They REALLY don't play school in Columbus
I saw the highlights on ESPN and social media but didn't realize the backstory. It's apparently not even a real school, just a bunch of kids that work out together.
They played a team from Pennsylvania Friday night, then turned around and played IMG last night on national television. And lost 58-0.
No staff, no physical address. Just a charter school/weight room without a charter on file with the Ohio department of education.
August 31st, 2021 at 2:48 PM ^
They have never masqueraded as such. They literally used to be called IMG Sports Academy. They started as a place for elite athletes to train while in high school. Comparing it to this other place is like apples and oranges. The other place doesn't even have a physical address. IMG has an entire campus of classroom buildings and athletic facilities.
Just because they played each other, doesn't make them similar in any stretch of the imagination.
August 31st, 2021 at 3:43 PM ^
here's how many students attend IMG for anything other than sports: zero.
here's how many students attend bishop sycamore for anything other than sports: zero.
the only difference between the two is that one of them has the full weight of the william morris agency behind it, so they get to enjoy the sheen of corporate approval. if you want to defend IMG as some bastion of academic integrity, go ahead, but i'm calling bullshit.
August 30th, 2021 at 10:00 PM ^
Tuition at IMG is only $84,000 this year for a boarding football "student":
https://www.imgacademy.com/boarding-school/academics/tuition
August 30th, 2021 at 8:33 PM ^
IMG is just a better-run version of this school, as is the Ypsi Academy and various other football factory schools that exist out there. It's pretty brazen to include JuCos and have a mailing address be a P.O. box, but honestly when I first heard their name I thought IMG Academy was just where they sent aspiring models before they made it to IMG modeling, so I wouldn't have batted an eye with some random Ohio school either.
August 30th, 2021 at 9:53 PM ^
ASK ME ABOUT MY WEINER!!!
August 30th, 2021 at 10:58 PM ^
FRAMES is on MGoBlog....
August 30th, 2021 at 9:10 PM ^
My favorite part of this is that they didn't even make a plausible attempt at their fake Catholic-sounding name. Bishop *Sycamore*? Bro that's a tree
August 30th, 2021 at 10:02 PM ^
That’s what I was thinking. I never heard of a “Bishop Sycamore.” Tried to google it and couldn’t find anything but this school. So dumb. Further embarrassment for ESPN. Know your theology, world leader in sports!
August 30th, 2021 at 10:18 PM ^
I'd bet $100 that the "brain power" behind this literally looked at the Ohio High School football rankings one day and thought: "Hmmm. Bishop Watterson! And Sycamore High! For the name of our school, how about if we just combined the two?"
Thus the school's name was born. LITERALLY like that. Their second option was Archbishop Colerain.
August 30th, 2021 at 10:42 PM ^
It's the Bishop!!
The name, Vic! Don’t say the kids name!
August 31st, 2021 at 8:32 AM ^
i thought i was the only one that shouted “the bishop!” every time i hear the word. brilliant.
August 31st, 2021 at 12:10 AM ^
Don’t they claim to be from Canton?
August 31st, 2021 at 5:56 AM ^
Ha ha espn/sec. couldn’t have happened to a nicer bunch
August 31st, 2021 at 5:41 PM ^
I mean, we have some crazy recruiting from the catholic schools down here in Cincy and Cleveland that is dirty as hell, but this was just BS and doesn’t represent Ohio HS football in any way. I was honestly embarrassed as hell watching a minute or two of that game.