Logan vs Pickerington Central

[Pol pot]

Don’t know Schoonover, but I do know Cross. Played at Warren Western Reserve and coached power programs at Grove City and Canton McKinley. Member of the coaches Hall of Fame. Trust me, he ain’t getting outcoached,lol.

Many OCC schools do involve their HC when hiring assistant coaches . Hard to do at Logan, but larger schools with bigger enrollments have teacher openings every year where they can hire teachers/coaches in those openings. Tremendous advantage.

However, Brian is older, has some health issues and won’t be around for a long term, but gets TV off on good footing which will be a challenge for them.

Logan now moves from playing N-Y, Warren Local to Pickerington , Reynoldsburg, Lancaster,etc. Night and day. This was not well thought out. Independent looks much better.

+1

And this is NOT a negative towards the kids or community, it just was not the right decision

[formerfcfan]

OCCwas a horrible horrible move. However don’t blame the one year wonder of an AD. That decision starts at the top and works down. None of this is what was best for the kids in any sport.

LM had far more exposure to, and experiencing working with, the schools closer to Columbus than the top of the district.

I'm not saying that "this is what their superiors wanted" is incorrect. But did they not consult the AD on this? Pick their brain, form any evaluations or look at it in-depth? Because unlike them, the previous AD actually had experience working with league transitions at two different schools. One of those schools, some would argue, is even loftier to work with from the inside-out than Logan when it comes to "find a league that we fit best in" matters (Whitehall.) At the other school, they even were in the room when Logan had applied to that school's league!

If not, then what was the point of hiring that person? To do the clerical and typical AD workload, and just rubberstamp the wishes of above on things like joining the OCC?

[loganlocos]

Lol. It's funny when Logan was winning many years ago everybody was saying " well why don't Logan get in the OCC and get out of that little weak league so you can play teams your own size" How times have changed! Should they try again to get in the TVC?

Logan hires an AD that did not have a great reputation in Central Ohio from their previous stops, said AD signs Logan up for the OCC despite the fact their previous job was at a school that literally left the OCC for competitiveness reasons, leaves after one year to take the job at the school that would running clock Logan playing 10 versus 11 wire-to-wire.

Curious if Logan made that person pay General Admission tonight!

I know its easy to blame the last AD since they are no longer in the school system.

But the administration at LHS - superintendent on down - have all been seemingly unanimously "Pro-OCC" from the moment the invite happened through today. Over time the community will decide whether that decision was right. I'll always support our kids and coaches and hope that after some growing pains their vision proves correct.

Long term, however, I think Logan's biggest problem is declining enrollment in a conference where "growth is key" - the schools that win consistently tend to have consistent growth and turnover of residential properties. At least in football.

[formerfcfan]

I know its easy to blame the last AD since they are no longer in the school system.

But the administration at LHS - superintendent on down - have all been seemingly unanimously "Pro-OCC" from the moment the invite happened through today. Over time the community will decide whether that decision was right. I'll always support our kids and coaches and hope that after some growing pains their vision proves correct.

Appreciate this. Thanks for this, and for dropping by.

Long term, however, I think Logan's biggest problem is declining enrollment in a conference where "growth is key" - the schools that win consistently tend to have consistent growth and turnover of residential properties. At least in football.

Very good observation. Making matters trickier is how much real estate stands to get filled in by households that won’t have kids attending the district (e.g. double income no kid arrangements, empty nesters, urban professionals whose jobs became WFH), and owners that want to get into the cottage/AirBnB industry.