#PACtion™ 2024

Rich Kotite said:
@Mikefln the Steelers front office has been busy. Are you stoked or staying neutral waiting to see what happens?

Also Duquesne in the NCAA March Madness that's gotta be hot in the South Hills.

Watching that game vs VCU Sunday gave me a bloody nose it was so tuff with that defense and rebounding effort.

If I run the Pirates, and yinz wish I would, Keith Dambrot is throwing out the first pitch of opening day unless Michael Keaton wants to do it.
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I am certainly taking a wait and see approach with the Steelers. They made nice moves, but can they put it together and make something of it?

As far as Duquesne, many in my family graduated from there, they seem excited. I'm not a basketball guy at all. Never was interested in it. The only non contact sport I like is baseball.

The Pirates will never bring Michael Keaton back. He bad mouthed (told the truth) ownership in the past.
 
Mikefln said:
I am certainly taking a wait and see approach with the Steelers. They made nice moves, but can they put it together and make something of it?

As far as Duquesne, many in my family graduated from there, they seem excited. I'm not a basketball guy at all. Never was interested in it. The only non contact sport I like is baseball.

The Pirates will never bring Michael Keaton back. He bad mouthed (told the truth) ownership in the past.
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@Mikefln this is tuffness....do some yoga at Bend The Bridge yoga in South Hills and then shop at Fresh Thyme Bridgeville:

 
Mikefln said:
The only non contact sport I like is baseball.
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Raylan_Givens said:
Was once told that the Manchester game Harrison was suspended for was the first time Koach beat Mo Tipton (at Orrville & Coventry) and Mo was known to remind anyone around him of that.

Maybe that's what today's game needs - more cantankerous coaches. Imagine if Koach or Mo got treated like Dalton's Dial (getting called into the boss' office about a parent complaint after playing in state title game) they'd probably have has some colorful language and then driven straight to the parent's home and let some more color fly.
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We beat Mo in 1979 for the first Manchester win against Orrville. The score was 9-8 and was won on a Tom Markham field goal in the final seconds. So, if Mo was saying that, his memory was clouded. I think a few other Manchester teams got wins against the Riders in the early 80's, too. But, that 79 game was definitely a Panther win.
 
Rich Kotite said:
See this is the inside baseball information you get at PACtionTM.

As for Jackie Lee's, I'm sure @Bluestreakoffice and @TopCat know about it.

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Ate there at the restaurant a few times. My mom and dad loved it for some reason. I seem to remember it was because of the buffet having all-you-can-eat ribs. They might not have tasted great, but they were plentiful. From what I remember, the whole mall was a vanity project funded by wealthy new husband anxious to prove his love.
 
7Diamond said:
That Manchester - TV game was actually a regular Friday night game that got postponed due to a weather delay - big storm rolled through that evening. The game was played on Saturday night instead.

I realize y'all are hoping for some conspiracy theory on the missed extra point kick, but the fact is that Tusky's place kicker was also a soccer player and he chose to play in their soccer match that night. It was their back-up kicker that hit a low ball that went under the crossbar. Or maybe Koach did put some hex on the kid ......

Two names popped out in the article - Mark Groza and Colby Staubs. Excellent examples of PACtion student-athletes. Groza (yes, a distant relative of Lou The Toe), went to the U of Akron on a football scholarship and played LB for them, played on the team that won the MAC but lost their bowl game to Memphis. Went on to earn his Ph. D. in business and last I heard was working at N. Illinois Univ. Staubs walked on to The Ohio State University football team, I don't recall him ever getting any playing time, but from what I heard walked out of there with a 2002 National Championship ring and is a chiropractor in Florida. Not bad for two small town guys.

I vividly remember playing against Tusky at their no-lights stadium on a Saturday afternoon in 1977. They had the toughest guy I ever went against in Brad Reece at linebacker. Knock your head off and tell you to come back for more type of tuffness. He went on to the U of Akron and became a Little All-American at LB (Akron was Div II back then so "Little All-American" was the designation). We lost that game 11-8 on a late FG by Tusky.
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I remember that Tusky Valley game in 77. "Razor" Reece was a monster. Until that point, I never saw a guy that big be able to cover so much ground so quickly.
 
