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Where in that play did you see a kid throw a punch?  Not one punch was remotely thrown?  Not one Lebanon player at fault is completely laughable!

This is confirmed!  Last night it was going to be UVAWise.  Lebanon was proposed for the Region Championship as well.  This will be a fun game.  VA High or Graham to play for State Runner-UP!  

Virginia High and Graham Friday at Lebanon 6:00 PM confirmed from someone within the Graham community I trust.  Not UVa-Wise.
Abingdon and LCA at Virginia High confirmed for Friday at 6:00.

The ball left his hands with .04.  There is plenty of evidence on twitter for those that don’t believe.  Unbelievable game!  I think both teams see each other again.  

The ball left his hands with .04.  There is plenty of evidence on twitter for those that don’t believe.  Unbelievable game!  I think both teams see each other again.  

Jimmy has never been afraid to say what he thinks. His club works it’s ass off. I don’t know if there is such a thing as over competitive, but that is his problem. He wants, thinks, and breaths winning,…I respect that. He could care less about his comments in the paper or the way they come across. He is dialed in on winning each game.  

Jimmy has never been afraid to say what he thinks. His club works it’s ass off. I don’t know if there is such a thing as over competitive, but that is his problem. He wants, thinks, and breaths winning,…I respect that. He could care less about his comments in the paper or the way they come across. He is dialed in on winning each game.  

Are you in grade school?  When a kid transfers, it is usually the parent that is pushing the issue.  To the victor goes the spoils!  Tony Palmer has built a program, and gets labeled as a "RECRUITER", because of that success!  Gridiron60 nailed it with above post!  Tony, keep building young men!!  

Our world is interconnected by 1000 fold compared to even 17 years ago. Kids camp together who are from different local High Schools, kids travel together on recruiting visits from different local schools, they compare and contrast each other's programs, weight rooms, practices, off season workouts, etc. They continue to communicate on social media during the season. Do you want to know the biggest recruiter for High Schools? It's not the Coach at school A or B. It's not the parents who want their kid at a better program. It's .......the Other kids. Sure, a parent or coach may play a part, but the single biggest factor (most of the time) for a Kid from School A coming to play at School B is due to the kid or kids at School B who are connected or have some connection to the kid from School A. 
Just my opinion....actually, the above is kind of my opinion. It is skewed more to fact than opinion in this case.

Are you in grade school?  When a kid transfers, it is usually the parent that is pushing the issue.  To the victor goes the spoils!  Tony Palmer has built a program, and gets labeled as a "RECRUITER", because of that success!  Gridiron60 nailed it with above post!  Tony, keep building young men!!  

Truthfully, if there’s not a  recording of something can it actually be proven???? Anyone can say , so & so called my kid.
 
I know lots of kids that talk back & forth with players from other schools & are good friends off the field.  Many times, kids are a team’s best “recruiters” for successful programs. 

Are you in grade school?  When a kid transfers, it is usually the parent that is pushing the issue.  To the victor goes the spoils!  Tony Palmer has built a program, and gets labeled as a "RECRUITER", because of that success!  Gridiron60 nailed it with above post!  Tony, keep building young men!!  

Gear 😂😂😂 you mean a tshirt & sweats??? How scandalous ! 😂😂😂
High School prepares some kids for the workforce & not all kids go to college . Being part of a great sports program can produce adults with a great work ethic who will be productive members of society. 

To each is their own, and diversity of opinions is what makes this board great.

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I dont think Radford had self doubt. i think they have an idiot coach that cant win a game where he doesnt have far superior talent. 

Congrats to Ridgeview. They have a very good offense and their defense seems like it has improved since Bluefield. Will be a good game next week. Class facility and game atmosphere. 

I think when people said they weren’t impressed with Ridgeview it was probably more of anger with the way the events played out for Tazewell. They should have actually said they were dissatisfied in Tazewell’s execution, not that they weren’t impressed with Ridgeview. I think the final score leads people to believe the game was something it maybe wasn’t. It was a blowout on the scoreboard but it didn’t feel like one on the field. I don’t say that taking away anything from Ridgeview, as it’s obvious they are a very talented team. I’ll breakdown my thoughts and that will be all I’ll say on the subject, as I don’t want to hijack this thread since ultimately Tazewell is playing basketball and Graham/Ridgeview are playing for a region title.  
 
