Looks like Dinwiddie will begin defense of their state title on the road at Canton in August.
@DinwiddieProud @BleedingNavy you guys book your plane tickets yet?
@DinwiddieProud @BleedingNavy you guys book your plane tickets yet?
Dinwiddie Generals Begin Season In Ohio
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Danny, you and Byron might have a little explaining to do to Matt when he sees your August expense account.
Private jet??? That's funny because I have irrational fear of flying.
I had the question that I'm sure others were curious about, what the hell is a tarblooder?
From the source of all earthly knowledge- a tarblooder is a school battle cry that started during the 1940's indicating that members of the Glenville athletic teams would whack the "tar" and "blood" from its opponents. Thus, their colors are red and black.
From the source of all earthly knowledge- a tarblooder is a school battle cry that started during the 1940's indicating that members of the Glenville athletic teams would whack the "tar" and "blood" from its opponents. Thus, their colors are red and black.
I know Coach Mills and the Generals like to challenge themselves, but the 2022 Ohio State Champions in their own back yard. I looked at Glenvilles roster and they have a huge o line. With GW Danville, Maury, and North Stafford already lined up it's going to be one tough OOD schedule for Dinwiddie. Hopefully, our rebuilt defense will hold up. If the Generals can play well it will surely prepare them for the possible battle with our old nemesis Phoebus and Region B contenders King George and Varina. Wow! On a fun note I am already thinking about ideas for the media guide for the visit to Canton.
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Should be quite the matchup. Very strong OH team, at least last year. Calpreps would have taken Glenville by 3 if the two teams met last year just to give an idea of things. They had several highly ranked wins last year as well.
Hard to speak on this year, however, can't say what they do and do not have. In 2021 they were 9-4 and lost to every decent team they played. They play in a seemingly terrible district (in 2021 they won the district and were the 69th best team in Ohio by Calpreps, the next best team in their district was ranked 354th in the state) and have won it for close to twenty years in a row.
e: good lord, that district they're in is terrible personified. 5 of the teams take up annual space on the bottom 50 spots in the entire state of Ohio for at least the 2021 and 2022 seasons. More than half the conference! The other programs seem purely average and Glenville stands alone at the top, how high depends on the year.
Hard to speak on this year, however, can't say what they do and do not have. In 2021 they were 9-4 and lost to every decent team they played. They play in a seemingly terrible district (in 2021 they won the district and were the 69th best team in Ohio by Calpreps, the next best team in their district was ranked 354th in the state) and have won it for close to twenty years in a row.
e: good lord, that district they're in is terrible personified. 5 of the teams take up annual space on the bottom 50 spots in the entire state of Ohio for at least the 2021 and 2022 seasons. More than half the conference! The other programs seem purely average and Glenville stands alone at the top, how high depends on the year.
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I'd like to see a copy of your media guide when it comes time. You do great work my friend.
He did such a good job, I’m leading a push to have his per game salary tripled.
That will be THREE hot dogs per game.
Of course, if our buddy Byron gets there first, we will all go hungry! 😫
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As a little side note, Coach Mills and his staff held their annual football banquet Sunday afternoon. I’ve been to most, but this one was by far the very best. The Cowbell Boosters Clup fed us a meal fit for royalty.
Coach Mills organized and led a very entertaining ceremony that certainly honored the various achievements of the players. The event wrapped up with Coach Mills, on behalf of his entire coaching staff, awarding one of the most coveted awards presented by the Dinwiddie football program, the 12th Man Award.
This year, the recipient was our Activities Director, Archie Tortorice. Archie took over the job in the middle of the busiest time of the school year for an AD. All agree, when Jen Wegman turned the reigns over to Archie, she had done a superb job and left the house in good shape. But Archie took over and hit the ground running. He took a good situation and made it even better.
I’ve been around longer than I enjoy admitting, and I’ve never seen a new AD so naturally just take over and seamlessly run the show. And obviously, Coach Mills recognized Archie’s contributions to the success of the football program. When you look at the names on the list on the 12th man award, you can see why it’s so humbling. Archie my friend, you earned the right to have your name listed amount our local community heros.
Coach Mills organized and led a very entertaining ceremony that certainly honored the various achievements of the players. The event wrapped up with Coach Mills, on behalf of his entire coaching staff, awarding one of the most coveted awards presented by the Dinwiddie football program, the 12th Man Award.
