WK 6 (4-1, 2-0) Nelsonville-York @ (2-3, 1-1) Belpre

[NYBuckeye96]

NYBuckeye96...you are one amazing person with all those stats! Where do you find the time? lol!

GO BUCKS!!!

I spent MANY HOURS at OU's Alden Library on the ground floor going through old microfilm of The Athens Messenger. I have the scores to every NY game ever played, as well as if it was a home or away game. I can tell you NY's record against any team the Buckeyes have ever played.

[winsandlosses]

Buckeye96 You give your Buckeyes way more credit than the rest of the league gives them. Yes they have had a very good run for a few years now. Every game every week is big but to say everyone circles Nelsonville on the calender is just not true. Yes you need to beat Nelsonville but you also must beat everyone else too. Every game every week is big.

[NYBuckeye96]

Buckeye96 You give your Buckeyes way more credit than the rest of the league gives them. Yes they have had a very good run for a few years now. Every game every week is big but to say everyone circles Nelsonville on the calender is just not true. Yes you need to beat Nelsonville but you also must beat everyone else too. Every game every week is big.

A good run for a few years? Are you kidding me? NY has won the TVC 50% of the time since the league came into existence! Every other team combined has the other 50% of the titles - and Belpre has a good portion of those. In the 50% of the time NY did not win the league, the Buckeyes finished in second in many of those years, thus the team that can beat NY is often the team that will win the league. Its rare for NY to finishing third or lower in league play - so historically speaking, if you can beat NY, you are on your way to a league title in most circumstances.

[winsandlosses]

I would not dispute your statistics on league titles. It is impressive. I'm just saying the Nelsonville game is no different than any other game..every one of them can cost you a title. Talking of all these titles, let's face it, the TVC is perhaps and arguably the weakest conference in the state. Yes Nelsonville has done all they can do in the league but when they get outside their conference they don't have that same success. Not on here trying to bash your program, Boston has done a fine job. You have some nice players. But I really don't think the rest of the league gives you that same credit you spoke of earlier.

[NYBuckeye96]

If you consider every league that is covered by SEOPS, only two teams have more playoff wins then NY - Ironton and Wheelersburg. You can't be third best in terms of playoff wins in a region and not have historically successful wins against non-league opponents.

I also wonder if you have witnessed your team beat NY? I promise you the fans go crazy when it happens!

[NYBuckeye96]

Here are direct quotes from fans of other league schools on this forum topic alone....


Vinton County -

Viking96 - I agree NYBuckeye96...It seems everyone at times has had very heated rivals with Nelsonville...but the common denominator there is Nelsonville, which is a tribute to your program...I know my senior year we were 1-4 going to Nelsonville and we came out of there with a 14-13 win in OT and you wouldve thought we won the Super Bowl...hahaha....but that win propelled us to win out and claim the TVC crown that year...And trying to tackle Justin Gail always had our team fired up

Belpre -

Prodigy - and of coarse the the win at N-Y. I expect there to be a lot of loud N-Y fans at belpre this week, because i think i remember last year that the Belpre crowd traveled to N-Y and were louder than the home fans. That was the loudest i have EVER heard belpres student section for football.

I'd be willing to bet someone from the Wellston teams at the beginning of this decade would say the same thing. Or the Grant Gregory led Athens Bulldogs. Or someone from Meigs in the 3 years of the last 20 that Meigs beat NY. And maybe one day Alexander will know the feeling.....maybe.

[winsandlosses]

If you consider every league that is covered by SEOPS, only two teams have more playoff wins then NY - Ironton and Wheelersburg. You can't be third best in terms of playoff wins in a region and not have historically successful wins against non-league opponents.

I also wonder if you have witnessed your team beat NY? I promise you the fans go crazy when it happens!

Now that's a stat I might want to dispute... Belpre beats Meigs..fans go crazy. V.C. beats Wellston...fans go crazy..Athens beats Alex...fans go crazy. Belpre beats Nelsonville..fans go crazy..No difference.

[NYBuckeye96]

Now that's a stat I might want to dispute... Belpre beats Meigs..fans go crazy. V.C. beats Wellston...fans go crazy..Athens beats Alex...fans go crazy. Belpre beats Nelsonville..fans go crazy..No difference.

There is a big difference! Belpre beats Meigs more often than Belpre beats NY.

Vinton County beats Wellston more often than Vinton County beats NY.

Athens beats Alexander more often than Athens beats NY.

