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Your 2013 high school football schedules (aka: the greatest schedules ever?) [Updated]

Thursday, June 6, 2013 by:Sean Patrick Bowley
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I can’t tell you how many inquiries I’ve had about the release of this year’s schedules. It’s a lot. Like several times a week.

Y’all are like a brats in the back seat of my car on the way to Itchy & Scratchy Land:

Whentheygonnabeout? June. Whentheygonnabeout? June. Whentheygonnabeout? June.
Whentheygonnabeout? June. Whentheygonnabeout? June. Whentheygonnabeout? June.
Whentheygonnabeout? June. Whentheygonnabeout? June. Whentheygonnabeout? June.
Whentheygonnabeout? June. Whentheygonnabeout? June. Whentheygonnabeout? June.

Well it’s June, so here’s where I slam the breaks, turn around, drop my arm on the seat rest, and scream in red-faced exaspiration: HERE ARE YOUR DARN FOOTBALL SCHEDULES! then collapsing, spent while you spoiled brats dance with glee, get bored and start asking when the season starts.

So…

SCREEEEEEEEEEETCH!!!!!!

[turns around]

HERE ARE YOU DARN FOOTBALL SCHEDULES!!!!!!!!

Awright, awright, I get why we’re so anxious.

The 2013 schedule is unparalleled in the history of all Connecticut High School football, or at least since The Great Superconference Conjunction of 1994.

Not only is 2013 a precious 11-game season, but it’s also The Year of the SuperConference Crossovers.

To wit:

You have the FCIAC-SCC Week 1 Challenge, feat. Xavier-Staples, Greenwich-West Haven, Hand-New Canaan, Ridgefield-Cheshire, Notre Dame-St. Joseph, Trumbull-Shelton, etc.

That’s not forgetting the FCIAC-SCC Bye Week Challenge, featuring the ‘smallest’ FCIAC schools vs SCC-teams-that-would-have-had-Derby-on-the-schedule-had-Derby-not-defected-to-the-NVL.

The SWC-NVL Challenge, feat. Ansonia-Masuk, Newtown-Wolcott, Bunnell-Naugatuck (The Bruno Bowl), Weston-Holy Cross, Woodland-Pomperaug, etc.

Yes, we’re all very excited. Intrigues galore.

So, here we go:

The composite schedules by class and by week have not been put together yet. But you can peruse schedules by team, or the master schedule (which includes scrimmages.

Nothing’s final until the deadline to add/drop games next fall.

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Class Divisions unveiled:

UPDATE: And, through some avenue of sleuthing, Ned Griffen of The Day has unveiled the 2013 Class Divisions. Subterfuge, he says. We’re happy to have them, but displeased. Just release the darn things if they’re done, CIAC.

In Class LL, Fairfield Warde and Wilby move up from L … In Class L, Bristol Central and Naugatuck move down from LL while New London, Cheney Tech and Vinal Tech/East Hampton move up from M. … In Class M, Fermi, Rockville and Woodstock academy move down from L and Granby, Killingly, Stonington, Valley/Old Lyme move up from S. …In Class S, Enfield, Montville, O’Brien Tech and Windham move down from M.

(In other words, nothing truly significant has changed aside from a beefed-up Class L.)

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Master Schedule (Including scrimmages)

School-by-school schedule list

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Composite Schedule Grid

CLASS LL | CLASS L | CLASS M | CLASS S

Week-by-Week Schedules:

WEEK 1 | WEEK 2 | WEEK 3 | WEEK 4 | WEEK 5 | WEEK 6 | WEEK 7 | WEEK 8 | WEEK 9 | WEEK 10 | WEEK 11 | WEEK 12

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Team-by-Team schedules:

Below are all of the 2013 team schedule individual links. So just click your favorite team below.

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Coaching carousel update: Woodstock hires, no vacancy at Rockville, six remain

Thursday, May 9, 2013 by:Sean Patrick Bowley
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Round and round the Coaching Carousel goes. When it'll stop, nobody knows (I kill me.)

Round and round the Coaching Carousel goes. When it’ll stop, nobody knows (I kill me.)

It’s been a few weeks since we last checked on the vacancies and — woah — there’s been some movement. y’all.


Second time’s the charm at Woodstock Academy


Woodstock Academy coach Clay Killingsworth.

