Every Confirmed Football Game for Every MD HS

[harcohorns]

Many MIAA schools have not given much info to Maxpreps in the past. However, I seriously doubt almost all of CHC's opponents over the past 3 plus seasons listed Calvert Hall as Towson HS for each game. For example, the DeMatha/Calvert Hall Patriot Classic game was not called in by either school & Maxpreps listed it as DM vs Towson HS. I would also assume the McDonogh/McDonough/McDonogh 35 (Louisiana school named after John McDonogh) thing is no fault of McDonogh or their opponents. I think it lies in the data entry at Maxpreps.

I am not sure what you mean by call in.. We always just used the coach login and entered the data ourselves.. You pretty much manage your own teams page through the coach/admin log in...

[92 Card]

I am not sure what you mean by call in.. We always just used the coach login and entered the data ourselves.. You pretty much manage your own teams page through the coach/admin log in...

Sorry for using the word call in lieu of email, dude.... I'll l make it as simple as possible. Neither Calvert Hall or Dematha reported the game to Maxpreps this year. It was done by an outside source. Anyone can email their people and they will enter it. I know you guys are all about Maxpreps, but it does not mean they do not make mistakes.

[harcohorns]

Sorry for using the word call in lieu of email, dude.... I'll l make it as simple as possible. Neither Calvert Hall or Dematha reported the game to Maxpreps this year. It was done by an outside source. Anyone can email their people and they will enter it. I know you guys are all about Maxpreps, but it does not mean they do not make mistakes.

LOL I am not trying to be argumentative or make a pitch for MaxP.. Actualy Eric Day was the one who always did all the MaxPreps stuff.. I dont think anyone is really keeping up with much it at ECA right now either.

[eaglesinsider]

Many MIAA schools have not given much info to Maxpreps in the past. However, I seriously doubt almost all of CHC's opponents over the past 3 plus seasons listed Calvert Hall as Towson HS for each game. For example, the DeMatha/Calvert Hall Patriot Classic game was not called in by either school & Maxpreps listed it as DM vs Towson HS. I would also assume the McDonogh/McDonough/McDonogh 35 (Louisiana school named after John McDonogh) thing is no fault of McDonogh or their opponents. I think it lies in the data entry at Maxpreps.

I think the McDonogh-McDonough mix up is probably due to misspelling on behalf of the person inputting data, just based on the amount of times I see that McDonogh-McDonough spelling mistake made.

The location mix ups (McDonogh/McDonogh 35, CHC/Towson HS) are definitely MaxPreps data entry problems just based on the amount of times that they happen.

That being said, MaxPreps is stillthe best quick reference for HS schedules anywhere.

[92 Card]

I think the McDonogh-McDonough mix up is probably due to misspelling on behalf of the person inputting data, just based on the amount of times I see that McDonogh-McDonough spelling mistake made.

The location mix ups (McDonogh/McDonogh 35, CHC/Towson HS) are definitely MaxPreps data entry problems just based on the amount of times that they happen.

That being said, MaxPreps is stillthe best quick reference for HS schedules anywhere.

Agreed

[eaglesinsider]

Today is July 1, or the 1st day of the 2012-2013 academic year. Which means that most school websites will roll over from 2011-2012 to 2012-2013 within the next few days.

McDonogh has officially updated their website with the fall schedules for all sports. 4 interesting things I noticed:

1) The McD-Gonzaga game will be played at McD on Friday, 8/31 at 4pm and will not be part of the I-95 Kickoff Classic this year.

2) McD is hosting a public school football team on campus for the first time in a decade or more when South River comes for a scrimmage on 8/18. South River is coached by McD alum Lane Clelland.

3) McD is only playing 7 JV games, they scrimmage St. Paul's on 8/24, then don't open the regular season until they play Curley on 9/13. I wonder if they are worried about JV numbers, especially with more freshmen/sophomores expected to make varsity than usual. A typical McD JV team has 25-30 players, so even having a few more making varsity than normal could jeopardize the JV season. Once you start getting around 22 players, you really have to worry about continuing to field a team.

