With the big name teams usually dominating these message boards, lets look at a former standout program that has completely fallen. King & Queen were State Champions in the early 90's and then fell to their mediocre seasons for several years. It was sad to hear that they folded their program mid season this year and moved all sophomores to JV to finish. They have scheduled Essex JV to play this Saturday just to have a homecoming football game. How many more smaller schools are experiencing these same problems where they have fewer students to play, and simple injuries and or grades could end their season? Colonial Beach JV is in a similar situations where they have had to cancel games do to these problems already this season.
King & Queen Tigers Future?
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They have a youth program but no jv but there is no talk about the program folding
It's is brutally hard road for schools that have enrollments under 250 kids. I would like to see these schools try 8 man football as an alternative. There was a special in espn E60 on 8 man ball in Texas and it looked like a great alternative. But before that happens this schools will all fold their JV teams and just play varsity schedules
I was talking to a fellow that was raised in Texas, and he said 8 man ball is big out there. They have so many small hamlets and towns, spread out over God's Creation, it's about the only thing that will work.
I hope it will catch on here and give the kids a chance to experience football, that may otherwise miss out.
It's not just the small schools having numbers problems. 3a Colonial Heights hasn't been able to field a JV team for a couple of years.
I don't know if that will ever come to fruition. There would need to be a demand for an 8 man league and unfortunately under probably 10 schools that could benefit from it wouldn't be enough. Small schools usually are year to year with their JV squads. Usually waiting until mid august and sometimes later to finally pull the plug on a JV team.
DP, dos CH have a middle school program? just wondering why a 3A is having trouble fielding a JV team. I know a lot of 1A schools have 8th graders playing JV to field a team.
On the other end, schools in NoVa have almost too many kids coming out in August fielding Varsity, JV, and Freshman teams with 50-60 kids on the sideline for each squad.
DP, dos CH have a middle school program? just wondering why a 3A is having trouble fielding a JV team. I know a lot of 1A schools have 8th graders playing JV to field a team.
On the other end, schools in NoVa have almost too many kids coming out in August fielding Varsity, JV, and Freshman teams with 50-60 kids on the sideline for each squad.
I hope they look at this as a viable option rather than the programs folding. I know St. Anne’s-Belfield has a couple of 8 man games on their schedule due to low numbers.
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The numbers are out there, they just don't play. Kids have become one sport athletes. Other kids are just soft and lazy. Video games, phones and a thousand other things to do to occupy their time. Some won't play because if they can't be the star of the team, they quit. You also have the concussion issue. A lot of parents steer their kids away from football to other sports. Like I said, the numbers are there, they just don't play. It is a different world to grow up in nowadays.
As far as K & Q is concerned, that program has always had trouble except for the one stretch where the won the state. The geography of the county does not help them. Those kids are just tired of losing. I wish them all the luck and hope someone can turn that program around. Mathews seems to be headed down that path and Charles City too. Things go in cycles though and hopefully a new crop of football kids comes along. The areas also have youth programs near them. I fear some kids are finding out football is not their sport and not coming out when they get to high school.
HP, I think Stubbie summed up part of the problem for CH. They have been losing at the varsity level so long, that it deterred an entire generation from playing football. They are way behind the eight ball, football wise over there. I don't know if they were able to field a Middle School team this year, but if they did it probably had marginal participation.
CH has got the varsity coach they need in Buzz Edwards. He is what is needed to change the culture and build a program all the way down to the rec league level. But, I don't know if that community has the stomach to support him long enough for the results to show.
CH has got the varsity coach they need in Buzz Edwards. He is what is needed to change the culture and build a program all the way down to the rec league level. But, I don't know if that community has the stomach to support him long enough for the results to show.
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