The Road to Boyle

The biggest question tonight at the Hall of Fame Classic: If New Haven County beat Fairfield County by more than 50 points, would Ansonia head coach Tom Brockett – who was in charge of the New Haven side – be suspended from the first regular season game his team played? Or From next year’s Hall of Fame Classic?

Or would Ridgefield head coach Kevin Callahan, the head of Fairfield County’s team, be allowed to tell someone at the CIAC that Brockett did everything in his power to keep the score under controll?

Of course the all-star game is not a CIAC sanctioned event, and fortunately we didn’t find out. Fairfield County linebacker Trevor Treibt broke through the line of scrimmage and blocked a Jordan Rozas extra point that would have made it a 50-0 game with 5:42 left in the fourth quarter.

No doubt, Fairfield County was outmatched. As one Valley football fan told me today on Facebook, he knew just by a look at the rosters that New Haven would get the win.

I don’t fully agree – then again I only saw a few games and scrimmages up in the Valley last season and really did not get a full look at talent up there. I did see some of these guys up at the Governor’s Cup game two weeks back – Cheshire QB BillyRagone, Ansonia RB Tristan Roberto, Law linebacker Ricky Rozier, Foran lineman Russ Furlow – and was very impressed with their abilities.

I thought New Haven had a good shot to win this one. But I wonder if that fan knew it would come this easy for New Haven County?

By the way, if you thought Ragone, who is heading to Penn to play ball, should have got the offensive MVP award over Masuk QB Bobby Baker in the Governor’s Cup game last month, you get a consolation. Ragone was the offensive MVP for New Haven County.