SCC-FCIAC football challenge for 2013 and 2014 begins to take shape

SCC-FCIAC football challenge for 2013 and 2014 begins to take shape

May 9, 2012 at 3:24 pm by Sean Patrick Bowley

Football fans get ready.
A future clash between two of the state’s power football conferences took a leap closer to reality today.
Ambassadors from both the SCC and FCIAC met at Marisa’s in Trumbull this afternoon and adjourned with a preliminary agreement in place to match the leagues’ 38 teams together in the first week of the expanded 2013 and 2014 seasons.
In attendance were SCC Commissioner Al Carbone, Hand’s football coach Steve Filippone and athletic director Craig Semple, FCIAC Commissioner John Kuczo, Trumbull athletic director Michael Herbst, New Canaan football coach Lou Marinelli and Staples football coach Marce Petroccio.
“It was a good, productive first meeting,” Carbone said.
All that’s really left is to hammer out an official schedule, which Carbone said would be finalized and announced at a press conference in November.
A first draft of the matchups already exists, though Carbone declined to give any details. A source confirmed Staples vs. Xavier and Hand vs. New Canaan are among them.
The matchups, Carbone said, are still being discussed. They are being decided by number of demographic variables, including program performance over a three or five-year period, school size, and minor intangibles like school type, potential regional and historical rivalries.