We here at 11W and at the greater OSU Football Community are obviously quite excited about the status of our flourishing national recruitment strategy, including powerhouses Bishop Gorman and Saint Thomas Aquinas.
The schools will face-off this year in a cross-country epic battle of the titans. My money is on STA. That's for no reason other than assuming people (coaches) in Las Vegas will get distracted...and our unabashed neo-historical STA biases.
The road to arranging this match-up kicked off with a call to war by Tate Martell back in December.
Next season I want to play...
Mater Dei(CA)
Allen(TX)
Cedar Hill(TX)
Colquitt County(GA)
St. Thomas Aquinas(FL)Tell your coaches to call!
— Tate Martell (@TheTateMartell) December 14, 2015
Feel free to find some background on this here.
Trevon Grimes, as he's wont to do, did not take kind to the notion, and would not deign to the responsibilities of the challenger.
No! Tell YOUR coaches to call ... South Florida football is something you don't wanna call out https://t.co/fIKMo6gHCh
— GrimeTime (@TrevonGrimes7) December 15, 2015
If left to the two of them, no progress would be made. But, as noted, on March 22 it was reported that the game would be played on September 30, broadcast nationally within the ESPN family of channels.
hmmmm https://t.co/IWP1rPHzJi
— GrimeTime (@TrevonGrimes7) April 3, 2016
Since then, the Twitterverse went aflame with the new rivalry.
I am personally going to take @TrevonGrimes7 out the game https://t.co/rn6I0kCbJg
— Alex Perry (@alexperry4lv) March 22, 2016
As innocuous as a Twitter war between two youths may be, Trevon is a high profile kid which means that this turned into and was riled by adults tweeting at recruits.
How many calls did @alexperry4lv have to make to get that 25% @TrevonGrimes7 pic.twitter.com/5Tn2V0VZ9j
— Phil (@philblack22) March 23, 2016
We're off topic...
Here's the thing, any concern the bickering turns to bitterness and some OSU targets on each side will not want to play together, head elsewhere? I assume the answer is mostly no, and that the feud can't last more than the season in which they play.
Like, dislike, not noticing, ignoring the rivalry?
