#PACtion™ 2024

thePITman said:
This should be fun.

Across all #PACtion™ 2024 sanctioned Fall sports that keep regular season standings (football, volleyball, boys soccer, and girls soccer), who do you think are the most common non-conference opponents? I'll post the answer in a few days. No cheating!
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There is only one.

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My serious answer is Waynedale, Chippewa, Sandy Valley.
 
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RedRider1 said:
As of today all events/practices will be moved to our "old" gym. Sounds like some pretty significant damage...or that it's too close to volleyballl season to give the surface a thumbs up for use.

Thankful we have 2 competition gyms and a multi purpose facility because it sounds like the new gym may be out of commission for a while.

Who knows with the damage being caused by flood what insurance will and won't cover.
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Not an insurance expert by any means, but had a family member have this same experience and the _(insert your preferred derogatory term)_ folks at the insurance company did try to claim "no flood insurance". He fought it and learned that a "flood" is tied to a waterway exceeding it's capacity. Eventually they ended up paying because his water was due to a similar thing that happened in Orrville. He also changed insurance companies as soon as the check cleared.
 
Playoffs??? said:
Not sure how many Tuslaw games you attended or watched last year, but I was at every one and outside of CVCA and CS, they were 100% in every game, final scores very deceiving for most. I disagree, but we'll see how it all shakes out in the end. Coaching matters a TON in high school football, I'd say well over 50% of success. Yes, only so much you can do, and I do believe in the quote "coaches coach and players play", BUT at a much higher level, let's take the Massillon team versus Ed's. Ed's had 3 legit D1 recruits (on their O-line alone) going to big ten schools and who owned who in that game? Help me out here @Maxie Now, I'm not saying the Tigers D-line was 150# BUT, give me the 6'0 or so 160-180# or so bad a** tough a** kids over the size any day and let's not forget speed kills. To requote what I said several times last year, any other coaching staff in the PAC and they were minimum of 6-4, someone tell me I'm wrong...... Also, they are going to turn it around without the kids that left and think they left for green pastures, maybe they did, but again time will tell.
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They gave up 40 to a very pedestrian Fairless, 35 to a run of a the mill Orrville, and couldn't move the ball on a Manchester team that won a single game in two seasons. No matter how poorly coached a team is if they had any semblance of athleticism on their team those results don't happen. It's the same kids that went 0-23 in Basketball, and finished last in the conference in Baseball. What's the problem there? Still coaches?
 
ShootNation said:
They gave up 40 to a very pedestrian Fairless, 35 to a run of a the mill Orrville, and couldn't move the ball on a Manchester team that won a single game in two seasons. No matter how poorly coached a team is if they had any semblance of athleticism on their team those results don't happen. It's the same kids that went 0-23 in Basketball, and finished last in the conference in Baseball. What's the problem there? Still coaches?
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All I can say is wait and see how the dust settles, I'll make no predictions, too many people like to dig up old threads on here :) You can look at the scores all you want, coaching cost them in all but 2 games like I said, and friendly little reminder that 7 out of 11 starters on both sides of the ball were "undersized" as you apparently think Sophomores, so like I said, we'll see what happens. Don't get @Rich Kotite started on the baseball (former AD for way too long) on what he has done to that entire school from an athletic perspective. That guy almost singlehandedly ruined not just baseball, but various sports at Tuslaw for years. Only a handful of kids that are basketball and football players and likely only 1 maybe that will be a contributor. You want to dog kids, go to another thread. The problem was 90% coaching, ask anyone including and/other than me close to the program and or that was actually at the games, and you'll get the same answer which is fact. In case you can't tell, I'm pretty close to the situation and speak on what I know to be true and factual. I like to keep my comments otherwise to fun, games and #PACTion especially when dealing with kids 14-, well these days almost 20 years old. That being said, you think their small and unathletic, I guess you're entitled to your opinion.
 
Raylan_Givens said:
Not an insurance expert by any means, but had a family member have this same experience and the _(insert your preferred derogatory term)_ folks at the insurance company did try to claim "no flood insurance". He fought it and learned that a "flood" is tied to a waterway exceeding it's capacity. Eventually they ended up paying because his water was due to a similar thing that happened in Orrville. He also changed insurance companies as soon as the check cleared.
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Could check with administration at Northwest. Shortly after the high school was complete and they turned the old high school into the middle school, a volleyball player hit a ball into the rafters of the middle school gym - the ball hit a sprinkler head and snapped it clean off. The sprinkler systems are run off a separate water line aside from the main line for safety purposes and by the time the fire department got to the school to turn the water off, there was almost a foot of water on the brand new (literally less than a month old) gym floor. Not sure if insurance covered that or not - needless to say, the sprinkler heads are supposed to have protective cages over them in the gym.....
 
