Yeah no more district football games for the foreseeable future. They'll also scrimmage Prince George and Tabb. They'll be a young team overall this year, but still talented.
I’m hearing K&Q won’t have a team this year 🥹 I hate it. I’m hopeful that KW can join the NN District soon!
I haven't heard for sure about King and Queen, but it wouldn't surprise me. They were senior heavy last year and in a school with only 150 kids, you're always going to have issues fielding a team. I was there for a couple of years as an assistant and even during a good year we only had about 25 kids.
To the kids who want to play that msy not be able to, it definitely matters
Scott is my guy also....we played together in high school. I was a year ahead of him...not a better human being on planet Earth.... #BET
THAT WAS A TWO PART STATEMENT.
Which is really unfortunate. I still think that teams need to play a full district schedule or go independent. And if a school chooses to go independent, then they should join other schools in an open division. But that's a topic for a different and a different board.
Not mad at this idea. There are some situations, if even a handful, I think both district and team benefited from not playing the full schedule. But yes in most cases I still like a full district.
Pat Kane and Scott More, two Hermitage legends! Glad they finally won a championship together.
Me too. I don't know Kane very well but I do know the man is extremely knowledgeable about the game of football. As for Coach Moore, he is one of the classiest guys you will ever meet. Kane was the OC on the state championship team, then stepped away for a couple of years, but now he's in his first year of AD.
KW was in a NO WIN situation in the Tidewater District. No one was capable of competing with them...beating the wheels off of them was just worthless. Every team in the District belly ached about playing them.
You know what I mean....you're an outlier. I also happen to not like losing the game with WP....it's a long rivalry, with a lot of history.
Yes. Every team complained about playing them. Hence, why every team now refuses to play them.
I wouldn't necessarily claim that EVERYONE in WP feels that way. WP has a history rich in athletic successes. The older crowd is proud of it and they would never duck the opportunity to play KW.
I read online today on the Rappahannock Times website that it is official that King and Queen will not field a team this fall. That came from the KQ AD. Really stinks for the kids who want to play, especially rising seniors. However, it's been an issue for 30 plus years. When you have a school with only around 150 kids total, it's hard to field teams on a consistent basis. Even during their successful 4 year run that ended a couple of years ago, they only had between 20-25 kids. The struggle of small school football.
I get what you’re saying but they really could field a team every year with 25-28 guys (without a JV program), consistently, and actually be pretty good. The football staff have a lot of stuff working against them and the kids know that they can skip practices or half tail things and get away with it cause it’s not like they have 3 guys behind them to replace them. The culture is really graduate and go find a job after high school in K&Q County, which I’m not knocking, but goes to my point that football and sports in general aren’t even on the hierarchy of priorities for most. Coach Darity is a good man, I’d hate for K&Q to lose him.
I know firsthand as I lived in K&Q most of my life and have coached football there as an assistant. Sports definitely aren't a top priority for many of the kids there. What really hurts in my opinion is the county, while being very small in numbers, is 70 plus miles long. For many kids, it's an hour just to get to school. Now, they do have activity buses that drop kids off at a couple of different locations after practice, but even with that, they have trouble getting kids to come out for not only football, but many other sports as well.
