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Best of luck to the remaining SWVA teams!!!
 
Win or lose you all represent SWVA and were proud of you.
 
Hopefully see you all in Salem in 2 weeks!

I'll 2nd that redtiger !  Hope to see you all win !  I would love to be able to make a trip to Salem to watch a team from SWVA win another state championship !

Are you really a swva fan then?

Are you really a swva fan then?

I like you enthusiasm I'm a union fan an I still believe highlanders have the best D in the state. We just got the best Offense hard to stop. ;)

You sold be proud of your son he is a hell of a player

I don't think depth played a factor in the Richlands game. We went toe to toe all game.

Its worth noting that both QBs were playing in their first huge game. Spears is a first year QB, but has the advantage of playing the last two years. Both QBs had to be tested under fire, Spears had an advantage of being older and playing at the varsity level but he is a first year QB as well
 
Pretty amazing that two first year QBs put on such a show in that game, it was the finest high school game I've saw since 97 at the Park when PV and Appalachia played and were both undefeated and going on to win state titles. (AHS was A Div 1, PV was A Div 2, GC was AA Div 1 but the third best team in SWVA with both PV and AHS beating them lol)

I dont either, Richlands has just as many quality kids as any team around. I believe the turnovers were the factor. People still kind of look eerily about the Union win because it was by one point in OT as somehow an indication that Union is not as good as Richlands is and was lucky to win (No Richlands posters have said it, you guys are all class, but I hear it a lot from other schools, mainly people from Wise), and yes Asbury did throw a couple picks, but Richlands also had one KR TD and another long return to like the Union 10. Its not as if Union was not able to move the ball and put up points and (occassionally lol) stop Richlands. My point is, Richlands did not beat itself, Union beat them. Whether it can happen again who knows, two very evenly matched teams that would probably split 5/5 in 10 games, but Union won outright. 
 
None of that means jack shit against Glenvar lol. A year can change a lot, but a much less effective Union team gave Glenvar all they could handle on the road and lost by 10 after committing eight turnovers. If that number is just five, Union would have been right in it in the end. It was 12-9 when Union was driving before the last turnover, its not as if Glenvar steamrolled Union and the Bears are much better this year *but I am sure Glenvar is as well*.
 
Glenvar has not seen an offense as diverse and capable of Union, that much I know. There is no 2A team out there with a QB capable of making laser throws, lobbing deep balls, escaping the pocket or taking off for an 80 yard TD run (he played DB last year, the speed is there), three legit runners (Summers, Bishop, and Fannon), a big, physical TE with soft hands and a mean streak, and three legit, elite playmaking WRs. You can post all the 40 times you want, but I guarantee Noaks is as fast as anyone on the field. He ran down Cousins and knocked the fumble loose that really turned the tide, and he caught him from behind. Gavin is 6'4 and is capable of beating anyone deep, but if you put your best cover DB on him, Mitchell, 6'5, will either run you over on a bubble screen or beat you deep. Union needs to get more diverse in the passing game tho, it can't be just bubble screens, bootlegs and fly routes. With four guys capable of making plays, run more option routes, and more slants. If Glenvar is getting quick pressure, that means the screen game and the bubble game will be there early and set up the fake bubble go route. 
 
I will be rooting for Union, I believe we can win, but I also believe Glenvar can win and could easily come to the park and emerge with a victory. It wont be easy for either team, but I do believe Union is more battle tested, having played Richlands, Crockett and Graham already. Radford and Giles are good, but Union's opponents had a slightly better combined record and GC brings down the Union average but I guarantee that they are better than most 6-4 teams.

I think all 3 teams can beat appo, Union glenvar an richlands. Richlands wins by 2 TDs jmo I cld be wrong

Thanks to all of you for the well wishes and right back at ya Union !  We will be pulling for you guys also !

Good luck blues I'm pulling for ya

Let's go SWVA !!!!!!! Hit em hard hit early hit em often!!!!!

Let's go SWVA !!!!!!! Hit em hard hit early hit em often!!!!!

I will be pulling for the Falcons good luck

I think noaks is in the hunt an deserves it but I think Mullins will get it

I agree I think GC is in the top 10 i really do

I'm sure union fans seen Clemson an Va Tech recruiters in the press box at the RV game. After the game they was talking to Turner the Clemson guys said to get him to eat some of that country food they had ate why they was in town lol. They want him as a TE I don't see but who knws. But the VA tech guys said no way he is a natural WR just over Hurd them after the game. I was thinking to my self he just a SO. Lol

To me,  I love seeing these young men from SWVA go on to play at the next level regardless of where they come from and what school they played for.  The more of them that go to the next level,  means the more young men that get a good education and better their chances at being successful in life.  
I hope there are many we are reading about in the near future that have moved on to the next level........which ever division that may be.  I love turning on the TV and seeing kids from our part of the state playing and playing well..........it sure makes me proud !

amen well said

Much better than the alternative !!!

To all Richlands fans don't you loved to be hated! As long as our teams are hated by others were doing something right on the field IMO

99% of the ppl on this board knws what gonna happen to VHS Friday night lets just leave it at that ;)

Guys I'm not just saying this cause I'm a union fan! That being said after the end of the day like everyone else on here I'm a football fan. An that was the best game from start to finish I have ever seen in high school. Amazing we might had been on the winning end of this one. But this is to all richlands fans you have a great team An wish you guys the best and good health through out the year. With our best DB out the next guy up did a good job. Both teams are loaded with talent just a awesome atmosphere an game good luck.