Cousin_Hoyt

IMO, students are ill-equipped to select a proper school name. Most have little knowledge or appreciation for local history, geography, or fauna. The results are unimaginative and generic names and mascots best suited for a Disney Channel high school.

@GMan, what a brilliant and devious topic to begin the offseason.

With all this speculation and prognostication that has been posted on here for about a month, give or take. Common Sense would be that they have a name for the next School Board Meeting so they can vote on and hire before the next semester of school which would start in January. As for Common Sense, The Mayor of the Trailer Park would be the best as to enlighten us on the Levels and Degrees of Common Sense in Tazewell County on such matters.  Then again, whoever they hire may not be able to come until May or June. 
 
 

Then it must be your Side Kick, Coach Tommy “Runs Like A Deer” Crigger. Cousin Claude says that boy knows more rumors and gossip than Carter has liver pills.

SUGGESTED, SPECTULATED AND RUMORED NAMES OF RICHLANDS' NEXT COACH
 
Current/Former Coaches with SWVA ties
Aaron Lowe      
Brannon Breeding   
Chris Akers
Craig Plymal  AKA” Graig” Plymal
Dennis Vaught AKA Dennis “Vault”
Dwayne Stanley  
Freddie Simon   
Fritz Simon   
Gary Collier
Greg Mance   
Jack Ginn
Jack Turner 
Jimmy McGee   
Keener Fry  
Keith Warner   
Mark Dixon
Mike Compton
Mike Rhodes
Monty Chipman
Ronnie Davis   
School Board Supervisor of Secondary Education
Shane Wicks   
Snake Palmer
Thad Wells, Blacksburg, Mooresville, Richlands, UVA,  Lakewood Christian
Todd Tiller
Tommy "Runs Like A Deer" Crigger  
 
 
Current/Former Coaches Outside Area
Robert Casto (Riverheads)
 
College/NFL Coaches
Bill Belichick
Jim Harbaugh
Jimbo Fisher
Justin Fuente
 
SWVA Sports members
Ryan4VT    
SwvaOG
The Mayor   
 
Actors/Fictional Coaches/TV Movie Characters
Bud Kilmer, West Canaan Coyotes , Varsity Blues
Rick Vice, Pullham Univ. Blue Cocks, Division III
Coach Klien, SCLSU Mud Dogs , The Water Boy
Billy Bob Thorton as Gary Gaines, Permian Panthers, FNL,  Karl Childers, Sling Blade
John Crist, Unknown team, Brutally Honest Coach
Ricky Bobby
 
Ghostly Visages and Holograms from Sorcerers or Meth Heads
Ernie Hicks
 
Undisclosed
An Unnamed SWD Coach
A familiar name with Blues ties
A former player from one of the state championship teams
Someone across Davis Mountain
 
Suggested Hires
One of the M7 coaches looking to move up
One of the Buchanan Co coaches looking for a job due to consolidation
Someone outside the area
Someone with football knowledge and a proven record
Any of the “experts” on Facebook
One of the current assistants
One of the current assistants’ daddy
 
Miscellaneous/Other
Anyone enticed by the Mayor's empty, never been flooded trailer in the bottom within walking distance of not one, but two Dollar Generals   

Cousin Delbert wants to know when you interview?

He left Grundy and moved to Danridge; TN I believe. I heard he was a middle school gym teacher there and was totally out of coaching.

We hope your source(s) is not Coach Tommy “Runs Like A Deer” Crigger. If it is, you are hard up for sources.  

In the bold predictions, I said riverheads claims another championship and stood by it all season and still do

1. Game of the year: VA High at Jenkins
2. Play of the year: Any of Marion's 8 passes
3. Best Uniforms: Mount View's Brown, Mustard Yellow, and Anthracite 
4. Best Stadium:Grayson Co-New plastic grass and Food City Tailgatin' 
5. Best home field advantage: Graham at Bullitt Park
6. Best concession stand and why: Rye Cove-Soup Beans and Cornbread!
7. Nickname of The Year- Jeff Tarter, "Captain" RMS RHS Titanic
8. Can't catch a break (bad luck program): Council Cobras, winless since '92
9. Best Helmet-Hurley, 'cause they don't give two sh!ts about your feelings
10. POY in SWVA-Landen Clark, though I hear good things about Lebanon's QB

You don’t mean someone from across Davis Mountain?

