MOAC 2016

[jro]

Recruiting hahaha

[jro]

Aug 3, 2016 9:59:34 GMT -5 wallpass said:

Greetings fellow MOAC fans. Hopefully, we will get some more converts to this board as that always makes things more fun. I don't post a lot but I always enjoy hearing everyone's viewpoint on their team. I look for Pleasant to be massively improved over last year's team and go back to what has worked well for them in the past. I look for them to be 3-0 when they enter league play against JA. It gets a lot tougher once they hit the MOAC but I think they will be back to fighting for a playoff spot this season.

[galion]

Again, I'm not doubting the severity of the injury. But he has to be smarter about what he's doing. Has the doctor cleared him to run around a bit to "try it out?" If not, he's only one slip away from injuring even worse and not playing again this year at all. At least, put some damn cleats on.

[thedogg]

East Knox @ Highland
Pleasant @ Jonathan Alder
Cardington @ Mount Gilead
North Union @ River Valley
Galion @ Buckeye Valley
Northmor @ Centerburg
Fredericktown @ Elgin
Marion Harding @ Fairbanks

EK is bad. H beats up on the little schools. "Pick on someone your own size." Scots can't.
P is much better. JA is the class of the league. Other Reds are glad they are leaving.
C wins rivalry game. Both teams will win a lot of games the rest of the way.
NU wlll finsih 2nd or 3rd. RV will beat bad teams and lose to good teams.
Galion is bad. BV is improved but just like RV.
Northmor & Centerburg will both enjoy playing Elgin and EK. Other than that its not good
F is solid top 4 team in the Blue. Elgin vs EK to see who goes 1-9 while loser goes 0-10.
Harding will finish with 5 wins or more. Fairbanks vs. Galion. Loser is the last place team. Fairbanks can't wait to leave the moac.

[moacfootballfan]

Galiontiger, sorry to hear that. I suspected that that might be the case. He needs to get healed up.

Its only kids playing high school football. Not worth walking around with a limp the rest of his life.

[galiontiger]

moac...that's what my mom says.

[galiontiger]

Sept 17, 2016 4:47:37 GMT -5 galion said:

Again, I'm not doubting the severity of the injury. But he has to be smarter about what he's doing. Has the doctor cleared him to run around a bit to "try it out?" If not, he's only one slip away from injuring even worse and not playing again this year at all. At least, put some damn cleats on.

Yeah! I make him wear better shoes next  time. The damn kid wears sandals in the winter. But you are right.

The doctor hasn't cleared him on anything. He said its a false statement that everyone thinks a doctor can stop your from playing or "not clear you to play". He says he wouldn't advise him to play until he can duck walk and jump up and down on the knee. He tried to duck walk in front of the doctor and failed miserably I was told. So he will start the rehab and see how it goes. He has to strengthen the  muscles around it (thing and some other muscle) to allow the tendon to heal....or something like that.

[babymaker]

Sept 17, 2016 6:51:17 GMT -5 thedogg said:

East Knox @ Highland
Pleasant @ Jonathan Alder
Cardington @ Mount Gilead
North Union @ River Valley
Galion @ Buckeye Valley
Northmor @ Centerburg
Fredericktown @ Elgin
Marion Harding @ Fairbanks

EK is bad. H beats up on the little schools. "Pick on someone your own size." Scots can't.
P is much better. JA is the class of the league. Other Reds are glad they are leaving.
C wins rivalry game. Both teams will win a lot of games the rest of the way.
NU wlll finsih 2nd or 3rd. RV will beat bad teams and lose to good teams.
Galion is bad. BV is improved but just like RV.
Northmor & Centerburg will both enjoy playing Elgin and EK. Other than that its not good
F is solid top 4 team in the Blue. Elgin vs EK to see who goes 1-9 while loser goes 0-10.
Harding will finish with 5 wins or more. Fairbanks vs. Galion. Loser is the last place team. Fairbanks can't wait to leave the moac.

Correction JA can stay after this year they are going to struggle. 

[Deleted]

Sept 17, 2016 1:07:09 GMT -5 galiontiger said:

One it's his knee, and it's a VERY SERIOUS serious injury. One I was told by the doc that could be a "CAREER-ENDING" inury. I want him back out there asap, but the doc doesn't want him hurt again. He can run, but not make sharp cuts on it....at all yet. So we will see, I doubt you will see him anytime soon. Though he wanted to go against Buckeye Valley. It's so sad to me. He is trying to compete for a college football scholarship. Friday we are getting a second opinion from a surgeon. Tuesday he starts his physical therapy. He wants to be out there to help his team. ...He just got his $800 knee brace today was excited to try it out, plus he wants to play really bad.

An uncommitted pro-style QB that runs a 40yd in 5.15sec and has a possible career-ending injury in his senior year? You may want to focus on hitting the books a little more in the next 9 months. When it comes to scholarships, many think they hear the call but few are chosen. And most never realize or accept that until it is to late.

