Gonna stop right there. Lima Senior in no way wants any part of the GMC these days. Boys basketball would be the only beneficiary. All other sports no sir. As someone who rode those trips for four years back in the 90s they're not fun.
My junior year year of football at Lima Senior (1997) we took two yellow school buses to Niles McKinley. Three hours plus on of those things (6 hours plus round trip). Funny thing is the previous season we took a charter bus to Massillon, week 2 in 1996 and then took yellow busses back to PBTS for the state championship game that season. I guess they figured charter busses were bad for us haha.
Lima has had about as much luck establishing a home region as we have had establishing a home conference the last 20 plus years. Some years we've been in the Dayton / Cincy region, other years the Toledo region, and every now and then a Columbus region.
I thought Marathon Oil was headquartered in Findlay. That is why Findlay College is the Oilers.
That’s at least three hours by school bus.
Husky Energy is the most recent occupier of the oil refinery in Lima. Lima's oil refinery is (at least to my knowledge) the oldest still operating refinery in Ohio (one of the original Rockefeller Standard Oil Refineries).
I was a bit off. When I put it in, it definitely had Defiance going through Toledo (75/80). But didn't pay attention to the map. It doesn't have them going all the way to 71 (Strongsville), but getting off the Turnpike (80) by Norwalk and meandering down to Lodi.
That, or slim the regions down maybe. Instead of four have 8.
Richmond could have 3 trips to the Lafayette area. That conference is very spread out compared to others in Indiana. They have Muncie Central, Anderson, Marion, and Kokomo as well. Believe an Indy school too. A lot of travel to go 0-10 for Richmond this year.
The worst part is that you are serious about this.
Depending how you go.
Spread All Day, good question.
No actually it’s Cadiz Harrison central down by Steubenville that would have had to travel to conneaut not a team from cincy lol that would be a bit much for a 1st round playoff game
I was thinking in terms of boys basketball and football back in the day (90’s). Other sports, it doesn’t make any sense. Also, a lot of the GMC schools now are very large DI schools whereas Lima is a mid D2 school due to declining enrollment. In terms of travel, Lima is still traveling to Toledo every other weekend. From a travel standpoint, Lima’s best chance moving forward is continued enrollment decline to where they are D3 and playing more mid-sized schools.
One of Richmond’s closest travel games this year was when Northmont ventured over to Wayne County, Indiana to meet the Red Devils.
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I would think 80 to 71. South to Cloverleaf. That’s the way I would drive it. Norwalk to Lodi on 224 is the scenic route.
What kind of meal are you looking for?
Colt meat?
and thats 4 hours in a car. Take a bus, add 30 players and coaches, your looking realistically at a 5 hour trip one way.
Toledo is not Cincinnati, trust me. The funny thing is, whenever we'd travel to Toledo St. Francis in week 1 back in the day we'd always stop at the rest stop off I-75 near BG BUT we NEVER EVER stopped at a rest stop or anywhere for that matter on any of our dozens of trips to GMC schools haha. Never figured that out. Thankfully most GMC campuses were right off the interstate.
I mean....yes?
You can scroll past you know?
