I don't know who the joker is that's calling the plays for GW. But he should be run out of the the press box and even better out of Wytheville. I mean look what he did at rural retreat. Beamer was under pressure all night and yet he kept throwing the ball. A third grader could have called a better game. Galax was the better team no doubt. But from what I seen they better hope that the people's kid stays healthy because without him they are not the same team. And if they run up against a team that has a defence that can stop the run they will be in trouble because they can't pass.
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It was all peoples breaking two or three tackles than going the distance, but like you said without him they would not be close to the same.
Lol. The "play caller"? Are u serious? The offense wasn't clicking tonight for sure. I will be the first to say, but the defense the maroons came out with was no match for galax. Let's be serious for a min here. Peoples ran the ball well. Would have been better in the stat book if not for the penalties. Wytheville looked good in the first but not so hot come the 2nd half!!! If you think about it gw forced two fumbles and galax had 2 tds called back in the first half alone! Who knows maybe they were trying to pad the punters stats in the second half??? Prob could have got a few more pints off if that clock wasn't rolling so fast. Just saying...not sure if gw was really in this one since the 8 min mark in the first?!?!?!
You are missing my point. It's up to who ever is in the box to get the play down to the field. And to get the right play called. You don't sat there and call for a pass when the other team is shooting the gaps on ever play. You only get 25 seconds to get the play off. Well the player bringing the play in can't level the sideline with 10 to 15 seconds left on the play clock. If puts everything in a hurry up mold. And that falls on coaching.
ABSOLUTELY CORRECT SIR!!!! YOU'VE GOT (AND I'M GONNA YELL THIS) TWEENNTTY-FIIIVVVEEE SECONDS..... TWENTY-FIVE!!!!
I fully understand ur point. The guy in the box must be responsible for the loss. I think I get it...seems like rule applies both ways. 25 seconds isnt the deciding factor in this one!!! Think how much ground Peoples would have traveled if he ran for 25 seconds with nobody able to catch up to him?!?!
That jet sweep is not working this year. GW doesn't have the speed. Good job by galax. GW got beat in every part of the game and out coach.
You are right GW dose not have the speed. Like I said Galax was and is the better team. AND YES THEY WERE OUT COACHED ON BOTH SIDES OF THE BALL FIELD
Peoples is very good, but #14 and 20 gashed the GW defense also.I could run behind that line that Dixon coaches.Hell! Reed Skeens would have had 300 yards if he had a Galax line in front of him.
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We are out coached every weekon both sides of the ball. And no matter how much talent we have he will always blow it. Now by no mean is that what happened last night we got THUMPED. That means out played, coached and anything else that you can be out done in while on a football field.
But what I mean by he will always blow it is last 2 years GW team had the most talented team in 1A. That is without question we had so much more than enough to march to Salem and make the other team feel bad. But nope 2015 RH comes to town and straight up makes him look like he is trying to coach Futball (soccer reference ) And then last year we head to Sussex and should've been up by 3 tds in the 1st Q but he thinks the only play that can be ran is QB dive. But for us GW fans let's just hope his time is up and he can no longer waste talent. Basically he is a 15 year old who has never driven a car and was handed the keys to a Lamborghini.
All due respect Blaster, I came and watched the Radford game in 2015 and GW was only marginally better than them and not better than Galax. I won't argue with you whether RH was or wasn't more talented in 2015. Talent is not the only factor in winning in this team sport.
You as much as anyone should understand that the team dynamic is the key. The biggest influence on that is coaching, as you accurately describe. While saying that I don't subscribe to the notion that GW has horrible coaching. I promise I have been witness to it. There is a certain team that plays locally that has tons of talent and they win until Varsity, then they are cellar dwellers.
So for GW to compete with and beat most of the teams you play tells me they are at least coached well. Not being able to beat a better coached team doesn't mean that your coaches are horrible. May mean that as much as you are attached to players you coached, there are some on other teams out there that are better.
You as much as anyone should understand that the team dynamic is the key. The biggest influence on that is coaching, as you accurately describe. While saying that I don't subscribe to the notion that GW has horrible coaching. I promise I have been witness to it. There is a certain team that plays locally that has tons of talent and they win until Varsity, then they are cellar dwellers.
So for GW to compete with and beat most of the teams you play tells me they are at least coached well. Not being able to beat a better coached team doesn't mean that your coaches are horrible. May mean that as much as you are attached to players you coached, there are some on other teams out there that are better.
