Liam McPoyle

Glad to see Oscar Smith not rewarded after the transfer shenanigans

Congratulations to the Chilhowie Warriors on a great and enjoyable season. Hold your heads up high, you have nothing to be disappointed about.  You played till the very end.  You all are a great upstanding group of young men.  You made your community proud and showed true Warrior pride. Every game you gave it your all.  You all accomplished so much this year!! Something that hasn't happened in 40+ years. That is a lot to be proud of. I just want to say thank you for making this such a memorable season!!! Go Warriors!!!
I also want to Congratulate the Riverheads on another state title.

Congratulations to the Chilhowie Warriors!!!! 
This game was the pinnacle of your season, but does not define your season or the goals you achieved.   May your young lives build on this accomplishment with the brotherhood of the players, the commitment of working hard to go farther and even more than possibly dreamed.    It is a building block for next season for those returning, and an integral part for the seniors that hopefully will forge their lives in the future.
God Bless 

Thank you for your updates, much appreciated.

I think there is enough time in between games in Salem for UVAO and futbolking to duke it out for a few rounds at midfield...

Chilhowie got to practice indoors today at VT's "Beamer Barn".  

Nah, but there was this kid at Hampton in the 90s, Andre Inkerson or something, he's probably best evee from SWVA.

Damn we missed the boat we could have drafted...errrr transferred Cam Allen against Appo

They are either first or 2nd generation coaches. They either played for him, coached under him before coaching elsewhere or played for coaches that coached or played under him (2nd generation such as coach Palmer is).

Thanks for sharing @Bluefield researcher.  
I just read where Merril Gainer coached both Glynn Carlock and Joel Hicks at Big Creek.  
Needless to say, the communities of Coalwood and War have produced some phenomenal people.
http://www.roanoke.com/webmin/other/coach-s-coach/article_46d5fe3e-b5bb-513c-8dc2-cd5bfaa3f053.html
 

Merrill Gainer's legacy off the top of my head.  Joel Hicks did not graduate from Big Creek. He did not play for Merrill Gainer. He graduated from Richwood, WV. He did coach at Big Creek, Beckley and WVU (assistant) before Pulaski County
John Chmara - Bluefield - Fauquier (assistant coach)
Glynn Carlock - Graham (player and assistant coach under Gainer and Chmara)
Nick Colobro - Tazewell - Gate City (player)
Tim Sarver - Harrisonburg, Osbourn, Bath County (player)
Tom Farrell - Fauquier (played at Welch member of the 1963 undefeated team under Tony Colobro - assistant under Chmara)
Fred Simon - Bluefield (player and assistant coach under Chmara)
Dave Litz - Tazewell (player for Chmara)
Dave Rider - Tazewell (player at Big Creek)
JIm Hammond - Richlands (player at Big Creek)
Tom Buzzo - Liberty Bealeton - Brooke Point (player under Chmara)
John Lilly - Beckley, Shady Spring (player under Chmara)
Tony Palmer - Graham (player under Carlock)
Mario Poletti - Big Creek (player at Big Creek)
Carl Mams - Big Creek, George Wythe (assistant at Big Creek)
Jim Hickam - Pulaski High, Northside (player at Big Creek)
Barry Reed - Pocahontas and long time Coach and AD at Virginia High in other sports (played under Carlock)
Buster Large - J. I. Burton and current Bluefield basketball coach (played under Carlock)

Merrill Gainer also coached at Big Creek from 1948 to 1957. He also coached at Poca and Elkview in the Kanawha Valley.
1942  05-01-2  Poca
1943  08-01-0  Poca
      military service
1946  02-07-0  Elkview
1947  05-03-1  Elkview
1948  04-05-1  Big Creek
1949  05-04-0  Big Creek
1950  09-01-0  Big Creek
1951  08-02-0  Big Creek
1952  10-01-0  Big Creek
1953  08-01-1  Big Creek
1954  07-01-2  Big Creek
1955  09-00-0  Big Creek
1956  09-01-0  Big Creek
1957  10-00-0  Big Creek
1958           Big Creek suspeneded by the WVSSAC
1959  11-00-0  Bluefield
1960  10-00-0  Bluefield
1961  09-01-0  Bluefield
1962  11-00-0  Bluefield
1963  06-03-1  Bluefield
1964  09-01-0  Bluefield
1965  11-00-0  Bluefield
1966  09-01-0  Bluefield
1967  11-00-0  Bluefield
1968           not coaching
1969  02-05-2  Patrick Henry
1970  05-04-1  Patrick Henry
1971  07-03-0  Patrick Henry
1972  10-01-0  Patrick Henry
1973  13-00-0  Patrick Henry
1974  07-01-2  Patrick Henry
1975  07-02-0  Patrick Henry
1976  05-04-1  Patrick Henry
1977  03-05-2  Patrick Henry
Merril Gainer's winning percentrage in WV is .831.  No one has a better percentage with at least 100 games coached in WV.

ARE YOU KIDDING ME.....If this was in SWVA the VHSL would have someone's head, but it goes back to the same thing we've seen before, any team in the Roanoke Valley an eastward can do whatever and VHSL turns a blind eye.  If Union had received a couple of tranfers from Graham would VHSL have allowed that???  Can not imagine what the rule is that allowed this to happen.  Richlands has had transfers, but I thought the rule was that the kid had to have a semester of education under his belt at the new school, if I'm wrong, I must have fell asleep during the rule change meeting.

This would be the equivalent of a player playing for one Tazewell County school in the regular season and then playing for a different one in the playoffs.
Oh, the possibilities.

Holy shit. That's one of the shadiest things I've ever seen. How TF was that allowed? Three days??!? You can't possibly say this transfer was anything other than one school recruit a kid for the game. It's ridiculous and I hope the VHSL looks back and vacates this whole mess. You cannot allow this precedent. It opens up the entire state to recruiting kids for playoff games in the big three sports. Disgusting. 

Silly easterners...

Too bad Gate City isn't in this tourny... I'd love to see Mac dunk over a full-size China Cabinet or maybe a stacked up Living Room suit. 

Bad news for the rest of 1A.
"...I only have eight seniors on this year's team and some of them weren't even there two years ago.  We've got a ton of sophomores and juniors and we start two freshmen.  We truly are a young football team."
Robert Casto, Riverheads' Head Coach
http://www.heraldcourier.com/sports/class-football-championship-casto-has-riverheads-back-in-familiar-territory/article_08694144-dba8-11e7-9f8c-e70114f4a38b.html
 
 

-SWVAGridiron doesn't have connections.  He is the connection! 
-Rick "Bear Dog" Blevins was a stud on the wrestling mat for Chilhowie.  Well, maybe he was a "steed".  He was whichever one is more impressive.
-Entertaining show, guys...Thanks
 

Pun intended?

Pun intended?

I still maintain that Fulmer doesn’t have the intelligence, wherewithal, and personality to run a $110M athletic department.  Very different matters to run a football team and run an entire athletics department.

-SWVAGridiron doesn't have connections.  He is the connection! 
-Rick "Bear Dog" Blevins was a stud on the wrestling mat for Chilhowie.  Well, maybe he was a "steed".  He was whichever one is more impressive.
-Entertaining show, guys...Thanks
 

Did someone mention Caleb Jennings?!  This never gets old.
 

http://www.roanoke.com/sports/high_schools/football-only-part-of-the-fight-for-louisa-county-head/article_f37c459c-ae4e-5e42-a2e1-e00ce3509981.html