Will the next Kephart come from Westmont?

[El-Moldo]

....Honestly, I don't know how McCort does it. Earlier this year it was the Lift Scholarships. You remember, right? BM was able to get 20 NEW freshmen admitted to their school at FULL tuition ($100,000) , several of which will undoubtedly be a big part of their football program when they play varsity ball over the next 3 years. Now, there's even a BIGGER COUP. How did McCort FINAGLE Westmont into letting them join a co-op with Westy's wrestling program? This is unbelieveable!!! Didn't Westmont learn ANYTHING from the Kephart situation between Portage and Bishop Carroll???? Could this be the death knell of Westmont football? And won't this also affect transfers to McCort from some of the other neighboring schools?
....One of the factors keeping public school football players from transferring to McCort has been the fact that BM had NO wrestling program. I'm sure, many local football players, who also wrestle, would have considered going to McCort from their public schools, if BM would have had wrestling. But the fact that BM had NO wrestling team, it kept them in their home district. Take schools over the past years which had sub-par football programs. Westmont, Richland, Ligonier, Somerset to name a few. Kids who played football for these programs were STUCK at their home schools because transferring would have prevented them from wrestling. BUT NOW, kids from these public schools may entertain playing football at BM, because they can wrestle TOO! They'll have the best of both worlds. Football for McCort, Westmont for Wrestling. This is even a better situation than Kephart had at Portage/BC. He got to do BOTH, but with BM/Westy, you have TWO winning programs. McCort football and Westy wrestling. How beautiful is this????? And let's not forget to consider those kids from Johnstown, FH, Township, NS, etc who just might want to partake of this new football/wrestling scenario.
....You got to wonder what the heck Westmont was thinking. With their football program alreasdy in shambles, are they gonna lose some of their best football players who also wrestle? Did those running their football program realize this??? And you got to feel sorry for the young Westy wrestlers who have been waiting for their chance to move into the starting line-up, only to possibly see their chances dwindle when new guys show up for the team.
....Three guys with the biggest smiles on their faces tonight are Matt Beaujon, Kevin Sheridan, and of course, Ken Salem. Forget everyone else. They are the ones who stand to gain the most from this announcement in today's Tribune. Beaujon gets some new talent. Sheridan and Salem have a chance to get good football players who normally would have stayed in their home districts which offered wrestling. Too bad for everyone else.

[SRV]

I think this is a very good move for Westmont.
There is no secret about the fact that Westmont has been a wrestling school for the last decade or so.
They already wrestle AAA, so this will help them get some more numbers for when they move on in the State Tournament.

The football team is going by the wayside...focus on something that can bolster morale and put a spark back in the community.

I highly doubt Westmont will have more than 3 "transfers" per year.


let the Moldo War begin...

[El-Moldo]

Hey, the loss of only ONE Merriman hurt Westy and tremendously helped McCort. It only takes one. Add a couple more from several other schools and what a BOON to BM football.

[reugenev]

Great move for Westmont wrestling but terrible move for the football program. Kenny and Kevin just pulled off the biggest heist in the LHAC in years. I feel sorry for coach Glennon. If this was in place this year I would be willing to bet both Burnheimer and Duplin would have been enrolled on Osborne St. Just think Rizzo could have found religion again and the Crushers would have been loaded.
Westmont might as well start playing football on Thursday afternoons cause it's now officially OVER
My question to the AD... COME ON MAN!

[VAD1]

My question to the AD... COME ON MAN!

You mean, COME ON WOMAN! Westy has a female AD.

[Semantics]

i am a westmont graduate and wrestled when we had a co-op with Ferndale Area. Even then there were westmont wrestlers that got beaten out by Ferndale wrestlers and no one raised hell about it. What's with this now, Moldo, you feel sorry for kids all of a sudden? I have seen so many topics where you tell the kids to sack up and quit their cryin. Ferndale or Mccort it doesn't matter. and finally this should be in the wrestling forum not here.

[froshwrestling]

I already raised the same question. The AD had no input into this situation. Was definitely not in favor of it.

[VAD1]

How can the AD not have had any input?? Is this not an athletics related matter? Either get a new AD who can direct the program or eliminate the position. Who's running athletics if the AD isn't making those decisions??

[Eaglealum]

How can the AD not have had any input?? Is this not an athletics related matter? Either get a new AD who can direct the program or eliminate the position. Who's running athletics if the AD isn't making those decisions??

Sounds like the guy in dress shirts/tie, and jeans to me. lol

[froshwrestling]

Shirts and ties made the decsion, but no not jeans. School board made the decision. There was no input from the coach or AD.