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After watching them rip the head off a good Colerain team I can't see them getting stopped.
Look at trhe situation: 1,800 students, all boys, solid academic rep, huge endowment fund provides money for "diversity" scholarships, ability to draw from a vast geographic area, excellent facilities, excellent coaching, don't look for them to lose too many games in the near future or for many years to come.
Apples and oranges.
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After watching them rip the head off a good Colerain team I can't see them getting stopped.
Look at trhe situation: 1,800 students, all boys, solid academic rep, huge endowment fund provides money for "diversity" scholarships, ability to draw from a vast geographic area, excellent facilities, excellent coaching, don't look for them to lose too many games in the near future or for many years to come.
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Yep. And how Colerain lost the next game is beyond comprehension, but that's why they play.
But the apples to oranges comparison has more to do with the situations. How many high schools can draw from a geographical area as big as Greater Cincinnati? How many schools have 1800 boys to draw from for talent? That makes St. X twice the size of Moeller and Elder, almost three times the size of LaSalle. I think you'd have to go to St Iggy and St. Ed's to find schools of comparable assets and I'm not sure they can match that either.
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out one of the major reasons why GCL schools dominate OHSAA competition; size. It also leads me to wonder how much longer the state is going to go with a completely open playoff system. Unless they make a "Super AAA" designation for St. X and other schools with more than 1K boys.
I'll confess to ignorance of the Columbus HS football situation but I can tell you that this St. X team is loaded and with Darius Ashley able to go they have one of the best RBs in the state.
The game will be carried on Ohio Fox Sports I believe.
__________________ "When our Big Ten brothers are playing Notre Dame, we're always rooting for them," Tressel said. "I'm rooting for our Big Ten partners. I want our strength of conference to be as good as it can be." Jim Tressel
. Although St X is highly ranked, Coffman is highly powered. I'll throw in on my Alma Mater.
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