ManO'War wrote: Woodland Hills is scheduled to play one of the Florida teams.

Fairwood, it would be up to the event organizer, not WH, as to who is invited...which my gut says is us.

FairwoodKing wrote: I doubt if Woodland Hills would ever invite us to play at their place. We have scorched them the three times we've played them. I don't think they like us.

snyds113 wrote: Correct me if I'm wrong but this would mean the Akron B. game is off right?If so how do teams go about rearanging a schedule when it has already been set?Also is there any truth to Morgantown coming to Steuby instead of going down there?And exept for obvious reasons was there a field availability issue on Morgantowns part or something?

ferflog wrote: I am sure I will be lambasted for this statement, but I think the football schedule can be "too tough". In 2009 I thought the schedule was "too tough". We had tons of guys injured week after week. By the time the playoffs came around, we looked more like a "Mash unit" than a football team. I hope the same mistake isn't made again this year.

Playing bigger schools week-after-week certainly takes its toll. Just my opinion. Take it easy on me.

GoChiefs wrote: You got to find a happy medium. What going does making the playoffs against tough teams do if your players are beat up week after week and injured. Then you ruin your chances as well. So I gotta agree with ferflog..not saying this schedule is too tough...but you can definitely have too tough of a schedule. It's not a good thing to play the best teams week after week. You have to have some time off and rest.

GoChiefs wrote: Jesus..why are you always so defensive??? LOL Please show me one place in my post where I was talking about Big Red's schedule this year? I wasn't. I was talking about in general. With ANY team.

FairwoodKing wrote: I'm defending Reno and Fred's method of scheduling. We play good teams. And yet we have only lost one regular-season game in the past seven years.

I'm just giving credit where credit is due.

FairwoodKing wrote:

GoChiefs wrote: You got to find a happy medium. What going does making the playoffs against tough teams do if your players are beat up week after week and injured. Then you ruin your chances as well. So I gotta agree with ferflog..not saying this schedule is too tough...but you can definitely have too tough of a schedule. It's not a good thing to play the best teams week after week. You have to have some time off and rest.

Who would we get rid of? Buffalo St. Joe's? They're a Div. I school with about six times the number of boys as Big Red. If they were located in Ohio, they would be one of the largest teams in the state. Yet we have played them nine times and they have never beaten us.

I don't recall that we sustained any injuries against Massillon, and they are a major Div. I power in Ohio.

Did injuries really play that big a role in our loss to Mooney or were we simply outplayed? And don't forget that we won three playoff games last year, so we did not exactly limp into those games as the walking wounded.

We can't just schedule teams that we know we are going to beat. We have to have competitive games to prepare us for the postseason. I think our schedule is just fine the way it is.

SUPER787 wrote:

FairwoodKing wrote:

GoChiefs wrote: You got to find a happy medium. What going does making the playoffs against tough teams do if your players are beat up week after week and injured. Then you ruin your chances as well. So I gotta agree with ferflog..not saying this schedule is too tough...but you can definitely have too tough of a schedule. It's not a good thing to play the best teams week after week. You have to have some time off and rest.

Who would we get rid of? Buffalo St. Joe's? They're a Div. I school with about six times the number of boys as Big Red. If they were located in Ohio, they would be one of the largest teams in the state. Yet we have played them nine times and they have never beaten us.

I don't recall that we sustained any injuries against Massillon, and they are a major Div. I power in Ohio.

Did injuries really play that big a role in our loss to Mooney or were we simply outplayed? And don't forget that we won three playoff games last year, so we did not exactly limp into those games as the walking wounded.

We can't just schedule teams that we know we are going to beat. We have to have competitive games to prepare us for the postseason. I think our schedule is just fine the way it is.

I think this topic has been discussed before but I have to agree with ferflog and GoChiefs.
I don't think Reno just schedules teams he knows he will beat.
From Reno's lips: " We are barely a division 3 team. While we won our playoff games, I could see the team played without it's usual intensity by the time the championship game came around. We do not have the depth to compete week in and week out with the larger teams. Sure, if we stay healthy, and we didn't, we can compete, but that entails a lot of luck. end of Reno's quote.
You run into timing issues if you have to plug different players in because of injuries. All teams have injuries, and this year we had a lot of them, but let me select my replacements from 100 boys on my team instead of 54 and the quality of play won't suffer as much. That is why I think the coaching was really superior this past year: we did far better than a lot of people thought we would after the physical beating we took from Woodland Hills.
We have done fine with our schedule getting us into the playoffs; after that, it's up to the health of our team and the strength of our bench: pure and simple. Did not mean to step on anyone's toes; just sayin.....
Cheers.

