Is the perception of the Columbus City League starting to change?

• mallymal614

  I posted this on JJ before I heard of this site. Now that I'm on here, I will post it again and hopefully get more responses.
  
  For years the Columbus City League has had a bad reputation of playing undisciplined football and getting hammered in big games outside the city. Though the league still has some ways to go, can it finally get better respect it deserves? Since 2002, seven teams from the city league have made the regional finals coming from five different programs. Brookhaven brought home the state title in 2004, Eastmoor was runners-up in 2008, and now it is guaranteed that a city league team will represent a spot in the state semi-finals. Each of the past two seasons a team ranked #1 in the state fell in the playoffs to a city league school. Last season the league put five teams in the playoffs despite the fact there are only 16 schools.
  
  Now let me be the first to say let’s not compared the City League to conferences like the OCC. The Ohio Capital Conference has double the teams and has much larger schools. The City League isn’t near that level as of yet. All I’m saying is can the perception of the Columbus City League having bad football start to decline?
• newarkcatholicfan

  

  I do think it is starting to change but one bad Incident and it will go back to where some believe it still is.
• mallymal614

  You may be right newarkcatholicfan. It's a shame that one bad apple can spoil it for the rest.
• newarkcatholicfan

  

  So true.
• Boomhauer

  mally mal bring some of your posters over here,,like to get opinons of teams from all around,BTW city league got my respect,if your playin them in a big game where their the huge underdog watch out!
• GoChiefs

  

  I'm gonna have to agree with NCF on that. Sad thing is..it's only a matter of time before something does happen too.