Steubenville question

• icskins

  I live in Uniontown and my kids go to Lake. I would love to see you guys play in the regular season instead of scrimmage. I think that would be a great game for both teams. You guys would get the points for beating a D2 team when you win. Also, most of Lake's schedule is D1 teams, so there are a ton of 2nd level points available. If Lake wins, you offer a ton of Level 2 points to them. Maybe they get a little less 1st level points, but if Lake is good, then points are not really an issue due to the toughness of their schedule.
  
  I just know that they would require it to be home and home.
• FairwoodKing

  ManO'War;536325 wrote:Why would Big Red sign a contract that forces a large number of our fans to miss the game? That wouldn't be good on our part....not financially or otherwise.

  
  That actually happened this year at Massillon. They did not send us nearly as many seats as we requested. At a boosters club meeting, Reno said something about not playing there again unless they give us a better seating arrangement.
• ManO'War

  

  But even in Massillon we had a whole endzone to utilize.
  
  icskins' example was 500 total seats and no sitting on the "home side". I guess the closest example of that is when we went to Watterson, but I'm pretty sure the visitor side there was more than 500....and we did, after a big brew-ha-ha, have people sitting on the "home side".
  
  I wouldn't expect any team to come to Steubenville that we told you could have 500 seats max and can't sit anywhere else.
• Darkon

  

  FairwoodKing;536365 wrote:That actually happened this year at Massillon. They did not send us nearly as many seats as we requested. At a boosters club meeting, Reno said something about not playing there again unless they give us a better seating arrangement.

  
  Does the visitor side at Harding have reserved seating from the 40-40 for Big Red? I remember this in 06 and wondered if is still that way.
• ManO'War

  

  It's not "reserved" per se, but it is saved for the teachers during normal games. They give it to the visitors though if it warrants it.
• icskins

  Maybe I was being silly in my example. 500 is kind of low. I know you guys travel well and that is great. That is what having a winning, positive program for so many years does.
  
  My point was that travelling is not supposed to have all the comforts of home.
• Darkon

  

  I tried to sit there and was asked to leave. So I would consider them "reserved". It was not like those sections were full for that game.
• ManO'War

  

  They are not reserved in the sense that people have a ticket with the seat number on it, but like I said, they are reserved for the teachers of Steubenville City Schools.
  
  Edison didn't bring enough fans to warrant moving the teachers.
• fish82

  

  icskins;536336 wrote:don't say "no one will play us". Please say "no one will play us under our rules".

  Precisely.
• holdingout

  ManO'War;536380 wrote:It's not "reserved" per se, but it is saved for the teachers during normal games. They give it to the visitors though if it warrants it.

  
  You're joking right? "They give it to the visiters though if it warrants". When has this ever happened? In all my years of going to Big Red regular season games they have NEVER,NEVER,NEVER opened that up to the visiting crowd.
• ManO'War

  

  holdingout;536432 wrote:You're joking right? "They give it to the visiters though if it warrants". When has this ever happened? In all my years of going to Big Red regular season games they have NEVER,NEVER,NEVER opened that up to the visiting crowd.

  
  Massillon just last year.
  
  If the visiting school sells out section Q and R, then they will move the teachers, but very few schools sell that many tickets.
• ManO'War

  

  fish82;536430 wrote:Precisely.

  
  Every school has parameters in their scheduling.
  
  The only ones who are willing to travel all around are the ones that are forced to.
• holdingout

  ManO'War;536434 wrote:Massillon just last year.
  
  If the visiting school sells out section Q and R, then they will move the teachers, but very few schools sell that many tickets.

  
  Why doesn't the teachers sit on the home side with their own anyway? They think they are too good to be rubbing elbows with other Big Red faithful or what?
• fish82

  

  ManO'War;536440 wrote:Every school has parameters in their scheduling.

  I don't know of anyone else who requires 8 home games. Am I missing someone?
• ManO'War

  

  Many years Massillon has as many home games as we do, and up until two or three years ago Catholic Central had as many, if not more, home games as we did.
  
