I believe Eastside is going to do really well this season as well as ryecove. I am not sure what twin springs brings to the table this season but all roads lead to Honaker and until Payton Musick graduates they have a shot he is an elite qb.
This is insane and what’s wrong with sports right now you got kids quit because someone gets a job. People do not realize how hard it is to find coaches period! And we want to quit because someone is on staff. You already had one head coach step down because the star player wanted threatened to leave. It’s stupid back in the day your coach was your coach and you listened and got coached by him. If you didn’t like them you suck it up and play because of your teammates and love for the sport. And parents didn’t let them quit either
I for one am excited and don't care who gets it and I feel if everyone will come out Central could have a break out season.
that being said some of the kids are excited about spurlock getting he spot but are worried they are going to give Isah the offensive coordinator spot and if that happens over half of them will be done.
Any head coach can only be as good as the people he surrounds himself by in football.. The kind of people that are obsessed with winning and know how to win, that means late nights weekends game planning and being able to control and coach kids that have been a little un coachable.
If we’re thinking of the same PV graduate I can honestly say I agree. I played against him and always respected him. He has been busting ass with the kids that are putting work in, in the weight room and I can’t think of anyone else more deserving.
Does anyone with some real insight know what in the world is going on here. It getting closer and closer to crunch time and still no coach, and of the few that the gave 2nd interviews do they deserve the job. It makes a body have to wonder what this is all even really about.
my best football memory is that time Bobby Boucher came back at halftime and they won the bourbon bowl, and my worst is when Alven Mack took that cut and broke his leg never was the same after that one.
Thing is, state law now requires a student to get 13 years of public education before they can drop out. There are ways around having to do two years of college after high school though. Dual enrollment classes allowed my youngest daughter to graduate from MECC before she graduated from Union High School, which also resulted in a full ride to UVA in Charlottesville. Her entire education including books didn’t cost us a dime. Actually she had money from other scholarships and grants that allowed her to have living and spending money the entire 4 years she was there. (Technically 3 thanks to COVID). But back to the point, I’ve worked in the public school system for nearly 24 years, teaching everything from dual enrollment to ISAEP, computer based classes & GED, and believe me there are kids who would be better suited to be out of school at 16 for positive and negative reasons. That’s just not how the system works now. In top of that, it’s currently much easier to get a high school diploma than a GED. For one, the GED has been ramped up to include junior and senior level math skills. Also, all the other subject areas have included higher level knowledge over the past 8-10 years. For most high school kids incapable of getting a diploma, a GED is usually pretty much out of the question. Now, responding to the reasons why it’s hard to get young people into coaching, I have some insight on that, too. When I started teaching in 2001, one of the main reasons I had decided to teach was to coach. That desire lasted 4 years. For one, if you divide up the compensation for the time you spend on a football staff, you make about 35 cents an hour. In top of that, unless you live in the community, you have late nights and early mornings. I used to get up at 6AM and get home about 10PM nightly. On game nights, 2-3AM was more like it. In addition to coaching as a varsity assistant, I was the head JV coach. So, on random Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays, I would get home close to midnight. Then you have the parents, 50% or so who think their kid can be or already is a D1 prospect. You combine that with your duties as a teacher, and it leaves you with no home life. If you have kids, that’s not something you want to sacrifice to that extent. Four years of that was plenty for me, but had the HC I was working under kept going, I would’ve wanted to do the same because as a staff we had practically built a team from the ground up into a playoff team. Looking back though, I’m glad I got out when I did because it led to other after school opportunities like Jail GED, night school, homebound, etc that actually compensated you for your work to the tune of $25 per hour. During a given year, I actually made double doing after school programs than I did coaching both football and track. So, the bottom line is this: for most young people coming in as teachers, coaching just isn’t worth the time and effort, especially with the changes in kids and parents over the last couple decades. When people say that kids don’t want to do the work required to be great, by and large they are correct. That’s no myth. There are several reasons for that, mostly all going back to politicians dipping their fingers into the educational process and unreasonable court rulings enabling and empowering parents to stir, but that’s another post for another day.
This is about the best way to put this that I seen so far is the headache worth the reward of being a coach. It a true love for the sport and a competitive nature that makes a great coach in any sport it definitely not the money especially in southwest va. Also a big set back is the guys that would or could possibly be great coaches have a hard time getting interviews be it lack of college education or not having away in the door. So most young guys don't put in because they one don't know anyone or two education is lacking to be a teacher so the school can get a little more bang for there buck.
You can only play 40 quarters a year and jv counts as varsity quarters. So if you just play a second in a quarter it counts as whole quarter. Only thing that’s doesn’t count is special teams.
He had some good runs, but as far as running all over the first team not so much. If that was the case they would have won don’t you think ? FYI 5 8th graders on Unions JV.
I would say neither team could stop the other if you want to get real technical about it.
Uh oh we got another Super Team coming look out everyone
No that what I am saying hard to predict the future with a Jv team, you can be a great Jv team and it never show in varsity and I seen some Jv teams that couldn't win a ball game be awesome when it came to varsity.
I am pretty sure the running back for Central ran all over both first team and if you want to say they put the second team in them as well. But again we talking about JV, Central right now has 8 9th graders 6 of which start one way or another on varsity and the other 2 get to much playing time to play jv. Also fun fact the 8th and 9th graders when they was together in middle school smoked the elizabethon team you speak of 36-6.
This game is hard to predict Battle beat Abingdon then took there shares of the other side, Central yet to get rolling and got stem rolled by Abingdon. Both teams have signs of some talent but it come down to who wants to comes together and play as a team not as individuals.
If Chandler healthy I can see this game getting out of hand. The kid just different fast, strong, low center of gravity, and he likes contact Idk if anyone on this side of Richmond can stop him alone. Now add Anderson, Bostic, Huff, and the other Anderson its just a hard offense to stop all the way around.
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Why would they lose him at corner for maybe receiver but not corner?