Competition for Riverheads

[Gunz41]

I personally am ready to move on to basketball and in fact am about to post my first review of the first RHS roundball game of the season. But at that game tonight, someone requested that I post this incredible statistic.......If you total up the records for this season at Riverheads from the midget football team to the juniors to the seniors in the Little League program; then add in the JV team and of course the varsity, you end up with a combined record of 51-3, I believe the gentleman said.

As mentioned before, the "system" is taught from a very early age and with those kind of numbers it must be working. I would assume this should answer the question of whether Riverheads will be competitive in the coming years.

Not necessarily, and I think Riverheads will be competitive year in and year out, but if you go off of little league success, it can be very misleading. Up until maybe 10 years ago (maybe less) Riverheads was never really one of the top teams, where about 25 years ago for about the next 15 Stuarts Draft was consistently winning, and not having the same results in High School. So in some cases it doesn't paint the right picture, and other times it presents great results.

Of course now we have pretty much every team (other than Waynesboro) in the Shenandoah that is in Little League, and they also incorporate Nelson County into theirs.

So of the reasons that you could get different results though is kids not continuing to play, coaching, and in the past the competition. Take SD, while the teams in Little league were having great success, and running the same system as high school, once they got to high school they were no longer playing the smaller schools only, they were playing the Harrisonburgs, TAs, and others

 

[trutiger16]

Holler if you know when you coming through and maybe we can break bread together.

Absolutely ill give you a days notice

 

[RedPrideNation_RollPride]

Not necessarily, and I think Riverheads will be competitive year in and year out, but if you go off of little league success, it can be very misleading. Up until maybe 10 years ago (maybe less) Riverheads was never really one of the top teams, where about 25 years ago for about the next 15 Stuarts Draft was consistently winning, and not having the same results in High School. So in some cases it doesn't paint the right picture, and other times it presents great results.

Of course now we have pretty much every team (other than Waynesboro) in the Shenandoah that is in Little League, and they also incorporate Nelson County into theirs.

So of the reasons that you could get different results though is kids not continuing to play, coaching, and in the past the competition. Take SD, while the teams in Little league were having great success, and running the same system as high school, once they got to high school they were no longer playing the smaller schools only, they were playing the Harrisonburgs, TAs, and others

While I agree with most of your analysis, the other factor is having a HS coaching staff that knows who, how and when to utilize the talent that comes through.

I can’t count high enough to give the number of lost opportunities that some local teams have wasted. Talent evaluation is an underrated aspect of this. Just because a kid was the “star” back at 11, doesn’t mean they will or should be toting the rock in HS. That kind of entitlement has cost at least one local school continued success. You have to earn it and I will say that you and I both know that at least two of the area schools care about as much about booster contributions as actual effort/talent. I will let you guess which two.

To get on board with Longtime, it’s time to move on to Winter sports so get out the round balls and singlets. Wishing 3diculous luck cause that is fun basketball to watch when they are going in. And of course #RollPride

 

[Bama1985]

Shows how long it's been since I have been that far in Greenville. Family lives in their school zone, and of course been to sports places, but that's about it.

@trutiger16 if you want any other suggestions, maybe listen to the Riverheads folks. Only place I can think of within 10 miles or so is Peck's BBQ or a few places in Draft. Always stop at Whites Truck Stop in Fairfield

whites is now petro, and is in raphine, they have iron skillet now, papa johns, subway, and popeyes, gunz I guess u don't go past Greenville either, its all good, we all need to meet up at Giovanni,s, name the time tru tiger, and maybe XCROSS will come out of hibernation

 

[honestjohn60]

Have a really good Italian restaurant in downtown Greenville now called Giovannis. Really good food.

They have a Big Red Steak Sandwich that is great, ask for extra sauce. no kidding.

 

[trutiger16]

whites is now petro, and is in raphine, they have iron skillet now, papa johns, subway, and popeyes, gunz I guess u don't go past Greenville either, its all good, we all need to meet up at Giovanni,s, name the time tru tiger, and maybe XCROSS will come out of hibernation

Sounds good I would like to meet you all just set it up that would make a awesome group picture

 

[Gunz41]

whites is now petro, and is in raphine, they have iron skillet now, papa johns, subway, and popeyes, gunz I guess u don't go past Greenville either, its all good, we all need to meet up at Giovanni,s, name the time tru tiger, and maybe XCROSS will come out of hibernation

It wasn't that long ago I was at Iron Skillet, just accidentally said Fairfield

 

[Gunz41]

While I agree with most of your analysis, the other factor is having a HS coaching staff that knows who, how and when to utilize the talent that comes through.

I can’t count high enough to give the number of lost opportunities that some local teams have wasted. Talent evaluation is an underrated aspect of this. Just because a kid was the “star” back at 11, doesn’t mean they will or should be toting the rock in HS. That kind of entitlement has cost at least one local school continued success. You have to earn it and I will say that you and I both know that at least two of the area schools care about as much about booster contributions as actual effort/talent. I will let you guess which two.