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I would never tell you how to vote; oh, wait, I might but remember in the 3-way primary for the Ohio Republican U.S. Senate today that one of the candidates family signed this dork for left field:

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(How many people watched THIS? Three?)

The same family also gave you this crappy logo which is automatically disqualifying:

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So if you're voting in the Republican primary, your two choices are the grandson of a booze peddling family from Copley or a car salesman from North Olmstead. The co-owner of a crappy baseball team is disqualified.
 
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TopCat said:
I remember that Tusky Valley game in 77. "Razor" Reece was a monster. Until that point, I never saw a guy that big be able to cover so much ground so quickly.
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This entire post is tuffness. Razor Reece probably grew up on some cowpath in New Cumberland or Mineral City and drank orange colored runoff water from abandoned coal mines.
 
Bellstores are taking over the formerly family-owned Finney's Marathon by West Holmes High School. Google maps puts it at .2 miles away. If that combined with playing Triway and Orrivlle doesn't put us miles ahead of Carrolton in the PACtionTM honoree club I don't know what will.


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Hot_Takes said:
Bellstores are taking over the formerly family-owned Finney's Marathon by West Holmes High School. Google maps puts it at .2 miles away. If that combined with playing Triway and Orrivlle doesn't put us miles ahead of Carrolton in the PACtionTM honoree club I don't know what will.


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Whoa! I know that one well. They had pizza rolls that you could not put down.

That should definitely put y'all ahead on the "maybe them" list, but, sadly, we know how some folks think about D3 schools in the PAC
 
Hot_Takes said:
Bellstores are taking over the formerly family-owned Finney's Marathon by West Holmes High School. Google maps puts it at .2 miles away. If that combined with playing Triway and Orrivlle doesn't put us miles ahead of Carrolton in the PACtionTM honoree club I don't know what will.


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Sam Williams-Dixon brought the PACtion™ to West Holmes for a short while.
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Krs1027 said:
West Holmes to the PAC is a given now. Also WH is D4
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What do you guys think? West Holmes is an interesting case.
  • Upper part of Division 4 at 232 boys per the 2021 EMIS numbers (not adjusted for competitive balance
  • For comparison, Canton South 232, Northwest 250; CVCA was 232
  • Lists Triway as their rival "in all sports," per the Wikipedia entry. Triway and West Holmes have played 49 times since 1972, making the Titans their most common opponent; next is Coshocton (44 games), but third is Orrville (42 games). Fairless is 12th (15 games) and Manchester is 14th (12 games). Northwest (6 games) and Tuslaw (2 games) are well down the list. They have never played Canton South
  • Expands the footprint southward. West Holmes is a 23-minute drive south of Triway. It would be an approximately 1-hour trip for the trio of South, Manchester and Northwest
  • West Holmes, currently a founding member of the OCC, has flirted with leaving that conference in the distant past
  • Orrville came from the OCC
  • The OCC is shifting southeast with the addition of New Philly and future addition of Dover (both large D3 schools)
  • West Holmes has had an extremely good 3-year run at 36-6 since the Covid year, but is over .500 in just nine of the last 21 seasons
  • Would give the conference three D4, four D5 and one D6
  • And now ... a Bellstores 0.2 miles from the school?
Of all the options out there, there could be an argument that this would make sense. Of course, it's been crickets since this November 2022 story in The Canton Repository that indicated the PAC was looking for a new member for the 2025-26 season. That was before CVCA and the conference negotiated the Royals' departure a year early. But we know football is set for this coming fall.

When Mount Vernon left the OCC, they announced during the holiday period (Nov/Dec) of the 2022-23 school year and played just one more year in the conference. Assuming a similar timetable, if there were any interest in West Holmes actually departing the OCC and starting play in 2025-26 in another conference, news would need to break very soon.

The real question - whether its West Holmes, Copley or some other potential 8th school - is what is going on - if anything - behind the scenes? It's been awfully quiet for a long time.
 
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