Schedule Blueprint
Week 1 GMC team: Lakota West
Week 2 GWOC team (Dayton area): Centerville, Springboro
Week 3: CMAC team (Cinti public): Withrow or Taft
Week 4: Indianapolis team: Cathedral
Weeks 5 through 7: Moeller, Elder, LaSalle
Week 8: Louisville team: Trinity or LSX
Week 9: St. Ignatius
Week 10: Columbus area team: Westerville, Hilliard etc
Non league scheduling and coach relationships
W1: Specht and Tom Bolden's relationship goes back to coaching together on Team USA in Texas
W2: Centerville game set up by Kirk Herbstreit and his relationship with his alma mater
In the past 25 years X has played 3 Dayton area teams Northmont (2001), Wayne (1999, 2005, 2006, 2010), Springfield (2011, 2020)
These were all post season games or part of the Herbie/LaRosa's Classics
So this upcoming home and home with Centerville will be first regular season matchup with a Dayton area team in at least the past 25 yrs
W3: Withrow HC Kali Jones with several returning D1 players from an 8-4 team reached out to X to schedule this year and next.
Taft's head coach is Ty Williams, former StX RB coach and son of Bomber long time strength coach.
Taft went 11-3 last season losing to Wyoming 7-0 in round 3, maybe they will schedule X in the future
W4: X played Cathedral from 2008-2020 based on Specht's relationship with HC Bill Streiff. The 2 coached Team USA in Cleveland.
Streiff retired after the 2017 season and was replaced by Bill Peebles HC at Lawrence Central who has replaced X with LaSalle the past 2 seasons. The last game in the 2020 season was played at Arsenal HS on a shoddy field that resulted in a few key StX injuries.
X did have a series with Warren Central from 2013-2016 but that was permanently ended after the 2016 debacle.
W5-7: League games
W8: The series with LSX ran from 2009-2019 (Bombers 9-2) and the Trinity series ran from 2007-2012 (split 3-3).
When Kevin Wallace became HC at LSX 5 years ago he dropped the Bombers and replaced them with Elder.
The Trinity series was restarted in 2021 when Jay Cobb replaced long-time head coach Bob Beatty.
Cobb and Bomber OC Andrew Coverdale coached together at Trinity from 2014 to 2019.
W9: The Bomber-Ignatius series began in 1996 and has been played every year except 1998.
2 state championships were played in that stretch, in 2001 and 2016
The relationship between the late Steve Rasso and Wildcat HC Chuck Kyle whose teams played in 1991 and 1992 started the series.
New Wildcat HC Ryan Franzinger who has been on St. Ignatius staff for past 14 years will continue the series.
W10: The Bombers have played 6 Columbus area teams in the post-season in the past 25 years.....Gahanna Lincoln (2015), Pickerington Central (2011, 2016, 2020), Hilliard Davidson (2005), Dublin Coffman (2001, 2007), Upper Arlington (1998) and Central Crossing (2014)
2 Columbus teams have scheduled home and home series with the Bombers in that time: Westerville North (2004-05) and Olentangy Liberty (2021-22). Liberty has had enough but would be good to land one of the others.