Great to be back. Hope everyone had a great offseason and is ready for some football. Lord knows I am.
ESCC:
Before we begin another season, a long-awaited season which many members have anticipated with eagerness, there is a small matter I would like to address, a personal opinion of course, but I would like to say I have grown tired of many exploiting the sport of high school football and this board to pursue vendettas against a handful of schools and a certain set of their supporters.
We kickoff on Friday and as we close in on opening weekend, the moment should not be seized to propagate a grievance or advance ad-hominem attacks on others.
More specifically, most of the condemnations appear to revolve around Nazareth Academy and, although I do not as a rule aim to single out one poster or school, I am compelled to defend two particular posters, godfthr53 and epicbret, both of whom have distinguished themselves as members in this forum and contributed to our broad understanding of Nazareth and, by extension, the ESCC with their offerings.
That godfthr53 and epicbret find themselves under attack is unfair and is a direct result of a handful of putative Nazareth posters, two of whom grip several different identities, and whose purpose on edgytim has been to provoke others and cause mayhem.
Entering into this 2016 season, one in which Nazareth clutches the distinction of back-to-back championships, I find it curious the school is assailed for its non-conference football schedule. I tend to believe it is going to grow more and more challenging for the LaGrange Park school to arrange games for its non-conference slot in the same fashion a dozen schools with a similar, formidable reputation Nazareth has earned to assemble non-conference games for the reason they are considered an opponent to which there is virtually no practical benefit in competing against.
Lastly, the veiled attacks on Nazareth's head coach are uncalled for. The man has clearly demonstrated a rare coaching skill and has done as much at two different schools. The fact Tim Racki did not accomplish at Nazareth what was achieved at Driscoll regarding either the pace or frequency of earning state football titles is not a reflection on his football acumen, but rather the insistence of the administration at Nazareth Academy the academic interests prevail over athletic interests. I suspect in other areas of operation at Nazareth, specifically athletic scheduling, the school functions precisely the same.
