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Just curious. Why the shot at Ridgeview? They were a dropped TD pass away from a potential upset of Union in the Region championship. They return 80% of their starters albeit their few losses are key. I warned the board that RV would be a problem last year and was laughed at a bit. “They don’t play anyone” and the usual tripe. IMHO they are a couple of OL away from playing with anyone anywhere. If those OL gel and. Are viable starters, they will be tough. That is a team that is annually underrated for their physicality. I’m not high on their offensive coaching or offensive scheme but they keep churning out athletes.

Because he is a Prima Donna prick.

Whoever decides to start a VHSL baseball playoff game at 11:30 at night should be fired. There was simply no reason to start this game. The teams are 25 minutes apart. Reconvene are start this morning at 10/11 am. Richlands should file an appeal and someone should justify their decision to have kids playing baseball at 2 am. Stupidity….all the way around.

Look the #2 team in the M7 ( lost to the # 3 team in the SWD. Let’s pump the brakes on the biggest upset in a very long time. Additionally, you can throw hard as hell but it doesn’t matter against a team that will make you throw strikes. I’ve been around baseball as long as anyone on this board. Coached for several years. Union hasn’t been this good before and they don’t have a long history of baseball. Be careful wanting to run someone out of town. You don’t know what you’ll get to replace them.

Look the #2 team in the M7 ( lost to the # 3 team in the SWD. Let’s pump the brakes on the biggest upset in a very long time. Additionally, you can throw hard as hell but it doesn’t matter against a team that will make you throw strikes. I’ve been around baseball as long as anyone on this board. Coached for several years. Union hasn’t been this good before and they don’t have a long history of baseball. Be careful wanting to run someone out of town. You don’t know what you’ll get to replace them.

Geezus. Union fans have got to stop. You’ve reached a new zenith for baseball and you’re already wanting to throw the guy out. You wanted to throw Turner out the past five years. If Harless doesn’t make the state finals within two years, you’ll be grumbling over him. At the end of the day it is still the kids making plays or not making plays……especially in baseball. Anyone paying attention to Richlands this year knew they had a scrappy squad. Hylton throw a no hitter last month and no one said a word on this board. You guys are fine….you’ve been consistently getting better over the past four or five years. Appreciate it some.

Owens had them competitive. But, he also secured a lot of wins with that very talented class of ‘22.

I am worried that TS doesn’t have too much longer as a viable sports school. They’ve been able to be competitive the last several years.

Just waiting for it to turn back into another Union thread. 🤷🏻‍♂️

There will be year one growing g pains implementing Tester’s offense. I’m assuming he will running a wing-y or something similar. Once they get it down pat they will move the ball methodically but may not be explosive. I think the problem may be defensively and dealing with the pass which has been the thorn in the side for Grundy historically. I’m betting 6.5 wins.

Can you imagine what they say about the drive to Rose Ridge? Last time they visited it was a great game..21-19 Bluefield. Ridgeview turned it over inside Bluefield’s 5 yard line on an ill conceived jump pass.

Glad he is a Hokie!

I’d say Graham and Richlands are circling ….looking to pick up a few players.

This has been a pet peeve of mine for the past 6-8 years. No one posts the full district or region teams anymore. The schools get the teams and extract their players and posts a fancy image/post on Facebook. Why there isn't an official M7/SWD and Region 2A site, I'm not sure. It would be great for historical purposes as well. If you really want to be frustrated, try finding the all M7/SWD and Region team in baseball in summer...when the kids are getting out of school. Damn near impossible.

M7 was just posted...or at least the RV players on their FB page.

Agree with all. Well written.

Do you intend for me to believe the Central fanbase is difficult? I'll not have it, Sir!

Why wouldn't he just go back to Central?

I'm sorry guys, but I'm not buying that someone didn't have some suspicions about the activities. No one picked up on anything? A look, smile, odd behavior, suddenly gone/not-available? No one picked up on body language? This type of behavior, unfortunately, is more common than a lot of people think. You had inappropriate conduct at RV and Honaker with a former HC just a few seasons back. I know it was going on at my high school and a rival high school when I played ball. I'm willing to bet that several of the posters on here have similar stories. That being said. I think it is a no-brainer that Edwards takes the job. I do wonder if Bostic wants to coach once his kid leaves.

Damn...that's a serious statement and, if true, they will be a load. That being said, I did notice a couple of things about Union's OL that I hadn't noticed before. I saw the big OT get slung to the ground several times by a kid that was about 210lbs...including on the last play of the game. I watched the plays several times....the big Union kid had really poor balance and couldn't move his feet. This reinforces my believe that a 225lb DT/DE with good technique and a nasty attitude can handle/whip most 275lb+ high school OL. If I'm a high school coach, I'm building from the interior DL out. Priority #1: DL...then OL....then QB....then DB....then the rest.

He is a dawg. Kid loves contact and plays with an attitude. I love it.

Well, in an effort to be fair, perhaps the most overlooked stat is Glenvar 13-130. Anyone who knows football understands what the heck that does to a game. Another telling stat: Union rushing- 53/187 (that is only 3.5 ypc). That is a hell of an effort by the Glenvar defense. It is also about the ypc that Glenvar averaged. Glenvar completed 61% of their passes and Union 37% with Union getting bigger chunk yardage and Glenvar being more efficient. I'm curious as to sack yardage. I'm assuming it comes off of the rushing yardage totals. That would explain the 153 total yards by Glenvar.....I'm having a hard time believing that is all they had. If you want to do an interesting deeper dive you could look at what effect the penalties had. Did they wipe out significant chunk plays? Did they stop drives, etc. Not to be a dick, but you can't just look at stats on a surface level and not dig in to see the real story. A lot of this game was told by those penalty numbers. I mean Glenvar "averaged" 10 yards a penalty over 13 penalties.

Union will be right back there next year..anyone saying otherwise is not being realistic. They have the absolute best S&C program and culture in the M7 and perhaps the region…..along side of Graham. And, perhaps more important, they have the best feeder program and the bodies. Those are all advantages they have over RV.

Just one FG and Union probably wins it.

If they had a really good RB, they’d be a damn terror.