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Bluefields Researcher, great stuff man. Dude, you have got to write a book with the wealth of knowledge and information you have. A book about local and forgotten stories focusing on the Beavers, but throwing in my GMen, and the history of guys like Gainer and his coaching tree, all the Big Creek stuff, even Northfork basketball, the Tazewell/Big Creek Dave Ryder/Jason Whitten connection, etc. If you ever did this, my promise to purchase 500 copies off the top and distribute them. Brother, you have a gift in that brain of yours filled with incredible knowledge that needs to be shared. You probably would need 2 books to share the knowledge drop because I know you got stories upon stories. Think about my post and ponder it BR. You really have a gift dude and that knowledge drop would basically tie the 20th and early 21st century together to where someone 50 years from now could fill in the gap after the year 2000.

Agree 100%. Lateral quickness will be/is a huge issue for him when talking about the NBA level. Even with desire and good coaching to get better defensively, does he have the lateral quickness to cover at the NBA level. One thing he does have to his advantage to compensate is his arm length and ups. He has long arms and 6'2 is more like 6'3 or 6'4 with his wingspan, but he had insane hops which can allow him to play off at least a little bit to anticipate the dribble. It will be interesting to see. I hope he makes it. He's in a good program and I'm sure he knows and understands that much like UVA, same for Texas Tech, if you don't play defense, you don't play, period.

A huge issue I see, is the following. In AA, Oak Glenn is a higher seed than Fairmont. In AAA, Cabell Midland is the number one seed ahead of South Charleston (the 2 seed). That's a problem for WV right there. If it would have worked out where all that was left, for example........... if Fairmont was the number one seed coming in and South Charleston the number one seed coming in, then maybe the issue isn't as big (I don't know). In Single A, St. Mary's, who will be crowned the single A champion was the highest remaining seed and they would have shi* kicked the winner of the other game, which likely would have been Ritchie County. St. Mary's was the far away best team in Single A and at least WV kind of a** backwards got it right in Single A, but in AA and AAA, it's ugly, or like the Giles Hokie said, it's a joke. I can't help but feel bad for teams like Bridgeport and Cabell Midland in AAA or Oak Glenn in AA. Oak Glenn had a bunch of seniors and was just annihilating opponents this year.

Final Score: Fairmont 21, Bluefield 19. Beavers down 21-12 with 4 minutes left and Fairmont with the ball inside the Bluefield 20 yd line and fumbles. Bluefield recovers and goes down the field and scores with about 2 minutes left to make it 21-19. Bluefield didn't recover the onside kick and Fairmont crabbed 2 first downs running the ball forcing the Beavers to use up their timeouts and time expired. Heck of a hard fought comeback by the young and gritty Beavers.

Also, Calpreps had Fairmont by 6 over Bluefield today. 2 weeks ago, it had Oak Glenn by 2 points over Fairmont and this week, it has Fairmont by 1 point over Oak Glenn.

They would be favored over Robert C. Byrd. It would be a pick em with Oak Glenn, which is a school located about as far North in the State of WV as you can go and is actually more North of Pittsburgh (not far from Pittsburgh either-40 miles). Oak Glenn was favored by 13 points tomorrow over Robert C. Byrd according to Calpreps. Nothing official, but Calpreps had it 35-22 in favor of Oak Glenn over Robert C. Byrd. Oak Glenn and Fairmont would be considered a toss up game. Either team/50/50 game. Which is why is really sucks if the policy isn't changed.

All but over. Fairmont up 21-12 with 8 minutes left and has the ball at the Beavers 21 with a first down. Great Season for the Beavers and way to hang in there against a very big and physical football team in Fairmont.

Fairmont gashes the Beavers with 7 straight runs to score and now leads 21-12 with 4:47 left in the third. It sounds like Fairmont just is to dang physical up front.

Hokiebird, they don't have to play. They chose to. Probably a bad choice, but they made it and are sticking with it. It's ain't pretty either.

TOUCHDOWN BEAVERS!!!!!!!! Two point conversion no good. 14-12 Fairmont leads in the early 3rd. Bluefield doing everything to get back in to the this thing.

Yep. Agree. Unless the Governor steps in and changes the policy, this is it.

5 pm Map just released and it's ugly. No games will be played at Charleston. St. Mary's is the Single A State Champion with its win today. South Charleston is the AAA State Champion, and this............Bluefield vs Fairmont game is the State Title Game. The winner is the AA state champion.