4) Loyola is fielding a middle school team this year. They are playing in the middle school A league with McD, Gilman, BL, and St. Paul's.

[eaglesinsider]

Agreed

Card,

I forgot about this until now, but I was up in far Western Maryland (Cumberland) recently, and I heard that CHC had approached Fort Hill about playing this season, but FH turned them down. Is there any truth to this?

[92 Card]

Today is July 1, or the 1st day of the 2012-2013 academic year. Which means that most school websites will roll over from 2011-2012 to 2012-2013 within the next few days.

McDonogh has officially updated their website with the fall schedules for all sports. 4 interesting things I noticed:

1) The McD-Gonzaga game will be played at McD on Friday, 8/31 at 4pm and will not be part of the I-95 Kickoff Classic this year.

2) McD is hosting a public school football team on campus for the first time in a decade or more when South River comes for a scrimmage on 8/18. South River is coached by McD alum Lane Clelland.

3) McD is only playing 7 JV games, they scrimmage St. Paul's on 8/24, then don't open the regular season until they play Curley on 9/13. I wonder if they are worried about JV numbers, especially with more freshmen/sophomores expected to make varsity than usual. A typical McD JV team has 25-30 players, so even having a few more making varsity than normal could jeopardize the JV season. Once you start getting around 22 players, you really have to worry about continuing to field a team.

4) Loyola is fielding a middle school team this year. They are playing in the middle school A league with McD, Gilman, BL, and St. Paul's.

1.) Interesting, but appropriate since I-95 Kickoff Challenge games are usually played on a neutral field. Maybe they will change the venue last minute as was the case in 2010. I think they Friday night slot was a good one that year. I would much rather play on Friday night than early afternoon on Saturday or Thursday Night in a Stadium in the middle of nowhere that is not set up for night games. The set up for the Calvert Hall vs St John's game last year was terrible! Bowie is a mediocre AT BEST daytime venue that was awful at night. They should have handed out flashlights to everyone so they could see during their 10 minute walk in the dark from the field to the parking lot. LOL. It felt very isolated compared to the rest of the Kickoff Classic.


2.)I believe McDonogh scrimmaged South River last year, but it was at South River. I assume they set up a home & home last year. Lance is a good guy.

3.) Since breaking their 5 year losing streak, McDonogh's JV program has been competitive & well coached the past two seasons. I do not think a 7 game schedule will necessarily hurt them too much. CHC's JV is playing a 10 game schedule. Their non-conference opponents are Bowie, DeMatha, St. John's, Friendship & Red Lion's varsity ( I think).

4.)Loyola has fielded a middle school team for the past few years. I went to the Loyola/BL game three years ago. A young man who played for BL at the time who is now at CHC. I think McDonogh's Middle School team beat Gilman two years ago as well.

[mlf1886]

Maxpreps relies on the coaches or whomever the coach gives the job to input data(schedules,rosters and stats) into maxpreps.. That is why you see double games sometimes both teams input the game but a letter or date is off so it takes both inputs.. If it shows Towson HS then that was probably the coach or admin of the team CHC was playing that put that in.. Not all schools input into Maxpreps , CHC hasn't in the past ...

Maxpreps is horrible. They have plenty of wrong dates and scores. They list the wrong location of games and even have the wrong records.

[mlf1886]

Poly isn't as big as McDonogh's stadium. Gilman games are packed everywhere. Not even just with Gilman people, with everybody else that want to see Gilman play. GC-Gilman, packed. Gilman-Don Bosco packed. Gilman-Loyola, packed! Of course Gilman-Spalding isn't packed and neither is CHC-Spalding. But Gilman travels very well.

