Okay, I didn’t realize the OP meant to say how to fix SEO footballformerfcfan wrote: Tue Nov 29, 2022 3:45 pmI’m not seeing where NC’s lack of recent success at the state level has anything to do with the question of why Southeast Ohio teams (in this case, Region 27) don’t make a run to the state title.
I get OP’s question. Unfortunately the only earnest answer is, in the case of Region 27, it often runs through one school in particular (NC) that isn’t even considered SEO. The other years it’s been just Trimble. Region 27, formerly Region 23 back when it was just six divisions, has just been futile for the most part against them. Not one SEO team that won a regional title had beat NC in the playoffs the year said team made state semis, and NC only has three losses total to SEO teams in playoffs (Symmes Valley 2004, Bridgeport 2010, and Paint Valley 2015.) So for everyone else that isn’t Trimble, the question isn’t “why can’t you win a state title” but instead “why can’t you get that far?” Because it’s beside the point of measuring up against MSML and western Ohio when you can’t even make it out of the region.
Getting that far to state semi’s and state title: just comes down to whether you’ve got the talent and you’ve got the ability, or not, to win it. McComb had a few more dudes than Trimble. Simple as that.
FYI: Trimble has only won R27 one time.
BTW, since NC is often in R27 and that’s one of the regions in the OP, when’s the last time NC has won a state title?