[Willard Fillmore]

Sept 17, 2016 1:12:30 GMT -5 jro said:

Recruiting hahaha

Bad Karma

[Willard Fillmore]

"VERY SERIOUS serious injury" "could be CAREER-ENDING injury", yet there is no mention of surgery?

[Deleted]

Plus, being 4 games into your senior football season without a scholarship offer could mean there may not be one coming.

Best of luck and I hope you are posting his stats soon.

[Willard Fillmore]

That was "cold".

[Deleted]

That's being honest. I have been on both sides and I wish more would be that way.

[galiontiger]

Well Scooter...I appreciate your opinion. But let's stat the fact...2 Galion players got basically full ride scholarships at the "end of the season" last year. One to Findlay, one to Charleston both Division 2 scholarships. Is this going to be hard? Heeeeellll Yeah! THANK GOD! I got him to all those football camps this year, where he impressed a few colleges. AND if even if he doesn't get a full ride scholarhship (Division 2), there's still always a Division 3 school. My oldest son who doesn't even play on any team now (but he will NEXT year), got a "ACAMDEMIC SCHOLARSHIP for 4 years" with a 2.1 over-all GPA in high school and a 16 ACT score. He just has to maintain a 2.0 GPA every year. He pays $12,000 out the door for this full year at a Division 2 college. My point is don't let colleges fool you; they can do what they want to do when it comes to money.."IF" they want you. I'm just stating the facts. But is it going to be hard for Chase, of course I'm not stupid..a quarterback who doesn't play in this last year of football looking for a football scholarship. I know he has to come back quickly. I just don't know when he can though. We will see how it goes this week with the rehab.

The doc initially when he called me about "career-ending" was just reading the MRI notes. Once he got Chase in and looked at the knee again, he said it's bad but not career-ending. He said he will send Chase to a surgeon to get a second opinion this Friday morning. This injury usually heals by itself. It just takes time and exercises to the other muscles around it. BUT if you have surgery I read you are down from 6-12 months, now that would be devastating.

I know I say or tell a lot of here, but it's just my personality. I like to explain the situation (probably a little too much on here for my own good), but I feel it's the right thing to do to other readers who are interested in kid's or team's life. Maybe it helps some other parent or relative in the future with their son/daughter or nephew or neices, I don't know. GO TIGERS!!!

[galiontiger]

...plus I found out this year with my oldest son (who graduated in 2015), it's NEVER too late for some sort of a scholarship, academic or athletic. We might need to branch out of state to find one. Something I "DO NOT" want to do at this time, I want my son close to me. I got weird work hours, and I work until 1 o'clock on Saturdays every week .

[Deleted]

Sept 18, 2016 10:46:41 GMT -5 galiontiger said:

Well Scooter...I appreciate your opinion. But let's stat the fact...2 Galion players got basically full ride scholarships at the "end of the season" last year. One to Findlay, one to Charleston both Division 2 scholarships.  

D2 schools get a max of 36 full scholarships. Findlay has over 100 roster'd kids and you are saying they gave one of those full scholarships to a kids who has yet to even receive a number? This is no disrespect to Drake but few D2 players get a FULL scholarship as most get partials, but the ones who do typically are on the field asap. This is not the case so I would guess we have some mixed info.

[Deleted]

D2 schools used to require a minimum 1.8 - 2.0 GPA to even play sports, so i'm stunned the same GPA is now a minimum for an academic scholarship.

[Willard Fillmore]

Sept 18, 2016 1:09:57 GMT -5 @scooter said:

That's being honest. I have been on both sides and I wish more would be that way.

No, I was joshing. Referring to another of your typos in an awkward post.

[Deleted]

As a past parent of a college athlete I have played the game and seen it played. Scholarships, both athletic and Academic, are pretty black and white but Merit scholarships can be very gray. I do understand that funding can be found in many places, but that's not a scholarship.

Now I'm not trying to crush any dreams here but I wish more parents would be realistic when it comes to athletics in college and understand that you can be a good high school athlete and be just that, a high school athlete.

[Willard Fillmore]

Sept 18, 2016 11:37:03 GMT -5 @scooter said:

D2 schools used to require a minimum 1.8 - 2.0 GPA to even play sports, so i'm stunned the same GPA is now a minimum for an academic scholarship.

Agree, unheard of. If that's the case 95% of kids going to a 4 year REAL college or university would qualify for these supposed academic "scholarships". 

BTW, Crestline is 2-2 and is playing Ridgedale next week, so should go to 3-2. No one on Crestline's schedule would have injured your big son. He would have much better passing stats than what he would have had IF healthy at Galion. Besides he'd still have those highly counted on 40 some football camps from this summer to fall back on, regardless of what high school he attended. 

[stanley]

I thought you needed an ACT of 18 or higher just be to an NCAA athlete

[babymaker]

Can we get back to MOAC and not the weekly side track at taking shots at GT.

