St. Ignatius at St. Rita

[RockSoup]

Since there is nothing much happening on the board this week, what about a good old-fashioned game thread?

I have not seen St. Ignatius’ option attack. Are they a pure knuckleball pitcher or a pitcher with a knuckleball?

Have these 2 teams met since the Don Hogan days?

Can St. Rita’s Junior LBs Schapendonk, Strand and Senior LB Tagler contain the Wolfpack’s option attack?

How does the St. Rita O match up vs the St. Ignatius D?

Can the Augustinians defeat the Jesuits 4 days after Pope Leo XIV’s Birthday?

Can this thread make it to gameday?

 

[Silver Rain]

I'll drag it closer to game day by pointing out that you don't need to be a knucklehead to throw a good knuckleball.

 

[Wassup13_rivals219252]

Both teams have impressive wins, SR over Glenbard West and St Iggy over Fenwick.

Even with those wins I cannot figure these two teams out. I heard the lower classes were doing well for St Iggy so some people saw this coming.

 

[McCaravan]

2021......the upset heard around the world! Woke up the next morning to watch College Gameday and someone was holding up a sign that read "St. Ignatius beat Mt. Carmel" and the score.....they had the lead on us in 2024 in the 4th Quarter too until MC got a safety and Quinton Burrell returned the free kick for a TD and then another turnover put MC up comfortably but it was almost another jaw dropping loss.

I say jaw dropping because they have no size, no burning speed, and most on Rita's team is better athletically.....but they are a pain in the azz! They nickel and dime you down the field, they chew up an amazing amount of clock, and they make very few mistakes or miss their assignments. Last year when MC played them it was 14-7 at half and people were saying "Is this for real??". Yes...MC had 2 possessions and scored and Iggy had 2 possessions and scored once and burned nearly a half of play on those 3 possessions. Three yards and cloud of Dust!

They developed an offense that plays to their skill set and they perfected it....and they are obviously very intelligent and disciplined to remain focused. It's a very hard offense to prepare for.

Put 8 in the box, your DE's will not need to worry about QB pressure, keep hitting them hard, pressure them to pass and they eventually will to throw you off guard. Score every possession because you may not see the ball again for the rest of the quarter. It will be a very fast game with the clock.

I think this is the QBs third year at the helm so he's mastered the offense and it's been showing in their success so far. I'm guessing Rita will wear them down mid 3rd Q and put them away 24-14. This team should have beat ICC who beat Naz handily and beat Fenwick convincingly so as long as they don't overlook them like MC did when they looked ahead to BR in 2021 they should be OK

 

[Wittymoniker1]

Since there is nothing much happening on the board this week, what about a good old-fashioned game thread?

I have not seen St. Ignatius’ option attack. Are they a pure knuckleball pitcher or a pitcher with a knuckleball?

Have these 2 teams met since the Don Hogan days?

Can St. Rita’s Junior LBs Schapendonk, Strand and Senior LB Tagler contain the Wolfpack’s option attack?

How does the St. Rita O match up vs the St. Ignatius D?

Can the Augustinians defeat the Jesuits 4 days after Pope Leo XIV’s Birthday?

Can this thread make it to gameday?

Does anyone in the know at Rita know who #75 is? He's been getting some playing time on the OL, and he's fairly big. Great preview, btw.