LCLfootball
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Maybe if we played biggers schools and lose to all the good ones like OLSD does then we would be considered good. And ignores the playing Hartley in the regular season.
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ElDuderino
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The reality is, while Hartley is vastly superior to any other OOC game Watkins has ever scheduled, Hartley is still a D3 school who themselves play a weak schedule. Last year they only played 3 top 100 schools and lost 2 of them. While I realize Watkins cant control the strength of the rest of their league, if they want to have any prayer of ever winning a second round game in this region, they need to start scheduling real D1 schools OOC and testing themselves. Running up stats vs. tomato cans doesn't prepare teams for playoff runs, but can get you all-ohio honors, just ask the Big Walnut kids.
LCLfootball
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Now this post I can understand and agree with. I was just excited for them to make it to a second round game and shock some people because they are a smaller school in a small school conference.They also play kilbourne who just happens to unfortunately be down right now, which is also out of Watkins control. But the schedule will need to be changed now that they are D1. But I think they might be able to hold their own in a second round game if everyone is healthy still and definitely surprise some people.
JABanksSr
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Watkins lost 3 of its 4 LBs and it's entire DLto graduation. The one returning LB is good but he's benefited from having those other guys on field. DL was SOLID. Outside Backers pushed everything inside so tackles came easy. Add to it that most teams only ran to 2/3 of the field and you can see why the ILBs looked AMAZING. Hence why both had 100+tackles. This year it'll look different. New DL and LBs will have to be able to go sideline to sideline and make plays. But as simple as catching tackles as they run towards you.... Apel and Ricketts are SPECIAL. The new RB is SOLID. OL had had a year to grow and gel. So we'll see how it goes. DBs struggled in pass coverage but are okay.... play calling will be interesting... Plus I hear they're moving back to D2. The AD made an error that caused them to get bumped. They're frantically trying to get it fixed...
LCLfootball
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Yeah Watkins will miss both of your sons. play calling will be better.
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JABanksSr
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That Senior group was special. Could've/ Should've played at least 2 more games. They have the tools to be really good. Play calling will help...
sportfan97
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Good morning to all of my fellow Central Ohio Football fans.
My 2 cents on Lancaster this season. The Gales started a lot of sophomores last season and a lot more saw significant playing time throughout the season.
We should see significant improvement at almost every position from last season to this one.
They have some good speed on both sides of the ball and might be the biggest I’ve seen them in the trenches in the last decade.
Could very well see them with a 7-3 to 8-2 regular season.
My only concern is depth and if enough players have developed to eliminate their better players from having to play both ways.
My 2 cents on Lancaster this season. The Gales started a lot of sophomores last season and a lot more saw significant playing time throughout the season.
We should see significant improvement at almost every position from last season to this one.
They have some good speed on both sides of the ball and might be the biggest I’ve seen them in the trenches in the last decade.
Could very well see them with a 7-3 to 8-2 regular season.
My only concern is depth and if enough players have developed to eliminate their better players from having to play both ways.
Hammerdrill
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They might want to compete for a league title, beating the D4 and D3 teams before concerning with playoff wins.
LCLfootball
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Yeah they have been competing for a league title since their new head coach took over. Just because a school isn’t division 1, doesn’t mean they’re not good at football. That thinking is ignorant.
ElDuderino
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No one ever implied that anything non D-1 isn't good. We are talking very specifically about Watkins and the teams they play, which relative to the good D1 schools in COH, are not that good despite their records.
And by the way, you just lost to a D2 football team in Kilbourne that didn't win a game last year. So there's that too.
ElDuderino
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R3 News/Notes:
- Gahanna - Surprisingly big offensive performance against one of the perennially toughest defenses in D1 (Mason). Let's see a few more games to see if Mason's D is just having an off year or if Gahanna's O is really this good (scored 10 against Mason last year)
- Groveport - Buzz team with a convincing victory over Bradley, who lost a lot to graduation. Big test this week vs Gahanna to see if the buzz is warranted or Bradley just dropped off a bunch.
