Dover and Zanesville should be the favorites but New Philly could be the darkhorse. I think all three of those teams will win no less than seven games. Cambridge will lose to all three but will beat Marietta and possibly win maybe 6 games.

In the small school division, Coshocton should be the favorite followed by Claymont.

osund;864056 wrote:but will beat Marietta

Everyone will beat Marietta.

osund;864056 wrote:but will beat Marietta

Everyone will beat Marietta.

I think Cambridge will have a good year, they were pretty talented last year and most of that talent returns I think they beat Phila to finish 3rd in the big school.

osund;864056 wrote:Dover and Zanesville should be the favorites but New Philly could be the darkhorse.

How great would it be to defeat another 9-0 Philly team???

Large School

ZANESVILLE
DOVER
CAMBRIDGE
NEW PHILA
MARIETTA

Small School

COSHOCTON
CLAYMONT
MEADOWBROOK
RIVER VIEW
ROSECRANS

I really wish we were playing Coshocton instead of Claymont in the small school division.

Dover;866718 wrote:I really wish we were playing Coshocton instead of Claymont in the small school division.

As a Coshocton fan, I can say that playing Dover has certainly helped the Skins in post-season play, but it almost always gets marked as an "L" in the won-loss ledger. With the exception of an occasional loss to Coshocton, New Philly, and Cambridge the Tornadoes own the ECOL.

I'm glad that the league has been split into large school/small school divisions. First it should upgrade the level of competition for the larger schools and improve the league's chances of sending teams deeper into the playoffs. Second it will allow the smaller schools an opportunity to possibly see undefeated seasons without posting a nearly automatic loss to Dover each season.

I can't imagine what the large schools will do to Rosecrans in football unless the league has agreed not to schedule skewed cross-division games.

I'm hoping the ECOL will pick-up at least one more large school and one more small school. I think West Holmes or Tri-Valley would be logical choices for the large school division and Ridgewood, Tusky Valley or John Glenn for the small school division.

believer;866834 wrote:With the exception of an occasional loss to Coshocton, New Philly, and Cambridge the Tornadoes own the ECOL.

Zanesville should be in the hunt year in and year out now.

I realize that it was almost always a L for Coshocton, but it was better competition for us and gave us more points. Plus you also have a fan base that makes the game more exciting.

I would love to see Tri Valley enter the top tier, West Holmes, not so much.

GoChiefs;866839 wrote:Zanesville should be in the hunt year in and year out now.

Im excited that they are in the league, some competition will make for some excitement. It is really too bad that Steuby backed out of the league, it would have made things really exciting.

(I dont know the PC way to refer to Steuby not being in the league, I know no matter what I say it would be refuted, this is not an attempt to turn this into yet another big red love/hate fest)

GoChiefs;866839 wrote:Zanesville should be in the hunt year in and year out now.

That would be nice but Z-ville has only picked it up the past couple of seasons. They had a string of mediocre years not too long ago.

I hope the Blue Devils do give Dover some tougher competition in the conference, but until they prove it, the ECOL crown always runs through Dover. Always has, probably always will.

believer;866984 wrote:That would be nice but Z-ville has only picked it up the past couple of seasons. They had a string of mediocre years not too long ago.

Most teams do at one time or another but they did what they needed to do to put themselves back in the mix. Hate seeing them off our schedule though, but it is what it is.

Went and watch Philly play a very good Green team and they're are goin to have some growing pains this year. Philly is talented but young. QB, RB and WR are sophmores top wr is a junior. Probable losses are Northwest, Dover, Zanesville and toss up games are Coshocton and Wheeling Park.

They have a lot upside and definetly will be more entertaining than last year and the QB play is leaps and bounds better than last year.