KnightRyder;1003165 wrote:Too bad only one of them was with the big boys.

Can't blame Mooney that the Youngstown area is losing people like crazy.

sherm03;1003210 wrote:Can't blame Mooney that the Youngstown area is losing people like crazy.

Even if you combined Mooney and Ursuline, that would still only be a D2 team.

yea i can see with that voucher program mooney still cant get enough kids to compete in D-1. Or maybe they just dont want to. i guess they are content winning lesser titles

KnightRyder;1003222 wrote:yea i can see with that voucher program mooney still cant get enough kids to compete in D-1. Or maybe they just dont want to. i guess they are content winning lesser titles

There are exactly 3 D1 schools in Mahoning county. Hamilton county has 12. Cuyahoga County has 24. Just where are you thinking these kids will come from?

KnightRyder;1003222 wrote:yea i can see with that voucher program mooney still cant get enough kids to compete in D-1. Or maybe they just dont want to. i guess they are content winning lesser titles

You're right...Mooney still can't get to D1 numbers even with vouchers. I don't know what you mean by "they just don't want to." Why would Mooney NOT want that money coming in?

And with the voucher program...if you're a school that accepts voucher students, you have to accept all students with vouchers. You can't just pick and choose which voucher students to take. So there is no way to limit the amount of voucher students coming into a school.

Mooney44Cards;1003235 wrote:There are exactly 3 D1 schools in Mahoning county. Hamilton county has 12. Cuyahoga County has 24. Just where are you thinking these kids will come from?

well if people ar leaving the youngstown area " like crazy " how do they even have 3 D-1 schools?.

sherm03;1003240 wrote:You're right...Mooney still can't get to D1 numbers even with vouchers. I don't know what you mean by "they just don't want to." Why would Mooney NOT want that money coming in?

And with the voucher program...if you're a school that accepts voucher students, you have to accept all students with vouchers. You can't just pick and choose which voucher students to take. So there is no way to limit the amount of voucher students coming into a school.

maybe mooney doesnt want to move up. lets face it when was the last time mooney had a team that could have won a division 1 title? mooney has what around 80 players on there football team the same as many D-1 programs and yet no band? they might be the only D-3 school in state with no band. even these public schools that the catholic backers like to rag on put a band on the field. maybe catholics are better athletes than musicians.

KnightRyder;1003489 wrote:well if people ar leaving the youngstown area " like crazy " how do they even have 3 D-1 schools?.

Two pretty large suburbs and consolidating what used to be 6 Youngstown City schools down to one. Up until last year, there were only two D1 programs. Finally they merged the last 2 Youngstown city schools (who were both D2) to create the third D1 school.

KnightRyder;1003499 wrote:maybe mooney doesnt want to move up. lets face it when was the last time mooney had a team that could have won a division 1 title? mooney has what around 80 players on there football team the same as many D-1 programs and yet no band? they might be the only D-3 school in state with no band. even these public schools that the catholic backers like to rag on put a band on the field. maybe catholics are better athletes than musicians.

There actually is a band at Mooney. The problem is, band is a very expensive extra curricular activity. The feeder schools do not have a lot of money, and therefore, have no sort of band program. In the public schools, thanks to all those tax dollars coming in, they are able to offer band to their students from an early age on. At the private schools, you learn the recorder in fourth grade music and don't see another instrument. I'm sure there would be a lot more kids interested in joining the band if it was something they were able to do from the fourth grade on like the public school kids do. But, the Catholic grade schools do not have that advantage.

Side note...there was a kid from my class at St. Luke that went to high school at Boardman because he wanted to be a part of a better band program.

Maybe if the public schools weren't recruiting our best members, Mooney would have a pretty good band, too.

sherm03;1003514 wrote:There actually is a band at Mooney. The problem is, band is a very expensive extra curricular activity. The feeder schools do not have a lot of money, and therefore, have no sort of band program. In the public schools, thanks to all those tax dollars coming in, they are able to offer band to their students from an early age on. At the private schools, you learn the recorder in fourth grade music and don't see another instrument. I'm sure there would be a lot more kids interested in joining the band if it was something they were able to do from the fourth grade on like the public school kids do. But, the Catholic grade schools do not have that advantage.

This didn't happen at my Catholic gradeschool.

Mooney44Cards;1003521 wrote:This didn't happen at my Catholic gradeschool.

Well then St. Luke was better than your school.

Except that St. Luke is now closed. So I guess maybe they should have saved the money and not done the recorder in fourth grade. Perhaps they would still be open right now.

KnightRyder;1003499 wrote:maybe mooney doesnt want to move up. lets face it when was the last time mooney had a team that could have won a division 1 title? mooney has what around 80 players on there football team the same as many D-1 programs and yet no band? they might be the only D-3 school in state with no band. even these public schools that the catholic backers like to rag on put a band on the field. maybe catholics are better athletes than musicians.

