Salem humbled but never broken.
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No mention from you of any of the things we debated all year? Well it seems they were mentioned in the Roanoke Times, by the sportswriter's, Salem's Quarterback, and Salem's Coaches. In case you missed them here are some of the Quotes.
No need for Salem's football team to have stayed up and watched the Geminid meteor shower Saturday night.
The Spartans saw plenty of stars in the VHSL Group 4A football championship game. Lake Taylor combined offensive talent with a stifling defense Saturday
as the Titans won their second state title in three years and completed
an undefeated season with a 41-16 victory over Salem at Liberty
University.
"There was a significant difference," Salem quarterback Austin Coulling
said. "They were fast. They were pretty physical up front."
"On Lake Taylor's next possession, the
6-foot-1, 215-pound Johnson kept the ball on a veer option to his left,
cut back up the middle and outran everyone for a 71-yard TD that put the
Titans up 34-10 and proved to be the back-breaker.
"When
I made one person miss, and I saw straight daylight, I knew I was going
to score because they're not that fast," Johnson said."
"Lake Taylor registered seven tackles for losses and three quarterback sacks. The Titans never ran out of gas"
"Welcome to the new reality. It is a harsh
one, and it affects a lot of teams - William Fleming, Pulaski County,
Jefferson Forest, Bassett, Carroll County, and, as we saw on Saturday,
even mighty Salem.
It's harder than ever for a Timesland team to win a VHSL Group 4A state football title.
Lake
Taylor hammered that point home here at Liberty University on Saturday,
running away from the best Salem team in years for a 41-16 victory in
the 4A championship game."
"Salem had seen nothing like this in the
walk-up to the title game. Coach Stephen Magenbauer steered Salem to
back-to-back state championships in 2004 and '05, and he didn't see
anything like this Lake Taylor team then, either."Not
even close," Magenbauer said. "Not even close. I think we probably took
our best team in here this year, too. They're just a different caliber."
"But here's the crazy thing: Lake Taylor never
really wanted to be here. Well, the coach didn't anyway. When the VHSL
changed its classification system last year, requiring teams to compete
for titles against others with similar enrollment, Titans coach Hank
Sawyer didn't like it. He wanted to stay in 5A and continue to battle
the heavyweights in the Tidewater area.
State pride is one thing; for Sawyer, 757 pride is even more valuable.
Until
last year, the Titans could do that. Teams were permitted to play up in
classification, and several Tidewater and Richmond-area programs did.
The 4A teams in this area never encountered Phoebus, Heritage-Newport
News, Dinwiddie or Lake Taylor - programs that churn out Division I
recruits every year.
Now that they do? Good luck raising that trophy." NOTE: This is the Roanoke Times commenting, not me.
During the season , you commented that you watched film of Heritage, Phoebus, Lake Taylor playing each other, and that they didn't look that fast. I tried to tell you that judging the speed of teams with "Like Speed" , by viewing film would prove deceptive. You used Monticello's running back as an example of "Speed" that the teams you favor had faced. I tried to tell you that the issue wasn't "Individual Speed" ,but "Team Speed" You viewed Lake Taylor, Heritage, Phoebus as Undisciplined, and not physical enough. See anything that might change your mind this past weekend??
This Salem team is a good football team, and they would fare well in the South. They are about the equivalent of Kings Fork.
But according to you, and the Roanoke Times, this is the best Salem team in years. Playing teams you seem to revere like Louisa, Powhatan, Charlottesville, and Monticello, is just not adequate preparation for facing the Dinwiddies, Lake Taylors, Heritages and Phoebus', who churn out teams like this Lake Taylor team that humbled Salem , year end , year out. It's really a different brand of football.
No mention from you of any of the things we debated all year? Well it seems they were mentioned in the Roanoke Times, by the sportswriter's, Salem's Quarterback, and Salem's Coaches. In case you missed them here are some of the Quotes.
No need for Salem's football team to have stayed up and watched the Geminid meteor shower Saturday night.
The Spartans saw plenty of stars in the VHSL Group 4A football championship game. Lake Taylor combined offensive talent with a stifling defense Saturday
as the Titans won their second state title in three years and completed
an undefeated season with a 41-16 victory over Salem at Liberty
University.
"There was a significant difference," Salem quarterback Austin Coulling
said. "They were fast. They were pretty physical up front."
"On Lake Taylor's next possession, the
6-foot-1, 215-pound Johnson kept the ball on a veer option to his left,
cut back up the middle and outran everyone for a 71-yard TD that put the
Titans up 34-10 and proved to be the back-breaker.
"When
I made one person miss, and I saw straight daylight, I knew I was going
to score because they're not that fast," Johnson said."
"Lake Taylor registered seven tackles for losses and three quarterback sacks. The Titans never ran out of gas"
"Welcome to the new reality. It is a harsh
one, and it affects a lot of teams - William Fleming, Pulaski County,
Jefferson Forest, Bassett, Carroll County, and, as we saw on Saturday,
even mighty Salem.
It's harder than ever for a Timesland team to win a VHSL Group 4A state football title.
Lake
Taylor hammered that point home here at Liberty University on Saturday,
running away from the best Salem team in years for a 41-16 victory in
the 4A championship game."
"Salem had seen nothing like this in the
walk-up to the title game. Coach Stephen Magenbauer steered Salem to
back-to-back state championships in 2004 and '05, and he didn't see
anything like this Lake Taylor team then, either."Not
even close," Magenbauer said. "Not even close. I think we probably took
our best team in here this year, too. They're just a different caliber."
"But here's the crazy thing: Lake Taylor never
really wanted to be here. Well, the coach didn't anyway. When the VHSL
changed its classification system last year, requiring teams to compete
for titles against others with similar enrollment, Titans coach Hank
Sawyer didn't like it. He wanted to stay in 5A and continue to battle
the heavyweights in the Tidewater area.
State pride is one thing; for Sawyer, 757 pride is even more valuable.
Until
last year, the Titans could do that. Teams were permitted to play up in
classification, and several Tidewater and Richmond-area programs did.
The 4A teams in this area never encountered Phoebus, Heritage-Newport
News, Dinwiddie or Lake Taylor - programs that churn out Division I
recruits every year.
Now that they do? Good luck raising that trophy." NOTE: This is the Roanoke Times commenting, not me.
During the season , you commented that you watched film of Heritage, Phoebus, Lake Taylor playing each other, and that they didn't look that fast. I tried to tell you that judging the speed of teams with "Like Speed" , by viewing film would prove deceptive. You used Monticello's running back as an example of "Speed" that the teams you favor had faced. I tried to tell you that the issue wasn't "Individual Speed" ,but "Team Speed" You viewed Lake Taylor, Heritage, Phoebus as Undisciplined, and not physical enough. See anything that might change your mind this past weekend??
This Salem team is a good football team, and they would fare well in the South. They are about the equivalent of Kings Fork.
But according to you, and the Roanoke Times, this is the best Salem team in years. Playing teams you seem to revere like Louisa, Powhatan, Charlottesville, and Monticello, is just not adequate preparation for facing the Dinwiddies, Lake Taylors, Heritages and Phoebus', who churn out teams like this Lake Taylor team that humbled Salem , year end , year out. It's really a different brand of football.
