Bearcat Dad

That’s how you become uneducated. You should read EVERY thread on here. I’m not affiliated with Graham or Central, but I’ve read it. Same with this thread. 
You making that statement is the same things as telling sportscasters to “stay in your lane”, which is pure BS. You don’t have to be a poster of the school in a thread to have an opinion. 

Exactly. I wonder how many arms/wrists/etc are going to get broke by players trying to adapt to hitting with their hands. I'm all for safety of players. Ran a youth program for a decade. I get it. My son broke his neck making a tackle last year. His head was up, but injuries happen. This is a bad rule. Prolly gonna cause more headache than when they put the horse collar rule in. 

This should have been posted first

I'm not taking sides. Please don't take this as such. Going from the video, and based on the lame rule change, it was illegal. I screen shot the play in question but was unable to attach it. VHS player never lead with hands. Lowered shoulder. But I'm fine with it. It's football. He could have really lowered the boom on Dalton. But he clearly blocked enough to spring the ball carrier. This rule is stupid and hurting the game. Next the kids will have to set screens like basketball. 

Could be worse.  Could be like WVVA and have more coverage from teams that are an hour away instead of the teams in their own back yard...
I understand some errors as it's easy to have a misunderstanding but the prediction completely had a mashup of facts.  They seemed to know about Truck and Mookie but to confuse Graham as the Beavers, when they are normally predicting Graham on a weekly basis is a bit of a stretch for me.
BTW Here is the copy and paste of it:
Tazewell at Bluefield, W.Va., 7:30 p.m.
  Last meeting: Graham 48, Tazewell 12 (Sept. 2, 2016, in Tazewell, Va.)
Bluefield leads this series by a 12-5 margin and should record another easy victory Thursday. … After enduring a rare losing record last season, the Beavers (4-0) are No. 1 in the West Virginia Class AA ratings. The stars for 32-year Bluefield head coach Fred Simon are senior halfback Mookie Collier and 218-pound senior fullback Jason “Truck” Edwards. Last season, Collier was a first-team all-state pick in football and basketball and a state champion in track and field. … Tazewell freshman Jamir Blevins has passed for 496 yards and eight touchdowns the past two weeks, but the Bulldogs are allowing 43 points per game. … Tazewell scored on a pair of passes from T.J. Kitts to speedy Mason Mullins last season in this game. Mullins will make another big play Thursday, but Bluefield will roll over the undermanned Bulldogs behind the “Truck.”

Please dont associate me with Mike Pereira.  I was trying to avoid this post to be honest as long as no one asked for me. 
As for the play, from the clip shown I do believe it was an illegal blindside block.  I would like a different angle just to be 100% sure but it does appear to meet the definition of the rule.  
Personally, I will admit that this has been one of the hardest rules I have had to adjust to.  I missed one in a benefit game this year that I knew I should have called in retrospect.  My crew had one in the game Friday night that was in a shared area that one of my crew members flagged and I didnt.  I thought there may have been open hands initiate the block.  He disagreed and we went with it.  I would rather flag something I know 100% than something I am only 50% sure I saw.  He felt 100% about it and that was good enough for me.  I will also say, a flag or not wouldnt have changed the outcome of the young man being hurt so there is no need for anything like that to be brought up by anyone.  That was a veteran crew who worked that game, which I had the pleasure of joining in a state semifinal game 2 seasons ago.  We aren't perfect, but I will say we have some great people who are putting the time in to get better and represent this area well on the field, and hopefully not be a noticeable part of the game.

Where is our very own version of Mike Pereira, 1instripes, when we need him?  He'd be the one to give us the real low down.

I've always been a huge advocate of Tim Hayes' work.  Tim knows his stuff and does his research.  The History with Hayes article each Friday in the paper is probably the most looked forward to bit of reading I have each week.
Sacco was excellent when he was here as well.  I don't know much about Nate, except he's a hockey fan like myself, so that makes him cool in my book.

Hayes isn't bad. I didn't mean to come across as saying that every article by every writer stinks. I just meant that there aren't very many times where the coverage of local sports either....
A) does not have factual errors, in regards to Onceadog's post above, or
B) doesn't show favoritism to the Tn. side. I understand that there are more readers/viewers on the Tn. side, but both the paper and the news station are located in Va. 
I can see how my post may come across as me dogging everyone to do with both media outlets. Maybe I should have said "For the most part". Some are better than others. They have all had their share of mistakes. 
If I had to pick the most reliable in my lifetime, it would be Sacco for me, as well.

