You are correct.
Gotcha Brother. I think the Irish can do it this year. I hope Mooney can rebound and JFK can continue. We'll see.
It’s rare that a school isn’t open enrollment anymore. Money from the state is a driving force forsure.
What? Open enrollment schools have a district of students that are enrolled in the school, regardless if they are stud athletes or chess playing emo kids. Private schools get to pick and choose their enrollment. They are not the same. However, open enrollment has evened the playing field, on the field. Regardless of private/open/closed/ whatever, it still takes great coaching with those talented kids to be a championship team, which clearly Ursuline has across the board (football at least). I still hate Ursuline with a burning passion, but that of course is a story for another day
Let go of the hatred in your soul. We are all about love here on the North Side.
Outside of the COVID years, I believe its been 59 years since the Irish had a 9 game regular season schedule. The teams and results were very different that year:
2009 we had only 9 Games, 6-3 regular season capped off with the state title.
When Ursuline travel to Akron and come to green street do alot of people make the trip just asking
Ursuline travels really well. There will be plenty of Youngstown Irish in attendance.
Oh okay thats cool
Javing an open/bye week isn't a bad thing, especially in the current playoff format. 16 games is a l9ng season if you make it to the title game. A week break, even early, could be beneficial. Im sure there will be a green & gold scrimmage in the bye week, which will be more competitive then a lot of the games that could of possibly been scheduled. I will say though that we reached out to a lot of schools with no takers, including teams from all surrounding states.
With Chaney soon to close and SVSM and Fitch about to jump ship, Ursuline is destined to have difficulty scheduling except maybe the likes of Hoban, Steubenville, Massillon, Watterson, Toledo CC, Walsh... dare we take on the biggest big boys such as Ignatius & St. Edward?
Watterson, Hartley, Desales, Walsh and us have all entered into a scheduling agreement. Harding will continue to play us, along with Mooney. The Chaney/East combined school will probably be D2 so I could see them playing us. That would only leave 3 games to schedule, which is pretty normal.
Maybe Iggy at this time? Schedule is plenty challenging as it is.
Just wait until the forthcoming facilities are completed at Ursuline. Youngstown public school will struggle to ever get back to respectability on the football field.
Are they building any other facilities on top of the auxiliary building? (which I think should be turfed inside and not basketball courts IMO)
Looks like Irish fans will be nice and comfortable at stambaugh most of the season lol.
Dis UHS get the green light to move forward from West Wood Street?
Ursuline has gone public with the timeline and fundraising, so I’m going to hope they aren’t going rogue lol. Estimated to finish in 2027 with land clearing to begin this summer.
What is happening at West Wood street? I'm not too in the loop.
The Chancery Office for the Diocese of Youngstown is at 144 West Wood Street next to Saint Columba Cathedral downtown. The bishop's office is there as well as the Youngstown Diocese Department of Education.
If my memory serves me right Cardinal Mooney couldn't relocate to Canfield several years ago because they didn't have the money "up front." I can't imagine that the major building project proposed at Ursuline would be any different, unless Bishop Bonner has a different policy going forward than Bishop Murry did. I know that the current bishop has said that Ursuline is the most solvent high school of the six in the Diocese of Youngstown.
I was told otherwise, but it was based on the bishop saying no for another reason. Not moving probably put the nail in the coffin for Mooney.