  The common thread there is that teams that are independent are able to have more home games. Mooney only had two away games this year....Ursuline had three....WGH had 3 (but they are joining a league, so that will change).
• ManO'War

  

  holdingout;536441 wrote:Why doesn't the teachers sit on the home side with their own anyway? They think they are too good to be rubbing elbows with other Big Red faithful or what?

  
  Because the good seats on the home side are all taken up by season ticket holders, so they reward the teachers by giving them those seats on the visitor side.
• d.woods50fan.

  

  fish82;536452 wrote:I don't know of anyone else who requires 8 home games. Am I missing someone?

  
  Any team in Ohio can schedule 8 homes games! Try it.
• SUPER787

  holdingout;536432 wrote:You're joking right? "They give it to the visiters though if it warrants". When has this ever happened? In all my years of going to Big Red regular season games they have NEVER,NEVER,NEVER opened that up to the visiting crowd.

  Massillon was given the entire visitor's section last year. I believe that I.C. was also given the entire visitor's side last year. Teachers and special guests are moved as the crowd warrants ala advanced ticket sales. Also, there are seats available on the home side if and up until the game becomes a sellout (rarely ).
• SUPER787

  d.woods50fan.;536484 wrote:Any team in Ohio can schedule 8 homes games! Try it.

  I think they would rather just bitch about it than try it.
• icskins

  Any team in Ohio can't just schedule all their games at home. Most of the teams are in conferences that have scheduling.
  
  Well, I guess they could if they worked out deals and played all road games the next year, but that is a different situation entirely.
• FairwoodKing

  Reno told us that he wants eight home games from now on. When I pointed out to him that we have contracts to play at Brooke, Park, and Ursuline next year, he nearly took my head off. If I understood him correctly (and maybe I didn't), he suggested that we won't play all three of those three games. At another boosters meeting, he asked if we should keep Park. When I told him to drop Park, he again took my head off and started screaming, "WHO ARE WE GOING TO PLAY???" I suggested an away game at Renton, Washington, where I live. I don't know what he said to that, because he mumbled his response under his breath. At any rate, I think he's glad I'm back in Seattle.
• ManO'War

  

  icskins;536503 wrote:Any team in Ohio can't just schedule all their games at home. Most of the teams are in conferences that have scheduling.

  
  Who's fault is that???
  
  That's the same reasoning as these schools around here who bitch and moan about Open Enrollment, despite the fact that EVERY school in Jefferson County has Statewide Open Enrollment.
• ManO'War

  

  FairwoodKing;536516 wrote:Reno told us that he wants eight home games from now on. When I pointed out to him that we have contracts to play at Brooke, Park, and Ursuline next year, he nearly took my head off. If I understood him correctly (and maybe I didn't), he suggested that we won't play all three of those three games. At another boosters meeting, he asked if we should keep Park. When I told him to drop Park, he again took my head off and started screaming, "WHO ARE WE GOING TO PLAY???" I suggested an away game at Renton, Washington, where I live. I don't know what he said to that, because he mumbled his response under his breath. At any rate, I think he's glad I'm back in Seattle.

  
  Park has already dropped us for next year.
  
  Rule #1 of Booster Meetings....keep your mouth shut unless you really have a good point, or expect what you got.
• icskins

  ManO'War;536518 wrote:Who's fault is that???
  
  That's the same reasoning as these schools around here who bitch and moan about Open Enrollment, despite the fact that EVERY school in Jefferson County has Statewide Open Enrollment.

  
  How the heck is that even close to the same argument? Those are 2 entirely different things.
  
  Whose fault is it? I don't know. It sure isn't mine. I don't mind the conferences though. They obviously help with the scheduling. Also, did I ever bitch about you having 8 home games? Let me help you out. No, I did not. All I said was, you can't have it both ways. You can't say that NO ONE will schedule us, and then in the next sentence say, we HAVE to have 8 home games. Maybe it's not that no one will schedule you, but that they would like to schedule you at their home also.
• icskins

  ManO'War;536520 wrote:Park has already dropped us for next year.
  
  Rule #1 of Booster Meetings....keep your mouth shut unless you really have a good point, or expect what you got.

  
  Maybe I am speaking out of turn here, but I remember someone saying that your booster meetings are tiny compared to what they used to be. Maybe this could be one of the reasons why.