2025 Three Rivers Conference.

PrairieDog said:
I heard Covington is having a ground breaking ceremony today for the track/stadium renovations they're going to do over the summer. Getting 25 years out of a track is pretty impressive. A new press box and a few other improvements are on the list too. Hope it goes smoothly!
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Actually the ceremony is today. Here is the link to what they plan to do: https://bucctownusa.com/smith-field-stadium-upgrades/. The people I talked to (she works for the school) are "cautiously optimistic" about the project. The last major upgrade to the facilities in 2000 had large public support and donations. The town has changed, so the school is footing most of the bill.
The project is the brain child of the superintendent and the school board. They haven't asked for a lot of input from others in the school, and the price for the project has already gone up from what people were told originally because they keep adding things to it.
The new entrance they are proposing looks great. I did notice the last time I was there the blacktop under the track was starting to crack, so fixing that will make a big difference. It doesn't appear that the press box will be much bigger, although the people I talked to said they plan on having a roof hatch for the film crew or coaches to go up top. Hopefully everything stays on schedule!
 
That place has been a joke since I played against them in the early 80s used to use an old pool house that was barely big enough for our team. They do have turf though…😂😂

So with the possibility of the TRC moving to 6 schools, the question of non conference comes to the surface.
My opinion for MU is…
Week 1: Arcanum
Week 2: Graham
Week 3: Ft Loramie
Week 4: Search high and low for someone north of I70. Maybe a NWCC school…
Week 5: Dayton City League school🙄. Dunbar?
Weeks 6-10 conference rotation

This is going to get old real quick. They need to get a plan together and recruit Ft Loramie really hard and even reach out to a spencerville, etc.
what a mess.
 
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Bless Em All said:
This is going to get old real quick. They need to get a plan together and recruit Ft Loramie really hard and even reach out to a spencerville, etc.
what a mess.
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The good news is the schedules are in place for a couple years until the change happens. Hopefully that gives the AD's time to find teams to fill the schedules. Lehman just fired their AD though, so they have to replace him first.
 
No doubt that weeks 4 and 5 will be tough to fill, as 95% of teams are playing league schedules by week 4.
seems like 3 choices:
1-find 2 independent schools who want to play our league schedule.
2- find another league with only 6 teams. 6-team leagues are few and far between, but Dayton Public does fit the bill.
3-every man for himself. 6 teams all looking for independent games the same weeks seems tough.

The long term goal obviously is to find 2 schools to join the league. Nobody wants in now, but maybe things change in the next 2+ years.
 
Bless Em All said:
That place has been a joke since I played against them in the early 80s used to use an old pool house that was barely big enough for our team. They do have turf though…😂😂

So with the possibility of the TRC moving to 6 schools, the question of non conference comes to the surface.
My opinion for MU is…
Week 1: Arcanum
Week 2: Graham
Week 3: Ft Loramie
Week 4: Search high and low for someone north of I70. Maybe a NWCC school…
Week 5: Dayton City League school🙄. Dunbar?
Weeks 6-10 conference rotation

This is going to get old real quick. They need to get a plan together and recruit Ft Loramie really hard and even reach out to a spencerville, etc.
what a mess.
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But why would Loramie or Spencerville even consider?
 
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dograt said:
No doubt that weeks 4 and 5 will be tough to fill, as 95% of teams are playing league schedules by week 4.
seems like 3 choices:
1-find 2 independent schools who want to play our league schedule.
2- find another league with only 6 teams. 6-team leagues are few and far between, but Dayton Public does fit the bill.
3-every man for himself. 6 teams all looking for independent games the same weeks seems tough.

The long term goal obviously is to find 2 schools to join the league. Nobody wants in now, but maybe things change in the next 2+ years
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I think a DPS scheduling agreement would be best. Maybe not ideal, but having those two weeks locked up until you get two members to join will make life so much easier in regards to scheduling. I think the DPS schools would be more than happy to do it as well.
 
