When things are going well thing stay the same.....when not, things change!

As high school football coaches prepare for the 2024 season are they superstitious gameday?

"Friday's are my most paranoid day," said Struthers coach John Bayuk.

"I'm a very regimented person and I don't wear the same stuff," said Howland coach Brian Jones.

"I purposely and intentionally try to do something different every week," said Lowellville coach Andy Mamula.

Whether it's wearing the same socks, shoes or shirts, coaches tend not to change their routine.

'I kind of listen to the same song before every game and did that since I played. Those are things I don't want to break out of," said Bayuk who led the Wildcats to the fourth round of the playoffs last season.

Others want to be different no matter what the situation.

" I try not to keep the routine because I want to be different, " said Mamula. "As a head coach you have to adapt so its kind of my way of getting into that mindset where we have a different routing every week."

Howland is coming off a 1-9 season under Jones, entering his second season.

"Coming off of last year if we we're to have success early, we're going to keep it going."

Others feel the superstitions have come and gone.

"Earlier in my coaching career I had a couple but on the sideline as a head coach, and the older I've gotten the less superstitious I've become," said East Palestine's Mike Demster.

Superstitious or not, when things are going well, things remain the same.