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You did not have the most talented team in 1A last year or the year before. I saw the game at Sussex and was not impressed with your talent. You couldnt run inside, and you sure didnt have the speed advantage to get outside, and your qb had no time to throw as evidenced by multiple sacks and tackles for loss. What I saw was a team that thought they could win by just showing up and looking pretty. Sussex out hustled and was more physical. Just because you coached the kids in youth ball and think they are the best at everything does not mean its true. You seem to think that just because a team is big and physical and well dressed and well funded and looks unbeatable that they should be unbeatable. It dont work like that. The kids have to execute. One day you will realize there is intelligent life outside of the GW bubble. Sure GW has a storied history and good athletes, but you do them no justice by constantly coming on here and putting them on a pedestal. Isnt the qbs dad the AD? I would think he would replace a coach very quickly if he thought he was not capable of coaching his sons team to a title.
This team is no where close to the team last year, they ran off their best players and replaced them with average WRs, with an average QB...guess what? and twobyfour that is best I have heard it said, everybody put them as the football gods, remember when they were #1 team in 1A and I threw my little fit, stirring up...it goes deeper than the coach he is just a puppet.
Lamborghini? Not so much!!! the team that gw has this year is a shell of what that have been in the past IMO. the current players do lack some of the traits that have made them a winning program. Speed is down, strength is ok, but heart is definitely lacking. I don't agree or disagree with your feelings about the coach, but at the same time it must be a difficult task to coach at gw or we would all be doing it. Who is the back up qb this year? Just asking...beamers is doing a decent job, I was just wondering. Seems risky to have had him out there all night when they were getting crushed the was they were. Gonna need him to be healthy to keep the wheel turning if u ask me.
Oh lord no I don't mean this year's team lol. I meant the last 2 years teams have been the Lamborghini lol. This team is more of a civic with a shot of nos haha
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My post wasn't about this team being the best or even that talented. I meant the last 2 years he wasted so much talent. I've seen 2 reply now thinking it was about this year. I promise is not this team is ok but the season will end in this region.
My coaching alot of those kids had nothing to do with my belief that they were the most talented. It had to with the fact that they destroyed 99% of anything put in front of them. And the 2 games they lost they were out coached BADLY! Yes the kids did think they could scare teams into submission just off of looks alone. But every single GW team in history has had the same attitude. And majority of the time it works. I've wore those colors and have literally seen kids quit before the game because they didn't want to play. No we all now anything can happen on any given night but when you're 15-17 and everyone you talk to hypes a team like they belong in the NFL sometimes you fall for it.
If you'll notice 99% of the when GW gets beat it is because the other team doesn't fear us. When we can get into the opponents head it is over we work off of making teams either hate us or fear us. Emotion gets you beat and I know many will say that's not how we played. Different era's fellas and completely different game. Yeah the points count for the same amount and the positions are the same but the rest is alien.
But I will never move from my post of GW has has the most talented team in 1A the last 2 years. This season not so much...
We all know the most talented team doesn't always win and that's fine. But we had so much more than anyone else but we couldn't make Galax fear us and we couldn't make Sussex fear us so we lost. Happens at the very least once a year at GW. Always has always will.
lol I was thinking civic too but didn't want to sound hasty!
They are my team and I'll never pick against them no matter what. But I call em like I see em we have the ability to do good things this year. But we can't make anything click when the opponent is a good team. So sadly we are a civic with a little shot of nos. At least we haven't fell to Pinto levels yet haha.
2015 team was very talented but 2016 was good too but one of those teams should have been in salem Imo. I haven't gave up on them yet and I hope the team haven't either but the look on some those players after the game look like they are close to doing that.
Blaster, I usually defend you in this but put the kool-aid down. You didn't have the most talented team in 15 or 16. You had a very very good team and one that you certainly should be proud of but the two teams that put you out those two years were better. Your coach didn't lose either of those. And if it wasn't for a phenomenal effort by a back I can't remember, you wouldn't have escaped the Radford game in 15. You scored to win with under 40 some odd seconds.
Now that we have established this, it is not about entitlement in football. No school is entitled to be considered very good. Gotta prove it on the field.
Lots of respect for GW and I still think that entrance that I witnessed with the flag and Led Zeppelin is one of the better ones around. You don't have to convince a pollster to vote your team in, they will either earn it or they won't, period.
Finally let me state that I think it's great you support your team regardless. Every team needs that, even the coaches.
FAN, short for fanatic.
#RollPride
Now that we have established this, it is not about entitlement in football. No school is entitled to be considered very good. Gotta prove it on the field.
