grayslake Central.

After four seasons as head football coach at his alma mater, Cristo Garza is leaving Round Lake to become the new head football coach at Zion-Benton.

Antioch sophomore brothers Athan and Dino Kaliakmanis verbally committed Wednesday to play football for the University of Minnesota. Athan is a quarterback, and Dino is a wide receiver.

Tally the travel time from Round Lake to Rockford on a Friday, from Wheeling to the West Side in rush hour, from the Quad Cities to a faraway city on a stormy night. Count the dollars lost at ticket gates. Add it all up and the IHSA’s Proposal 23 might sack football at some high schools or, if nothing else, deliver a blow to athletic budgets. Winning at all costs just might have taken on a new meaning.

Brian Glashagel played football at Conant in the late 1980s and was part of the rivalry madness with fellow Mid-Suburban League foe Schaumburg. Now he's the head football coach at Antioch, and is a part of a spirited Northern Lake County Conference football rivalry with Lakes High School. Glashagel is worried that conference rivalries in Illinois high school football, the old, spirited and sometimes even bitter rivalries that go back decades and decades, are about to go extinct wiht the passage of Proposal 23, which eliminates conference play starting in 2021.

Proposal 23 shook the IHSA football world on Tuesday, and some coaches and fans might still be staggering. Here are some initial reactions from Lake County football coaches: