Big news out of Roanoke County
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Wouldn't it suck to be an AD right now? I guess if I'm reading this right Salem will have to find 2 games to replace Cave Spring and Hidden Valley.
I had heard before now Pulaski wanted any games they could get if we had any cancelations. We might could get Fleming for one and Pulaski for the other? I'm sure the AD had contingency plans in case this happened. I heard this could happen a couple of weeks ago. LB scheduling GW tells me they knew something was happening.
Up here in the north, in 6B specifically, Prince William County has teams now playing only district opponents, meaning the Cedar Run has each team playing another in the district twice. I can see trying to schedule within a school system (PWCS in this case) to avoid another school system suddenly shutting down but why restrict it to just your district? Is this what the SW VA area is doing also?
Most teams are playing district only if they can make that work. In the case I'm talking about Roanoke County has schools in 3 different districts and they have chosen to play only amongst themselves. Which makes it a bit more chaotic for those teams who they would have played within their district to find replacements.
Hanover County ended up only playing Hanover County schools, leaving Henrico, Varina and Highland Springs to defend for themselves. Luckily Henrico County is big enough and the Colonial District teamed up with the Capital District. I wish there was a statewide pool of teams without games to make it easier on the ADs. Hopefully Salem can find an opponent. Instead of GW & Halifax playing twice, I’d like to see a GW/Salem & Pulaski/Halifax game. The pandemic has sucked but if it’s taught us anything, flexibility has to be high on the list.
So are you saying there is the possibility that Salem and Pulaski could play each other twice during the "regular" season?
All of this reshuffling is still better than what I thought we would see: no football.
Pulaski County will open at Patrick Henry, play home against Franklin County, then play at Christiansburg. We will host Blacksburg, host a rematch with Patrick Henry, then close the regular season on the road against Salem.
Well there was a possibility, but it looks like Pulaski has their schedule reworked. I guess if both teams had a cancelation they could still play twice, but for now let's hope for no more issues.
Salem has added Franklin County for March 19th. It will be at Franklin.
What are the rules for attendance in FC, PC and MC? I think the kiddos in Salem get 2 parents each.
More information will be coming out hopefully soon, but expect some updated recommendations from the Governors office in the next day or so. It looks like the recommendation will allow everyone to follow along with what Pulaski County is doing concerning the band and cheerleaders being considered participants and not fans.
I really hope that it works out that way. It will make a lot of peoples lives a lot easier.
If this was a normal season, FC would be one of the best teams in Timesland. Don’t know how all of this affected their program.
The VHSL Executive Committee is meeting today to discuss exactly that. Let's hope they arrive at a decision that considers venue capacity and not set numbers, as well as the decision that band, cheer, dance, etc. do not count against spectators, but some of those groups may not choose to perform given the weather at this time of year. That would be about the best possible outcome, given that we aren't going to see "normal" any time soon, but I hope we at least get a figure based on venue capacity.