That's pretty much what happens at the state level too, which goes along with my point. In some of these sports the Athens backups or JV team would be a better option as another team in the league. Athens High School should view it as a disappointment every time they don't win a league title in any sport. The biggest school, the kids of OU employees bump, and the best resources.

Every district at the state level has a quota like it's the MLB All-Star game. I'm sorry it offends so many people here, but more often than not, the SE Ohio kids who make 1st or 2nd team All-State are the weak links. Then you can play the game of how many guys below them are better, but play for very talented teams in loaded districts.

The SE Ohio kids who are even Marietta/Capital/Otterbein level good can dominate every night in their league at the D2 level. Just look at the list over the last few years if you want names. There's a reason teams like Fairfield Union, Circleville and a few others fought hard to move from the Central to the Southeast District. No one in the SE District is begging to be in the Central or thrown in with Cincinnati schools.

By the time it gets to the Honorable and Special Mention, it should basically just be a list of the __ high scorers from each district. That's all it really is in basketball. In other sports it's probably even less of an effort.

You asked, and I quote, “Is there even one student taller than Burrow currently enrolled in half those schools?“, I simply answered your question off the top of my head impromptu. Don’t like the answer, don’t ask the question!

For someone who loves answering 25% of a question, I guess odds are I will never hear what you were arguing about in the first place. All you did was grasp on to a few outliers like the SE District, by and large, is not a joke.

+1

And for the record, donuthole, I was opposed at the time and still am to Athens’ move to the TVC. It was a callus move by the school and helped lead to demise of the much stronger SEOAL, in which AHS was struggling in football. Also, not surprised you’re not interested in history. Your generation generally feels the world was created at your birth specifically for your enjoyment. There’s a name for that in philosophy. It’s called solipsism.

This is a conversation about the quality of SE Ohio basketball when Joe Burrow played; questioning the value of referencing that the 1934/35 State Champs were from Waterloo isn't a "lack of interest in history" or solipsism.

But by all means, let's make this a conversation about generational differences. Seems like a really productive direction to take this conversation.

You want to break down the general health of that area 90 years ago to how it is now? Or would it be better to compare how basketball is played now, and how it was played more than a decade before the NBA came to be? It is a completely different world in every aspect.

Who do you have as the top baseball talent from the area? I say Denton Young once his team applied to OHSAA to be placed in the SE District. They wanted to dodge Eddie Delahanty and dem boys from the Cleveland region until later in the state tournament.

I'm still mad the Spartans were stolen by Detroit.

I didn't catch that. Can you quote what he said that led you to believe that?

So, OCF is calling someone he disagrees with donuthole. Very mature and intelligent. Kinda reminds me of someone else calling others he disagrees with Pocahontas or Sleepy Joe or Low IQ or . . .

Wait. You are a teacher that takes "acceptation"? Is that consistent with the quality of the Southeast district we are saying is on par with the rest of the state?

The draw when Unioto and John Glenn were down in the Convo was as tough as any other corner in the state. Trust me, there are years the SE Ohio draw can go toe-to-toe in the smaller schools level and if I recall John Glenn drilled SVSM in the state tournament that year as well.

Congratulations to John Glenn High School from the East District on the state title, "smacking" SVSM by 4 points.

I believe Chillicothe is the last SE Ohio team to win a state title in 30 years in the top three divisions. Maybe a couple of titles in D4?

Not a boomer, though I'm married to one. I, like our football coach, am a War Baby!

War? What war? Ah nevermind, I don't care.