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    Bearcat Bob reacted to Observer in State Finals Updates/Scores   
    Kudos to the Va High kids for not backing down.  Listening to these announcers try to validate what JM is doing is sickening.  They, and the VHSL, should be ashamed of themselves for doing what they're doing.  That wasn't a true 2A championship game that was just played.
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    Bearcat Bob reacted to PackDadx4 in john marshall girls team   
    Hypothetical scenario here…
    Next year RV returns a ton of talent on the girls side. Mind you with all Dickenson County kids. Let’s say they advance to the state championship only to face a glorified AAU all star team for a once in a lifetime opportunity to win a state title. Let’s say they lose by 20-30 to John Marshall. What are we saying to kids that remained loyal to their home school, put in countless hours of work and get beat because of the VHSL allowing this to take place? Even on the boys side VH makes it to the championship only to get whipped. Sure maybe they would’ve lost to the second place team but we will never know because we allowed JM to do what they’re doing. Central may be able to beat JM girls this year but losing the pieces they do I don’t foresee them being able to repeat that even if Central girls brings in the best players in SWVA. D1 talent or being able to draw from 1.1 million isn’t the same as an all district kid in SWVA! No where does it make sense that they’re allowed to compete in 2A. If they repeat it in other sports SWVA 2A teams will be nothing other than sacrificial lambs. Our only hope is to put pressure on our VHSL representatives to make an attempt to address the situation moving forward. 
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    Bearcat Bob reacted to BlueDevil4Life2008 in john marshall girls team   
    It's easy to sit in the seats at the Siegel Center and be an armchair coach and say a coach is a sore loser.   Dig deeper. 
    It's easy for JM fans to sit in their seats and say that Class 2 isn't worth their time because they play so much better basketball than what is played in the rest of the state.   Dig deeper.  They don't want to but they don't care. It's all about winning.  
    You develop your players from your youth league.  Develop your players from your middle school program.  Develop your players from your JV program. Shoot even add a good player or two from a nearby town.  
    Put together the perfect season.  Then go to Richmond and play a team thats been built from Team Loaded AAU.  Division 1 players all around.  Total mismatch.  Beating teams by an average of 60 points. 
    You play them for a state championship and get your behind handed to you.  Four months worth of work for the season.  Years of watching your seniors grow up from little kids to the amazing players they are now.  To watch them get destroyed by a built super team.  
    No chance to win a state championship.  Hard work for years gone.  Beat by 58 points.  And you are going to just say... "Just a better team.  We just aren't good enough to win a state championship."  
     
    If that's your reply.....
    YOU ARE A BETTER MAN THAN ME.  
     
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    Bearcat Bob reacted to Real Sasquatch in State Playoffs Information   
    JM 120
    Clarke Co. 55
     
     
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    Bearcat Bob got a reaction from sixcat in Region 2D Predictions? Boys   
    One axiom I shared with any team I ever coached and more importantly, with my children, is that just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should do it. 
     
