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Not a fan of grayson but anyone who would think Graham never played with holdbacks as many other schools did also is a fool

I think we need to just do away with districts. I understand the travel purpose but it does Graham or Bland no favors having to play each other in Football and some other sports. I wish we could get to that level but when 95% of your football kids go from one sport to the next that only leaves summer to get bigger faster stronger. Some would say offer weight lifting as a class, good idea but with so few of students scheduling that is not possible. That has been tried before.

Not to sure about northwood. Scrimmaged bland the other day bland won 3-2 if you keep score for a scrimmage

I think Bland will play quarters at Salem instead of UVA-Wise.

Looking for a score here.

The Conference Tournnament took the place of the district tournament to ensure that all schools were playing like size schools. Example if Narrows plays MED tourny they play Grayson the enrollment 250 to Graysons 625+ where as now they will play in conference 45 tourney with the largest school Radford 460. So basically the thing that don't make sense with the VHSL is why did we keep districts. Why did we not make the new conferences the new districts???

I hate how rumors get started with nothing to support it. Bland has played all Year with 24 players or close to that. While they might be hurting a little this year those kids don't quit. So for an answer Bland will finish the season and hope that the community and kids start committing to offseason conditioning.

As long as they entered Tazewell as a first time 9th grader they would be good to go. Also anytime anyone has a question on eligibility you can go to the VHSL.org and look at the online handbook.

I think Bland only dressed 20 with 2 hurt but both are up and walking this week. They will have a few new faces this week also from what I understand. This is a very young team, they will lick there wounds this year and start fighting back next year. I still think these guys will come together to find a win or 2 or 3 this year. Good hard working kids but need to find time somewhere to get bigger faster and stronger.

Yes this year July 30th. After this year from my understanding it will be on the first Monday in August and never in July.

Just so you know as a BC person. Having two schools was a great idea when the county first decided to do so but as of today it is a daily nightmare. With the number of cuts and shortage of personnel it is hard to find drivers for daily activity drivers so the kids can practice. Our facilities are way behind of where they should be. And most importantly our kids don't know what they are. They have certain people in the school and community telling them about the good ole days of being an Eagle or Rocket that they don't have school spirt to be proud of being a Bear and setting there own mark. They really need to be put in one school for the athletic teams to see anymore success.

I am not nor will I ever root for the G-men but I like what Coach Williams is trying to do and as a Bland Co. supporter I know our coaches are always trying hard to get the kids to weightlift and condition through out the year. If you look at our athletes compared to alot of other schools you can see the big difference. They are bigger, faster and stronger. I wish the rest of Bland Co. would take notice and encourage there kids to jump on board. It doesn't matter if they play football or not. If you want your team to win you have to get bigger, faster and stronger. I think this is what Coach Williams is trying hard to do and while he might be running some kids off right now a few years from now you will be glad that he did run off what is keeping your program from winning. And sometimes a coach has to run what fits his players needs not what the fans think would work just because thats what WVU or some other college team runs. Most schools our size are lucky to have 1 good athlete some 2 or 3.

I don't disagree with you at all. I think in any sport if the kids aren't taking advantage of weightlifting and conditioning they and there coach are missing out on the full potential. However as a coach you can't make these guys lift but you can only hope for there benefit and the teams that they will take advantage of what is there for them. With todays kids it seems the more you try to force them the more they go against you. Don't understand it, when I played if a coach asked me to play or go out for the team I was more than willing to put in the time it took. I wanted to make sure I was at my best so that I could offer my team everything thing I could give. I would much rather have 15 guys on Friday night that gave everything they had throught out the year than 45 guys that only wanted to have there picture in the program.

Should be interesting in the MED this year. Graham will be a year older but from other post seem to have some kids looking else where. Bland just doesn't have the depth to win year in and out with the likes of Graham, Fort, Grayson and Galax, but look to be a year away from competing with those top 4. Make note of the word Compete not saying they will win it all. Fort has a good program and look to be better than last year imo. Grayson should be solid this year but need to replace some rb's. lots of yards and TD's between those two seniors last year. and Galax wow, what a year they had but now that is all over but they seem to always have some athletic kids every year and return the peoples brothers. Narrows from what I hear is expecting a better year also like bland just can't compete every year with the rest of the district.

Great job Princeton. I may be from the VA side but anytime a high school in this area can win that is great. This area needs more recognition (spelling) of its high school athletes.