Good win. Glenvar came to play. Graham should have Floyd back for néxt week. Not sure about Sharpe. Should be a great matchup between 3 good teams next week.
Graham vs Glenvar
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Well, I guess you missed the point of the post. First, I said I’d take region B over D top to bottom as it stands this season. End of that thought.
Well, THEN I said, just for fun, let’s do a hypothetical playoff format that matches the same seeds from EACH region to eventually establish one team in each seed (1-8). Was never meant, intended or suggested to be solely a comparison of B and D.
Well, I guess I should have spelled it out in even more detail for ya.
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Glenvar is the best overall offense I think Graham has played due mostly to the QB. He held up pretty well under pressure and accurate. Graham may be the best defense they’ve seen on the other hand. I don’t think they were the best defense we’ve played although they did well. It was a great game bit teams has some miscues. Graham’s offense turned it over too many times. They can’t afford those turnovers next week. Special teams allowed too much yardage on returns I thought but Sharp was out and he’s been making some good plays on special teams. Graham was fortunate to have to ball last & halftime adjustments on defense helped too. Hats off to Glenvar!
Yeah, Glenvar QB was forced to make some miscues and hurried into mistakes. He did make some big plays however, a couple of times when he was under duress. He's a heck of a ball player. Graham showed some character by coming back after being down on 3 occasions. They made some unforced errors and a couple of forced errors due to good defense by Glenvar. Gotta clean some of that up for next week. Glenvar played with a lot of heart.
Glenvar exceeded my expectations against Graham! Congratulations to Graham on the win, and to Glenvar for putting up a valiant fight!
Heck of a game by Graham to overcome thise key starters missing and turnovers. With the injuries Graham had, I thought Glenvar would win. Graham hasn't turned over much this year and did so today and still overcome them.
One turnover on the kick return , Fix was already down but officials said fumble. I agree too many turnovers & can’t afford those next week. Graham showed a lot of grit coming back the way they did each time they got down. I hope they can win next week: 🤞
Congrats to Graham on the game winning drive at the end. Good luck next week.
I think not having #65 & having to do some shifting where a couple aren’t playing their normal positions could be part of it. Luckily, defense made some key adjustments at half.
Holding Glenvar to 3 points in that 2nd half was huge.
Definitely, keeping that QB from completing any more TD passes was very huge. Pass coverage definitely stepped it up.
I think Glenvar’s O-line is better than Lebanon which helps. Glenvar’s QB is as good if not slightly better in my opinion. Both accurate, both can perform under pressure. Although, I think Reese made less mistakes under pressure than the Glenvar QB. It could simply be a toss up because I’m just a bleacher coach and don’t know that much 😂.
Neither have major offers which is incredible to think about … and a travesty by college coaches . They are not gonna get worse by having better players around them - their accuracy is college ready now ! I’d prob take him over Reece bc of the ability to run .
Seems like Reese’s ability to run may give a slight edge and Glenvar has better OL and weapons but both kids are helluva QBs
GMen wuz hungry. Glanvwr kid admitted after game he wuznt serius bout ringz and was per preshured to vote on it only takes 1 2NotB serius bout it. Gmen got cheated up good 2day. 2 late Glenville hitz and bad spot had refs trying to cheet Gmen. Glanver hit hard dog. Got2 giv it 2em. Those Boyz could play an much respect. Refs nex weak can't b tryin 2cheatus agin
I’ve been waiting four hours for this post 😂.
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Glanvwr also had em Johnny Elways out thar in a football uniform with differint name. Glanvwr fan told me at halftime time ole boy at QB is 25 years old dog! Ain't fair having grown men out thar. That boy ain't in Hi School. I saw him at halftime with wive and 2 kidz
You confuzon Glenvar wid a skool in the Mountain Empire Distikt.
A lot of talk about Dawyot for his QB ability and rightfully so but as a punter dude has a cannon for a leg.
Injuries, turnovers and missed opportunities often decide these state semi and finals games. Graham had the injury thing going against them, but whoever was at Defensive Tackle for the kid who was hurt looked scary to me as well and it looked like Graham was rotating two of them. I think Graham not having the Floyd kid was felt in the secondary and that hurt Graham some in coverage.
Graham and Glenvar had equal missed opportunities and costly turnovers were about the same to me. Graham's physicality did show in this game from about 8 minutes in the 4th to the final. Glenvar knew they were running on that last drive and simply couldn't stop it. Even with GMen penalties on that last clock killing drive, Graham st that point had taken over the line of scrimmage.
