JGray

This conversation is about to get good. Lol..

Uh oh!! Looks like the door just opened for my G-Men to get knocked upside the head come February.

Nah. 5-5

Everybody will be playing for District and Regional titles because JM will be right back in the Championship.

I actually love what John Marshall and Coach White are doing. He's getting kids in school whether it through AAU or school ball. Maybe having those kids there with him is a better situation for them. We can only speculate what's going on. If the parents have those kids enrolled there then so be it. This happens here in Charlotte every year. The only difference is down here we have 20 public schools in the city. there are numerous other surrounding public schools as well as charter and private schools. Kids transfer all over the place from year to year.

My G-Men will be down this year because we are back to relying on "FOOTBALL" players to really have a team. Granted our football players are athletic and will make a difference, we just won't have the basketball IQ's that we've had in the past. Young group that may have 4 sophomores in the starting lineup. The middle school group that is coming up may be special.

Hell guys. Everybody will make all district anyway. There will be 20-24 players named to 1st team offense and defense.

Anybody that knows me know that I'm a diehard G-Man but am I wrong is my observation that Va High NEVER shifted their line or linebackers to the strong side when our lead blockers shifted to the side that we were DEFINETYLY running the football. I'm glad they didn't shift and I'm not sure that if would have mattered with the way our guys were blocking but not making an adjustment is just crazy.

North Meck and Myers Park will both be tough games for folks. Myers Park is loaded this year with plenty of size. Elijah Strong 6'8 F, Sir Mohammed 6'5 G, Sadiq White 6'7 G and South Meck transfer Bishop Boswell 6'4 PG all have major D1 offers on the table. Strong is the only senior in this group. North Meck has the #16 ranked recruit in the country for the 2024 class in 5 star Isaiah Evans 6'6 G

It's Billy's son on the team. Brandon has all girls. Walter Kennard's son is also with this group of guys. They will be tough to deal with a a couple years.

I got you. None of this is new to me being that I coach high school ball here in Charlotte. I understand how all of this works as it goes on here in the city every year. Some schools here have a bigger AAU influence that others and some schools have great coaches that have built their programs up over the years so kids tend to gravitate towards those schools. Some schools have MAGNET programs so they can get kids from other parts of the city to attend there schools by getting them into those programs. North Meck, West Charlotte, J. Chambers (Vance), and Ardrey Kell are usually good each year so they get most of the talent as far as public schools go. Of course there are plenty of kids throughout the city being that we have 19 public schools in the city.

How many of the kids from John Marshall basketball team are there that don't live in the school zone?

I just watched the game and the kids at John Marshall can play. Regardless of how the team was set up, you can't take anything away from the kids.

Hell, Just pick 20 1st Team offense and 20 1st Team defense. Same for the 2nd teams and everybody else is honorable mention.

Zay doesn't run track. I'm not sure who they outran but I'm almost positive that it wasn't him.

Congrats to Gate City. They came to Bluefield and just kicked our ass. Bad basketball all around for my G-Men tonight. Football time!!

My G-Men are playing with a lot of intensity tonight. It's been a while since I've seen them play this hard.

Gate City up 51-17 over the Bulldogs at the half.

My G-Men are shooting the 3 ball pretty good tonight. 6 or 7 made in the first half. Hopefully they can keep this up going into next week for Regionals.

Gate City is playing tough right now. Up 18-16 after 1st

I'll take my G-Men by 15 tonight.

For "some" of us older G-MEN, the sound of that horn means only one thing. It's time to work!! Get you ass up and go!! Coach Carlock used to blow his air horn in the locker room when we had 2 minutes to get on the field for practice. You didn't want to be late for stretching lines or anything else for that matter.

My G-Men do need to work on their running game in order to become more balanced. However, they are averaging 35 points per game. The adjustments need to be made on defense. If they are scoring 35 points in a game, they should win with all of the returning starters that they have back on defense. If someone would have said prior to the season that Graham would average 35 points per game for 10 games, most of us would say they would be undefeated after 10. The G-Men have only lost 3 football games in two years. Twice to Bluefield and once to Union. As a Graham fan and alum, I think we need to just let the coaches coach and continue to cheer for our team.

He should get even more carries now. Their starting running back just transferred to Hunter Huss.

I recently spoke to a coach at Graham and was told that the kid from Giles was going to Radford.