Despite the 92-degree heat, optimism was high during Wednesday’s media day session at GC. According to head coach Jeremy Houseright, the Blue Devils have 60 players on the roster.
That figure is nearly double the number of players from the 2021 media day and includes several juniors who have been away from football for a couple years.
Fleming said the positive vibes have been building ever since Blue Devils held a nearly three-hour workout that began at midnight on the opening day of practice July 28.
“This is most momentum we’ve had since I’ve been part of this program,” said Fleming, who scored three touchdowns as a sophomore. “We’ve got more depth so we can give guys rest now instead of having to play both ways all the time.”
Phase 3 will not allow for football. Not sure how you can say you are addressing cross contamination between student groups if you allow kids from literally every class in your school to have real, team practices and games. Cannot be accomplished.
Plus.…...if you do allow football, and then do not allow band, think of the uproar. Much less contact during band practice or competitions.
If you allow football, you will have to allow band. Heck, football and band at Gate City probably make up 30% of the entire student body.
Very easy for me to see our Governor reacting to the predicted Fall surge of Covid-19 cases by throwing all of the Commonwealth back into Phase 2...……..or worse.
Just do not see football happening.
“High school football, folks should be training right now, getting ready. I don’t know what will happen with the high school season down the road, but certainly quarterbacks can be throwing to receivers, receivers are wearing gloves. That’s kind of common sense. We’re not doing tackle football during the summer anyway. There’s certainly some weight training not using shared equipment, some drills that linemen can do that will accommodate the Phase II guidelines.
“Soccer, I coached high school soccer for six years. There’s ways to train and structure your practices without having intentional contact.”
“If socially distancing competitions are taking place, the following conditions must also be met:
“Outdoor recreational sports are allowable if 10 feet of physical distance can be maintained by all participants and spectators at all times and all shared items can be disinfected between uses.
Union's year will be next year. Will be surprised if they and Radford do not play for the region championship. Don't forget that Union was only a missed put back at the buzzer against Central from being one of the two M7 teams advancing to regional play this year.
I agree with Stan on this one. McAmis as COY is a joke. He took a team picked to win the district, and slightly underachieved. Vermillion took a team picked to finish second in the district, and went to the state championship game.
Curious. Wonder how many times a coach has taken their team to the state championship game and NOT been COY in their district and region? It happened to both GC coaches this year.
Wonder how many times a coach has won a state championship and NOT been COY in their district and region? Happened to GC's coach this year.
I think they give it to whichever teams coach wins the Region D tourney but could be wrong. As for the M7, maybe it's just based on who won the regular season and stuff.
Well.…….GC boys won the regular season, conference tournament, and Region D Tournament...…...and McAmis was the Region COY.
how can someone cry and complain in national press about transfers and other basketball leagues when their own program has had transfers from local area next door to them for years and years and their own players have benefited from this same organization, you got your tail spanked live with it, single a didn't complain 20+ yrs ago when your double aa school dropped down so you could win state championships, only problem is you got your tail handed to you then also lol what a joke
Stan.......now your posts about GC basketball make more sense to me. Sounds like you have a long held hatred for some reason.
First pic looks like a clear foul. Looks like the foul was on the rebound. Assume Central was in the bonus.
Third pic does not look like a foul...…..to me.
Second pic is the tough one....for me....to call. Does not look like #22 is fouling. Other guy looks like his hand is all ball, but he might be elbowing the Central kid.
Really depends on how the game was called. If this sequence was a foul in the first quarter, it should have been a foul at the end of the game.
We are also benefitting from still pictures......which the refs do not have.
The article talks about the only public high school EVER in the history of high school basketball to have three consecutive 2,000 point scorers, and you try to downplay the accomplishment. *shakes head*
I played on one of those “bad” teams during the ‘80’s. We would not have belonged on the same court as the teams GC has fielded the last several years.
SWVA is not a basketball hot spot. It has never been. However, that does not detract from this accomplishment.
There are a lot of high school basketball cold spots in the nation, but this is the first time this has ever happened.
Let’s see........you are 704,000 times more likely to be struck by lightning TWICE than you are to have this scoring accomplishment happen.......and you try to down play it.
* shakes head ever so slowly as I reach for the submit button”
GC is the first public high school in the USA to have back-to-back-to-back 2,000 point scorers, and the only VA school to have at least three 2,000 point scorers.
You are 21,000 times more likely to win the Powerball Lottery, and 704,000 times more likely to be struck by lightning TWICE than you are to have the three consecutive 2,000 point scorers.
I think Graham’s boys beat the M7 #4. Think they also have a great shot at winning game #2.
I am wondering how much of the “M7 is very strong this year” is actually due to being much stronger, or to GC not being as strong as in recent years. Of course Central does have their strongest team ever.
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Pretty cool read.
https://tricitiessports.com/promise-made-promise-kept-in-improbable-gate-city-victory-at-dobynsbennet-p117085-1.htm?fbclid=IwAR0uCMaH0RpAIUrhth7moS5suQONLlSvPpUpsFf9CENVJ5QLOBa3Htyk8vQ