To start the game, Tazewell’s defense forces a punt and seemed to have momentum at that point. Beavers did a good job holding onto the ball until the last second before punting which gave the coverage team time to get down field and force the muff. Ridgeview recovers at the 20. 6 plays later they score from the touchdown after converting a 4th and 2 on that drive.  XP blocked - score: 6-0
 
Next drive for tazewell is a 6 play drive where they got past mid field. Tazewell’s receiver catches a screen pass, tries to reverse field, runs backwards 9 yards and gets tackled which puts Tazewell well behind the sticks. Tazewell punts. 
 
Ridgeview’s drive goes 6 plays, then punts back to Tazewell. 
 
Tazewell - 3 & out, punt. 
 
Ridgeview’s next drive is their most impressive of the day. 60 yard drive for a td. Tazewell had done a great job up until that point of shutting the run game down but Hill broke a 15 yard run where there were 2 missed tackles at the line of scrimmage. That run flipped the momentum. Hill is an excellent player, btw. XP good. Score 13-0 a few mins into the second quarter.
 
Tazewell’s next drive they have some success moving the ball. This one was a 6 play, around 45 yard drive. On the 5th play they make the first play where they were able to get one of their playmakers on the edge in space and that’s the play when Taylor gets ejected. On the next play the backup RB comes in and a busted play happens. Backup RB runs a counter when Creasy seemed to expect him to run a straight dive for the read option, and when he wasn’t there for it Creasy tried to tuck it but fumbled and Ridgeview runs it back to the 15. 
 
Ridgeview starts on Tazewell’s 15, runs a couple plays to get a TD. XP good. 20-0 with just a couple mins left in the half. At this point it was over. 
 
Tazewell takes over. Completes the first pass near midfield but the sideline gets a 15 yard penalty. Next play also a completed pass but a holding call on Tazewell and a personal foul on Ridgeview were offsetting penalties which led to a replay of down. Ridgeview brings pressure and gets a sack. Last play of the half they bring pressure and get another sack, which is the one that Creasy got his leg rolled up on. Tazewell has to regroup at halftime and figure out a plan on offense and defense without Taylor, who is arguably their most important player, and a plan to help Creasy which will have more limited mobility going forward. 
 
While Taylor was in on defense Ridgeview didn’t have success on their inside run plays. I believe their longest rush, outside of the one Hill broke the tackles on and ran outside, was 3-4 yards. He’s a player that moves around a lot on defense, and gets in the backfield most plays so you always have to account for him. On offense, Taylor was their most physical player with the ball. He was the guy that would pick up a 3rd and 3 on a tough run and also could get on the edge and stiff arm his way for plenty of yards like was seen against teams like Virginia High and Richlands. Also Taylor, a 6’2 “ 200 pound strong kid, provided a lot better blocking option in the backfield on pass plays. Backup is 5’8” 160 pounds, so when he’s in pass protection Ridgeview was obviously going to come a little harder at Creasy at that point in time. Good defensive coaching adjustment by Ridgeview at that point.
 
Not making excuses for the reason Taylor was ejected, just stating the fact that when he went out Tazewell had to adjust their offense and defensive game plans on the fly, which is hard since I don’t know if a team in this area that could sub a kid in off the bench in his place and get anywhere near the production on the field. 
 
So after halftime, Tazewell doesn’t covert on 4th down on the opening drive and Ridgeview takes over on Tazewell’s 35. Hill takes two separate what could’ve been 4-5 yard carries and breaks tackles to carry the team to another td. 27-0 early in the 3rd. 
 
