skank;591711 wrote:Mrs. Parker, maybe this is why.
Massillons opponents that made the playoffs.
This is a who's who of Ohio HS football. We have backed down from no one, we have played schools that recruit, (your Ursulines, Ignatius' St. Edward's, Moellers), We have played traditional powers, (Mckinley, Warren, Steubenville). Schools that only call when they have their, 'team of a lifetime', (Perry, Dover, Normandy), Your schools that recruit AND only call when they have their, 'team of a lifetime', (Chaminade, Benedictine), Schools that are VERY competative year in and year out, (Mentor, Solon, Buchtel.) Teams that have been Nationally ranked when we played them. Nice try though....Keep playin small ball.
He's back!! First, I prefer "Miss Parker." Next, your post is confusing. Are you saying the reason you can't even outpoint a lil' ol' D-IV school like Ironton is that you schedule teams you can't beat? Actually, your win/loss is almost as good as Ironton's during the same period, so it must be something else besides just scheduling teams you can't beat. And on the "small ball" comment, I have no clue what that even means. Even a cursory glance at any year's schedule would indicate Ironton plays plenty of teams in higher divisions, often with much higher enrollments.
I think we can accept by your lack of any retort that you accept that Ironton consistently over the last decade has outperformed Massillon, despite having 1/3 the enrollment. And this isn't relative, as in "for their class," as in the case it's the absolute numbers. Or even if you find this a bit strong, you've done nothing to explain how Ironton can do so well in their class when clearly the game is rigged against them due to the existence of almost 10% private playoff qualifiers in their division. You just don't address the question. Weird.
You know what's even weirder, though? After you come back with nothing after you attack Ironton and I reply with a few facts that might make you ponder how smart that was, you go off on another rant that is emotional and not well-researched. If I understand the point of your post, after ignoring the fact that you completely changed the topic it is as follows: Even if Massillon doesn't win titles and doesn't rack up many computer points due to some combo of OK W/L record and not-so-strong schedule (at least compared to a D-IV aggressive scheduler like Ironton), at least you can claim some kind of small victory for playing some hard games. You "prove this" by demonstrating that over the past decade Massillon has played between 3 and 6 teams bound for the playoffs, depending on the year.
Now I'm just dying to ask, before you launched this majestic salvo, did you notice that Ironton played 9 games this year against playoff qualifiers and two more against teams who finished 9th in the regions? I know you don't go for the whole comparative data, but why not move along. I assume you'd get a similar result if you looked at Kenton or Orrville or Steubenville or many others, including, yes, Ursuline and Xavier. But can you at least admit that among some of the most successful public programs their is an existence theorem for perenniallly successful programs?
Here are your thought problems:
1. Do programs like Ironton and the others I keep mentioning, who outperform Massillon in their class and by certain measures absolutely really exist or are they imaginary?
2. Is it possible that not obsessing about who is screwing them next and who is "cheating" is actually helpful to their success because it lets them focus on things that matter?
