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He's holding out. Waiting on better living accommodations and a signing bonus.

It's Monday. I'm just happy I haven't walked out in front of a bus yet.

Runner up Div 3 Football Champs. The certainly played in the Championship and expected to win, but the Phantoms from Hampton, VA, weren't having any fear of name recognition. Considering the history of Phoebus High and all of their state titles, I think they felt somewhat disrespected playing against a school without a football state title and most folks in the media and on social media were predicting LCA to beat em. The VHSL will certainly let LCA play Class 3. They are aware of the complaints and aware of the advantage LCA has, and I don't see LCA having any issue playing Class 3. If the VHSL were smart, they would one up em, and say, "We granted your appeal to play up, but we granted it 2 times, you are now in Class 4."

I’ve seen the videos. 6’2” is overstating it and 320 is understating it. A better initial burst than you’d expect from a kid that size, but it’s very obvious he’s going to have to cut some weight, else he’s going to be walking around for 3/4 of the game with his hands on his hips. His ceiling is crazy high, though, if he gets his body right.

If one wants to be Canadian, then they can be Canadian.

AAAAAAAye Calm down over there. On this board if we are all better coaches and refs than what is on the field then we can call it "A" if we want to! 🤓

I think both LCA and Liberty (Bedford) are planning to remain in the Seminole District -- likely for the reasons mentioned above. But I don't see either school contesting their classification reassignment. The folks at LCA really like winning, they don't mind doing whatever is necessary to make that happen, and they don't seem to have any qualms about that whatsoever. They are pretty proud of their Division 3 football championship -- and are probably planning to build a brand new facility to contain all the Division 2 trophies that they will expect to win at that level.

Tazewell Scrimmage: @Radford, August 12th, 7:00 PM Benefit: @Chilhowie, August 19th, 7:00 PM Meet the Bulldogs - Cruise in - Inflatables - Food Trucks - Fundraiser - Foam party, August 20th from 6:00 p.m. until 10:00 p.m. on Main Street in Tazewell and Yes.....a Parade!!

Based on what I have heard recently, I feel confident that GW and Grayson will both appeal to play down in 1. I believe Riverheads will do the same. I also hear James River wants to come down to 1, but not too sure on the accuracy for this one. As I said above, I think LCA wants to stay in class 3. I say this only because I believe they are comfortable with the level of competition and the travel.

That doesn’t explain the discrepancy. If the difference between 9th-12th numbers versus 9th-11th numbers were a dozen, maybe. But the difference is 33 students. Just shy of 30% of the class average. It’s a mathematical anomaly.

I heard 9th, 10th, 11th, maybe 12th.

It would be nice if there were more 3a schools so that Carroll County and Abington could create their own district.

I think the term "caved" is a definite understatement. VHSL apparently didn't put up any kind of a fight at all. LCA basically runs its athletic program with absolute impunity -- to the extent that the VHSL simply accepts enrollment numbers reported by LCA without even questioning them. And that's just one example. I know very little about the legal counsel employed by the VHSL in that situation, but I wouldn't be shocked to find out that the lead attorney was actually named Ben Dover. As much as I would love to see somebody (anybody) challenge both the VHSL and LCA over this state of affairs, I don't know of any entity that would have the standing to do so.

This isn’t intended to be inflammatory. The revised ADM figures do not include the senior class of any school. Riverheads new ADM is 357 yet the previous ADM (including the senior class) was 443. It’s a mathematical improbability for the freshman to junior classes to average 119 students while the senior class has just 86. So, their senior classes are routinely 30% smaller than the remaining grade levels? These statistical improbabilities are why suspicions have grown over the years concerning Riverheads. Where there’s smoke, there’s usually fire!

2A is getting a raw deal in this re-alignment.

Liberty (Bedford) and LCA expect to benefit greatly from the move to Division 2. In football, the matchup between LCA and Appomattox will be interesting and probably have great bearing on state title implications. Liberty (Bedford) expects to be very competitive in soccer (both boys and girls), softball, and wrestling --although staying in the Seminole could impact seeding for Minutemen teams at the regional level. And yeah.... a lot of y'all back home will now experience the joy that is dealing directly with LCA.

If they run out of housing, maybe they can send some a little further down 460...

They are doing the best they can with the talent they have, that's all they can do. The line play wasn't a strong point last year and they were forced to throw the ball a lot. I think they got the most they could out of it. I do think they will be improved this year and 7-3 and dangerous by the end of the season is not out of the question. The line needs time to develop this year. They have some very tough contests early on and will probably have to throw the ball around against the teams with superior lines (like Graham). Now Im doing what I accused othera of doing... Sorry Hogo folks, I'll let you folks try to get this thread back on track. .

"1.6 air yard completion percentage" .....yeah, that's crap. Can I plead for the "hammer" if this crap continues?

Again, this is a hogo thread, please start a crap talking thread of your own.

Galax had 74 my daughters 8th grade year, which is impressive for a high school with roughly 350 students. A new band director for my daughters freshman year resulted in numbers falling and continuing to fall every year. Last year, my daughter's junior year, the band had 16 kids. They lost 58 kids in 3 years! We have a new band director this year. He has rekindled excitement around a once-proud marching band. They have a little north of 40 students for band camp the past two weeks.

443.....hmmm

A stroll down memory lane. Marietta (Ga.) Wheeler won the 2002 Arby’s Classic, defeating Mansfield (Ohio) Senior, the fifth winningest basketball program in the Buckeye State, 68-51. It was a great four-game stretch for Mansfield, which won its first three games by a total of seven points, defeating Rimini (Italy) 62-61; Bristol Tennessee High, 52-49; and Orlando (Fla.) Boone, 72-69. Two Mansfield players made the all-tournament team—Antonio Graves and Yima Chia-Kur. Graves went on to play for Jamie Dixon and the Pitt Panthers in the rugged Big East, while Chia-Kur played two years of junior college ball before finishing his career at Arkansas State. Both players had productive careers playing in Europe after college. Maryville, Tenn., led by future Florida Gator Lee Humphrey, finished in fourth place. Two years later, Mansfield Senior achieved a sparkling 24-2 record, losing in the semi-finals of the Division I state championship tournament in Columbus to Canton McKinley, 73-61. Once a booming, gritty manufacturing town that featured a General Motors stamping plant, a huge Westinghouse appliance plant, a Tappan Stove plant, Mansfield Tire and Rubber, Ohio Brass, an Empire-Detroit steel mill and Borg-Warner plumbing fixture plant, Mansfield is located have way between Cleveland and Columbus.