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IRMO should be solid. Not as strong as two years ago, or last year, but still strong. Lots of returning senior talent.

Irmo ia in upper state. We could see a rematch of last years state final. Upper State should be a lot more competitve than lower state. JL Mann, Northwestern, Riverside, Irmo should challenge each other in the playoffs.

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Couldn't agree with you more.Just dont see Irmo stepping up to the level they have been playing the last couple of years.

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Regardless if they have the talent or not, as long as they get to the state championship they will choke

The proof is that last year in the state finals irmo did not complete more than 5 passes in one passage of play. As for this season... Connor Dunbaker works hard, but is a medium soccer player at best. He has not even started half of the academy U-18 games this season and only has one goal in 17 games. You would think a player who has been in the academy program for 3 years would make more of an impact. Scoring goals against extreme lesser teams is not impressive. Matt Freeman signed for Clemson today and that is great for him. He is a tremendous athlete and could become an excellent soccer player there at Clemson. However the rest of the team including josh jenkins, joe bovona, matt manter and raad wullner are average players. Josh passed the ball to wando more than he passed to irmo in the championship and when he played for the academy a year ago only started 21% of the time. Joe was exploited for bad positioning, did matt manter even play? and raad played behind Rob sullivan. These players are not good enough to win an upper state championship much less a State Championship. JL mann or mauldin will knock them out easily.

Wow calling players out as “not good” and “average” and you don’t even know the players names. what a da.

Allow me to bottom-line this: Irmo is one of a small handful of programs that is capable of winning the boys' Class AAAA title in 2012. THAT is ALL that matters. The rest of this, including citing Academy PT statistics, is irrelevant.
(*Not an Irmo player, parent or booster.)

Calling players out period. As an IRMO parent and booster I hope this group of young men takes your criticism and uses it as motivation. Let the games begin! Good luck to all the teams and especially all the Seniors!