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If you want to know about St. Eds. just envision STA in Fort Lauderdale, only older in tradition and even more firmly ensconced in the local football landscape. If a player in the greater Cleveland metro area is considered a sure-fire D-1 prospect, supporters of aggressive Catholic League HS's such as Lakewood St. Ed's and Cleveland St. Ignacius will pursue him until the end of the Earth.
Of course, no one in the Cleveland area recruits, so we're all supposed to believe that entire hordes of D-1 players all show at places like St. Edward's due to "magic", "cosmic energy" or some other inexplicable force of nature. ROTFL.
This Dan had the misfortune of first sitting on the St Edward's side of the stadium. Seems that St Ed's likes to sit opposite of the larger pressbox side. As the green and gold fans moved in around me, one Cleveland area football fan gave me the "low down" on St Edwards of Lakewood, Ohio. First off, the gentleman and his wife were not big fans of the Catholic religion or St Ed's for that matter. They had attended a local high school game Friday night and read about this match up in the Saturday morning paper. He speculated that of the 85 players dressed for St Ed's only a very few were Lakewood residents. He said most of the team consisted of a few player from here and there including Cleveland and all of it's surrounding little communities. Yearly tuition was around 40K. But ALL did not pay full price. Those parents who paid a percentage helped out with sweat equity. Here's where you have tip your hat to the ingenuity of these religious organizations. Need help parking cars for the bake sale, their you go. Clean up after bingo, check. Drive Debate Team over to next competition, check. Collect for Sunday service, check again. Free labor helps the school's fund raising immensely. Sounds like a win, win for all those involved......Neutral, you mentioned St Ignacius High School ( St Iggy ) of Cleveland. This football season ending game between the two is known as the ( Holy War ). It always sells out and ticket scalpers are their to help out. Hey, does Johnny Wideout's dad still have that pair of 50 yard line tickets ?
17 Neutral 0bserver, Yesterday at 8:48 AM