Shame on you “Man with no name” Clearly this beautifully written article bruised your ego. The Big Walnut Coaching Staff as well as the boys have worked very hard to earn an undefeated season. Clearly this journalist did his homework.
Mr. AT:
We appreciate your enthusiasm for Berlin & Thank you for the Scrimmage. The Berlin scrimmage gave us an opportunity to go back and work on our flaws. To bad it was stopped early due to lightening….Who knows what would have come of it 😊
Keep on keeping on Big Walnut! You are doing amazing work! Your entire community is so proud of the tough work that you all are putting into your Season!
Good Luck to all of the teams who are having a great season! It’s great to see all the teams
Worh their family & friends enjoying the games this year! Don’t let anyone rain on your parade enjoy your e Season you earned it!
Hi Sean, I appreciate your enthusiasm for the Big Walnut team, but you are making a classic mistake of judging a team based on what they are able to do to average and below average teams when they haven't been physically tested at all.
Skill position players are able to get loose much easier when you control the trenches, but Big Walnut's liability will be on the lines when they get deeper in the playoffs. Big Walnut has no chance of beating Massillon (unless they get major injury or suspension problems), but to be fair no one else in R7 really does either.
The only half decent teams they played this year were Scioto and South, and each of those a finesse teams that don't have a physical presence, and each were significantly weaker this year than the year before. They caught Canal without Byrd, their schedule could not have been much easier.
I'm guessing you didn't catch the Big Walnut/Berlin scrimmage in August, which Berlin completely dominated. Talk to some people who were there and see what they have to say.
Plenty to be excited about for the future for them, with the key skill kids only being sophomores. If they develop some better linemen next year, they may have a chance for regional finals, and will very likely be a better team next year than they were this year. But this isn't their year.
Just trying to help you grow as a journalist, after they lose to Massillon and Kings loses to LaSalle (if not sooner), come back and reflect on these points:
1) You should never get excited about what a team does against average and below average teams. The ability to blow out avg teams 49-0 does not translate in the ability to compete against top-16 caliber teams. This is true at any level, especially in college when Scott Frost-like offenses blow out AAC teams but then suddenly struggle against B1G defenses. But at no level of football is this more true than High School.
2) Teams who have weak conferences and fill their out-of-conf games with St Charles and two D3 schools are not properly preparing themselves for a late playoff run. You can't truly judge a team until they play a difficult opponent, and this year neither Kings nor Big Walnut did.
All part of the learning process, keep writing and hope you enjoy the playoffs.
Love the recognition!
Shame on you “Man with no name” Clearly this beautifully written article bruised your ego. The Big Walnut Coaching Staff as well as the boys have worked very hard to earn an undefeated season. Clearly this journalist did his homework.
Mr. AT:
We appreciate your enthusiasm for Berlin & Thank you for the Scrimmage. The Berlin scrimmage gave us an opportunity to go back and work on our flaws. To bad it was stopped early due to lightening….Who knows what would have come of it 😊
Keep on keeping on Big Walnut! You are doing amazing work! Your entire community is so proud of the tough work that you all are putting into your Season!
Good Luck to all of the teams who are having a great season! It’s great to see all the teams
Worh their family & friends enjoying the games this year! Don’t let anyone rain on your parade enjoy your e Season you earned it!
A Big Walnut win, GO EAGLES!!!
Hi Sean, I appreciate your enthusiasm for the Big Walnut team, but you are making a classic mistake of judging a team based on what they are able to do to average and below average teams when they haven't been physically tested at all.
Skill position players are able to get loose much easier when you control the trenches, but Big Walnut's liability will be on the lines when they get deeper in the playoffs. Big Walnut has no chance of beating Massillon (unless they get major injury or suspension problems), but to be fair no one else in R7 really does either.
The only half decent teams they played this year were Scioto and South, and each of those a finesse teams that don't have a physical presence, and each were significantly weaker this year than the year before. They caught Canal without Byrd, their schedule could not have been much easier.
I'm guessing you didn't catch the Big Walnut/Berlin scrimmage in August, which Berlin completely dominated. Talk to some people who were there and see what they have to say.
Plenty to be excited about for the future for them, with the key skill kids only being sophomores. If they develop some better linemen next year, they may have a chance for regional finals, and will very likely be a better team next year than they were this year. But this isn't their year.
Just trying to help you grow as a journalist, after they lose to Massillon and Kings loses to LaSalle (if not sooner), come back and reflect on these points:
1) You should never get excited about what a team does against average and below average teams. The ability to blow out avg teams 49-0 does not translate in the ability to compete against top-16 caliber teams. This is true at any level, especially in college when Scott Frost-like offenses blow out AAC teams but then suddenly struggle against B1G defenses. But at no level of football is this more true than High School.
2) Teams who have weak conferences and fill their out-of-conf games with St Charles and two D3 schools are not properly preparing themselves for a late playoff run. You can't truly judge a team until they play a difficult opponent, and this year neither Kings nor Big Walnut did.
All part of the learning process, keep writing and hope you enjoy the playoffs.