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Does that mean all those players from Mount View currently playing at Graham will be returning to MV?

Extensive stormwater collection and detention underneath a minimum of 8 inch bed of compacted gravel, 3 inch layer of base course asphalt and a 2 inch layer of surface course asphalt.

I don't think anyone is disparaging the MED. It's more an issue with GC petitioning to play down several times over the past 30 years. Future enrollment will likely justify them being in Class 1 but they squarely fall within Class 2 parameters right now and petitioned VHSL to play down in Class 1. When the New River District dissolved, the Three Rivers District should have been the AA district and the MED the A district but again, GC fought to remain in the MED so they could play smaller schools. As for the nosedive in Grayson County enrollment, county leaders have made misstep after misstep in county management dating back to the 90's. It's not a coincidence that the county population is getting significantly older and speaks with a northern accent. As more and more transplants retire to Grayson County, locals with families needing employment will continue to be priced out (see Avery County, NC). Local families will continue to relocate and GC school enrollment will continue to shrink.

How is the parking situation? Bleachers, concessions, etc. won't be overly difficult from a construction and permitting standpoint. If additional parking is needed, that's a whole other kettle of fish based on the drastic changes to post-construction runoff.

Where is the turf being installed for Graham, high school or middle school? I recall reading a bit about both sites on here in the past.

It’s amazing how social media gossip is taken for fact while publicly available information directly from the source is ignored (or never even looked at). Everyone on social media thinks they are in the know, factual data be damned.

Return a couple of good players but graduate most of the team. I don't see them being as good as they have been in the past two seasons. It's hard to imagine them being a .500 team.

I would counter "more consistent" with "it's easier to be consistent playing Class 1 competition as a Class 2 sized school" but that's neither here nor there.

Do they win more than they did previously? They were playing in Class 2 under the previous coaching staff. Drop any D2 team down to Class 1. How much more successful would they be? A team like Tazewell would contend for a state championship. In my opinion, GC is a mediocre Class 2 program competing in Class 1. But that's just my opinion.

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I know that. CPF is the only saying the guy is coming to Graham for the 💰

I guess there’s something to be said for the old adage “happy wife, happy life!”

Graham in the habit of paying a defensive line coach that doesn’t work in any other capacity within the school system loads of cash?

A college defensive coordinator dropping down to the high school ranks to coach the defensive line makes all the sense in the world. Especially when said coaches brother coaches at another local school.

Title says it all. Let’s hear those offseason changes around the region. I’ll get us started. Tony Palmer has apparently hired the Bluefield University DC and Snake appears to be in his way out.

It might be called "envy" but I could be wrong.

Glenvar is the only school I'm aware of on this end of the state that left the end zone blank. My understanding is, they didn't want the distraction given their soccer program. At least that's what a Glenvar parent told me.

Sorry to hear that, I really am. But this is the nature of design and construction involving DEQ post Covid. What used to take a maximum of 90 days, now takes a year minimum. Often, much more than a year. If one were to go back in this thread, you can see the warnings I posted. Been doing this for 30 years and ready to be done with it because of the mess these state and federal agencies are causing.

Darian Grubb is from Floyd. I played a variety of sports against him growing up. He's been in NASCAR since 2003. He has been crew chief for Casey Mears, Jimmie Johnson, Tony Stewart, Carl Edwards, Denny Hamlin, and William Byron. He has won several championships with various drivers as crew chief and won the Daytona 500 as crew chief for Jimmie Johnson. He is currently the Director of Performance for Chip Gannasi Racing.