Rozum and the 2014 Campbell Memorial Red Devils.

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  soupcitysoldier;1645020 wrote:Spread also...is Iarussi back on the staff? I had a Struthers guy once tell he was bad luck for Struthers against Campbell haha

  He has been for the last 2 seasons
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  You gotta remember this is a first scrimmage. And it's Springfield so nothing here can really be applied to their opponents. We will see how they are against niles, who kinda stinks
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  did campbell score on springfield? i didnt stay long
• soupcitysoldier

  I stayed for 2 varsity possessions n we didn't score. I felt we moved the ball well and offensive line played well. I guess we'll see against niles. I'm sure Rozum will run the same three pee wee running plays until regular season. I'd just like to see us run the ball without a freshman RB but I'm going to miss niles scrimmage
• reddevil90

  

  Rozum never did show much at scrimmages.
• soupcitysoldier

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• soupcitysoldier

  Its a work in progress but I still hold on my prediction from earlier. I think Struthers, Lakeview, Brookfield are losses. I think Falls, Labrae, Jefferson, Champion are wins. Toss ups are Range, Liberty, Girard. Im guessing a 500 season. Sneak 1 or 2 out of toss up column itll be positive.
• BigDean1

  

  soup, I agree with you on Struthers and Lakeview. From things I have heard, Lakeview is head and shoulders above every team in the national division of the AAC. It would be great to upset Struthers. But that will be tough. However I would rather play Struthers in week one instead of later in the season. Strange things sometimes happen in week one. And I will put Brookfield in the toss up column along with Range, Liberty, and Girard.
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  Dont sell brookfield short. They bring back everyone. Tough game for Struthers too
• soupcitysoldier

  Agreed Spread. I think Campbell will have a difficult time in that game.
• BigDean1

  

  I'm not selling Brookfield short. I'm just putting that game in the toss up category for Campbell. Campbell hasn't beaten Brookfield since 2010. We owe them.
• Ohio

  

  I think Falls, Labrae, Champion, and Jefferson are wins and the devils should be underdogs the rest of the way IMO
• reddevil90

  

  Ohio;1645831 wrote:I think Falls, Labrae, Champion, and Jefferson are wins and the devils should be underdogs the rest of the way IMO

  I agree here ... Have to admit coaching is way different than what you have been accustomed too over the last 19 years.. either you got it or you don't or inbetween! Rozum has a gift of knowing what he has and playing the players strengths. the rest of the games we will be heavy underdogs. But if we can squeak one or two out of the 5 tough games i would say success for the season. Skunkkers will be a hard one to win brookfield toss up. girard toss up. lakeview another hard one to win. 5 and 5 or 6 and 4 is success. Dont forget there is a some very talented freshman and sophomores coming up. i dont know if he will utilise them or not. I do know he did use Patton all 4 years if i'm not mistaken. Not as a starter his freshmen year or sophomore i think. Lets just wait and see this weeks scrimmage. I would not take much from it at all. Rozum has always shown very little during those. there are 2 scrimmages up from the 86 team and it proves my point. But they are not on my channel. you have to look for them. As some else put them up!
• Devilone

  reddevil90;1645850 wrote:I agree here ... Have to admit coaching is way different than what you have been accustomed too over the last 19 years.. either you got it or you don't or inbetween! Rozum has a gift of knowing what he has and playing the players strengths. the rest of the games we will be heavy underdogs. But if we can squeak one or two out of the 5 tough games i would say success for the season. Skunkkers will be a hard one to win brookfield toss up. girard toss up. lakeview another hard one to win. 5 and 5 or 6 and 4 is success. Dont forget there is a some very talented freshman and sophomores coming up. i dont know if he will utilise them or not. I do know he did use Patton all 4 years if i'm not mistaken. Not as a starter his freshmen year or sophomore i think. Lets just wait and see this weeks scrimmage. I would not take much from it at all. Rozum has always shown very little during those. there are 2 scrimmages up from the 86 team and it proves my point. But they are not on my channel. you have to look for them. As some else put them up!

