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Its going to be an interesting time. I may be really happy that I lost the election now. The BOS cannot enforce anything the School Board does not agree to though. What will be very interesting is seeing how many try to migrate over with North closing. A lot of folks in the TS communities posed this question to me about tuition as they feel like tax money is being wasted on out of state students that only benefits GC. Right now, those TN students bring in a ton of state tax money to the Scott School System. Yes it is costing the county a little extra money but if all of those TN kids left and went back to TN the system would lose just shy of 3 millions state and federal funds.

Besides Joe Biden calling a college student "a lying, dog faced, pony soldier" this is the second dumbest thing I have seen all day...

I agree Hokie101, Dean has improved his game as far as driving to the basket and finishing. He also made a lot of good passes that lead to easy points for GC. Dean is definitely a game changer. Not sure that Central would of won if they would of stayed in the 2-3 zone but I definitely think the game would of been much closer, and I think everybody else agrees with me as well.

Its been coming, idk how anyone could see any other outcome other than this.

Rural location sure hasnt hurt Adkins and it didnt hurt Mitchell.

That may have been the case a decade ago but now with Hudl I think it's rather easy to get noticed.

Is the talent level of a D1 that much more than a D2, maybe the Big D1s are a bit faster but talent is what I am asking? I think most of these kids are so used to playing that the thought of red shirting or sitting a bench for a couple of years is more than they an stand. If they can go to D2 or D3 an see instant playing time plus a education then that is the important thing isn't it.

Not that it's a shock. Scotty would have cruised through the distric with the kids TJ has. Everybody else sees it

I think Graham’s boys beat the M7 #4. Think they also have a great shot at winning game #2. I am wondering how much of the “M7 is very strong this year” is actually due to being much stronger, or to GC not being as strong as in recent years. Of course Central does have their strongest team ever. Think the M7 girls do not lose a regional game.

I have nothing but respect for Giles but how can you say even on a bad year they'd be top 4 in 1A? And I promise they would come close to even competing with the top 5 in 1A this year. RH, Galax, GW, Essex, Sussex, PH, Narrows, Auburn would all beat them. And the 1st 4 I named would hang 50+ on them. Again no disrespect but i gotta disagree on a down giles year = top 4 1A. And if I'm being honest idk if a good giles team could be a good RH team.

We have had our kids in Scott County from Hawkins for years. Let’s look at the numbers. Bloomingdale / Sullivan North to Gate City HS - 12 to 14 minute drive at 7 - 8 mile drive. Bloomingdale / Sullivan North to West Ridge HS - 18 to 20 minute drive at 12 - 14 mile drive. Where would you want your kid driving if it were to start snowing and school let out? People also tend to forget that Gate City is in a unique position unlike many schools in the area... or their own county. All schools around here except DB. The unique situation is that, like DB, Gate City is situated about 5 miles from the state line. People are saying, “Keep your kids on your side. We don’t want them over here with our kids.” Seriously how damn selfish do you have to be? You whine and you cry about how you feel teachers are underpaid, how you need better schools. Then when it looks like someone is proposing an idea of charging students to come to school here you throw parties and give congratulations to everyone because now the school will just belong to the people in the county and not any “outsiders”. Here is the problem that has long plagued the citizens of Scott County and its people for years. A sense of Elitism. A sense of entitlement. Ok. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander. Since you don’t want Tennessee students coming to be educated by your teachers I am going to write the President of Eastman Chemical Company and tell him to fire every single worker from Virginia because they are taking away jobs from all the people who would be great workers in East Tennessee. We don’t need that backwoods hillbilly trash working over here. Go find your own jobs. Don’t want to educate the kids from over here that love coming to be apart of you and your county? Then keep your tails out of our workforce. And don’t say, “Ohhh but there aren’t any jobs!” Well then go be like a search party and go find some. That or we can just charge you to work for us. We can take it out of your pay. Yes sir that sounds like a plan to me! So all you elitists in Scott County. Just go ahead and show us why you guys are so awesome and you don’t need us. You need us probably a little more than some of our kids need you. Just saying. Im a proud Blue Devil but Scott County will never consolidate into one school ever for two reasons. 1). The county is pretty large and it’s geography might better be suited for two high schools instead of one. 2). No one can stand the elitist butthole attitudes that a lot of the people have over there. It’s GC gets this and GC gets that. People at TS and RC if the roles were reversed I’m pretty sure they wouldn’t be saying anything about it if they were the school closest to the state line. But that’s the thing. What you are ignorant about you don’t know about.