Ok, I will buy what your selling!
They did beat a D5 champ in Coldwater in 2013 and 2014 and Versailles in 2021. But yes, of course they would be challenged.
Are they on a different diet in the ML school district?
I don't know? I do know my kids ate the same things everyone elses kids ate and my boys average 6'5" 240. Same with most of my relatives. There is more to it than just a good coach. Community, families, faith, discipline, stature and yes coaching. If you miss on the first five coaching is going to need to be miraculous.
Oops. Coach Laciddeour (sp) has less than Goodwin. The team has more but not the coach.
You are right on every aspect. I stand corrected.
Those kids need some milk.
Important that is is filled with growth hormones.
Great research!
Yes, to some degree
You are right regarding the students and community, however. The coach is MORE than impressive. Never let him go!!
There is more to it than just coaching. It takes community support, support and money from the administration and kids that will buy into what coach is selling. But at the end of the day 90% is coaching.
Good Lord!!! Thought we'd go a whole season without hearing his name!
Could you say that Mr Cramer the Wally Pipp to Coach Goodwin's Lou Gehrig?
What percent of Ohio high schools do you believe could "work hard" and "put in the effort" and win 14 state titles?
In all reality every team would strive to be the best they can be. Problem being only one team gets a trophy (as it should be). Bottom line is talent is not even on all teams, it is up to everyone one in each program to excel and see where you stand (pride in what you accomplish will be your reward). Let us all remember we should be building character in our young athletes to become future leaders in our future generations. Everyone wins if we strive to be the best we can. So let us all support our communities and MAY GOD BLESS!!!
100% directly over the target... Very accurate!
The family values/influence is the most undersold aspect of the MAC's overall success. Probably because of the inherent humility from those communities, but, frankly, that is the lesson that should a mandatory paragraph any time someone writes about their success.
That is the best description of how perennial contenders do it. Once you get to the point of “expecting” to win that’s what turns it up a notch. It is a mentality that maybe only 10-15% of the 700+ schools have. And as Bball said players, fans and the community buy in every year. Some schools have a nice cycle of talent and expect to win that year. The key is expecting to win no matter the talent, or what you lost or have returning. Even a poor team, by their own standards, is a really good team compared to most others.
I think there's also this added aspect that Goodwin designs his systems to make sure everyone stays involved and has an assignment and not just free up his "best" athletes to make the play. You see this in the all state voting. How many times do you see Marion kids on there even though they've won 14 state titles? Not very often. That's why Marion had 5 guys with over 400 yards rushing and the tackles were pretty evenly distributed. It's also why you see banter in these threads such as against Dalton I believe they had this almost 300 pounder who could also move and he was this big play wrecker. How often did he affect the play against Marion? Not very often because Goodwin knew they were going to try and free him up so they block him and take their chances with the rest and he was quoted as saying they liked the offense vs defense matchup. Marion almost never has the best athletes but they have the most disciplined athletes and that's how they win with the buy in.
Absolutely. Sat with a friend who was there because of Dalton but hadn't seen ML before. He was shocked both by the variation in the offense (Q: who is their #1 back? A: whoever they hand off too) and their ability to avoid Dalton monster DLman.
Late entry for "understatement of the year!"
I like your take. The guy who I think lives it out as a coach to a T but may never win a championship is Mike Elder of Avon, a D2 school. Will he defeat Hoban, Massillon or Toledo Central Catholic (if they go back to D2) so long as they remain committed to remaining closed enrollment. Yet were Mike to take a D5-D7 job, I suspect he'd have them at a Kirtland or Marion Local type dominance in a reasonable time frame. He's happy where he's at. But I guess it does mean that the levels of competition matter, even if you basically do all the right things.
Was great to see Elder settle in Avon. Took a few years for him to get there, but, even without raising a trophy, can't imagine any of the Eagle faithful will have too many issues with the success he's produced.