November 12, 2024 • 8 mins
UC radio analyst Jim Kelly joined us to talk about the Bearcats' loss to West Virginia and the passing of his coach at Moeller, Gerry Faust.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Three at for four ESPN fifteen thirty at Buffalo Wild
Wings in Blue Ash. We are here till six o'clock.
The UC Bearcats had the first of back to back
road games on Saturday night, with a tilt at Iowa State.
You see coming off a really tough loss on Saturday
at home against West Virginia. Jim Kelly, color analyst on
(00:21):
UC football broadcasts, I want to I want to talk
about the Bearcats in a second. I want to begin
though with this. You played for Jerry Faust at Moler.
We saw last night that the legendary coach passed away
at the age of eighty nine. This is an iconic
figure in area high school sports. What was it like
playing for him?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Well, yeah, he definitely an iconic, no question about it. Mo.
It was great to play for him. You're you know,
and you're you're young, and you're I don't know, You're
trying to figure out everything going on. You love football
and you like the school that you're going too. He
was a perfect guy to to guide you as a
young man into life, both on the football field and
(01:03):
then off the football field. Very religious guy, valued his
religion and in obviously a Catholic school like Mueller is,
you know, that was passed on in One of the
things that I learned from him was not just you know,
the religious side of things or the spiritual side of things,
but how to be a good person. And then obviously
(01:24):
the things on the football field are excellent as well.
I played the last season before the state playoffs came
into existence in Ohio, so we did not have one.
We finished second in the state that year, but it
was just a mythical poll. The next year that when
the playoffs started, Muller was not in it. But then
(01:45):
shortly after that they went on their big run of
I think there was five state championships under Jerry and
a couple of national championships. And he carried beyond him
into Ted Bochigrufo and Steve Claunie and so on and
so forth as the the other coaches came in. But
great experience planned for him. We were good friends. My
(02:06):
daughter in law, Jerry Faust is her godfather. So there's
a there's a lot there and we'll miss him, but
he had gone downhill. We sell him for his birthday.
I think, I want to say us five years ago,
maybe four years ago, when he was eighty five, he
came into town and huge number of ex players out
(02:26):
to see him, and we had a great time that afternoon,
and still used to come down regularly. We'd see him
when he'd come to Moler occasionally. He came down a
couple of times a year, maybe four times a year,
and then been under in bad health the last couple
of I won't say the last couple of years, but
definitely the last year, and passed away yesterday.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
I was a student at UD in the late nineties
and I don't know if he was there for a
book signing, but I end up listening to a speech
given by Jerry Faust, and I'll admit to not really
at the time knowing who he was, and by the
end of it, I wanted to go play football somewhere
that obviously wasn't going to happen. So it was this stirring,
(03:08):
inspirational speech. I'm not sure why I was there or
really what happened, but it was awesome. I would imagine
you heard those sort of addresses many many times.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Well I did hear those in the locker room, obviously,
and at times when we maybe got out a little
bit of line we there from him as well, but
he had a strong relationship with the University of Dayton.
He went to school there, He played there the Marinus
Brothers which Dayton as well as Shamanad High School where
(03:41):
he went to as well. We're all part of that system,
so he I'm not surprised that you heard him there.
He became a very gifted motivational speaker. I went to
scene one time and he actually saw me in the
crowd and singled me out in his speech without even
letting me know that it was coming. That's how good
(04:02):
the guy was. He even a year ago or two
years ago. He remembers everybody's name. So the big loss
for the Moler community, no doubt about it, and for
me personally, and you know, and all my brothers that
played football at Molar and not just football players, the
entire student body love me.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Yeah, an iconic legendary figure in area high school sports
and one of your your thoughts on his passing. I'll
switch gears, admittedly clumsily, to what happened on Saturday. You
see the Bearcats lose a game where, man, if you
would have told me coming in defensively, they're going to
do what they did against West Virginia's running game, that
they're going to control the line of scrimmage the way
(04:44):
they did, I would have said they win, and maybe handily.
And yet that's not the case. That makes the game
on Saturday for me the most disappointing loss of the season.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
How about you, Yeah, there was a little clumsily plays
in there a couple Now. I was on a bunch
of West Virginia radio shows and TV shows or you know,
online shows last week, and all of us kind of
agreed that whoever won the running game, meaning whoever could
stop the run and run successfully, was going to be
(05:15):
the winner of that game. What none of us saw
were fourteen points on defense for West Virginia and then
the third turnover that led to a West Virginia field goal.
With seventeen points basically on turnovers, that's hard to overcome,
really hard to overcome, particularly when you don't take the
ball away equal to that, and obviously West Virginia scoring
(05:39):
on those two you know, want to pick six and
the other want to fumble. I honestly bear cats outplayed him.
