icskins;536534 wrote:Maybe I am speaking out of turn here, but I remember someone saying that your booster meetings are tiny compared to what they used to be. Maybe this could be one of the reasons why.

ManO'War;536537 wrote:I think our Booster membership is still pretty large, but the actual people that attend meetings has shrunk, but that is a factor of many things.

I bet we still get more than the vast majority of schools our size.

ManO'War;536535 wrote:You're complaining that any team in Ohio just can't schedule 8 home games because they are in a conference....well, be an independent then!

No school is forced to being in a conference, but by joining one they give up their options of scheduling.

We are not in a conference, so we can schedule zero home games, or ten.

icskins;536548 wrote:You must be confusing me with someone else. Never once did I complain about conferences. I was merely responding to someone saying that EVERY school can schedule 8 home games.

icskins;536548 wrote:You must be confusing me with someone else. Never once did I complain about conferences. I was merely responding to someone saying that EVERY school can schedule 8 home games.

SUPER787;536495 wrote:I think they would rather just bitch about it than try it.

ManO'War;536552 wrote:EVERY school CAN schedule as many home games as they like, and if it is that important to them, then they could leave their league to do so.

It's all a matter of priorities.

holdingout;536432 wrote:You're joking right? "They give it to the visiters though if it warrants". When has this ever happened? In all my years of going to Big Red regular season games they have NEVER,NEVER,NEVER opened that up to the visiting crowd.

fish82;536589 wrote:Agreed. What a school can't do (at least with any credibility whatsoever) is demand 8 home games and then complain that "no one will play us."

ManO'War;536520 wrote:Park has already dropped us for next year.

Rule #1 of Booster Meetings....keep your mouth shut unless you really have a good point, or expect what you got.

ManO'War;536460 wrote:Because the good seats on the home side are all taken up by season ticket holders, so they reward the teachers by giving them those seats on the visitor side.

ManO'War;536520 wrote:Park has already dropped us for next year.

Rule #1 of Booster Meetings....keep your mouth shut unless you really have a good point, or expect what you got.

BigYtownRed;536647 wrote:icskins,

I just read the previous three pages & I have come to a conclusion. Why don't you just swear your allegence to the Big Red then your team can enjoy seven or eight home games & a nice playoff run year after year. Then you won't have to prove whatever point it is you are trying to prove.

Welcome to the Dark Side of the Force.

RRR

Darkon;536862 wrote:AHH. And are you starting to understand why other schools who have scheduled Big Red get annoyed and don't renew their contract (then gat accused of being scared and dropping you) because of the "rules" that are set just to play them.
They better keep these "out of state" schools happy because they may find it hard to fill a schedule with any local teams.

FairwoodKing;536641 wrote:We gladly played a lot of teams home and home. The ones I can think of off the top of my head are Watterson, Poland, Beaver Local, Akron SVSM, and Canton CC. They all dropped us after we beat them a couple of times. Warren Harding dropped us before we even played them.

I think Big Red's schedule is just fine.

justcompete;537381 wrote:I beg to differ. I know for a fact that Watterson tried hard to continue the series. We were told that our facilities were not sufficient for you fans. Also, if we wanted to travel to your city every year, they would schedule us. Watterson was only able to find 9 games this year and one of them was a team from Canada.

2002sunset;537361 wrote:check out strength of schedule as per fantastic50:

#84 Steubenville (7-2) 127.2
Ranked #11 of 121 in Division III, #3 in Region 11
Str-of-sched 0.996, #4 toughest overall, #1 in Division III
Reg. Season Wins: 7W-43% 8W-57%
Clinched playoff berth (Home game 99%)
Projected Seed: #2 (Best: #1, Worst: #5)
Week 1: Won 36-0 H vs INKSTER () [MI] (2-7, D2)
Week 2: Won 7-0 A vs MCKEESPORT () [PA] (7-1, D2)
Week 3: Won 34-21 H vs BROOKE () [WV] (6-2, D2)
Week 4: Won 14-0 H vs St John's College High School (DC) (3-5, D2)
Week 5: Won 35-7 H vs MORGANTOWN () [WV] (8-1, D1)
Week 6: Won 39-0 H vs WHEELING PARK () [WV] (2-7, D1)
Week 7: Lost 7-28 A vs #46 Massillon Washington (Massillon) (7-2, D1 R2), pick: W by 11
Week 8: Lost 3-24 H vs #2 Ursuline (Youngstown) (9-0, D5 R17), pick: L by 20
Week 9: Won 59-39 H vs ST JOSEPH'S COLLEGIATE (BUFFALO) [NY] (3-5, D1)
Week 10: H vs CARDINAL O'HARA (TONAWANDA) [NY] (5-3, D6)

justcompete;537381 wrote:I beg to differ. I know for a fact that Watterson tried hard to continue the series. We were told that our facilities were not sufficient for you fans. Also, if we wanted to travel to your city every year, they would schedule us. Watterson was only able to find 9 games this year and one of them was a team from Canada.

SUPER787;538258 wrote:Total B.S.. Watterson could not find a mutual date with B.R.. Also, they were never asked to play here every year. Our games with them have always been home and home.

As far as your facilities go, ask the dozens of ladies and gents who stood outside those crummy porta-johns that had no toilet paper, about those great facilities the last time we played there. We had to supply them with rolls of toilet paper and hand soap from our booster buses. Your rented field looked like they had R.O.T.C. foxhole training before the season started. As we left the game, the police took several drunken female Watterson students away in patrol cars. We knew they were from Watterson because several of your teachers were helping out the police with identification. I'm surprised the Canadians did not have to have shots to cross back into their own country after playing there. But, I guess to you, those are great facilities.
$13,000 plus a year tuition and you can't afford your own stadium? Tsk, Tsk.