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Week 3 Notes

Mondays practice was rained out, due to this saturdays practice will be 10-noon (helmets only).

With the injury to QB Griffin Pollock, Drew Bertz will get the nod this week vs the other Springfield team.

Attendance has been a problem all year. Once again if you are to miss practice please contact a coach. Otherwise any no call/no show could result in an loss of playing time. We have to be fair to those athletes who do show regularly.

Injury Report:
Griffin, head - game time
Duncan, leg - probable
Brent, foot - questionable
Collin, multiple - questionable
John, foot - probable

Bulldogs Fall at Springfield

Bulldogs dropped their second game of the season with a 41-0 defeat to the Springfield Black Blue Devils. Injuries, turnovers, penalties, poor blocking and tackling had the Bulldogs in a downward spiral all game.

players of the game:

offense: Duncan Odneal

defense: Sev Durden

special teams: Collin Jiannuzzi

lineman: Lucas Warner

Scrimmage 2 Notes

Our second scrimmage, St. Rose came to Glenwood. The Bulldogs were firing on all cylinders Sev Durden scored multiple times including a pass from QB Griffin Pollock. Griffin and Derek Boyd also added scores of their own. Defense again played tough lead by the entire DL. St. Rose didnt score at all. Bulldogs travel 2 Springfield on sunday...

Bulldogs win Season Opener!

5th/6th Maroon Bulldogs won the season opener 7-0 over Maumee Purple. A hard fought game that went back and forth all game until Sev Durden broke one through the middle and up the left sideline for the first points of the game, Griffin Pollock finished of the scoring by adding the PAT on a QB run. The team defense of the Bulldogs would not be denied. Already looking in mid-season form caused several turnovers and finished the game by pitching a shutout!

players of the game:
offense: Sev Durden
defense: Derek Boyd
special teams: Collin Jiannuzzi
lineman: Zack Prater

Scrimmage Notes

On Thursday Night we had a scrimmage vs Maumee Bay Clay Eagles. We learned a lot about ourselves. I would like to thank the parents for coming out during a "non-normal" night of practice. I played our "estimated" first team O and played a lot of the kids I haven't had the pleasure of coaching yet on Defense. Everyone started and played bunches! I wanted to see where we stood as a whole. We have several first year kids who we are in a learning curve of sorts. Might I say they have already improved by leaps and bounds. Every. Single. Kid. All the kids will "get it" (referring to the hitting and aggressiveness of football itself) at different points throughout the season. I am confident they will blossom this year. I will tweak our systems to better suit our teams strengths and weakness's. I try to make things and the system as easy as possible. I always tell the kids they control their own playing time: those who are paying attention, learning their playbooks, able to execute the safe and proper techniques, who are on time and present at practice. I don't believe in being a drill instructor of a coach at this age. I believe in holding them accountable for their play. Overall we didnt do to bad at the scrimmage. Were a long way from where we need to be, but I believe the kids understand now what we are looking for. Tackling was an issue. They shouldn't have had 2 of those TD's in my book, plus one I sent a blitz and they ran right at it and we didnt execute, so coach will take the blame for that one. However, we did score more TD's than them. I had to go out and tell them that we weren't going to run any other packages except this certain one we weren't doing well enuff. Well, they scored 3 or 4 TD's in that one session alone. Very proud of them and our progress so far. I think they understand what is expected of them come sunday. I believe in a couple certain football philosophys: On being to be succsessful you need to improve a little bit each day. We use the visual of our "fumble tree" at practice. Could you chop that tree down with one or 2 hits with an ax? No, I would take hit, after hit, after hit. That tree represents our season and to be successfull its gonna take many many hits, sprints, tackles, blocks, play after play to knock that thing down to be successful. My coaching motto is: Hustle, Hit and Don't Quit!

Sunday we play Maumee at RHS. Kickoff is @ 1. Meet time is Noon. Maul Maumee!

Update on Seth

     My Son Seth was admitted to the hospital on Labor Day. He had surgery on Wed and will hopefully be released this coming monday. He went to the ER the saturday before labor day, He was complaining of leg and hip pain. They X-rayed, Dopplered it, Blood work, Urine sample, etc etc.  Nothing came about, so they sent him home citing muscle strain/pull. Then come Labor day he still couldn't walk, even to make it to the bathroom. We called his doc and he told us to go back to the ER, where they made the decision to admit him where they seen elevated White Blood Cell Count and they wanted to to an MRI.

   Finally, the MRI came and went and it showed fluid on both hips, but majority was on his right side. They took a sample of it and determined it was an infection. What excatly and how they really don't know, just one of those things. They took him in that afternoon and cleaned out his right side. They said the infection did no damage to his hip cartilage which is a good thing! He is now recovering on heavy antibiotics and steroids. He's getting up and around slowly with crutches. We hope he can be released on Monday, and looking to return to school the following monday. He will however miss the rest of the football season. Its been a very trying time not only dealing with my autistic child with some random infection, but I would like to thank everyone who called, texted, dropped some sort of message and especially those of you that came and visited. Thank you for all your kinds words, thoughts and prayers, we love you all and appreciate everything.

If anyone would like to call his # is: 419.291.9615. That would make him a very happy kid.

Scrimmage, Jerseys and a New Coach Joins Us

I would like to announce we have a scrimmage lined up with Maumee Bay/Clay team on Thursday September 8th, 6pm @ Clay HS Practice Field.

All jerseys that were passed out for pictures need to be brought back by this thursday. They are adding something to them.

I would like to welcome Curt Reiter to our Staff. Curt is Logans dad.


NO PRACTICE ON THE 5TH FOR LABOR DAY!

Pictures and Updates

Reminder: Saturday Practice 10-Noon (full pads)

Sunday Pictures @ 12:50, Please arrive at RHS Stadium @ 12:30

Mon Practice 6-7:30 (will remain 6-7:30 from here on out)

Tue 6-7:30

Wed 6-7:30

Sat 10:30-Noon (last full pad saturday practice, Saturdays will be Helmets only after this one)

Team is doing well. Offense is progressing quickly. Offense will receive their wristbands tomorrow, they will be required to turn them in at the end of EACH practice.

Week 2

We expect to further our skills this week. Coach Kyle will be with us during the week from here on out. I have been talking to several "guest coaching" spots to come out now and then. This sat we will have the Northwest Ohio Knights semipro kicker/punter Corey Leasor (formerly of AW) paying us a visit. I have been hard at work trying to schedule a scrimmage here shortly. Also we will start to narrow the position search. As expected with only 17 kids t hey will have to learn multiple. So far they are doing great, as long as we get better each day, we will be fine! This weeks schedule reminder m - 6-8, tue - no practice due to open house, wed 6-8, sat 10-noon (full pads)