Playoffs??? said:
All I can say is wait and see how the dust settles, I'll make no predictions, too many people like to dig up old threads on here :) You can look at the scores all you want, coaching cost them in all but 2 games like I said, and friendly little reminder that 7 out of 11 starters on both sides of the ball were "undersized" as you apparently think Sophomores, so like I said, we'll see what happens. Don't get @Rich Kotite started on the baseball (former AD for way too long) on what he has done to that entire school from an athletic perspective. That guy almost singlehandedly ruined not just baseball, but various sports at Tuslaw for years. Only a handful of kids that are basketball and football players and likely only 1 maybe that will be a contributor. You want to dog kids, go to another thread. The problem was 90% coaching, ask anyone including and/other than me close to the program and or that was actually at the games, and you'll get the same answer which is fact. In case you can't tell, I'm pretty close to the situation and speak on what I know to be true and factual. I like to keep my comments otherwise to fun, games and #PACTion especially when dealing with kids 14-, well these days almost 20 years old. That being said, you think their small and unathletic, I guess you're entitled to your opinion.
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groundskeeper willy was handed the richest sports team in the world backed up by an unlimited supply of BellStores cash and he couldn't get it done.

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ShootNation said:
They gave up 40 to a very pedestrian Fairless, 35 to a run of a the mill Orrville, and couldn't move the ball on a Manchester team that won a single game in two seasons. No matter how poorly coached a team is if they had any semblance of athleticism on their team those results don't happen. It's the same kids that went 0-23 in Basketball, and finished last in the conference in Baseball. What's the problem there? Still coaches?
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I don't always agree with you but you make some strong points on football and clearly have some connections.

That being said I believe Tuslaw last year in week ten was physically and emotionally "done" with Coach Julio and didn't give their best effort much like Foster Brooks at an AA meeting or Imelda Marcos not trying to buy another pair of shoes while running the Philippines into the ground.
 
Raylan_Givens said:
Make This Happen Do It GIF by Team Coco
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What if we connected with @cuyahogacuse and sent him BellStores gift cards? I have no idea where 'Cuse lives and if they have BellStores where he's at (BellStores gets weaker the farther north of Akron you go) but maybe that's a good first offer?

Cuse HAS to write as part of his job and/or past career and education. I'd be stunned otherwise.

I mean....I write as part of my job and have been paid to write game summaries a long time ago (before GWB finished the first term of his Presidential tenure was when I ended that stuff)...but I don't want to sign up for that newspapers.com account. I'm weird like that. I've got enough accounts and passwords as it is; half of which are embarrassing and subject to arrest in The Netherlands (joking around, stay with me here, people. I'm copying Greg Gutfeld humor).
 
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Going back to The Pit Man's topic about non league opponents....Tuslaw has a ton of games with Waynedale, a big SV flavor, and Massillon (Olympic sports).

Also surprisingly....Barberton although that's pretty close to The Slaw. A girls golf meet with Wooster at the LC Boles COW course (which I've played several times).

Not surprised to see a big Wayne County influence with Tuslaw as it should be.
 
sheldoncooper said:
Word out of the Bell Store and Tavern is a 9-1 or 8-2 season and the senior and junior classes are absolutely loaded with talent
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All what I heard 2nd hand, but Dalton looked terrible against Manchester. Whoever the QB will be, is NOT Sharpe and/or not a kid that transferred to SVSM but was told looked pretty good. That being said, controlled scrimmage, not much better than a 7 on 7 IMO, and against a Dalton team that lost a TON, has some injuries already and a coach that went 0-10 last year or whatever it was at Cambridge which leaves more? than answers for both programs I guess......
 
Rich Kotite said:
The answer for Manchester is playing the drums in a Youngstown area Italian band:

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Add in a little Massillon mafia flavor, little known Italian joint that feels like you stepped right into Goodfellas.......... sadly, just heard they are no longer making pizza anymore, not sure the reason, but that's not really my go-to there. To quote another great movie, "try the veal, it's the best in the city"

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Playoffs??? said:
All what I heard 2nd hand, but Dalton looked terrible against Manchester. Whoever the QB will be, is NOT Sharpe and/or not a kid that transferred to SVSM but was told looked pretty good. That being said, controlled scrimmage, not much better than a 7 on 7 IMO, and against a Dalton team that lost a TON, has some injuries already and a coach that went 0-10 last year or whatever it was at Cambridge which leaves more? than answers for both programs I guess......
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I actually thought Dalton’s D looked excellent ( not that Manchester is an offensive juggernaut), but they controlled the line of scrimmage, and really allowed next-to-no passing game. Was one good run around the end by Manchester but that was about it. Offense for the dawgs was mid, but they had to reshuffle the o line the day before the scrimmage and their most electric offensive player didn’t play.
 
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