2010 ironton tiger football

[biggdowgg]

According to SOME in Ironton, you get MORE with LESS!!

How bout sharing your subway sammich with me!!!


subway sammich??

[ohbuckeye2]

Tucky....you and I had this conversation just last Friday at the Ribber. I told you that the largest split the pot ever at at GAHS was an Ironton game. I believe the winner took home something like $2100.....way bigger than average.

At the same time, since the TP fiasco, Ironton hasnt brought crowds anywhere near what they did before that. I know it takes time for a community to rebound from having their hearts ripped out, but it hasnt happened yet when IHS has come to Gallipolis.

JMO, but it takes time to establish and build rivalries. Everyone in Scioto and Lawrence County knows Ironton from first hand experience (include Jackson and Gallia), but when you go to Washington County and Zanesville, well that's another beast, and the trip to Ironton from those places is the same distance as your trips there.

GAHS has been playing Ironton every year since the mid to late 90s, so I didnt think we would drop you, and of course the Ironton-Portsmouth series is one of the longest in the entire state of Ohio. But if SEOAL schools Chillicothe and Jackson hadnt kept you on their schedules, Ironton would be looking at more than just a week 9 game.

Let me know your impressions of Jonathan Alder. We could have scheduled them last year but opted for Hartley instead. Alder is a perennial playoff team and has a rich athletic tradition. A long trip if you have to go there.

We'll only have to go there for Football not all Sports. Ironton always tries to schedule good teams that's why they accepted playing Jonathan Alder as you said a perennial Playoff Team. It was just as easy for all of the South SEOAL Teams to keep Ironton so they didn't have to look for another game also. I'm sure in the future we'll be just fine in getting Schedules filled. Personally I wished We would have stayed in the SEOAL but that's not My call, I'll travel wherever I have to go to watch the Tigers in action.

[kantuckyII]

First....seriously..honestly, who would you all rather see Ironton play? Jonathan Alder or Marietta? it's an easy choice to me (*but...I am extremely right brained, that might explain a few things about me?*)

Well, again, there's a reason that Ironton left this league. I really had nothing to do with it (obviously.....or is it? ) but I'm fairly sure it was over money..or, the lack of money? Personally, I'd rather drive a little over 3 hours to Bluefield than see Ironton play some of these Seoal teams. Good night...while I'll probably never live to be as old as GAHS (only a handful of us will after all!) but...maybe, just maybe... if I'm lucky enough to hang around to be as old as Biggdowgg, I'll never want things to change as that happens to old people. Right now though? I love seeing all the different teams Ironton plays.

ps...I also have my fingers crossed that we will go to Bluefield, I think it would be fun as could be!


............as far as getting out of the SEOAL? I hate to say it..but..a certain person said Ironton would get out of the SEOAL when it was first announced the Tigers would be in the league before they ever played their first game. Boy..did that guy get chastised for that...and that's leaving out all the comments about how dumb he was for predicting it

[GalliaGrad78]

The powers-that-be in Ironton surely knew beforehand how much travel would be involved in the SEOAL.
What they didn't figure was that they couldn't beat Logan.
Period.

[moonshine]

The powers-that-be in Ironton surely knew beforehand how much travel would be involved in the SEOAL.
What they didn't figure was that they couldn't beat Logan.
Period.

Yep your right!

They can't handle the truth!

[YOU'RE TIGER BAIT]

i've told ya'll before i liked the seoal, and not happy we ain't still in it.

[dazed&confused]

Ironton football will be fine. They need to find a new venue. Economics and population shifts dictate a change. Anyone on here beating the Logan-Ironton drum needs to find a new hobby. When the by-pass around Lancaster was completed, Logan left SE Ohio. Sorry. They target Lancaster more than Ironton these days and they should. They will have to look north and west in the future.

[LICKING COUNTY FAN]

If the rumors are true Marion Catholic has dropped football leaving nine teams with an open date.

[YOU'RE TIGER BAIT]

if lancaster had not went to pay to play. i still don't think logan could have hung with them. that jmho.