This year, the recipient was our Activities Director, Archie Tortorice. Archie took over the job in the middle of the busiest time of the school year for an AD. All agree, when Jen Wegman turned the reigns over to Archie, she had done a superb job and left the house in good shape. But Archie took over and hit the ground running. He took a good situation and made it even better.
I’ve been around longer than I enjoy admitting, and I’ve never seen a new AD so naturally just take over and seamlessly run the show. And obviously, Coach Mills recognized Archie’s contributions to the success of the football program. When you look at the names on the list on the 12th man award, you can see why it’s so humbling. Archie my friend, you earned the right to have your name listed amount our local community heros.
I think it is difficult to judge a team from a different state. I know Dinwiddie is proud of their team and rightfully so, but high school football in Ohio is way different than Virginia.
Ohio is all inclusive with almost 1,400 high schools existing and public schools having to compete and defeat private schools for state championships. People in Virginia complain about LCA, which is one school. In Ohio you have public schools, with enrollment around 350-400, trying to beat the like of Akron St Vincent St Mary's and LeBron James. According to the same website Virginia only has approximately 400 public high schools.
According to an article I found it mentioned that Glenville's recent state championship was the 1st ever by an urban public high school. Their district competition might be weak, but once you hit playoffs it's on. Schools in Ohio go 8-2 and have a chance of missing out on the playoffs.
Ohio is all inclusive with almost 1,400 high schools existing and public schools having to compete and defeat private schools for state championships. People in Virginia complain about LCA, which is one school. In Ohio you have public schools, with enrollment around 350-400, trying to beat the like of Akron St Vincent St Mary's and LeBron James. According to the same website Virginia only has approximately 400 public high schools.
According to an article I found it mentioned that Glenville's recent state championship was the 1st ever by an urban public high school. Their district competition might be weak, but once you hit playoffs it's on. Schools in Ohio go 8-2 and have a chance of missing out on the playoffs.
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FWIW only about half have a football team. About 350 schools in Virginia have a football team. And I'm not sure about the only urban high school but they are the first public high school in Cleveland to win state.
Also, from what I can tell their enrollment is fewer than 600 kids. The population of Ohio is about 50% larger than Virginia but they have more than 300% the number of schools. I'm guessing they chop the schools up a bit finer since there's a lot more people in roughly the same amount of space (Ohio is about 5% larger than Virginia) so you don't have these enormous tracts of land like Franklin County where just one high school sits in it, you'd have four, five, maybe six schools in Franklin County instead.
Ohio has a lot more small schools than Virginia. This is probably because states like VA with countywide school districts have more heavily consolidated rural schools than places that have more granular districts. A similar county to Dinwiddie in Ohio probably would have multiple smaller districts each with their own small high school.
Ted Ginn Sr also runs his own charter school (Ginn Academy) within the Cleveland district and I think most of the Glenville players actually go there instead of Glenville.
Ted Ginn Sr also runs his own charter school (Ginn Academy) within the Cleveland district and I think most of the Glenville players actually go there instead of Glenville.
709 high schools in Ohio have football with just over 70 of those having enrollment numbers larger than 600 males. For sports, Ohio goes by number of males/females to determine classification. Glenville has approximately 520 total students, so roughly 250-260 males. In Ohio, Dinwiddie HS would probably be broken up into 5-7 different high schools and they'd all be in the same district.
I grew up in Ohio in a county similar to Campbell County including the city of Lynchburg and we had 24 high schools. I never had to travel more than 30 minutes for a game until 2nd or 3rd round of playoffs. My school had just under 400 students (it was about 180 males) and we played district opponents that had graduating classes of 50.
I'm in no way knocking Dinwiddie and their program. I have the utmost respect for them and what they've built and the community pride. It reminds me of the area I grew up in. I was just trying to give some insight into Ohio high school football and the differences. Another difference is having to win game number 15 in order to be a champion. Virginia requires 13.
Huh? @Ampipe_High Dinwiddie went 15-0 in both of their state championship runs.
It hasn't been 13 to win state in god knows how long (30-40+ years). Even a decade ago parts of divisions would have first round divisional byes so teams would sometimes go 14-0 for state but 15 is now the norm for everyone.
NOVA does this seemingly every year. The amount of new schools in Virginia in the last twenty years or so is crazy.
NOVA has a major overcrowding issue. They have been building schools just about every yr and they are all C4 and up. They are pretty much using the same plans for each school
Did some quick research. The Tarbloobers were the first public school to make it to the State Final in 2009. They became the first Public school to win title last season.
In 2006 Ohio State had 6 former Tarbloobers on their roster.
They are known for track and had won 6 straight state titles
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