- Liberty - Great defensive effort vs Tangy but highly misleading score as they only got 7 first downs the whole game and had TDs via special teams and defense. May match up slightly better against Glenville than UA did, if Glenville has penalty and execution problems like last week, Liberty can win this game.
- Orange - Absolutely clobbered Marysville, Westerville North has not seen anything like this team in several years. Look for a double digit win this Friday
- Westerville North - Blowout win vs Central marred by Central QB injury. Didn't learn anything about this team last week, but definitely will this week.
- Grove City - Didn't learn much in a blowout over goat herders, facing a 1-man team in Westland who may have COH best tailback and are no longer a guaranteed win.
- Lancaster - Embarrassing to schedule a game against the #600 team in the Drew50 computer, learned absolutely nothing by blowing them out last week. Play a NJ team this week and we still wont learn anything.
- Berlin - Tough match last week against a DeSales team with good players but no depth. Defense is very good again this year, offense has promise with some younger players contributing, but needs more time, UA game will not have much scoring and come down to mistakes most likely.
- Burg - Good start to the year vs a Scioto program that has really fallen off a cliff. Likely to get a wakeup call vs Jerome CC this week
- Hayes - Struggled with BV before finally putting them away late, they have correctly positioned their schedule to compete against mostly D2 schools and pose no playoff threat
- Olentangy - Scoreboard looks bad, but this game was much much closer than score indicates. Fearsome defense full of D1 players, held Liberty to 7 first downs and lost game on execution at key points. Giving up KOR TD, red zone turnovers, failed 4th down attempts. Extremely interesting matchup this week against a high powered offense in Medina who just gave up 20 first downs and 340 yards to a Stow team that was 1-9 last year. Strength on strength game.
Pick Central - Somewhat surprising loss to Harvest Prep, but let's see how the rest of the year goes for both schools before deciding how surprising it actually was.
Pick North - Not even their highly questionable outside recruiting program could equip them to deal with St Eds last week. Some Mich team this week, then a showdown with PC, followed by sleepwalking until week 10 vs Gahanna
YOTW - Drew50 has them #297 in the state, probably right, another team that should be playing down long term.
Watkins Mem - Too late to re-petition to move back to D2???
Westerville Central - Tragic QB injury likely means another long season for this team. 9-24 last 3 seasons for this once great program. Likely a coaching hot seat.
- Gahanna - Surprisingly big offensive performance against one of the perennially toughest defenses in D1 (Mason). Let's see a few more games to see if Mason's D is just having an off year or if Gahanna's O is really this good (scored 10 against Mason last year)
- Groveport - Buzz team with a convincing victory over Bradley, who lost a lot to graduation. Big test this week vs Gahanna to see if the buzz is warranted or Bradley just dropped off a bunch.
- Liberty - Great defensive effort vs Tangy but highly misleading score as they only got 7 first downs the whole game and had TDs via special teams and defense. May match up slightly better against Glenville than UA did, if Glenville has penalty and execution problems like last week, Liberty can win this game.
- Orange - Absolutely clobbered Marysville, Westerville North has not seen anything like this team in several years. Look for a double digit win this Friday
- Westerville North - Blowout win vs Central marred by Central QB injury. Didn't learn anything about this team last week, but definitely will this week.
- Grove City - Didn't learn much in a blowout over goat herders, facing a 1-man team in Westland who may have COH best tailback and are no longer a guaranteed win.
- Lancaster - Embarrassing to schedule a game against the #600 team in the Drew50 computer, learned absolutely nothing by blowing them out last week. Play a NJ team this week and we still wont learn anything.
- Berlin - Tough match last week against a DeSales team with good players but no depth. Defense is very good again this year, offense has promise with some younger players contributing, but needs more time, UA game will not have much scoring and come down to mistakes most likely.
