Coach turned out some nice squads during his 14 years at the helm and his 70% won-loss and two D1 championships over that period supports that observation. And he was very close to the big dawg in 2006 as the multi-OT loss against Liberty and Dan Persa in the 2006 Eastern Championship game, 45-38, proved their undoing -- and it was a heartbreaker too as it seemed the Birds were better positioned to take on the Panthers that year as that Hurricane group, albeit beat-up from the game with Fairless Hills, was dismantled by USC, 47-13.
Then at 6-8 overall against Neshaminy his teams were never taken lightly as they could bite you hard. As example, in 2013 the 'Skins motored through their first 14 games at 13-1 as they earned the D1 trophy. The one loss was delivered by the Falcons in the season-ender -- and it wasn't a cliffhanger with the Orange & Black delivering a 31-3 smackdown. Of course, St. Joe's ended the year for the Schmidtmen as they got Langhorne in the Eastern Championship, 37-21 (that was the "Fumble II" game with "Fumble I" the 23-21 loss to Pennsbury in 1972).
In any event, good luck to his son, Luke, who was quite a player for Pennsbury, and good luck to Coach too.
