Bearcat Bob

Somewhere, in a dark and lonely corner of a musty old bar, cigarette smoke whirled from the breeze created by a squeaky ceiling fan. The old man in a well worn VT hat lifted a solitary eye brow, breaking his long stare into the shot of cheap bourbon 🥃 sitting before him, when the juke box came to life. The stranger had made his selection and the machined whirrred as the record fell into place. “Mind if I join you”, he asked the crumpled shell of a man. The craggy old Hokie’s instinct was to tell the stranger to go to hell. But as the words formed on his lips, enter Sandman blared from the music box. His face softened, just a bit, as his brow unfurled.  “Sure”, he mumbled to this kindred soul. “Michael Vick”, he said as he half raised his glass in toast. “Michael Vick”, was the only reply.
”...hush little baby...exit light, enter night...”

From a Central perspective we felt like if we caught a couple of breaks we could win this game. We needed one or two more big breaks. The pick 6 hurt us and the slow (shell shocked) start hurt us. Other than that, we grew up a ton during this game. It would have certainly done more for us to win, but to keep it close like that and not give up, that was huge for our young guys. Many times we have 6 or 7 freshmen out there on the field with a few sophomores and an upperclassmen or two.
VHS is a good team, and they have several studs who are as advertised. It was a clean well played game on both sides.

Uhh....  I'm an alumnus of the Polytechnic Institute (Class of 1993) and I care about college soccer.  I also continue to revel in our 2007 bass fishing national championship.
But don't let me get in the way of a good internet scrum.  Carry on.

Somewhere, in a dark and lonely corner of a musty old bar, cigarette smoke whirled from the breeze created by a squeaky ceiling fan. The old man in a well worn VT hat lifted a solitary eye brow, breaking his long stare into the shot of cheap bourbon 🥃 sitting before him, when the juke box came to life. The stranger had made his selection and the machined whirrred as the record fell into place. “Mind if I join you”, he asked the crumpled shell of a man. The craggy old Hokie’s instinct was to tell the stranger to go to hell. But as the words formed on his lips, enter Sandman blared from the music box. His face softened, just a bit, as his brow unfurled.  “Sure”, he mumbled to this kindred soul. “Michael Vick”, he said as he half raised his glass in toast. “Michael Vick”, was the only reply.
”...hush little baby...exit light, enter night...”

You know that when VT finally wins a national championship (it might be in 2050, but it has to happen sometime), you’ll act like that non-revenue sport (wrestling, men’s soccer, etc.) is the only sport that has ever existed.  Just like VT fans acted like the men’s hammer throw was an NCAA team sport when VT had an athlete place 1st individually some years back.
 
But if you really want to pull that card, at least UVA has been ranked #1 in both revenue sports.  Even football.  🙂

VT v. NCSU for the NCAA Beleaguered Championship, for the 9th year in a row

UVA won a whopping 1 NCAA Boxing title, in 1938.  UVA has won 5 Men’s Lacrosse titles (the fastest growing sport among HS youth by participation, BTW), which is two less than the number won by the Men’s Soccer team (and given your love of all things Chelsea, it’s a bit harder for you to claim that no one cares about soccer).  Baseball is quite clearly a sport, a UVA has an NCAA title in that as well.  
 
Here’s the breakdown:
Men’s Soccer: 7
Men’s Lacrosse: 5
Men’s Tennis: 4
Women’s Lacrosse: 3
Women’s Rowing: 2
Women’s Cross Country: 2
Baseball: 1
Boxing: 1 (defunct)
 
This doesn’t include the ITA Men’s Tennis titles (6) or the pre-NCAA sponsored Men’s Lacrosse (2) or Women’s Indoor T&F (1) titles.
 
I would encourage VT to become ranked #1 in any sport for 1 measly week (again, that has never happened, which is all the more mindblowing).

I like LAX.  Duke is really good at it in case you hadn't heard... 😄

VT has won exactly ZERO team national titles in any NCAA sport. UVA has won 25.  If you are looking for the most complete program...the numbers do not lie. 

I guess he wasn’t talking about national titles?  But there is hope. Each year the odds increase that tech will hopefully maybe possibly win one.

There is another component to these cancellations that no one mentions.  Loudoun County has at least 10 high schools (more I think).  They allow the students to pick which high school they want to attend.  Many, many football players chose to go to the "football" schools in the county.  The same happens in the other sports.  We happened to do a fairly big job in Loudoun not long ago.  The locals, who cared about HS sports, stated that there are football schools, basketball schools and so on. 
Manassas Park is about 3 blocks away from Osbourne Park High School.  Most of the MP football players now go to Osbourne due to a much better stadium, weight room, coaching staff etc.  The school jurisdictions allow it.  Same thing happens at George Mason in Falls Church...only they get all the soccer players in the area due to Moore Cadillac giving them the nicest facilities for soccer anywhere around. 
Can't really blame the folks for taking advantage of the situations.  But this PROBABLY would not have happened at PV Sterling or MP if the locales had hard and fast rules about playing in the jurisdiction in which you live.

