RichlandsAlum

Here in the People's Republic of Bedford, the only home team attendees will be the actual football team and cheerleaders. However, the visiting team can bring as many spectators as VHSL/state protocols will allow (including their band, if they choose). Because....you know....science?

Agreed. While I know just enough about information technology matters to be dangerous, I'm still perplexed by the switch back to paper ballots a few years back (which are themselves scanned and reported by a computer).

Responses/further rambling thoughts as follows.... What I am suggesting would apply to federal elections and therefore presumably be accomplished through federal legislation. There have always been exceptions for absentee voting in place that appeared to work perfectly well up until this point. I'm okay with election day being a federal holiday, but given the fact that early voting is already well out of the barn I don't think that will have much practical effect. If you're in line to vote when the polls close, you still get to vote. If you arrive afterward, you don't. My logic there is based on the fact that there appear to be many opportunities for early voting (both in person and via absentee ballot). I personally believe that Joe Biden was fairly elected as the 46th President of the United States. Unfortunately, the manner in which large numbers of ballots were counted well after the date and time that polls closed gives some argument to those who choose to believe otherwise. Ultimately that is not fair to either party, the incumbent, or the challenger. Just my opinion, of course.

Election day is a set date and polls are closed at a specific time. All citizens are (apparently) empowered to vote prior to both of these established timelines. Given these factors, all votes should be counted and reported immediately as they are cast. And no votes shall be counted beyond the established timelines. Seems like this would resolve a lot of problems. Tell me what I'm missing.

My direct paternal lineage runs through Grayson County. We had a direct presence in Old Town and Elk Creek from about 1800 until my great grandfather moved to WV around 1910. Given my own origin, mark me down for something in recruiting. 😉

If the point that vtdavis is trying to make is along the lines that masks are not a guaranteed method of preventing the spread of viruses, my personal view is that makes a lot of sense. If the view espoused by others is that masks are at least a better effort of mitigation than doing nothing, then my opinion is that is also pretty reasonable. But there doesn't really appear to be much effort at all in this discussion to communicate or educate. It's simply a matter of someone needing to be "right" and someone needing to be "wrong." And personally I find that very disappointing.

Amherst College Mammoths That's a fairly recent change from "Lord Jeffs." And for some odd reason, I like to think that a lot of Amherst guys gut pummeled just for playing under that nickname. I guess that's now the sole province of the Heidelberg Student Princes.

That's ridiculous. My godfather was in charge of getting cars for the RHS football program and he passed away over a year ago. Er... I mean he was ALLEGEDLY in charge.... Oh, drat.

Rome wasn't built in a day. Sure the same is true of Loris. (Except for the actual town itself. That probably could be constructed/reproduced within a very short span of time.)

Sadly enough (as a Hokie fan), I'm not sure that beating Tech really improves any school's cachet with individual recruits. The general profiles of recruiting classes for JMU and Old Dominion don't seem to have shifted much. LU is very much its own thing anyway, and that doesn't seem likely to change.

Daryl Robertson. Nice kid. But didn't last long at Tech and wound up at Liberty University.

Given the relative lack of attention that the Minutemen usually experience, that's actually quite a compliment.

Brookville. Not Liberty. RHS beat Liberty in 2005 semifinals by three before losing the title game against Turner Ashby. That's the only matchup between the Blues and the Minutemen to date.

Best thoughts and prayers coming from this direction as well.

I think it's safe to say that very few people in that camp are voting FOR anything. A lot of people are voting against Trump, due mostly to his personal shortcomings as a human being and the behavior associated with that -- even if they identify with/benefit from his policy and political stances. Ordinarily that doesn't tip the scale in an election. But this is an extraordinary failure of the overall system. We are about to get what we deserve.....

Nobody wins. Somebody will be elected. But nobody wins.

For some reason your original post made me think of some dialogue from the movie Glory. "I ran away at the age of 12 and ain't ever looked back." "What you been doin' since then?" "Runnin' for President. I ain't been winnin', though."

Just curious about something, 1inStripes. Did you win in 2016?

I really want to vote for Jo Jorgensen, but I can't get past the fact that her running mate is a blithering idiot who can't be taken seriously. Actually thought about contacting her and the national chair of the Libertarian Party (assuming there is such a position) and saying so. I've always said that we ultimately get the government we deserve in America. But it never occurred to me that our system could produce a choice as bad as the one before us.

I hope and pray that he and his wife have minimal complications and a full recovery. But beyond the obvious personal health ramifications, I have to think this puts Governor Northam in a difficult position. The most immediate questions will be whether or not he was personally diligent in following his own directives. That might be an impossible situation to manage in terms of optics any way you look at it. But if he can manage to provide a convincing answer that he did, in fact, follow all of the protocols then that leads to much more uncomfortable questions about their actual effectiveness and outcomes. Honestly not looking to pile on the guy, but my gut feeling is that this will lead to a significant swing in terms of policy directives. And ultimately the way Governor Northam personally feels (in a very literal sense) will now have unprecedented potential impact upon the daily activities of 8.5 million people. Anybody else have a sense of how this will play out?

If they were an SEC school I would speculate about the existence of a big bag of cash.

Indeed. But there appears to have been some discretion in those arrangements. Tazewell played a rotation of pretty much all Roanoke area schools (including some very strong Andrew Lewis teams) regularly in the mid 1960s. By comparison my alma mater pretty much stuck with playing William Fleming and Patrick Henry to meet the requirement. I think there is an argument to be made for giving credit where credit is due, but reasonable minds may differ.

Prodigious! A willingness to take on tough opponents actually seems to be part of the historical DNA for the Tazewell football program. Examples from the 1960s include series against the Roanoke schools. And from my own childhood I remember them scheduling Narrows when the Green Wave were a powerhouse in the New River District. Good on the Doggies. I'll definitely be pulling for them in that season opener.

Our soccer and football coaches have actually collaborated about the possibility of using this situation to get artificial turf. We think that's actually an attainable long term goal -- but it's unlikely that we could have it in place by February.

For schools that play soccer that season is scheduled to run right up until the end of June. My reference to back to back seasons implied more than just football (although I didn't say so -- mea culpa). Assuming a quick turnaround to normal for 2021-2022, there isn't much time for recovery.