2011 Marietta Tigers

[cpatiger]

Where were the "movers & shakers" before?

[MttaFan]

I think the coach in waiting is a good guy who would do a good job, but there are many examples of these succession plans that don't work. Remember, Marietta has a new interim superintendent, may or may not have a new superintendent next year, and board members up for election this fall. Football coach is a visible position and often new superintendents and board members want their own guy in the job.

Play hard for this year and let the future take care of itself.

[camnott]

First of all I don't know anything about the coaching situation but I can say that when we played you guys last year the fan base and students there showed up big time. It sounds like you have a lot of people really working hard to support the program but it takes everyone not just some that work their tales off. Like I said it sounds like you have some hard workers so everyone else, well jump on board and help with what ya can. Good luck to you guys, we'll miss ya in the SEOAL. Go show'em what we're made of.

[redandgreen10]

it's great the tigers have players coming out for the team. i've known bob for 20 years and i do coach at another school.i've coached with bob and against him. i've coached 31 years and never had to motivate by name calling and degrading personal comments. this isn't the 60's 70's or 80's. kids have too many other things to do now a days. you motivate for the long term by POSITIVE reinforcement! evaluate bobs abilities and if you believe he's such a great guy and coach in 13 more weeks! i'd bet my house on it that many people will have a differenty opinion of him and this will include players. i'd also predict that by game 10 there will be at least 10-15 less players on the roster.

[mhsfootballfan]

redandgreen10: your right, time will tell and after 13 weeks we will know. All I can say is last year he coached the freshman/JV squad and finished with more boys then he started with. I mentioned the profanity in an earlier post, I didn't think what I heard personnally was that big of a deal. I've coached many years (but not at the high school level) and I have never used profanity while coaching. That being said, I don't think he uses profanity insulting players, all I have seen is him motivating the players. I just think you can get the same thing across without cursing is all.
camnott: Your spot on in your post and the best to the Ironmen (Hope that is correct) this season. I to will miss being in the SEOAL.

[javagt]

Just to put things straight about me (if anyone cares). I'm a supporter of all Marietta sports from the Pioneers to the girls basketball team to the Putnam Reddevils. And I'm a Bob Spinger supporter. He's the right man for the job at MHS. That being said I would like to update somethings that people may or maynot be aware of.

First Scrimmage: August 10 10am Don Drumm Stadium (Athen Bulldogs)

Meet the Team Ice cream social-August 6 noon to (not sure) Everyone is invited (free ice cream) bring your kids. Football players(of course) cheerleaders, and WMOA will be there. Its at Emeritus on Browns Road in Reno.

Some really exciting news I heard today (and its verified). Creamy Creations on Green Street in Marietta is now under the management of the recently formed Marietta Touchdown Club. I saw acouple of players working the trailer tonight.

Just some info if anyone didn't know or were interested.

Where is Creamy Creations ?

[mhsfootballfan]

I'm not sure how familiar you are with Marietta so forgive me. Creamy Creations is on Green Street by the levy. If you know where the Laffeyette (spell) is, its the two trailors with a court yard in between them, that you can see from the hotel. They have live music there a couple of times a week. Its on Green Street between Front Street and 2nd Street on the levy side of Green Street.

[javagt]

I'm not sure how familiar you are with Marietta so forgive me. Creamy Creations is on Green Street by the levy. If you know where the Laffeyette (spell) is, its the two trailors with a court yard in between them, that you can see from the hotel. They have live music there a couple of times a week. Its on Green Street between Front Street and 2nd Street on the levy side of Green Street.

Thanks ... I saw where that property was for sale...

[Tim Hardaway Jr.]

Has anybody been to their two scrimmages? How did they look on the offensive line? How did they look overall? Thoughts and more predictions?

