Orange and Brown wrote: ↑Tue Oct 17, 2017 1:19 pm
VC had high expectations coming into the 2017 season. It looked like the Vikings would turn the corner.
What happened that has caused the Vikings to not be as successful as a lot of people thought they would?
It was the proverbial snake bite...
Week #1 - Six turnovers. Also, we figured out later, that they knew our line calls and when we passed they drop back into zone and their athletes made plays.
Week #2 - Won, in a monsoon. Yates ran for nearly 300 yards and threw for almost 150 yards.
Week #3 - After Yates' performance the week prior they did a nice job of keeping him in the pocket and spying him, a la, what Iowa State did to Baker Mayfield at Oklahoma. However, we had six beautiful balls from Yates dropped, three that would have went for touchdowns.
Week #4 - Too many penalties. Every time we had a big play, there was a flag, (imagine that). Our stat guy said we lost 168 yards gain to penalties.
Week #5 - They out-schemed us and made plays. We didn't.
Week #6 - Won
Week #7 - Won
Week #8 - Won
In my opinion only, no one else's, it is cultural. We have to build a cultural of winning so we can handle the snake bites and the adversities. I think sometimes we hope to win, where teams like Nelsonville expect to win.
However, I have a feeling. I am seeing 1983 all over again. This game could make our season. I have a feeling.
SeaBass wrote: ↑Tue Oct 17, 2017 3:21 pm
hawkeyepierce wrote: ↑Tue Oct 17, 2017 12:45 pm
NYBuckeye96 wrote: ↑Mon Oct 16, 2017 4:06 pm
What is this basketball you speak of? There is football season, then there is wrestling season, then there is track season, then it is summer. Then you repeat. 
Basketball, is a highly skilled athletic accuracy game played at an extremely fast pace. You probably wouldn't recognize it.
Vinton County will show up, they will play hard, and hopefully score a lot. Naylan Yates certainly can sling it around and he can run. He has plenty of weapons to consider. It will be Vinton County's ability to control the line of scrimmage that will determine their success in this game. Nelsonville is very talented, but young, can our size and experience win the day? We will see soon enough.
You will see a highly skilled athletic accuracy game played at an extremely fast pace come Friday at Boston Field. And no, you probably wouldn't recognize it.
Get your own material funny man.
Did I just say that? Sorry.