  Patton started his Sophomore year. His freshmen year he was living in Detroit. He's used very few freshmen to play varsity. Rozum never shows anything in scrimmages he's more concerned with technique and evaluation. "The eye in the sky don't lie" he would tell us. That meant every play from the scrimmage was evaluated and showed to each player to improve technique.
• itzme

  Interesting that most of you have chalked up both LaBrae and Jefferson as wins for the Devils. 2 teams that return the majority of their teams from a year ago, have the same Head Coach in place, and 1 of them (LaBrae) beat Campbell a year ago while the other (Jefferson) lost by 1 point. I think the Devils will have a hard time winning either of these games.
  
  It's a tough road for the Devils. Struthers, South Range, and Brookfield right out of the gate is very tough. How healthy and how focused they remain after those 3 will tell a lot the rest of the way. The next 3 games of Girard, Jefferson, and LaBrae do ease up a bit but still will be awfully tough. They do get 2 of those 3 at home. Then the final 4 have 2 of the worst teams on the schedule (Champion & Falls) along with 1 of the toughest (Lakeview) and Liberty, who graduates a ton but brought in a ton along with the always dangerous Lynn Bowden at TB.
  
  I could see anywhere from 2-8 to 4-6. Which, at 4-6, would mean 4-5 the rest of the way after starting 0-3 with something to build on for the following year.
• reddevil90

  

  itzme;1645926 wrote:Interesting that most of you have chalked up both LaBrae and Jefferson as wins for the Devils. 2 teams that return the majority of their teams from a year ago, have the same Head Coach in place, and 1 of them (LaBrae) beat Campbell a year ago while the other (Jefferson) lost by 1 point. I think the Devils will have a hard time winning either of these games.
  
  It's a tough road for the Devils. Struthers, South Range, and Brookfield right out of the gate is very tough. How healthy and how focused they remain after those 3 will tell a lot the rest of the way. The next 3 games of Girard, Jefferson, and LaBrae do ease up a bit but still will be awfully tough. They do get 2 of those 3 at home. Then the final 4 have 2 of the worst teams on the schedule (Champion & Falls) along with 1 of the toughest (Lakeview) and Liberty, who graduates a ton but brought in a ton along with the always dangerous Lynn Bowden at TB.
  
  I could see anywhere from 2-8 to 4-6. Which, at 4-6, would mean 4-5 the rest of the way after starting 0-3 with something to build on for the following year.

  Campbell Has a lot or returning players also. what makes this unique for all purposes is there under a new coach and a tough and disciplined system. Well new old coach. It will have to be seen how they respond to this coach. They have been babied and cradled for some time now and it was out of control! but he has shown he can do a lot in just one season. This Campbell team is not what you have seen on the field the last 17 to 19 years. they will be ready. Its just the new system and if everyone can stay healthy and lean the game the right way! I could sit and predict all day long. But its all up to the kids.
• reddevil90

  

  Devilone;1645898 wrote:Patton started his Sophomore year. His freshmen year he was living in Detroit. He's used very few freshmen to play varsity. Rozum never shows anything in scrimmages he's more concerned with technique and evaluation. "The eye in the sky don't lie" he would tell us. That meant every play from the scrimmage was evaluated and showed to each player to improve technique.

  Ok thanks. I was not 100% sure. I didn't think he started his sophomore year. i thought he was back up running back up that year? And that he ended up starting like 5 or 6 games cause of injury or something happen.
• southbender12

  you guys make it sound like your the only program who runs a tough disciplined system. Based off what I saw from LaBrae and even champion, who looked very physical in their scrimmage....it is going to be a very rough season for Campbell fans. Bayuk and Sikora may not be Rozum but you act as if you had Johnny come lately on the sidelines the last several years. I have enormous respect for Rozum and I know fans are always at least cautiously optimistic but the only team on paper (and we all know paper doesn't mean everything) that you will be favored against in an objective's fans mind is Newton Falls or Champion. Jefferson will be 10x better with relatively their entire team back and LaBrae is in the same boat.
• BigDean1