[mhsfootballfan]

They looked alright against Athens. Baker is a beast and they'll be riding him. Gearhart is a heck of a weapon that plays really well. I would think they would want to open up the offense more to spread the D out and utilize their speed. A friend who has a son on the team called me today and said they beat up on a not very good Ripley Wva team. Gearhart scored multiple touchdowns and the D held Ripley scoreless when the 1st teamers were playing.

[bigcatmarietta]

The ripley scrim was good. I'm not sure how good or bad ripley was but the bottom line is that the tigers played well. From now looking outside in from scrim to the next it looks like the staff is doing a good job working lots of kids into the fold. The line in ripley did a better job opening some holes. Having said that I still think the perfect formula and set group is not final. The d-line did ok. I liked the idea of stacking the middle with some of the larger players. This may not give your d-line alot of sacks and tackles but the linebackers were running free and sticking people. One young man for the tigers came from his safety position and delivered the biggest hit on a receiver I've seen in many years.

Over all the tigers looked good. Not perfect but good. Who is ever perfect, haha. The kids played hard all morning. I'm not interested on how good or bad ripley was only that the tigers played well. I'll also say I think every coach that was at the scrim did a wonderful job coaching up the kids. I did not hear any poor language today. That is something that means alot to me and I'm glad it seems to be getting better. Great job tigers.

[pressboxchamp]

People can rip coach springer all they want but he has put excitement into his players (over 60 coming out this year according to players on team, more than i can remember in my 16 years in marietta). Now the only thing he needs to do is win football games to put excitement into the rest of the students and town. I see 4-5 winnable games this year for us. And one thing is for sure, the student section will be loud for every home game and the parkersburg game this year, no matter how good or bad the team is. Football has not been our greatest sport but our student section comes out and cheers their a$$es off. Maybe that's what coach springer meant by everyone being involved in the program, the famed 12th man???

[bigcatmarietta]

60 players???
Guess I can't count. Looked like 30 with the freshmen. That's a guess with 30. No chance 60. The most kids in years were with schob. Period.

[SEOHIOMOM]

At the scrimmage there were 43 dressed.

[schenk11]

People can rip coach springer all they want but he has put excitement into his players (over 60 coming out this year according to players on team, more than i can remember in my 16 years in marietta).

Just some clarification, these come from the official team rosters when I coached at the high school along with what Coach Eichorn turned into me for MariettaFootball.com for this season. These include 9-12. Past taken from the numbers at a similar point in the season to mimic "coming out" as we all know some attrition has occured over the season.

2002 - 51
2003 - 41
2004 - 62
2005 - 53
2006 - 62
2007 - 64
2008 - 68
2009 - 57
2010 - can't find at the moment, will get it later
2011 - 46

Some people like to make the numbers sound actually worse than they really were. Marietta has had good numbers the past 10 years, minus last season.

[pressboxchamp]

60 players???
Guess I can't count. Looked like 30 with the freshmen. That's a guess with 30. No chance 60. The most kids in years were with schob. Period.

and then schob left for our biggest rival. good stuff. period.

[bigcatmarietta]

Get over it pressbox. It's done and 2 years old now. Fact is more players then than now. Not a debate, fact. Andys a good coach and an even better man. I was only pointing out he had more kids on his team at Marietta than now. The post of 60 kids was way to much. I thank " mom" for giving us the true number.

[schenk11]

Get over it pressbox. It's done and 2 years old now. Fact is more players then than now. Not a debate, fact. Andys a good coach and an even better man. I was only pointing out he had more kids on his team at Marietta than now. The post of 60 kids was way to much. I thank " mom" for giving us the true number.

I gave you a true number too, why no love for me bigcat?

[pressboxchamp]

I'm over it after the 33-28 win last year. Had a player tell me yesterday if we beat Warren we'll have 5 wins this year. Gonna be a big week 2 game.

[WitnessProtection]

Avg. roster size of 59 over the past decade is not bad at all. A lot of coaches would love to have that many kids out each year. Especially not bad since, according to OHSAA website, MHS has 367 boys enrolled. Not sure how old that figure is, though.