Making baseless accusations like this is a garbage take. How do you know they have degraded as a school ? Show some facts instead of just throwing claims out there because your school has fallen behind the pack. It’s not inconceivable that these kids are In fact students first and take every opportunity and benefit of being at a private school.
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) It will take a couple of years because Ed's is loaded still, but I agree that the rivalry will be back to being competitive on the football field. Maybe having someone like Bentley as a touchpoint they believe will open doors that they have struggled making connections with in the past? I applaud having him involved though. He, Franzinger, etc I think are good bridges to the "glory days" but also feel the pulse of what it takes now to win in football.
Pretty simple some Ignatius ppl think they are above Hoban and had to resort to throwing baseless facts around. Because their program has slipped recently they wanna throw stones at anyone more successful than them. They think their way is the only way and even when they bend the rules like everyone else it’s perfectly ok.
Nope
You gotta give him some credit...he did come with hard facts. 1 alleged example from 12 years ago
. Just stating the facts , the eagle’s miraculous landed a div 1 qb from Florida after Kyle Shurmur had to transfer a la Brett Keane 2 yr starter.You gotta give him some credit...he did come with hard facts. 1 alleged example from 12 years ago
Says he used to be on the coaching staff at a certain school. If so, he has to know there are others who also did and afterwards went elsewhere, and others who also did and still keep in contact with their coaches (who possibly coach elsewhere) from when they played.
Yet he wants to bring up certain "rule bending" anyways. Interesting to say the least.
Btw, Bentley is an outstanding hire...however much time he spends there should be extremely valuable in many ways.
Will agree to disagree.
I do wonder what the cultural shift was in regards to football? Ed's has a ton of guys on both state championship teams ('21 and '22) that play a sport outside of football. I know they are dominant in soccer but their soccer dominance began while being football dominant. Hockey has won titles in the last decade and changed their approach overall in that time but I have a hard time believing that all of those guys only play hockey. It would seem being contending in football would help plenty of other programs too or vice versa.
The cultural shift away from football is broader than Ignatius. Add in demographic factors in NE Ohio and you have multiple factors reducing the available talent pool. To me at least, beyond the players and the coaches, who obviously want to win as much as ever, the student section at an Ignatius game is quite vibrant and engaged...I can't see that much difference thru the years.
Is that counting fringe city of Cleveland Catholic middle schools like St. Mark, OLA, St. Leo, etc., as suburban? If not, that is crazy that not one senior lived in the city when St. Ignatius is located about as close as it gets to the heart of Cleveland.
The potential move was being discussed around 45-50 years ago (in the 70's). Fr. O'Reilly, the president at the time, concluded that the school's mission was in the city and we stayed put. There have been no discussions of moving up and out since then. And, imo, the rebirth of Ohio City owes more to that Jesuit's decision than anything else that happened.