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Come off that way though 🤷‍♂️ The kids bust there ass everyday, coaches do too, and the parents are super supportive with the booster club. I will agree on the lack of support. I don’t know if you know this or not but Marion is a basketball school!

Yeah I can see where pulling for a team that under Harner only won 70% of their games and won 11 playoff games and is over .500 against 2A teams would be really hard.. Harner is a damn good coach, sometime is a prick, but still a good coach. He has never made it to Salem but that would just be to get your hopes up because no body on this side of the state is beat Riverheads. He actually does a great job with his pass concepts in recent year from what I have seen but there is no telling how they execute those concepts at practice which could be a reason they dont get called much in the game. Everyone has bad years look at Richlands in 2017 where the got into the playoff with a losing record and still almost beat the region champs in the first round. GW will be fine, I wouldnt be calling for the coaches head though that has had that much success.

Like I said jet Q trap and power have been GWs best plays for years if you can stop that then you win. Nothing has changed on the coaches side kids are just not executing at the level that we are use to seeing therefore it look like crap

I find is funny that yall are complaining about a coach running the same plays over and over. IMO the best offensive team on this side of the state (Union, Graham, and Central) probably have the simplest play books in the state. Union run their T formation and run trap, power, and sweep and are really good at it. Graham is a spread team that runs middle school level concepts they have great athletes and are very good at a small number of plays. Central runs the wing t that hasnt changed in years and they have a group of seniors that have been playing varsity for 3 years and they are mean SOBs and hit you in the mouth. When GW was really good they ran Jet Power and Q trap thats it but they were really good at it. Giles offense hasnt changed since 1928 and they run it up peewee up that why they are good. When you start changing a bunch of stuff and run a whole lot of different plays that means they arnt good at anything and you are asking 16 year old kids that cant stay off of tik toc to learn 5 or 6 different schemes. That is how to block a play one way. you double that for the other direction so 10-12. then you multiply that for the different defenses you see during a season so 4-3, 3-4, 3-3 stack, 4-2, and your bear front that a lot of teams like down here. So now you are asking a kid to learn 50 to 60 new plays. Just saying what the coaches call during the game is not the issue adding plays during the season is just going to confuse these kids. Execution is more important than play call.

Lebanon should take this one easily. Eastside's defense is suspect at best and they dont do much well on offense either. Lebanon has had a rough schedule to start the season should bounce back this week. They just have too much overall speed.

Central is the most solid team I have seen all year. If you want to talk defense that front 7 of theirs is very solid. 22 and 20 and great ball players at linebacker are 3 is a ball hawk in the secondary. I honestly believe the only way they get scored on is through the air. If the freshman QB for Ridgeview is that good it should be a good game if he struggles the Pack will have a hard time moving the ball. Central tends to put the ball on the ground a little too much on offense which my be there down fall in the end but they are a solid team that is well coaches and comes off the ball very low and finishes blocks. Teams will have a hard time with this bunch

Lebanon did beat Marion in the spring so it fair to assume the same would happen again if they played just 6 months later. A lot has changed in 6 months though.. Most people look at the final score of the Chilhowie game and think that Marion has taken a step back from the spring considering they lost to the only school they beat in the spring which once again is fair to assume. What people that actually watched that game can tell you is Chilhowie got all the bounces that Chilhowie always gets at home tipped pass in the endzone caught for a TD by a kid laying on the ground, I pick in the 4th quarter when Marion was going to put the game away that was just a bad bounce of ball type a play. 2 holding calls on 3rd down that for the life of me I did not see when I rewatched the game on WCYB, most importantly a young QB and 4 athletic young receivers a running back that can actually see a hole and hit it hard an o line that is getting better week by week. As the season goes on this group will continue to get better and IF they can lay a good foundation this season next year all those dudes come back.

Chilhowies cases where after the game so Marion will still play as of right now. This will be the best competition wise has seen so far this year. Thats not saying much because Eastside and Lebanon have not impressed me so far. Wise is a very good well coached team but if they are looking ahead to Ridgeview it could be a good game. Marion has some good athletes out side that can make plays. I would not be surprised at all if this is Wise has to play to whole game in this one.

I heard half of chilhowies team has the COVID so you can go ahead and cancel that one as well

Coach Wright is now working the the FCA for SWVA but with battles numbers being very very low I would say VA high big

I feel like that is going to be everyone this week.

IF Graham had not been shut down I would say this one wont be close but Grahams starters havnt played a full game a football this year and there really isnt any conditioning you can do to get kids in game shape especially with 2 weeks off. With that being said I dont know if Tazewell can keep it close enough in the first half to wear Graham down in the second half I think Graham just has way too much talent and they are much better up front. I will take Graham Tazewell will make a run at it in the second half but it will be too little too late

Fan of the year right here 👏

The way some of those Marion Rural Retreat games have gone the last few times they have played I’m not surprised at all.. also I really hope we get some more officials soon average age of is a huge concern but I understand why you stepped down those babies grow up fast

I agree that both teams made some bone head plays and what the player did was unacceptable. I dont really buy into the notion that Chilhowie is paying officials extra or anything like that. Refs miss calls all the time but they are human and its extra hard when they are trying to do their job with one or two less guys than they need on a crew. The ball always seems to bounce Chilhowies way though or the officials are always looking in the right spot over there when the visiting team slips up. Like I say not saying that is on purpose because there is holding on every play its just not seen every play. It just seems to always happen over there. I tip my hat to you @1inStripes because that is not a job an easy job at all and we need more officials in a very bad way right now.

That penalty and ejection was against a player not Carroll. But It is kind of stupid to eject a kid AFTER Chillhowie took a knee and the clock was seconds away from hitting zero

The Marion Chilhowie game in 2015 (both teams combined for 3 wins that year with both teams beating Holston) the score was 20-19 but I remember there being 20+ flags that game. If i remember correctly the flags where split pretty evenly but Marion had at least 2 scores called back. It could be a Gate City effect where the crowd influenced most of the calls or just your basic home cooking. I just hope Marion has a strong showing in attendance to balance it out a little bit. This is a very intense rivalry even when both teams are not good.

If Richlands can contain Jenkins than they should win on paper. That is a whole lot easier said than done. I would not kick to him and I would bracket him when he is at slot. Mance was great at taking away what you were really good at. I would be interested to see if Tarter can do the same.

Yeah I was going to go further than the last 10 but realized it didnt hold up as well

D held there own for the most part. Marion had a lot of false starts that kill drives. Offensively Fort killed them selves with dropped passes and not being able to catch the snap. #10 for Fort ran the ball really well.

I would have said Lebanon by a lot until I saw the Wise Central score.. I know Wise was good I didnt think they were hold Lebanon under 100 total yards good. We will see how good Lebanon really is this Friday. I was thinking they would win the HOGO.

I sure this is the case. I know the the Marion Northwood game was moved to a Thursday because of the ref shortage

And I am sure if you look back at it closer the home team wins most of those games. Home team is 8-2 in the last 10 games

I think you have a great point if VA High wins I think the got the skill players to hang with Richlands and maybe Graham. It all depends on how the fair in the trenches. Coach Patterson said in the paper he was not happy with the line play so if they improve then they can for sure be a force. I have not seen that line play yet. I have however seen Tazewells line and they have a lot of growing up to do if they are going to compete for that 3rd spot IMO. The QB is athletic enough to make up for that some but its hard to drop dimes of your back foot constantly

Line play will be huge in this one I havnt seen anything on VA High but Tazewell has taken a pretty big step back in that department Tazewell still has some cats that can move but I feel like VA high can match them for speed and they have more experience since they didn’t have to sit behind the studs Tazewell had last spring