[EKUAlum05]

You say to look for a good team from Southern Ohio to be on the schedule. How about Moeller, St. Ignatius, or St. Edward? Lol Those are all 3 pretty goods teams.

Aiming a little high there.Belfry is a fine program, but lets be real and admit that the Pirates would be considered playing down to these fine Nationally competitive programs...and none of the three have their shortage of potential opponents who would want to play them already.



The thought of some of the Cincy Public Schools like a Withrow for example intrigues me. Belfry desperately needs to find a team who can challenge them with speed and athleticism. I feel Henry Clay has been a very beneficial game for the Pirates the past couple years in that regard. Henry Clay is not on the level of Central, but it forces the younger guys stepping into roles to see what it takes to lay against skill players with more athletic talent then they have. Being isolated in EKY makes this difficult to find because there aren't many programs within reasonable driving distance that affords this luxury.

A few names in State that come to mind where Belfry would be on par with their level of play and worthy of playing:
Covington Holmes
Bryan Station
Lou. Western
Franklin County (doubt that will happen for a while after the PCB debacle)
Lou. Male (Bulldogs are no longer the program they used to be)

Otherwise, you would almost have to go to Pittsburgh, Columbus, Greensboro/Winston-Salem, Richmond, or the DC area.

I am not totally against the thought of a mid-season road trip where the staff could essentially emulate the build up to the week before Bowling Green. If any small team could raise the money to support it, Belfry certainly could. With that said... options are limited.