- Burg - Good start to the year vs a Scioto program that has really fallen off a cliff. Likely to get a wakeup call vs Jerome CC this week
- Hayes - Struggled with BV before finally putting them away late, they have correctly positioned their schedule to compete against mostly D2 schools and pose no playoff threat
- Olentangy - Scoreboard looks bad, but this game was much much closer than score indicates. Fearsome defense full of D1 players, held Liberty to 7 first downs and lost game on execution at key points. Giving up KOR TD, red zone turnovers, failed 4th down attempts. Extremely interesting matchup this week against a high powered offense in Medina who just gave up 20 first downs and 340 yards to a Stow team that was 1-9 last year. Strength on strength game.
Pick Central - Somewhat surprising loss to Harvest Prep, but let's see how the rest of the year goes for both schools before deciding how surprising it actually was.
Pick North - Not even their highly questionable outside recruiting program could equip them to deal with St Eds last week. Some Mich team this week, then a showdown with PC, followed by sleepwalking until week 10 vs Gahanna
YOTW - Drew50 has them #297 in the state, probably right, another team that should be playing down long term.
Watkins Mem - Too late to re-petition to move back to D2???
Westerville Central - Tragic QB injury likely means another long season for this team. 9-24 last 3 seasons for this once great program. Likely a coaching hot seat.
Region 3 picks this week
Groveport Over Gahanna
Glenville Over Liberty
Westerville North Over Orange
Westland Over Grove City
Lancaster Over Wayne Valley
Upper Arlington Over Berlin
Reynoldsburg Over Dublin Jerome
Delaware Hayes Over Delaware Hayes
Medina Over Olentangy
Wayne Over Pick Central
Grandville Over Pick North
Newark Over Mount Vernon
Thomas Over Kilbourne
Watkins Over Sheridan
Westerville South Over Westerville Central
Groveport Over Gahanna
Glenville Over Liberty
Westerville North Over Orange
Westland Over Grove City
Lancaster Over Wayne Valley
Upper Arlington Over Berlin
Reynoldsburg Over Dublin Jerome
Delaware Hayes Over Delaware Hayes
Medina Over Olentangy
Wayne Over Pick Central
Grandville Over Pick North
Newark Over Mount Vernon
Thomas Over Kilbourne
Watkins Over Sheridan
Westerville South Over Westerville Central
The Dock
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Make mine a double, tonight, on week 2. Whew.
Lotta storylines around that I’m sure will get some juice going. My contribution is timid by comparison:
The team Lancaster played is roughly the caliber of your general DeSales or Watterson this past decade. Their enrollment is something like Scioto level. No freak athletes , physical freaks or imposing size. They run a balanced Pro-style passing spread out with trips, 2x2’s, and H-back sets with a healthy serving of screens across all colors of the Rainbow (tunnel, mid, jailbreak, bubble etc) and RPO alert action. What they lack in general talent, they really make up for with technique, fundamentals and weight room.
Not a bad team, but the Gales looked like they didn’t belong in the playoff convo tonight. Shears of mistakes, penalties, low awareness piercing against a stagnant offense whose only highlight was a cribbed sweep by a sophomore RB… too much to overcome. Trenches didn’t look good for the Gales at all. Credit to Wayne Valley for getting the win by virtue of simply playing better football.
P.S. — Ugly loss elsewhere tonight in Region 3, too!
Lotta storylines around that I’m sure will get some juice going. My contribution is timid by comparison:
So, I went and investigated this!
The team Lancaster played is roughly the caliber of your general DeSales or Watterson this past decade. Their enrollment is something like Scioto level. No freak athletes , physical freaks or imposing size. They run a balanced Pro-style passing spread out with trips, 2x2’s, and H-back sets with a healthy serving of screens across all colors of the Rainbow (tunnel, mid, jailbreak, bubble etc) and RPO alert action. What they lack in general talent, they really make up for with technique, fundamentals and weight room.
