I wholeheartedly agree with your points, however, Pittsylvania County got hit with the hypocritical bug last season where they still allowed the one team that made the playoffs to compete. Two weeks after, they allowed a baseball jamboree with high school teams from all over to play at one of their high schools. Baseball and softball is what the county hangs their hat on. Chatham made the state championship in baseball (won it all in 2019), Tunstall is a state powerhouse in Class 3 , and Dan River is a state contender just about yearly. Of course they were going to let their spring teams go all out.
I've never known them to have that many fans, so they should be ok.
Yeah I feel you for the simple fact that Henrico and Hanover County opponent only schedule actually worked as those teams are basically in the same distict so it didn’t matter. Pittsylvania hurt their own kids and other opponents by their moves though.. I didn’t even mention that they were in person anyway. At the end of the day, I understand the Appomattox fans’ frustration. Imagine being a state contender and having to play Altavista and Nelson twice..
Technically, Pittsylvania County didn't restrict football to in-county only. The Dogwood required a decision on whether Pitt County would play the district. Pitt Co couldn't guarantee they would play the whole district by the Dogwood's deadline. A week after the deadline Pitt County's numbers had improved enough that they could play outside the county but the only schools they could schedule were each other. So they played each other and were ready for the postseason. If anyone remembers, the Dogwood didn't put that requirement for volleyball, XC, and golf, so Pittsylvania County played full district schedules for those sports and allowed everything else to happen afterwards. Not the hypocrisy that people are making it out to be.
They were in-person with masks required, as health experts recommended, and knew it was near impossible to wear masks while playing sports. We're so football-centric on this board that we're forgetting the decision by the local health director just came a week after the Dogwood's football required deadline.
I feel you, but what about Tunstall? They aren’t in the Dogwood. GW had to schedule Botty at the last minute.
I think Pitt Co leadership just put Tunstall with the other schools since the other three were stuck playing each other. I never heard about an ultimatum from the Piedmont towards Tunstall but I'm thinking it was understood Tunstall would do what the other three had to do.
NC wore masks all winter and half the spring season as did some localities in NoVA. Sounds like a bunch of excuses (not by you, but the county). My take (as well as some other people in the Piedmont community) is Pittsylvania put the other sports on the back burner. You and I both know that volleyball, softball and baseball are king in the county and that’s keeping conjecture out of the equation. You definitely have more facts than I have and I appreciate you explaining things to me.
I agree totally with this an had several talks with the school board about this happening before baseball even started cause I knew this was how it was gonna play out !
GW played LB at the last minute in BB too.
Actually, the Halifax/GW basketball game has avg around 1,500 fans in South Boston and a sell out in Danville the past 5-6 years.. GW’s gym holds around 1,200 (that’s being generous) and Halifax’s gym is easily doubled that capacity. I believe when GW played them for the Region D championship in 2020, they had around 1,700 people in Halifax’s gym. Football, yeah you may see 600 fans at GW and Halifax combined but basketball is a different story. The Averett Grant Center holds 2,500 fans, but GW has had some games there where they had to add 300 seats and turn back 400 people.
