Union_Fan

My wife is a teacher and I've worked in education for 23 years. I would disagree. Being a classroom teacher with constant student interaction from 8 am to 3:30 pm, plus bus duty days with little to no breaks, M-F, in addition to using your planning period to remediate students and call parents. Then, grading papers and answering student and parent questions throughout the evening. I'm sorry but assistant principals don't even come close to that level of continuous work. You might argue that they deal with parent complaints, but these days, most administrators dodge, deflect and refer parents back to the teacher. If they don't, then the teacher gets yelled at, still not escaping. Remember, everything flows down hill.

Over the years, it seems more coaches are getting into "flexible" positions. Ones that don't really impact students' standardized testing. These positions allow the coaches to take care of their team responsibilities throughout the day without loss of instructional time. I've noticed that Scott Co has several assistant principals that coach. Yet another position that can basically be vacated on any given day to tend to coaching duties.

It's not a requirement, but nearly all coaches are teachers. A good portion of those are PE or SpEd. I would say that few are teaching English, math, history, etc...

I wasn't aware there were sports besides football. Mind blown! 🤯 I will have to look into those! 😁 Thinking about football memories. I don't know if there's a worse one than Union/Appo 2017. That one still hurts. There's too many ecstatic ones to list, but as far as unbelievable goes...2013 Richlands/Union, 2016 Dan River/Union, 1989 "The Catch" Lunenburg/PV. As for weird memories, I'll never forget playing Clintwood my JV year and my pants being black from a nasty, smelly, funky water seeping out of the ground near the endzone. We thought we were playing in someone's cesspool.🤮

He's an absolute stud. I'm guessing he thinks he'll get more attention and/or rings with Princeton?? Huge gap to fill for sure. He was dominant.

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I'm not sure if enough retirements, from the School Board Office, have taken place to allow BI to come back to the county, given the real reason behind his resignation.

Yes, please!

We have a designated jock strap coach if that tells you anything. He coaches them up so that we get 110% support out of those things. haha Technically, Union has an OC and DC, but I think Turner and the OC work very closely. I guess it's almost like 2 coaches doing the same job.

We make fun of it ourselves, but like the tasks you mentioned, somebody has to do it. There is no shortage of volunteers in Appy/BSG to help out with the football program. THAT is a blessing!

For anyone that hasn't seen Paul Huff in person, he just posted his sophomore highlights. He's not slow, but if he can increase his speed, he'll definitely be getting college offers. https://www.hudl.com/video/3/16614511/656620fad468d904ec49e93a

So it is going to get exciting?? Haha

Backpacks included! As a bonus, there might even be something in them! AND if you act within the next 30 minutes, we'll even throw in a toot on the train horn!😂

We'll trade 5 assistants to Graham for Jennings. Have to see what Richlands has to offer before I can make a trade with them. Lol

That doesn't sound very fun. Haha

I was hoping at least one coach, a DC perhaps, might come back. Haha

That's why I asked the question. 😉

So what does this hire mean for the surrounding schools? How many coaches and/or players come back or go to Richlands from Graham, Tazewell, Honaker and any other schools as a result of this coach?

I would agree, but at the time they were trying to make consolidation as smooth as possible. The thought was since the students were the ones to be truly impacted it would be less controversial if they decided. Ultimately, I think the goal was to keep as much out of the hands of adults because they were the ones arguing about everything.

I went back and slow-mowed it. Looked like the Essex player's butt was on the ground before the ball broke the goal line to me, but the NFHS angle isn't the best.

https://twitter.com/mattscase/status/1733638475503554918

7-6 again! Congratulations Galax!

Science Hill is a legit 6A school with 2300 kids. 5A doesn't help your narrative. Haha Also, Gretna beat 3 win powerhouse Floyd Co by 1 pt in OT, so there's that. 🤷

Central - this one is obvious. It seems every opponent that has visited there has a list of complaints. The only reason I don't want them going 0-10 is loss of PPs. Appomattox - nothing to do with their success. My dislike goes back to 2014 when Lee beat them, and their fans lit up social media complaining they were "disrespected" because Lee brought their band and inflatable to an away game. 🙄 All the whining about the Giles train horn didn't help either. Any private/magnet school- any school that can hand pick their students has no business whatsoever competing against a public school. Honorable mention - Riverheads - even though their fans seem oblivious to it, willfully or blissfully ignorant, any school district that adjusts attendance boundaries to keep a school JUST under the smallest classification cap is not competing in the true spirit of sportsmanship. As far as denial goes, the local paper has published at least one article on the boundary adjustments.

Like I said, Wise people not very creative. Lol