To get on board with Longtime, it’s time to move on to Winter sports so get out the round balls and singlets. Wishing 3diculous luck cause that is fun basketball to watch when they are going in. And of course #RollPride

O I completely agree with that. Just stating that just because an area has had success in little league doesn't always equate to success in high school, for a variety of factors

 

[Bama1985]

It wasn't that long ago I was at Iron Skillet, just accidentally said Fairfield

lots of complaints about iron skillet

 

[Xcross]

Peck's BBQ is a sure thing. Hope we can all meet and eat . Love to meet you guys that ride the pine and hug the fence . They have handicap parking and no steps . Good for us OLD people ! Food is not bad either .

 

[Fairlawncat]

whites is now petro, and is in raphine, they have iron skillet now, papa johns, subway, and popeyes, gunz I guess u don't go past Greenville either, its all good, we all need to meet up at Giovanni,s, name the time tru tiger, and maybe XCROSS will come out of hibernation

IRON SKILLET! Don't pass go, don't collect any money, go straight to the Skillet. That's one of the better breakfast spreads for the money in the country.

 

[Fairlawncat]

lots of complaints about iron skillet

Do those complainers get to drive vehicles or vote? Complaining about the Skillet is like complaining about Bacon. You simply can't unless something is deeply wrong

 

[Gunz41]

lots of complaints about iron skillet

Not the best food I have ever had, but not the worst

 

[Bama1985]

Do those complainers get to drive vehicles or vote? Complaining about the Skillet is like complaining about Bacon. You simply can't unless something is deeply wrong

both, most of the complaining, coming from truck drivers, food is too high and not enough food for your money

 

[mmqp]

Not the best food I have ever had, but not the worst

Yep, the food is pretty average.

What stands out for me was this...

A couple of months back, and without getting into the details, we went in there to eat and everything was fine until I received a very dreaded phone call about one of my family members being sick. Our waitress could tell our demeanor had completely changed and saw how distraught my wife was. This waitress asked us if all was okay and I explained to her what had just happened. Anyway, this young lady sat down and prayed with both me and my wife. I'll always hold a place in my heart for her and the Iron Skillet now.

 

[Gunz41]

Yep, the food is pretty average.

What stands out for me was this...

A couple of months back, and without getting into the details, we went in there to eat and everything was fine until I received a very dreaded phone call about one of my family members being sick. Our waitress could tell our demeanor had completely changed and saw how distraught my wife was. This waitress asked us if all was okay and I explained to her what had just happened. Anyway, this young lady sat down and prayed with both me and my wife. I'll always hold a place in my heart for her and the Iron Skillet now.

Prayers for you and your family

 

[mmqp]

Prayers for you and your family

I wanted to thank you for the kind words Gunz. I stepped away for a couple of weeks from this post because I didnt want to thread jack it, just wanted to share my experience with that restaurant.

Trutiger, I hope you were able to make it over to that side of the state and made it safely up and down good ol 81!!

Fwiw, our family issue turned out to be okay, thank the Lord. I dont make it over to BV very often, but I do check in on my Mom quite a bit and by the end of September/early October she was slurring her words very badly on the phone and was staying sick non-stop. My sisters had taken her to the JOKE of an ER in Lexington and of course they do a damn thing, except charge an exhorbitant price. So my wife and I went in to town in mid-October and I kind of had to strong arm them a bit over there, did a CT scan (FINALLY, why not the first time she went??) and they found a large mass on her right kidney. Rushed her to Roanoke and she sat in the ER there for 12 freaking hours.. before they finally said, yep its a tumor and it's probably cancerous. My wife and I had left and were driving back home and had stopped at the Iron Skillet when that news finally came through.. Anyway, Carilion is a JOKE and after some strong arming (and making an out of line nurse cry) I was able to have her moved to Charlottesville. Night and Day. Charlottesville wanted to get the surgery done immediately and right before Thanksgiving they removed her kidney and tumor. Ran some more tests on tissue and lymph nodes and found that the cancer had not spread so all is good for now. Quite a present for our family this season and lots to be thankful for. Prayers sent from all over the world for her as well, from Mexico to Honduras to Colombia to Dubai. Amazing. Truly amazing.

I'd also like to say as a warning, folks if you live in the Roanoke area do everything you can to dodge Carillion if you ever have cancer. This is actually the second bad experience my family has had in regards to cancer as one of my sisters had a tumor removed about ten years ago now and went through the same BS from this bunch. Be prepared to go in with boxing gloves on because they will screw you every which way they can, and if you ever get referred to Dr. Kagey's office, refuse it.

 

[baseball2225]

Franklin peaked at beating Essex this year then returned to its old ways and Surry is really bad at football the last few years.

This change does balance things out some in basketball.

Other than that, no changes will occur in B. The Tri Rivers gets destroyed in all other sports by the Neck and Tidewater.

Are you sure about every sport?