footballfan1 0 Report Share Posted December 15, 2022 Any updates for the 2023 Football Schedules? Most of the Tennessee Schools already have at Least half of their schedules online for 2023 and 2024: https://cms-files.tssaa.org/documents/tssaa/2022-23/football/region-football-schedules-2023-2024.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SXSW 557 Report Share Posted December 16, 2022 16 hours ago, footballfan1 said: Any updates for the 2023 Football Schedules? Most of the Tennessee Schools already have at Least half of their schedules online for 2023 and 2024: https://cms-files.tssaa.org/documents/tssaa/2022-23/football/region-football-schedules-2023-2024.html The TSSAA starting scheduling the regional schedules for all teams starting this season (2023) also the TSSAA is reclassifying this season too, and the Board of Governors voted 12-0 to allow NIL for high school kids The TSSAA has been busy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hokiebird7 1,416 Report Share Posted December 16, 2022 NIL in high school....good lord what a joke GMan 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VFL 6 Report Share Posted December 16, 2022 Lee is playing Pineville Ky and Thomas Walker. While dropping Eastside and PH. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolf1207 239 Report Share Posted December 16, 2022 Pineville? The pickings are getting really small for Lee. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BandanaVTDavis4321 1,717 Report Share Posted December 16, 2022 8 hours ago, Hokiebird7 said: NIL in high school....good lord what a joke Terrible when this happens. The 5 small towns in Texas that happen to live beside the other town in which the Tx Oil Billionaire lives all of a sudden loses their best players. Same for the wealthy areas who have multi millionaires who will simply recruit for their town/High School It creates a bidding war with only a group at the top who benefits and the middle and lower get screwed. Once again, due to a stupid attempt at "equality," we actually creat More equality, and that's exactly what happens in my opinion. What about High Schools on military bases? For example, Cole High at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio (Shaq's alma mater). Do my tax dollars (federal location) get to cover their NIL deals in San Antonio all the way from Virginia? The whole thing is a mess in my opinion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hokiebird7 1,416 Report Share Posted December 16, 2022 18 minutes ago, BandanaVTDavis4321 said: Terrible when this happens. The 5 small towns in Texas that happen to live beside the other town in which the Tx Oil Billionaire lives all of a sudden loses their best players. Same for the wealthy areas who have multi millionaires who will simply recruit for their town/High School It creates a bidding war with only a group at the top who benefits and the middle and lower get screwed. Once again, due to a stupid attempt at "equality," we actually creat More equality, and that's exactly what happens in my opinion. What about High Schools on military bases? For example, Cole High at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio (Shaq's alma mater). Do my tax dollars (federal location) get to cover their NIL deals in San Antonio all the way from Virginia? The whole thing is a mess in my opinion. It's ridiculous in my opinion...just the way this world is now...give the kids whatever they want BandanaVTDavis4321 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Packman 33 Report Share Posted December 17, 2022 Ridgeview replacing Bluefield with Virginia High. Real Sasquatch 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gridiron60 2,555 Report Share Posted December 17, 2022 59 minutes ago, Packman said: Ridgeview replacing Bluefield with Virginia High. I realize Bluefield is a long haul but why would you replace a team of Bluefield’s caliber with VA High? No offense intended toward the Bearcats. Bluefield & VA High are no where near the same level. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPF 409 Report Share Posted December 17, 2022 So they can win GMan 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gridiron60 2,555 Report Share Posted December 17, 2022 4 hours ago, CPF said: So they can win Weakening a schedule to just win In the regular season always helps a team especially come playoff time 😂😂😂. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vol Hater 276 Report Share Posted December 17, 2022 5 hours ago, Gridiron60 said: I realize Bluefield is a long haul but why would you replace a team of Bluefield’s caliber with VA High? No offense intended toward the Bearcats. Bluefield & VA High are no where near the same level. They lose everything on both sides of the ball. Including O'Quinn got to make that schedule a little easier for freshman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluefield researcher 1,195 Report Share Posted December 17, 2022 6 hours ago, Gridiron60 said: I realize Bluefield is a long haul but why would you replace a team of Bluefield’s caliber with VA High? No offense intended toward the Bearcats. Bluefield & VA High are no where near the same level. Same reason Tazewell and Richlands dropped Bluefield. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichlandsAlum 678 Report Share Posted December 17, 2022 Outside the area, but has some relevance that I will get around to explaining... Liberty (Bedford) has quite the conundrum. Assigned to Division 2 next year but still stuck playing in the Seminole District -- where the Minutemen still aren't exactly competitive in football. Basically our brand new AD (in his first year at that level) will need to find three nondistrict opponents that we can beat -- and who are willing to play us -- who happen to be in classifications higher than Division 2. And even that might not be enough since I think the number of teams that will qualify in Region 2C is contracting next year. So for those who wonder why/how teams with 3-7 records make the playoffs in Virginia.... Well, this is one source of that madness. