Offering taxpayer paid scholarships and OE are two very different things.
What they should have said was they are 3 points worse then St Eds cause that is all they lost to St Eds by on the road last year when St Eds won D1 Championship.
Over the years, Central was faced with decisions about moving the school to the outer areas or suburbs. I had heard that in the 70's or 80's there was a discussion about that. Detroit Catholic Central has done that-twice. They started in Detroit. Moved to Redford, MI in the 70's or 80's and then moved again to Novi, MI where the median household income is $100k per year ($55k per capita income). Toledo's is $41k and $24k. Central made the conscious decision to stay at their historic home and serve the demographics of the area.
No doubt they have a great coach and a great program. The issue most people have is that when 2 teams are in the same division, their ceiling should be relatively equal. It is up to the school, administration, coaches, players and community to reach that ceiling. Some get there and some never get close. TCC’s ceiling (which I believe they are near- credit to their program), is much higher than a rural public school in the same division. I don’t know how to fix it, but it’s clearly a problem. TCC would compete to win D1.
Who are the 5 Buckeyes? I know Bellisari and Uhlenhake are two.
I agree. There have been other conversations on other threads. Some ideas are allowing schools to pick their division (to move up) or allow them to move down (via relegation). Or have an Open Division where schools of any size can compete. Dempsey's goal is to win a D1 title. There is only a small chance Central can get to D1 via CB.
It is still that way, except for St Chucks. Since the 70s, Columbus Catholics have migrated to the northern part of the county and beyond. The schools haven't. They may eventually. A new one is planned for Sunbury. Wehrle ran out of customers in the early 90s. Ready will eventually do likewise. Hartley might be OK but is likely to continue shrinking.
Thats the main issue for Toledo Central Catholic. There used to be probably 10+ Catholic elementary schools within 2-3 miles. Now there is maybe 1 or 2. So what were they to do? Move to the suburbs or stay where they were at and serve the people who lived close?
Well said. Some people see these inner city Catholic schools as football and basketball magnet schools they have no idea what goes on behind the scenes Monday thru Friday.
absolutely. I was a tps student before i went to central. Much, much more positive, better atmosphere for students on cherry st in my experience
don't we all pay taxes?
Sure, just allow public schools the ability to deny the less desirables and only accept the kids that run fast and jump high.
I respect you buddy, I really do. I believe we came up in the same Catholic world in Toledo in the 80's, which does not exist today. However, Central has 225 boys grades 10-12 and 100 play football. There are another 20 that play basketball and about another 25 play baseball. That leaves roughly 80 boys left in the "other" category. Those demographics are an extreme outlier compared to ANY public school in the state. When you add in the fact that Central football and basketball teams have15-20 DI & DII college prospects on a yearly basis it becomes even more of an extreme outlier. In other words, it does not happen except only through a concerted effort. When it is pointed out that the band has 8 members one can see who gets accepted with a voucher. They are not looking for any tuba players. Tuba players do not put butts in seats.
And look at that wonderful education you received. ^
Conversation was real, and I'm not banging on some kid... just wanted to share what I heard from a player on the team. I would like to see Watterson win as one of my sons close friends graduated from there. I believe TCC will win but really just hoping for a good game and rooting for Watterson.
I've heard Watterson is afraid as well. Don't really know much but one of my sons friend's graduated from Watterson and he said they got no chance. Im not going to predict a score since i know nothing of both teams.
Are you really going full grammar nazi on a high school football message board to take an unnecessary shot at me?
patheticNonsense. I guarantee the players are not afraid.
Correct, they are not scared. If Watty wins, they would have beat all the final 4 teams this season (including themselves at Desales (ouch). Also 5 of the 8 regional finals teams! Go Eagles!
Those 2, Brady Taylor (Oline), Lenny mills (WR), and kind of Jerry Rudzinski (LB) (he still is on sidelines and talks to players and coaches every week although not officially a coach this season (was past few years)
Like 5 years ago Marion Local Had 105 boys in school. 97 were on the football team.
How many in the band?Like 5 years ago Marion Local Had 105 boys in school. 97 were on the football team.
So your outlier is definitely flawed.
A couple years ago 75 and that includes freshman. Impressive nonetheless and the MAC recipe has been shared on this forum several times over. However, they do not have 15-20 DI/DII (scholarship) kids in the program every year and are not a so-called private institution propped up by taxpayer scholarships for who they WANT in the school. 
During DSJ heyday, it was like that just about. From what I heardLike 5 years ago Marion Local Had 105 boys in school. 97 were on the football team.
So your outlier is definitely flawed.
I get what you are saying but remember schools like marion local and all of the MAC schools doesn’t have soccer. those kids were born and raised on football. i couldn’t imagine if we Didn’t have soccer. We would have at least 20 more kids playing and there would be some athletes that would definitely help.Like 5 years ago Marion Local Had 105 boys in school. 97 were on the football team.
So your outlier is definitely flawed.
True with the no soccer thing, kinda. There us no youth football in CW or MSML and it is very rare in the MAC. I think St John's has it in Delphos and that's about it. Last I heard parkway had it but what looking to get rid of it. Ft recovery won a title a numbet of yrs after getting rid of it
DSJ is suffering from an enrollment problem as well.
