HoopsHotHead wrote:Is Oak Hill's schedule not strong enough to require them to be in top 8?........I think they have a very good team this year.....good guards ...balance...and the main factor.....NORM!!
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HoopsHotHead - I'll tell you what I told the Oaks' PG Landon Carroll last night at Waverly "I knew the Oaks were good - you don't get to 8-0 without being good, but the schedule they play makes it hard to have them higher in the rankings when compared with the bigger schools above them in the rankings " ...
Date ............Time .................Opponent .................................Location
12/2 ............6:00 ..................Eastern ......................................... Away ... Good win 5-1 (only team ranked above them in 8 gms)
12/6 ............6:00 ..................Symmes Valley ............................ Home
12/9 ............6:00 ..................Northwest ..................................... Away
12/10 ..........6:00 ..................Meigs ...................................Rio Grande
12/16 ..........6:00 ..................Waverly ......................................... Away
12/20 .........6:00 ..................Valley............................................ Home
12/23 ..........6:00 ..................Green ............................................ Away
12/28 .........6:00 ..................Alexander ..................................... Home
... the 2017 portion of the season for Oak Hill has some solid teams , challenging games for the Oaks - I have those highlighted in purple ...
12/30 .........6:00 ..................Rock Hill ........................................ Away
1/3 ..............6:00 .................
.Wellston ....................................... Home
1/6 ..............6:00 .................
.Wheelersburg .............................. Home
1/10 ............6:00 ..................
Minford ......................................... Away
1/13 ............6:00 ..................West ............................................. Home
1/17 ............6:00 ..................
South Webster .............................. Away
1/20 ...........6:00 ..................Northwest .................................... Home
1/21 ............4:00 ..................
Coal Grove ................................... Home
1/24 ............6:00 ..................
Waverly ........................................ Home
1/27 ............6:00 ..................Valley............................................. Away
1/31 ............6:00 ..................
Wheelersburg ............................... Away
2/3 .............6:00 ..................
Minford ........................................ Home
2/10 ...........6:00 ..................West .............................................. Away
2/17 ............6:00 ..................
South Webster ............................. Home
I also told Landon that to be fair to the Oaks and the other smaller schools I HAD TO see them play! for me to fairly rank the smaller schools I needed to get out or in this case get into the land of the SOC to see the Oak Hills, Portsmouth Easts, Portsmouth Clays, Eastern & Western Pikes, Waverlys, MInfords AND I HAVE ! I've personally put eyes on all of those teams - the other smaller schools I NEED to see are South Webster, Wheelersburg & Portsmouth Notre Dame ... Usually I see some of these teams during the regular season - Ports. East , Clay, Minford (has played Warren/Alexander at this end of the SE district), Eastern Pike - it's not an easy drive to get to the river to see Notre Dame, South Webster, even Waverly as the majority of their schedules are on the river ... going into this season I KNEW how good these teams were going to be , I KNEW that IF these teams played each other you would probably have a different winner each night - very closely matched teams , ALL very good teams , ALL I needed to see to try to discern strengths/weaknesses so I COULD fairly compare each of these teams with EACH OTHER as well as vs the other teams - bigger schools- in my rankings ... soooooo with all of that said "I NOW feel good about having seen the teams I have seen in the Land of the SOC! " ...
... I have seen all of the teams in my Elite 8 (1-8) ... I have seen 21 of my top 25 teams ... I have seen 40 out of the 72 teams in Southern /Southeast Ohio ... I will be at the Beasts of the Southeast where I will get to put eyes on 5 more teams that I haven't been able to see yet this season - Coal Grove, Lucasville Valley, Eastern Brown, Trimble, Chesapeake ... the next week I want to get to the Coach Dave Young Classic where I should be able to see some of the SHAC teams I haven't been able to see this season as well ... I'm getting around ! the Pfloyd Tour IS making the rounds ! I like to think that I know the teams in Southern/Southeastern Ohio as well as anyone by seasons end which will allow me to better rank the teams NEXT YEAR in 2017-18 ...
... No matter where you play, allows look in the Cheap Seats before game time ! - you never know when old pfloyd will be there doing Official "unofficial" Napkin Stats on your team ! LOL ...