To both coaches the battle of the East is good media hype hopefully both teams come out healthy . Winning a game for bragging rights and going undefeated is great but your gold at the beginning of the season is to win a state championship. Not to bring the community together. Bring 2 state championships to the community. If I were a coach I would play my starters for maybe a quarter and a half and pull them out and start focusing on next week. Just my opinion. Both teams have a good game and everyone comes out healthy.On November 3rd it goes down!! @gohshsfootball will take on @VarinaFootball at 7pm on Route 5.
All tickets will be sold online and none will be sold at the gate.
Both teams are 9-0 and the top teams in their classification.
The Springers come in ranked No. 1 in the Richmond Area.
On November 3rd it goes down!! @gohshsfootball will take on @VarinaFootball at 7pm on Route 5.
All tickets will be sold online and none will be sold at the gate.
Both teams are 9-0 and the top teams in their classification.
The Springers come in ranked No. 1 in the Richmond Area.
As a former player in this rivalry I think it would be HIGHLY disrespectful to the community for the coaches not to approach this as if it were a playoff game.
After Varina danced on the New HSHS logo last year,there is NO WAY LJ is gonna call his dogs off. He will show no mercy. If a injury is meant to happen,it can happen anywhere. HSHS WILL play to win!
Just curious. Why would HSHS and Varina not play for the number one seed in their respective class. I realize HSHS may have already clinch the top spot, but really? I guess Dale and Dinwiddie should do the same? Why in the world would Varina and Dinwiddie just hand King George home field advantage. No disrespect, but you are not thinking very logical.
Highland Springs has locked up the number one spot for their region,and quite honestly,no one’s even close. Varina could drop as far as three, and that could put them on the road for two playoff games. It’s really naïve to think they would “roll over”,and play to “stay healthy” for the playoffs. I’m no expert, and I have no inside information on what these coaches will do, but judging by the way LJ has coached all season, I tend to think,he is going to try to score on every play, and I think he’s going to cut them dawgs loose!
This game is no different from the other nine games that both teams played this year. Both teams are going to the playoffs regardless whether they win or lose just want to see everybody go healthy because there is a big prize out there for both teams there are teams out there waiting for y'all to bang up each other and they move in for the kill good luck to both teams and everyone come out healthy. And once again this is not a playoff game
Absolutely not! It WILL be played Thursday night at 7pm. It’s being broadcast on multiple outlets as well. It already sold out. It was officially sold out five hours after tickets went on sale
I think that if either side pulled their starters before or even after halftime just to protect the kids from injury, would be crazy! Unless, one of these team had a HUGE lead! If it is a close game, there is NO WAY that either team would pull starters for this reason.
I think you're discounting the value of home field advantage in the playoffs. HSHS already has secured home field advantage throughout the playoffs but Varina should play all their starters and try to win the game because going on the road to Dinwiddie is going to be a whole lot tougher than playing them at home.
This ain't last year, no Ant Fisher, and Dinwiddie is 4 real this year.
I went hunting one time with some friends of mine and they cut the dogs loose and they we're running a deer and they never came back
I understand go Blue when you played 9 -1 wouldn't get you in the playoffs that's when this game meant something it's not like that anymore it's a regular season game varina will go there way and highland springs will go there way
I think it depends how far and often you are traveling. A few years ago our kids had to travel 4 hours in back to back weekends on regular school buses during the playoffs. It definitely hurt them.
Oh believe me when the new alignment came with 8 team playoffs, the first thing I thought was wow this game just lost a ton of meaning. But even still being removed from that time I can't imagine the players feel differently about the game than we did. And at the end of the day it's still about the players so we can't have such a championship or bust mindset that we miss out on what REALLY make this game special and that's the community rivalries like this one.
I agree! Honestly, it appears to me that HSHS plays better at away games I think they are more distracted at home. Last year HS had 4 losses. All were home games except at Stone Bridge. HS played great in that game, but... in many viewer's eyes, HS was robbed after scoring tds and penalized for end zone (bs) penalties that backed them way back on Xtra points and missed them both. We lost by 2 pts. We could've tied or won that game without SB help by the officials...
