Mt. Carmel vs. Loyola Academy Live!
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LOL!!! Talk about finding a silver lining in a dark storm cloud... MC losing 31-7 despite Loyola missing a few kids to injury. MC needs star QB back in a hurry.
What's up McC? Why hasn't the offense clicked in a while? I think the 2013 (ty to Car8 and Bow50 for helping my brain) state championship was more due to the best defense in the state that year. And I'm not one to blame the trip option because when executed, it's unstoppable. I don't know what gives
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The key phrase in your question is "when executed" which hasn't been the case. Thomas definitely adds the explosion of an outside runner and playmaker. It seems the past few seasons it seems like the QB's have been unable to make the pitch consistently. If a QB is not confident in his ability to make the outside pitch, it takes away 1/3 of the option offense.
And it was probably a typo but the last MC state title was 2013. But I do think QB that year improved as the season progressed and by the playoffs was executing the offense very well.
Funny thing as great as those MC 2012 and 2013 teams were....they both lost to Loyola! Matt Domer...Jimmy Mickens....Draco Smith...Don Butkus....they ran the option perfectly....and they had Jason Gasser, Vince Spiller and Christian Searles as receivers so you couldn't focus on just the run...and a shut down defense. Last year we tried Trudeau, didn't work, Thomas learned on the fly. This year Thomas (understandably so) is in Canada playing ball and there best WR is also their best RB in Nakos...so until Thomas gets back, teams will stuff the box and stop the offense
No pressure on him, people just stating that he makes a big difference. Whether you belive he makes the difference in todays game or not is a moot point. Hopefully he returns with a gold medal Monday morning and begins prep for the SR game.
If MC doesn't cough up the ball the entire 1st half its a different game. As stated above its a moot point because who knows, but he would have brought a new dimension to the game and made the team more competitive. In my eyes, and this is just my opinion, he's as talented as Samson Evans, not as polished as a QB as he is, but makes you hold your breath every time he has the ball in his hands.
Another plus, the name Aristotle. If I adopt a kid I'm changing his name to that.
He didn't talk much about what needs to said to parents and kids. Rather, it was more along the lines of complaining about kids who are more in it for themselves than for the team and about parents who have unrealistic expectations about their kids (he gave the example of parents who complain that their kid got into an Ivy League school and not a major football school). He also said that this sort of attitude was more present with last year's team (and parents) than the current year's.
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