First, a tip of the hat to New Philly, Big Red was soundly beat, injuries or not.
In my opinion, the worse lost big red has suffered, since the 2014 team, that had a grey cloud hanging over the season took a injury depleted team to play wheeling park . The sophomore lead core got it handed to them by a solid wheeling park team. Soon after, the naysayer loudly declared the beginning of the end for the big red Football program. Those same sophomores went on to lead the big red to the regional finals and later to back to back state championship appearances followed by a third straight trip and fourth state championship victory.
My message to the naysayers of today, counting big red out this season is premature and their youth will serve them well, they look to be loaded the next few years, and come playoff time things may look a lot different. I would love to meet new philly again.