This season Ignatius has asked for a year off from the series with Beca. Still the Hawks open the season in Denver against Mullin, the 1998 state champ. They host Brooklyn Prep, Moeller and Glen Mills. They travel to Altoona. You want the tradition to kick in.
Tradition spurs emotion and emotion wins football games.
And we're an emotional team. It's a lot of fun. The premise of this bold, and admirable, kamikazee approach, upon which Stem and the Bethlehem Catholic administration embarked after fingers we're pointed at Beca when the East Penn Conference lost half of its membership to the Mountain Valley Conference, is underwritten by talent from which Stem will cast the 2000 Hawks. So there's work to do. There's also plenty to work with.