Not a bad team, but the Gales looked like they didn’t belong in the playoff convo tonight. Shears of mistakes, penalties, low awareness piercing against a stagnant offense whose only highlight was a cribbed sweep by a sophomore RB… too much to overcome. Trenches didn’t look good for the Gales at all. Credit to Wayne Valley for getting the win by virtue of simply playing better football.
P.S. — Ugly loss elsewhere tonight in Region 3, too!
ElDuderino
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Helpful context. I just think it's weird for a team who is struggling at their level right now to go play out of town schools like this. Now if you are flexing and wanting to find someone new because you have a good team, that's one thing, but still not super helpful for evaluation against other COH schools because you wont see anything that other school does the rest of the way, so you have no context for what that game actually meant.
More on the other games later this weekend. Some big stuff is happening for sure.
The Dock
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Point taken, although in the context of Lancaster I’m not sure how generally meaningful it would be.
>Program that hasn’t won a playoff game since the W administration
>Exurban program comfortably in the sinews of D1 where a not-insignificant expense of resource is put into ensuring the program can have the best footing 5-10 years down the line, because there is foresight and evaluation as to what the future landscape holds for the program (as it relates to intensity of Central Ohio competition in OCC play as well as week 11), but the means to that end may be of a different persuasion. Any Ohio teams that were open wk 2 who could came to Fulton? Yeah. Some that would’ve turned a 28-7 deficit into a (semi-metaphorical) 70-7? Yeah.
Gales used to play Canada back in the day. May have been generally good intentions. Something that would get criticized (rightly) today. Also were times they had some general monte of Springfield/Jerome/DeSales on the slate.
Guess we’ll see with Marysville?
Speaking of…
Oh, wrong thread.
lancaster90
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1st, Wayne Valley contacted Lancaster as Lancaster would have had a bye this week as the only teams that would play them for one year were similar to Akron North. Last year this was Hamilton Township and was only for one year as Hamilton Township had St. Charles scheduled this year and next. This week next year they will play Dublin Scioto. 2nd, what people do not realize is Lancaster lost a good amount of seniors last year and a lot of players this year are either playing varsity for the first time or are playing in new positions. Lancaster had no idea what to expect from Wayne Valley as this was their first game of the season for team that went 4-6 last year. Hard to scout a team that is 7 hours away. With that said, the Gales kept killing themselves with penalties all night long. Two Drives were helped by penalties and a bad snap on a Punt directly led to a third.
I do think a game like this will help the Gales as they are similar to teams they will see the rest of the year. Correct the penalties and the Gales can have success. Impressed the Gordan kid. Scored the only Td for the Gales and is only a Sophomore, will get better with as the season moves forward. Burke had tough night but give credit to Wayne Valley as they did a terrific job of making things difficult in the passing game.
I am looking forward to going to Marysville. This should be good one. We will see how the Gales respond this week. Good Luck
ElDuderino
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Whats the deal with needing multiple 1 year contracts?
ElDuderino
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Looks like Pick Central controlled Wayne much of the game and gave up scores late. Pick North another game that's pretty tough to evaluate, other than to say it seems we need to keep an eye on how good that defense really is, which is a huge problem in this region if you have a bad defense with teams like Orange out there.
WvNorth with a decent game this week against Waterson, but then much like last season, gets to sleep walk thru the rest of the main season without playing anyone of consequence. I respect the fact that they are improved from their previous baseline, but am not understanding all the praise being heaped on them.
WvNorth with a decent game this week against Waterson, but then much like last season, gets to sleep walk thru the rest of the main season without playing anyone of consequence. I respect the fact that they are improved from their previous baseline, but am not understanding all the praise being heaped on them.
Was at the WVNorth Orange game, IMO Orange could've very easily had 70 pts as a couple of long TD runs were called back by very suspect penalties along with another big play that put them close to another score, but still managed to hang 54 on them. North has a very elusive QB and a couple of decent WRs that will put a lot of points on the board but their run defense is horrid. Orange had multiple long runs just up the middle making you wonder if North even had LBS in the game.
