NY BUCKS wrote:FANOSPORTS wrote:
Well, let's put it this way. Our district for the last few years is getting too many "transient" families moving in and out and it's starting to hurt athletics (especially with us being DI) and academics here big time. The town of Groveport drew up paperwork a couple years ago trying to split the school district which would have created two separate high schools (Groveport and Madison Township) but the state shot that idea down because of tax dollars. That happens in and around cities much more than it does in a stable community such as yours. With that being said me and a few of my buddies coached a lot of jr. leagues (football) in the district for a lot of years and a lot of the kids we coached were on the last playoff team Groveport had three years ago which was the first one they'd had in 20 years and most of them changed the attitude to a winning one over the last 5 years or so along with Coach Brown who came from Cameron, WV a few years back. We also coached Eric Smith (starting safety, NY Jets) and D.J. (Daniel) Cain who later quarterbacked Williamsport Westfall in a couple of playoff years while he was in high school. We've been edged out of the playoffs the last two years by slides in games 9 and 10 and not making excuses, but this OCC is flat out a bear to win in, unlike the TVC. The biggest difference in and around C-Bus is that the schools that have a lot of money (not G-M) can pretty much do what they want. Hilliard Davidson's coach Brian White (2 state championships) was here at Groveport after he left DeSales as an assistant but we couldn't afford to keep him. Steve Hale (playoff appearances) is at Olentangy and we couldn't afford to keep him years ago. We do as well as we can with the hand dealt against us. I think we do a pretty good job when you look at everything but socio-economics is what holds our district back. Flat out, we can't keep up with the Dublin's, Hilliard's and Upper Arlington's of the world but we give it a hell of a try. We've had some very good individual athletes over the years (Calvin Booth-nba, Eric Smith-nfl, LeVeon Bell-current Michigan St. running back, Lilia Osterloh-pro tennis) and a lot of other college athletes at different levels but in the OCC it takes a heck of a team to win consistently at the DI level with a lack of resources.
SO WHAT NOW...Making excuses.Not hard 2 win in urban city area where you have 3-4 high schools on the same street.
I'm not making excuses -"3-4 high schools", you'd better re-examine that. The same street you're talking about that we're on (Hamilton Rd, Rt. 665) is 30 miles long. (Grove City, Grove City Christian, Hamilton Twp, Canal Winchester, Groveport-Madison, Bishop Hartley, Columbus Eastmoor, Columbus Walnut Ridge, Columbus Independence, Harvest Prep, Whitehall, Reynoldsburg, Gahanna, Columbus Academy, Columbus Mifflin, Columbus Northland, Columbus Beechcroft and Westerville South -that's 18 high schools and I could've missed a couple- all intersect around this
ONE ROAD alone. Say what you want, it ain't no joke up here.
