Inter-Valley Conference 2025

BelowTheLine said:
TV started soccer when they were in the PAC-7 and everyone in the league had soccer. They also had about 130 kids in a graduating class and now they are down to around 100 in a graduating class. If you assume half are boys that means you've lost 15 boys per grade level which means you've lost 60 boys in your high school since soccer started.

TV usually has 2-3 "Tusky Valley" kids who are hard core soccer players. Then there are usually 2-3 foreign exchange students who play soccer. Then the rest of team is typically athletes who are just looking to play a fall sport. Many of them don't have any soccer background at all. IF soccer didn't exist many of them would likely run CC, play golf or some might even play football.

Here's the thing. Even if only 4-5 "soccer" kids played football it would make a huge difference in the program because it would help field a JV team. Then, once you have a JV team many of your 8th graders going into 9th grade won't quit because they are afraid of being put out on to a varsity field because of low numbers. That has been a huge issue at TV in recent years. Not many freshman (and freshman parents) want their kid on a varsity field.

Having said that, soccer has been very successful at TV. They typically have 20-25 kids on the team and the team typically does well. I can't imagine a scenario where TV would get rid of soccer. I mean they just added girls' soccer 2 years ago even though they had to let athletes play two sports in the same season (volleyball & soccer for instance) to do it.

TV just has a little different mindset. They want to give their kids as many opportunities to participate as possible and they aren't as worried about wins/losses. Some of the other IVC schools are chasing state titles and wouldn't add soccer because it would limit their success.
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Starting girls soccer has done exceptional damage to a once great volleyball program as well. The fact is that if you try and give so many choices, none will have the chance to be exceptional.
 
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Play60Football said:
I think Coshocton and River View are the answers. Both D5 and probably shrinking..... I don't feel them staying in the MVL is an issue, I personally feel it's likely they look to get out.
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Split the 2 Divisions into 2 separate leagues all together. Maybe ask Riverview to join a league with the North teams and Coshocton to join a league with the South teams.I just never liked split conferences
 
TheirKillinMeWhitey said:
Split the 2 Divisions into 2 separate leagues all together. Maybe ask Riverview to join a league with the North teams and Coshocton to join a league with the South teams.I just never liked split conferences
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I happen to agree with you
and I see many schools that would possibly join the league was to get aggressive and add 4 schools to make it 8-8.

Conotton Valley is an obvious school for the North or small side.
 
PensoTiger said:
Kudos to Garaway for letting TCC out of their crossover game. A few other of those games do not need played as well.
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Smart move. Makes sense why would you want to a schedule a school that might not have a team.
Some of those other crossovers need to go. No offense to Buckeye trail. But they shouldn't be playing Indian Valley
 
I think it might be a situation where they are the closest/similar sized school with availability for that week. Not sure what Norton has returning.
 
Tattuz said:
I think it might be a situation where they are the closest/similar sized school with availability for that week. Not sure what Norton has returning.
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The other thing to keep in mind is TV needed a home game. There were a few schools that there maybe more natural matchups and there was mutual interest but both teams needed home games.
 
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GREATGHS said:
Smart move. Makes sense why would you want to a schedule a school that might not have a team.
Some of those other crossovers need to go. No offense to Buckeye trail. But they shouldn't be playing Indian Valley
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Tcc supposedly will be around 26 kids again but a lot of freshman’s and sophomores so they’ll still be awful but the numbers are better
 
GREATGHS said:
Smart move. Makes sense why would you want to a schedule a school that might not have a team.
Some of those other crossovers need to go. No offense to Buckeye trail. But they shouldn't be playing Indian Valley
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Who in the IVC should be playing Indian Valley next year lol. The reality is Buckeye Trail is better than TV and Claymont and right on par with Sandy Valley in any given non Cam Blair year.
 
GREATGHS said:
I will believe they will have 26 when I see it. I remember there were people last year saying they would have 20-25 last year and I think they had 13 or 14.
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I think they had numbers of interest and then some kids pulled on them. Would like to see them bounce and be solid moving forward.

I maintain - add a couple to north and a couple to south and call it a day why don't ya!!!!!!!!!

or continue to bicker over the same problem that has existed or until the league fractures and breaks up - which won't be good for anyone.

It is not hard fellas - who is the commish? gone are the days of the Chuck Rest era

The commish should be more proactive and instead of trying to talk everyone off their chairs when they get upset about these open dates and crossovers just add a couple more schools and have a 8-8 league

everyone plays their division - ad meetings guys can fill OOC with crossovers if they wish AND all you olympic sports can have the large invitationals.

Debate........
 
It's been brought up before but would adding River View and Coshocton be a viable option to eliminate crossovers? If my memory serves there was a rumor the league reached out to Coshocton... Again just a rumor but I vaguely remember that talk. Would they be able to poach them? would it be effective? would it cause more problems? just curious.
 
Coshocton & Riverview would be great additions to the South
Conotton Valley is an obvious addition to the north - have to find one last school .........

gee - looks like the league would only need to find two more......
 
Play60Football said:
It's been brought up before but would adding River View and Coshocton be a viable option to eliminate crossovers? If my memory serves there was a rumor the league reached out to Coshocton... Again just a rumor but I vaguely remember that talk. Would they be able to poach them? would it be effective? would it cause more problems? just curious.
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I think the best solution is to bring in Coshocton and River View for the big school division and bring in St Thomas Aquinas and get CV to come back for football for the small school division. These schools make the most sense logistically. Outside of those 4 schools, you would need to start looking at OVAC schools for the small school division and there aren't really any "big" small/medium sized schools in the area that would be open to leaving their conferences (Minerva maybe. Tuslaw and Fairless are very much happy in the PAC).
 
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