Originally Posted by Anonymous
Loyola is very young at key positions this year and their most elite player on offense and defense who is committed to Duke for football has not played a down because of a knee injury. I agree their program needs more depth to compete with MSJ and Spaulding of the MIAA. I heard their JV made up of mostly freshman is undefeated including a win over MSJ so perhaps they are on the right track to rebuilding the program.

The recipe for success is not a big secret. Half of the starting line up is made up of experienced youth players who got playing varsity game time as freshmen or sophomores with the rest of the first string coming from a winning and super successful JV program. A commitment to recruiting at least 3 quality linemen per year, a great lifting and conditioning program and outstanding offensive and defensive line technique coaching will lead to dominance in the trenches and the skill players will flock to the program. Loyola has the facilities and the coaching staff: It needs 6-9 quality youth recruits per year with three of them being large athletic (for their size) linemen.