Tumult in Tigertown. The strangest decade in Massillon football history?

Latest in Year of the Coach series.

How Massillon found healing in a hiring.

EDITOR'S NOTE: Our Year of the Coach football series kicked off in August and winds into the heat of the 2025 playoffs where the Massillon Tigers are again Stark County's last team standing . An earlier article explored Paul Brown's role in building Massillon into an amazing power . This is the first of two articles about tumultuous times in Massillon calmed by a head coaching hire.

The Massillon moguls with firing power panicked, perhaps, when they showed Mike Currence the door.

The OHSAA football playoff system was in its puberty — 12 years old in 1984 — when Currence finished his ninth season as head coach of the T

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