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I’d hope it’s a lot closer than that. I think Boardman’s as good or better than teams like Allderdice, Lake Catholic and Indian Valley who all lost closer games to Dover.
It might be closer, it just depends on what adjustments both teams I suppose. They both have some work to do for sure. Canfield has a lot of things to address before they play Boardman as well.
Agreed, this is definitely a must win for Dover. It looks like Steubenville made a lot of mistakes in the Linsly game with penalties but that game will not be the easy win we counted on when looking at the schedule at the start of the year. A win here would give the boys some much needed confidence the rest of the way after 3 tough losses.
I could be wrong, but I believe he ran/coached the wing T until about 2003 (switched to the Kenton 5-wide). So I think it’s more of going back to older roots. The only reasons I could think of are the heavy passing offenses sputtering when the weather gets cold in the playoffs/not having the guys this year to run the spread effectively. There are a lot of bigger kids, so maybe he thought the strength of the team would be its power. Just my speculation.
Agreed. Boardman ran the ball well all night vs Harding, but tried to get too cute a few times instead of just keep pounding it and it cost them the game. To Harding’s credit they didn’t fall for those plays and threw Boardman for a big loss, which tended to derail a good drive where they were getting 3-5 yards a carry.
Pretty much spot on but I will add that teams learned how to defend the spread better as the years rolled by. Back then we fans longed for a running game to balance things out,now we want passing for the same reason.
Jones stepped aside to let his sons play without being coached by their dad.
Would be nice to have Jones back again.
That's class. I bet he's pulling his hair out watching though.
Boardman gave up 270 yards on the ground to Harding. I haven't seen other games statistics so maybe this was an off week for them?
I don't think it was the wing-t that caused those losses, it was our defenses. It had been quite a few years up until last year that Dover has had a respectable defense. Imagine if the 06' team, the 09' team, and a few others after that had a defense like last year's team. Even this year's defense is way better than those defenses were. We'd have a couple state titles by now. Some of those offenses we had were something to behold.
I think those defenses weren’t as good because the offense scored so quickly, that the defense would get tired from the short rest. Wakefield obviously had a huge impact last year, but in the past the defense suffered from the offensive explosiveness.
