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Blue Cannonball

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  1. Great research — Another UVA grad really maxing out that ‘Southern Ivy’ education. Ha! You missed WR Peele, Navy commit and though CJ is going to Coastal, he had ACC offers that he left on the table. Either way, my only real ‘argument’ is that the original assessment on the status of 757 youth sports (offered by sixcat) is a little dated...not entirely inaccurate. As we’ve discussed relative to SWVA, talent is cyclical and yes, the 2020 757 class wasn’t loaded, but there are still lots of big time players in tidewater. We have seen a couple guys get pulled to IMG or other football factories, but for the sake of VA football, I hope that’s a quick trend... It’s funny to me that guys sitting behind keyboards in SWVA doing research on 24/7 and VB Mustangs website can offer such informed opinions.
  2. Thanks for the links...I’m a Mustangs coach so I’m good... I know who’s still playing, Maury just won a State Championship with some of our kids with 6 or 7 going D1. Also appreciate the lesson on the differences in cities, my kids play AAU ball in Norfolk, I understand the area. Point is simple, your perspective is dated.
  3. Good perspective, but a little dated IMO. The issues you raise still exist, but have gotten better in the last few years and youth football (at least in VB) is thriving. As an example, the Virginia Beach Mustangs Pop Warner program is a National power, with multiple National Championships in the past 10-15 years.
  4. I’m not an ODU fan, nor am I a Tech hater. I was mostly kidding about them in the ACC. But, Tech has missed some VA/757 opportunities and Ricky Rahne is building some excitement in tidewater — Lamareon James, who VT wanted, was a big score by ODU and they just pulled Ricky Slade from PSU on a transfer.
  5. Good thing (for VT) that ODU isn’t in the ACC Coastal!
  6. Disagree. Sure, all teams have some Florida talent, but some of the biggest names (outside of QBs) were 757 bred...D Hall, Tapp, Adibis, Kam, just a few off the top of my head.
  7. ODU is out recruiting VT in the 757, big time. It could be a flawed assumption as I’ve never really looked hard at it, but I always attributed much of Tech’s success in the 90’s to the 757 talent pool...before it was really discovered by powerhouse programs.
  8. I couldn’t remember if that was ‘91 or ‘93, but I mentioned that game earlier in this thread. Also agree about the talent in the 90s. Looking at the overall list of undefeated teams, the 80s aren’t really represented in SWVA. I remember some good GC teams back then, but we never seemed to get past the semis once we got out of Region IV.
  9. No worries — these more recent GC teams are tough to keep track of with all of our fifth year seniors (hold backs)! 😂😂😂
  10. Agree with those as interesting matchups — would be some fun Blue-White games at Legion! Splitting hairs, but I think you mean the ‘96 team. Even though ‘97 won the Div 3 title, I think the ‘96 team that lost to Brookville in the semis, was a more talented, dominant team — Shoe, Beasley, and some other big linemen were seniors in ‘96. Just goes to show you anything can happen in the playoffs...I say we beat Brookville 9 out of 10 times in ‘96, but Jefferson Forrest (who we beat in ‘97) probably gets us 9 out of 10 times.
  11. Good points and you are right in that a team from 1970 would struggle to deal with the athletes, formations, and play calling that weren’t around in their time. In that sense, most ‘modern’ teams would have the advantage...think ‘72 Dolphins vs a team like the ‘19 Chiefs. The specific question for any team that played the ‘70 Blue Devils is could they load the box and actually stop what everyone knew was coming...Phil and Stan Rogers behind a big, strong offensive line (even by today’s standards). I bleed blue, so I’ll take GC, but like you said, impossible to prove.
  12. Agree with this. Across the board, talent in SWVA was at a high point in the mid-late 90s...at least in the ‘recent’ era. Maybe it’s the Devil in me, but I’d take the ‘70 GC team over any other on that list. Hard to compare, I know, with the change in the game and athleticism, but based on overall dominance, it’s hard to stack up against that bunch.
  13. I can’t recall the year, maybe ‘91, a doozy GC - Appy game at Legion, where Tom Turner called up a hook and ladder to beat us on the last play of the game. Maybe it was Tom Turner, but as a GC guy, Appy was probably the team I respected the most. The teams they fielded with their enrollment...insane. I remember going to a Appy - RC game when we had an open date. Appy was up big time at the half and Turner and the coaches rolled out the Mountain Dew and hot dogs for the players during the break. Classic Appalachia.
  14. Pretty sure that was ‘97, if not, it was ‘95. We beat PV at the park in ‘96. Even as a true blue GC guy, I can agree with you about that ‘97 PV - Appy game. Those teams were loaded. 3 State Champions that year with GC, PV, and Appy...PV can claim they won it in three divisions since they beat us and Appy. I’ve always said you could’ve taken the best from those teams, put them together, and they could’ve beat Hampton in AAA.
  15. GC vs Jefferson Forrest in ‘97. Honorable Mention (because we lost) was the GC vs John Handley State Championship at Legion in ‘94. 13-7 Handley in a mud bowl, but we lit those receivers up on every slant route.
  16. He did. Started at QB and Safety. I didn’t mean to imply that he didn’t play football, just that he went on to play D1 ACC basketball.
  17. The ‘97 GC team would’ve been interesting. Mac’s bunch would’ve beat them, but they never saw a team with the level of defense. Granted, most of the ‘97 team were football players playing basketball, with the exception of Josh Shoemaker who went on to play at Wake and in Europe, they would bring the pain on defense and the boards.
  18. 14-14 at Legion Field — 2 min left in the half
  19. Abingdon scores on a corner route. Tied up 7-7, 11:54 left in the 2Q
  20. End of the first at Legion. GC- 7 Abingdon-0 Falcons are threatening, 3rd down in the red zone.
  21. GC First Down — this one is done. Blue Blood is back in the program
  22. 1:31 left — GC Ball on the 20. Richlands has 2 timeouts.
 
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