Licking Heights has gone 1-9, 2-3 and 5-4 the last three years.HS football goes in cycles for 90% of schools. Urbana and Bellefontaine fall in that category
The admin and coaches at Urbana are short sighted enough to give up something so historic for a perceived short term advantage. It’s asanine.
Bellefontaine has proven its not about an “easy win”. They’ve lost Urbana twice in the past handful of years and they’ve added Troy and now Licking Heights. Not exactly lay ups.
you’re exactly right.Licking Heights is far from a layup.
Two problems here: 1) Urbana's non-conference schedule has been way too difficult for where their program is at, which they need to remedy after this year. 2) this game should be a crossover and neither should be burning a non-league game to get it in yearly.
They might want to do better than go 2-3 in the CBC KT before they go winning the region multiple years in a row.Urbana has won 2 games in the last three seasons. Bellefontaine thinks it can win its region in the next year or two. It's a mismatch. And Bellefontaine already has to play three Division 5 teams. Playing a bad Division 4 isn't going to help them. Meanwhile, Urbana desperately needs wins to build a program. The coach may feel he needs wins to save his job.
Urbana and Bellefontaine didn't play from 2007-2012. And Bellefontaine was terrible the last few years of that time period. The first couple of those years both were locked into contracts so they couldn't schedule each other, but whose call was it not to play from 2009-2012? So you can throw 1899 out there all you'd like, but let's not act like Urbana and Bellefontaine not playing is unprecedented.
I do agree that the other two nonconference games on Urbana's schedule make no sense. Hopefully that gets remedied after this season.
Bellefontaine winning a regional title? Never ceases to amaze me. Every parent/ fan think their class is once a generation. Hilarious. 2-3 in a very bad league.Licking Heights is a Div II school and yes, a game with them is no layup. However if Bellefontaine has aspirations of contending for a Regional title over the next couple of seasons they should beat LH by at least 3 td’s.
IL and/or BL would complain if they didn't get Bellefontaine as a cross-over.Licking Heights is far from a layup.
Two problems here: 1) Urbana's non-conference schedule has been way too difficult for where their program is at, which they need to remedy after this year. 2) this game should be a crossover and neither should be burning a non-league game to get it in yearly.
Show me where a Bellefontaine poster ever said they’d win the region.Bellefontaine winning a regional title? Never ceases to amaze me. Every parent/ fan think their class is once a generation. Hilarious. 2-3 in a very bad league.
Actually I saw just about every Bellefontaine game…facts are facts, they went 2-3 in the KT, 1-1 against MR teams. They’ve got a ways to go.Show me where a Bellefontaine poster ever said they’d win the region.
Bellefontaine returns nearly every player from a young team that did some great things. They also had stretches where they were bad.
Rolling Train has seen them at their worst so he rolls his eyes and hates. You won’t here him mention the Tri Valley game, the Watterson game or the 1st half of Western Brown. He will focus on their worst moments. That’s fine, the worst parts were part of who they were to.
I hope he’s still on here if they win a big game next year. He went radio silent after the playoff win.