Not everyone. I'm a lifelong Bristol resident, and the BHC drives me nuts!

You had 12 hours, and that's best that you can come up with? I still have yet to talk to a smart, Internet Tough Guy! If I could draw it out in crayon for you, I would, but since I can't, I'll do my best to explain "bitter" to you. 
I had a few different posters who disagreed with me. I didn't call any of them bitter. I called YOU bitter because of your particular response. We disagreed, that's fine! YOU had to take it a step further, and get personal. YOU were the only one who responded with more than just your opinion on the matter. YOU were the one who tried to say that YOU knew how I would feel if it were my son or one of our players. I call it as I see it, and if YOU would just take a couple of minutes and read the entire post, you would see that everything I just said is 100% true. YOU would also see why I STILL believe that was not an illegal hit. YOU or anyone else can disagree, that fine. It doesn't change my opinion in what the VHSL officials told me.
You have 2 choices;
We can continue discussing this or any other subject on this board in a civil manner, like adults, or.....
YOU can keep getting personal, like a brave, strong, Keyboard Warrior(pun intended) and I'll just end it now.
I have no intentions on continuing the latter. In the short time I've been here, I've seen GMan swing his Great Hammer of Justice. I'm not interested in being part of that. I just want to talk about local high school football with other adults.
Make the choice!

This from i would guess everyone in their distribution area

Sorry man, I have to disagree. That is not an illegal block. I know 2 VHSL referees personally, and I sent them the very link that Union_Fan provided. Both confirmed that it does not fall under a "blindside" or "crack back" block that governing bodies of high school football across the country are trying to eliminate.
I'm not being a smart-ass or trying to start something. I'm repeating the words of two officials. It was a physical play that had a bad outcome for Mullins. If the officials had told me it was illegal, I would have gladly apologized to Jonah58.

I hate this rule it's just football to me.  If i was in the players shoes (well cleats) from VA High I would have probaly made the same block. The way they got it set up now that is a illegal block.  I don't like the rule I hate that the kid got hurt he has been hurt for 2 years it's a shame such a good player.  

I understand and I'm pretty sure that any of us would be hard pressed to find someone who does like the rule. I have tried to leave my feeling for the rule, out of my opinion on it. That's why I asked the officials I know, because when this topic started being discussed, the description of the block in the initial argument of the block being illegal, started changing from that particular poster. Even with his changing of his description of the block, I had a little doubt creep in. I would have eaten a big plate of crow in front of everyone had even one of the officials had told me that it was illegal.
Again, the only thing that really matters is that we keep the kid in our prayers. Tough way to end your high school football career.

Graham......too many athletes and speed.

2:08 is the play in question I believe.
https://www.hudl.com/video/2/19410/59bebfa5e9843607844a3182

Wait, aren't you biased as well? lol 
I know the rules on crack back blocks were changed this year but I haven't saw the play, and I'm not exactly a neutral observer. 

Central is 0 and 12 in the last 5 years I've been to their games. I'll be there tonight and the streak will continue. 6 to 0 Wise Central last week when I arrived at the the Ridgeview game. Ridgeview out scores them 28 to 0. We leave and Central scores again. With that I'll go 34-13 Bearcats.

Well done, sir. Close at half, Union pulled away, 34-19.  Well done indeed.

Richlands is another program that I have great respect for, but the other team is loaded. I could be wrong but I don't think this one is close.
42-10

I would still call it a rivalry. They have played over 80 times. Definitely more heated in baseball because of the amount of success each has had over the last couple of decades. Football seems to have gone in cycles during that time. One school kinda goes on a streak for a while, then it's the other's turn.

For Battle the biggest rival would be virginia high but Abingdon is another big one due to battle being right inbetween Abingdon and virginia high 

Abingdon and Virginia High.. Kind of a rivalry I guess due to proximity.  More so in Baseball.  Football has been dominated by the Falcons in recent years.  but still a bit of a rivalry there.
Since moving to the mountain district we don't really have a district rival yet.