I think it'll come down to Graham, Gate City for the regional title. Lebanon, Union, VHS, Central, and Battle could possibly throw a wrench into the bracket and make a run. It's a long season and should be fun to watch how it ends up.
Agree. It's Graham and Gate City and in my opinion, Lebanon, Union, Central, Battle all having a chance and maybe even Virginia High, but I would be surprised if it's not Graham and Gate City. From what a Graham fan told me in the Graham vs Bluefield game, Graham has no seniors that start. I didn't see the starting lineups and got there 2 minutes into the game, but that's what one of their fans said. If it's true, you might see Graham go back to back in region titles.
Sach, I may be wrong, but didn't Lebanon beat Union by 7 or 8 points? I could be wrong, but thought they did. Also, I think Honaker split beat Lebanon and Union and also lost to Lebanon and Union. Honakers most impressive game is a narrow loss to Carroll County and Carroll is darn good. These scores are Maxpreps though, so u know what that means. If the scores are correct, there's a decent argument for Honaker being in the top 3 in this poll and not 5th.
That’s probably what will end up happening just didn’t put them on here since they’ve only played like three games that I’ve see
And that makes sense. Very few games so makes sense to me. I still haven't watched Gate City. I've seen Union and Lebanon and they are good, but I think Graham is 7-8 pts better. Gate City, I have no idea. I plan to watch them in the next week. I haven't seen Honaker either, but hear they are very good.
Question on the Reese kid at Lebanon. Where is his father from? Did his father play on the 1992 Lebanon great teams in football and basketball? Thanks in advance
Yes, it's that big of a deal. GW with around 400 vs a small university in size, nearly 4,000 if I read correctly Dorman and Dorman won the South Carolina 5A state title last year and GW is Class 1 in Virginia. Dorman is also ranked number 1 in 5A in SC by Maxpreps and the 80th ranked overall school in the United States.
What happened is something just completely unheard of. I know GW is good and is a frontrunner to win the Class 1 title, but this is completely absurd folks. Just absolute insanity that GW could pull this off.
1st Samuel 17, Verses 49-50
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Coaches from the top 2 teams in the regions are the ones who vote on the all state team. Do you think that Palmer or Turner are going to leave one of their own kids off to get a kid from Marion on there?
Good point. My honest answer is.....Nope. Just watching that kid play, man what a freakin beast. The way that kid exploded off the ball with not just speed, but god awful upper body and leg strength was crazy impressive (in my opinion) for a Class 2 Defensive End.
Carroll County has hired Seth Greer as the new head coach. Greer will be the first CC alumnus to coach the football program. According to the newspaper article, Greer was also offered the Floyd County head coaching position but chose to come home to Carroll.
Best wishes to Greer. Also, big sack move in my opinion coming home to Carroll County which sounds like for the reasons you pointed out a tough place to win. I hope he can get them going. Carroll needs to get those kids back from Cana and keep them at home instead of Mt. Airy because there's a lot of country hams in Cana, and they are probably losing some big boys along the line of scrimmage to Mt. Airy.
Duke nailed it. Its really hard to to make those teams without being on a team capable of making a deep playoff run.
I understand that, or the fact that mostly the teams with deeper playoff runs get picked. I think this should also probably be the case 95% of the time, but this is that 5% where you have kid who is a D1 Commit. When the talent is so obvious, that should trump a deep playoff run in these 1 to 5% of cases. Coe is committed to a team that was ranked in the top 25 in the country for a part of the season. If the All State Team only selects All Region kids, then the Region also made a mistake if Coe wasnt first team Defensive End. I watched Graham, Union, Tazewell, Ridgeview, Gate City. They are all awesome teams, but none of them has a Defensive End as good as Coe. I do understand the WHY....related to why he didn't make All State because no deep playoff run/Marion being a weaker team, but I just wish they would occasionally make an exception for the WHY when you have a D1 kid. Just my opinion though. I'm sure others may have a different take.
Agree with the above except leaving off a Div 1 kid (one of only a few in Class 2) in Marion's Coe. There's no way there are 4 better defensive ends in Virginia's Class 2 than Coe.
