Meigs New Hire

[Orange and Brown]

I think that Meigs Football will continue to get better and prosper under Mike Bartrum.

Sounds like a few people are a little jealous over this hire. They will get over it when Meigs starts winning, then those people will be saying "See I told you he was the right man for the job!"

[meigs_pride]

Yoduh,

Why are you even concerned with what happens in Meigs now...Didn't you pack up and take your kid to Alexander?

[MaraudingBobcat]

YoDuh...are you kidding me???

First of all, I don't think ANY football coach has been hired yet so all of this speculation about who is or is not the coach is premature.

Secondly, any individual that has the talent to play 13 SEASONS in the NFL which include appearances in the Super Bowl didn't get there from making bad decisions and not knowing the game. The Super Bowl Champion quarterback just got traded so the fact that Mike Bartrum was with 3 teams over the course of 13 years sounds like a pretty good track record to me! So what if during his NFL career he played on one side of the ball?? I'm sure you've never stepped foot anywhere near an NFL field so how in the world can you criticize someone who was so successful?

I agree with other posters...I'm not sure why you are so insanely jealous but that message is being sent loud and clear.

I wish nothing but the best for the Meigs Football program regardless of who the coach is....as long as its not you.

[G.W.A.]

Mike played for 4 NFL teams not 3. He would be a great coach but you gota have talent to coach. And yes he is a regruiter (sp). Good luck to whomever it may be. Keep dave harris off the sidelines.

[Bringdanoise]

What is all of this talk about Mike being a recruiter? This is high school football; it isn't like you can pay for some kid to move to Meigs county to attend their school just to play sports. Last time I checked and the rule may have changed but doesn't every incoming freshman in the state have the ability to attend any school they want?

[jottings]

Is Chauncey still the Meigs coach? I think Mike Bartrum rounded up a few kids around the region this past few weeks and his kids did real well in basketball tournaments. He's been around kids long enough to get them interested in doing lots of things. If Chauncey has retired or resigned, I think Bartrum would be the man to give Meigs athletics a great shot in the arm. Isn't he the one who got the Meigs Athletic Complex off the ground? Now Meigs has some of the best facilities in Southern Ohio.

[coach_k]

I'm sorry to say this, but if kids are coming all over from different counties, If Meigs is successful in any sport, they will be known as a school that had to go to different counties to become successful...How about the kids that were born and raised in Meigs County and have bled maroon and gold all their young lives, they have played in all the youth sports in pomeroy, rutland, middleport and in harrisonville looking forward to put on the Meigs Uniforms....But then when it's their time, you have outsiders come in to take their place...It's a bunch of BS if you ask me. And before anyone says I'm just a parent concerned about my child, you are completely wrong. I know my son has more talent then the boys from the other counties and will be making a name for himself as he progresses towards the high school level. Yes he may be only in his last year of biddy league level, but when a kid scores 12 out of his teams 14 touchdowns in football, scores over 700 points in one season of basketball, and not to mention he has stepped up and played jr. pony baseball since he was 9 years old. So no I am not concerned about my child, I'm concerned about the other meigs county kids that have to take a back seat for kids coming from other counties.

[tubby]

^^^^^^
This is a joke right? lol

700 points in a season???? Come on man!!! Get a life

I might be wrong but I don't think you can even play jr. pony league that young????

[baseball16]

I'm sorry to say this, but if kids are coming all over from different counties, If Meigs is successful in any sport, they will be known as a school that had to go to different counties to become successful...How about the kids that were born and raised in Meigs County and have bled maroon and gold all their young lives, they have played in all the youth sports in pomeroy, rutland, middleport and in harrisonville looking forward to put on the Meigs Uniforms....But then when it's their time, you have outsiders come in to take their place...It's a bunch of BS if you ask me. And before anyone says I'm just a parent concerned about my child, you are completely wrong. I know my son has more talent then the boys from the other counties and will be making a name for himself as he progresses towards the high school level. Yes he may be only in his last year of biddy league level, but when a kid scores 12 out of his teams 14 touchdowns in football, scores over 700 points in one season of basketball, and not to mention he has stepped up and played jr. pony baseball since he was 9 years old. So no I am not concerned about my child, I'm concerned about the other meigs county kids that have to take a back seat for kids coming from other counties.

This Reply is exactly what is wrong with today's society. All I have to say is WOW!!!

