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With Bluefield Researcher's help, I got it to come up. In 84, the Bobcats lost to Covington in the semis, and later on in the 80s lost to Drewry Mason & Lexington.

I tried to look on 4 Seasons Football, but the spreadsheet with the results isn't showing up for me. I want to say it was in 84. Maybe it was in the semifinals.

There's not enough care in the world to make the VH$L (or other associations) cut that much money out of their yearly budget. Take the T$$AA a few years ago when a cash strapped, bad, player depleted Unaka team refused to make the 3+ hour bus to undefeated Greenback for a first round blowout. Was the T$$AA sympathetic? No, they punished Unaka for it. They simply don't care about anything other than getting their money that the opening round generates.

Pressure from who? As you said, very few people care about this issue and the ones that do, what would they do? Sue the VH$L? I'm no lawyer, but I can't see that going anywhere in a courtroom.

Yep, and Garden finished 6-4 and made the finals where they lost a tight game to Lunnenburg. One year in the 80s, PV lost something like two of their first three by something like less than 5 points combined, finished 8-2 and thumped state runner up Pennington Gap 35-14, but missed the playoffs.

I've seen this discussion play out every year on message boards from various states after some ridiculous 1st round blowouts. That extra round provides the VH$L (and other associations) with a nice chunk of change for their operating budget, and they are not going to give that up under any circumstances.

The extra round of ticket sales is...well..why we have the extra round, and that's 100% the responsibility of the VH$L (and other organizations in different states). How much are playoff tickets in VA? $8-10? They're $10 here. For the FHSAA, the first round of the 9 class system will produce over $1.3+ million based on an average attendance of 1K. That's a big chunk of change in their budget, and they couldn't possibly care less if they have blowout games, and St Thomas Aquinas doesn't feel like their 9-1 season and #10 national ranking is cheapened by mercy ruling Plantaion this weekend. I'd also wage that while the VH$L probably "only" raked in around $800K in the opening round, that they didn't care that Jamestown got railed by Phoebus, and I'd also bet that Phoebus didn't feel their 11-0 record was "lessened" by the game. I agree that there needs to be less teams, but the people (VH$L) who control the show aren't giving up a big chunk of change that helps their operating budget.

Satisfy the "give'em a trophy" crowd? You mean satisfy the VH$L? There's no trophy awarded for making the playoffs in high school, but it puts money in the pockets of the various athletic associations, and they're not giving that up...ever, and the VH$L doesn't care if some kids from Jamestown or wherever get railed in the process. It's the same way with the T$$AA , FH$AA, the KH$AA and so on and so forth. It's not just a Virginia issue.

We're coming in at Thanksgiving. Hopefully we'll be watching the Bears v Graham that weekend and anything beyond that. We'll be in Kingsport through Christmas, and hope to go to Salem for the championships regardless of who is playing, but hope it's the Bears.

Treasure Coast 28 Osceola 0 Final Treasure Coast will host arch rival Vero Beach next week.

Treasure Coast 28 Osceola 0 7:23 3rd

Treasure Coast 21 Osceola 0 7:58 2nd There's probably around 300 people here tonight for a playoff game between two schools with 6K combined students. I miss the SWVA crowds so bad. 😕 OTOH, I'm watching playoff football while wearing short sleeves, shorts and sandals. 🤔

Football night in South Florida. 1st round of the FHSAA Class 4S playoffs. Kissimmee Osceola at Treasure Coast. It's a muggy 80° at kickoff. Treasure Coast 6 Osceola 0 End of first. Between TC's single wing and Osceola's wing T, we had a 20 minute first quarter.

Didn't Whitewood and Council have a combined football team back in the 80s or 90s?

Westwood 26 Boca Raton 7 Final Westwood finishes 7-3, but has to travel to Daytona Beach Mainland next week for the first round of the playoffs. Mainland is a strong favorite to win the state title in their division.

Westwood 20 Boca Raton 0 9:20 to go Westwood with a 70 yard TD run to bust it open. Looks like the Panthers will finish 7-3 and head to the playoffs. Nice job by coach Chris Coakle who took over an 0-10 program two seasons ago, went 5-5 and now 7-3. Not bad for a guy whose last job was as a desk jockey at the local ESPN Radio affiliate in Palm Beach. 🌴😎🌴

Westwood 13 Boca Raton 0 11:20 to go Westwood with their 3rd interception in the end zone tonight.

Westwood 13 Boca Raton 0 4:26 3rd

Westwood 7 Boca Raton 0 Half Westwood had a TD wiped off with 30 seconds to go on an embarrassingly weak block in the back call that had zero impact on the play. I hate calls like that.🤬

Why wouldn't the home PA guy be biased towards the home team? I don't think I've ever been to a stadium where that wasn't the case. 🤔

Westwood 7 Boca Raton 0 6:21 2nd

End of the regular season here in Florida. Last night we saw Jensen Beach beat arch rival Martin Co 14-7 in Stuart to finish off a 9-1 regular season where their defense pitched 6 shutouts, and technically 7 because Martin Co only score came on a pick 6. Tonight is game #26 for us so far this season as we're watching Boca Raton at Westwood here in The Fort. Both teams come in at 6-3 and are already in the playoffs. 75 degrees and really windy at kickoff. Westwood 0 Boca Raton 0 Late 1st

It's one thing to go 0-10, but to not score a single point while getting crushed every single night out is just mind boggling. 😱Their MaxPreps page says they have 47.players on the roster, but MaxPreps can be wildly inaccurate sometimes.

1A * Cloudland over Greenback * Oliver Springs over North Greene * Coalfield mauls Unaka 2A * Hampton big over Polk Co * Bledsoe Co over South Greene * Oneida over Happiest of Valleys 3A * Kingston big over Johnson Co * A-E over Unicoi * Alcoa big over Chokey Duck 4A * Green(e)ville big over Fulton * Betsy big over Carter * The Moo Cows big over East * 5A * Powell big over THS * Hope Boone has a nice meal at Dead End BBQ before or after the game with West. 6A * Bearden over D-B * Murville over Science Hill (again) even though this isn't you're normal Murville team. * Bradley Central with a mercy rule over Westridge * Cleveland over JeffCo to complete the Region 2 sweep.

Blacksburg is obviously horrible, but to forfeit? Nice way to send your seniors out by taking away their final game. I remember when Unaka (TN) declined to play a 1st round playoff game against an outstanding Greenback team. I didn't like it, but Unaka was down to about (IIRC) 15 players, and it was a 3 hour bus ride to Greenback. Paying for the bus, gas and meals to take a massive beatdown made it more understandable than what Blacksburg is doing.