Blue Ridge Football Podcast

Among multiple athletic changes at West Wilkes Dwayne Berrier takes over and becomes the 17th Head Coach in Blackhawk Football History.

We talk with new Elkin football coach and Alum Cory Rycroft as he prepares to take over the program he won a state championship with back in 2002.

We talk with Ryan Habich as Watauga completes the perfect season with a seat atop the mountain as the first ever 6A State Champ in NCHSAA history.

Happy Thanksgiving! We talk Watauga Pioneer football this week as they prepare for Sun Valley.

We talk Alleghany Trojan football as they prepare for the 2nd round of the state playoffs.

We talk Blackhawk football as West Wilkes prepares for its first playoff game in a decade.

The final week of the 2025 regular season is here and East Wilkes has a co-confrence championship on its mind as they prepare for Wilkes Central and get ready for playoff football.

We talk with Joel Bryant from highschoolot.com about our area teams as the season is winding towards the playoffs.  

We talk with longtime sports reporter Zach Colburn recaping last weeks Watauga Freedom matchup along with what makes this Watauga team so talented and the NW 6A/7A conference.

We talk Freedom Patriots football this week as Freedom prepares for a huge NW 6A/7A showdown with Watauga.

We head to Millers Creek as the Blackhawks get set for a major MVAC showdown on Friday night with the East Wilkes Cardinals.

We talk with David Jones from the Kicks 103.3 sports team and the Scoreboard radio show as we hit the one month marker into the season.

We talk with East Wilkes head coach Travis Walker as the Cardinals head into the bye week after a hard fought non conference slate.

We talk with Watauga Pioneer head coach Ryan Habich as Watauga prepares for a big showdown with 3A Kingpin Mount Airy.

We talk with Alleghany Trojans head coach Zach Bennett post the Trojans big week 1 win at North Surry and as they prepare for the big rivalry matchup this week with Grayson County VA.

Week 1 kickoff is here and on the eve of the season we talk with David Jones from Scoreboard Radio & Kicks 103.3FM in Lenoir to pre the Caldwell County teams for 2025 and week 1 games.

We talk with Deana King of NC-Preps as we begin week 1 of our high school football season.

We talk with new Alexander Central head coach Chris Marshall about the Cougars 2025 season.

We talk with Joel Bryant from HighSchoolOT to preview our Northwest NC area for 2025.

We welcome Chris Hughes of Carolina Preps back to the podcast to preview the upcoming 2025 season around Northwest North Carolina.

We talk the upcoming 2025 season with Rams head coach Josh Pardue

It's a new era of Falcon football, and we talk with new head coach Logan Holder to preview the 2025 Forbush season.

We preview the upcoming 2025 Ashe County Huskies season with head coach Brian Hampton.

We talk Wilkes Central Eagle football for 2025 with head coach Chuck Cannon.

In Millers Creek as we talk Blackhawk football for 2025 with head coach Scottie Greene.

We talk Elkin football as coach Brad Baker prepares for year two on the job.

We head to Pilot Mountain to talk East Surry football for 2025 with head coach Caleb Pardue.

In Dobson as we talk with new Surry Central head coach Jamie Fortner about the upcoming 2025 season.

We talk 2025 Trojan football with head coach Zach Bennett.

We talk 2025 Freedom Patriots football with coach J.K. Adkins

Take a trip to Boone where we talk with coach Ryan Habich to preview the Pioneers 2025 season.

We kickoff 2025 season previews with a trip to Ronda to talk East Wilkes football with coach Travis Walker.

NCHSAA Realignment has been finalized for the next four years and we talk with Joel Bryant from High School OT to break down whar it means here in Northwestern NC.

Forbush has a new head coach and we sit down to talk the future of Falcon football with Logan Holder.

We talk East Surry football this week with head coach Caleb Pardue as the Cards claimed the Foothills 2A Championship last week over North Surry.

We talk with David Jones from Scoreboard Radio to talk Northwestern 3A/4A football on the edge of week 10 and football in the catawba valley.

We talk with coach Ryan Habich at Watauga as the Pioneers returned to the field with a W last Friday night in their first gambe back since Helene. 

We talk with West Wilkes head coach Scottie Greene after the Blackhawks ended a nearly 18 year long streak to cross county rival Wilkes Central last Friday night.

We talk with Nick Stevens with highschoolot.com to discuss the aftermath of Helene on western NC football.

Talking with Coach J.K. Adkins of the Freedom Patriots as they head into the bye week with a 3-2 record.

We talk with David Jones from The Scoreboard to talk week 5 high school football in the area.

We talk with Travis Walker of East Wilkes this week to talk about the 3-0 start for the boys in Ronda and look ahead to the big matchup with Wilkes Central this week.

Our guest this week is Coach Ryan Habich of the Watauga Pioneers to talk the teams 2-0 start and look ahead to this weeks game against Maiden. We also recap week 2 scores and look ahead to week 3.

We talk with Chris Hughes of carolinapreps.com to recap week 1 and look ahead at the week 2 slate of games. 

On the eve of kickoff we talk with David Jones from the Kicks 103.3 Sports team and one third of the scoreboard radio crew to talk Caldwell County football and week one games in our area.

We talk with new head coach Caleb Pardue of East Surry as he begins his first season in Pilot Mtn. 

We talk with Brian Hampton at Ashe County about the upcoming season for the Huskies. 

We talk with Surry Central head coach Monty Southern previewing the upcoming season for the Golden Eagles.

Taylorsville is our stop today to talk with Butch Carter the head coach at Alexander Central.

We talk with head coach Scottie Greene of the West Wilkes Blackhawks to talk about year 3 of his rebuild in Millers Creek.