BoBob

I say that I have the utmost respect for Dr Falwell. He was such a people person and his love for the kids of that university was evident to anyone who crossed paths with him. He would routinely been seen with the kids, whether it was at sporting events, chapel, or just driving up the roads on campus swerving hi big SUV at the blowing that loud horn. you could see he belly laughing when he knew he startled you good. I've been on the receiving end of good punch in the side only to turn around to see him blaming his wife for hitting me. He was a man of faith who stuck his neck out to try to accomplish what he felt the Lord had called him to do. Most people who ever met him knew he wasn't what the media tried to paint him to be. Jerry Jr...... never really had a good feeling about him Jonathan seems down to earth and has the same heart for people his dad did.

Thanks! I'll be there!

I know. Thanks for the support and prayers for Coach you talked about. couldn’t resist the petty jab there. Safe travels.

Shame you can’t come to cheer on the Raiders. 😆

Not how I meant it. Lol Although every game is the last game till the next is earned. Last game for us unless we earn another.

Well I hate to see a kid miss his last game due to an injury. Kudos to him for toughing it out it sounds like.

That was not this team. That was last years team. This team is the visitors and the lower ranked team.

Graham is favorite for sure. That’s ok, maybe the Raiders will take the underdog role as a challenge.

Well the bad luck for SWVA has to end at some point. Someone above said it right when they said this Appo team ain’t what the other teams were and surely ain’t what the 15,16 team was. Out of all 5 teams, this team ain’t them. They are good obviously, but we will see just how good. They will come to Bluefield ready play and Coach Smith will have them well prepared. If Graham is looking past them Bluefield won’t be a happy town come Saturday night.

While I stand whole heartedly behind what this school stands for I do feel it’s an injustice they way they do their sports. Fully support a partner wanting send their kid there for a Christian education but when a lot of these kids are god athletes is when it starts to get fishy to me. I could go into more but don’t feel like starting my morning off like that. Lol

Appomattox is starting to click. Glenvar played like they always do, they competed extremely well and played tough. Sorry Graham fans but I’m a Ridgeview fan tomorrow. Would love to have a home game.

You know. I got hit by one of those things once. Not the hammer itself but the handle. In the face too. Glad I'm able to type about it. LOL!

We beat Rustburg 17-6 who I think that year was the Number 1 seed in their region in 3A Heritage 29-21 (game was 22-0 at half and the hot humid conditions had out starters (two way players) dropping like flies- Heritage "out benched" us in the second half to bring the score close) who went a couple rounds into the playoffs in 3A Altavista 42-13 (they went 11-4 that year) Amherst 35-12 who went a couple rounds into the playoffs in 4A Goochland (who was undefeated) we beat 45-13 in the state semi game. Richlands for the tile 42-7. Riverheads was good too though but I wouldn't bet against that group from Appomattox. They didn't love winning as much as they HATED the thought of losing, winning was just the by-product.

Dan River refused to move that game (I forget what hurricane it was that came through). They knew that with the style of football they played and the wet field slowing us down that the soaked field and driving rain would play into their favor. That and we were missing our best lineman and #26 Delonte Kelso that game which helped allowed the score to stay close. We kicked a 40+ yard FG in that rain too. Special teams baby!! In saying all that, DR was good, I think they were looking past Union to a rematch with us. There were articles in the paper about the possible rematch.

We have, twice, and the one time there was complaining about the officiating down there in Region D. Lol! We are definitely beatable as are most teams. Maybe we will get to travel to Region D this year if we can make it that far.

Appomattox up 50-0 at half They had Nelson at about zero yards of offense in the first half and then their RB got loose for about a 60 yard run.

Would think the hosting school needs more than a 1/3. They have to pay for support staff to pull off the game. Janitors, announcers, clock operator,...

Well, we came and had a great day. Ride there (81 to 77 and up) was beautiful and the Tech game traffic wasn't too bad. Got the the Railyard at 11:05 and it didn't open till 11:30 so we just sat with the windows down and enjoy thee wonderful weather. Railyard was good (although I was disappointed the only offered their brunch menu--that philly cheesesteak on the online menu looked good) and they had live music which was nice. Got to the game around 1:00 to watch the boys warm up. Mitchell Stadium is pretty nice. Love the stands and how step they are. Georgetown won the game 61-19 so I got to watch my son get lots of short snaps in for extra points and one field goal snap. My youngest son (who was a junior when we played Graham in 2019) was able to catch up with Brody Meadows and they talked down by the locker rooms for about 30 minutes. Nice trip! Beautiful drive and a great experience.

From what I heard about their game last year was that barring some stupid unsporstman like penalties late in the game that Draft would have won. Not saying the penalties weren't warranted but that they handed the win to RH. Plus Appo lost their big back right before they went up 14-0 in that game (knee) he could play defense (not at 100 percent though) but couldn't run the ball due to the chance of getting hit on the knee. NOW.... That is taking nothing away from Draft. They were loaded and ready to play. Appomattox fans knew they were in a knock down brawl of a game there, we just jumped on them early and were able to hold on. There was NO QUIT in that team. The fact that Riverheads played with them and beat them says enough to me to know that they are a great team.

Getting closer but still not there. Missing a key member of the line that goes two ways.

Appo also had two TD"s called back (their fault) and lost a fumble once at the LB 25 and another lost fumble at the LB 5. Score could have been at least 2 td's more.

We’ve been West twice to play in the Semi Final against the team that WON Region D. I guess we will have to agree to disagree on the 2019 game. You guys were no doubt loaded. You’ve got a great program that contents year in and year out.

Guess I just was figuring if a lineman moves (or the whole line) with the obvious intention of drawing a player off sides then that was illegal. I guess, what’s the difference between a “flinch” and that shift. Maybe we will see you again. (Over here I hope😉)

Even on here a SWVA forum folks say that Graham plays undisciplined at times. I can tell you for sure that on the punt return in that game that there was an illegal block (two in fact) one was a block in the back that wasn't called but then the blind side block was called. One time we converted a 3rd and 7 when Graham had 12 men lined up (not a guy running off) that wasn't called. Not sure how you can say the refs didn't "allow" Graham to take momentum when your third play from scrimmage they allowed a 62 yard pass play to stand. Not saying it shouldn't have stood just saying it wasn't flagged. Then in the 2nd quarter that long play to Bradshaw stood. I'll concede that athlete to athlete you guys were stacked and probably were better, but it was said above our coaches had our kids prepared to play disciplined football and saw areas in the defense that they could exploit and we did, scoring on plays where we simply created confusion and had kids WIDE OPEN for scores. I can't see how you guy can do that BUT I know that you have down it a bunch and didn't get called, so I'm not sure why they called it that day.

I'll give you 2018 Graham winning. I think we were better than Radford (5 turnovers and lost by 3) but I'm not sure we were up to graham level that year. Now, 2019 we beat them 28-13. Were they talented, you bet, BUT so were we. They lost a few plays to penalties but I think we held them to 3-4 first downs the whole second half.