I had a (great) H.S FB coach that always that how well you play on Friday nights.......
.....pretty much represents how well you practiced that week. Unfortunately, none of us (including the media) observed any meaningful fall camp practice sessions. But I would bet, this year's fall camp entailed a lot of limited contact or soft contact, especially during team scrimmages. Both OL & DL, lacked physicality, aggressiveness/speed in addition to poor tackling to keep up with Miami. With the season now underway, I doubt MF will now ramp up the intensity of practices; however, with this being our bye-week, hopefully he will get these going after each other in practice this week to be ready for A&M!
Replies to: I had a (great) H.S FB coach that always that how well you play on Friday nights.......
Practice in fear, play in fear. We looked very timid and fearful. Not aggressive and attacking.
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High School Yes! I still want to go out there and hit a Minersville Fighting Miner! GRRR :-D
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Don't forget about Mount Caemel & Pottsville...those
coal miner dedendents from good Eastern European stock were the rtoughest and stringest of anyone in the U.S.!
Blue Mountain War Eagles & Reading Red Knights were worse!
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Mount Carmel
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Got beat twice by former ND player Gary Diminic! Damn Red Tornadoes!
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That cat was impossible to cover in HS....
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Remember him well when he played at ND in the early 70's....my H.S; we played Mt Carmel my Sr. year
(1976) they had a fullback (Mike Revenis) that tore us up! Big strong kid with legs like telephone poles!
Bobby Veach father of Chief's GM Bret Veach was also on that MC team. Bobby played at Temple. Where
did you play? I played at Pottsville... Bill Flynn a former ND lineman was our coach...
I played for Wyoming Area (Wyoming Valley Conference). Mt. Carmel.was our
non-conference game that year. You guys as we say "from down the line" were tough blue-collar kids that even if we beat you guys, it would still take 2 weeks to heal up!
Dr Rich Greco (my urologist) played at Mt Carmel. He said to me - "do you remember those hits? I
told him - Every time it rains!
Re: I played for Wyoming Area (Wyoming Valley Conference). Mt. Carmel.was our
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You are a Warrior!!! Sabatini's pizza brother!!!
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Yes sir...grew up on Sab's 🍕!
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I grew up a few minutes from you in Mt Top. Moved to Lehigh Valley after college.
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Mattucci's in Mount Carmel. Won lose or draw-a great place to go after the game!
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Only flaw an autographed picture of JOPA on the wall...
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Lol. I can remember back in the day when fist fights would break out in bars in Wilkes Barre between
the ND and PSU fans when the teams would play each other more frequently.
I'm a retired Postal Inspector. We had 2 fights in our office. Educated guys! :-D
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My town in NE PA is split down the middle.
The Orange Bowl was awesome, still lots of crying from the PSU faithful.
Would love to play them yearly!
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Me too, we lead the series 10-9-1.
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Fantastic bottle shop in Exeter. One of the very best.
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"That" Mt Carmel team was in '69. My senior year at Pottsville was '70....
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