Niles McKinley Red Dragons football....what now?

• ChuckieFenster

  Let's try and carry this over from the other thread started at the other place.
  
  LOTS of questions surrounding the future of this program.
  
  What needs to be done in order to save the sinking ship?????
• Lhsfan42

  As an outside observer I think a new direction at head coach is needed. Lowellville is in a similar situation where a 23 year old KID was choosen to be the leader of the program. Kids just aren't ready to be leaders of football programs.
• NilesD

  OK Chuckie I found my way here now I'll make a couple phone calls and get more on!
• ForeverADragon

  NilesD wrote: OK Chuckie I found my way here now I'll make a couple phone calls and get more on!

  HaHa..I'm here!!
• NilesD

  Yea we got to get a few more there ForeverADragon
• hrspeedmerchant

  Aside from the coaching controversy, what do the Red Dragons have coming back next season?
• gobucks

  nilesd
  
  i am here. Glad to see you make it over. I like to talk about the dragons but will not get involved in the political part of it. Just hope however it works out they will be the Dragons again
• NilesD

  WOW hrs and gobucks now its beginning to feel a bit like home.
  
  Have no idea what Niles will have next year what would be interesting gobucks how about those Liberty Leopards? Got to start finding out what the opposition has.
  
  Watching the Bucks fight it out with the Hawks. Yea TD Ohio State
• hrspeedmerchant

  NilesD wrote: WOW hrs and gobucks now its beginning to feel a bit like home.
  
  Have no idea what Niles will have next year what would be interesting gobucks how about those Liberty Leopards? Got to start finding out what the opposition has.
  
  Watching the Bucks fight it out with the Hawks. Yea TD Ohio State

  Yeah, I'm watching it, too. OMG, the Hawkeyes just hit a long bomb!
• ChuckieFenster

  gobucks wrote: nilesd
  
  i am here. Glad to see you make it over. I like to talk about the dragons but will not get involved in the political part of it. Just hope however it works out they will be the Dragons again

  Gobucks;
  In a perfect world, I think we would all love to be able to just talk football when it comes to the Red Dragons. Unfortunately, our school administrators, because of their actions, rarely allow this to happen. Like it or not -- and none of us do -- they have dragged politics into this program for as long as most of us can remember.
• NilesD

  Hey Chuckie we got to get a few more to this site.
• NilesD

  The N and the D are capitalized here, WOW
• gobucks

  chuckie
  
  I know a lot of the past as i graduated in 68. I dont live in niles any longer and am not a taxpayer. i just follow niles sports very closely.You can move but not take the dragon out of a person.
• NilesD

  I have known gobucks for a very long time now and I do think a lot of him as a Huddler and as a person. Niles natives living elsewhere just like so many others and even though a staunch Liberty Leopard still a Dragon at heart. He was brought up in Niles during the Dragon’s heyday and remembers those days all too well in a family of staunch supporters.
  
  I met him at a Liberty game years ago and even though we conversed on the JJH many times when we met I did not know I was meeting gobucks and he did not know he was meeting NilesD until sometime later it all came to light.
  
  I understand where he is coming from and respect his wishes.
  
  ChuckieFenster is right though about the politics in Niles but would add the BOE to it.
  
  My only wish is that more in the community of Niles would wake up to what is the going on in Niles and realize as long as the situation remains status quo that is exactly how Niles will remain status quo.
  
  The fight is in Niles and it is up to Niles residents to fight the fight.
  
  Thomas Jefferson said “All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.”
  
  I have said it a million times and I will say it a million more times these kids in Niles can play with anyone if given the proper confidence in them from their coaches, BOE and Administrators.
  
  Niles may not be the football town of old but still a football town that can on a drop of a dime make that 180 and head back to respectability.
• Falcons53

  Hopefully the Dragons can cure what ails them. I am afraid some of that young talent in Niles will look elsewhere. The powers that be need to wake up and make some solid decisions. Good Luck to the Dragons in 2010!!
• hrspeedmerchant

  I remember meeting gobucks a couple of years ago at the golf outing. I'm only a couple of years older than he is and we talked about a few of the great Red Dragon teams of the past. Nice memories.
• gobucks

  hr
  Fun to have those memories hope the dragons can create some new good ones.
  
  If my memory serves me correctly i sat a couple rows behind you at the ursuline (i think hoban) game last year. Their was quite group from niles and the ridge basically sitting together