Coal Covered Rebel 6 Report Share Posted December 3, 2014 What stupid comments, hhstigercubs7327? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ojrussell 61 Report Share Posted December 4, 2014 Is Tiger Slayer a Lebanon Pioneer? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan4VT 4,553 Report Share Posted December 4, 2014 Is Tiger Slayer a Lebanon Pioneer? He just changed his name. He was Rebel Pride. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redtiger 1,740 Report Share Posted December 4, 2014 Is Tiger Slayer a Lebanon Pioneer? nope, hes a troll Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwmaroon 23 Report Share Posted December 4, 2014 Honaker is a very good football team and Alta Vista better not underestimate them. With that said, I do think the advantage goes to Alta Vista. D1 talent makes a difference in games like this. However, I would like to see the boys from Southwest Virginia pull it off. Good luck Honaker. hhstigers7327 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RCITYHOO 110 Report Share Posted December 4, 2014 Really, really, really hope i'm wrong but i see no way Honaker wins this game. Not even close, but man I hope i'm wrong. 49 to 14 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueRazor 1,147 Report Share Posted December 4, 2014 I really, really, really hope you are way off..... Bigrhsfan 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coal Covered Rebel 6 Report Share Posted December 4, 2014 Honaker 54 Altavista 0. There ya go guys are ya happy now. Sometimes typo's, whether intentional or not, can lift spirits. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redtiger 1,740 Report Share Posted December 4, 2014 Honaker is a very good football team and Alta Vista better not underestimate them. With that said, I do think the advantage goes to Alta Vista. D1 talent makes a difference in games like this. However, I would like to see the boys from Southwest Virginia pull it off. Good luck Honaker. I think Honakers style of Offense neutralizes that D1 talent a little Defensively. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cwood78 161 Report Share Posted December 4, 2014 well everyone says speed kills,....welll it does.....if your'e driving a car, motorcycle,4-wheeler..... etc..... i remember just abit ago...sussex central had left the field on fire against covington, and an 88-8 victory.."we got speed ".. they said, then they face this big, slow, clintwood team.....well i was there, towards the end, after that big,slow team had knocked the stuffings out of them...they just got tired of getting hit.....and now "we know the rest of the story".... redtiger and BlueRazor 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
litltiger 17 Author Report Share Posted December 5, 2014 teams always matchup different.you never kno till the games played.i was expecting Sussex to spank honaker a couple yrs ago with all that SPEED.this very same talk was all over the boards.sometimes that speed makes the sudden stop hurt a little worse.if honaker don't contain and read well it could get ugly ,but they have done something right to be where they are.i think if vista has strength and size up front to go with that SPEED,it will be a tough out for the tigers.GO TIGERS.win or lose you have gave us some extra post season excitement. robertnm16 and ruthiedz4 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redtiger 1,740 Report Share Posted December 5, 2014 Altavista isint just speed like Radford. Vista has it all. They are the favorite in 1A and deservedly so ruthiedz4 and RCITYHOO 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueRazor 1,147 Report Share Posted December 5, 2014 Good luck to you all Honaker. Us Richlands folks will be pulling for you all and will have to rely on updates to see how its going. Just line up and smash them in the mouth and just maybe you all can slow them down enough to do it. Go Tigers! Ryan4VT, ruthiedz4 and Bigrhsfan 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
litltiger 17 Author Report Share Posted December 5, 2014 my son said this honaker team put him in mind of the Clintwood team that beat galax in final few yrs ago.i think Dotson and meade yrs . ruthiedz4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redtiger 1,740 Report Share Posted December 5, 2014 Imo very similar teams. Both played great defense and had grinding rushing games that wouldnt stop ruthiedz4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hogo_Observer 0 Report Share Posted December 5, 2014 Is it true that Honaker has been holding guys back the past 5 or so years? Not trying to ruffle feathers just trying to confirm what I had heard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
litltiger 17 Author Report Share Posted December 5, 2014 no I don't think honaker holds them back,i think its a individual decision by parent and student.some call it holdbacks some call it failing.lol. it was failing back in the day.some kids might need it, some don't.thats very debatable and has many different views. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redtiger 1,740 Report Share Posted December 5, 2014 Honaker doesnt hold them back, they choose to hold back. Honaker has just under 400 students an this year they have 20 Seniors on the football team... Of course some are holdbacks. Is there an issue there? Not really. I hope the young men that did hold back have used that extra year to better prepare themselves for college or further developed a trade Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hhstigers7327 217 Report Share Posted December 5, 2014 Yea it's true and it's not the past 5 years. I graduated in 09 and it was going on long before that. I decided to hold back in the 8th grade. Was it mostly driven by sports? Yes. No one made me it was a family decision actually the school really don't like it. It was the best thing that happened to me I enjoyed every minute of it and it gave me an extra year to mature before being thrown to the real world. And it's not just honaker doing it either. BlueRazor and redtiger 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trublue 939 Report Share Posted December 5, 2014 Jim Saccoâ€@Sacco_BHCSports10 hrs10 hours ago Honaker relies on 20 seniors. #HCFH #VHSL http://www.tricities.com/sports/article_b1614d08-7c17-11e4-b84f-e3a9f946b168.html … pic.twitter.com/r54RcC4I2y great state Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bearcat Bob 491 Report Share Posted December 5, 2014 THE VHSL is pretty clear on holdbacks...it is legal and a non-issue. Why go there anyway? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
litltiger 17 Author Report Share Posted December 5, 2014 I think a lot of parents like to do it also because they feel like they get to keep their child attached to home 1 more year.on the other hand ,ive heard some complain about taxpayers having to pay for that extra yr for no reason but sports.i look for the hold back thing to stop as the economy gets worse ,but im not up to date if this is the way things work or not,and how much money is actually lost for this type of thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bearcat Bob 491 Report Share Posted December 5, 2014 My brother would have graduated as a 17 year old way back in the eighties. Mom and Dad felt he was too immature as a 12 year old to enter junior high school so he was held back. It ended up being one of the best things to happen for him. He became an honor roll student in Junior and High School. The year between his junior and senior year he made tremendous physical strides and ended up earning a scholarship to play baseball. That extra year was huge in his life. redtiger 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hhstigers7327 217 Report Share Posted December 5, 2014 I also received a advanced diploma because of that extra year. I think it's a great life choice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixcat 2,919 Report Share Posted December 5, 2014 Honaker is certainly not the only program to have kids "red-shirting" as the locals call it. It goes on everywhere and has been for decades. Most parents send kids to school at first opportunity based on socioeconomic circumstances. Having kids begin school a little early or on time allows parents to concentrate on providing for the family. Once the kids are older, they are more independent an better able to care for themselves for short periods, it becomes less of an issue for the parents so they begin to think of what may be best for the kid. Athletics is a part of that and gets an overwhelming majority of the attention. But, there are other factors not typically mentioned. My brother and I both graduated at 17 and were by far and away, the youngest kids in our class. It was a non-issue for most of our school years, but occasionally, was an issue. For instance, when everyone else was getting learners permits and drivers licenses, we still had a year to wait. While all of my classmates attended driver education class, I had study hall. The following year, I had drivers education with the kids a grade level behind me while my classmates were in gym. I should also mention, I was a late bloomer. I left home for boot camp 3 days after high school graduation. By September, I had grown 6 inches and gained 40 pounds. It would have benefited me greatly to have had another year in high school. Tiger_Tilt 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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