Harrycrane
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Friday road trip to start the season to the Dayton area for the second time in the last 4 seasons with the last time culminating in a two day get on the bus to Springfield because of lightning LOSS after controlling the game for the most part. a couple squandered opportunity's to get points and Danny Davis making some huge plays and Leonard Taylor I believe did also . Coffman had won by 34 the year before in Dublin.
This game from the weather reports won't be a two day affair against Northmont . Still a tricky road tilt on opening night . It helps in week one, as the season goes on it gets a little relevant I believe but on opening night it helps.
Drennan is questionable after not participating in any scrimmages . Foot issue . He had a nice write up in the dispatch that had a personal touch . One of the points was Drennan who was Coach Crabtree's first Freshman starter has been the most heavily recruited player. Other guys had a lot of attention but not the sheer volume of offers. Coach Crabtree made a good point in saying that in this era of college football with the prevalence of the spread offenses , Drennan has the type of skill set that is very valuable . Basically he is quick fast, shifty, savvy , and can run wit the ball and catch it very well . Hopefully he can play some or if not the Rocks have enough to compensate.
Pasteur site isn't up for the first three weeks at least , so I will handicap some games and unlike last year I think I will not stick to the 10 game max, but I could go some weeks with less than 10 plays . I will simply look at and pick the games that are interesting to me and probably others as well in most cases .
I will have to use the Cal Preps line which isn't as accurate early but first week or two are always the hardest to get a bead on. These are the games that interest me and a quick comment with no pick just yet.
GAMES
Coffman -Northmont - Cal Preps line Coffman - 16 - Drennan is probably worth a score here so if he can't go that line seems heavy. N-Mont lost some studs on defense but has a few good players back including a couple playmakers and is at home . Good test .
Pick North - Liberty - Cal Preps line PN - 2 Game at Liberty I believe- OL is a big up front program at this point. They used to have a couple big kids but they all seem to be good sized on the O-line now . BIG NUMBERS ,, corporate type program , not flashy but consistent. PN has some star power and more talent and has handled this team easily the last two seasons. Seems light. OL lost 33 Seniors but has some similar plug in players .
Davidson - Grove City CP Line Davidson - 48 - Yes you read that right , 48 -0 is what they have as the difference between the two clubs. Now to be fair GC is 6-44 over the last 5 seasons. In 2014 they did beat Davidson 6-0 . Davidson made the play-offs at 6-4 and GC went 2-8 . Interesting parallel is the last time Davidson had an offense that was this inexperienced? You guessed it, 2014 and they opened up getting out by a 2-8 team , THIS 2-8 team. Going to take the points of course in this one because I don't think Davidson scores 48 points in the first three games combined.
Jerome - Central Crossing DJ - 17 - heavy line , DJ huge losses , CC trying to get over 500 , I see a good ball game more thoughts when I pick .
Westerville - 1 Whitehall - WC is talented , So is White Hall both made play-offs one in d-1 and one D-2 . but WC wins by 13 last year and they are better this year so that one point line is not good .
Springfield - 10 Bradley - Interesting match-up but it seems this in one line that CP got close to right . More thought needed.
Darby - 1 Olentangy - 4th meeting , teams know each other , Tangy choked this one away last year . Darby appears better this year ? Another tough one .
New Albany - 11 Westy South - Are the WS Ibbies back? They certainly look talented and have some real speed. NA is the more stable program . 11 SEEMS HIGH . I'm leaning towards the IB'S .
R-burg - 15 UA- Buddy White has the program in a good place , kids aren't leaving to go other places and even are getting a kid or two from other parts? Good line, but UA with new HD disciple coach may bleed clock much more than years past ? More thought
Out of area games
St Ed's - 1 Mentor - really interesting as usual , Teams split last year with the catholic power winning the more important second one in week 13 . seems light.
Colerain - 23 Wayne - seems high considering Colerain is with new coach and offense is not a veteran group . Wayne also in a new era as Minton is done there. Wayne has pieces but up front some questions ? probably grabbing the generous points .
This game from the weather reports won't be a two day affair against Northmont . Still a tricky road tilt on opening night . It helps in week one, as the season goes on it gets a little relevant I believe but on opening night it helps.
Drennan is questionable after not participating in any scrimmages . Foot issue . He had a nice write up in the dispatch that had a personal touch . One of the points was Drennan who was Coach Crabtree's first Freshman starter has been the most heavily recruited player. Other guys had a lot of attention but not the sheer volume of offers. Coach Crabtree made a good point in saying that in this era of college football with the prevalence of the spread offenses , Drennan has the type of skill set that is very valuable . Basically he is quick fast, shifty, savvy , and can run wit the ball and catch it very well . Hopefully he can play some or if not the Rocks have enough to compensate.
Pasteur site isn't up for the first three weeks at least , so I will handicap some games and unlike last year I think I will not stick to the 10 game max, but I could go some weeks with less than 10 plays . I will simply look at and pick the games that are interesting to me and probably others as well in most cases .
I will have to use the Cal Preps line which isn't as accurate early but first week or two are always the hardest to get a bead on. These are the games that interest me and a quick comment with no pick just yet.
GAMES
Coffman -Northmont - Cal Preps line Coffman - 16 - Drennan is probably worth a score here so if he can't go that line seems heavy. N-Mont lost some studs on defense but has a few good players back including a couple playmakers and is at home . Good test .
Pick North - Liberty - Cal Preps line PN - 2 Game at Liberty I believe- OL is a big up front program at this point. They used to have a couple big kids but they all seem to be good sized on the O-line now . BIG NUMBERS ,, corporate type program , not flashy but consistent. PN has some star power and more talent and has handled this team easily the last two seasons. Seems light. OL lost 33 Seniors but has some similar plug in players .
Davidson - Grove City CP Line Davidson - 48 - Yes you read that right , 48 -0 is what they have as the difference between the two clubs. Now to be fair GC is 6-44 over the last 5 seasons. In 2014 they did beat Davidson 6-0 . Davidson made the play-offs at 6-4 and GC went 2-8 . Interesting parallel is the last time Davidson had an offense that was this inexperienced? You guessed it, 2014 and they opened up getting out by a 2-8 team , THIS 2-8 team. Going to take the points of course in this one because I don't think Davidson scores 48 points in the first three games combined.
Jerome - Central Crossing DJ - 17 - heavy line , DJ huge losses , CC trying to get over 500 , I see a good ball game more thoughts when I pick .
Westerville - 1 Whitehall - WC is talented , So is White Hall both made play-offs one in d-1 and one D-2 . but WC wins by 13 last year and they are better this year so that one point line is not good .
Springfield - 10 Bradley - Interesting match-up but it seems this in one line that CP got close to right . More thought needed.
Darby - 1 Olentangy - 4th meeting , teams know each other , Tangy choked this one away last year . Darby appears better this year ? Another tough one .
New Albany - 11 Westy South - Are the WS Ibbies back? They certainly look talented and have some real speed. NA is the more stable program . 11 SEEMS HIGH . I'm leaning towards the IB'S .
R-burg - 15 UA- Buddy White has the program in a good place , kids aren't leaving to go other places and even are getting a kid or two from other parts? Good line, but UA with new HD disciple coach may bleed clock much more than years past ? More thought
Out of area games
St Ed's - 1 Mentor - really interesting as usual , Teams split last year with the catholic power winning the more important second one in week 13 . seems light.
Colerain - 23 Wayne - seems high considering Colerain is with new coach and offense is not a veteran group . Wayne also in a new era as Minton is done there. Wayne has pieces but up front some questions ? probably grabbing the generous points .