I will wager anyone on this board that the GC faithful are ready to crucify the new coach by the 3rd game...unless they are 3-0. In that case, I will wager that GC overtakes Richlands as the loudest voices on this site! That GC bandwagon is HUGE in the good times...not so much in the leaner periods.
We would not have argued BD15. VHS attracts players because of their facility, coaching, and most importantly, their ability to get players to the next level. Seems that some schools are perceived to be better for a particular sport than others. I have no qualms about transfers coming to VHS for baseball...I just wished we could get a few football/basketball transfers!
After giving this some thought, the answer to the original question is fairly obvious, IMHO. SWVA teams are mostly 1A or 2A. Because of the population centers of Virginia, SWVA schools do not have to regularly play schools from the talent rich Tidewater/NOVA areas. Most, not all schools, in those areas are 5A or 6A. The few smaller schools that do exist in those areas, notably George Mason, usually lose what real talent they have to the privates and larger schools surrounding them.
School bus use was just one example. However, I recently attended a community, non-school related, street festival where school buses where used to transport folks from the off site parking area to the town street festival.
I am very leery of the home schooled GPA. If my dad had been in charge of my GPA, instead of my teachers, I would have struggled. He felt perfection was the only acceptable grade! Conversely, it seems that "mom/dad" could make sure that my home school GPA was stellar. Admittedly, I do not know the exact procedure for home schooled grading but I can image that it would be easier to fudge those grades than it would be in a public school.
As a tax payer, I get the thought that the school athletic programs should be available to all tax payer's children. But, the school does not have to offer athletics. There are many required academic courses required but not a single athletic program is mandated (except Title IX issues which is another ball of wax totally). Participation in school athletics is a privilege of which are attached many requirements.
Just my opinions on the matter. I can see the other side...I just do not agree with it.
For a public school child to participate in sports, there are rigid requirements. The public school child has to get up every morning, attend a set school schedule, abide by a standard set of behavioral rules, maintain a GPA as determined by his teachers (not his mom/dad), interact with a student body in an appropriate manner, etc. If he is sick in the a.m. and misses school. he cannot participate that day, even if he feels better in the p.m. Not so with home schoolers. Public school sports participation carries many requirements for the student athlete that can be circumvented by the home schooled student.
Additionally, cannot you not see the potential abuses? Residency requirements may as well be thrown out as we know them.
The taxes argument does not hold water, IMHO. I also pay taxes on the buses that carry the kids to school but that does not mean that me and the family can take one Saturday to a Nationals' game. That is only one example. There are MANY things I pay taxes for of which I cannot use for personal use.
And quite honestly, if the public school is not adequate to educate your child and you chose to do so yourself, why are the public school sports programs adequate? I say go start your own travel team and be happy. Or attend a private school.
I think so G-Man. The NVD article said that he did not have the grades to play football in college. He apparently played for a rugby club team this summer and caught the attention of some professional club. Go figure. Good luck today.
Their home gym is UNDER the middle school. Very small. Has a partition, for gym classes I presume, that limits your view of the court if you sit on the top row or two. But...they have really nice outdoor facilities. And 30+ state championship banners hanging in that tiny gym. Like I said earlier, every b-ball game for them is a :road" game.
Their games v. Madison County are on HUDL.
Also just read that their defensive stopper, Noble, will not make the trip as he is visiting a college or something rugby related this weekend. He apparently has a future as a professional rugby player. He was not much of an offensive threat but I recall that he was a lock down type defender.
If VCU is in session, the students fill the parking garage during the day games. If you have to park elsewhere, go west not east. And do not park in the Lowes parking lot near Seigel, they monitor and tow!
Honestly, the worst officiating I have ever seen, and the most blatantly one sided.
Never seen this before either: Bluestone had an announcer, walking the sidelines, during play, giving his running commentary with a microphone. He would say things like, "#15 just lost his jock", "somebody give that kid a lesson", "so and so is loading up the bus"; "That was a walk...or foul...or whatever". They played music every dead ball...nothing wrong with that...except one of the officials would "dance" with the cheerleaders and gesture to the home crowd.
I hope Gate City does not play down to this team's level. .
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I will wager anyone on this board that the GC faithful are ready to crucify the new coach by the 3rd game...unless they are 3-0. In that case, I will wager that GC overtakes Richlands as the loudest voices on this site! That GC bandwagon is HUGE in the good times...not so much in the leaner periods.