Been a while since I posted here as I do not know what to think about this year, this thing has played out kind of like a bizzaro season. Not even knowing if there would be a season due to the Covid, the instability of the schedule, the craziness of the Massillon game, losing the starting QB, and then all the BS with trading game tap for an over matched playoff opponent; at this point nothing would shock me this year.
Which leads me to this Friday's game against Walsh Jesuit. This is not last year's Walsh Jesuit that was soft and going through the motions waiting for the year to end, in case no one has been paying attention this Warrior team is legit with a smart disciplined guy running the program in Nick Alexander. This dude has been involved in many big HS games as an OC at Mentor & JCU and he has the kids buying into a system, especially on offense. While they have not played a schedule as difficult as Benny's his offense is averaging over 40 points a game, in the era of the running clock that is highly impressive. And they are no slouches on defense either, while Hoban was basically playing a base offense Walsh still held a much better athletic team to 27 points. From what I am hearing their lines have decent size and are tough with their skills playing disciplined football and maintaining assignment integrity, basically everything Benny has not been this year. They are playing with confidence and are disciplined enough to use all of the playbook against Benny as I suspect Coach Alexander believes his offense can out game plan Benny and their superior athletic talent. This is going to be a huge test for Coach Goode and his staff to see where they are in their development.
A couple guys I talk to see this game playing out similar to what happened to St. Ed's last week against Medina, in this case it will not be a star QB that is the dominate factor but the Head Coach. Sometimes the team with the big brand name on the front of the jerseys thinks they can just show up and their superior talent will win the day, well St. Ed's found out the hard way that the is not always the case if there is a large match up disadvantage and many see the coaching one as an issue for Benny in this game. By the way, if Iggy goes outside of the building for Kyle's replacement Coach Alexander is a name to keep an eye on if he keeps Walsh on this type of trajectory.
I hope I am wrong but I have a bad feeling about this one...