Luke Mertens St Pats
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Wow...that is a very big hire. Luke Mertens is a great coach and a great person. Things really seem to be trending up at Pats since they got a new president
Makes sense. Seems like weird timing since they had their best season in awhile though
Great hire by SP bringing back one of their own. Good luck to Luke and the Shamrocks. We will see you all Friday night at the Don Dome on Dempster and God willing if the Dons prevail I may even stop by Coaches after!! Go Dons!!
I get the thinking behind Santucci bringing in Mertens.
Guerra had no real ties to St.Patrick being from California.
Mertens being an alum, with a proven track record is huge!
Your hope is that they build upon that playoff run and continue to impress and draw better players from the neighborhood.
Fenwick winning state may steal a few kids that ultimately could've been Shamrocks.
Just my opinion...
Guerra had no real ties to St.Patrick being from California.
Mertens being an alum, with a proven track record is huge!
Your hope is that they build upon that playoff run and continue to impress and draw better players from the neighborhood.
Fenwick winning state may steal a few kids that ultimately could've been Shamrocks.
Just my opinion...
The link is to the announcement, Guerra is staying as Dean of Students.
Good night to be a Shamrock!
Honest question- was this a big rivalry when you were at ND? 84 Pats grad - big games were St Joes (in basketball for first place, in football for last) and Holy Cross (Battle of Belmont). ND and Marist were next tier. Now it is all ND.
FYI to others: Pats > ND in b-ball tonight at ND.
I came to ND with the bricks. (Peach baskets for hoops and leather helmets) I want to say the rivalry really started to take root in the 90’s . It’s really not been much of a rivalry in football. We haven’t played each other in football in a couple years now. The years prior to not playing ND seems to have had the advantage.It seems to me the rivalry is really a basketball rivalry anymore. It’s always a blast to see the two stud sections get after it, and the teams have been elite levels recently. I’m looking forward to the football rivalry coming back again. The hire of Luke Mertens assures that the football team will build on this year’s momentum. With the CCL/ESCC schedule set for this year still (I think) I don’t see us playing again this year , but who knows maybe the non conference schedule will allow the teams to play.
The schedule for next year is the same as this year so hopefully the following year this football rivalry can get sparked back up.
From what I remember, at least from the Holy Cross perspective from 2001-2004, was that Pats-Cross hated each other, but had no issues coming together to hate Notre Dame as one giant mob of high school testosterone. If it meant teaming up to participate in off the field extra curricular activities then Crusaders and Shamrocks could be allies if it meant taking down a Don.
I remember going to a Pat's ND basketball game way back when and the St. Pat's student section was filled with green and red and they were chanting "SP HC!"
I'm sure all 3 fan bases after the game shook hands and had a few sodas and laughs!
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