  

  southbender12;1646043 wrote:you guys make it sound like your the only program who runs a tough disciplined system. Based off what I saw from LaBrae and even champion, who looked very physical in their scrimmage....it is going to be a very rough season for Campbell fans. Bayuk and Sikora may not be Rozum but you act as if you had Johnny come lately on the sidelines the last several years. I have enormous respect for Rozum and I know fans are always at least cautiously optimistic but the only team on paper (and we all know paper doesn't mean everything) that you will be favored against in an objective's fans mind is Newton Falls or Champion. Jefferson will be 10x better with relatively their entire team back and LaBrae is in the same boat.

  Here is my take. For the past several years discipline and the lack of senior leadership have been major issues at Campbell. Now Rozum has returned. And he has been really pushing these kids. From what I have seen over the summer things appear to be getting better. But I believe the true test is how well these kids will respond should they lose a couple of games at the start of the season. I'm not saying that is going to happen. But over the past few years it has. And all it took was one loss and the wheels would fall off. It got to the point that if the team got down by a couple of scores early in games, the kids would give up. Insteading of the seniors rallying the underclassmen, they went in the other direction. And the underclassmen followed them.
  
  Coach Rozum is a guy who has always believed in his seniors. He counts on them to lead and to set an example for underclassmen. So it will be up to the seniors (I believe there are just 10) on the team to keep things in line and to get their teammates to focus on the next game should they lose the week before. Call me a realist. I am not expecting immediate success. Rozum retained a couple of Bayuk's and Sikora's assistants. Other than that he has his own assistant coaches and is putting in a whole new scheme on both offense and defense. Depth as always will be an issue for Campbell. I do know that the kids have gotten stronger, and are learning and improving as the summer goes along. It will be an interesting season. That being said, I firmly believe that if anyone can turn the Campbell program around, it's Rozum. He's been around the block a few times. And he would not have returned to coaching at Campbell if he didn't believe there was something to be gained. But it might take more than one year to get things going in the right direction.
• reddevil90

  

  southbender12;1646043 wrote:you guys make it sound like your the only program who runs a tough disciplined system. Based off what I saw from LaBrae and even champion, who looked very physical in their scrimmage....it is going to be a very rough season for Campbell fans. Bayuk and Sikora may not be Rozum but you act as if you had Johnny come lately on the sidelines the last several years. I have enormous respect for Rozum and I know fans are always at least cautiously optimistic but the only team on paper (and we all know paper doesn't mean everything) that you will be favored against in an objective's fans mind is Newton Falls or Champion. Jefferson will be 10x better with relatively their entire team back and LaBrae is in the same boat.

  Where the heck do you get that assumption from? All i said and was said is will they respond to a disciplinarian type coach. You absolutely don't have a clue what it was like for us watching our team lose games but laugh and sit on the sideline like it didnt matter to them. And you know what! you right. I believe in our team again. i think with rozum coaching every game can be a win. Why not. they sure as heck worked there ass off over the summer and in the weight room. And just to point out this much. Campbell during the 3 years was not without talent. they had talent and size speed and the ability to have beaten every team on the schedule. why it never happen? Cause discipline and no leadership.
• soupcitysoldier

  itzme;1645926 wrote:Interesting that most of you have chalked up both LaBrae and Jefferson as wins for the Devils. 2 teams that return the majority of their teams from a year ago, have the same Head Coach in place, and 1 of them (LaBrae) beat Campbell a year ago while the other (Jefferson) lost by 1 point. I think the Devils will have a hard time winning either of these games.
  
  It's a tough road for the Devils. Struthers, South Range, and Brookfield right out of the gate is very tough. How healthy and how focused they remain after those 3 will tell a lot the rest of the way. The next 3 games of Girard, Jefferson, and LaBrae do ease up a bit but still will be awfully tough. They do get 2 of those 3 at home. Then the final 4 have 2 of the worst teams on the schedule (Champion & Falls) along with 1 of the toughest (Lakeview) and Liberty, who graduates a ton but brought in a ton along with the always dangerous Lynn Bowden at TB.
  