FairwoodKing wrote:

SUPER787 wrote:

FairwoodKing wrote:

GoChiefs wrote: You got to find a happy medium. What going does making the playoffs against tough teams do if your players are beat up week after week and injured. Then you ruin your chances as well. So I gotta agree with ferflog..not saying this schedule is too tough...but you can definitely have too tough of a schedule. It's not a good thing to play the best teams week after week. You have to have some time off and rest.

Who would we get rid of? Buffalo St. Joe's? They're a Div. I school with about six times the number of boys as Big Red. If they were located in Ohio, they would be one of the largest teams in the state. Yet we have played them nine times and they have never beaten us.

I don't recall that we sustained any injuries against Massillon, and they are a major Div. I power in Ohio.

Did injuries really play that big a role in our loss to Mooney or were we simply outplayed? And don't forget that we won three playoff games last year, so we did not exactly limp into those games as the walking wounded.

We can't just schedule teams that we know we are going to beat. We have to have competitive games to prepare us for the postseason. I think our schedule is just fine the way it is.

I think this topic has been discussed before but I have to agree with ferflog and GoChiefs.
I don't think Reno just schedules teams he knows he will beat.
From Reno's lips: " We are barely a division 3 team. While we won our playoff games, I could see the team played without it's usual intensity by the time the championship game came around. We do not have the depth to compete week in and week out with the larger teams. Sure, if we stay healthy, and we didn't, we can compete, but that entails a lot of luck. end of Reno's quote.
You run into timing issues if you have to plug different players in because of injuries. All teams have injuries, and this year we had a lot of them, but let me select my replacements from 100 boys on my team instead of 54 and the quality of play won't suffer as much. That is why I think the coaching was really superior this past year: we did far better than a lot of people thought we would after the physical beating we took from Woodland Hills.
We have done fine with our schedule getting us into the playoffs; after that, it's up to the health of our team and the strength of our bench: pure and simple. Did not mean to step on anyone's toes; just sayin.....
Cheers.

If Reno is that concerned about playing big schools, then why did he schedule five Div. I teams for 2010?

SUPER787 wrote:

FairwoodKing wrote:

SUPER787 wrote:

FairwoodKing wrote:

GoChiefs wrote: You got to find a happy medium. What going does making the playoffs against tough teams do if your players are beat up week after week and injured. Then you ruin your chances as well. So I gotta agree with ferflog..not saying this schedule is too tough...but you can definitely have too tough of a schedule. It's not a good thing to play the best teams week after week. You have to have some time off and rest.

Who would we get rid of? Buffalo St. Joe's? They're a Div. I school with about six times the number of boys as Big Red. If they were located in Ohio, they would be one of the largest teams in the state. Yet we have played them nine times and they have never beaten us.

I don't recall that we sustained any injuries against Massillon, and they are a major Div. I power in Ohio.

Did injuries really play that big a role in our loss to Mooney or were we simply outplayed? And don't forget that we won three playoff games last year, so we did not exactly limp into those games as the walking wounded.

We can't just schedule teams that we know we are going to beat. We have to have competitive games to prepare us for the postseason. I think our schedule is just fine the way it is.

I think this topic has been discussed before but I have to agree with ferflog and GoChiefs.
I don't think Reno just schedules teams he knows he will beat.
From Reno's lips: " We are barely a division 3 team. While we won our playoff games, I could see the team played without it's usual intensity by the time the championship game came around. We do not have the depth to compete week in and week out with the larger teams. Sure, if we stay healthy, and we didn't, we can compete, but that entails a lot of luck. end of Reno's quote.
You run into timing issues if you have to plug different players in because of injuries. All teams have injuries, and this year we had a lot of them, but let me select my replacements from 100 boys on my team instead of 54 and the quality of play won't suffer as much. That is why I think the coaching was really superior this past year: we did far better than a lot of people thought we would after the physical beating we took from Woodland Hills.
We have done fine with our schedule getting us into the playoffs; after that, it's up to the health of our team and the strength of our bench: pure and simple. Did not mean to step on anyone's toes; just sayin.....
Cheers.

