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PJ and Heather just went live on Facebook and announced the lineup of games they will be showing this fall on the CW.  Here are the games:
August 22 -- Greeneville at Knox Powell (Thursday night)
August 23 -- Tennessee High at Dobyns Bennett
August 30 -- Science Hill at David Crockett
September 6 -- Virginia High at John Battle
September 13 -- Greeneville at Science Hill
September 20 -- Volunteer at Cherokee
September 27 -- John Battle at Patrick Henry
October 4 -- Chilhowie at Virginia High
October 11 -- Ridgeview at Union
October 18 -- Greeneville at Elizabethton
October 25 -- David Crockett at Daniel Boone

The white isn’t bad, but I like the silver better. 

My son would just walk over to the back of the sideline and We would talk about what the defense was doing. I still pull for the county team, but I hate everything about Ridgeview. 

Haysi was awesome....stands right on the field...great stuff

If Abingdon's O-Line gets bigger and more physical, that will be something fun for an old lineman to watch. They destroyed the Ridgeview defensive front  last year in a way that you just don't see much. More pancakes than Aunt Jemima's house on Sunday morning.

Both of these statements are correct. Kids attending outside their area only happens in Richlands and it is indeed bad, very bad. At Union, we like to refer to it as Intellectual Annexation. Just trying to give these kids a helping hand in being successful in achieving their goals and dreams in life. Any ability to play sports, especially football, is completely coincidental. An anomaly, if you will.
Also, we are currently accepting applications for any students that may be over 6'3" and 300 lbs or can run a sub 4.6 40. After all, isn't discrimination against speedy and/or big and tall young men between the ages of 15-18 a travesty that we should all be working to curtail? 😁

2A is available now.
 

Looks like 3A all-state team was only state team released. 

Cricket: An insect of the family of Gryllidae, The Gryllidae have mainly cylindrical bodies, round heads and long antennae. They are related to bush crickets and distantly to grasshoppers.  

I bet the coaches in Wise would try to “beat” them 

VHSLgame use to be in the summer. A few yrs ago they switched to a winter format.

It is so much more than that.  It was earned by the VHSL power points system. Its home field advantage (self explanatory). Its the concession money that benefits the sports programs.  It is the positive financial impact that the town businesses and community will benefit from. Its the community rallying around this team and hosting game day events and functions.  Chilhowie is a small close knit community and feel these things were taken away from them without any consideration.  Its one thing to know you were going to be playing at a neutral site for the last 4 weeks.  Its another to change it less that 48 hours before the Kickoff!  

That field doesn’t look too bad to me. It’s a shame to lose homefield over that. 

Just out of curiosity I looked a little and only found the 2010 all LPD team. There were 18 first teamers counting specialists listed as offense. This years mountain 7 listed a utility guy and the LPD didn’t. 

I don’t wanna name any kids, but for Ridgeview there are a couple undeserving and one in particular that got hosed. Just my opinion. I don’t know all these kids by name, but I for sure see a few head scratchers. Congrats to all though. Hope the kids are proud of the accomplishment. It was a good competitive year in the district. 

LOL  I see a few Head Scratchers myself from Ridgeview and some that got F'd.  A few Headscratchers on the Central side as well.  Honestly thought I would see more 1st team OL from Ridgeview. I guess they wanted to even it out. I thought Mullins did a good job for us at QB when McAmis when downI thought honestly we wouldn't have anyone so I guess it all worked out.

Minus a few big runs Richlands didn’t exactly shut down the RV offense, they just made it ineffective. Ridgeview has playmakers that they refuse to try to get the ball. That’s what kills people and why, now that my son has played his last game there I will VERY seldom ever go back. Our QB isn’t great, but we played several games where we threw less than 5 passes. Then when that kid needs to step up it’s been a month since he’s been part of the offense how good is he gonna be? It’s not a matter of airing it out all the time, it’s the need to run more than the same 4 or 5 plays 95% of the year. 

100% agree.  You cant be expected to use weapons you haven't used in forever.  The Sexton things baffles me.  Ridgeview was giving a blessing with him why not use him?  Like I said on a diff post.  I am a Central guy but what I have seen from Ridgeview and every other team in the district, Ridgeview has the best line and backfield in the district and some pretty good recievers.  Why not utilize what you have.  Richlands didn't stop them they stopped themselves by less than great play calling on both sides.  took too long to adjust to a 4 and 5 man front and on offense why not use what got you there? 

He had 210 on 26 carrries. 
He broke a 70 and 51 pair of runs. 
Thats 121 of those 210 on two runs. 
If you take away those efforts, he had 89 yards on 24 carries. That’s 3.7 YPC. 
You obviously can’t take those two big ones away, but I think outside of those two, Richlands did a fantastic job of stopping him the rest of the game. 

Rick Mullins got taken to a clinic on how the spread is supposed to be run. Richlands attacked the whole field and made the Pack defend the whole field.  Ridgeview on the other hand uses the spread to attack the first 12 inches of the field and is completely out of their element when they have to do anything else. I called it several weeks ago, having no clue who our opponent was that we would get upset in the 2nd round. Ridgeview goes nowhere in the future until they get a clue how to call an offense. Best of luck to Richlands next week. 

Rick Mullins got taken to a clinic on how the spread is supposed to be run. Richlands attacked the whole field and made the Pack defend the whole field.  Ridgeview on the other hand uses the spread to attack the first 12 inches of the field and is completely out of their element when they have to do anything else. I called it several weeks ago, having no clue who our opponent was that we would get upset in the 2nd round. Ridgeview goes nowhere in the future until they get a clue how to call an offense. Best of luck to Richlands next week. 

Please don’t mention frostys on this message board 

I agree defensively I think it will be a chess match by both teams, but offensively Ridgeview will run the same things over and over.  If you can line up and stop them you will beat them because they won't change and there will be no creativity.  

I would think that has been the plan for everybody the last 11 weeks. I have been hearing from some parents that the reason the game is moved to Saturday is so they can get an extra day of practice. Word is James Colley has been back on campus helping install the Tiger Air Raid offense. The plan is to pass at least 35 times this week. Colley's only request was to have some of the old Sandlick field brought up and put on the sideline. He wants to be able to draw up the plays in the sand with 5 leaves, 4 bottle caps, a penny, and  a cigarette bud like old times. 

I can very well see Ridgeview being upset here, but it has nothing to do with our out of conference schedule. The play calling is ridiculous at times. They almost refuse to pass or run Sexton most games and usually it’s Adkins up the gut 40 times a game no matter what. However Sexton did get some touches this week. If we mix up our offense we win. If not this game is very winnable for Richlands. Don’t get me wrong I like Adkins but when people can’t just key on him it will just make him and the team better. Go Pack.