ElDuderino
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Yep, heard a similar report. North is getting way too much hype off the "good loss" in the playoffs last year. I like to see something additional to validate a game like that, and quite frankly the rest of their year last year was more questions than validations (or blowouts over tomato cans where you learn nothing).
They definitely deserve praise for getting out of the basement, but ppl who were ranking them in the COH top 7 and similar need to really slow down, as is evidenced by last night. Good offense/bad defense teams can win a lot of meaningless games, espec playing a largely D2 schedule. But there are a lot of very good defenses in D1, and need some proof they can do something against those.
I love this needle, but sadly YOTW is odds on to finish 1-9 this year and Wats sched is weak enough for them to win a couple games. EDIT - I guess WvCentral could easily finish 1-9 too with their QB out
The Dock
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They’ve been on a decade-long string of non-renewals and second half of contracts not getting honored across a couple of weeks. Some of it isn’t their fault, some of it is their fault (being selective). It’s something like they have had one or two weeks needing a new opponent for the following year in the last ten. It’s not the typical and conventional “we are inking home and homes years out in advance” scheduling practice.
ElDuderino
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R3W2 Notes
GPM – Impressive win shutting down a high-powered offense. Unfortunately wont learn anything more about this team until week 8 when they play PC, but based on the first 2 weeks pretty clear they will be a threat to get late into the region unless Gahanna ends up looking weak by season's end.
Grove City – Win over TV looks better this week and they defeated the 1-man team in Westland, offense has been really good against overmatched opponents so far. Much tougher game this Friday, lets see what happens. Doing a great job against their competition, unclear what that means vs the best teams in this region.
Orange – Without question the most dangerous offense in COH, but have not face a good defense yet this year to fully validate how good they are. Get to take the week off this week, but then a very tough schedule filled with nothing but defensive challenges will give us a better idea of how/if they fit in the state-wide top 10 or not.
Liberty – Convincing win over a Glenville team that we can’t be exactly sure how their season will play out. Win over Tangy looking better this week as well, and a couple of big games next with Gahanna and Berlin to help sort out where they actually fit. All the appearances of a solid, balanced team that is going to be a tough out.
Newark – Nice improvement by this team and get another tomato can opportunity this Friday. Though some serious wakeup calls loom, possible to finish the season at .500?
Hayes – Playdown schedule will make the win-loss record look better than it otherwise should, but that’s fine. Get the kids some wins and build some confidence.
Pick Central – Built a big lead against Wayne before they closed it down in a big shootout. This is definitely not the old Pick Central defensive teams people recognize and need to get used to the idea that the program has changed quite a bit. Doesn’t mean they cant have success, but things are different. Big showdown Friday is too tough to call.
Olentangy – Big bounce-back win shutting down a very big offense in Medina. Offense finally was able to use playmakers against a pretty poor defense. No excuse to lose any games the rest of the way, setting up a week 10 showdown with Berlin, but will the lack of battle testing prior to the playoffs end up hurting? Very soft remaining schedule only facing 2 top-100 Drew50 teams and 4 ranked 247 or higher.
UA – Held on to win a tough game Friday vs Berlin, but got most of their offense on a couple long pass plays where bad coverage mistakes were made, did not even have a 50 yd rusher in the game, Berlin was moving both of their lines around quite a bit in the second half. Get to take a few weeks off until schedule gets serious in October. Great defense and coaching, likely lack the firepower to win the region.
Berlin – Killed themselves with penalties and pass coverage mistakes, but corrected a lot of it at halftime and were the better team in the second half, which would make a playoff rematch interesting. Coaches have smartly been holding back on playing a couple kids both ways due to the heat, improvements coming as they get sprinkled in more. Need to not get caught looking ahead to Liberty/Orange this Friday when New Albany visits.
