Week 1 – CrunchTIME Radio
In a normal year, each Saturday from the second week of August through the State Championships in the second week of December, we produce a live radio show from 10-11am on WPLY in Roanoke, Virginia. This year, due to the pandemic moving fall football in Virginia to the spring, the CrunchTIME radio show ran Saturdays, 10-11am for ten weeks from February 27th to May 1st, 2021.
If you miss the Crunch, or want to hear it again, log in here each week and listen to Carl, Jimmy, and Coach Randy recap our games of the week, the surprise outcomes, area scores, and commentary about everything between the lines on the field. We interview the players, the coaches, band members, cheerleaders, fans…. anyone is fair game for CrunchTIME. Each week we have an excerpt of an interview from a past legendary high school coach, a current high school coach or a great high school player from year’s past. In the fourth quarter of the hour long show, we run a segment called the ‘Jimmy Thang’ where our on air partner calls out a cool story that he heard at one of the games. We have a ‘Great 8’ debate (poll) highlighting our area’s top eight teams this week, as we see it and why. We’ll tell you “Five things you need to know about Virginia High School Football” this week. And we’ll tease next week’s best games. You may here snippets of local bands, cheerleaders calling our CrunchTIME or listeners calling in, putting their two cents worth in.
The show can also be listened to as a podcast on PodBean. If you want to see us make the show (how the sausage is made) each week, you can also find us on Facebook live.
Below is this week’s February 27, 2021 CrunchTIME Radio show:
