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What gives with the Washington Court House boys schedule? They've played 2-4 fewer games than any team in the section and I see only a total of 18 games on the table in MaxPreps. Just bad timing with weather delays?

Oh, get real on the D2 attendance. The fact that both schools were less than 20 miles from game is why it was so much higher. A championship game between, say, St. X and Moeller played at a Cincinnati venue would produce a similar discrepancy/

None whatsoever. OHSAA can't afford the rental required for it, and the Crew consistently qualify for postseason games that could potentially conflict with the playoff. OSHAA also can't afford Ohio Stadium. OSU would take a significant loss opening, staffing, and closing the stadium...

It's not like they're having to push the kids onto the bus with a cattle prod, you know...

Nailed it. Waaay more options for your limited free time and dollars than even ten years ago. Social media plays a role, too. Before MySpace/Facebook/Tik Tok, one needed to get out of the house to see your friends. Sport events were the natural gathering place, even for adults -...

This. When I was playing, we really didn't care how long a trip might be. We just wanted another chance to play a game of football.

The only fair way to add a factor for "quality losses" would be to correlate the margin of loss (getting beat by a last minute 50-yard field goal isn't same as getting beat by 70 points). This opens a can of snakes in terms of a benefit in running up scores. About the only way to moderate...

Large-scale fights at football games are NOTHING new - there were common back in the 1970's. Had to have an escort out of Wellston OH after a game back in 1977 due to rocks, 2x4s, etc. getting tossed at both the band and team buses (some serious pitching talent in the area was apparently...

No worse than parents here in Ohio holding their kids back a year in middle school solely to add a year of bulk and outside camps.

One that you might not expect - Wilmington Vs. Circleville back in the 60's and 70's when both were in the South Central Ohio League. It was an odd situation - not so much a rivalry as a hatred. Always lots of extra-curricular activities both on the field and off. Both had good football...

The irony... If you older types remember, the wealth of facilities at Scioto were what sparked the DeRolph lawsuit that found Ohio's school funding system to be inequitable.

We in Columbus don't know what "heavy traffic" means. Granted, something happens to a section of the freeway system 1-2 times a month when some yuppie tries to mate their Accura with a cement mixer - and the 270 East to I-71 exit on the north side is always a mess. But that's the exception...

Right on target. Scioto's area was pretty much built out when the school was opened, and the population has gone from child-heavy to a more normal population profile. Re-districting is going to be a nightmare for the school board. About the time Scioto was set up, a good chunk of Perry...

The intersection of US 33/42 is in the Johnathan Alder district, and would be right on the edge of the DCS district anywhere within hollerin' distance of that location. My guess is they would build it in the north-central part of the district, somewhere a bit southwest of Shawnee Hills...

Close enough.. Here's the current school attendance area - notice all the holes in the FH/Westland area. This was not due to Win-Win - but rather due to decisions made by individual homeowners or developers years in light of expansion of the Columbus city limits...

Spot on. South-Western City Schools might be the most schizophrenic school district in the state. SWCS is, I think, taking the right path in letting Westland and Heights move to a league that's a better fit. The Grove City and Central Crossing attendance areas fit the "OCC suburban" mold -...

Agree with CCL traditions - I'd guess there are still lots of "legacy" students enrolled. But... aside from a few of the rivalries from the old single-school suburbs. (Dublin-Hilliard comes to mind) - most of the OCC schools' intense rivalries have been replaced with internecine warfare...

I'll be honest - coming from a small town in Suthern Ahia, I know (and understand) the terror that many rural and small town residents hold regarding large cities. If all I knew of any large cities were news media reports, I would be as well. But - eight people murdered in one night in Pike...

All of these schools ASKED to join the OCC and knew their likely division assignments ahead of time.

The OCC doesn't hold strictly to OHSAA football division assignments - it's a multi-layered decision balancing multiple programs. Hilliard, for example, has 23 varsity sports at each high school, plus separate JV and freshman teams for many of them. Add in a similar number of middle school...