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I thought the Tazewell project included moving and modifying the visitors bleachers along with a new track which will require more expansion. I'm not certain about the depth of the Graham project I'm sure it will take longer.

I hope I'm wrong I really do because it could be a great addition but judging by the things I'm seeing out there currently and the pace up at Graham I'd be shocked if we aren't wondering when they are starting still in July or August. I just don't have my hopes up.

I don't think you can bring very many in because if the old guys are employed as teachers or inside school system its not like they are leaving their full-time jobs just because they don't coach anymore. You'd have to find a load of assistant coaches willing to move to a place and coach for a $2000 stipend or hope they get full time jobs. People always say clean house and bring in your own assistants but thats not really possible for most of SWVA jobs you are stuck with people who teach at the school or already work in the area. It cannot be turned around quickly baring some influx or transfers or the ones who transferred out coming back because the JV and middle school teams had very little talent

The ultimately won the game last night with JV at Tazewell but I wondered why they have no one back to field punts. Is that a program thing?

Not wrong it was the teams first match of the year. I think against Pikeview

I thought Tazewell Varsity looked better once it went to the regular game format they struggled with the defensive end getting pressure to Carter if he didn't throw quick developing plays but he's got a lot of really athletic targets so I think the quick developing passes may be best anyway. My biggest concern for Tazewell is I feel like there is a lack of depth and a pretty big drop off between the firsts and the seconds. It looks like a lot of the same numbers on both sides of the ball and when one of those guys came out it was pretty obvious the fall off

I’m going off what I saw at Tazewell’s media day it looked like 10 seniors, 10 juniors, 13 sophomores, 8 freshmen and 3 8th graders who are playing JV. I could be a little off some kids were moving around and some kids may have been with the wrong grade but that’s close. I think I know of four kids who are supposedly playing who weren’t in any pics but could have been injured or on vacation

On the girls side so is Parker White from Marion she's won state as a freshman and in her sophomore season seems on track for another one.

Girls or boys? Girls I think VA High is the 3 Tazewell is the 4. Boys I think Tazewell is the 4 but not sure about the 3

I also heard rumblings that George Wythe or Fort Chiswell would be replacing Riverheads

I think one of those may have been hurt last year so I’m not sure how much he got to play I’m glad he’s back I’ll have to ask my son about the other I can’t think of who it would be

My kid was on the team and played quite a bit I think they went the first three games and never got a first down most games they never held the other team to a third down.

So I watched that middle school team last year a lot and they couldn’t block anyone which ones would potentially start day one? I know they have a couple decent skill kids but the lineman struggled to block at all and I think most of the size they had were 7th graders

I can hear the crew at Tazewell saying hold my beer. I go there very rarely and in the last 3 years I have never once had my order be exactly what I asked for.

I was talking with some coaches and they indicated that he actually snapped the ball but thought the quarterback was under center rather than in the gun and then he recovered the ball but I don’t know for sure how it worked out

It looks that way on NFHS the official comes over and picks the ball up

Yeah I watched when I got home as well and there is no possible way you could see if he was in bounds on NFHS the camera moves to the middle of the field. I was 100+ yards away near the scoreboard but from my view it looks like the official came over and picked the ball up off the ground and you can actually see the official bend over for the ball on nfhs as well. I’m not sure the ball wasn’t on the ground just no one could see from stands because of the players around it

Yes they are they actually have three seniors and one junior who have a ton of experience I think at least two of which have had quarantines at some point though

I agree numbers will come up assuming those kids stay with football from middle school to high school but that's not a given considering they had 15+ eighth graders last year but only five freshmen after one more quit last week.

I know I’m not who you are asking for opinion but if it’s ok I’m going to weigh in anyway. Tazewell is scrappy and they have a pretty athletic group of skill players and players in their secondary. Jared Mullins is all heart on both sides of the ball and Cassius Harris both jump out to me, Creasy has looked better than he should given the situation. The line is really bad on the offensive side and not good on the defensive side. Both games they have been undersized and not as athletic as their opponents. The defense many times beats the ball to Creasy as I think they’ve now used three centers so far this season that I’ve counted. I think it may improve I can think of at least two starters on the line who didn’t play last night at all and one who hasn’t played in either game. The biggest weakness besides the line is depth they have none. Harris, Mullins, Mullins, Mills, Witt and Huffman seem to all be in the game almost all of the time and by the end it shows, the poor kids are beat up and exhausted. I think they win four games this year against Mount View, Grundy, Marion and Battle the rest could be rough nights with some excitement from the above mentioned skill players and secondary but by the end just not enough depth to keep making up for the front.

I’m not sure at what point it goes from “penalties to clean up” to it being just the way they are coached you could call an illegal block in the back or a holding on them on every play

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Tazewell va Ridgeview tonight has been cancelled

I think the rosters I saw for the green/white game had 18 on one team and 17 on the other I’d say given I think a couple of guys didn’t play somewhere between 35-40 is accurate