Can’t always completely control your surroundings, but you CAN control the company you KEEP! Choose those that: 1-Tell you the truth 2-Hold you accountable 3-Are supportive 4-Challenge you 5-Truly want you to be happy AND make sure you can do the same for those people

Seeing more and more kids using recruiting services. Here are 6 things players should worry about before worrying about a hiring a recruiting service. 1. Having a GPA at a minimum of 3.00 or more ideally 3.5 2. Playing Varsity 3. Starting Varsity 4. Being one of the best players on your own team 5. Being one of the best players at your position in your conference 6. Being one of the best players in your region I see too many players paying services to help them achieve something that’s never going to happen because the things I listed have not been achieved. If you accomplish the things on this list I promise that the recruiting interest will start to happen organically. Remember this, college coaches are recruiting the player not the service. If the traits aren’t there and the player isn’t good enough, the scholarships won’t come and there’s no need for help “navigating” the recruiting process.

CHASE SIVON WALKS IT OFF IN THE 8TH! GOOD GOLLY MISS MOLLY! Pirates win 12-11 in eight @PerryPiratesBB @Perry_Pirates @ohiovarsity

Middle America families stuck in the biggest Ponzi scheme of all time that is travel baseball. Baseball needs Legion Ball played at high school fields in t-shirts and gray pants more than ever right now.

Perry football in the House! @WaltMoses2025 @NateTrefzger @Trent5Taylor #QBX🎯💪🌪

🚨 🚨 🚨 College Coaches 🚨 🚨 🚨 The Lake County Showcase is May 5th with Perry is hosting our portion from 8:55-9:35. Lake County, Ohio is home to many past and present college players, come see who is next!!! 🏴‍☠️ 🏴‍☠️ 🏴‍☠️

Spring Weight Room Teams are set, always COMPETE! 🏴‍☠️ 🏴‍☠️ 🏴‍☠️

PYFL, @lukefarrell89 and @WaltMoses2025 provided an amazing opportunity for our young athletes at the Punt, Pass, Relay! Great seeing Pro, College, High School, and Middle School Pirates working with our youth 🏴‍☠️ 🏴‍☠️ 🏴‍☠️

𝗦𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗲! Camp dates are live! Open to all entrants 9th-12th grade. More details to follow for signups

When one third of 8th grade girls spend 7 hours a day on social media, the problem isn’t self-control. It’s that we built a system that treats adolescent attention as raw material.

Over 140 Pirates participated in Liftmas 2025!! This continues to be such a great event for our MS/HS Student Athletes to get together & get after it before break! Thank you to Coach Crissinger & Boosters for making it possible & Winter coaches for their flexibility! 🏴‍☠️ 🏴‍☠️ 🏴‍☠️

Restorative practice has been rolled out at scale in many schools and regions. Unfortunately there are lots of reasons why educators should use extreme caution before adopting RP: 1. Lack of demonstrated effectiveness 2. High costs 3. Decline in adult authority 4. Reduction in safety, calm and ironically, dignity That’s not to say it’s not useful in many situations, but as a whole school system replacing other systems (eg boundaries, taught behaviours, consequences) it usually leads to terrible outcomes. See New York for details. An interesting study here: manhattan.institute/article/…

Congrats to Trent Taylor, Nick Gustin, Michal Niedzwiecki, Chase Sivon, Traxton Richards, and Carter Crofoot on EARNING All-State Honors! Major media award that wouldn’t be possible without the TEAM committing as a whole so individuals can shine!! #TEAM #EARNED 🏴‍☠️ 🏴‍☠️ 🏴‍☠️

Laptops in class: learning tool or attention thief?

The more time students spend on screens, the less they learn. Ed tech does not belong in schools (until it is thoroughly tested & proven to help). Excerpt from Jared Cooney Horvath's excellent new book, The Digital Delusion, in @TheFP thefp.com/p/we-gave-students…

Work Ethic, Resiliency, Selflessness, Positivity…our Seniors are models of what TEAM is about Justin, Brody, Jimmy, Teagan, Antonius, Sean, Jake, Brady, Connor, Trent, McKoy THANK YOU for everything you’ve done, given, and mean to the Pirate program! #PerryPride 🏴‍☠️ 🏴‍☠️ 🏴‍☠️

1st Rd pick of @NHLBlackhawks Wanted to finish his senior football season with his boys State champ Being a HS athlete is the best time of your life. Kids are missing out

High school football: ‘Program players’ are heartbeat of area regional finalists trib.al/RekiitY

NEW STUDY on Cell Phone Bans: "We find SIGNIFICANT IMPROVEMENTS in student test scores in the second year of the ban after that initial adjustment period... [and] cell phone bans significantly reduce student unexcused absences." This is huge

CONGRATS @JoeHuber14 on EARNING another amazing accomplishment!! Work wins and this dude does nothing but work! Got a new #Vikings fan in Ohio! #Earned #Celts

#Vikings OL Joe Huber has made the 53 man roster, per @AdamSchefter. Huber was an undrafted free agent in this years draft. Huber was the best run blocker in the preseason, and played the most snaps for Minnesota during this span, according to @PFF.