Rivalry Week in the LHAC

[youngbuck]

Would think Penn Cambria is the most lopsided matchup, but that is quite the list of quality games on tap this weekend.

With the least amount of bias possible, I think they’ll all be good games with them all having fairly small margins.

PC and CC both played Bedford tightly. I expect it to be a one score game in the end

My bad , I didn't understand that you meant CC would only put up 1 score on the night. I thought you meant they would be competitive.

[Goldeneagles12]

Would think Penn Cambria is the most lopsided matchup, but that is quite the list of quality games on tap this weekend.

With the least amount of bias possible, I think they’ll all be good games with them all having fairly small margins.

PC and CC both played Bedford tightly. I expect it to be a one score game in the end

My bad , I didn't understand that you meant CC would only put up 1 score on the night. I thought you meant they would be competitive.

Yeah 34-0 Tyrone rolls B-A small margins comment not holding up

[CCDevil2012]

Would think Penn Cambria is the most lopsided matchup, but that is quite the list of quality games on tap this weekend.

With the least amount of bias possible, I think they’ll all be good games with them all having fairly small margins.

PC and CC both played Bedford tightly. I expect it to be a one score game in the end

My bad , I didn't understand that you meant CC would only put up 1 score on the night. I thought you meant they would be competitive.

It’s okay, someday you’ll have a team you cheer for too

[stownJohn]

[/quote] How many years has it been since Johnstown even won 1 game? They used to churn out potent D1 athletes every year. [/quote]

So how did Johnstown High football become so pathetic? They’re probably one of, if not the worst, high school football program in the entire PIAA with almost no hope whatsoever of ever getting better in the future. A 100 game losing streak sounds crazy but I think that football program is very capable of achieving it.

[ExRaided]

So Johnstown is on a 34 game losing streak. Their last win was over Somerset 10/18/19 by a score of 33-27

It was also a 19 game losing streak before that.

I know nothing about Johnstown at all when it comes to the school and athletics. I'm going to say it's just not a football school or football culture there.
How's their soccer and basketball teams? Maybe they have too many sports and it's watering down the quality of talent the football team receives? I don't mean that in a bad way. It's just that more options for sports would obviously make the football team weaker.

Somerset is much the same.

[Crimson's Ghost]

So Johnstown is on a 34 game losing streak. Their last win was over Somerset 10/18/19 by a score of 33-27

It was also a 19 game losing streak before that.

I know nothing about Johnstown at all when it comes to the school and athletics. I'm going to say it's just not a football school or football culture there.
How's their soccer and basketball teams? Maybe they have too many sports and it's watering down the quality of talent the football team receives? I don't mean that in a bad way. It's just that more options for sports would obviously make the football team weaker.

Somerset is much the same.

Yea, Johnstown went 8-4 in 2017. Since then:

2018 - 0-10
2019: 1-9
2020: 0-9
2021: 0-10
2022: 0-10
2023: 0-5


And to your question, their basketball team is excellent. They have a D1 prospect in bball which doesn't happen much in District Six. They're going to have a very good team this year and I don't believe any of those kids play football. There are athletes in that school, they just don't play football.

[Crimson's Ghost]

A 100 game losing streak sounds crazy but I think that football program is very capable of achieving it.

They should have a chance against McCort on Friday I would think. McCort is only 6-27 since the start of the 2020 season, so it hasn't been much better for the school up the street.

[LeeCorso]

Johnstown the last 7 years has lacked consistency not necessarily talent. Every school has down years with no “horses”. Some of the horses aren’t playing I’m sure but some are. They lack scheme and coaching. They have some dudes out there but when you go for it on 4th and 20 from your own 10, or blitz both corners on the same play, or can’t execute a punt or PAT that’s just terrible coaching. I’ve seen all of those things happen in the last few years. They will be back I’m sure it just takes the right guy at the top to stick with it.

[stownJohn]

Johnstown the last 7 years has lacked consistency not necessarily talent. Every school has down years with no “horses”. Some of the horses aren’t playing I’m sure but some are. They lack scheme and coaching. They have some dudes out there but when you go for it on 4th and 20 from your own 10, or blitz both corners on the same play, or can’t execute a punt or PAT that’s just terrible coaching. I’ve seen all of those things happen in the last few years. They will be back I’m sure it just takes the right guy at the top to stick with it.

Johnstown seems like the ideal situation for a new coach to come in and install some kind of a triple-option attack like a flexbone, wishbone, etc. You’d have nothing to lose at this point and it might actually be fun to watch.

[CoffinCorner]

Anyone know how to get ahold of Craig Sponsky. Those BC teams with Crookshank and Lauer running triple option come to mind