Congrats to new Richlands Head Coach Ronnie Davis. Best wishes in turning it around for the Blues. I'm sure Coach Davis is excited about the opportunity and ready to get busy. Also, a humble and grateful thank you to former coach Tarter for years and years of service to your community. America could use a whole lot more just like you. Good luck to all Blues fans, players, and alums in the transition and new beginning.
1D, Got to go with Honaker. 1C, Got to go with Galax, then George Wythe
2D, Got to go with Graham and Union. 2C, I'll go Appomattox, then Glenvar, Radford, Gretna all close
Statewide
2A, Same two with King William and Poquson followed by Southampton
1A, Essex was supposed to be young according to their fans at the game, so got to go with Essex,
2B, Riverheads followed by everyone else
1B, Altavista then Sussex.
State Finals
Class 1. I will go with the same two teams in Galax and Essex
Class 2. I will go with Riverheads against another close call with Union, Graham, Appomattox.
State Title Winner- No idea, but no suprise if Appo, Graham, Riverheads, Union win it.
Lots can change. Does King William have a super team like 2 years ago or does somebody step up like a Clarke County or Buckingham or William Campbell or Gretna, or does Radford just reload even though they lost the QB. Hard to say, but I will go with one of the four teams mentioned above to win the state title.
MED is the best Class 1 district in Virginia and it's been that way for a while now. Radford, Glenvar, Bluefield, Graham, Tazewell are good football teams and these 5 schools certainly help the MED's schedule strength and deservingly so.
I wonder if Galax's schedule played a part Saturday. Seeing a Radford and Graham and Glenvar has to have some kind of meaning when facing Essex. I don't know how much, but it has to factor in. Seeing this type of quality and athleticism and lineplay certainly means Galax isn't going to be overwhelmed emotionally/mentally prior to kickoff. They may win or lose, but they know they've seen some real juggernauts in the regular season that I think has to factor in.
It's why Calpreps is not perfectly scientific. Yes, it takes out personal opinions, emotions, etc, but a true scientific system would control for variables like schedule strength, injuries, past meetings with that school, etc. Calpreps is fun and it's good, but it's only going by total scores-final scores across the country to make a prediction without controlling for the variables mentioned above. A true-scientific study or research calculation to make a conclusion would control for multiple variables. Essex vs Grayson County? What does Calpreps say or guess, Grayson -3 points? I don't even bet, but I would probably start betting if given that offer. Essex all day long.
LOL, yep, Giles held Radford to 35 so it certainly means Giles was one of the better defenses Radford played all year.
Much like the Glenvar argument, the Bluefield Beavers nearly beat Graham and this means Bluefield could have stacked right up with Radford and might have been the 2nd best team in Class 2 Virginia this year if they were in Virginia.
P.S. Don't pay attention to the Giles and Bluefield overall records or the other 9 games played, let's just cherry pick one data point, make a conclusion from it and stick with it, because we don't do "fallacy."
Single A football is terrible!! Ive never seen such bad offenses in my life for a state title game!! It wont be any better next year im guessing!!
However "horrible" it is, Galax is a less horrible than any class 1 team in Virginia including George Wythe. What I saw was outstanding defense by Galax.
When u hear words like, "clutch, lucky, got some breaks, hung in there, not pretty" and the team still wins, it wreaks of WINNER. The kind of team down 20 to 14 in table tennis and they real off 8 pts in a row to win 22-20. There are programs like that. There are people like that. Galax is like that. It's called....WINNERS.
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Far Southwest Virginia Top 10 - December 31, 2023 - Version 3
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Agree. It's Graham and Gate City and in my opinion, Lebanon, Union, Central, Battle all having a chance and maybe even Virginia High, but I would be surprised if it's not Graham and Gate City. From what a Graham fan told me in the Graham vs Bluefield game, Graham has no seniors that start. I didn't see the starting lineups and got there 2 minutes into the game, but that's what one of their fans said. If it's true, you might see Graham go back to back in region titles.