Boys to Men

Mount Carmel's Lenti makes the grade on and off the field.
by: Stan Goff
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Football's great, but it's not everything. Not all coaches would agree with that statement, especially not those who have won close to 90 percent of their games.

But Mount Carmel head coach Frank Lenti is not like most coaches. Lenti has won at the all-male Catholic high school on Chicago's south side at an amazing rate. So you might expect him to talk at length about NFL players like Simeon Rice and Donovan McNabb, who prepped under his tutelage at Mount Carmel. Or maybe brag about his six state championships in the past 15 years and how his coaching record grew to more than 150 games over .500 with a 4-1 start this fall.

But at Mount Carmel, a school that has also dominated high school wrestling in Illinois, there are clearly more important things than sports.

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