The difference is........a win over NY is less frequent, so it means more. There is a different level of excitement in the fans and players when they beat NY.

[winsandlosses]

Doesn't mean more I tell you. Anyway let's just agree to disagree my friend.

[NYBuckeye96]

Agreed!!!

[Eaglepapaw]

Prodigy; forget about Packard getting to run outside, he lost his tailback position to Waderker and was moved to fullback.

After his 20 tackles at Tremble he was demoted to weakside linebacker and was told he wasn't trying hard enough and we had only one good player on the team(one of our receivers) and 22 carries up the middle for 93 yds, he wasn't running hard and had an I don't care attitude. This is bull crap, no one on the team tries harder or cares more than Ashton. I guarantee, if you ask our opponets coaches they would love to have him on their team. I don't understand why our coaches don't get on the punt coverage team for not running to the ball instead of lollygagging down the field, or the o-line for not blocking, and for our super star receiver for not trying to tackle. If we had 11 players that tried as hard as Ashton, we would win every game. The only way he could possibly please these coaches is if he changed his name.

Go Eagles

Agreed gpgm6566,no one plays harder than Ashton and maybe the coaches should take a look at their play calling before putting the blame on Ashton. Superman couldn't gain a yard for Belpre when the whole world knows that he is coming up the middle on every 1st or 2nd down.
Ashton takes a beating simply because the other teams know exactly when and where he is coming and the coaches refuse to adjust their plays to get him some free space to run in.If they ever ran a play action pass on 1st down they would have 3 receivers wide open down the field because everyone would converge on Ashton up the middle.Eric is a good little player,mainly on the defensive side and as a receiver but he is no tailback and has a problem holding on to the ball so expect more fumbles and pray that the kid doesn't get hurt real bad. I have tried to just watch the games and not be critical of the coaches but this makes no sense to me and i have to say that the coaches are the main problem in Belpre's offense (or lack of it),not Ashton.Make adjustments and give him some help and he will show them why he is the player that was TVC POY last year.

[The Enforcer]

Good Luckto Both Teams

[rut151]

People need to remember that this game is at Belpre. Therefore, Nelsonville won't have the officials in their hip pocket like they do during home games.

Question: How many posters on here hate your classless dumb @#$ comments?

Answer: EVERYONE

[belpreboy92]

Belpre will play hard as they do every game. They need to change the variety of people who get the ball. If its not Packard running the ball up the gut its Ullman throwing the ball 50 yards down the field to Tate. Thats not football. They have more than two players. I would love to play defense against Belpre because the offense is so predictable.And on Defense as long as you run away from Packard, Carr,Watkins, and Waderker you can get big gains. Im disappointed in Belpre so far. Just hope and pray they change this Friday

[Gecko]

The Packard kid can flat out play football.......period.
I am from trimble and watched him make like 30 tackles against us. I also think he runs really hard. Belpre has a good football team but just hasn't clicked yet. Last year they started off slow and finished strong. They will need a great game this week to beat NY.
I would have to take NY by 3 TD's in this one unless somehow Belpre just plays much better than they have so far this year.
Good luck to both teams and stay injury free.

[Spartanman88]

Let's get the win this week Buckeyes!!! Keep focused on that TVC Ohio title!!!

I agree with you you guys should be able to beat them. If you guys play like you did against Meigs you should beat them really bad. Good luck to the Buckeyes

[loyaldevilfan]

From what I am hearing NY is playing some good football this year.. Good luck and I hope this is an Injury free game....

[buckeyeguy]

The last couple of weeks have been close and nerve racking .. I know Belpre is going to play hard and its a home game for them so it could be another close one.. I hope not... lets play all 4 Q like u have been playing in the 4th Q of the last couple games and youll be fine.. Goodluck, GO BUCKS!

[gpgm6566]

Even if Belpre's offense and defense plays their best game, they will lose because of their poor punt and kickoff coverage, thus losing the battle of field position. We punt the ball 50 yds and the opposition returns it 45 because the coverage jogs to the ball. Unless Curtis kicks the ball in the end zone, or out of bounds the same thing happens on kickoffs. Our coaches are using kickoffs to get fresnmen quarters, while some of our best tacklers watch from the sidelines. In 5 games these nonstarters have 0 tackles, it's time for our coaches to wake up and get our hitters in the lineup. Our coaches say they need to rest them, well they didn't rest them last season and they seemed to do pretty well.

[NY BUCKS]

HOW many kids does belpre have on the team .They always play the buckeyes hard. go buckeyes