http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20101109/NEWS04/11080355/0/NEWS10

This is one of the most ridiculous things I've ever seen. Just completely ludicrous all around.

The diocese is in bed with Central Catholic and it's getting disgusting. It's no shock that clown Jeff Mielcarek is the head of the CYO and coaches baseball at Central Catholic. Hmmmmmmmm, conflict of interest?

Why is this next to the CYO fields? That is ten miles away from Central, a >20 minute drive. Care to explain that one Jeff (keep in mind he runs the CYO and CCHS's baseball program)? He doesn't need to, Delp plainly said it's for recruiting. When I was a kid, Central hosted the CYO track meet. Now they've just purchased what is essentially a ridiculous Central Catholic billboard right in St. John's' neck of the woods next to neutral CYO football fields. Give me a break, this is preposterous.

Maybe with that $2.5 million they could, I don't know, buy the freakin' ghetto behind them and create a safer neighborhood? Maybe place the stadium on campus, not on the complete opposite side?

This forces St. John's and St. Francis to dip deeper into their wallets. This could have been prevented in a fair manner by building a grand sports complex every Catholic school can use. A neutral site. But instead we've got a "I can outspend you" going on and it is so against everything Catholicism stands for.

Central Catholic and the Toledo Diocese are a fucking joke. Just the latest of the litany of attempts to screw every high school over except Central unCatholic.

"It is the finest high school education you can get in northwest Ohio, bar none. If you look at the amounts of scholarships our kids get from Central Catholic, it's into the tens of millions."

Maumee Valley, St. Francis, and St. John's offer superior educations.

That's all well and may be true, but the field/complex is going to be awesome which is why I posted this.

I don't particularly care for baseball, and from a strategic standpoint I think buying up the houses around the school is a better way to spend money, but Delp is free to do as he wishes. Lord knows, a guy wouldn't want to donate money to make the neighborhood safer, he wants a grandiose ballpark some minor league teams would want to play in.

99% of my issue with this is the location. On diocesan property that isn't even close to the high school. What would you say if St. John's built their football field there instead? Or St. Francis? Make no mistake, the diocese leasing the land for $1 per year is purely to put up a huuuuuuuuge "please come to Central, we have nicer things than the Jesuits or Franciscans" sign to attract kids. Central Central Central. It is unfair and downright wrong and they know it.

I'm wondering what St. Francis and St. John's think of this. St. Francis has slowly been buying up the houses to the west of their campus for a blue turf field supposedly. St. John's has the drawing for their football field ready to go (if it hasn't already). This has become one ridiculous game of buying eighth graders. What's next, a freakin' Ferris wheel on Cherry Street and a roller coaster around St. V's?

A quick google search to see if my suspicions were correct:

He became director of CYO athletics for the diocese in 1986. He schedules games, assigns officials, oversees coaches training and runs the Monsignor Schmit CYO athletic complex.

http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090726/SPORTS12/907260377

Am I the only one who sees something unethical about this? The Central Catholic Head Baseball Coach gets a donor to build him the greatest high school baseball stadium anyone has ever seen on land which he himself manages for the betterment of all Toledo Catholic grade school students! Jesus H. Christ. This guy belongs in Washington D.C. if he can surreptitiously pull deals like this out of his ass.

karen lotz;560323 wrote:That's all well and may be true, but the field/complex is going to be awesome which is why I posted this.

this.

karen lotz;560376 wrote:this.

I'm going to bitch whether you like it or not.

haha I'm aware. I will stay out of it and maintain that it will be a nice facility. I have no ties to Central.

I don't particularly care for baseball, and from a strategic standpoint I think buying up the houses around the school is a better way to spend money, but Delp is free to do as he wishes. It is really amazing and outstanding.