Milton definitely has phenomenal coaching! When would you say a full rebuild in the program is likely to happen, Pierce has been there for over 20 years now and the assistants pretty much around the same length of time. Ive been wondering each year when that group would hang up the whistle which is definitely worrisome as they've kept the tradition alive over there.
i’m pretty sure Pierce left for a bit then came back. hasn’t been at Milton for any more than 7 consecutive years at this point? BlessEmAll could give you some better insight.
Felt bad for Riverside when I saw they would be going against a MAC school. Kind of predetermined outcome on those games, though Tri Village demonstrated it can be done. I recall reading a stat 6 or 8 years ago that showed most MAC schools are put out of the tournaments by other MAC schools, very intriguing stat.
Ouch... when did that happen at Bethel?
I want to say 73-74. Made national and international news. They were in the old TRC with Grahm, Urbana, Tipp City , Versailles, Covington , Indian Lake, Lehman (?) and Northwestern.
Being in the CCC/WOAC, I've never truly known why Newton and Franklin Monroe do not have football. I know they are smaller schools, but I did not know that Newton had a kid die playing football.
Nothing stopping Franklin Monroe now. They no longer have Soccer
I looked at Covington site for 1974, that is one of the best resources for looking back that far, they laid a 92-0 on Bethel. They mention that angering Bethel's head coach, who I consider a friend, so I long have shared resentment for that game as well. Bethel got down to the 2 yard line vs JV players, and to preserve the shutout Covington brought the starters back in while having an enormous lead.
Yeah my apologies 18 years* with 4 years away and i believe a year or two he was the OC under Mark Lane. The question is still quite vaild though.
Now this would be interesting, passing through the area its very common seeing kids passing a football at the local park. Would make for an interesting Rivalry with Arcanum as well
Right now it would in the past absolutely not. FM athletics usually never can compete with Arcanum
Never said they would compete. They are 1 mile apart it would be fun for the communities. Jeez
A lot of the rebuild is due to the kids in the district not wanting to participate. Too many things to take them other directions. Milton is now and always has been a football town.
Yeah like i said Milton has great coaches that really know how to bring out the best in their players. Coach Pierce is a class act, Coach A is a defensive genius, Coach Blackburn does one heck of a job with the Line and has produced some serious talents. One being in the NFL, Coach Theole is a great man and Vietnam veteran has produced some D1 WRs/DBs. Will definitely hate to see this group end no doubt.