[Midee1]

In order to beat a team like Ashland, you need to be a little more prepared. You can't center your game plan around the fact that a team runs the ball 95% of the time.

People centered their gameplan around us running 95% of the time. But our record was 14-1. It can be very difficult to stop a good running team if everything is working well. I agree that it would be tougher to stop a more balanced team but I like a strong running game.

All that fancy passing and high powered offense got OC nowhere. Why you may ask. Because of ball control. I believe that we had the ball 36~ minutes of the state game.

As for us beating Ashland. That's why I love HS football. During Ivan's tenure at Russell I think it may be 16-14 in favor of Russell. It just does not get any better than that IMO. It's one of those games that could go either way at any given time, unlike alot of our District opponents with whom we have a lopsided winning record.

Here's an argument for us being multi dimensional. Probably the best Passing team we faced was Fleming Co with Fritz and company. We won that one pretty handily due to everyone handling their assignments.