What does the band have to do with anything? Can't remember the last time I went to a football game to see a band concert.

sherm03;1003514 wrote:There actually is a band at Mooney. The problem is, band is a very expensive extra curricular activity. The feeder schools do not have a lot of money, and therefore, have no sort of band program. In the public schools, thanks to all those tax dollars coming in, they are able to offer band to their students from an early age on. At the private schools, you learn the recorder in fourth grade music and don't see another instrument. I'm sure there would be a lot more kids interested in joining the band if it was something they were able to do from the fourth grade on like the public school kids do. But, the Catholic grade schools do not have that advantage.

how does D-5 ursuline manage to have a band and a better football team, with less students?

sherm03;1003515 wrote:Side note...there was a kid from my class at St. Luke that went to high school at Boardman because he wanted to be a part of a better band program.

Maybe if the public schools weren't recruiting our best members, Mooney would have a pretty good band, too.

well we know mooney certainly doesnt recruit music majors.

KnightRyder;1003710 wrote:how does D-5 ursuline manage to have a band and a better football team, with less students?

KnightRyder;1003715 wrote:well we know mooney certainly doesnt recruit music majors.

If this is all the haters have left...I feel pretty good.

sherm03;1003750 wrote:If this is all the haters have left...I feel pretty good.

who's hatin? i was merely stating the facts. is the truth a little much for you to handle?

KnightRyder;1003756 wrote:who's hatin? i was merely stating the facts. is the truth a little much for you to handle?

I personally like the band. Those kids have more stones than anyone in the school. KnighRyder is reaching for anything to bash Mooney. Notice he doesn't bring up academics just music. What a loser.

Dean Wormer;1003968 wrote:I personally like the band. Those kids have more stones than anyone in the school. KnighRyder is reaching for anything to bash Mooney. Notice he doesn't bring up academics just music. What a loser.

academics ? academically ineligible braylon heard or pharmaceutical sales major derrell johnson koulianos. not mention the fact that WGH won the academic challenge. isnt that one of those public schools that mooney backers say is failing?

Mooney44Cards;1001700 wrote:Another tidbit:

Mooney has now made the playoffs 9 years in a row, reaching the finals 6 times, winning 4 and losing 2.

In the 3 years that Mooney did not reach the finals, they were eliminated by the eventual state runner-up (2003 - Cleveland VASJ, 2008 - Steubenville, 2010 - Akron Buchtel).

I'd like to expand on this point a bit since I looked back a bit further.

Mooney has 25 playoff appearances dating back to 1973. 11 times they played in the state championship, which leaves 14 appearances where they didn't make the final weekend. Only twice in those 14 appearances did Mooney lose to a team that did not play in the state championship game.

Schools that beat Mooney but lost the state championship game:

1989 - Campbell Memorial
1990 - Richfield Revere
1995 - Bellaire
1996 - Bellaire
1999 - Ironton
2003 - Villa Angela-St. Joe's
2008 - Steubenville
2010 - Akron Buchtel

Teams that beat Mooney and won the state championship game:

1992 - Mentor Lake Catholic
1988 - Akron St. Vincent - St. Mary*
1981 - Cleveland Benedictine
1976 - Cincinnati Moeller

*Note: this is the last time ASVSM has beaten Mooney, despite 17 meetings since that game

The only 2 teams to not reach the state finals after beating Mooney are:

1994 - Cleveland Benedictine
1986 - Campbell Memorial

Gotta love those Campbell Memorial Red Devils! Congrats on a great season. It good to see some Campbell boys contributing to the title in PJ Quinn and Carmen Lanzo. These two young men come from very good families and did a great job this year. Just in case anyone wants to know, they both are part of the Mooney feeder schools & have never attended the Campbell public school system. Wish we could have had them on our team this year.

KnightRyder;1004163 wrote:academics ? academically ineligible braylon heard or pharmaceutical sales major derrell johnson koulianos. not mention the fact that WGH won the academic challenge. isnt that one of those public schools that mooney backers say is failing?

You mean Braylon Heard the student athlete at Nebraska and Derrel Koulianous whose charges were dropped? And for your information Harding is in Trumbull county and I don't know or care if they are in academic emergency because it doesn't affect Mooney what so ever.

Dean Wormer;1005078 wrote:You mean Braylon Heard the student athlete at Nebraska and Derrel Koulianous whose charges were dropped? And for your information Harding is in Trumbull county and I don't know or care if they are in academic emergency because it doesn't affect Mooney what so ever.

yea the same Braylon Heard the student athlete who was academically ineligible his freshamn year at nebraska. and Derrel Koulianous who plead guilty to possesion in part of plea bargain deal to have the other charges dropped.

KnightRyder;1004163 wrote:academics ? academically ineligible braylon heard or pharmaceutical sales major derrell johnson koulianos. not mention the fact that WGH won the academic challenge. isnt that one of those public schools that mooney backers say is failing?

The State of Ohio says it is.

thats governor krazyich!!