Randall J Peabody III

25 minutes ago, Coachhess said:

I'll bite.  

I was the HC at said program for 5 years.  I cannot tell you the number of times I had discussions with kids about playing, they'd show up, they'd quit in the summer.  Or the number of times I heard the words drop the program.  Or the number of times a kid would quit after Week 1.  We lost 2 starters after the scrimmage one year because they wanted to hunt more.  You have no idea how challenging it is to get that thing off the ground.    We took our fair share of lumps, and I'm not Vince Lombardi.  But I don't know of anytime that a respectable coach has ever blamed someone else of running up the score.  It's my job to stop you.  Even when we had 15 kids for a season I never thought anyone ran it up.  

So no, it is actually acceptable to schedule games then have to drop because of circumstances outside your control.  Until you've walked in the man's shoes, we shouldn't speak for what he should or should not do.

My best friend was a coach of a still struggling program, so yeah I know up close and personal how it works. Why even make yourself available for JV games if you’re certain you’re gonna be uncertain about the status of your squad? Who are you helping here? No one. Everyone loses when this happens. If you don’t have enough to field two squads then don’t. There’s no shame in that. Everyone understands small school struggles with fielding a team to begin with. Weather or acts of God, dude everyone understands that. That’s out of your control. But if you only have 20-30 kids to begin with...why bother? Just take a pass and let them move on. Now they have spent another week at practice working hard and preparing to stay home for another week. Play a limited schedule if you wanna play. There’s ways to work around that situation besides just making a phone in the middle of the week and saying something like, oh by the way we ain’t gonna have enough to play Monday. Sorry. And BTW... I’m not the cat talking about running up the score. I don’t know where that dude is from. Thanks and good luck this season. 

Brownstown-no brainer

Charlestown- I’ll take them. Wasn’t impressed last week. Not drinking the Clarksville Kool Aid quite yet. 

NH- another Kool Aid reference to Corydon

Salem- could win this one with their C team. 

Creek- I’ll take a flyer this one time. Not sleeping or hating on Providence though. 

These PLAC games are just gut picks

Perry Central, SV, and the Dubbers all make it work this week. Good luck 

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Corydon 30 Paoli 22

dude that’s a straight diss against Paoli. Not sure Corydon can score 30 against anyone. At least no ones first team. 

Lots of people picking Salem. What’s wrong with the Creek? People that high on Salem? People sleeping on Creek? Creek down? Winds are swirling out of Salem. Not going to repeat rumors and that’s all I’ve heard to this point. I’m sure Coach can and will release info when it is prudent. 

I heard Stevens broke an ankle? Done  for the season? Be back by sectionals? Just wondering. 

Care if I join the thread? Got a slight interest in the MSC you could say! Looks like a good week for road dogs. Give me all the road warriors this week except Mitchell...I think the jackets can beat the Hawks.