    Thanks for the information/conversation…I am heading out to the links!  
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    Bearcat Bob got a reaction from sixcat in Region 1D and 2D Region Tournament Boys Scores and Updates   
    That’s not how it works. The clock operator watches the referee who gives the signal to start the clock. In high school games, there is always a bit of lag due to this. No replay like in college/pros for review. 
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    Bearcat Bob reacted to sixcat in Region 2D Predictions? Boys   
    It sounds somewhat facetious but in reality, whats stopping anyone from doing that?
    Seriously, go read articles and watch YouTube videos of what schools in inner-city Philadelphia were doing that forced Pennsylvania to make drastic changes. It makes what JM is doing seem tame. 
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    Bearcat Bob reacted to BlueDevil4Life2008 in Region 2D Predictions? Boys   
    The problem isn't with John Marshall playing for a state final every year.  It is how they are doing it.  When you bring in players from New York, North Carolina, Georgia, Baltimore that are Division 1 recruits from other prep schools and are ranked in the top of their state to play at a Class 2 public school.  That is where the problem lies.  The coach will say over and over that he and his staff does not recruit kids to come to John Marshall yet when you ask him how kids from these states end up in his program when they are already at top prep schools anyway then he can't give you an answer and all you hear are crickets.   That's the problem with John Marshall.  Besides... that fact that Richmond city has nearly a quarter of a million people inside its city limits at 226,000 and has a Class 3 school in Thomas Jefferson and a Class 2 school in John Marshall is downright laughable. 
    You could add up the population of the top 7 communities in the state quarterfinals and leave John Marshall out and you would be hard pressed for those 7 communities to equal the population of Richmond.   Even with that .. when you have a population of nearly 250000 people and you still have to bring in top talent to your school to play.  That doesn't say a whole lot about Richmond in general.  If you think I am lying about them bringing in talent from other states, do your research and see where their talent came from the past three or four years.  I promise you that the almighty Ty White didn't develop his talent in his own middle school or JV program.  That's a promise.  
    In my opinion, with Virginia passing the NIL and everythng.  Then John Marshall has done went and set the precedent for every team in the state to go ahead and build their own superteam.  And until someone or a few schools in the state do that then nothing will ever change. 
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    Bearcat Bob got a reaction from TheDuke in Region 2D Predictions? Boys   
    There is a helluva difference between what JM is doing and LCA. LCA is a private school and charges tuition for the privilege of going there.  (Im not a fan of LCA or other private schools being allowed in the VHSL either.) JM is a public school offering a private school program for no additional cost.  At a golf tournament last fall in Richmond, an area HS coach advised that some JM players actually attend Richmond Community School; the only time they set foot on JM grounds is game days and maybe practices. JM is culpable for abusing the system. How can the AAU coach also coach the same kids in HS?  I coached HS baseball and was forbidden to coach the same kids in summer tourneys. The VHSL is culpable as well. They are scared of JM and that situation. Somebody might call them racist if they asked questions. 
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    Bearcat Bob got a reaction from FactChecker2022 in Regional Semis Score Updates   
    My post was in response to someone saying that an earlier playoff game not involving Riverheads would decide who represented the East side of the state. It was a reminder that the 7 time state champ would have say in that matter…and now they have had the final say on that. 
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    Bearcat Bob reacted to Liam McPoyle in Region Finals Scores and Updates.   
    If only there was an association of private schools in Virginia for LCA to belong. Oh wait, there actually is...
    https://visaa.org/schools
     
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    Bearcat Bob reacted to V-Cats in Regional Semis Score Updates   
    Anyone with a math degree could've called this one:
    2 > 1 😄
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    Bearcat Bob reacted to Liam McPoyle in Regional Semis Score Updates   
    Riverheads Double Wingers 27,  Clarke Co Single Wingers 13 FINAL
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    Bearcat Bob reacted to SWVAgridiron in Graham vs Virginia High   
    Graham releases a lot of frustration this game.
    G-Men 84-6
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    Bearcat Bob got a reaction from Liam McPoyle in Mount Rushmore of Players for each High School   
    Virginia High School Bearcats—-first 3 were easy, 4th was tough to choose…
    Gene Evers—All American at Tennessee and College HOF
    Beattie Feathers—1st NFL RB to go over 1000 yards in a season
    Darryal Wilson—Tennessee WR, New England Patriots WR; Olympic Track
    Milton Franklin—VT RB, now Bridgewater College Chief of Police  
     