You hit on it. The defense against the run was phenomenal,
and they've done that against some good running teams this year.
So where they struggled mightily in the beginning of the
year against the run, three of the last four games
(05:59):
they've done very, very very well against the run in
this case, a little too much for them to go
overcome the mistakes, you know, and I won't throw it
all on Brendan Swersby, but a couple of throws that
he shouldn't have made or you know, should have just
took the sack or thrown the ball out of bounds earlier,
tried to do too much with it, and both of
those led to those fourteen points on turnovers. For well,
(06:20):
seventeen points total, but fourteen directly by the West Virginia defense.
That's a that's a tough thing to overcome.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
It's a weird team, at least in my opinion from
this perspective. They've had some some gut punch losses this season,
and they have bounced back the following week or for
the next game and put it behind them really quickly.
Yet within games they've had these moments where it feels
like things snowball and they can't put those moments behind them.
(06:49):
And I kind of felt like that happened with the
first pick six of the game on Saturday against West Virginia.
Why is that? Why does this team in a game itself,
have such a hard to moving on from a bad
play or a bad development, or a series of bad circumstances.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
You use the term weird, and I would echo that
this team, when things go against them, they seem to
go into a funk for a period of time. Honestly,
in the West Virginia game, in the fourth quarter, looked
like momentum it shifted back to them, but then they
lost it quickly again. But at the same time, I
don't know the explanation to that. I don't know if
(07:27):
they I don't know if it's a personal thing with
the guys. I mean, it can't be all of them.
But you're absolutely right they when things seem to go
bad for them, they can't forget about it right away
and just get back on the field and pretend like
ufn't happened, which is what you need to do. And
they are a little strange team that way. And you know,
(07:49):
the other thing that in this game was even a
little bit different. But prior to this game, you know,
they had been very, very good in the first half
and not so good in the second half, and I
guess if that comes you know, came into this game
as well, but again they started making that comeback in
the fourth quarter and just you know, came up and
fell short. So I don't I wish I had an
(08:10):
answer for you. I think if Scott Saderfield did an
answer answer, he would somehow change that sure for this clock. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Uh, kind of a weird season, weird game on Sunday.
See if they can get back on track on Saturday night.
And Ames Jim good stuff as always.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Man, Thank you, okay, thank you.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Bo
Three at for four ESPN fifteen thirty at Buffalo Wild
Wings in Blue Ash. We are here till six o'clock.
The UC Bearcats had the first of back to back
road games on Saturday night, with a tilt at Iowa State.
You see coming off a really tough loss on Saturday
at home against West Virginia. Jim Kelly, color analyst on
(00:21):
UC football broadcasts, I want to I want to talk
about the Bearcats in a second. I want to begin
though with this. You played for Jerry Faust at Moler.
We saw last night that the legendary coach passed away
at the age of eighty nine. This is an iconic
figure in area high school sports. What was it like
playing for him?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Well, yeah, he definitely an iconic, no question about it. Mo.
It was great to play for him. You're you know,
and you're you're young, and you're I don't know, You're
trying to figure out everything going on. You love football
and you like the school that you're going too. He
was a perfect guy to to guide you as a
young man into life, both on the football field and
(01:03):
then off the football field. Very religious guy, valued his
religion and in obviously a Catholic school like Mueller is,
you know, that was passed on in One of the
things that I learned from him was not just you know,
the religious side of things or the spiritual side of things,
but how to be a good person. And then obviously
(01:24):
the things on the football field are excellent as well.
I played the last season before the state playoffs came
into existence in Ohio, so we did not have one.
We finished second in the state that year, but it
was just a mythical poll. The next year that when
the playoffs started, Muller was not in it. But then
(01:45):
shortly after that they went on their big run of
I think there was five state championships under Jerry and
a couple of national championships. And he carried beyond him
into Ted Bochigrufo and Steve Claunie and so on and
so forth as the the other coaches came in. But
great experience planned for him. We were good friends. My
(02:06):
daughter in law, Jerry Faust is her godfather. So there's
a there's a lot there and we'll miss him, but
he had gone downhill. We sell him for his birthday.
