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Maybe someone already covered this but why is Narrows in the Pioneer and Auburn in the Mountain Empire? And for that matter, why not put Grayson Co in the Three Rivers, since it looks like they are trying to align districts by class before geography.

Naw lol Even when St Paul closed Castlewood didn't go up that much and that was with a couple dozen Russell Co kids attending St Paul added in.

Maybe you should institute a sarcasm font.

No part of Swords Creek has been annexed by Richlands. Towns aren't allowed to cross county lines. Now, there are sort of isolated little "exclaves" of Russell Co inside of Tazewell county in West Raven and Daw that are only accessible from Tazewell Co. Some parents from Mill Creek, Maple Gap, and Horton Ridge in Russell Co. also send their kids to school in Tazewell Co instead of Russell County and I would assume some parents in Russell Co around SVCC send their kids to school in Richalands instead of Lebanon.

I think a lot of it comes down to disparity between rural vs more urbanized areas or to population density of a school district. No matter their size schools from around Knoxville, Chattanooga, Nashville, Murfreesboro, Memphis, and Jackson dominate sports at the 1A, 2A, and 3A levels among the public schools. East Tennessee is the most populated section of Tennessee yet when it comes to state championships Middle and West Tennessee dominate by far and the reason is most of the schools in those two sections are mostly concentrated around Nashville and Memphis and their suburbs. The TSSAA actually did a study on this a while back and proposed a four classification system based on urban vs rural counted by population density instead of enrollment because they found that enrollment doesn't actually equate to competitiveness; it has to do with population density of the area served by the school. 1A would be small rural schools, 2A would be small urban/suburban schools, 3A big rural schools, 4A big urban/suburban schools. It makes sense to do things like that if you think about it, East TN has some of the largest schools in the state but many of them are consolidated county schools with a large enrollment but their student body is spread over a large area. You would think all those large schools would do well athletically but they don't.

I don't think they really help that much. It's just a token thing politicians do to make it look like they are "doing something". They make an arbitrary "loop" with a secondary road and a couple of primary routes, so what?

The thing is is that even though Sanders says he's a socialist, he's in no way a socialist. Socialism is when the government owns the means of production in the economy and dictates where that production goes to. He's actually more of a Fascist because he advocates privately owned, state directed/regulated industry and a large welfare state. He's basically advocating for the system that already exists in the United States but he wants to massively expand it. We already have a watered down version of Fascism in the United States and so does most of Europe. Just because Germany got rid of their swastikas and concentration camps doesn't mean they gave up Fascism; they're just nicer Fascists now. Either he doesn't really know what socialism means or he's just trying to label his ideas socialism to make them sound all shiny and new and exciting to dumbed down voters. Welfare doesn't neccessarily equate to socialism.

Yeah or how they put Marion in the Hogoheegee a few years after they remove Lebanon and John Battle from the the Hogo due to enrollment numbers compared to the rest of the district. That's like putting Virginia High in the Cumberland or Richlands in the BDD.

Those poor Hampton Roads schools, having to travel all the way up I-64 to Richmond for playoff games. Must be rough.

What happened to this board? We went from lil leonards losers to this??

Not exactly sure on when the CVD actually came in to existence but a good educated guess would have been in 1970 when the VHSL had its big realignment in to A, AA, and AAA

Castlewood, Lebanon, Honaker, St. Paul, Twin Springs, Pocahontas, Whitewood, Garden, Hurley, Council, and Haysi. Honaker, Casltewood, and Lebanon left for the Hogo and Twin Springs went to the Cumberland and the remaining schools became the BDD.

Hey sixcat, I recently ditched cable myself (AT&T) but this afternoon I tried to stream several games from watchESPN and I get an error saying "unauthorized user"? I'm assuming its AT&T Uverse blocking me from streaming content. I streamed VT vs OSU tonight from another website that popped on a google search but it was full of pop ads and had lousy quality. Any way to stream watchESPN without AT&T blocking me?

Sorry for the loss of your friend, man.

Cartoons were way better in the 90s. I feel sorry for kids today having to watch the stuff they have on TV now.

Oh that game was a heart breaker had a chance to tie the game with a chip shot field goal that barely missed. '02 Honaker v Appalachia was a great one. Appy sneaks one in at the goal line with .5 seconds on the clock after Honaker fumbles deep in Appy territory and wins by a point. '02 Honaker v Powell Valley. Honaker wins a huge upset 12-9 on a frozen muddy field and afterwards Phil Robbins states "instead of the Super Bowl we played the Toilet Bowl."

Hell, I think we are just sucking the rest of the world dry before we start using our own supply of fossil fuels. Mr Plainview would be proud...

I think they put them up sometime in June if I'm not mistaken.

If the SEC ever wanted to go to 16 teams going into VA and NC would make sense though. I guess my question was more if on the slim chance VT were offered an invitation, would they take it?

What about VT to the SEC? As a football fan I would love to see that happen...

I ate there last year right before I left for the Navy, completely forgot the place existed until you brought it up, hopefully it's still there when I come in for leave. The prices were reasonable and the food way better than a big chain.

Are many from Ervinton likely to end up at Castlewood as well?

Maybe I'll give a lecture on drinking and fornicating...

Throw in East TN, Western NC, North GA, North AL, and the NW corner of South Carolina and you have yourself a state!

Yup...