LCC Working To Fill A Football Schedule As An Independent

(8-11-20) While Ohio high school athletic conferences are hastily putting together schedules after the OHSAA made changes to the 2020 football season…one Stateline area school, Lima Central Catholic (LCC) is hoping fill their independent status dates.

2020 Revised MAC Football Schedules

Yesterday the Midwest Athletic Conference released its revised schedules, all were conference games, not one non-conference game. Hard to blame the MAC or any AD for going that route.

But for LCC they will now have to find six schools who will not play an entire six game conference schedule or find other independents around the state, which could mean some long road trips.

John Schnieders, LCC Athletic Director

It is certainly not a desirable scenario for us. We are inquiring about a number of possible options with conferences and individual schools. We will do whatever it takes to provide our student-athletes the opportunity to compete assuming we get the green light to play football games this fall.

NOTE: Added after this story first posted – BVC Schedule

BVC FB sched

NOTE: After story was posted Tinora was scheduled to travel to Lima to play LCC On 8-28, shortly after that …Tinora now has an open date on Wk1, LCC will now play as the 12th member in the BVC to fill those open dates

Ok, schedule revision number 53. LOL

2020 Tinora Rams football schedule:

Open week 1
Week 2 @ Edgerton
Week 3 @ Hicksville
Week 4 vs Antwerp
Week 5 @ WT
Week 6 vs Ayersville
Weeks 7, 8, 9 – playoffs
Week 10 vs Fairview

— Tinora Rams Live (@TinoraRamsAudio) August 12, 2020

Lima Central Catholic's football schedule of 6 games against BVC teams has shrunk to 4 games after two BVC teams opted out of playing the Thunderbirds. Licking Valley will replace McComb in week 2. LCC still looking for a game to replace Pandora-Gilboa.

— Jim Naveau (@Lima_Naveau) August 18, 2020

The T-Birds will play at Licking Valley week 2 and at Cambridge week 4 (at 4pm on Sat 9/19).

After week six of the season is complete, all Ohio schools will be eligible for the playoffs, Week 7 is the only week the Thunderbirds know they are guaranteed a game at this time.

Schools that are eliminated from the playoffs may continue to schedule regular-season games up until November 14.

Now every school in Ohio is waiting for Governor DeWine to give the okie dokie…that is the wild card in all of this.

Yesterday Lt. Governor Husted did seem to give a thumbs up on a possible football season –

What’s the greater risk to people under age 25, canceling in-person learning & extracurriculars (sports) to protect them from COVID or leaving it to chance how they’ll fill this time? You can’t take these things away from young people & expect good(health, academic, life) results

— Jon Husted (@JonHusted) August 10, 2020

Other schedules –

Before Pandemic LCC Schedule

Thu Aug 27 Shawnee
Fri Sep 4 Delphos St. John’s
Fri Sep 11 Spencerville
Sat Sep 19 Mogadore
Fri Sep 25 Toledo Rogers
Fri Oct 2 Mishawaka (Indiana) Marian
Fri Oct 9 Tinora
Fri Oct 16 Withrow
Sat Oct 24 Troy Christian
Fri Oct 30 Edon

WBL

2020 Football
		28-Aug	4-Sep	11-Sep	18-Sep	25-Sep	2-Oct
	Bath	St Mary	At Kenton	at Elida	OG	at Celina	Van Wert
	Celina	Wapak	Shawnee	at Kenton	at Elida	Bath	at St. Marys
	Defiance	OG	at Van Wert	at Shawnee	Kenton	Elida	at Wapak
	Elida	at Van Wert	at OG	Bath	Celina	at Defiance	Shawnee
	Kenton	at Shawnee	Bath	Celina	at Defiance	Wapak	at OG
	Ottawa Glandorf	at Defiance	Elida	at St. Marys	at Bath	Van Wert	Kenton
	St. Marys	at Bath	Wapak	OG	at Van Wert	at Shawnee	Celina
	Shawnee	Kenton	at Celina	Defiance	at Wapak	St. Marys	at Elida
	Van Wert	Elida	Defiance	at Wapak	St. Marys	at OG	at Bath
	Wapakoneta	at Celina	at St. Marys	Van Wert	Shawnee	at Kenton	Defiance