First, #PACtion has been a welcome relief today from the ridonkulus excel file I had to fill out for a vendor.
Second, there's a lot to unpack in that one single Raylan sentence.
In no particular order, IMO:
1. The Fed actually has opportunities to improve their football product and that doesn't even mean the tired, stupid and boring "add Massillon to the Fed argument" that got beaten more than a schnitzel.
2. They could add an 8th "football only" school but that would mean.....tuffer competition. School admins aren't champions of creative thinking, so that's not gonna happen. But I believe it could if they wanted it.
3.
@Bluestreakoffice's Lake Blue Streaks were at 404 boys in the last OHSAA enrollment report. The cut off for D-III is 389 boys. At some point I think this is a bridge that Lake and Fed are gonna have to cross.
4. Bluntly, I don't see McK ever coming back to the McK of days past. Respect their tradition, I own Bowersox's book about it. But I don't see it coming back for them. The city is too big of a mess. Part of it is the industrial decline forced by the Wall Street/DC ruling class upon factory towns like Canton and the other part is societal decline.
I think Canton leadership saw this years ago and got in the Fed to maintain a winnable football schedule. The other sports at McK, outside of basketball, have been a disaster in the Fed. That move was made for football. They saw that it was going to be very hard to play an independent schedule with an empty stadium (except for the Massillon game) and not much money to offer opponents to come to Canton. In addition to the program losing talent, discipline, coaching ability, fan support, you name it.
The school admin at Canton CS don't have the moxie of years past, either. They allow the Hall of Foam Vacation Land to walk all over them and treat the school district like a second class citizen. I'd love to see Canton grow a pair and build their own stadium and get out of the HOF stadium except if they want to play Massillon there.
HOT TAKES.