This is going to be a condensed version. We started not to post. Week started out bad for Uncle Percy. He had to take one of dogs, one that had been sick, back to the vets on Monday. Seems she had a relapse after she appeared to be getting better. Vet gave some new meds, went back Friday and she was doing much better. Acting a lot like her old self. Uncle Percy claims that dog gots more fight in her than that Loser who posted that they should call a football game after halftime if a team is losing by 50 or more. However, Uncle Percy got riled up about a hour ago after we were telling him about no visitors‘ stands at Radford. He went on a rampage about the Hypocrisy of the VHSL. Said that was one of the complaints made by Salem against Grundy back in ‘96 and another was not enough parking. Says that they ain’t no parking at Bullit Park either. Goes to show who you are with the VHSL. If you are able to win Union, look out, Radford may want you move the game if you’re the host.
Graham @ Union
We guess this is the big one. Just about everyone figured this would be a rematch for the Region Championship since Union beat Graham early on. Trouble with rematches, they can be trouble to win a second time around. This time the Revenuers have a healthier Clements and are there any Bears fast enough to catch a Clements on the loose. We don’t think so.
Lil’ Leonard’s Loser:
Union
Footnotes:  There will be no victory celebration at the RV Park tonight. However, they may be serving hot chocolate with extra, extra miniature marshmallows at the large billboard with Sunoco on it near the RV Park for the Mamby Pambies. On a happier note for you Big Stone Gappers, Uncle Percy included Bullitt Park as one of the 3 worst places he ever watched a football game. They are Garden (arrogant obnoxious fans and low bleachers), Iaeger, WV (mosquitoes off the Tug River), and Bullitt Park (bad parking and arrogant obnoxious fans). Union fans from Appalachia, Uncle Percy said Appalachia was one of his favorite places to watch football. Great fans, Betsy’s Diner, and he really liked Tom Turner.
 
Rye Cove @ Honaker
 Wonder if any Ridgeview fans are kicking themselves in the Butt. Another rematch of a good game earlier in the year. The Eagles will still not be able to soar high enough to get away from these Tigers. Look for this one to be another good close game.
 
Lil’ Leonard’s Loser:
Rye Cove
Galax @ George Wythe 
Don’t know much about either except that probably George Wythe like Grayson Co should be 2A. We hope Sixcat’s Cabinetmakers put the lathe extra hard to the Maroon Macaroons.
 
 

Big Bird

Big Bird

The Bolivians, no, they play a different futbol.

That’s Radford, not Redford. Uncle Percy’s comments about spell check have to be censored.

Most kids are not mentally tough anymore and a lot are lazy! Every team has a few of them including the GMen. It most certainly starts at home & is often hard to overcome on the field. Great coaches can help compensate and overcome this mindset. 

Mayor, Uncle Percy says go for it. Richlands is going to need someone who’s not afraid of telling the “experts” and “Daddy Ballers” to apply their lips to a certain part of their anatomy before that mess is cleaned up (Uncle Percy said it a little different).  Uncle Percy also  said you probably wouldn’t have to give up your day job.

Phoebus 56. Hampton 8. Take notice West Roanoke

Well folks we haven’t done much picking this year because Uncle Percy said he hasn’t had the time to waste to fool with a bunch of Mamby Pamby Losers. Uncle Percy has been a little under the weather and has had 2 of his dogs sick and injured. now Uncle Percy loves his football but his critters come first. Uncle Percy was feeling pretty good last week, his sick dog was doing better, after a lot of PT the injured dog was bouncing around, things were getting back to normal for the rest of us except for Cousin Delbert, which is normal for Delbert, until a post on this site fired Uncle Percy up. He said that calling a game after the 1st half if a team was losing by 50 or more points was the most ridiculous thing he has ever heard in his almost 60 years of watching football. He said anyone who thought of such nonsense shouldn’t be allowed near a football game and (Brother Lance, we will insert a censored version here) is a Mamby Pamby Loser. Well, time to pick.
Twin Springs @ Rye Cove
Both of these teams sneaked away with tougher wins than expected last week. Guess Eastside will spend a little more time on special teams next season. Rye Cove beat the Titans by a couple of TDS 2 weeks ago and are probably a heavy favorite by most people. But, this is the playoffs and anything can happen especially when it’s also a county rivalry game. Look for this to be a close game unless Twin Springs’ speed gets loose and Rye Cove gets caught looking ahead to a Honaker rematch.
Lil Leonard’s Loser:
Twin Springs 
Patrick Henry @ Honaker
The Tigers were roaring along most of the season until lately. Looks like they have been stumbling along here lately. They had a little trouble with Rural Retreat’s Ouija Board Offense. (That Whiny Papoose Petition about the offensive coordinator was the most ridiculous thing until calling a game after the 1st half according to Uncle Percy). They had trouble with the Rebels’ run game earlier. This week the Tigers had better consider putting 9 in the box to catch that Rebel Wildcat or they could be in big trouble. Now the Rowdy Rebels have been their usual self this year just playing hard and winning most. They’ve already avenged their regular season lost to Grundy last week and will be out looking for revenge by bagging a big Tiger this week. It can be tough be beat the same opponent twice in one year, so Tigers Beware.
Lil Leonard’s Loser:
In a close one the Rebels.
Tazewell @ Union
The Tazewell Bulldogs are off on a Big Bad Bear hunt this weekend after chasing and eliminating a Wolf Pack last week. The Bulldogs probably had one of their best performances, if not the best, of the year both offensively and defensively. They need that and a little extra if they plan on bagging a Big Bad Bear this weekend. The Bears have been ambling along with their heads held high ever since the nailed the Revenuers. The best thing for Tazewell would be to get into a shootout with Union since they know the Revenuers are back gunning for them. We love for Ol’ Stu Bean’s Dogs to win but it’s going to be tough.
Lil Leonard’s Losers:
Tazewell, sorry Bulldog fans, hope we’re wrong.
Footnote:  Rumor has it that there’ll be a victory celebration tonight at the RV Park. They say that Kool Aid will be served at the big billboard sign with Sunoco on it right below the Sunoco station/store for the Mamby Pambies.
 