Woodstock Academy coach Clay Killingsworth (Norwich Bulletin)

A year ago, NFA assistant Clay Killingsworth was passed over at Woodstock Academy for Jesse Pimental. A year later, Pimental had resigned due to family considerations and Killingsworth tried again.

This time, he got the gig. The Norwich Bulletin reported Killingsworth hire back on April 22.
Killingsworth takes over a position once held by his mentor, NFA head coach Jemal Davis.

Killingsworth actually began his coaching career with Davis at Woodstock Academy when the program started eight years ago. This is a homecoming for the 33-year old coach.

“(Davis) said that it was a natural progression and he was excited for me and was ready to see what I could do here,” Killingsworth told The Bulletin.

And so the ECC is now down to just one coaching vacancy: St. Bernard/Norwich Tech.


No Vacancy at Rockville, after all


If you recall our lament about some of the CCC schools living behind some impenetrable anti-internet shield, you will recall we knew very little about an apparent coaching vacancy at Rockville. It existed, yes, because the job was posted.

But — short of actually acting like journalists and actually giving a call to fair Vernon (Why? Because: Vernon, you guys) — we knew precious few details due to the great ‘CCC Firewall.’

Undeterred we kept checking and, lo and behold, this tiny little item from March sprung up from behind the Manchester Journal-Inquirer’s paywall:

Rockville fills 2 jobs

And there it was: Rob Scholtz had been re-hired as the head coach.

Apparently, Scholtz, a 27-year old Enfield corrections officer who graduated from Rockville in 2004, was under an interim tag last year and had to reapply for his job, hence the posting. He’s ready to get back to work:

“I see the toughest of the tough at work, and I don’t want to see our kids go down that path,’’ Scholtz told the J-I. “So I try to keep them headed down the right path, and while we’re at it, let’s win some football games.’’

Scholtz is the second-youngest of the new crop of football coaches. He’s eclipsed only by 26-year old Fitch coach Jordan Panucci.

So there we are. Nothing really new in Rockville.

Meet the new coach / Same as the old coach

We won’t get fooled again.

As for the rest of the vacancies, which topped 24 or 25 at its greatest advance, we are now down to seven openings with about three months to go before the start of fall practices.

NO VACANCY (21)


VACANCY (6)

  • East Haven
  • Notre Dame-Fairfield — We have a call in to AD Rob Bleggi to check on ND’s progress. Incidentally, we still don’t know why Dawon Dicks was let go.
  • Platt Tech
  • St. Bernard/Norwich Tech
  • Wilby
  • Old Saybrook

Former Weaver star Asaph Schwapp dies at 26

Wednesday, May 8, 2013 by:Sean Patrick Bowley
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Asaph Schwapp holds his Connecticut Gatorade Player of the Year Award banner during a recent trip to Weaver High School (via http://www.instagram.com/ace_schwapp)

Asaph Schwapp holds his Connecticut Gatorade Player of the Year Award banner during a recent trip to Weaver High School (via http://www.instagram.com/ace_schwapp)

Former Weaver star carries the ball for Notre Dame vs. USC on Oct. 15, 2005. (Photo by Sporting News/Sporting News via Getty Images)

Former Weaver star Asaph Schwapp carries the ball for Notre Dame vs. USC on Oct. 15, 2005. (Photo by Sporting News/Sporting News via Getty Images)

Asaph Schwapp, who starred at Weaver and then played at the University of Notre Dame, died Wednesday. He was 26.

Schwapp, whose nickname was ‘Ace,’ died of non-Hodgkins Lymphoma, a form a blood cancer.

Schwapp was raised by his aunt and uncle after his mother,  Evelyn, died of cancer in 1996, according to the Hartford Courant.

He was a National Honors Society member who starred as a running back and linebacker at Weaver under Rob Fleeting, now at Windsor.

As a senior Schwapp was named the 2004 Connecticut Gatorade Player of the Year after rushing for 1,313 yards and 13 TDs and making 74 tackles, eight sacks and five interceptions. As a junior, he ran for 1,110 yards.

Though recruited by Ty Willingham, Schwapp wound up playing for Charlie Weiss at Notre Dame. Schwapp played in 39 games for the Irish at fullback from 2005-2008.

