Anybody else see this about Grundy?

**pvfan** · December 18th, 2007, 04:05 PM

Where they asked to move to the LPD in 09. John Battle is also asking to be moved to Region C. Both are pretty crazy requests imo, why should Grundy play in the LPD when they have a single a district in their own county? I dont understand why JB would be granted a move to region C either, if that happens the whole CMD could just go up in smoke. Lebanon and VA High are as close to Region C as JB is.

I dont see the LPD supporting this to much, thats asking a lot for kids to travel 4 hours on a bus in the middle of the week for a game. In a bus to Grundy is right around 2 hours for most schools in this district (with the exception of Pound and Clintwood). Outside of Football I dont see much attendance of a LPD game in Buchanon County. BDD seems like a much better fit to me, not sure how the Hurley's and Councils of the world would accept it but geographically it makes sense. It would also give the BDD another school that competes in football and would make the district somewhat more competitive in that sport.

**pvfan** · December 18th, 2007, 04:19 PM

Another thing I just thought about, Grundy could go from a AA school to a D1 school. Not sure of their exact enrollment but could they petition on the same basis that CW and others have?

I just looked it up they have right around 500 students, a pretty set D2 school.

**Slobber Knocker** · December 18th, 2007, 05:00 PM

Just an opinion. They have other sports that they could compete with in the LPD like wrestling, girls basketball. I would want to move to a power district like the LPD instead of the weak BDD. Haysi and Honaker...that's it. Oops sorry, is it Twin Valley? They are supposed to be pretty good in basketball. That is it. I guess they want to do it for competition in other sports.
I heard Haysi had trouble scheduling outside their district and that is why they had to play those weak teams from KY and W.Va and it hurt their power points. Another school in the LPD would mean one less team we would have to worry about scheduling. Clintwood also had trouble with scheduling that is why Volunteer was added.
That is a lot of traveling for Grundy, but I guess they already figured out the logistics.

**pvfan** · December 18th, 2007, 05:03 PM

I'm not really looking to drive from Big Stone to Grundy on a Tuesday night for an LPD game. You'd have to leave school early on a bus to play a conference game.

**NotSoSilentBob** · December 18th, 2007, 05:38 PM

The LPD is big enough as it is. If they did join RD, there would be no reason for them to go anywhere but the BDD.

**pvfan** · December 18th, 2007, 06:12 PM

It's going to be interesting I dont see how the Southwest can stay as it currently is. Grundy, Tazwell, and Grahm can all play A ball, Richlands is not far behind. If those 4 schools drop down Coeburn, Castlewood, and Clintwood will no longer have to petition to play down and Honaker would join D1 as well. Which would lead to the same problem we currently have, Grundy would then become the only D2 school in the BDD. I wish they'd just take the current single A schools and split them down the middle on enrollment for D2 and D1 you'd have a weird setup but at least it would be a more fair system than what we are currently working with.

**Jason** · December 18th, 2007, 06:48 PM

When these schools do drop I would like to see Richlands and Graham or even Tazewell join the CMD. But would these three schools even join Region D? As for John Battle it wouldnt hurt my feelings at all for them to go back to C. Let them go back and give us Graham, Richlands,and Tazewell though Bluefield would be a long road to travel for any sport but football.

**imported_VHSLhelper** · December 18th, 2007, 06:48 PM

remember - the Grundy AD's been around long enuf that Bristol & Marion were District trips, so Wise is no biggie in his mind.

December 18th, 2007, 06:49 PM

"Fair" and the VHSL cannot be used in the same train of thought, without risking burn-out or legal action. [img]/LDPforum/ubbthreads/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif[/img]

**Jason** · December 18th, 2007, 06:51 PM

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: VHSLhelper</div><div class="ubbcode-body">remember - the Grundy AD's been around long enuf that Birstol & Marion were District trips, so Wise is no biggie in his mind. </div></div>

And Marion is back on that district list for them again now. So which would be closer for them? [img]/LDPforum/ubbthreads/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif[/img]