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Football
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formal public hearing, and it appears that there was sufficient support for an affirmative Board vote when they next meet on May 14.
As he has during the first two football meetings. Athletic Director Jon Smvthe provided the public with an extensive review of the rationale for Rappahannock football, and some insight into the scope and level of support that the prospect has engendered.
Mr. Smythe opened his presentation with a statement of the importance of academics, and he noted that football would in no way compete with it. He described the interest in football expressed by students when he first came to the high school and said that he was told that that the school was too small to field a team.
He then cited state statistics that show that, though Rappahannock is the twentyninth smallest high school in Virginia (out of nearly 300) only two other smaller schools do not have a football program: Highland with 91 students and Council with 110. He noted too that last year’s Single A football champion, Bath County High School, was only three quarters of Rappahannock’s size.
Mr. Smythe responded to issues of the cost of football, and he presented a budget, developed with the assistance of other local football coaches, that totaled approximately $25,000 for start-up costs. He informed the audience that those costs would be covered with privately raised funds ($31,940 has been raised in the past two months) for the proposed fall 2002 freshman team. He also spoke of the possibility
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