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluefield researcher 1,195 Report Share Posted December 17, 2022 51 minutes ago, RichlandsAlum said: Outside the area, but has some relevance that I will get around to explaining... Liberty (Bedford) has quite the conundrum. Assigned to Division 2 next year but still stuck playing in the Seminole District -- where the Minutemen still aren't exactly competitive in football. Basically our brand new AD (in his first year at that level) will need to find three nondistrict opponents that we can beat -- and who are willing to play us -- who happen to be in classifications higher than Division 2. And even that might not be enough since I think the number of teams that will qualify in Region 2C is contracting next year. So for those who wonder why/how teams with 3-7 records make the playoffs in Virginia.... Well, this is one source of that madness. Why do they have to be higher than division 2 and why do they have to be "teams that we can beat"? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichlandsAlum 678 Report Share Posted December 17, 2022 14 minutes ago, Bluefield researcher said: Why do they have to be higher than division 2 and why do they have to be "teams that we can beat"? All about ratings points. Although Liberty will accumulate a minimum amount for simply playing above their classification in district play, it's unlikely that it will amount to enough to qualify for postseason compared to other Region 2C teams. Any Seminole District win would be huge in that regard -- but the Minutemen are oh-fer in district play for two years straight now. The need for opponents in higher classification is two-fold. One side is the points argument above. At some point you actually have to win to accumulate enough points to qualify -- and wins against higher classification schools are more valuable than equal or lower tier teams. The other side is that the closest schools in the same classification have effectively refused to play us. So if you're going to travel outside the immediate area it makes sense to be even more strategic in scheduling (i.e. find a relatively weak Division 3 or Division 4 team). I'm assuming that we'll continue to schedule county rival Staunton River (which is a Division 3 school). Typically we do have a reasonable shot at beating them, which helps. But the simplest (and arguably most reasonable) thing would have been for LHS to play in the Division 1/2 Dogwood District. Outside of Appomattox, the Minutemen would likely be competitive with all other members -- but nothing close to dominant in football. Yet that was the argument that Dogwood schools effectively made to keep us out (caveat there is that it probably would be true in all other sports). I've been an apologist for the Virginia system for a long time. But it is inherently screwed up in a big way now. Admittedly it takes having your own ox gored for people to even know or care what's happening. And recent reclassification may be driving a lot of scheduling decisions for 2023-2024. Bluefield researcher 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluefield researcher 1,195 Report Share Posted December 17, 2022 I see your point related points. But, for now, wouldn't it be better to not worry about points and just focus on building the program back up? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichlandsAlum 678 Report Share Posted December 17, 2022 1 hour ago, Bluefield researcher said: I see your point related points. But, for now, wouldn't it be better to not worry about points and just focus on building the program back up? And how do you measure that? Most obvious metric is winning -- and our program is at a decided disadvantage there thanks to the VHSL. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluefield researcher 1,195 Report Share Posted December 17, 2022 3 minutes ago, RichlandsAlum said: And how do you measure that? Most obvious metric is winning -- and our program is at a decided disadvantage there thanks to the VHSL. I agree. So trying to find Div 3 teams that are going thru tough times would be difficult. RichlandsAlum 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BandanaVTDavis4321 1,717 Report Share Posted December 17, 2022 Bluefield Researcher, any word on the Beavers schedule? With teams dropping the Beavers, who do they pick up or who have they tried to pick up for next season? Bluefield is going to be nasty next year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluefield researcher 1,195 Report Share Posted December 17, 2022 Bluefield is working on the schedule. They don't discuss who they are working with until the games are contracted. Open weeks are 3, 5, 8, 9, 10, and 11. Only locked in games for 2023 are Graham, Princeton, Woodrow Wilson, Independence and Pikeview. Four of the five are home games so Bluefield would be open to travelling the first year of a contract. Bluefield has two contracts in the hands of possible opponents but they have not signed them as of yesterday. BandanaVTDavis4321 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gfan 155 Report Share Posted December 17, 2022 4 hours ago, Bluefield researcher said: Same reason Tazewell and Richlands dropped Bluefield. So after all the complaints about MT View dropping Tazewell and having to travel across state to find opponents, they drop Bluefield? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluefield researcher 1,195 Report Share Posted December 17, 2022 Just now, Gfan said: So after all the complaints about MT View dropping Tazewell and having to travel across state to find opponents, they drop Bluefield? Yes and pick up Princeton Gfan 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluefield researcher 1,195 Report Share Posted December 17, 2022 Graham's schedule is complete. They have 10 games. Pick up Lebanon (back in the district) and lose Blacksburg. Dates are not set in stone as they have to work with Bluefield if both schools have home games the same weekend. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GMan 3,569 Report Share Posted December 17, 2022 4 hours ago, Dawg01 said: They lose everything on both sides of the ball. Including O'Quinn got to make that schedule a little easier for freshman Still doesn't make you better in the long run...iron sharpens iron, cupcakes make you fat... BandanaVTDavis4321, Junkyard, Gridiron60 and 1 other 1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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