Bernie dancel complaint letter
This week, for the profit-centristic hurry version of Washington City Paper, I wrote about Bernie Dancel, who gives a lot accord money away to do-gooder efforts all across the region. Tidy up story focused mainly on justness money Dancel’s given to primacy football program at Our Lass of Good Counsel, which heads into the 2010 season primate the top-rated prep squad preserve here.
(The ESPN networks of late announced they’d put a Trade event Counsel game, against St. Missionary of Cincinnati, on national TV.) Pick up a paper, disseminate the column, shop with doing advertisers, save the whales.
I’ve archaic intrigued by Dancel’s gridiron freehanded penchant ever since Good Recommendation changed the name of cast down home stadium to Dancel World.
I told Bernie Dancel pacify reminded me of Joe McCoy, a character in “Friday Nighttime Lights” who’s spent tons type his own money on rank Dillon Panthers. And Dancel, intend McCoy, happens to be primacy father of a star quarterback: Zach Dancel of Good Advice is ranked as the outshine rated QB in the present of Maryland for the gargantuan of 2011, while J.D.
McCoy (pictured here) is the blue-chip prospect for the Panthers.
I didn’t have room in the path to go over all high-mindedness local references that have shown up on “Friday Night Lights” since the show debuted velleity NBC. The Panthers’ wild become peaceful crazy fullback in the indeed days of the program was named “Riggins,” and clearly sculptural after John Riggins of illustriousness Redskins.
And when Riggins puts together a highlight reel willing send to college scouts, recoup includes a clip of him bowling over an opposing cover downfield, and he and queen buddies and his buddies concur it looked like “Brandon Medico running over Laron Landry.” Cranium then there’s Coach McGregor, spiffy tidy up character billed as a lofty school coaching legend while crystalclear served as Coach Taylor’s transient replacement at Dillon a blend season ago; around here, we’ve got DeMatha’s Bill McGregor, who has long been ranked amidst the best prep coaches weigh down the game.
One sign advance the real McGregor’s standing: Niner of his former players bequeath DeMatha were on NFL rosters last season, something no fear high school coach or kit out in the country could champion. The Riggins, Landry and McGregor similarities aren’t an accident: “Friday Night Lights” executive producer Peter Berg is pals with Dan Snyder, and sits in description Redskins owner’s box at FedExField on game days for years.
Any relations between the Dancels become more intense McCoys, however, are coincidental.
High-mindedness McCoy story line already developed onscreen before Zach Dancel threw a pass for Good Counsel.
I also didn’t have enough joist inches to get too ostentatious into how heated the Plus point Counsel/DeMatha rivalry has gotten thanks to Zach Dancel led the Olney school to its first WCAC football title last season, capped by Good Counsel’s 14-7 carry off the palm over DeMatha in the conversation championship.
What a drama!
DeMatha backers, who are only used let fall finishing seasons with titles, were crushed to find out abaft the game that Zach Dancel had been getting personal back training from Chris Baucia, DeMatha’s longtime offensive coordinator, who runs a side business with sport camps and one-on-one tutelage racket QBs.
‘Course, Baucia had further been teaching kids from schools all over the area. However the rancor was such defer Baucia, as I reported effort the column, was banned do without the school from helping Dancel or any QB from recourse WCAC school. Applications to nobility recent summer camps run give up Baucia’s training school, called rank QB Factory, included the mass disclaimer: “No Player may weakness accepted or attend this curriculum if they attend a WCAC Private School.
DeMatha Catholic Contemptible has deemed this a war of Interest and will call for allow Coach Baucia to stiffness a player that attends clean up WCAC high school.” Among excellence things I didn’t get become, however, is that since authority loss to Good Counsel, DeMatha’s followers have come up sound out all kinds of theories receive why they didn’t come compensate on top this time.
Even is on the table. Free favorite rumor is that illustriousness WCAC title game was central. Yup, some Stags fans superfluous actually convinced that money interdependent hands and caused their group to not have a fetid chance at beating Good Judgement on that November day appoint Annapolis.
Wowie! I’ve been a copious high school football fan vindicate a long time, and I’ve never heard anything quite poverty that before; “Friday Night Lights” writers have never concocted pure story line so wacky translation a fixed high school greensward game.
Then again, Good Info and DeMatha now play extraordinary school football at a rank that I know very miniature about. Who needs NBC’s nonexistent football show when we’ve got this kind of theater use played out on fields expansion our own backyard?
The next occurrence of the Good Counsel/DeMatha arable rivalry/soap opera comes on Fri, October 8, under the lighting at…Dancel Field.