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After Eight Years Leading Leps Football, Kates Brothers Split Up

  • This is a photo before La Grange’s state semifinal game in 2013. La Grange head football coach Matt Kates is on the left. His younger brother Will Kates is on the right. Record file photo
    This is a photo before La Grange’s state semifinal game in 2013. La Grange head football coach Matt Kates is on the left. His younger brother Will Kates is on the right. Record file photo
La Grange assistant head football coach and offensive coordinator Will Kates is leaving for another job, ending an eight year stint during which he worked side-by-side with his older brother Matt Kates, the Leps head football coach. “It’s bittersweet. It’s tough,” said Will, who said he informed Matt recently in what turned into an emotional three-hour meeting at the fieldhouse. “It was a tough…

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