I went back and watched it on NFHS. Looks like it started with the player being a sore loser by slamming his helmet down and looks like he said something then Gobble got involved. Again....no excuse for an adult to put their hands on a student-athlete.
Was the incident involving the Ridgeview coach last season that got him sent packing similar or worse than this?
Idk for sure what Tiller and company have returning.
Totally off topic here but a little nostalgia hit me on my recent week long trip to Indiana and not just the visit to the Knightstown gym where Hoosiers was filmed.
In the 4A state high school basketball championship game, Fishers High School were victorious. Fishers are the Tigers, and their uniforms are red and white.
It was good to see a group of Red Tigers win a state title in person, even if it wasn't our old alma mater. 🙂
It can still be fun. Just think of it like a pitcher’s duel in baseball.
Unless it's a perfect game/no hitter, pitcher's duels are boring as well. Hence why I said that 1-0 Tigers and White Sox game I could've went to on Thursday would've put me to sleep. Lol
So, while I was on vacation, my wife and I considered going to opening day in Chicago for the White Sox and Tigers. Could have got tickets fairly cheap but the outrageous amount for parking was what made us decide against it. Glad we didn't go now.
Tigers won 1-0. I would have been bored out of my mind watching a 1-0 baseball game, especially with the one run not coming from a home run.
I imagine folks got bored out of their minds who watched that VT and Wake football game several years ago be scoreless in regulation.
I also get bored watching a 0-0 draw in soccer. How do you feel @EH31 and @Ryan4VT watching a scoreless draw unfold?
Saw Lyon County win the state title in Kentucky last weekend.
Lyon County is a 1A school and defeated 5A Harlan County in the championship game. Was kinda conflicted on who to pull for on whether to see the small school win or see the local team to our region win.
What's remarkable is that Lyon County didn't even win the mid-season 1A state tournament or even get to the finals for that matter. Yet, they won the overall. Pretty cool story.
I like it! As you said, it won't happen in Virginia or Tennessee, but it would be nice.
This system is what makes postseason basketball in Kentucky so compelling. I have went to region semifinals in Kentucky the past three years and the intensity is crazy.
I also like how Kentucky does the midseason state tournament for the small schools as well which is something Virginia could also adopt if they went with this system.
Wouldn’t Trivette have to sit a year if she transferred again?
I doubt it....
This season, a girl transferred from Daniel Boone to Knoxville Catholic at the start of the school year, played to the Christmas break with Catholic, and then transferred back to Boone and was eligible immediately and finished out the season at Boone.
Soccer is a sport you have to experience in person to really appreciate it.
I’d encourage anyone to make the trip to Charlotte to watch a MLS match. Tickets are affordable and the atmosphere is worth the trip alone.
Hockey is the same agenda... you must go to a game in person.... it is a LOT better than watching on TV. Baseball is the same... watching a MLB or minor league game in person is better than TV.
20 hours ago, SwvaOG said:
Just watch hockey, which, quite honestly, is a better sport than most other options. Just as physical as football, hand-eye coordination of baseball and soccer. Much faster pace. Waaaaayyyy less arrogance and entitled attitudes.
My family has a lot of midwestern roots. I played on a street hockey league in Texas for a couple of years while I was in the Army stationed at Fort Hood......a whole new level of being in shape....and I was a plodding defensemen with average change of direction for that league. Those forwards are world class athletes.
I remember the other defensemen I played with was a tanker and had a glass eye. He would smack dudes in the boards and was always checking with me to make sure his eye didn't come out. Lol. Good times!
I've been a hockey fan since 1994. I decided when I started watching, I would pull for the newest team. So, that's why I am a San Jose Sharks fan. I didn't get to catch a Sharks game live this year on one of their rare trips to the East Coast, unfortunately.
Kudos to the Va High kids for not backing down. Listening to these announcers try to validate what JM is doing is sickening. They, and the VHSL, should be ashamed of themselves for doing what they're doing. That wasn't a true 2A championship game that was just played.
Hatfield is an eastern Virginia guy anyway... He loves to see teams from this side of the state get beat down.
so your saying dotson is getting a taste of his own medicine!!! lol
Lol... I didn't come out and say that, but the thought had crossed my mind. And for the record, I like Robin and am not ashamed to say he's the wizard of high school basketball coaches in SWVA.
I mean... we're seeing it everywhere these days....
Star player transfers from one Cumberland school to another and plays against her former school in the same week.
In upper east Tennessee, a girl transferred to a Knoxville private school right before the season started, realized quickly she was going to be a little fish in a big pond, so transferred back.... before January and played immediately.
It's not just JM.... it's beginning to happen everywhere. Ridgeview girls may be the only team left in the postseason where all of their players were born and raised in the area they play.
I assume our representatives are not doing anything about this and if not has there been any push to change this?
Scotty Vermillion was very outspoken about JM a few years ago when Gate City were the Justices victim that year. Now that the girls program is doing the same... I will be very interested in hearing coach Dotson's take IF they first get past Ridgeview AND IF they lose to JM as bad as most people are beginning to realize is the very real possibility.
Abingdon girls wanted to play at Emory and Henry but were denied. UVa-Wise, Virginia High and Lebanon were approved semifinal venues. Semifinals MUST be played at a neutral location as chosen by the higher seed, hence why Virginia High can't play at the Bearcat Den. The only puzzling thing is why Honaker didn't choose UVa-Wise to play the boys game as this may split the fan base up. Hear they're going to try to play the girls game early so the Honaker fans can get to Lebanon as well, but it seems to me that the fans get the shaft for having to pay twice.
At the Dobyns-Bennett/Wise Central game this year, a Central parent told me that this was the case. That they were loading up the girls team like they had the boys.
Pretty good friends with a former Lee High player. Her son plays for D-B now and made first team all conference this year. I think they were really good back when she played for them back in the mid 90's.
1 hour ago, Unchained said:
What has happened with that program? I remember when Stephanie ward coached there, they were tough as nails,
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Was the incident involving the Ridgeview coach last season that got him sent packing similar or worse than this?