I think, I want to say us five years ago,
maybe four years ago, when he was eighty five, he
came into town and huge number of ex players out
(02:26):
to see him, and we had a great time that afternoon,
and still used to come down regularly. We'd see him
when he'd come to Moler occasionally. He came down a
couple of times a year, maybe four times a year,
and then been under in bad health the last couple
of I won't say the last couple of years, but
definitely the last year, and passed away yesterday.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
I was a student at UD in the late nineties
and I don't know if he was there for a
book signing, but I end up listening to a speech
given by Jerry Faust, and I'll admit to not really
at the time knowing who he was, and by the
end of it, I wanted to go play football somewhere
that obviously wasn't going to happen. So it was this stirring,
(03:08):
inspirational speech. I'm not sure why I was there or
really what happened, but it was awesome. I would imagine
you heard those sort of addresses many many times.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Well I did hear those in the locker room, obviously,
and at times when we maybe got out a little
bit of line we there from him as well, but
he had a strong relationship with the University of Dayton.
He went to school there, He played there the Marinus
Brothers which Dayton as well as Shamanad High School where
(03:41):
he went to as well. We're all part of that system,
so he I'm not surprised that you heard him there.
He became a very gifted motivational speaker. I went to
scene one time and he actually saw me in the
crowd and singled me out in his speech without even
letting me know that it was coming. That's how good
(04:02):
the guy was. He even a year ago or two
years ago. He remembers everybody's name. So the big loss
for the Moler community, no doubt about it, and for
me personally, and you know, and all my brothers that
played football at Molar and not just football players, the
entire student body love me.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Yeah, an iconic legendary figure in area high school sports
and one of your your thoughts on his passing. I'll
switch gears, admittedly clumsily, to what happened on Saturday. You
see the Bearcats lose a game where, man, if you
would have told me coming in defensively, they're going to
do what they did against West Virginia's running game, that
they're going to control the line of scrimmage the way
(04:44):
they did, I would have said they win, and maybe handily.
And yet that's not the case. That makes the game
on Saturday for me the most disappointing loss of the season.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
How about you, Yeah, there was a little clumsily plays
in there a couple Now. I was on a bunch
of West Virginia radio shows and TV shows or you know,
online shows last week, and all of us kind of
agreed that whoever won the running game, meaning whoever could
stop the run and run successfully, was going to be
(05:15):
the winner of that game. What none of us saw
were fourteen points on defense for West Virginia and then
the third turnover that led to a West Virginia field goal.
With seventeen points basically on turnovers, that's hard to overcome,
really hard to overcome, particularly when you don't take the
ball away equal to that, and obviously West Virginia scoring
(05:39):
on those two you know, want to pick six and
the other want to fumble. I honestly bear cats outplayed him.
You hit on it. The defense against the run was phenomenal,
and they've done that against some good running teams this year.
So where they struggled mightily in the beginning of the
year against the run, three of the last four games
(05:59):
they've done very, very very well against the run in
this case, a little too much for them to go
overcome the mistakes, you know, and I won't throw it
all on Brendan Swersby, but a couple of throws that
he shouldn't have made or you know, should have just
took the sack or thrown the ball out of bounds earlier,
tried to do too much with it, and both of
those led to those fourteen points on turnovers. For well,
(06:20):
seventeen points total, but fourteen directly by the West Virginia defense.
That's a that's a tough thing to overcome.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
It's a weird team, at least in my opinion from
this perspective. They've had some some gut punch losses this season,
and they have bounced back the following week or for
the next game and put it behind them really quickly.
Yet within games they've had these moments where it feels
like things snowball and they can't put those moments behind them.
(06:49):
And I kind of felt like that happened with the
first pick six of the game on Saturday against West Virginia.
Why is that? Why does this team in a game itself,
have such a hard to moving on from a bad
play or a bad development, or a series of bad circumstances.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
You use the term weird, and I would echo that
this team, when things go against them, they seem to
go into a funk for a period of time. Honestly,
in the West Virginia game, in the fourth quarter, looked
like momentum it shifted back to them, but then they
lost it quickly again. But at the same time, I
don't know the explanation to that. I don't know if
(07:27):
they I don't know if it's a personal thing with
the guys. I mean, it can't be all of them.
But you're absolutely right they when things seem to go
bad for them, they can't forget about it right away
and just get back on the field and pretend like
ufn't happened, which is what you need to do. And
they are a little strange team that way. And you know,
(07:49):
the other thing that in this game was even a
little bit different. But prior to this game, you know,
they had been very, very good in the first half
and not so good in the second half, and I
guess if that comes you know, came into this game
as well, but again they started making that comeback in
the fourth quarter and just you know, came up and
fell short. So I don't I wish I had an
(08:10):
answer for you. I think if Scott Saderfield did an
answer answer, he would somehow change that sure for this clock. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Uh, kind of a weird season, weird game on Sunday.
See if they can get back on track on Saturday night.
And Ames Jim good stuff as always.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Man, Thank you, okay, thank you.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Bo
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