  I could see anywhere from 2-8 to 4-6. Which, at 4-6, would mean 4-5 the rest of the way after starting 0-3 with something to build on for the following year.

  Welcome to Chatter, respect your opinion on those two opponents. Admittedly I do not know what those two teams return I have heard alot. I dont know how much that matters for a bad football team. Campbell returns alot and I dont think that has anything to do with my prediction. What I see is Campbell and Jefferson both went 3-7 last year and in one of Campbell's worst years in 5 years they still managed to beat Jefferson. The addition of a new coach for Campbell doesnt hurt them because this ones a better fit. Basically I am hedging my bet that Campbell is still better than Jefferson after an offseason. Labrae I feel the same way. The continuity at head coach doesnt bother me. Campbell put up 28 points on Labrae last year and lost by 3. I think weve gotten better than Labrae this offseason. Just my opinion. Welcome to the Chatter. Keep posting...
• itzme

  soupcitysoldier;1646218 wrote:Welcome to Chatter, respect your opinion on those two opponents. Admittedly I do not know what those two teams return I have heard alot. I dont know how much that matters for a bad football team. Campbell returns alot and I dont think that has anything to do with my prediction. What I see is Campbell and Jefferson both went 3-7 last year and in one of Campbell's worst years in 5 years they still managed to beat Jefferson. The addition of a new coach for Campbell doesnt hurt them because this ones a better fit. Basically I am hedging my bet that Campbell is still better than Jefferson after an offseason. Labrae I feel the same way. The continuity at head coach doesnt bother me. Campbell put up 28 points on Labrae last year and lost by 3. I think weve gotten better than Labrae this offseason. Just my opinion. Welcome to the Chatter. Keep posting...

  You bring up some very fair points. Returning a bunch from a bad football team just means you return a bunch of bad football players... at times. In the case of Jefferson & LaBrae, I do feel they return a lot of quality and not just numbers from what I have seen. I was impressed with the way Jefferson's Freshman TB ran last year along with some good OL and their QB threw a good ball. They also return a number of good players on D. 3-7... You are what your record says you are as they say but when u dig deeper; they lost 3 games by a total of 4pts -- 4 games by a combined 13pts. I'm sure they preached all offseason that they were a few plays away from being 7-3 instead of 3-7. I have a feeling they will be returning to that 7-3 / 8-2 record wise that they were in 2011 and 2012. I do, however, understand the thinking of "We beat em with 1 of our worst teams in recent memory. So what, they return a lot. We'll be better too and beat them again." Fair points.
• reddevil90

  

  itzme;1646245 wrote:You bring up some very fair points. Returning a bunch from a bad football team just means you return a bunch of bad football players... at times. In the case of Jefferson & LaBrae, I do feel they return a lot of quality and not just numbers from what I have seen. I was impressed with the way Jefferson's Freshman TB ran last year along with some good OL and their QB threw a good ball. They also return a number of good players on D. 3-7... You are what your record says you are as they say but when u dig deeper; they lost 3 games by a total of 4pts -- 4 games by a combined 13pts. I'm sure they preached all offseason that they were a few plays away from being 7-3 instead of 3-7. I have a feeling they will be returning to that 7-3 / 8-2 record wise that they were in 2011 and 2012. I do, however, understand the thinking of "We beat em with 1 of our worst teams in recent memory. So what, they return a lot. We'll be better too and beat them again." Fair points.

  
  I don't think Campbell had the worst team in 5 years. I think it was more like the team was slowly getting lazy and undisciplined. and without a real leadership going into the first game of the year and then following into the rest of the season. We have a very talented core of players. starting at qb. And if there is truly senior leadership. and hopefully no serious injuries! then campbell can win some games and maybe a game they are not suppose to.
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  .............................. so... anyone see that scrim in Niles?
  Was a doosy