BIGkid

Great game and season Richlands! Pulling for those Bears to bring it home to SWVA!

Richlans! It's pronounced RICH LANDS! The guy on WVVA pronounced it wrong Friday night, called Scottie Ball, Scotie Hall twice and said it was a state quater final game. At least he got the score right!

Gonna go with my source who knows way more than me. Appomattox by 21, Union By as many as they want, Giles cause he is a homer, Richlands/Buckingham toss up. Not what I had picked but he laughed at my picks.

#56 that stopped everything in front of him was on the team last year and so was #5 that picked off the Abingdon QB. All those DL and OL are home grown. The question is who on the Abingdon team won't be there next year. Two years on a row they have lost pretty good football players.

The QB that threw those 5 TD's was on the team last year and he will be on the team next year too!

1. Union 2. Giles 3. Abingdon 4. Richlands 5. Pulaski 6. Radford 7. Lee 8. Central 9. Honaker 10. Virginia High

And Honaker ahead of Richlands?

Congrats to Union! You guys have a heck of a football team, great coaches and fan base! I had my doubts about this years RHS team due to the graduation of Michaels, Vance and Bandy. Asbury answered any questions I had about his ability to lead the team and proved his toughness! The kid took a beating and kept getting back up. The secondary coverage was played about as well as you can play especially considering the quality of receivers Union has all over the field. I do think we miss the physicality in the secondary that Vance brought and his ability to make plays no matter where he was used (punt/KO returns, offense). But I never would have thought the biggest lose would have been Bandy. In a hard fought game by both teams, some early seasons mistakes/penalties, a couple turnovers, and missed assignments (10 men on the field on the last TD by Union) it all came down to kicking. It is a game of inches and we missed a FG by about 6 inches that I feel would have won the game. Union won and deserved it! Richlands will correct, learn from it and be a better team from it. Both these teams getting better is scary for anyone they face come November. I like our chances to be there in the end and nothing would be better than to face Union again for a championship. Can you just imagine the atmosphere in Salem?

SWVA has been defined alternatively as all Virginia counties on the Appalachian Plateau, all counties west of the Eastern Continental Divide or at its greatest expanse, as far east as Blacksburg and Roanoke. So all those schools previously named are in SWVA although you might have a hard time getting someone from Roanoke to admit it.

26 kids transferred in to VHS for athletics was what I was told by one of the recruits.

If you take pride in getting under your teams coaches skin and being a negative distraction to kids then please do not attend sporting events. Have a little pride and learn how to behave! Respect yourself!

The student got exactly what he wanted. Attention. We are suppose to learn very early in life and especially in school to follow the rules and to respect authority. Doesn't matter what he thinks or believes, he knew the rules and didn't abide by them. This is the problem with the world today. No responsibility or accountability. He was given more than one opportunity to change the shirt, turn it inside out or leave the school grounds. It seems like he may be a little hard headed or just plain stupid.

I have never heard of someone being to strong. LOL! I would find him a spot on my team if he wanted to play. He could be just a strength guy and based on his size and these numbers it is probably where he should focus his time.

Congrats to Bluefield!

Congrats to Coleman, UT and BigO! You called it BigO. Enjoy knowing you were right and that nobody knows it all.

Hopefully they wont have to play any young scrappy teams once its tournament time. They had three players foul out last night and let the emotion of the game take them out of their game. Lots of elbows thrown last night and the one girl from Abingdon caught two of them in the face. If you want to be the best expect everyone best effort against you. NO EXCUSES!

Rick Vencill is and has been the boys and girls cross country coach. Hard to believe maybe but it is so.

In a five team district I think you should only have a first team and any others that were nominated being honorable mention. If each coach only has one vote and can't vote for his player that he nominates it probably breaks down to something like first team 2 votes, second team 1, then a couple honorable mentions. Not much separating the top to the bottom. IMO.

Yes sir! Good job Honaker! Made SWVA proud!

Sorry to hear that, hopefully things will turn up for you. I know where your at and how it makes you feel. I am just very fortunate to being doing better now than when W was in office. I am not laying all the blame on Bush nor am I giving Obama all the credit. Hopefully we all learn to work together, give a little on our ideas and diversify our dependence on any one industry. Keep your head up, things will get better!

Agreed! Even a immoral, idiotic, socialist like myself could see this was all a ploy by big business.

The AD should be fired as well for hiring him in the first place. I think the time has come to hold these AD's more accountable for their failure to put the right coaches in place.

More great news for our area! I AM better off today than I was four years ago!

Had the same rumors last year after the Cave loss. Supposedly Mance thought two of the coaches were spending to much time with pre-season basketball instead of preparing for the CS game. I heard Mance was going to make them pick bball or football but they obviously kissed and made up cause they coached again this year, but same result and ball had been going about two weeks when CS came to town. The third coach could be several of them. A couple are near retirement, one has kids playing ball in college and then there are some younger ones that might be looking to move on for whatever reasons. It is Coach Mance's system and just like plugging in players every couple years he can plug in new blood in the coaching ranks. Just hope they are as dedicated as the one's he has had for years now.

Thank God they still play the games and don't just let us decide who will dominate the other team. If defense wins championships and you also need a little luck, I like ND's chances. Plus I have seen enough Alabama bandwagoners to do me a lifetime.