Any recent Irmo player has the reputation of Irmo's past to live up to. That's a huge burden.
Irmo used to win state titles like fat kids ate cake. Kids remember that. Boys that grow up in the Irmo community have relatives, older brothers, friends, etc. that won state titles and will look down on the current players if they don't win state titles. No school in South Carolina can recreate the pressure to succeed that an Irmo boy's soccer player goes through given the history of the program over the last 30 years.
Irmo's student section at boys soccer games can be horribly rude. Are they that rude when they travel outside of Columbia? It's an honest question. I don't know. Were they as rude 20 years ago, in the early 90s, when the dynasty was beginning its heyday, or did success go to the heads of the fans more than the players?
The rudest fans I have ever heard/seen in 20 years were at a Wando High boys game (given it was nearly a decade ago). But I have seen the Wando boys play outside of Mount Pleasant/Charleston and the fans were a class act.
Irmo has the best coach in the game, and their players train in a pressure cooker that demands performance.
Kudos to coach Savitz for maintaining a quality program for three decades.
They don't have to win state titles to be a quality team, and I hate that the (student) fans ruin what the boys have accomplished...