Next drive was Tazewell’s best of the day. 11 play, 60ish yard drive to around Ridgeview’s 10 yard line. At that point Ridgeview sends a blitz and sacks Creasy. Tazewell’s sideline believes it should be a penalty for hitting the QB in the head and after arguing that point with the ref for a minute the ref throws an unsportsmanlike on Tazewell’s sideline. Now instead of being at the 10 yard line with a chance to score they’re taking the snap from the 36 yard line, needing to get to Ridgeview’s 3 yard line for a first down. Creasy throws the Hail Mary type play a little under thrown, the receiver falls down trying to make the adjustment to come back for it, and Beavers gets an easy INT & runs it back to the 38. 
 
The next play Ridgeview runs a good route concept on the outside. Tazewell’s cornerback was able to make the adjustment to get back in position with the ball in the air but Counts used his body to get him off balance. The corner falls down right before the ball gets there and Counts has an easy 65 yard catch down to the 4. Two plays later Hill runs it in. Ridgeview faked the 2pt to get the running clock and then the rest of the game didn’t really matter. Score: 35-0, which ended up being the final. 
 
 
Ridgeview’s scoring drives were:
20 yards - set up by a muffed punt  
60 yards - Excellent drive. 
15 yards - set up by a fumble 
35 yards - set up by a turnover on downs
68 yards - set up by a 65 yard busted play by the DB. 
 
So that, I believe, is where the “Ridgeview wasn’t that impressive” thoughts come from. To Tazewell’s fans that know how much talent they have, it was frustrating to see the score being 35-0 when you believe that you gave away 28 of them. And on the other side of that - if Tazewell hadn’t turned the ball over, ended up punting and Ridgeview had long field a there’s nothing saying they wouldn’t have scored the same amount. But most Tazewell fans wouldn’t agree with that  with the way Tazewell’s defense was playing the first quarter and half of the second.  
 
Ridgeview, again, is super talented and their defense is underrated. They won, they advanced. They’ve been there before. So this isn’t me downplaying them, it’s me trying to explain both sides of it for the ones that weren’t there & just seen the score. The game was closer on the line of scrimmage in the first half but I think their back 7 is better than most people would think, which  is the main reason Tazewell’s offense struggled. Ridgeview’s offense is highly touted, especially O’quinn & Beavers, and you expect them to make those big impressive plays as they’ve done plenty of times before. So if you’re expecting that to happen and it doesn’t then I could understand maybe why you would say that they didn’t impress you. 
 
My thoughts are: they didn’t make any overly “impressive plays” because they simply didn’t have to, not because they weren’t capable of doing so. I think had the game 20-7 or something similar then there wouldn’t have been folks saying they weren’t impressed, they would’ve been able to compliment Ridgeview on having a great team with very few weaknesses. 
 
Tazewell going forward has to find a way to not continue to beat theirselves after the first thing goes wrong. You can just about pinpoint one play in every single loss that was an unfortunate event for Tazewell and they were not able to recover from it. They’re capable of it, as they shown in the second half of the Richlands game, but they have to have that same mindset against every team, not just the team they want to beat more than the others. They’ll bring back most of the team next year. Harris will be hard to replicate but there will still be a lot of talent next year and the year after. Hopefully a couple of the kids that should step up to be leaders, that are capable and willing, will help the other players with their mindset and it can help them get over the hump going forward. That’s a big ask for kids 14-18 that haven’t been there before so fans need to be realistic in their expectations and remember that winning 5,6,7 games and making the post season is a lot more fun than the stretch they went on from 2010-2017.  It could be even more fun when they learn to win the battle between their ears. 
 
Good luck to both Ridgeview and Graham going forward. I think either will be a great representative for our side of the state in Salem if either were to make it that far. After this week it’s SWVA vs. everyone and we’ll all be friends again. 

I have as well, and I wouldn’t say Graham names the score.  I think this can be a really good ballgame.  I would favor Graham, but definitely not in a blowout fashion at all. 

lotta y'all giving RV no chance. You're gonna be surprised come Saturday. 

Bad football coach and a worse human being.  Both of which were on full display tonight. The truth never stays hidden for long...

I'm shocked Michael Christ is getting outcoached😀

Hopefully everybody will be feeling better both teams will be close to full strength.  

Only way this game is competitive is if several RV starters are slowed by illness.
RV - 42
VH - 14

IDK, but if his stats matched that of a 10 game schedule should it matter?