High School Football: OHSAA Uses Some Logic for Big Game
Posted November 13th, 2006 by George Thomas
While shivering in the pressbox at Byers Field in Parma covering the Massillon Tigers-Toledo Whitmer Panthers game, I listened in a couple of conversations that a stadium staff member was having with several members of the press. He's basically heard through whatever grapevine he had privvy to that the neutral sites expecting to host high school playoff games Saturday were having a difficult time finding staffers because no one wanted to miss the Bucks play the Wolverines. And this is surprising how?
You know. Ohio. Cradle of football. Home to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. The state that gave footbal Paul Brown. There would be little interest in a game that would between the two greatest rivals in college sports that would decide who got a trip to Glendale, Ariz. to the BCS National Championship Game. Me, heck, I'd rather watch endless reruns of Providence than OSU vs. Michigan.
No, I'm not nuts and neither is OHSAA because the organization wisely shuffled its playoff schedule to accommodate the fever that's likely to grip this state in the coming days. For this, they deserve more than a heaping dose of credit.
