No snow we go! wrote: My guess... Enough people were upset that a few schools voted no, so they acted like a school girl getting felt up at the drive in for the first time... and said we will not join the league if everyone does not want us."

Too bad, I think it would have been interesting as a whole (all the sports)

FairwoodKing wrote: Well, you have to admit that we did not exactly get a warm welcome. Two of the five teams we would play in football voted no.

SUPER787 wrote: [align=left
A real shocker! William Kerr resigned from the Steubenville School Board. He was the main driving force behind Big Red Athletics over many years and will be hard to replace. His influence with the other members gained many projects relating to the Athletic Department. Coach Reno could always count on his backing.
Strange this announcement comes only 2 days after the hassle over joining the ECOL. Could there be a tie-in here? It is starting to look like certain parties may have been over-ruled on the ECOL matter; that being, accepting the invite without prior approval.
In any event, his resignation could be a big blow to Big Red Athletics.
Stay tuned.
Cheers[/align]

FairwoodKing wrote:

SUPER787 wrote: [align=left
A real shocker! William Kerr resigned from the Steubenville School Board. He was the main driving force behind Big Red Athletics over many years and will be hard to replace. His influence with the other members gained many projects relating to the Athletic Department. Coach Reno could always count on his backing.
Strange this announcement comes only 2 days after the hassle over joining the ECOL. Could there be a tie-in here? It is starting to look like certain parties may have been over-ruled on the ECOL matter; that being, accepting the invite without prior approval.
In any event, his resignation could be a big blow to Big Red Athletics.
Stay tuned.
Cheers[/align]

I doubt if his resignation will make much of a difference to the football program. It makes too much money to be ignored.

What has Reno done that could be objectionable? He runs a clean program and he wins. Every school in the country would like to have him.

Darkon wrote:

FairwoodKing wrote:

SUPER787 wrote: [align=left
A real shocker! William Kerr resigned from the Steubenville School Board. He was the main driving force behind Big Red Athletics over many years and will be hard to replace. His influence with the other members gained many projects relating to the Athletic Department. Coach Reno could always count on his backing.
Strange this announcement comes only 2 days after the hassle over joining the ECOL. Could there be a tie-in here? It is starting to look like certain parties may have been over-ruled on the ECOL matter; that being, accepting the invite without prior approval.
In any event, his resignation could be a big blow to Big Red Athletics.
Stay tuned.
Cheers[/align]

I doubt if his resignation will make much of a difference to the football program. It makes too much money to be ignored.

What has Reno done that could be objectionable? He runs a clean program and he wins. Every school in the country would like to have him.

He keeps his distance.

FairwoodKing wrote:

Darkon wrote:

FairwoodKing wrote:

SUPER787 wrote: [align=left
A real shocker! William Kerr resigned from the Steubenville School Board. He was the main driving force behind Big Red Athletics over many years and will be hard to replace. His influence with the other members gained many projects relating to the Athletic Department. Coach Reno could always count on his backing.
Strange this announcement comes only 2 days after the hassle over joining the ECOL. Could there be a tie-in here? It is starting to look like certain parties may have been over-ruled on the ECOL matter; that being, accepting the invite without prior approval.
In any event, his resignation could be a big blow to Big Red Athletics.
Stay tuned.
Cheers[/align]

I doubt if his resignation will make much of a difference to the football program. It makes too much money to be ignored.

What has Reno done that could be objectionable? He runs a clean program and he wins. Every school in the country would like to have him.

He keeps his distance.

Give me one example of where he hasn't run a clean program!

ts1227 wrote: You can't prove that he has or hasn't.

How did their "open enrollers" show up? Was it him, assistants, school board, free will? You can't prove it regardless of who did (or didn't) do it.

FairwoodKing wrote:

SUPER787 wrote: [align=left
A real shocker! William Kerr resigned from the Steubenville School Board. He was the main driving force behind Big Red Athletics over many years and will be hard to replace. His influence with the other members gained many projects relating to the Athletic Department. Coach Reno could always count on his backing.
Strange this announcement comes only 2 days after the hassle over joining the ECOL. Could there be a tie-in here? It is starting to look like certain parties may have been over-ruled on the ECOL matter; that being, accepting the invite without prior approval.
In any event, his resignation could be a big blow to Big Red Athletics.
Stay tuned.
Cheers[/align]

I doubt if his resignation will make much of a difference to the football program. It makes too much money to be ignored.

What has Reno done that could be objectionable? He runs a clean program and he wins. Every school in the country would like to have him.

SUPER787 wrote:

FairwoodKing wrote:

SUPER787 wrote: [align=left
A real shocker! William Kerr resigned from the Steubenville School Board. He was the main driving force behind Big Red Athletics over many years and will be hard to replace. His influence with the other members gained many projects relating to the Athletic Department. Coach Reno could always count on his backing.
Strange this announcement comes only 2 days after the hassle over joining the ECOL. Could there be a tie-in here? It is starting to look like certain parties may have been over-ruled on the ECOL matter; that being, accepting the invite without prior approval.
In any event, his resignation could be a big blow to Big Red Athletics.
Stay tuned.
Cheers[/align]

I doubt if his resignation will make much of a difference to the football program. It makes too much money to be ignored.

What has Reno done that could be objectionable? He runs a clean program and he wins. Every school in the country would like to have him.

I didn't say Reno did anything objectionable. It's important to know that one of the strongest backers of B.R. athletics has resigned. If you have followed Big Red over the years, you may recall that some of our schoolboard members in the past weren't too thrilled with the attention given to the athletic program and some of the teams in the 50's showed that. Bill was an All-Ohio lineman at B.R. and knew what was needed to make up a good program.
Bill was not the only supporter on the board and Bill's replacement may also be supportive. It's a wait and see situation of how this all plays out.
Cheers

ManO'War wrote: A better deal?!?! We are not buying a car.

Either the school wants to take on the travel or they don't.

To me it's silly to travel all over eastern Ohio to play games when for the most part we can get the same competition within the OVAC.

And I don't see it all that beneficial for football either, since we would still have to find 5 teams (4 of them coming to Death Valley every year) to play.

ManO'War wrote: It said in the paper that Mr. Kerr's retirement from the BOE was because he was going to relocate.

He lives right by me, and it's sad to see another Big Red alum/supporter leave the area.

Hopefully his replacement on the BOE will be someone like minded. I'm hoping it will be one of my friends.

ManO'War wrote: And just because you send in an inquiry to join a league doesn't mean that you are obligated to join. You can ask someone to marry you, but still reconsider once she accepts and before you get down the aisle.

skank wrote:

ManO'War wrote: It said in the paper that Mr. Kerr's retirement from the BOE was because he was going to relocate.

He lives right by me, and it's sad to see another Big Red alum/supporter leave the area.

Hopefully his replacement on the BOE will be someone like minded. I'm hoping it will be one of my friends.

We here in Massillon will trade you Lisa Carmicheal for your Board seat, (she has SuperIntendent experience, and is from your area), and all we ask for in return is a diet coke.

ts1227 wrote:

ManO'War wrote: And just because you send in an inquiry to join a league doesn't mean that you are obligated to join. You can ask someone to marry you, but still reconsider once she accepts and before you get down the aisle.

But when the bride stands up the groom at the altar, most people are going to think she's a b**** regardless of her rationale.

ManO'War wrote: So you would enter into that union and spend the rest of your life being miserable just so people wouldn't think bad about you???