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The problem at Trace (if you want to call it a problem) is WHERE the students live. MT is pretty much in their population center - there's really not much to be gained by building a second high school in another location. The majority of MT kids already live a short distance away from the...

Yes, it did. Only five of the graduating seniors were attending in the high school building itself. The others took their classes at the vocational campus.

If Massillon had matched the average US population growth rate per US Census reports (which I think you used), it should have had 57,735 residents in 2020. It grew a TOTAL of 2% in sixty years, whereas the US average increase was 84% during the same time frame. Even the City of Columbus doesn't...

My kids graduated from Darby High School in the Hilliard City School District a couple years before Bradley was opened. I think the larger of their two classes had a bit over 600 graduating seniors. cdub4 - you're exactly right about school size. Most Central Ohio districts aim for that...

The MT to WCH adjustment isn't likely to happen unless utter financial disaster overtakes one of the two districts. That's REAL touchy subject in Fayette County. 😁 Most of the surrounding county seat districts take in a considerable chunk of the surrounding county. WCH City Schools'...

Suthin' Ahia, circa mid 1970's. One of my teammates was bitten on the calf by an opposing player while they were tangled up at the bottom of a massive goal-line pile. For the rest of our high school years, the other team was referred to as the "Biting Tigers". Name withheld to...

"I don't think they would have ever forced Massie and Wilmington out," Wasn't Wilmington's insistence on expansion toward the Cincy/Dayton area the trigger that drove the split? Full disclosure - I've only heard the "East Side Story" side of the events.

Who didn't see this coming? Wonder if this was organized by the Bishop Sycamore crowd? 🙄 The HOF is just not that kind of a draw in the first place, and Canton just doesn't have the year round attractions needed to support a hotel of this nature.

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...