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I don't know Ryan someone sent me a clown emoji on Twitter and I've not slept since lol

Ok, works for me. I'll just make fun of you instead.

If O'Quinn stays it will hurt his development. Period. No doubts about it. Maybe he can mitigate that by hitting camps hard but I think he plays sports year round so I'm not so sure he will get the next level development he needs to play at D-1/2. They are going to want to see varying throws and concepts, effective reading of the defense (RV doesn't currently employ 2nd and 3rd reads), hitting the check-downs (RV doesn't have those) and running various offensive schemes. Hell, they have the kid jog to the sideline to get every play. So much for the kid reading defenses. That isn't the HC,OC or scheme that will get you to next level. Just my 2 cents.

Stating that a team isn’t that good isn’t really making fun of them but merely an observation. I even gave Graham credit for playing hard against Richlands. Saying they lack skill is just a fact. Good grief, you take this board & comments way too seriously. Unfortunately, the SWD just isn’t up to par as in the past. 7 or 8 years ago, a lot of girls’ teams were competitive. This year with the exception of Richlands & the Trivette girl, the SWD is weak.

That is why I said technically. We all know how easy it is to use fake addresses.

That’s totally implied. But it’s on two fronts. They want to play on his team for what he can do for them and he is getting the best possible players to make his team what it is. He’s not taking scrubs and making players out of them. He’s taking tremendous athletes and combining them with 9-10 other stars to dominate.

Richmond, VA, is like Charlotte, NC. It's called open enrollment. This means, if you live within the Richmond/Charlotte City limits, you can go to any school you choose as long as you get yourself to the school. The cities have school boundaries, and JM has its own boundary, but if you live outside of that boundary, but still in Richmond, and you want to go to John Marshall, you can go as long as you provide your own transportation. Open enrollment is done because of parents that work around the city and they work perhaps in an area Other than the district they live in, so they can drop their kids off while going to work. This ie one reason for open enrollment. Academic reasons are another. If a parent is unhappy with the academics of the local school boundary and they want their kid to go to the top school in Charlotte or Richmond, they can send them there as long as they take them. One of the goals is to increase competitveness academically for all schools within the city. The problem or downside. When 1 school has an AAU, NFL, or major Div 1 connection on the coaching staff. The best athletes will often flock to this certain school, and the danger with a large city is......there are a LOT of kids to choose from. How does it work in Charlotte and other cities like this around the country. It's like Waccamole with success. One school has the coaching connection and gets the kids and dominates, then the coach leaves and that school falls off and another school rises to the top and takes the reigns, then that coach leaves and another school comes to the forefront. We've seen it in Charlotte over the years and how it rotates with first Independence, then Butler, onto Providence, onto Catholic, etc, etc. The coach at John Marshall will not be there in 3 years. He will be in the college ranks and you will see Marshall slowly fall off, and somebody else in Richmond will gain a coaching/AAU connection and they will rise up. John Marshall is within the rules. Their coach is doing his job and doing a good job. If folks are upset with it again.....blame Richmond or the VHSL. John Marshall and their staff are doing what any other staff would do, if in the same situation.

I actually love what John Marshall and Coach White are doing. He's getting kids in school whether it through AAU or school ball. Maybe having those kids there with him is a better situation for them. We can only speculate what's going on. If the parents have those kids enrolled there then so be it. This happens here in Charlotte every year. The only difference is down here we have 20 public schools in the city. there are numerous other surrounding public schools as well as charter and private schools. Kids transfer all over the place from year to year.

No one from Graham or Richlands is bitching about JM though, only the saints in Gate City.

It is a shame to see athletic kids come through a program and not be utilized properly. It truncates possibilities for that athlete. Over the next 5-10 years we will see the phasing out of those coaches that simply refuse to adapt to their athletes. Look no further than this year's region championship. Tony Palmer said, "Shit, this is going to be a shoot-out, let me go straight Wildcat and get it to my best athlete 30+ times." RV responded by not adapting/adjusting and managed to get it to their best athlete 2-3 times. Graham wins by 21. I see positive movement from Turner at Union....he is adapting to the talent he has. Not enough but he is. In today's day and age, it is simply unacceptable for coaching staffs not to be multiple....and be damn good at being multiple. This is why no one is catching Graham for a while. Tony gets it while everyone else is content to "run their system". Tony adapts and isn't dead set on beating you a certain way. Listen, if you switch coaching staffs Palmer wins a state championship with Ridgeview this year and he very well might have done it with Union. That says a lot.

I think it would be pretty cool idea to have a crossover with M7 and SWD. 3 team rotation so Graham would play Union Lee and Wise on a 2 year cycle and Tazewell would play Ridgeview Battle and Gate city then they switch. That would keep teams from scheduling weaker 1A schedules non conference