Lots of respect for GW and I still think that entrance that I witnessed with the flag and Led Zeppelin is one of the better ones around. You don't have to convince a pollster to vote your team in, they will either earn it or they won't, period.
Finally let me state that I think it's great you support your team regardless. Every team needs that, even the coaches.
FAN, short for fanatic.
#RollPride
There is a BIG difference in talented and best, and that doesn't have to be on coaches. It's hard not to say that Michael Vick wasn't the best athlete on the field in any game. He also wasn't the most talented qb out there, best athlete, not most talented, and certainly not the best. Tom Brady certainly not very athletic, not the most talented, but the best.
Skill position is usually looked at as the "talent". But those big uglies are talented in their own way, and they certainly aren't the best athletes. So just because a ol is big and can move, doesn't make him the most talented. It may mean he is a better ATHLETE than others, but not necessarily more talented
Skill position is usually looked at as the "talent". But those big uglies are talented in their own way, and they certainly aren't the best athletes. So just because a ol is big and can move, doesn't make him the most talented. It may mean he is a better ATHLETE than others, but not necessarily more talented
Often a team that is better coached, will beat a team with better talent. Put coach Dixon at a lot of the other schools and try to imagine, are you trying? How many rings would he have. Hell, put him a Carroll and they would be good. They should start a fund drive, BRING DIXON TO CARROLL and we will win. LoL!!!!
Sir with all due respect your team was not physical at Sussex last year , I thought your coaches did very well, Sussex made more plays and laid the hammer on Gw
Oh I don't deny that one bit Sussex came and gave us all we wanted and more. And we played like small children. But anyone who saw that team last year will also tell you that we didn't play even a quarter of how well we did in 99% of our games. The 2 times we lost last year we just didn't show up. And on those 2 nights our opponents were simply the better team. Now for our coaching I will disagree and now alot of folks around here see what I've been saying for 3 years now. He was on the hot seat last year with so many parents and we had alot of extremely talented and good athletes choose not to play either for us or at all for the sole reason that he is the coach. Guys almost all of you hate when I say this but I swear it's true most of these kids and parents don't like this dude. Some do of course but I haven't heard but like 3 of his own players say anything good about him. Weather they say it to his face or not that's on them but I've been told by so many that they can't stand the man. Now I will say as just another person on the street he is a hell of a guy. But he isn't meant for GW at the Head coach position.
Man as much as alot think I'm just some crazy a hole and yes at times that is 100% accurate haha. I've got to stand by my belief that those 2 teams were the most talented. Yes we got beat by better teams all around. But we had more than either one of them. Neither team was half our size or depth yes both had AMAZING athletes no question. But GW was 2 and 3 deep everywhere kids who would've started on any other 1A team in VA sat on the pine at GW. And even more walked the halls because of Coaching. Look at the teams who have beat us the past 2 year. Galax, RH, Sussex what do all of those teams have in common? Masterful Coaches some would say Legends in our state. Now look at the teams we've beat some good some horrible and some really damn good. But not many have had at top level coach imo. And we've smashed them on talent alone. Guys not alot will admit it but he is not wanted nor liked by the very kids he leads... Sorry if I come off as an ass by being the one to out one of our dirty secrets but these kids deserve better than he gives.
Like I said earlier, difference in best, best athlete, and most talented
True I agree but imo alone and mine only I feel that they were all of the above. And I can clearly see why others feel they arent. I can see GWs weak spots I don't normally talk about them but they are there in volume. But this is one where I'm just gonna have to agree to disagree lol.
I have no clue whether they were or weren't. But one thing that's hard for me to believe is every time they were beat it was because they just played bad.
I'll put it the way I read it, and you can disagree and I could very well be wrong. But you said we beat 99% of the ones we played, but when we played bad we lost to these teams with great coaches. Well you should beat teams you are much better than, and it sounds as if that's what you did. But when you played teams you didn't beat, it was because you played terrible. Maybe those teams were better
Gw got beat by better teams!!! Period that's it. Give credit where it's do. That's all in the past. The question now is why are the athletes quitting football to play golf? Just doesn't seem right. It may not be the puppet this time...maybe the puppeteer is the one who's to blame for the program falling apart.
GW got beat by some really good teams. They have the talent but something is missing. RH Sussex and Galax are well good and well coached teams. But the coach could be a puppet like alot of high school football coaches around just not wytheville.
He came from Carroll County under the tutelage of coach Hale. Need I say more?
I have never liked a player "bringing in the play". Coach should signal in play.
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