Will there be surf on the North Shore this winter? Will there be a rainbow over Halawa Valley after a shower? Will the H-1 be clogged at rush hour on a Friday?
Will St. Louis be the Interscholastic League of Honolulu and Prep Bowl champion?
The answer to each is, of course, an emphatic yes.
After graduating the quarterback who led them to three straight Prep Bowl titles, St. Louis is as strong as it has ever been. So strong that there are many observers speculating that no team will get within a mango's throw of the Crusaders in any game this year.
And USA Today's "Super 25" poll maker Dave Krider, a noted skeptic when it comes to Hawaii prep football, is also beginning to believe it.
Even St. Louis head coach Cal Lee did a double-take when he checked the USA Today website last night and found that Krider had moved St. Louis from No. 25 to No. 18 in the national rankings.
This comes despite the fact that St. Louis has not played a single team this year worth being considered for a regional - let alone national - ranking.
It also comes after another nolo contendre ILH game - a 47-21 sleepwalk over Pac-Five at Aloha Stadium last weekend.
Such a jump in the rankings is very significant. It's not only that St. Louis is being looked upon more seriously by a national poll maker. It's significant that the poll maker sees St. Louis' success in the Hawaii prep football arena as sufficient to warrant such a jump in the poll.
So, the equation is simple: St. Louis is good for the reputation of Hawaii prep football.
Right? Well, wait a minute.
Even though St. Louis' following has grown to statewide proportions during its 10-year reign over the ILH and Prep Bowl, there are plenty who'd like to see the dynasty end.
Can you say r-e-c-r-u-i-t-i-n-g?
I've found a lot of people on the Leeward Coast and the North Shore who know how to pronounce the word very well when they speak of the untimely disappearance of athletes they think should have played at Waianae or Kahuku.
"Oh, I think you always get those kinds of comments - if we weren't winning, people wouldn't say a word of it," said Lee, who refuses to lose any sleep over the matter.
There's no doubt that St. Louis appears to be a football laboratory - attracting and developing an inordinate amount of talent. Mention St. Louis and the first thing that pops to mind is not the school's academic program.
Of an all-male student body of 850, about one quarter play football, from freshman to varsity level.
It could be that only the introduction of a coed program would be a threat to the powerhouse Lee and his staff have crafted. And that is not in the foreseeable future.
"That would be a drastic adventure," said Lee who pointed out that St. Louis does not have the facilities for girls and could ill-afford to build them now with such a small student body.
"It's good for any team to excel to the extent St. Louis has," said Prep Football Report editor Tom Lemming, in defense of Lee.
"Recruiting? The good teams - and they're usually private school teams - all do that by reputation. The kids go to those schools because they have reputations as winners. That's how the private schools survive and kids get a better education in the process. I don't think there's anything wrong with it."
Certainly, a strong argument can be made that St. Louis has developed a reputation in the islands that is analogous to Notre Dame on the college level. That in itself is a "recruiting" tool worth its weight in gold.
But aren't we all getting a little bored with watching St. Louis toy with the competition year in and year out?
Kahuku's mini-dynasty in the OIA has ended and there doesn't appear to be another Oahu Interscholastic Association team capable of rocking St. Louis' world in the Prep Bowl the way Doug Semones' Red Raiders did last year.
There's no question that Cal Lee, his brother, Ron, and the rest of the St. Louis coaches are a cut above and they deserve to face worthier opponents in the coming years of the dynasty.
Barring the revival of a highly competitive Shawn Akina Classic, St. Louis should find a sponsor on its own to arrange one or more preseason games with nationally ranked teams like No. 5 Mater Dei (Santa Ana, Calif.) and No. 10 Capistrano Valley (Mission Viejo, Calif.).
Heck, Capistrano was here in August, by some bizarre fluke of scheduling, to play Nanakuli.
A St. Louis vs. Mainland Power contest could fly very well on its own and attract a substantial crowd in a state where prep football enjoys a higher regard than it does in other parts of the country.
The winner of such contests would be the credibility of the Hawaii prep football athlete - wherever he's enrolled.