Gilman games are not packed everywhere. Calvert Hall and McDonogh games have a good turnout but that's it

[mlf1886]

I have received confirmation from the folks at Extra Point Productions & two Dunbar assistant coaches that the Calvert Hall vs Dunbar game will indeed be the 1st game played under the lights at Dunbar's new UA "Cain" field if it is ready to go. The Dunbar people REALLY, REALLY want this game to take place between Monument & Madison Streets, not at Towson. Extra Point Productions has Unitas Stadium under contract and they will use it as a last resort. The CHC/Dunbar game will be the first I-95 Classic game not played on a neutral field. It's a home game for Dunbar. Personally, I have no problem playing at Dunbar with all of the emotions swirling in the air, the hoopla that will surely surround the pre-game ceremonies and the UA big dogs & celebrities in attendance. However, it would have been nice to know this up front instead of getting railroaded down to UA field. You will never hear Davis & Eckerl complain about the switch, and I am sure they would have taken the game if it was scheduled to be played at Dunbar up front. Regardless, I think a little game of switcharoo/okey doke went down. The contracts were signed as part of the I 95 Kickoff Classic, not as a home game for Dunbar. I am not sure if the Classic picked up UA as a sponsor, but they are promoting Dunbar very heavily this year.





As for Byrd's new turf, it is state of the art. I think it's the first field using the "cool play" technology in lieu of the tire rubber. The Cool Play stystem is supposed to reduce temps on the field by as much as 15 degrees.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...dI5V_blog.html

This game should be played at Towson. All I95 games should be played at a neutral site like Byrd stadium, M&T or Towson. I wonder if the challenge is over because Good counsel is playing Gilman at home at 7:00pm on the sameday CHC plays Dunbar.

It looks like all the good games are played at Friday night

[eaglesinsider]

1.) Interesting, but appropriate since I-95 Kickoff Challenge games are usually played on a neutral field. Maybe they will change the venue last minute as was the case in 2010. I think they Friday night slot was a good one that year. I would much rather play on Friday night than early afternoon on Saturday or Thursday Night in a Stadium in the middle of nowhere that is not set up for night games. The set up for the Calvert Hall vs St John's game last year was terrible! Bowie is a mediocre AT BEST daytime venue that was awful at night. They should have handed out flashlights to everyone so they could see during their 10 minute walk in the dark from the field to the parking lot. LOL. It felt very isolated compared to the rest of the Kickoff Classic.


2.)I believe McDonogh scrimmaged South River last year, but it was at South River. I assume they set up a home & home last year. Lance is a good guy.

3.) Since breaking their 5 year losing streak, McDonogh's JV program has been competitive & well coached the past two seasons. I do not think a 7 game schedule will necessarily hurt them too much. CHC's JV is playing a 10 game schedule. Their non-conference opponents are Bowie, DeMatha, St. John's, Friendship & Red Lion's varsity ( I think).

4.)Loyola has fielded a middle school team for the past few years. I went to the Loyola/BL game three years ago. A young man who played for BL at the time who is now at CHC. I think McDonogh's Middle School team beat Gilman two years ago as well.

I agree about the Kickoff Classic, I'd rather McD play Gonzaga at home and not as part of the classic than at Bowie or some other sub-par venue. I do hope McD gets lights sooner rather than later, the atmosphere for the Fri night I-95 Classic game vs. Gonzaga in 2010 was great. They are looking for a donation for lights, but the rumor is that it is just for the new turf field at this point, simply because it hosts all levels of all sports but football. They feel like the amount of games on the turf justifies the expense more than the stadium, which is only used for football and V boy's lax. So you are only talking maybe 4 football games and 7 lacrosse games where the lights are turned on vs dozens of events on the turf field. My hope is that they see how well lights work on the turf field and move on to lighting the stadium.

I guess I missed the fact that Loyola had a middle school team because they haven't played McD recently. The middle school teams usually play only 4-5 games just because there are so few actual school teams at the MS level in MD. McD (A/B teams), Gilman, BL, St. Paul's (A/B teams), Loyola, Friends (B only), Calvert School (K-8 school that sends lots of kids to McD and Gilman), and Bluford Drew Jemison (MPSSAA Charter School) are the only schools with middle school teams that I know of. McD did beat Gilman at the MS level 2 years ago probably the best sub-varsity game I have ever see. McD by something like 36-30 in 3 OT.