Graham and Glenvar had equal missed opportunities and costly turnovers were about the same to me. Graham's physicality did show in this game from about 8 minutes in the 4th to the final. Glenvar knew they were running on that last drive and simply couldn't stop it. Even with GMen penalties on that last clock killing drive, Graham st that point had taken over the line of scrimmage.
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He’s a phenomenal basketball player as well. And he’s only a junior, plenty of time to get some offers.
Basically a poor man’s Landen Clark. I kid. I know those are fighting words for Glenvar fans.
He's solid and he throws it as good as Landen did or at the least, it's very close. The divider was Landen's feet. Dawyot is a pretty good runner also, but Landen had track speed and literally a track star and explosive acceleration. For what its worth, Landen was once a Glenvar kid so there's that.
Maybe that explains Omari Hill not getting more offers. That young man is definitely deserving of more attention in my opinion.
He is a bit undersized for D1 at the position he plays. But, he will land somewhere and play on Saturdays, if it gets him an education, that's the main thing.
Yeah, missing Floyd hurt Graham worse then I thought it would. I figured Graham had enough talent to make up for him not being there. They still had the athleticism, but the nose for the ball that Floyd has wasn't there and it burned them a few times. I think Blake Graham played a whale of a game for Graham and his performance shouldn't be overlooked as well. Floyd should be back next week, not sure about Sharpe. Graham did a good job of replacing Williamson with a committee of guys. Should be another great game next week. Strasburg runs an offense that Graham hasn't seen, it'll be interesting to see how they adjust on defense for that.
Yep much like Graham hasn't seen that T formation with crazy OL splits/spacing, Strasburg has litte experience with Grahams offensive sets with 3 and 4 wide split out. This is why crossbracketing would be so cool to see these contrasts in more than one game.
I made the voyage to Bluefield for this game. I thought difference in game was Graham had good pass rush on Glenvar in 2nd half. He had very little time to throw.
I do think Graham’s defensive coaches are good at making adjustments at halftime.
Yeah I knew Floyd’s absence was going to hurt worse than Williamson’s. I was going to say that earlier. Graham has Hill, Dowell, Jones, Hendricks, Kennard on the d line but a senior leader like Floyd was going to be hard to replace. Especially a DB when you’re playing a team that can pass. His replacement did a good enough job and even had an interception.
On a side note, I would love to see Graham and Glenvar get a series going or something in the future. Two quality programs. Same goes for Radford and Graham. Graham could drop GW and Galax and pick up a couple of tough 2A teams. Nothing against GW or Galax.
Yeah I’ve been saying they need to drop GW and Galax. No need to be playing single a teams anymore. I’ve been saying for a while they should call up Lord Botty or get Abingdon or Princeton back on the schedule or maybe Christiansburg.
The Rams played at least one team who does use Offensive sets with 3-4 wideouts.
They played King William earlier in the season and KW runs 3 and 4 wide. KW actually lead in that game 17-6, before Strasburg won 28-17. But that was over 2 months ago and they've seem to have flipped a switch since that one point loss to Clarke.
They need to attend camps. If they did, you would hear of offers. Statically pick camps and offers will follow, providing talent and grades..Also, attending camps must start asap...at minimum as a 9th grader.
College coaches put a lot of stock in finding players at camps because they can see the effort on the players part to be noticed and talent..one stop shop. Otherwise, you can hope they hear of you and attend a game. Get to the right camps!
The Hill kid reminds me of a monster I had the unfortunate privilege of playing against 2 times in 1989 for Radford when we played Graham and in 1988 also. Graham had a kid named Tony Youngs. The best High School lineman I played against in my time at Radford for 4 years. Young or Youngs (can't remember exact name) was 2 or 3 inches short of playing major D1 College Football and Bigboy Sunday Football. He was that good.
The Hill kid from Graham is similar. Crazy strength, always great leverage, and cat-like hands and feet. But unfortunately 2 to 3 inches shy of Major D1 football like Youngs. He's basically been unblockable in the times I've seen Graham and I watched Graham vs King William when Hill was a freshman and as incredible as King William was, they even had a hard time blocking Grahams Hill who was just a freshmen.
The Hill kid from Graham is similar. Crazy strength, always great leverage, and cat-like hands and feet. But unfortunately 2 to 3 inches shy of Major D1 football like Youngs. He's basically been unblockable in the times I've seen Graham and I watched Graham vs King William when Hill was a freshman and as incredible as King William was, they even had a hard time blocking Grahams Hill who was just a freshmen.
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