 
 

Well folks we haven’t done much picking this year because Uncle Percy said he hasn’t had the time to waste to fool with a bunch of Mamby Pamby Losers. Uncle Percy has been a little under the weather and has had 2 of his dogs sick and injured. now Uncle Percy loves his football but his critters come first. Uncle Percy was feeling pretty good last week, his sick dog was doing better, after a lot of PT the injured dog was bouncing around, things were getting back to normal for the rest of us except for Cousin Delbert, which is normal for Delbert, until a post on this site fired Uncle Percy up. He said that calling a game after the 1st half if a team was losing by 50 or more points was the most ridiculous thing he has ever heard in his almost 60 years of watching football. He said anyone who thought of such nonsense shouldn’t be allowed near a football game and (Brother Lance, we will insert a censored version here) is a Mamby Pamby Loser. Well, time to pick.
Twin Springs @ Rye Cove
Both of these teams sneaked away with tougher wins than expected last week. Guess Eastside will spend a little more time on special teams next season. Rye Cove beat the Titans by a couple of TDS 2 weeks ago and are probably a heavy favorite by most people. But, this is the playoffs and anything can happen especially when it’s also a county rivalry game. Look for this to be a close game unless Twin Springs’ speed gets loose and Rye Cove gets caught looking ahead to a Honaker rematch.
Lil Leonard’s Loser:
Twin Springs 
Patrick Henry @ Honaker
The Tigers were roaring along most of the season until lately. Looks like they have been stumbling along here lately. They had a little trouble with Rural Retreat’s Ouija Board Offense. (That Whiny Papoose Petition about the offensive coordinator was the most ridiculous thing until calling a game after the 1st half according to Uncle Percy). They had trouble with the Rebels’ run game earlier. This week the Tigers had better consider putting 9 in the box to catch that Rebel Wildcat or they could be in big trouble. Now the Rowdy Rebels have been their usual self this year just playing hard and winning most. They’ve already avenged their regular season lost to Grundy last week and will be out looking for revenge by bagging a big Tiger this week. It can be tough be beat the same opponent twice in one year, so Tigers Beware.
Lil Leonard’s Loser:
In a close one the Rebels.
Tazewell @ Union
The Tazewell Bulldogs are off on a Big Bad Bear hunt this weekend after chasing and eliminating a Wolf Pack last week. The Bulldogs probably had one of their best performances, if not the best, of the year both offensively and defensively. They need that and a little extra if they plan on bagging a Big Bad Bear this weekend. The Bears have been ambling along with their heads held high ever since the nailed the Revenuers. The best thing for Tazewell would be to get into a shootout with Union since they know the Revenuers are back gunning for them. We love for Ol’ Stu Bean’s Dogs to win but it’s going to be tough.
Lil Leonard’s Losers:
Tazewell, sorry Bulldog fans, hope we’re wrong.
Footnote:  Rumor has it that there’ll be a victory celebration tonight at the RV Park. They say that Kool Aid will be served at the big billboard sign with Sunoco on it right below the Sunoco station/store for the Mamby Pambies.
 
 
 

With all the “experts” on this site The Tazewell County School Board just needs to start reading and select one. Cousin Delbert said that Ryan4VT being a Richlands boy might be the one.  However, Uncle Percy said that the character who posted this
definitely not. This is something that only some Mamby Pamby Millennial or Generation Z Participation Trophy recipient could come up with. Even though it may be humiliating and embarrassing, you never ever quit. Quitting is for Losers. 

What does this job look like How many coaches are staying, How many can a new guy bring? How good was JV and middle school?  Can it be turned around quickly? 

You should come to Hurley, go to the head of Elk Creek or Guesses Fork and ride a Bus to Poplar Gap, then tell us all what a great trip you had.

Jack Turner (somehow) landed a college coaching job. He's not coming back to high school.
Never seen anyone fail up the way he has.