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...single game in non-league play last season. This was a team that held none of its 2003 opponents below 24 points, and allowed more than 40 points in seven of its contests. This was a team that lost an all-American wide receiver in Ari Confesor ’04, as well as seven other graduating starters...
...last year, punishing route runners as they cut across the middle. That left Holy Cross with little option but to attempt high-risk passes along the well-guarded sidelines. By the fourth quarter, Harvard defenders had so thoroughly beaten their opponents that Holy Cross all-American wide receiver Ari Confesor actually stopped running for a pass floating towards Crimson linebacker Dante Balestracci ’04 to avoid taking...
...Confesor has since graduated, leaving the task of taming the Harvard defensive backfield to Sean Gruber, who has emerged as the Crusaders’ most reliable receiving option in the wake of his departure. At 6’0, Gruber provides a large target for quarterback John O’Neil, who failed to hit much of anything last season against the Crimson. Struggling mightily in the first half, O’Neil was lifted in favor of his backup, who enjoyed little more success...
...wasn’t because Confesor was a coward—he’d taken his fair share of licks from the defensive backs during the game’s earlier moments. It was his fear of the Inferno...
Despite his team’s desperate circumstances, despite needing a first down to keep the chances of a Crusader victory alive, despite his own competitive edge, the potential reward earned by facing down Balestracci’s wrath simply wasn’t worth the pain Confesor was certain to experience...