Gahanna – Not so much surprising they lost to GPM, but it’s how they lost, only scoring one TD. Don’t get the opportunity to see much of them (or GPM), hard to comment on what happened here. No clear feel on how Gahanna/GPM stack up with the 4 Tangies.
Pick North – 100+ point shootout against some team 5 hours away in Grand Rapids MI after being shut out the week before. Not sure what we can take away from this game. Hoping to learn something about where they fit in the region this Friday.
WvNorth – As mentioned last week, they had no idea what was about to hit them with Orange, and they didn’t. Good fight in the team to try to come back down 21 late in the game, but clearly overmatched and put in their place, which is bottom half of this region. Explosive offense/bad defense teams can sometime win a game on-paper they shouldn’t win, but the list of on-papers they shouldn’t win is large here and includes all 4 Tangies, 2 Picks, UA, GPM, Gahanna, at a min. Interesting game vs Wooderson Friday, then it’s sleepwalk stat-padding the rest of the way, which builds irrational hype from beating up on tomato cans.
Lancaster – As one of their posters put it, they are “really looking forward to a great game” against 0-2 Marysville team who had running clock put on them both games. Will just leave it at that.
Reynoldsburg – Expected loss to Jerome but still had a respectable showing. Expect UA to shut them down completely, but there still might be a couple wins left on this schedule for them.
YOTW – Looks like Kilbourne has finally found something with this Frosh QB they have been playing, TW is still searching for anything. A 400+ ranking on Drew50 seems to be looming for them, yet their game Friday hosting Scioto is quite winnable for them.
Watkins – Just a classic example of the difference between having a couple superstar players and being a good team, which sometimes are not the same thing. Dropping these games has likely meant an impossible 1st round matchup for them in the playoffs.
WvCentral – Couple of running clock games so far with their star QB out. Bellefontaine thought they were getting a D1 test for their OSU QB when they scheduled this game, but not so much now. CC likely to be their only win opportunity and either them or TW will miss playoffs.
GPM – Impressive win shutting down a high-powered offense. Unfortunately wont learn anything more about this team until week 8 when they play PC, but based on the first 2 weeks pretty clear they will be a threat to get late into the region unless Gahanna ends up looking weak by season's end.
Grove City – Win over TV looks better this week and they defeated the 1-man team in Westland, offense has been really good against overmatched opponents so far. Much tougher game this Friday, lets see what happens. Doing a great job against their competition, unclear what that means vs the best teams in this region.
Orange – Without question the most dangerous offense in COH, but have not face a good defense yet this year to fully validate how good they are. Get to take the week off this week, but then a very tough schedule filled with nothing but defensive challenges will give us a better idea of how/if they fit in the state-wide top 10 or not.
Liberty – Convincing win over a Glenville team that we can’t be exactly sure how their season will play out. Win over Tangy looking better this week as well, and a couple of big games next with Gahanna and Berlin to help sort out where they actually fit. All the appearances of a solid, balanced team that is going to be a tough out.
Newark – Nice improvement by this team and get another tomato can opportunity this Friday. Though some serious wakeup calls loom, possible to finish the season at .500?
Hayes – Playdown schedule will make the win-loss record look better than it otherwise should, but that’s fine. Get the kids some wins and build some confidence.
Pick Central – Built a big lead against Wayne before they closed it down in a big shootout. This is definitely not the old Pick Central defensive teams people recognize and need to get used to the idea that the program has changed quite a bit. Doesn’t mean they cant have success, but things are different. Big showdown Friday is too tough to call.
Olentangy – Big bounce-back win shutting down a very big offense in Medina. Offense finally was able to use playmakers against a pretty poor defense. No excuse to lose any games the rest of the way, setting up a week 10 showdown with Berlin, but will the lack of battle testing prior to the playoffs end up hurting? Very soft remaining schedule only facing 2 top-100 Drew50 teams and 4 ranked 247 or higher.
