North side KofC became Little Cards. But that pipeline is vastly overstated. Maybe a handful of kids each year. Just as many played CYO or some other youth program and just ended up at Colerain by high school and vice versa.
Colerain has always somewhat over achieved if you look at the number of DI kids that actually went through. Their strength was always maximizing the kids who would be great high school players but didn’t have the size to play beyond that.
The football team is just a lagging indicator of the area as whole. Colerain has rapidly declined in the last decade and the depth and numbers are starting to show it. Just look at the lines the past couple years, they have been tiny outside of one or two studs. I don’t think they will have a more than 1 offensive line over 225 LBs.
The rise of Lasalle also takes away kids. A decade ago Lasalle was mostly legacy kids l, now a high level kid is probably right to reconsider being a lancer with the number of DI and nfl players they have had.
And that’s not even to mention or downplay the rise of Ross on the other side of the district boundary. Lots of middle and working class families are migrating their and other districts.