HE is very good and fun to watch! Not sure he is still not #2 in his own family. His old man was pretty good.
I watched Friday Football on WSET. The stands were way less than half full. Guess the GW football isn't as big a draw as their basketball.
Dunbar went away in 1970. You must be my age. I can remember how big the Glass-GW game was. One big difference I think is these two power houses now play in D-4. They used to play in the Old Triple A. Top division in VA. Now Glass is playing Rustburg. When I was in the 8 th grade, Glass J/V played Rustburg varsity and Glass won. Times have changed.
I think he's talking about Dunbar Middle School.
@mike salem is correct! I wasn’t born until the mid 90s lol.. We played Dunbar in Lynchburg my eighth grade year which would have been in the Fall of 2007. I still remember going down that HUGE hill to play them. The school was absolutely gorgeous, looked like a castle on the hill. We lost 12-6, no scoreboard, nothing to show how much time was left in the game or even what quarter it was. No complaining, a couple of “they cheated us” but what can you expect a bunch of 12 and 13 year olds to say when we’ve been taught since the old Danville Optimist League to hate Glass! It was serious. Of course I don’t mean hate as in being nasty, but to respect the rivalry! We were just happy that we were “next up” to play our rivals, of course Glass moved out of the Western Valley In 09??? Though I don’t remember David Wilson and company playing Glass in 07 or 08? When Glass left for the Seminole... GW didn’t play them yearly. A lot has changed since then with kids in general. Social media was sorta born then but parents were still parents and had at least some control of what we did. We may not have liked the coaches but we listened and respected authority. Lastly, we had some pride about ourselves. Working with kids now (of various socioeconomic backgrounds) I see that we were probably the last of that. My point is, it’s saddening that most kids today doesn’t understand the meaning behind certain things (like the GW/Glass rivalry and of course life in general). Most won’t take time to research or even care cause they’re too caught up in Instagram drama, having a significant other, what rapper is hot or smoking that junk they smoke. That’s a good number of kids in general! This isn’t directed at any particular kids, but I just wonder how many kids that played last night actually knew the history behind GW/Glass?
The video just confirms what has been GW's challenge for the better part of the last 20 years or so. They are extremely weak on defense. The following is not meant to minimize that the Glass performance on offense was solid, not meant to discount the youth playing on D for GW or the impact that changes to rules and practice have had on defensive fundamentals(i.e., to tackle well you have to actually hit with regularity as opposed to thudding or essentially playing two hand touch). Outside of a few individuals over the years GW has not tackled well as a team for a long time, well before the current staff. GW's defensive line is fundamentally unsound. They play with poor technique and leverage, standing straight up, failing to keep the correct arm free, etc.. Just as important, they do not seem to correct/adjust which is the reason that the highlight video is largely the same play, Kendrick breaking contain, rarely touched by the defensive front and then juking and spinning through arm tackles of the back seven for a large gain or a TD. If GW is to have success against good teams and in the playoffs they have to get significantly better and more consistent on defense. The remaining schedule affords them the opportunity to work on defensive fundamentals and develop provided they recognize what true progress is as opposed to getting comfortable in the fool's gold of blowing out overmatched opponents while playing with the same weak fundamentals.
I was referring to Dunbar High School. The high school was made a junior high when integration sent the 9 thru 12 grades to Glass.
The GW/Glass rivalry was more about being in the same conference, district, division, etc. and competing(good or bad) for the same spots. The GW/Glass rivalry was affected/reduced much more by different divisions and different districts than either being good or bad. Competitive imbalance also affects any rivalry which as you mention is the biggest source of the recent differences between Salem and PC. In earlier years both Pulaski(Hicks" teams) and Andrew Lewis were seen as rivals by both GW and Glass but, Salem was not viewed as such until both Glass and GW dropped to Division 4.
