The 2022 fall football season was nothing if not eventful for the Normal Community Ironmen.

Coach Jason Drengwitz indicates a 6-3 regular season was filled with ups-and-downs that began with a 1-3 start, then ultimately led to having a freshman starting at quarterback by the final stretch of the season and culminated with a very fun but disappointing 32-31 loss to Pekin in the second round of the IHSA 7A playoffs. 

Heading into the summer, Coach Drengwitz says the luxury of having a lot of kids that are returning with experience at the varsity level is they don't have to work a lot on installing offenses or defensive schemes.

Normal Community runs one of the more traditional up-tempo style offenses you'll see in high school football. Coach Drengwitz says when things are going good, they want to be able to run the ball and stretch the field with downfield passing.

Normal Community has made the postseason 21 straight seasons and Coach Drengwitz says the goal is to make that 22 this season. He indicates the approach for the Ironmen is truly a week-at-a-time proposition and so they'll soon start to focus on Springfield Sacred Heart-Griffin for week one.