Idk about you but i much rather meet in Williamsburg for state title if the title game is A vs B
I’m cool with that or putting it in the 804. University of Richmond’s stadium is too top tier not to be holding a big game.
I like it the way it is. Always been a huge fan of the games at Liberty. Wish all 6 was played there.
Liberty is a great venue for VHSL State Football Championships. I plan to come to both of the 3A and 4A state championship games as I now live in Lynchburg
As long as they don’t have the games at 12 and 5pm, I plan on going. That 3 hours between games are rough.
It's actually 11:30 & 5 this year. Last year they allowed you to leave and re-enter. We visited my parents between games. The house is up Candler's Mtn 5 min away.
Good to know they let you re-enter! Praying for a Salem/Varina game this year. We were robbed of one in 2021, hope we get it this year. I know C4 will get the 5pm slot this year.
In my visit to Liberty last year after the long drive from Williamsburg I was extremely disappointed at the next to none food vendors that were available inside the stadium. Only one on the home side with rather lousy food. I didn’t know until after I entered the stadium. The food concession on Fridays at our Wanner Stsdium were 100x better. It holds 3,000+. You need bigger? Great parking,
Hated this at the old U of R stadium. The wait would be even more tragic if the 2nd game was a blowout.
Agreed with the lack of food vendors. Two years ago, I think (and I may be wrong), they had a one food line on each side and the lines were tremendously long. This is something that needs to be improved at Liberty.
Had a similar situation in 2016 with Blacksburg vs Staunton River. Both teams had to travel to W&M
Cool. Tell them to pick you up in 804 on the way.
You just brought back a bad memory 🤣🤣🤣
From 2016-18. Blacksburg was tough. Now they can barely win a game
Difference between building a program and hitting some good talent. Good programs, even on down years athletically, will rarely dip below 5-5. On their up years, the sky is the limit.
I remember that. Also crazy. If the VHSL wants to raise attendance they may need to have games closer to the finalists home towns.
I agree with you on the attendance piece but I feel like if you love your team/high school football, you’ll go anywhere regardless.
I’ll tell you this a lot of Phoebus family and fans simply can’t afford to make the day trip to Lynchburg.
Yeah hopefully yall can get a few businesses to sponsor a charter or two. You’re right, a lot of families can’t afford it. I think $15 for admission is insane.
4 hours from Hampton to da Burg. Everybody don’t work a Monday to Friday… While I agree I gotta side with Phoebus Fan on this one.
Facts. Everybody not as fortunate to make that trip though bro. Salem is blessed to be socioeconomically higher up the ladder than some.
There are more affluent parts, but plenty of the travelers that went to WM came from lower income parts like east bottom, north Salem, etc. Not making a claim on who is the less fortunate community, that’s a match I’m not willing to get into, just trying to show appreciation to the less fortunate in Salem that will make the trip.
I think games should be scheduled four hours apart for State Championship Friday and Saturday (in my perfect World). Have one central site for all six games (while we have six classifications). 12, 4, 8 start times or 11, 3, 7. Same times for both days. One ticket per day. $20 per day. All you can eat football. Come and go as you please.
I know that schools up my way used to charter fan buses to even regional games. You can make deals with charter companies (maybe you can offer them "trade" in terms of a sponsorship). They can be a presenting sponsor (stadium signage, announcer reads, program ad (who does programs anymore though). They can pay for the ad space and on top of that, provide X amount of fan charter busses to road games/playoff games if applicable.
