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Here's a wild idea that OHSAA won't do. OHSAA wanted money when they expanded to 16 teams and teams wanted 2 home games, but with 16, it's kinda too easy to make the playoffs and you're either competing for a home game or games or a playoff spot. Well what if we drop the playoffs to 14 teams (or 7 t...

South Webster is missing. I would add the 4 Pike County schools as well for 30 olympic, 25 football (maybe add Manchester for FB for 26)

I wonder how this will work with districts, regionals, etc. will they wait until the regionals to host the Convo? Will the regular season be extended or the state tournament happen sooner. This could be interesting. Well essentially, they reduced the tournament by a round of basketball going from 8...

Although looking at SE Ohio, I think they'd want 6 divisions with the top 2 divisions at 64 teams each so they can guarantee 7 districts where with 7 divisions and with 80 team D1/D2, SE Ohio might be stuck with only 6, maybe even 5, districts. ---D# Signifies Approved 7 Divisions 64 x2/168 x4: D1 6...

For the NW schools and other rural areas, I would've wanted 2 80-team divisions D1-D2 and 4 160-team divisions for D3-D6. This is essentially a 5 division format for the smaller 80% while the new D1 would be split in half creating an additional division at the top 20%. It doesn't change much, yet ch...

So looked into the small D1 & D2, 6 division format more as opposed to the small D1 & D2, 7 division format and currently. Currently: D1 346-1300 (198) D2 193-345 (201) D3 121-192 (201) D4 16-120 (200) 80 x2/160 x4: D1 561-1300 (80) D2 401-560 (80) D3 243-400 (158) D4 164-242 (159) D5 107-16...

I don't like 7 divisions, but I'm okay the idea of 2 reduced top divisions. Something I'd like to see is have an 80 team D1 and D2, then D3-D6 with 160 teams. This allows for 10 team districts (8 districts for D1 & D2 instead of 16). If D1 is too big, I could see 64 and 96 instead as an alternat...

MTSWNGRVSG wrote: ↑Thu Jan 25, 2024 2:00 pm What will the SOC due if Oak Hill does leave or will there be reaction from the SOC?

That's something I'm curious about. My guess is go for Portsmouth, but also wouldn't be opposed of an SOC-OVC merger either (with or without Gallia Academy and/or Ironton FB)

I could see the TVC Ohio merge with TSL after adding Oak Hill. TVC Ohio North/East: Alexander Athens Nelsonville-York Fort Frye Marietta Warren TVC Ohio South/West: Meigs Point Pleasant River Valley Oak Hill Vinton County Wellston Could see in olympic sports split into 4 pods of 3 to limit travel, ...

I could see the TVC Ohio merge with TSL after adding Oak Hill. TVC Ohio North/East: Alexander Athens Nelsonville-York Fort Frye Marietta Warren TVC Ohio South/West: Meigs Point Pleasant River Valley Oak Hill Vinton County Wellston Could see in olympic sports split into 4 pods of 3 to limit travel, b...

So I was gonna watch the whole video until I seen it was over an hour long so skipped through it for now. OHSAA considered 9 options: 1. 4 Divisions 2. 5 Divisions 3. 6 Divisions 4. 6 Divisions (Small D1) 5. 6 Divisions (Small D1 & D2) 6. 6 Divisions (Small D1 & D6) 7. 7 Divisions 8. 7 Divis...

6 would be the perfect number of divisions in my mind. It helps to make D1 discrepancies lesser and doesn’t kill smaller schools on the back end by spreading it all too far out. That's my thinking. With 6, you can still do a State final four in 3 days and make money with 3 2-game sessions. D1 would...

I don’t know who was pushing for it but I think folks were looking for a solution to good play in the conference. Well sounds like it was OH and NW and sorry but if that's the case that's not what the folks were looking for. They were looking for a pass to get to play lower schools so they could bu...

Manchester is in the soc football only, this upcoming season This game does no one in the SOC1 any favors. But considering everyone but Eastern plays them - whatever. (Doesn't the SHAC have 5 schools playing football?) Manchester (SOC I FB?) and Fayetteville (SBAAC FB) are the only 2 SHAC members w...

Why are people insistent on placing the D6 Valley squad in the "Big" conference? Makes no sense to me. You gain nothing getting beat up on by WB, West and Waverly if you are a small school. And truthfully, we get nothing out of it but a W and a few playoff points. I would rather play NW w...

Jackson River Valley Wellston Rock hill Gallia Piketon I’d imagine calls would be made to at least those schools. I'd take Jackson off of that list they seem very content in the FAC and were part of trying to pull other teams in, plus you've got SOC teams that have no interest in having Jackson in ...

My question is how would they breakup State with 7 divisions? Idk if they want to do Thursday games, but if they do, 21 games over 4 days doesn't look too pretty, and I don't see 7 games in a day. With 6 divisions, 18 games over 3 days looks more plausible with 3 games between 10-4 and 3 games 4:30-...

Using this year's enrollment and competitive balance numbers, here is roughly what 7 divisions would look like (assuming they take the largest schools in D1 like football): Division 1 (64 schools) : None Division 2 (122 schools) (cutoff:356) : Logan, Chillicothe Division 3 (122 schools) (250-355) :...

Being completely honest I think the better route would be into expansion of the regions and getting more teams in from that way. I see zero reason that we have teams making a 3 hour or more drive to play a opening round playoff game in that "region". Increase the overall regions and allow...