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I think a DPS scheduling agreement would be best. Maybe not ideal, but having those two weeks locked up until you get two members to join will make life so much easier in regards to scheduling. I think the DPS schools would be more than happy to do it as well.
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That does not work for the smallest TRC schools. The larger 3, sure.
 
RollingTrain said:
But why would Loramie or Spencerville even consider?
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I doubt those teams would downgrade their conference play. If I was a bettin man, the only conference Fort would join is the MAC (and probably will wait however long in the NWC until fruition), and Spencerville won't ever leave the NWC.
 
ATOBTTR said:
I doubt those teams would downgrade their conference play. If I was a bettin man, the only conference Fort would join is the MAC (and probably will wait however long in the NWC until fruition), and Spencerville won't ever leave the NWC.
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Maybe if Parkway was about 30 mins more south they could potentially be swayed to join the TRC.
 
I don't recall seeing it posted (I apologize). Has the other team leaving for the OHC/CBC (I can't remember which) been announced yet?
 
D4fan said:
That does not work for the smallest TRC schools. The larger 3, sure.
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Troy Christian played Meadowdale last year. Matching them and Covington up with Stivers and Ponitz in weeks 4 and 5 makes at least a little sense.
 
ATOBTTR said:
I doubt those teams would downgrade their conference play. If I was a bettin man, the only conference Fort would join is the MAC (and probably will wait however long in the NWC until fruition), and Spencerville won't ever leave the NWC.
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Loramie isn’t going to leave the gates and rivalries of the SCL for this league, esp with football having a home.
 
RollingTrain said:
Loramie isn’t going to leave the gates and rivalries of the SCL for this league, esp with football having a home.
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They were invited in for football only (and girls tennis maybe?). They weren't asked to leave the SCAL.
If the TRC had done it 2-3 years ago it would've worked. Now that FL has found a football home, they're going to stay for awhile.
 
dograt said:
They were invited in for football only (and girls tennis maybe?). They weren't asked to leave the SCAL.
If the TRC had done it 2-3 years ago it would've worked. Now that FL has found a football home, they're going to stay for awhile.
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Well.. if you think a school like Loramie has girls tennis... I'm not sure your sources are correct.

Regardless... The only conference change Loramie would accept anymore is the MAC. Even then, DSJ would need to leave, and they would have to be convinced to come over for every sport... not just football. Asking Russia to come along for all sports may sweeten the deal for them, but I doubt that happens.
 
MacMan55 said:
Well.. if you think a school like Loramie has girls tennis... I'm not sure your sources are correct.

Regardless... The only conference change Loramie would accept anymore is the MAC. Even then, DSJ would need to leave, and they would have to be convinced to come over for every sport... not just football. Asking Russia to come along for all sports may sweeten the deal for them, but I doubt that happens.
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girls golf?
it was something the SCAL doesn't have that FL does

regardless, I agree FL wants a MAC invite and would not leave the SCAL for anything else. The TRC had a chance to get them for football only a few years ago, but waited too long and that opportunity has passed.
 
There is no real option right now. Better hope East or Lehman doesn’t decide to bolt. Adding any sport vs Dayton City schools is asking for trouble. I remember Milton playing Patterson down at Welcome and that was 30 years ago. It was sketchy. The Cincinnati schools we’ve played have been sketchy. Aken in the playoffs a few years back got heated and that was at home.too many cultural differences. IMHO.
 
Bless Em All said:
There is no real option right now. Better hope East or Lehman doesn’t decide to bolt. Adding any sport vs Dayton City schools is asking for trouble. I remember Milton playing Patterson down at Welcome and that was 30 years ago. It was sketchy. The Cincinnati schools we’ve played have been sketchy. Aken in the playoffs a few years back got heated and that was at home.too many cultural differences. IMHO.
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Please elaborate on these cultural differences.
 
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