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However court goes his career is likely over.

Btw football coverage is not great but bball is even worse and spring sports is nonexistent.

Looks like OHSAA saw the writing on the wall and gave in before they paid anymore legal fees.

Coverage is dying. Newspapers are dying and the coverage dying with it. At one time Springfield had two papers,New Carlisle had one and Dayton two. They had a press time of ten o’clock or so that could be stretched someon Friday or Saturday. Now one paper with a press ttime of about 8 because...

As usual I could be wrong but it seems that the Rams played quite a few underclassmen this season and looked to be a real contender in the league this coming season.

Just saw that Greeneview is now looking for a new coach. Any idea about replacement,is the assistant ready to move up one seat?

Remember a basically Republican State Supreme Court said the property tax method of school funding was fundamentally unconstitutional. But Governor DeWine and the legislature came up with some half measures and the court bowed to the political pressure and said ok. Now the state is running a...

I wanted to teach since my soph. year in high school. I had a social studies teacher that showed me what a great teacher could do for his students. The irony is he did not coach then left for a very expensive prep school starting in Cincinnati and they needed a fb coach so he took the job just...

Bellbrook-Sugarcreek district got itself into trouble when the superintendent and some board members used some district funds to promote a levy. Ended up in court with fines and bad publicity

There are public schools that openly recruit now.

My wife had to decide about her class work. She is retired but works part-time writing IEP for the district,she names her hours works from home and likes what she is doing and gets paid well for doing it. That’s as good as it gets.

With another Berlin Hiland loss can we expect the superintendent to start crying for more competitive balance numbers or maybe ten or twenty divisions?

I don’t think it was ever a state requirement but some universities Wright State was one tried to make it an automatic part of their Ed program. They did not want to send anyone out without a Masters. WSU was not alone in this ,I believe these schools felt they were just getting ahead of the...

I didn’t make my point very well. OHSAA did go after spring soccer two or three times. Once some of the soccer organizations reached an accommodation. But some parents didn’t like it ,they sued. OHSSA lost to spring soccer every time. Costing them money and egg on the face. That’s what it will...

OHSAA does regulate off season activities in other sports. Coaches are only allowed certain amount of time with the team and some of that most not have any ball training activities. What happens with AAU or club teams OHSAA cannot touch, those are not schools teams and you are limited in the...