I hope this was on his own accord. One of the hardest working, best prepared, knowledgeable, caring coaches and class acts out there. An amazing career
Every few years I crawl out from my room in my parents’ basement to calculate these records, under the long-proven theory that the private school advantage becomes magnified once we get to the regional level and beyond.
Major themes this season:
1) As acknowledged in the past, what makes this...
Double foul was original call, which looked correct. Then the Berea kid appears to mutter something about the call, and shouldered the Strongsville player as he walked up court, which seems to have triggered the ejection and technicals.
‘Berea coach was on opposite end of the floor, and...
An analogy to support this. I’ve always found it interesting that Tom Lombardo was a good enough coach to win state titles at Lake Catholic and Eds, yet didn’t come close at Highland
Watch Ridgeville compete for SWC dominance athletically for the next 10-20 years. It has kind of started last school year. Tons of land, lot of building over the last ten years (meaning all those families who bough then with young kids now have them starting high school), and the affluence is...
QB wasn’t being touched on that play; that kickoff went a perfect ten yards. Another case where probably a deserving officiating crew was blocked from being on a high level game in favor of a less-skilled crew that fit more with the OHSAA ‘good Ol’ boy’ network
Agreed. Kirtland, MSML, Coldwater, Privates dominating the public’s once it gets to the Sweet Sixteen level, etc…
Only suspense in these playoffs is the 16-team seeding at the end of The regular season. Pretty much the same script every year.
Iron Mike really summarizes it well in his last two posts. We played basketball up here a few decades ago, Doc Daugherty’s early years. Each player housed with one of Euclid’s players overnight, and we returned to our hometown the next day. A fun trip. Nice, quaint, peaceful suburb then; war...
All that happens with shady player movement in football and basketball, and they nail Elyria Catholic, huh? Reminds me of the great quote, regarding college basketball: “The NCAA got so mad at Kentucky that it put Cleveland State on probation.”