[Willard Fillmore]

Sept 18, 2016 10:46:41 GMT -5 galiontiger said:

I know I say or tell a lot of here, but it's just my personality. I like to explain the situation (probably a little too much on here for my own good), but I feel it's the right thing to do to other readers who are interested in kid's or team's life. Maybe it helps some other parent or relative in the future with their son/daughter or nephew or neices, I don't know. GO TIGERS!!!

JMO, but this is your son's biggest hurdle to overcome. Your posts won't be helping other parents unless they are high school dropouts who aren't smart enough to research college options for their kids and there is NO high school counselors at their high school. 

[stanley]

Sept 18, 2016 11:57:52 GMT -5 babymaker said:

Can we get back to MOAC and not the weekly side track at taking shots at GT.

Start something up MOAC related then man. No one said you couldn't. Every time things get sidetracked you whine about it, but you leave it at that. You wanna change the conversation, then change the conversation lol

[pirate80]

Sept 18, 2016 11:44:00 GMT -5 Willard Fillmore said:

Sept 18, 2016 11:37:03 GMT -5 @scooter said:

D2 schools used to require a minimum 1.8 - 2.0 GPA to even play sports, so i'm stunned the same GPA is now a minimum for an academic scholarship.

Agree, unheard of. If that's the case 95% of kids going to a 4 year REAL college or university would qualify for these supposed academic "scholarships". 

BTW, Crestline is 2-2 and is playing Ridgedale next week, so should go to 3-2. No one on Crestline's schedule would have injured your big son. He would have much better passing stats than what he would have had IF healthy at Galion. Besides he'd still have those highly counted on 40 some football camps from this summer to fall back on, regardless of what high school he attended. 

For the record, nobody "hurt" him. His knee buckled on a scramble against Cardington. A school similar in size to Ridgedale and Crestline by the way. The kids injury was a freak thing. He had a clear shot run for a first down and then the leg just gave out. Unfortunate thing that could happen to anyone anywhere.

[Willard Fillmore]

AH...it was true, bad Karma.

[gt1975]

Bad karma? From what, transferring schools? I agree that transferring for sports is often unnecessary but it seems you're happy he got injured. I hope I'm wrong but that's what it seems like right now.

[usa70pp]

pirate80,
Talk with coach Williams about "The battle of 42". See if the kids can play it up somehow for sports games between the two schools. I'm not sure if this site has a private message feature or not. If it does, send me one and I will elaborate.

[galiontiger]

Pirate is right again...You are very smart man. His knee just bucked when he made the cut. No one even touched him (I watched the play like 5 times.) I swear I thought he was just cramping. Boy! Was I wrong.

NO bad karma..but if that's what you think. I don't mind that comment. It's your opinion. It doesn't even bother me. Want to know about bad karma..my oldest boy (who got the academic scholarhship) broke his collarbone playing for Cresline "in the 2nd game of his senior year". He fell on a fumble and a Bucyrus player just fell on him. I never he thought he was even hurt..maybe the win knocked out of him. Boy! I was wrong, snapped it right in half. Played like the last 3 games of the season. Now his younger brother, Chase gets hurt "in the 2nd game of his senior year". That's bad karma. LOL

You do need at least an 18 ACT to play college ball. My son's core GPA was 1.85 (you need a 2.0) in those classes. Even though he took an "Applied Algebra II class at Crestline. Crestline never had that class approved through the NCAA as a core class. So none of my son's math classes all 4 years were counted in his GPA. Who do you blame in that one (just curious guys), the parents for not knowing what a core class is? or the counselors who knew Codi was a great football player and needed NCAA-approved math classes (and being math is one of Codi's strongest subjects too)? I was amazed that Crestline only has 4 math core classes approved by the NCAA..like Alegbra..algebra II, geomety and one more. Galion has like 8. You need "at least" 2 core math classes to play Division II, actually more, because of the 16 course requirement. If you hit one...either the ACT or the 2.0 GPA of your core classes (Math, English, Social Studies and Foreign Languages), you can get a scholarship and practice with the team, BUT you can not play your first year. If you hit neither (like Codi), you can't not play or practice your first year nor get an athletic scholarship. You have to sit out a year, and you can play the next year (but for only 3 years). There is no stipulations once you enroll in a 4 year college from the NCAA. It all depends on what the school requires. I spoke to the football coach yesterday and there is some rule you can lift like 5 hours a week or a semester with the team. I forget what he said about the 5 hours if it was a week or a semester. If you don't enroll into a 4-year college with Codi's unqualified grades and ACT, AND you enroll in like a 2-year college, you have to get your 2-year degree then NOT just do one year. It's a little confusing, but I know about it all since I had to deal with it these last 2 years.

Hey! I will talk about anything. You want to change the subject, please do. But if you make a statement in reply, I'm gonna probably reply back. I live a boring life. LOL