Schwapp graduated with a business degree from Notre Dame and signed with the Dallas Cowboys as a free agent in 2009. Though he never made it onto an NFL regular season roster, he eventually became the face of the fledgling and short-lived Hartford Colonials in 2010. The Colonials lasted just one season.

 

On Wednesday morning, Weiss announced on Twitter Schwapp was ‘gravely ill’ and asked for prayers. Schwapp reportedly died a few hours later:

Jake Golic, a Northwest Catholic grad who plays at Notre Dame, and his father and ND alum Mike Golic also expressed their condolences on Twitter.

 

Maloney hires Trinity-Pawling’s Pierce Brennan as next coach (updated)

Tuesday, January 29, 2013 by:Sean Patrick Bowley
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New Maloney coach Pierce Brennan (via Trinity-Pawling School website)

Update: 8:20 p.m.

Meriden’s Board of Education has approved Trinity-Pawling (N.Y.) assistant Pierce Brennan as Maloney’s next football coach, the Record-Journal of Meriden reported Tuesday night. He is the seventh coach in the history of the school, according to the Record-Journal.

Brennan takes over for nine-year coach Bob Zito, whose contract wasn’t renewed following last season. Zito went 46-46-1 and took the team to a state championship game during his tenure. Maloney was 3-7 last year.

Counting John Murphy’s impending hire at New Milford, there are now 18 high school football coaching vacancies to be filled.

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According to a report by Bryant Carpenter in today’s Record-Journal, Maloney is now even closer to appointing its next football coach.

The Meriden Board of Education is meeting tonight in a special session to discuss personnel matters, including the “unanimous” recommendation of a football coach.

Carpenter’s sources say the recommendation before the board is most likely Pierce Brennan, an assistant at Trinity Pawling in New York. No one would confirm it to him officially.

“All is can say is I received a recommendation for a candidate,” Superintendent Mark Benigni told the Record-Journal Monday night. “The (Maloney) committee made a unanimous recommendation and the Central Office team has had an opportunity to meet the candidate and will be forwarding a name to the Board of Education tomorrow night (Tuesday). The hope is the board will approve the appointment tomorrow (Tuesday).”

Brennan, a Long Island native, has ties to Connecticut. He once coached at the University of New Haven. His wife, Danielle, is an assistant women’s basketball coach at Quinnipiac.

Other candidates are Weaver coach Kevin Quinn and Middletown assistant Kevin Frederick, who are both teachers in the Meriden school district.

UConn nabs Windsor’s Ormsby from UMass

Thursday, January 24, 2013 by:Sean Patrick Bowley
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Cole Ormsby is staying home after all.

Very close to home.

The monster Windsor defensive end switched his verbal commitment from UMass to UConn, The Hartford Courant reported Thursday.

“My family and I talked it over,” he told The Courant Thursday night. “It’s close to home. It just felt right.”

Ormsby, a 6-foot-3, 230-pound end, made 85 tackles and had 17 sacks (leading the state according to MaxPreps.com). Windsor went 11-1, losing only to Hand in the Class L title game.

Apparently, UConn has been making the rounds in-state, attempting to add players from its own backyard that might have committed elsewhere.

So far, the Huskies notched Hand’s Matt Walsh, St. Luke’s Noel Thomas, Cheshire Academy’s Cory Jadusowich and Coventry’s Tommy Myers.

HERE’S THE UPDATED RECRUIT LIST

Maloney-Meriden close to naming new coach

Thursday, January 24, 2013 by:Sean Patrick Bowley
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Maloney is close to naming its next head coach, according to a story in the Record-Journal.

The story, written by Bryant Carpenter, says Kevin Frederick, Kevin Quinn and Pierce Brennan are at least three of the leading candidates.

Both Frederick and Quinn are teachers in the Meriden school system. Frederick is an assistant at Middletown. Quinn is the head coach at Weaver of Hartford.

Brennan is an assistant at Trinity-Pawling (N.Y.), whose wife Danielle is an assistant basketball coach at Quinnipiac. He was formerly an assistant at the University of New Haven.

Former Bloomfield/New Britain/New London coach Jack Cochran interviewed but was not a finalist, according to the RJ’s sources.

The Maloney job opened in early December when the Meriden board of education declined to renew 9-year coach Bob Zito’s contract.

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