Didn’t ruin America but he didn’t do anything for manufacturing(like other presidents before him). Benghazi and the mysterious video.. The number of Americans on welfare alltime high. A record 20% on food stamps in 2013 & 2014. Taxpayers lost 25 billion dollars on Obama’s bailout of General Motors and Chrysler. Chrysler isn’t even an American company any more. It’s now owned by an Italian company, Fiat. Obama’s campaign contributors at Solyndra were handed 535 million dollars of taxpayer money that the Obama Administration knew they would never be able to pay back before they gave it to them. The IRS targeted Obama’s political enemies including Christian groups, pro-Israel groups, and most prominently, Tea Party groups. The Obama Administration had refused to cooperate with the investigation or hold anyone accountable for the illegal behavior.  Numerous donors to Mitt Romney were audited by the IRS after giving him large contributions. Obama took 700 billion dollars out of Medicare to put into Obamacare.  Instead of calming people down, Obama helped to turn Americans against each other racially be inserting himself into the Trayvon Martin case.  Obama created so much racial animosity by attacking the police when they had done nothing wrong in the Henry Louis Gates case that he had to have a ridiculous “beer summit” to try to undo the damage. The Department of Justice failed to pursue a voter intimidation case against members of the New Black Panthers because they were black and liberal. Former DOJ official J Christian Adams quit over the case and “accused his former employer of instructing attorneys in the civil rights division to ignore cases that involve black defendants and white victims.” Despite the fact that Barack Obama claimed to believe that marriage should be between one man and one woman when he was running for President in 2008, his Department of Justice asked states attorney general to refuse to defend their states’ bans on gay marriage in court. He released 5 Taliban terrorists In exchange for deserter Bowe Bergdahl. I could go on but won’t. I will say that the only politician to not take an IPO would probably be Rand Paul Senator Kentucky

I 2nd this. VHS @ Ernie, 2013, is one of my all-time favorites, even in a loss for the Bearcats.
1 week after VHS pulls the monumental upset at Gretna, they roll into Richlands (for the 2nd time in a matter of weeks) with a ton of momentum. 
With a minute left to go in regulation, VHS has a 7 point lead and the ball at the Richlands 10 yd line. On 3rd & 8, the VHS 2000 yd RB is stopped short of the first down line. Instead of going down, and letting his team attempt the probable game winning FG, the team captain tries to fight for extra yards to put the game on ice himself, when the Richlands defender makes a spectacular play in ripping the ball free, and racing 90 yds for the tying score.
3 overtimes later, Richlands advances while VHS is left to wonder "What if?" That night had a Major College type atmosphere.

VA High returns starters at third base, second base, first base, part time ss, cf and lf.  They return 3 pitchers, as well as dh!  Region will be down in baseball next year with teams losing quite a few starters.  Would expect them to make another run!
 

So close for Richlands, Virginia High, and Abingdon, yet so far away.  I was hoping all 3 could bring back a state title in 2018.
Richlands returns their entire squad, but it must have been disappointing as most thought it was their year this year. I'm not sure Abingdon will ever has as good a team as they had this year, and Mark Daniels will always have Virginia High in the mix. He is the best baseball coach in SWVA.

Also Honaker in Class 1 baseball and Richlands in Class 2 softball. We have a chance at 4 state titles today. 

Was ‘84 the Trey McCall year(s)?

Graham would already be there if not for the Pocahontas kids.  My Pocahontas-graduate wife thinks this is precisely the reason TCPS closed Pocahontas, and I’m not all that disinclined to believe her...

Madison’s first loss of season after sweeping Page in regular season. Apparently, due to all the rain outs, Madison agreed to travel to Page and play their semifinal game against Wilson, which they won 8-2.  They played Page about 30 minutes later and went with pitcher number 2. Lost 5-1 to end their 30+ game win streak. So instead of hosting a state quarter, they will travel to Region A. My son dates one of their players so I get all the details. 

I’ve been at a team camp all weekend with East Rockingham.   5A teams—Albemarle and Orange 
Privates—St Anne’s Belfield and Highland
Western Albemarle, Culpeper, William Monroe, George Mason, Madison, Kettle Run, and East Rock  
East Rock is killing it against all comers. I’m going to get out front early and say that they overtake RE Lee in the district and contend for a state 2A title. You heard it here first!  They split with Lee last year in the regular season.
Western Albemarle will be in the 3A Hunt.   
 

Madison’s first loss of season after sweeping Page in regular season. Apparently, due to all the rain outs, Madison agreed to travel to Page and play their semifinal game against Wilson, which they won 8-2.  They played Page about 30 minutes later and went with pitcher number 2. Lost 5-1 to end their 30+ game win streak. So instead of hosting a state quarter, they will travel to Region A. My son dates one of their players so I get all the details. 

Madison’s first loss of season after sweeping Page in regular season. Apparently, due to all the rain outs, Madison agreed to travel to Page and play their semifinal game against Wilson, which they won 8-2.  They played Page about 30 minutes later and went with pitcher number 2. Lost 5-1 to end their 30+ game win streak. So instead of hosting a state quarter, they will travel to Region A. My son dates one of their players so I get all the details. 

Virginia High and Tazewell wouldn't have sub .500 records if they played the schedule that Grayson did.

Consolation games that mean nothing to seeding should never be played!!! To much rush of an injury to a player that don’t even have a reason to be playing the extra game!!!
I am a fan of the old playoff system, the conference winner and the winner of the tournament or runner up goes if the conference champion is the same as the tournament champion!!

The thing is that I like Frito.  Played with him in Bristol.  But, their fans can be hemorrhoids.