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Hey all, Tim from the Virginia Tech site here. I went into the film room on recent Hokie commit Keylen Adams, the top player in the 757:

1. King William dropped Essex (a big money game for years) and replaced them with Hanover. These two played in the regular season for every year since 1994 (with exception of the spring 2021 and fall 2021 seasons). They will meet in a pre-season scrimmage.
2. Eight schools are in Region 1B and there's only two non-district games between Region 1B teams. Cumberland vs. Altavista and Cumberland vs. William Campbell; I guess this is because it's such a far-flung region????
3. The Northern Neck District has flipped its district scheduling. End-of-regular-season games between traditional rivals (Essex-Rappahannock, Lancaster-Northumberland, Colonial Beach-Westmoreland) are now district openers.
4. Nandua and Arcadia (I know they are 2A!) are playing home games at 6 pm. I wonder if that will start a new trend among other small schools?
5. Are Middlesex, Charles City and Mathews (if they have a team) now eligible for postseason play? None of the 3 play 2A King William which has produced a schedule with just 2 Class 1 foes: traditional rivals West Point and King & Queen.

Lafayette had scheduled playing in football this fall St Christopher’s of Richmond. Their a division 1 private school, what is the power points for playoff calculations of this team? I’ve never seen Lafayette schedule a private school so I haven’t a clue what they will be considered ; class 2,3 or 4.

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Aug 10 scrimmage @ Warren County
Aug 17 scrimmage vs Turner Ashby
Aug 25 vs Riverheads
Sep 1 vs East Rockingham
Sep 8 @ Staunton
Sep 15 @ Amelia County
Sep 29 @ King William
Oct 6 @ Clarke County*
Oct 13. @ Madison County*
Oct 20 vs Luray*
Oct 27 vs Page County*
Nov 3 @ Strasburg*

Pretty underrated grueling schedule for the Falcons. They will certainly be battle tested. Big Red Machine coming to town WEEK 1 is pretty awesome, and traveling to King William (likely Region A favorites). Plus the Bull Run is always competitive.

Five games I have scheduled

1. Salem at Liberty Christian Academy
2. Phoebus at Oscar Smith
3. Highland Springs at Maury
4. Maury at Dinwiddie
5. Trinity Episcopal at St Michaels

That schedule looks brutal. Kudos to the coaching staff, AD, and Principal for making that happen. Several yearly good opponents on that schedule. Definitely will be battle tested. This should fix the power point numbers that’s be an issue the past few years.

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With the release of the schedule, what games have you the most excited for the season? Give me your Top 5 or 10 games, any Class.

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It is early but I am bored. So I am going to throw up my Shenandoah district rankings. I think Gap is the only school still in division 1 this year. I know Riverheads and Stuarts Draft is division 2 and I am pretty sure Waynesboro and Wilson are division 3. I am not sure about Staunton and Fort Defiance this year division 2 or 3? That aside, here are my early district rankings. I am most confident about the top two teams being 1st or 2nd and my last place team being last but anything can happen with injuries, players not showing up, etc.

1- Riverheads. Yes, they lost some key guys, as they do every year but, they have two 280 pound plus dominate senior lineman, and will have not trouble filling in the gaps. The Cook-Cash kid gets the most attention but these two up front get it all going. Cook-Cash should be back on both sides of the ball this season for his senior season. They also have a deep stable of backs, a young linebacker who I think played TE also. The key for me as to whether this is a 7-3,8-2 type team or 9-1, 10-0 is the health of the 2 big linemen and Cook-Cash.

2-Stuarts Draft. I think they were young last year. Quarterback was young, good athlete, if he and the team can improve the passing game a little they should be better. They play great defense. They just are not as big or strong up front as Riverheads, and they do not have an athlete like Cook-Cash, no other district school has that combination.

3-Fort Defiance. 3 through 6 is tough for me. I choose Fort as I really like their QB. He is a good athlete, can run and throw. They improved last year protecting the QB from the year before. They have some talent on the team and I think some really good younger assistant coaches.

4-Wilson. They are usually always big and strong. They return a pretty good RB/LB and maybe also the quick/fast little RB. They lost a really good QB and WR though.

5-Staunton. Lost their multiple year QB. Overall I think they were young last year. Their offensive and defensive lines last year were much improved over the last few years. They have playmakers, need to find a QB. This pick was tough for me as I could place them 3 through 6. Something seems to happen to them later in the year, injuries, kids leaving, etc.

6-BG. Always hard picking my team. They lost some studs at skill positions. QB/DE, 2 RB/LB, T/DE, and a really tall weapon at TE/WR. The good news is they return 4 of 5 OL if they come back and are not moved to other positions. The key here will be finding some RB's and LB's that can stay healthy and be playmakers.

7-Waynsboro. They lost their multiple year, tall, QB. A talented RB who was not able to play much last year with injury. I know they have a really fast kid or 2 if they come back. For me, if they do not change their offense up, they will continue to struggle in the grind it out Shenandoah.

Friday night football games at Monacan and Lloyd C. Bird high schools could look very different. The grass football fields at the two county schools are slated to be replaced with synthetic turf., with other high schools to follow.

Josh Davis, chief operations officer for Chesterfield County Public Schools, announced the turf field initiative during a joint work session between CCPS and the Chesterfield County Board of Supervisors on Sept. 8. The initiative calls for replacing existing grass football fields at each of the county’s 10 high schools with synthetic turf at a cost of $2 million per field.

Officials say the new fields will be available for community use and will accommodate a variety of youth sports, including football, lacrosse, soccer and field hockey.

“We’re excited about this opportunity to do this in partnership between the schools and the county,” Davis said in a recent interview. “It’s really going to benefit our students, community and perhaps even our visitors.”

County expected to replace high school football fields with synthetic turf - Chesterfield Observer

River City Sportsplex's 12 multipurpose synthetic turf fields, above, are about to get company: the county plans to replace grass football fields at each of its 10 high schools with artificial turf. JAMES HASKINS CLARIFICATION: While the Chesterfield County School Board and Board of Supervisors...

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Very stunned and saddened to pass along that longtime Lake Taylor assistant football coach Theo Ford has passed away unexpectedly.

Personally, Coach Ford was always one of the most upbeat and friendly folks I've met in covering sports around the Commonwealth. He will sorely be missed.

Please keep Head Coach Hank Sawyer, his staff, players, Coach Ford's family as well as the entire Titans community in your thoughts and prayers.

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Northumberland's Mitchell Jett passed away at the age of 79 on July 1. Jett rushed for 2,512 yards in his senior season of 1962 to help Northumberland win the District F (forerunner to the Northern Neck District). This was an era when teams played up to 8 regular season games and that was it as there were no playoffs. Northumberland played 7 games in Jett's senior campaign. He totaled 4,330 rushing yards in his senior and junior seasons combined but no stats were recorded in his freshman or sophomore seasons. Jett's senior season rushing total was the VHSL single season record until 1987 when it was eclipsed by both Terry Kirby (14 games, 2,864 yards) of Tabb and Eric Bates of James Monroe (14 games, 3,039 yards). Jett's brother, Jimmie, was the long-time boys basketball coach at Northumberland who piloted the Indians to a state championship in 1996.
Ironically, Jett's football coach at Northumberland, Jack Eades, passed away in May at age 93.

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I don't know why anyone brought this up but what is the best high school football rivalry in the state of Virginia.

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