Dr. Ray Stantz;972850 wrote:Mooney should be a division 1 school. With your fancy private school education you should be able to deduce that within a 30 mile radius of your campus, 550,000 people live there, and if any one of those tens of thousands of families that live there have the means to pay for it and a kid they think can succeed in football, they can just open the checkbook and buy themselves some "tradition."
Seriously, at the game on Friday, look and see how much pride comes from the entire community of students that get to share in the Dover Football experience. Between the team, the band, the cheerleaders, the majorettes, and the student section very few Dover students miss games like this. And then compare that to you, a bunch of sad old men posting on the internet about their greatest accomplishments which happened when they were 17 years old, vehemently defending their only major source of internal pride, all while disregarding the FACT that the odds were completely stacked against your opponent. Enjoy your rings, Dover has something worth much more than that, but I wouldn't expect you to understand, you can't buy or wear what our students get out of our community's program.
I guess I will start my first post on OC by responding to this nonsense.
550,000 residents within 30 miles...How many high schools are also withing that 30 miles that don't have tuition? Heck there are 10 within 10 miles of Cardinal Mooney.
Tradition and pride is exactly what we have. Our students have a great deal of pride in their school and it shows each and every week. Many of our students' and their parents attended the school not because they had to, but because they WANTED to.
I wonder how many students would attend Dover if ther were 11 high schools within 10 miles or less of your high school 8 of which were tuition free. Something tells me if that were the case you would be petitioning the state to add a division 7 so you could field a competitive team.
So keep making excuses of why the scale is tilted against your team and telling that it's ok to fail because they are facing an urban juggernaut and we will continue to teach our kids that to be the best you have to face the best and let the chips fall where they may. That Pride and tradition doesn't come from making excuses.
I actually think this will be a very competitive game. I have seen far too many things happen when 16,17 and 18 year old are playing to be over confident.