[eaglesinsider]

Here's an interesting development in the McD-Gonzaga game. Gonzaga released their schedule yesterday and has the game being played Thurs 8/30 at 7:30 at UMD. Conflicting official schedules from McD and Gonzaga

Gonzaga schedule: http://gonzagatdclub.org/schedule-results/

[GREYHOUND ALUM]

Gilman games are not packed everywhere. Calvert Hall and McDonogh games have a good turnout but that's it

Wrong! Gilman-Good Counsel, one of the most attended games of the year. Gilman-Loyola, packed! Only subpar Gilman attended games would be MSJ. Evan Spalding was packed the last two years.

Calvert Hall just started getting people to come to games the last two years. I was at the Gilman-Calvert Hall games 3 years ago when they stunned Gilman, there were like 20 people on the CHC sideline!

[TheGuru]

Wrong! Gilman-Good Counsel, one of the most attended games of the year. Gilman-Loyola, packed! Only subpar Gilman attended games would be MSJ. Evan Spalding was packed the last two years.

Calvert Hall just started getting people to come to games the last two years. I was at the Gilman-Calvert Hall games 3 years ago when they stunned Gilman, there were like 20 people on the CHC sideline!

Wrong again! The meager stands and sidelines on the visiting side were full of CHC students, parents, alumni and even the CHC defectors who transferred to Dunbar that season. Remember how the CHC students ran into the field and stomped on the "G"? Stop with the revisionist history.

[Hallman]

Correct...I remember GA posting about the CHC students dancing on the "G" at mid-field and how the Gilman football team was going to avenge that atrosity, only to be shocked again at Calvert Hall in the first Friday Night game.

To get my day started right, I'm going to pull the You Tube clip of the botched punt and listen to, I believe it's coach Poggi, screaming "Fall on it, Fall on it" ... Classic!

[GREYHOUND ALUM]

Wrong again! The meager stands and sidelines on the visiting side were full of CHC students, parents, alumni and even the CHC defectors who transferred to Dunbar that season. Remember how the CHC students ran into the field and stomped on the "G"? Stop with the revisionist history.

The stomping on the G were CHC football players! The stands were be packed. It was pretty empty. Gilman stands we're packed because it was homecoming. Until that game, CHC's only packed game was the Turkey Bowl.

[neveradoubt]

The stomping on the G were CHC football players! The stands were be packed. It was pretty empty. Gilman stands we're packed because it was homecoming. Until that game, CHC's only packed game was the Turkey Bowl.

I was at that game. The stands were packed so much so that I had to go and sit on the Gilman side. Where were u?

[Big Sky]

I was at that game. The stands were packed so much so that I had to go and sit on the Gilman side. Where were u?

I hate to agree with Grey hound, That was the first time I went to a CHC game. CHC sidelines had 2 little aluminum stands that were half full and the sidelines were empty. If I recall right it was some anniversary I thought the Big Cake said 50 years, Maybe a reunion. The first Half the Hall was running all over them. CJ and Neverdon looked like Craig and Dickerson. The defense was dominant The only real run was Jennings, the second or third down took it about 50 yd s over the right side. I also noticed in the first half Gilman's Poggi was a warrior trying to compete as a Middle linebacker with a dislocated shoulder. Lot of heart there. The game was not close.

[GREYHOUND ALUM]

I hate to agree with Grey hound, That was the first time I went to a CHC game. CHC sidelines had 2 little aluminum stands that were half full and the sidelines were empty. If I recall right it was some anniversary I thought the Big Cake said 50 years, Maybe a reunion. The first Half the Hall was running all over them. CJ and Neverdon looked like Craig and Dickerson. The defense was dominant The only real run was Jennings, the second or third down took it about 50 yd s over the right side. I also noticed in the first half Gilman's Poggi was a warrior trying to compete as a Middle linebacker with a dislocated shoulder. Lot of heart there. The game was not close.

You are right on! It's was a 50th reunion and they came on the field at halftime. It wasn't even close to being packed, definitely not like it has been the last two years.