[coach_k]

I'm sorry to say this, but if kids are coming all over from different counties, If Meigs is successful in any sport, they will be known as a school that had to go to different counties to become successful...How about the kids that were born and raised in Meigs County and have bled maroon and gold all their young lives, they have played in all the youth sports in pomeroy, rutland, middleport and in harrisonville looking forward to put on the Meigs Uniforms....But then when it's their time, you have outsiders come in to take their place...It's a bunch of BS if you ask me. And before anyone says I'm just a parent concerned about my child, you are completely wrong. I know my son has more talent then the boys from the other counties and will be making a name for himself as he progresses towards the high school level. Yes he may be only in his last year of biddy league level, but when a kid scores 12 out of his teams 14 touchdowns in football, scores over 700 points in one season of basketball, and not to mention he has stepped up and played jr. pony baseball since he was 9 years old. So no I am not concerned about my child, I'm concerned about the other meigs county kids that have to take a back seat for kids coming from other counties.

This Reply is exactly what is wrong with today's society. All I have to say is WOW!!!

I take that your the type of person that would sit there and watch your next door neighbor child starve to death, but you'd send money over to Africa to feed a kid over there. Absolutely nothing wrong with me being concerned about the kids from Meigs County that I have seen grow as kids represent Meigs County and not Counties that has been our Opponents.

Let me ask you this...Say you work for Chevrolet and you get informed that you are going to be replaced with someone from Ford...Are you going to be happy for the company because they replaced you...No your going to be angry.

[baseball16]

I'm only going to respond one more time and im not sure why I choose too. However, I am a Meigs High Graduate. I love my alma mater. I have pride in the school where I graduated from. I cheer for them still, Unless my team plays them.
If a person wants to come to that school they should be embraced with open arms. Not shunned away.
I put you down because you choose to put your son on a pedestal and announce to everyone on here how great thou art!!
If your son is that good, last thing he needs is a dad displaying all his great stats to the net. Get over it. embrace it. Love it, that Meigs will have a quality coach with many connections to help "all" the athletes become a better person.

OH YEAH, you do realize that 700 pts divided by 20 games is 35 pts a game. I don't think Meigs had three guys together average 35 pts a game.

[coach_k]

I'm only going to respond one more time and im not sure why I choose too. However, I am a Meigs High Graduate. I love my alma mater. I have pride in the school where I graduated from. I cheer for them still, Unless my team plays them.
If a person wants to come to that school they should be embraced with open arms. Not shunned away.
I put you down because you choose to put your son on a pedestal and announce to everyone on here how great thou art!!
If your son is that good, last thing he needs is a dad displaying all his great stats to the net. Get over it. embrace it. Love it, that Meigs will have a quality coach with many connections to help "all" the athletes become a better person.

OH YEAH, you do realize that 700 pts divided by 20 games is 35 pts a game. I don't think Meigs had three guys together average 35 pts a game.

I put my son on a pedestal to show that my gripe wasn't because I feared that my own child would be affected by outsiders coming in.
I did not say that he scored 700 points in 20 games, He has played over 35 games...and yes, I know that averages 20 points a game.

If the outsiders are wanting to come to Meigs because the Education was better, than I might buy into it...But that's not the case, they are coming here to try to give Meigs a name in Sports...If that's not the case, then why would a straight A student in the 8th grade now in a different county, purposely get held back to be able to play next year with the very talented group of 7th gaders we have this year.

Bottom Line is that Meigs 7th, 6th and 5th Grade Talent level is going to be one of the most talented group of boys that has been seen in some time. And they are capable of bringing the pride back to Meigs County Sports....They don't need those few extra kids to make us better.

[Orange and Brown]

I'm sorry to say this, but if kids are coming all over from different counties, If Meigs is successful in any sport, they will be known as a school that had to go to different counties to become successful...How about the kids that were born and raised in Meigs County and have bled maroon and gold all their young lives, they have played in all the youth sports in pomeroy, rutland, middleport and in harrisonville looking forward to put on the Meigs Uniforms....But then when it's their time, you have outsiders come in to take their place...It's a bunch of BS if you ask me. And before anyone says I'm just a parent concerned about my child, you are completely wrong. I know my son has more talent then the boys from the other counties and will be making a name for himself as he progresses towards the high school level. Yes he may be only in his last year of biddy league level, but when a kid scores 12 out of his teams 14 touchdowns in football, scores over 700 points in one season of basketball, and not to mention he has stepped up and played jr. pony baseball since he was 9 years old. So no I am not concerned about my child, I'm concerned about the other meigs county kids that have to take a back seat for kids coming from other counties.

WOW! You keep bragging about your kid like that and his head will get so big there won't be any room for any of his teammates. I am gonna call BULL on your youngin scoring 700 points in 1 season of youth league basketball though. I really hope you realize soon to take your kid off of that pedestal because it isn't good for you, him or the teams he plays on.

and to be honest wouldn't those kids in Meigs county who you say will not get to play because kids from other counties take there spots benefit from the competition? Thats part of the problem in SEO. Most schools only have 1 or 2 kids competing at each spot for a starting job and in the more populated areas there are 3, 4 or more. That makes kids work that much harder to earn and keep a starting position.

