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Our award winning CrunchTIME Live Radio show, airs on Saturdays for two hours, 10am – Noon, on WPLY 101.1 FM/ 660 AM in Roanoke and 107.5 FM/ 1390 AM IN Lynchburg . It’s also available on Facebook Live. You’ll hear Carl York (Crunch founder), Coach Randy Leftwich (Greg Roberts Live), and Jimmy Whitaker (CrunchMVP.com) talk about the week’s matchups, big stories, individual accomplishments, and team games. We talk to coaches and players each show, and listener’s love hearing past interviews with the legendary Crunch coaches sponsored by Haley Toyota.

“Hearing your high school football coach talk about their experiences, in their own voices, will take you back in time to your younger years.”

The CrunchTIME Radio starts in the preseason on the second Saturday in August and runs through the end of Basketball Season in March with the State Championships.

Week 4 CrunchTIME Radio Show Sep 18, 2021
Week 4 CrunchTIME Radio Show Sep 18, 2021 598 396 SWVA High School Sports

Week 4 CrunchTIME Radio Show Sep 18, 2021

CrunchTIME Sept 18 show featured live interview with Floyd County Head Coach Winfred Beale on the US Cellular-Crunch Hotline. The Haley Toyota, Coaching Legend’s of the game, featured former Grundy and longtime Salem Assistant Coach Larry Bradley.
This CrunchTIME show also talked some college football including highlights of some area colleges/universities and where some of our Crunch ‘dudes’ are playing on Saturdays.
Crunch launched our sixth ‘Great 8’ poll, the And the ‘Five things you need to know about High School Football this week’ are a can’t miss.

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Week 3 CrunchTIME Radio Show Sep 11, 2021
Week 3 CrunchTIME Radio Show Sep 11, 2021 598 396 SWVA High School Sports

Week 3 CrunchTIME Radio Show Sep 11, 2021

Welcome to CrunchTIME Radio (WPLY AM/FM), week 5 of Crunch and week 3 of the high school football season. On today’s show our US Cellular-Crunch Hotline guest is Coach Jeff Woody, EC Glass Hilltoppers Head Coach. Coach Woody talks about last night’s 41-31 win over GW Danville, former assistant coaches who are now head coaches, and even some of the great nicknames he gives his players…In the second half of the show we are talking with Chuck Baker of Haley Toyota on our new ‘Baked In’ segment where the Bake gives us some insight of the game he was at the night before. We’ll also be talking some college football.

Our Haley Toyota ‘Legends of the Game’ this week is Coach Shirley Stewart (formerly of William Fleming).

In the second hour, we do our weekly features – Jimmy Whitaker’s ‘Jimmy Thang’ segment, the “5 things you need to know about High School Football this week,” and the Crunch Great 8 Poll. The G8-8 poll has some movement this week. Check it out.

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Week 2 CrunchTIME Radio Show Sep 4, 2021
Week 2 CrunchTIME Radio Show Sep 4, 2021 598 396 SWVA High School Sports

Week 2 CrunchTIME Radio Show Sep 4, 2021

Welcome to CrunchTIME Radio (WPLY AM/FM), week 4 of high school football season. This week is our second 2-hour show, as we get into some college football in the second hour. High school football games started again on Thursday as well as  on the more traditional Friday, as well as Saturday, across the state. On today’s show our US Cellular-Crunch Hotline guest is Coach Kelly Lowe, Narrows Green Wave Head Coach. Coach Lowe talks about last year’s spring season and team and where some of 2020’s stars are now, Virginia Tech, Emory & Henry, etc…In the second half of the show we talk about Virginia Tech’s big win last night in Blacksburg at Lane Stadium over the # 10 ranked North Carolina Tarheels.

Our Haley Toyota ‘Legends of the Game’ this week is Coach Otis Tucker (retired and a former head man at Dunbar HS in Lyncburg, and as an assistant at EC Glass with Coach Bo Henson)..

In the third quarter of the show, we do our weekly features – Jimmy Whitaker’s ‘Jimmy Thang’ segment, the “5 things you need to know about High School Football this week,” and the Crunch Great 8 Poll. There’s a new entry into the Great 8. Check it out.

