Here are a few tids and bits to chew on while we begin Mother’s Day Weekend and for some reason during this strange time have to experience March in May:

First, you have to feel for now-former Bishop Guertin High School girls soccer coach Pat Mulcahy, and then again, you can also feel happy for him. Mulcahy couldn’t lose in whichever decision he made: Stay at IMG in Bradenton, Florida, which for many coaches is a dream job. Or, behind Curtain B, come back to New Hampshire and coach what could be – at least a contender – a girls soccer state championship team at Bishop Guertin.

Mulcahy did a great job for the Cards, and was a great ambassdor of the game of soccer with all his other youth and travel team endeavors. The IMG job is perfect for him. As usual, Pat Mulcahy made the right call.

— The Cardinals job will certainly get the attenion of the soccer community in the area and around the state. Guertin does have one girls soccer championship in its history, shortly after the school went co-end. Leo Koch coached Mount St. Mary and then when that school closed and most of its students went to BG, he guided the Cards to the 1992 Class M-S title. Guertin beat Fall Mountain 3-2 in double overtime at Concord’s Memorial Field. And yes, yours truly covered that very exciting and memorable game.

— OK, we’ve had NFL free agency. We’ve had the NFL Draft, virtual style. And we’ve had the announcement of the NFL schedule.

Now what?

Now we debate how good Jarrett Stidham will be at quarterback as far as the New England Patriots are concerned.

You can debate the schedule all you want, but the funny thing is we already knew who the Patriots were going to play home and away, but just didn’t know when and in what order. Of course the big question is whether the NFL will start on time. We say no. The league certainly has contingency plans, which basically means delaying the start until October and take the first four games and tack them on to the end. That scenario likely would have the Patriots opening up at home on Oct. 11.

— The other question is why did the Patriots without Tom Brady get the maximum five prime time games? Curiosity. The nation will want to see how they do without Brady. And if they flop the second Sunday Night game vs. the Ravens at Gillette on Nov. 15 can always be flexed.

— One of the things that wasn’t able to have been held due to the pandemic back in March was the New Hampshire Baseball Umpires Association’s first ever Hall of Fame induction. It’s too bad because one of the members of the first class of inductees was late longtime umpire and sports official Larry Kleiner of Nashua.

Kleiner passed away way too early in life in 1992, but was a fixture at local events for several years. His son Jeff followed in his footsteps. The other inductees are familiar names: Tom Desautel, Tony Urban, Ray Valliere, Fred Jasinski, Peter Perich, Tom Croasdale and Bob Skinner. If you’re a longtime local baseball fan odds are you’ve seen most if not all of these guys in action.

Hopefully an induction ceremony can be held at some point.

— If you’re hitting the golf course today for the first time since late March, enjoy. And hit ’em straight.

And last, but certainly not least, Happy Mother’s Day to all you Moms; hopefully if you play golf you can get out there Monday, too. And even better, steal the dads’ tee times.

Tom King may be reached at 594-1251,tking@nashuatelegraph.com, or@Telegraph _TomK.

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