It's actually "douche" since you brought it up.
I am sure he is sorry for misspelling your first name Mr. Bag
I think Parkway has some good genetics, they always seem to have a stud on the team. I think the main struggle is to get good numbers playing and those athletes in the weight room to maximize their capabilities. I think a new coach changing that at Parkway has a little more of a challenge doing that then other coaches in the MAC. Although Van Wert seems to be getting it done.
"A stud" you mentioned but not plural it seems to be the case most years.
Well, NB had a stud in Homan and the rest of the team was a bunch of mature boys that worked hard in the off season and put the team 1st. They had luck with staying healthy also.
This is what I'm talking about as well. Football just doesn't mean that much to them. Now if it was a baseball game, the Panther faithful would be ticked. Remember half or more of my genetics are from Parkway blood. If you head west on Ohio 81 out of Willshire into Indiana 124, those folks are almost the rest of my genetics. They will be like those Marion Local folks who eat, breathe, & sleep small school football (wrestling to an extent as well). Even the other Indiana neighbors to Parkway from Ohio 707 turning into Indiana 218 have really embraced football more than the Panthers. Not sure anyone across the line would be interested in turning it around in Rockford due to the conference schedule.
While I can't deny that community expectations for Parkway are probably lacking, the idea that their fans remained calm while getting their teeth kicked in by the best football program in the state might not be the best example. I know it might be hard to see the viewpoint from another's, but many take their lumps from Marion Local in stride. There's often not much you can do about it, so the logical and rational fans don't get too riled up when it happens.
Be curious to see. Probably not enough people that visit Gridiron Digest (Indiana's equivalent to here) but the Parkway job is sort of similar to the Southern Wells job. Though Parkway is probably more competitive than Southern Wells. Sad really as Southern Wells ended my playing career with some really good teams. They won state in 2001 and should have done so in 2000 instead of us. They wanted to make a statement of finally beating us in the playoffs and fumbled instead of taking a knee. We kicked the game winner and won state 3 weeks later. Now Southern Wells can barely field a team and did do JV only a few years back. Similar to Parkway, they look for nonconference victories to find wins. The coaches that take both jobs will have tough tasks.
They played JV one year. They had football numbers that year but were all Freshmen. ACAC has an opening with 7 teams only right now including Southern Wells. Rumor is Blackhawk Christian may join as they played 8 man this past year and will go 11 man this year. How would playoff points work if Parkway played in an Indiana conference?
Let's sign up Parkway & Crestview to the ACAC and make it easy on myself
. Reduce the travel quite a bit, though MAC travel isn't too bad. The NWC though puts the miles on the vehicles.
i would think there are some very capable assistants from the MAC to do the job
the way some talk, the former coach was in favor of Parkway leaving the MAC, so he's probably happier with some of the thinking from many in this thread.
the former coach
I think you're correct, but I don't really blame any of the prior coaching from an on the field standpoint. You need to get a guy who will give the adults as well as the kids in the community a reason to support the sport. I'm not sure Goodwin could do it right now.
he told the school board that in his resignation letter.
that was crap. a coach kept giving nazi salutes at practices and then raised a stink when someone didn't like it. that's on the moron, not the school board.
could probably file a foia with the board or superintendent or whoever