Bear61;1438510 wrote:Steubenville was not invited. Edgewood, Py Valley, Brookfield, East, and Boardman were invited.
However, it was mentioned that the reason they weren't invited now was because the primary priority was getting the Mahoning Valley teams in first, in order to develop the framework they wanted, and it could allow them to go back and invite Steubenville.
Basically, since all of the big schools accepted and they were able to create the 3 team top tier, now they can go back and offer Big Red admission into that tier.
Like I said, Steubenville was pretty much provisionally denied, because it's a 2 step process. Step 1 was the local schools, step 2 will be add Steubenville football to Tier 1, most likely.