If Reno is that concerned about playing big schools, then why did he schedule five Div. I teams for 2010?

Not having a choice would be my assumption. Besides, there are Div.1 schools, then there are Div.1 schools with great programs with much larger numbers of boys out for football.
Anyway, how many of those Div.1 teams could you call powerhouses?
Wheeling Park?
Morgantown?
Buffalo St. Joe?
Washington St. Joe collegiate is an unknown, so that could be interesting.
Massillon is at the bottom of Div.1 and I'll bet they could beat any one of those teams consistently.
Div.1 means nothing; it's the program.
Cheers.

FairwoodKing wrote:

SUPER787 wrote:

FairwoodKing wrote:

SUPER787 wrote:

FairwoodKing wrote:

GoChiefs wrote: You got to find a happy medium. What going does making the playoffs against tough teams do if your players are beat up week after week and injured. Then you ruin your chances as well. So I gotta agree with ferflog..not saying this schedule is too tough...but you can definitely have too tough of a schedule. It's not a good thing to play the best teams week after week. You have to have some time off and rest.

Who would we get rid of? Buffalo St. Joe's? They're a Div. I school with about six times the number of boys as Big Red. If they were located in Ohio, they would be one of the largest teams in the state. Yet we have played them nine times and they have never beaten us.

I don't recall that we sustained any injuries against Massillon, and they are a major Div. I power in Ohio.

Did injuries really play that big a role in our loss to Mooney or were we simply outplayed? And don't forget that we won three playoff games last year, so we did not exactly limp into those games as the walking wounded.

We can't just schedule teams that we know we are going to beat. We have to have competitive games to prepare us for the postseason. I think our schedule is just fine the way it is.

I think this topic has been discussed before but I have to agree with ferflog and GoChiefs.
I don't think Reno just schedules teams he knows he will beat.
From Reno's lips: " We are barely a division 3 team. While we won our playoff games, I could see the team played without it's usual intensity by the time the championship game came around. We do not have the depth to compete week in and week out with the larger teams. Sure, if we stay healthy, and we didn't, we can compete, but that entails a lot of luck. end of Reno's quote.
You run into timing issues if you have to plug different players in because of injuries. All teams have injuries, and this year we had a lot of them, but let me select my replacements from 100 boys on my team instead of 54 and the quality of play won't suffer as much. That is why I think the coaching was really superior this past year: we did far better than a lot of people thought we would after the physical beating we took from Woodland Hills.
We have done fine with our schedule getting us into the playoffs; after that, it's up to the health of our team and the strength of our bench: pure and simple. Did not mean to step on anyone's toes; just sayin.....
Cheers.

If Reno is that concerned about playing big schools, then why did he schedule five Div. I teams for 2010?

Not having a choice would be my assumption. Besides, there are Div.1 schools, then there are Div.1 schools with great programs with much larger numbers of boys out for football.
Anyway, how many of those Div.1 teams could you call powerhouses?
Wheeling Park?
Morgantown?
Buffalo St. Joe?
Washington St. Joe collegiate is an unknown, so that could be interesting.
Massillon is at the bottom of Div.1 and I'll bet they could beat any one of those teams consistently.
Div.1 means nothing; it's the program.
Cheers.

Before we scheduled Morgantown, we were supposed to play Warren Harding that week. Harding would have been another quality Div. I opponent, and I'm sure it was Reno's idea to schedule them.

As far as this talk about injuries is concerned, if Macon hadn't gotten hurt on one single play in the Woodland Hills game, we wouldn't even be having this discussion. He just as easily could have gotten hurt against East Liverpool. I have always been told that most injuries take place when you play weak teams because they don't know what they're doing. I think it was just coincidence that we got banged up against WH. After all, we also played Massillon, a major Div. I team, and we didn't sustain any injuries that I know of against them.