Ahern’s wizardry driving Lansing Catholic football

Lansing Catholic football coach Jim Ahern could detect the story line from the tone of the question. He immediately, bashfully and unsuccessfully tried to deflect it.

“This is not just me,” Ahern said Wednesday night, spinning the attention toward his assistant coaches and players, and those who coached under him at Ithaca. “I’m really lucky.”

Unfortunately, Jim, no one else says anything about luck when explaining your success.

Ahern built two of the area programs still playing deep in the high school football playoffs. He’s at the helm of one, and is the original architect of the other, deeply connected to the rural community 40 miles north of his current school. - Read more at LSJ.com