[zeb]

What is all of this talk about Mike being a recruiter? This is high school football; it isn't like you can pay for some kid to move to Meigs county to attend their school just to play sports. Last time I checked and the rule may have changed but doesn't every incoming freshman in the state have the ability to attend any school they want?

While it is true that incoming freshmen can go wherever they want, coaches can not talk to them and try to convince them to come to his school. According to the OHSAA bylaws, this would be recruiting.

[Bringdanoise]

OK, I can see that as being recruiting but I guess my question is how is he recruiting? Who is he supposedly trying to bring to Meigs or has already brought to Meigs? All this talk on here is about kids in 5th thru 8th grade... how or why would you recruit a 10-13 year old?

[G.W.A.]

The process of seeing future talent begins at the pre school level that Bartrum runs.

[coach_k]

I'm sorry to say this, but if kids are coming all over from different counties, If Meigs is successful in any sport, they will be known as a school that had to go to different counties to become successful...How about the kids that were born and raised in Meigs County and have bled maroon and gold all their young lives, they have played in all the youth sports in pomeroy, rutland, middleport and in harrisonville looking forward to put on the Meigs Uniforms....But then when it's their time, you have outsiders come in to take their place...It's a bunch of BS if you ask me. And before anyone says I'm just a parent concerned about my child, you are completely wrong. I know my son has more talent then the boys from the other counties and will be making a name for himself as he progresses towards the high school level. Yes he may be only in his last year of biddy league level, but when a kid scores 12 out of his teams 14 touchdowns in football, scores over 700 points in one season of basketball, and not to mention he has stepped up and played jr. pony baseball since he was 9 years old. So no I am not concerned about my child, I'm concerned about the other meigs county kids that have to take a back seat for kids coming from other counties.

WOW! You keep bragging about your kid like that and his head will get so big there won't be any room for any of his teammates. I am gonna call BULL on your youngin scoring 700 points in 1 season of youth league basketball though. I really hope you realize soon to take your kid off of that pedestal because it isn't good for you, him or the teams he plays on.

and to be honest wouldn't those kids in Meigs county who you say will not get to play because kids from other counties take there spots benefit from the competition? Thats part of the problem in SEO. Most schools only have 1 or 2 kids competing at each spot for a starting job and in the more populated areas there are 3, 4 or more. That makes kids work that much harder to earn and keep a starting position.

You can call it BULL all you want, but books don't lie, and he will never get the big head....everyone that knows him knows the kind of kid he is.

[Seosportsfan]

I'm with Orange and Brown, bull and as for the 12 out of 14 touchdowns-very believable but sounds like an extremely weak league. NY 5-6 grade team scored 398 points against their opponents this past season which averages out to about 57 touchdowns and that is in TACKLE football and the baseball thing if I remember correctly our 12U baseball team played in the Meigs tourney last year and I believe your son was on the team that called themselves "The Rejects". That's right people, they honestly had shirts made up that said the rejects on them because they were the "B" team. Mike Bartrum had the "A" team and they were such a nice group of kids and parents. I think somebody is worried about their own kid and not the other poor kids from Meigs County. :122246

[Steely Dan]

Wow. This entire thread needs to be deleted and never resurrected. Holy crap. How pathetic.

[coach_k]

I'm with Orange and Brown, bull and as for the 12 out of 14 touchdowns-very believable but sounds like an extremely weak league. NY 5-6 grade team scored 398 points against their opponents this past season which averages out to about 57 touchdowns and that is in TACKLE football and the baseball thing if I remember correctly our 12U baseball team played in the Meigs tourney last year and I believe your son was on the team that called themselves "The Rejects". That's right people, they honestly had shirts made up that said the rejects on them because they were the "B" team. Mike Bartrum had the "A" team and they were such a nice group of kids and parents. I think somebody is worried about their own kid and not the other poor kids from Meigs County. :122246

First the football league down here is very weak, but that's all we have...not the kids fault...Secondly...It was the Kid on the Rejects...that name was picked out by the coaches...It was more of a fun thing...If I remember correctly, We knocked your Nelsonville team out of the tournament with my son pitching. If I remember correctly...it was 2 members of the Rejects that were the winners of the home run derby...You also may not know this, but those same boys, minus 2 players won our league down here and the team you are calling Bartrums "A" Team got 4th Place....I am not worried about my own kid at all, his play on the football field, basketball court and baseball field speak for itself, but not only that the way he gets along with all the kids from different teams....Also, my boy did go to Michigan the previous year with the team you call "A" Team.

Like I have said in many posts, I'm more concerned with the other kids that have played since they have been walking putting on the Maroon & Gold.