Benedictine 2020
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Auggie
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Old St. Greg's Grade School building is to become a Yeshiva: https://www.cleveland.com/community...outh-euclid-to-cleveland-heights-yeshiva.html
Many a future Benny football player roamed those halls. But at least those super conservative Jews will find like minded folks in the super conservative Catholics running around at the Lyceum School right next door.
Many a future Benny football player roamed those halls. But at least those super conservative Jews will find like minded folks in the super conservative Catholics running around at the Lyceum School right next door.
Auggie
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Something cool to check out when you have time on your hands, the Cleveland Public Library has downloaded the Benedictine Yearbooks dating back to 1940: https://cdm16014.contentdm.oclc.org...de/exact!all/conn/and!all/order/nosort/ad/asc
My favorite cover through the years>
My favorite cover through the years>
MrBeneBengal
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Ignatius called Bene to schedule a football game. Has Bene given Ignatius an answer ?
Yes for question one NO for question two
Benny is a lot smaller than Iggy and decided underdog but fair point, I guess. There have been years past they could definitely compete.
I also don’t think both schools had the same openings
The answer is no NO iggy this year.
Frank Novak
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LOL
fbrox
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What Frank? Are you afraid they might only go 7-3? Think of how prepared they’d be for the playoffs with that schedule.
Frank Novak
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Maybe Fr Willie can confirm , but I heard we called St Eds and they said no. Also , I think Padua dropped us .
Padua dropped us a while ago. St Ed's called us not the other way.
fbrox
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With the changes to competitive balance Benedictine will likely be division 3 next year. Iggy and Ed’s should both be good. I figured Padua and Holy Name would likely not play you as I’m guessing NDCL won’t either. I know both Youngstown Catholics will, I know Hoban will. Lake Catholic will not back down. I’d guess SVSM would play Benny;Walsh likely would as well. So there are six annual games from semi local schools that are natural games. Im guessing Benny will need to play a Columbus Catholic for a game and then pick up three public schools for weeks 1-3. Playing Clev Central Catholic is not good for either school at this point. I’d try and get Bedford, Shaker, Clev Hts or Garfield for the other three games.
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Auggie
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Outside of Hoban I would expect most former NCL Blue schools avoid Benny like the plague. Most are located out in 'Burbs and their football numbers are shrinking at an alarming rate, they want nothing to do playing the Bengals. To fill out the schedule they will either have to play catholic schools 3-5 times their size, the above inner ring suburbs that have an open mind to scheduling privates, or cut a deal with a coach bus company and travel far and wide to play teams that have trouble scheduling too like Columbus DeSales, Erie Cathedral Prep, Massillon, WGH, etc...
MrBeneBengal
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MrBeneBengal
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Rumored 2020 Bene Football Opponents
St Ed's, Massillon, Fitch, Prep, Cleveland Heights, Shaker, NDCL, Lake Catholic, CCC, Columbus DeSales
St Ed's, Massillon, Fitch, Prep, Cleveland Heights, Shaker, NDCL, Lake Catholic, CCC, Columbus DeSales
All speculation and maybes . None of these are solid contracted games..........YET
Fr Willie Down The Hill
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Looking like 3-7 ha ha ha ha
Which would be 3 more wins than you predicting games last season
EdsFan82
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Know what week the Eds match-up would be? Looking forward to this happening and the two teams playing. Eds going through a big roster change, graduated a ton of production from this last year. Know Bene has a lot of talent back, so should be a fun one.