Media Day
The Lancaster-Lebanon League held its annual Media Day for football Friday at Four Seasons.
I like Media Day for a couple of reasons. One, its a chance to get together with fellow writers and talk shop; two, its a chance to meet and greet the coaches of the league, and three, it saves work later in the season, when you need information about a certain team.
One stop shopping, if you understand what I mean.
I do wish other sports such as basketball and wrestling would host similar events.
Didn’t hear any questions about Brett Favre and we didn’t have a cranky 81-year-old coach not remembering a certain year or player.
It was fun.
So what were the topics?
• A former local high school coach coming out of retirement, returning as an assistant coach at another school and that program’s future.
• Former Cocalico coach Phil Kauffman, now the John Madden of Blue Ridge Cable, trying to find out info on the teams.
• A chance for the players to meet the media and talk about their seasons. Something many of them don’t get a chance to do during the season.
• A chance for all teams to say they have a shot at a section title.
• As I made the rounds of the teams in Section 3, one thing that interested me was the roster numbers ranging from the mid-20s for Pequea Valley to the high 60s for L-S and Lancaster Catholic.
With the exception of Columbia and Pequea Valley, most teams have more than 45 players on their roster. ELCO might be just above 40 as Mark Evans did not list any sophomores on his roster.
Come on coach, don’t take a page from the Joe PA playbook and how am I suppose to get a scouting report on your team!
• Last year was the Year of the Running Back in Section 3. This year, it might be the Year of the Quarterback. Catholic, Northern Lebanon and ELCO have veteran quarterbacks.
• Annville-Cleona after two years on the road, will finally play home games this year, under the lights, including a Thursday night pre-season tilt with Cocalico.
• The Game of the Year will be in week three when Catholic and Central hook up.
• Section Three, with a good mix of big (Class AAA) and small (Class AA and A) schools is the most competitive in the league.
However, with growing programs at Catholic and L-S, the smaller schools might not be able to compete, at least numbers-wise in a few years.
• Learned that Octorara is interested in coming into the league.
Might be a good fit for the Lancaster County teams in Section 3, but not for the Lebanon County schools such as Northern Lebanon.
That could be an overnight trip!
• As for the food, it was just hot dogs, soda and cookies. The kids were hitting the food table pretty good.
I like Media Day for a couple of reasons. One, its a chance to get together with fellow writers and talk shop; two, its a chance to meet and greet the coaches of the league, and three, it saves work later in the season, when you need information about a certain team.
One stop shopping, if you understand what I mean.
I do wish other sports such as basketball and wrestling would host similar events.
Didn’t hear any questions about Brett Favre and we didn’t have a cranky 81-year-old coach not remembering a certain year or player.
It was fun.
So what were the topics?
• A former local high school coach coming out of retirement, returning as an assistant coach at another school and that program’s future.
• Former Cocalico coach Phil Kauffman, now the John Madden of Blue Ridge Cable, trying to find out info on the teams.
• A chance for the players to meet the media and talk about their seasons. Something many of them don’t get a chance to do during the season.
• A chance for all teams to say they have a shot at a section title.
• As I made the rounds of the teams in Section 3, one thing that interested me was the roster numbers ranging from the mid-20s for Pequea Valley to the high 60s for L-S and Lancaster Catholic.
With the exception of Columbia and Pequea Valley, most teams have more than 45 players on their roster. ELCO might be just above 40 as Mark Evans did not list any sophomores on his roster.
Come on coach, don’t take a page from the Joe PA playbook and how am I suppose to get a scouting report on your team!
• Last year was the Year of the Running Back in Section 3. This year, it might be the Year of the Quarterback. Catholic, Northern Lebanon and ELCO have veteran quarterbacks.
• Annville-Cleona after two years on the road, will finally play home games this year, under the lights, including a Thursday night pre-season tilt with Cocalico.
• The Game of the Year will be in week three when Catholic and Central hook up.
• Section Three, with a good mix of big (Class AAA) and small (Class AA and A) schools is the most competitive in the league.
However, with growing programs at Catholic and L-S, the smaller schools might not be able to compete, at least numbers-wise in a few years.
• Learned that Octorara is interested in coming into the league.
Might be a good fit for the Lancaster County teams in Section 3, but not for the Lebanon County schools such as Northern Lebanon.
That could be an overnight trip!
• As for the food, it was just hot dogs, soda and cookies. The kids were hitting the food table pretty good.
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