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Have they never watched a girls basketball or soccer game before? That stuff happens all the time. All the time!!!

Oooh, I hadn't seen anything viral. I avoid social media so, I don't see that stuff. What did I miss?

Went to see Carroll County and Honaker Monday night in Hillsville. Carroll isn't quite as good as they have been recently but Alyssa Ervin sure is. She had 43 points, 11 rebounds and 7 steals in the 60-56 win for the Cavs.

I think the playoff situation is certainly a contributing factor but it's more than that. Region 6A only has 11 schools while Region 6B has 19. Region 5B only has 10 schools. Class 5 only has 48 schools while Class 6 has 60. VHSL breaks down regions within Class 5 and Class 6 to pacify those schools that balk at having to travel 20 miles for a regional contest. It has nothing to do with balance and everything to do with those large schools expecting everyone to cater to them. If VHSL had a backbone and made a 5 Class system, broken down with even distribution of Regions, a lot of ths knucklehead stuff that takes place within the playoff format would solve itself. Schools like Freedom-Woodbridge would complain about having to travel 40 miles to Briar Woods for a regional battle but they will get over it. Now factor in Freedom-Woodbridge is 6B with 1,600 students and Briar Woods is 5D with 1,400 students, it makes even less sense.

Virginia is watered down in my opinion. We should have at most, 5 classifications. Virginia has 317 schools playing football versus 125 in West Virginia. With only 125 schools, 4 classifications seems quite odd to me but then again, so does 6 classification with 317 schools so, what do I know?

It looks like 25 schools in AAAA, 30 schools in AAA, 29 schools in AA and 41 schools in A. https://wvmetronews.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Final-Copy-of-WVSSAC-Competition-Models-2023-Version-3.pdf Seems quite watered down to me.

1. Oak Hill (obviously) 2. Radford 3. George Wythe Honorable mention: Galax when they still had the parquet floor.

Floyd is similar in many ways to Fort Chiswell. They always seem to have an abundance of size and athleticism. Coach Beale was/is an all-time human being but I'm not sure how great a football coach he had been in recent years. Floyd certainly has a football coach now. If the Carroll News is to be believed, I'm not sure how Cromer could have been their second choice, but here we are. One thing is for sure, Floyd set the rest of the Three Rivers on notice. The Buffalos comin.......

South Carolina just enacted a rule for the upcoming season, schools are free to recruit and students can transfer out-of-season without penalty. However, any school receiving a student living outside the district boundaries must count that 1 student as 3 students for ADM purposes, whether that student plays a sport or not. https://www.postandcourier.com/aikenstandard/sports/localsports/s-c-high-school-league-realignment-picture-taking-shape/article_8d688c58-9a9f-11ee-9505-3b38bde4e661.html If VHSL were to adopt this unique system, LCA would most likely be Class 6.

It'll be tough given the competition. If he's still at Lancaster, they have to be the overwhelming favorites. I was lead to believe he transferred to John Marshall.

Personally, I think those 3 (Auburn Lancaster, GW) have to be the betting favorites. GW and Auburn both return the majority of their teams from last season. They played 6 times last year with GW winning 4 of those. George Wythe only has two seniors on the roster with one of those only playing a few minutes a night. Terry Millirons is the head coach at Auburn. Nick Millirons is the star senior.

Lancaster is still very good even though their generational player transfered to John Marshall. Auburn is really good as always. Carver Academy is good but I'm not sure how battle-tested they will be come March.

Watched George Wythe and Galax last week. GW beat Galax 68-29. GW will have a shot to cut down nets in Richmond.

All-District/Region/State teams are subjective and highly influenced by biased coaches and teams win-loss record. I know of a kid in the central part of the state that has several D1 offers and I don't believe he was even on the All-Region team.

The 1994 game was the second week of the regular season, not a playoff game. I was home visiting for a few weeks and went to the game with some friends. I don't remember much about the game other than thinking I would like to see Thomas Jones and Raypheal Milton play against each other. Radford played my brothers Grayson team the following week. Radford finished that season 8-3 with 2 loses to Giles.

Showering officials with a chorus of boos should have people lining up in droves to get paid pennies for their time in exchange for the abuse of everyone in attendance.

I’m not sure how feasible a second high school would be in Carroll County. The issue is more terrain than anything else. Cana sits at an elevation bellow 900 feet. Hillsville sits in something of a bowl near 2,800 feet with the surrounding countryside well above 3,000 feet. With Lovers Leap Mountain bordering Patrick County to the east, Lambsburg Mountain to the southwest, and Fancy Gap Mountain to the southeast, those 2,000 plus foot drops are treacherous. Besides, I’m certain Carroll County couldn’t afford the additional staff a second high school would necessitate.

Kid from Cana scored the last touchdown for Mount Airy in the state championship game.

Carroll County has hired Seth Greer as the new head coach. Greer will be the first CC alumnus to coach the football program. According to the newspaper article, Greer was also offered the Floyd County head coaching position but chose to come home to Carroll.

Tandem Smith is a senior.

I saw the JV's play back in September. They have some serious talent coming up. I didn't see another Landon Clark but quite a few outstanding athletes.

I believe #8 will be the feature back next season splitting time with #1. Also #5 needs more touches. He's an athlete that has played the past 3 or 4 weeks with a slipped disc in his lower back. For as small as #6 is, he's as tough as a pine knot. I think losing #9 might force Galax to spread the ball around much more than they have the past 2 seasons. Which would be a good thing overall.

I don't believe NC does. I don't remember ever seeing one.

Raycom Sports does the state championship games in North Carolina under the umbrella of NCHSAA. It's like watching an ACC game.

It's stuff like the train horn that make high school football awesome and unique. I'll chip in gas money to haul that thing to Galax next fall.