{"id":133662,"date":"2020-08-04T03:55:54","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T08:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=133662"},"modified":"2020-08-04T03:55:57","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T08:55:57","slug":"random-thoughts-august-4-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2020\/08\/04\/random-thoughts-august-4-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Thoughts: August 4 edition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

SCOTT TRUXELL\/<\/strong>independent sports editor<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This week\u2019s Random Thoughts center around today\u2019s conference call, Maryland\u2019s new plan for high school sports, new coaches at Van Wert High School, preseason football predictions and the new goal posts at Eggerss Stadium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meeting<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Ohio High School Football Coaches Association met with Lt. Governor Jon Husted on Monday, a day earlier than expected, to discuss the season and ways to play high school football this fall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not much information was released, but the discussion apparently was a positive one, but nothing earth shattering seemed to come out of it. Perhaps more will be said during today’s COVID-19 press briefing in Columbus. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Personally, I still would like to see football played this fall, even if it\u2019s a delayed or shortened season, and I\u2019m sure I\u2019m not alone. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maryland<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association has decided to postpone both the fall and winter high school sports seasons because of COVID-19 concerns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The plan is to move those sports to the spring, meaning all three seasons of sports will be played then.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m not sure how that\u2019s going to work, but good luck. I have a feeling they\u2019ll need it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

New coaches<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Van Wert has a couple of new fall sports coaches \u2013 girls soccer coach Matt Miller and girls tennis coach Katie Peterson. In addition, Tim Brown will take the reigns of the boys soccer team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Best of luck to all three of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Preseason football predictions<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unless high school football is moved to the spring, look for the VW independent\u2019s annual preseason predictions for the Northwest Conference and the Western Buckeye League. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those will appear on the Sports page in mid-August. If football is shifted to the spring, they\u2019ll appear then. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Goal posts<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new goal posts at Eggerss Stadium look nice, but am I the only one who already misses the old \u2018H\u2019 style goal posts that were there?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some people believe old ones were the original goal posts. I couldn\u2019t say one way or the other, but personally, I liked the old \u2018H\u2019 style goal posts, simply because you don\u2019t see them much any more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you have thoughts or comments on any of the above subjects, feel free to email me at sports@thevwindependent.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SCOTT TRUXELL\/independent sports editor This week\u2019s Random Thoughts center around today\u2019s conference call, Maryland\u2019s new plan for high school sports, new coaches at Van Wert High School, preseason football predictions and the new goal posts at Eggerss Stadium. Meeting The Ohio High School Football Coaches Association met with Lt. Governor Jon Husted on Monday, a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-03 03:46:10","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}