Exactly.
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If this is football only then Logan joining would be a big deal. Sure its far but they travel well.
I think they only lost 2 or 3 league games in that version of the SEOAL. Would have another state title if it wasn’t for Logan canceling it’s season 
Blame it on the teachers. They went on strike. Hopefully we’ll never see that again.
I’d recommend Athens here too, but they’re scared of the Ironmen .. Poor puppy dogs!
Ironton dominated the SEOAL for a good number of years.
Jackson would throttle Athens , please
True. Most of the domination was back in the T-AAA D-AA & S-A days. Ironton had darn good teams & consistent.
Jackson is lucky we didn’t play them this year. They would’ve been crying for us to let up. What a lucky school to not play us the year we would destroy them.
Why can’t they play?? Both team make exits out of the playoffs they can agree to play and then Wellston can just show them how lucky they really are. Would’ve thought a team that knew they had some destroyer team coming up would’ve wanted to keep Jackson on the schedule instead of tapping out. Like I said though for this year it’s not to late they can still possibly get a game in against each other.
I’d like to see this league. Add Unioto or Chilli, and most teams won’t travel much further than an hour for a game. Gallia might get pounded this year and next, but it’d be better for the future.
Ironton will be good for the next couple seasons, but they’ll never replicate what Lutz did from late 70s to 90s
Ironton, Portsmouth, Jackson and Chillicothe is a good start. Maybe add one or two more. Just don’t know who it would be. If you added Wheelersburg and Waverly it would be great for travel. the new parkway makes an ironton to chillicothe trip at just about 1:10 by bus.
I’d say:
SOC I: East, Green, Notre Dame, Beaver Eastern, Symmes Valley
SOC II: Burg, Ironton, Waverly, West, Minford
SOC III: Valley, Northwest, Portsmouth, Oak Hill
If Western ever gets football going, slide them into SOC I and move Beaver Eastern/Symmes Valley to SOC III. I know some rivalries would be broken up in this scenario (Valley/Minford; Portsmouth/Ironton), but could always schedule them as nonconference games and work with conference to keep them last game of season.
If 2 divisions still preferred for scheduling purposes, just put Valley and Portsmouth in SOC II, and Northwest and Oak Hill in SOC I.
All other sports are in 2 divisions with all non-football playing schools in SOC I. With that said, chance to do this was couple years ago and SOC didn’t do it. So I don’t see this happening anytime soon, if ever*
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Stay Independent in football only:
Keep Burg, Russell, Ashland, Portsmouth
Add from programs such as:
Jackson, Johnson Central, Cabell Midland, Spring Valley, Bishop Hartley, add maybe a Cincy school - Roger Bacon, Taft, Summit Country Day, etc etc
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Definitely a good idea even play schools like clinton massie Jonathan alder
A lot of major improvements could be made if the SOC 1/2 would bring in the geographically close SVC schools in, remove the outlier schools and bring in Chillicothe Portsmouth and Jackson into SOC.I like the idea of a 3 tier conference. It could give the larger Schools of the area better competition and reduce travel time and costs for the smaller schools while giving them a chance to be more competitive with less lopsided games.
[quote=SpeedKillz post_id=1884037 time=1600300013 user_id=16562]
Stay Independent in football only:
Keep Burg, Russell, Ashland, Portsmouth
Add from programs such as:
Jackson, Johnson Central, Cabell Midland, Spring Valley, Bishop Hartley, add maybe a Cincy school - Roger Bacon, Taft, Summit Country Day, etc etc
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what conference is going to allow a member not to
play the only real profitable sport? just don’t see it happening.