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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. 

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. 

Imo VHSL should cut to 5 classes(maybe 4) and expand the playoff participants for the top 2 classes. There are a ton of schools in that enrollment range that are basically the same size, no need for different classes between schools with 1,200 students and 1,800 for example, and set a hard # for 1A.  

Competition would be better and the VHSL wouldn't lose any $

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.

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. 

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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. 

First of all, if it’s true that a coach and or school administration can say yes or no to what officials show up that is a joke and the VHSL needs to fix that immediately.  I haven’t watched the game in question and probably won’t so I won’t comment on specifics of it just posts here.  Like @sixcatsaid, who is going to want to officiate games for what they are paid.  These schools are getting what they pay for.  I’ve looked at doing it as I know there is a massive shortage of refs.  But there is no way I’d put up with RV, Central, and Union fans for what refs around here are paid for each game.  
 

I’m pretty sure George Wythe only graduates 4 or 5. If they can successfully replace Smith at QB, they will be loaded for bear. 
 
Galax graduates 4 senior starters. If they can replace Ashworth and Tucker somehow, they should be in the mix again.  
 
I think Fort Chiswell is going to take a step forward too. They return a lot of size and talent. With a solid coach now, they will continue to improve. 
 
Grayson County will take a step or 3 backward unless they can find another crop of homeschool kids somewhere. 

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Congrats to both sixcat & Liam McPoyle for being this year's champions! I have no idea how to break a tie when both of you picked identically all the way to the title game, so you both win! lol. 

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Congrats to... me! lol. THank you Glenvar for helping me win!  Thank you to all who played this year!

Do you mean us as in the Greater Surrounding Bluefield area? Or just homegrown Bluefield, VA talent? Just needing the clarification.

The Galax fans after winning by two safeties and a last second field goal that boinked across the crossbar. 

Watch yourself Dan, you don’t disrespect the Spartan horn. I will come to Pounding Mill and blow it outside your house all hours of the night. 

Grayson's superintendent is frantically searching for another group of homeschool kids to play two grade levels below their age as we speak!!!

Giles -6.6 Galax -6.7 George Wythe -13.0 Grayson County -13.1 Buffalo Gap -14.3 Fort Chiswell -15.1 The MED hold 5 of the top 6 spots for strength of schedule in Class 1. Link should take you straight to the final rankings for Class 1.
https://calpreps.com/2023/ratings/Virginia_division.htm

Galax, Mount Airy and Radford all brought back state championships. Three high schools within a ~50 mile radius. 
Pretty impressive!

Both WDBJ and WSLS have video on YouTube of the play just before halftime. Camera and angle was right on top of the play. He really wasn’t close to scoring. 

Just chiming in, but I am not aware Ronnie Davis ever being given the opportunity to be a head coach for there to be a comparison. 
To my knowledge, he has been very successful as a head softball coach. Boy’s basketball has been very challenging in recent years, so I’m not qualified to have an accurate opinion. 
Based upon my experience, he knows football and benefits greatly from his past experience at RHS and exchange of knowledge with his peers. I’m sure he’s also picked up some insights from his brief time at GHS. 
 
I don’t know enough details that other posters mentioned; however, I would counter based upon the past as a combination of career advancement and negative circumstances beyond his control. Let’s face it, as mentioned earlier, sometimes the other part of the relationship has other plans. I’d venture (results pending) if given a head coaching position or not forced to change, he would likely still be a head coach at RHS in either football or softball. 
Just my opinion, with little details available.
 

Grayson's superintendent is frantically searching for another group of homeschool kids to play two grade levels below their age as we speak!!!

Difference between Galax and Grayson. Galax will be the preseason favorites and will actually back it up.