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    Bearcat Bob reacted to goose111874 in Well here is how John Marshall does their business if no one knew already.   
    Buddy Garrett putting that mailbox in a vacant lot has ruined highschool sports
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    Bearcat Bob reacted to BandanaVTDavis4321 in State Championship Score Updates   
    Richmond's education system/public schools are simply put.....not good.  If you are in the city limits of Richmond and you have enough money to send your kid to a private school, you do it.   I'm not talking about the super wealthy either.  I'm talking about middle class familes that have just enough money to barely send their kids to a private school or simply home school them, and even willing to go a little in debt in order to do it.  That's what may of them do, which is why the 5 public schools in Richmond are able to handle the large population size of Richmond.  We are actually seeing this trend across much of the country the past 10 years, and it's gone through the roof the past 5 years.
    Years ago, it would be rare for the rural school like a  "Rocky Gap" having anywhere close to the academic opportunities/outcomes of math/science scores that many of the urban schools would have.  That's completely flipped on its head (for the most part-always exceptions) in the last 10 years.  Your kid is getting a much higher quality education at for example...Bland County, Bluefield, or in Ben Hur at Lee High School compared to a Hampton High or IC Norcom.  Again, always exceptions such as Maggie Walker.  If you are in Richmond and don't have the ability or simply don't choose the private option, you do what you can to get your kid into Maggie Walker as it relates to academics.
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    Bearcat Bob reacted to BlueDevil4Life2008 in A Note To Rick Cormany at Radford, Julius Gallishaw at Virginia High or whichever team makes the 2A Final vs. John Marshall   
    If by chance you have 5 guys who can handle the ball very very well and you get to face John Marshall in the 2A Final,  do us all a favor down here. Call on the spirit of Dean Smith and just go the Carolina 4 Corners and hold the ball on those guys.  
    I'm sure Ty White would be so frustrated at his number one team not being able to score more than 20 to 30 points in the first quarter and how that would look so bad on him and his recruited private school public school team.  If I'm playing that team full of recruited jokers and I have a team that I know can handle the ball,  I'm going to go spread 4 corners and make them work for every single thing they get.  If I get beat heck I get beat.  But you want to have some fun and get all the fans who don't want JM to win on your side and make it a ballgame???  Go do that 4 corners.  The NFHS Network would blow up with people trying to watch this going on.  I can see it now.   
    Final from VCU's Siegel Center
    John Marshall 21
    Radford 6
    I would bow in the utmost respect to any coach that does this.  And I'm sure the point would get across I would hope.  But to me, It would be awesome!
     
    Just my take.  Any others?
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    Bearcat Bob got a reaction from Real Sasquatch in State Quarterfinals scores.   
    Negative on that ghost rider. They only played 8 against Strasburg. Their 8 are awfully good though. 
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    Bearcat Bob reacted to Hokiebird7 in State Championship Score Updates   
    Well you have mentioned it like 1000 times today so maybe it's just you lol
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    Bearcat Bob reacted to Hokiebird7 in State Championship Score Updates   
    Again no credit to KW....my god this team is good.
    Graham may still win but give this team credit instead of saying what graham isn't doing
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    Bearcat Bob reacted to BandanaVTDavis4321 in Question about Liberty Christian...   
    I'll take Liberty versus the University of San Francisco any day and all day.   Liberty is much more than the Falwells.  A Church is much more than one or two bad apples in it.  Personally, I'm not a fan of Falwell, but I think as a University, Liberty produces far more good by a whole lot than it does bad.  
    There are a shi*ton of problems in our country.  Christian Universities and/or schools aren't one of em, and if they are, then they are a lot less of a problem than the shi* we have in our society that is attempting to tear apart a ton of institutions because at their core, they hate God.   As for LCA competing with the public schools, it's a joke and they shouldn't be allowed to do it unless the VHSL makes them compete 2 classes higher than where their numbers are to offset the advantage they have in the ability to literally recruit.
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    Bearcat Bob reacted to Widespread_Panic in hahaha, this is funny   
    In no way am I a Gate City fan but what John Marshall did should make them ineligible to compete in the VHSL. An AAU coach should not be allowed to to lead that and a high school team in my opinion. It creates an unfair advantage by blatantly recruiting players to create a super team. 
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    Bearcat Bob reacted to Deleted Account in Boys VA State semifinal updates...   
    Gate City just reloads on the basketball court.  Though no sane person would predict them to beat John Marshall, making it back to the state championship game after losing legitimate D1 prospects in back-to-back years is astounding.  
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    Bearcat Bob reacted to sixcat in Boys VA State semifinal updates...   
    Along with other inner-city Richmond schools, JM has lost a lot of enrollment in recent years. But they didn’t lose anything on the basketball court. JM will likely win handily. Regardless, Gate City has exceeded most expectations this season. They should be very proud of what this group has accomplished. 
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