Congratulations to former Cave Spring QB for landing with the New York Giants

[mike salem]

Josh Woodrum was picked up by the Giants as an Undrafted Free Agent. Other QB's have found eventual success via this route including Tony Romo, Kurt Warner, and Warren Moon. Good luck to him on finding eventual success in the NFL. It will require a lot of hard work, but he got his foot in the door now we'll see if he has what it takes to make it at this level.

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[shauntclair]

Josh Woodrum was picked up by the Giants as an Undrafted Free Agent. Other QB's have found eventual success via this route including Tony Romo, Kurt Warner, and Warren Moon. Good luck to him on finding eventual success in the NFL. It will require a lot of hard work, but he got his foot in the door now we'll see if he has what it takes to make it at this level.

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Tough road but GL to him.

 

[DanvilleSportsHead]

One of the better QBs I've seen in the area. Him and Michael Cole were a great tandem in high school and Woodrum showed a lot of promise in high school. I have no doubt that he'll be successful at the next level. Real smart kid with a Liberty degree. Congrats to him!

 

[mike salem]

One of the better QBs I've seen in the area. Him and Michael Cole were a great tandem in high school and Woodrum showed a lot of promise in high school. I have no doubt that he'll be successful at the next level. Real smart kid with a Liberty degree. Congrats to him!

I didn't like the combination of Woodrum, Cole, and the RB Wright when they beat Salem 34-6 in 2010 at Bogle Field. That was the most miserable I have ever been at a game. To top it all off Seth Fisher tore his knee that night ending any chance Salem had of being successful that year. They were 5-0 entering the contest and ended the season 7-4. Worst season I ever had to witness, it was painful.

 

[DanvilleSportsHead]

I didn't like the combination of Woodrum, Cole, and the RB Wright when they beat Salem 34-6 in 2010 at Bogle Field. That was the most miserable I have ever been at a game. To top it all off Seth Fisher tore his knee that night ending any chance Salem had of being successful that year. They were 5-0 entering the contest and ended the season 7-4. Worst season I ever had to witness, it was painful.

Oh yes I remember that season Mike! I was at that game and the Magna Vista game in the second round of the playoffs. Salem was still pretty darn good and locked up the second seed behind Christiansburg that year. Marty Bishop filled in quite well for Fisher but the running game just wasn't the same. Wright was a great back too for CS. He literally almost led them to that state championship singlehandedly in 2011. They actually went into Richlands that year and beat the Blue Tornado.

 

[SpartanOfYore]

I didn't like the combination of Woodrum, Cole, and the RB Wright when they beat Salem 34-6 in 2010 at Bogle Field. That was the most miserable I have ever been at a game. To top it all off Seth Fisher tore his knee that night ending any chance Salem had of being successful that year. They were 5-0 entering the contest and ended the season 7-4. Worst season I ever had to witness, it was painful.

That was a looooooong night. In my humble opinion - and it is just my opinion, so any Salem people can hold off on the flames - that 2010 squad was the worst Spartan team since 1982, the pre-Willis White era. That's the only Salem team ever to lose a home playoff game earlier than the regional championship.

That was a pretty good CS team, but as fate would have it, they didn't go as far in the playoffs as their teams in '09 or '11 did.

 

[SpartanOfYore]

Oh yes I remember that season Mike! I was at that game and the Magna Vista game in the second round of the playoffs. Salem was still pretty darn good and locked up the second seed behind Christiansburg that year. Marty Bishop filled in quite well for Fisher but the running game just wasn't the same.

The Salem D, especially the secondary, was pretty suspect that year. MV faced about a dozen third-and-long or fourth-and-longs that game, an Salem didn't stop them on any of them. Had the Spartans gotten just one of those stops, it probably would have been enough. I don't think Salem would have won in the next round, though, so it ultimately didn't make much difference.

 

[DanvilleSportsHead]

The Salem D, especially the secondary, was pretty suspect that year. MV faced about a dozen third-and-long or fourth-and-longs that game, an Salem didn't stop them on any of them. Had the Spartans gotten just one of those stops, it probably would have been enough. I don't think Salem would have won in the next round, though, so it ultimately didn't make much difference.

Christiansburg was definitely the "tough out" team in 2009, 2010 and 2011. I would've loved to have seen them win at least 1 state championship especially Motley and Snell's senior year. At least they won one in basketball.

 

[SpartanOfYore]

Christiansburg was definitely the "tough out" team in 2009, 2010 and 2011. I would've loved to have seen them win at least 1 state championship especially Motley and Snell's senior year. At least they won one in basketball.

Yeah, that was their run of good teams. Salem lost to C'burg at home in the '09 playoffs, in another performance that very charitably could be called "less than inspired." Salem had beaten the Blue Demons about a month earlier in a high-scoring, two OT affair. Then C'burg turned around and shut the Spartans out in the playoffs - in Salem, no less.

That 2009 Salem team is still a mystery to me. They finished the regular season 10-0 and were considered among the state favorites. Then came an off week, as Region IV went to six teams in each division for the first time that year. The real Salem team must have vanished during that off week, because they looked nothing like the same team once they started up again in the playoffs.

Maybe they're still out there somewhere - along with the Spanish IX Legion and Flight 19.

 

[DanvilleSportsHead]

Yeah, that was their run of good teams. Salem lost to C'burg at home in the '09 playoffs, in another performance that very charitably could be called "less than inspired." Salem had beaten the Blue Demons about a month earlier in a high-scoring, two OT affair. Then C'burg turned around and shut the Spartans out in the playoffs - in Salem, no less.

That 2009 Salem team is still a mystery to me. They finished the regular season 10-0 and were considered among the state favorites. Then came an off week, as Region IV went to six teams in each division for the first time that year. The real Salem team must have vanished during that off week, because they looked nothing like the same team once they started up again in the playoffs.

Maybe they're still out there somewhere - along with the Spanish IX Legion and Flight 19.

I was looking forward to that Amherst/Salem game in 09 for the state semi's. I thought that 09 Salem team was real good but like you said, they just had a lackluster game against CBurg that night. I don't think Motley passed the ball not one time that night. Snell, Johnson, and Weller just ran and played the possession game. I think they beat Salem 14-0 that night?

 

[SpartanOfYore]

I was looking forward to that Amherst/Salem game in 09 for the state semi's. I thought that 09 Salem team was real good but like you said, they just had a lackluster game against CBurg that night. I don't think Motley passed the ball not one time that night. Snell, Johnson, and Weller just ran and played the possession game. I think they beat Salem 14-0 that night?

I think it was 13-0. IIRC, the Spartans were still down only 7-0 in the third, but committed a really unintelligent and costly roughing the passer penalty that led to C'burg's second TD. Game over, for all intents and purposes.