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Week 1 CrunchTIME Radio Show Aug 28, 2021
Week 1 CrunchTIME Radio Show Aug 28, 2021 598 396 SWVA High School Sports

Week 1 CrunchTIME Radio Show Aug 28, 2021

Welcome to CrunchTIME Radio (WPLY AM/FM), week 3 of high school football season. This week is our first 2-hour show, as we get into some college football in the second hour. We are talking real, live high school football games as the season opened Thursday and Friday across the state. On today’s show we have a first hour and a second hour US Cellular-Crunch Hotline guest is Coach Stephen Alexander, North Cross Head Coach. Coach Alexander talks about last year’s special team and where some of 2020’s stars are now…hint, UVA, Navy….In the second half of the show we have Heritage Coach Brad Bradley on the line. Coach Brad helps us kick off our new, second hour talking about where some of his graduates are now playing on Saturdays. He also talks about this year’s Pioneer club.

Also on today’s show you’ll hear some pre recorded conversations with a couple hardworking coaches – Christiansburg’s Alex Wilkens, and Willam Byrd head coach, Brad Lutz. We follow that up with a highlight of a previous interview with our Haley Toyota ‘Legends of the Game’ this week, Coach Dave Crist (retired and a former head man at Blacksburg HS)…. Let’s just say the field’s named after him, ‘nough said.

Finally, we finish off the show with our weekly features – Jimmy Whitaker’s ‘Jimmy Thang’ segment, the “5 things you need to know about High School Football this week,” and the Crunch Great 8 Poll. Let’s just say the Great 8 Poll “goes a little wanting” as last nights game produced some surprises.

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Preseason CrunchTIME Radio Show Aug 21, 2021
Preseason CrunchTIME Radio Show Aug 21, 2021 598 396 SWVA High School Sports

Preseason CrunchTIME Radio Show Aug 21, 2021

Welcome to CrunchTIME Radio (WPLY AM/FM), week 2 of high school football season. We are a week away from the season’s start. On today’s show our  US Cellular-Crunch Hotline guest is Coach Frank Rocco,  Liberty Christian Academy Head Coach. The head man takled a little about last year’s Bulldog teaam, as well as the number 1 lineman in the country, Senior Zach Rice, as well as others. Also on the show with pre recorded conversatons with three of our area’s new coaches – Auburn’s David Seabaugh, Jefferson Forest’s J.T. Crews, and Cave Spring’s new leader, Nick Leftwich. We follow that up with a highlight of a previous interview with our Haley Toyota ‘Legends of the Game’ this week, Coach Jim Moscaro (fomerly the head man at North Cross in Roanoke).

Finally, we finish off the show with our weekly features – Jimmy Whitaker’s ‘Jimmy Thang’ segment, the “5 things you need to know about High School Football this week,” and the Crunch Great 8 Poll. It’s hard to rate teams without any of them having played a down yet, but we try.

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Preseason CrunchTIME Radio Show Aug 14, 2021
Preseason CrunchTIME Radio Show Aug 14, 2021 598 396 SWVA High School Sports

Preseason CrunchTIME Radio Show Aug 14, 2021

CrunchTIME August 14 show featured live interview with Salem Coach Don Holter on the US Cellular-Crunch Hotline. New Coaches to their respective teams, were also previouslly interviews – Michael Crist, Head Football Coach at Radford, and Burt Torrence, Head Football Coach at Rustburg. The Haley Toyota, Coaching Legend’s of the game, featured former Brookville Coach, Bobby Johnson.
This CrunchTIME show also talked about several of the most sought after football players in SW Va by colleges – Zach Rice of LCA, Gunner Givens of Lord Botetourt, and Carroll County’s Ben Gosnell.
Crunch launched their first ‘Great 8’ preseason poll, the And the ‘Five things you need to know about High School Football this week.’

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Week 10 CrunchTIME Radio
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Week 10 CrunchTIME Radio

Week 10 – 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…

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Week 9 CrunchTIME Radio
Week 9 CrunchTIME Radio 664 444 SWVA High School Sports

Week 9 CrunchTIME Radio

Week 9 – 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…

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Week 8 CrunchTIME Radio
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Week 8 CrunchTIME Radio

Week 8 – 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…

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Week 7 CrunchTIME Radio
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Week 7 CrunchTIME Radio

William Fleming traveled to Liberty University to take on Liberty Christian Academy

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Crunch is a high school sports media company that was established in 1995 by Carl York in Southwest Virginia. Crunch started solely as a FREE high school football print publication that focused on area high school football. The secret to Crunch is the willingness of area coaches, each week, to talk about their teams, players, and the sport that they have dedicated their lives to for the betterment of our young athletes. Today, Crunch has grown to cover 38 high schools in 15 counties in central and Southwestern Virginia with three unique weekly versions in Roanoke, Lynchburg, and the New River Valley.

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