Akron Buchtel--Ricky Powers

[osugrad21]

ABJ

Powers shares game plan

Now coach, former Buchtel football star promises new attitude, stresses studies

By David Lee Morgan Jr.

Beacon Journal sportswriter

The feeling of a community coming together was touching.
Ricky Powers, the new football coach at his alma mater, Buchtel High School, made that the emphasis during his meet-and-greet with supporters Wednesday evening at the Ed Davis Community Center.
Powers, a 1988 Buchtel graduate, was a star running back for the Griffins when they won back-to-back state championships in 1987 and 1988. He later starred at the University of Michigan and then played in the NFL for the Detroit Lions, the Browns and the Baltimore Ravens.

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[Best Buckeye]

Congrats on the job Ricky , just don't make Akron a conduit to tsun.

[osugrad21]

ABJ

Buchtel coach Powers is man with a message By Patrick McManamon
Published on Thursday, Aug 23, 2007


You call the high school coach's cell phone and the message veers quickly from ''leave your name and number.''
''I make mistakes,'' you hear. ''I make bad decisions. I do things I know are wrong, but I do them anyway.
''I know better.
''Thank God we can start over.''
It's part greeting, part philosophy, part catharsis. And, of course, part leave me a message.



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''This thing is bigger than football,'' first-year Buchtel coach Ricky Powers said this week at the City Series media luncheon.

[stowfan]

Buchtel was plowed under by Walsh Jesuit 42-14. Because of my boy's fall league baseball practice, I only caught the last quarter of the game. Walsh is div.ll I believe, and has an incredible number of players in the 6'2" to 6'7"
height range. It was almost like watching a high school team play a middle school team.

[Roll Red Roll]

Powers and Buchtel fall to 0-2 as the Griffs fell to Big Red 20-6.