UA – Held on to win a tough game Friday vs Berlin, but got most of their offense on a couple long pass plays where bad coverage mistakes were made, did not even have a 50 yd rusher in the game, Berlin was moving both of their lines around quite a bit in the second half. Get to take a few weeks off until schedule gets serious in October. Great defense and coaching, likely lack the firepower to win the region.
Berlin – Killed themselves with penalties and pass coverage mistakes, but corrected a lot of it at halftime and were the better team in the second half, which would make a playoff rematch interesting. Coaches have smartly been holding back on playing a couple kids both ways due to the heat, improvements coming as they get sprinkled in more. Need to not get caught looking ahead to Liberty/Orange this Friday when New Albany visits.
Gahanna – Not so much surprising they lost to GPM, but it’s how they lost, only scoring one TD. Don’t get the opportunity to see much of them (or GPM), hard to comment on what happened here. No clear feel on how Gahanna/GPM stack up with the 4 Tangies.
Pick North – 100+ point shootout against some team 5 hours away in Grand Rapids MI after being shut out the week before. Not sure what we can take away from this game. Hoping to learn something about where they fit in the region this Friday.
WvNorth – As mentioned last week, they had no idea what was about to hit them with Orange, and they didn’t. Good fight in the team to try to come back down 21 late in the game, but clearly overmatched and put in their place, which is bottom half of this region. Explosive offense/bad defense teams can sometime win a game on-paper they shouldn’t win, but the list of on-papers they shouldn’t win is large here and includes all 4 Tangies, 2 Picks, UA, GPM, Gahanna, at a min. Interesting game vs Wooderson Friday, then it’s sleepwalk stat-padding the rest of the way, which builds irrational hype from beating up on tomato cans.
Lancaster – As one of their posters put it, they are “really looking forward to a great game” against 0-2 Marysville team who had running clock put on them both games. Will just leave it at that.
Reynoldsburg – Expected loss to Jerome but still had a respectable showing. Expect UA to shut them down completely, but there still might be a couple wins left on this schedule for them.
YOTW – Looks like Kilbourne has finally found something with this Frosh QB they have been playing, TW is still searching for anything. A 400+ ranking on Drew50 seems to be looming for them, yet their game Friday hosting Scioto is quite winnable for them.
Watkins – Just a classic example of the difference between having a couple superstar players and being a good team, which sometimes are not the same thing. Dropping these games has likely meant an impossible 1st round matchup for them in the playoffs.
WvCentral – Couple of running clock games so far with their star QB out. Bellefontaine thought they were getting a D1 test for their OSU QB when they scheduled this game, but not so much now. CC likely to be their only win opportunity and either them or TW will miss playoffs.
picknorth2012
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What happened to Gahanna, saw they lost again? Lots of seniors graduate?
The Dock
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the comparatively bummier side of the OCC with Pick Central et al has non-conference wins against the likes of Gahanna, Bradley, and Wayne.
and, yet, it conceivably could go 0-fer in the r3 playoffs? Man this is a funky year already. Doesn't seem like those wins are going to tell us much about how good the top couple teams in OCC-Buckeye play could fare in week 11.
and, yet, it conceivably could go 0-fer in the r3 playoffs? Man this is a funky year already. Doesn't seem like those wins are going to tell us much about how good the top couple teams in OCC-Buckeye play could fare in week 11.
ElDuderino
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you've got Gahanna getting a running clock put on them by Liberty, and Groveport dropping a game to a VERY average Big Walnut team by two scores. Question asked/Question answered about how these south-side schools stack up with the north.
Watkins drops to 0-3......this prediction isn't aging well!
The Dock
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Want to see something stranger than fiction?
Of the following three teams, which one would have in theory been the most prepared to be somewhat competitive in Region 3 playoffs? Like if all three teams were hypothetically in Region 3, which one would the money have moved toward to make week 12?
Licking Valley
Watkins Memorial
Licking Heights
Why did I pick those three teams?