Guys, been reading this thread. Perhaps we have some Appalachian Bubble Vision (I'm guilty of that many times). Texas Tech just played for a national title. Their coach and staff is among the BEST in America. They are in the Big 12, but what many of you may not know about Texas Tech is........they have a HUGE Conglomerate. It's one of the largest schools in the country and in the Southwest, trust me, Texas Tech has prowess. The exposure comparing Texas Tech and Georgetown isn't in the same ballpark. The kid wasn't getting the ball enough at Georgetown and it was obvious. Texas Tech is bigger. He plays for a team that is ranked in the top 13 in the country (possibly another final four team as the Red Raiders are very good again (and he's leading them in scoring). The dude made a brilliant choice and of all the schools mentioned, he went to the right one. He also went to the best one with the best basketball program at this very time. Texas Tech is going to be there with Kansas and West Virginia to battle it out for a Big 12 Title and likely the Raiders will be a top 4 seed when all is said and done. The kid made a brilliant choice. The only better choice out of all of those schools mentioned as potential transfer material would have been BYU (homer I am).

Good Times!!!!!!!!

Meanwhile, in the Southern part of the West Va, It's 5 minutes prior to kickoff and listening on my radio to the legendary WKOY in Bluefield, and right on Q, you can hear Bluefield Researcher say in the background, "Here come the Beavers!"""""""

True indeed Hokiebird

UVA, are you licensed in West-by-God? I have a feeling your services are going to be needed because they are about to legally "arm up" in New Cumberland. With Oak Glenn having a senior laden football team and what they feel is their best shot ever to get a ring, those cats are going to go nuts up there.

Wow! That is crazy!!!

Wow, that's a big deal for Oak Glen. I've been researching them some the past few days and it looks like they are actually good enough to win a state title. Not saying they would or will, but from what I've read, looking at their scores, talking to officials who have had them, they are very, very good and good enough to beat any of the 3 remaining teams including Bluefield and Fairmont. If Oak Glen doesn't play in the semi's, the Bluefield and Fairmont winner may have got a gift. CalPreps has Oak Glen by 11 over R.C. Byrd. I know a few people down this way have penciled in Bluefield or Fairmont as the state champs, but I'm telling ya guys, Oak Glen is just as good or better this year than Bluefield or Fairmont.

But those things are going to happen. We knew they would with Covid. I guess we just accept it. The virus hits when it wants to hit. TN and WV have made adjustments on the fly, even if 5 minutes before kickoff. We knew there would be cancellations and things and this is more due to Covid 19, not the people running the state athletics organizations. I applaud them, they have tried to drive on with a season and they have put there foot down to keep the public safe, even if 5 minutes before kickoff. It's not an easy juggling act, but it's just that, it's a juggling act.

Many made an assumption, that when VA cancelled the season in the fall and moved it to spring, then automatically, it will be good to go other than playing in the cold. There were some out there who warned about this governor and clearly made the statement that.........assuming Virginia plays in the spring is a done deal is a dangerous assumption and there is no guarantee. I think that still holds true. I think it's 50/50 that Virginia has a season in the spring. And if that happens, WV all of a sudden looks pretty good and the decision not to transfer out of Virginia in assuming the spring was automatic is going to be chalked up to a year of missed football.

CalPreps has it at Fairmont 34, Bluefield 28. We will see.

Give WV credit. They tried and didn't cancel the season. If you were going to play football in the fall, you were going to have a clusterf. With Covid 19, that was a given. WV has done their best to meet the challenges of an ever changing virus that drops off, comes back, takes a rest, then returns hard, etc. Many fans would choose clusterf over no football at all. WV knew what it was doing. They knew the virus would cause issues and ebbs and flows, and that they would literally, by the week, have to make adjustments. I don't think they've done a bad job. I give em credit for trying. By the way, if you are a Bluefield Beaver, this season isn't a clusterf at all, lol. It's an opportunity for another state title, and the Beavers might just pull it off. I will always choose effort over simply throwing in the towel and just bailing out. Most would probably say that WV really messed this thing up and it wasn't pretty and they kind of failed. OK, that's fine. I still applaud the effort to give a go any day.

I think its solved then. I've read this thread for arguments of 4 and 6. It seems like this discussion everywhere seems to have strong pro's and con's with 4 and 6. Like I wrote earlier, split the difference and go to 5 classes. 5 is easy. No change needed, you don't need a nickle and 1 penny (6 classes) and you don't need 4 pennies (4 classes), you just need a straight up ole nickle, lol. With 5, I still think it's good enough to where the playoffs and state titles are not devalued, and I think if you have 5, a team that was likely going to win a state title with 6 classes will still win it with 5 classes. Now, if you want some real cool stuff that will never happen again unfortunately because of money. Return the state championships back to the local schools. We used to rotate every 2 years when it was like this with the East getting 2 years of field and the West getting 2 years of home field, etc. Lets have those state title games back on the homefield's of Giles, Graham, Union, Richlands, or Rustburg, William Campbell, Riverheads, etc. Wishful thinking here.

UVA Observer, keep in mind that VA has about 4 to 1 schools in amount compared to WV. In Virginia, for every Bluefield Beaver, there are at least 3 others. Just mathematical odds based on the volume of teams in VA compared to WV. So, if one says there are roughly 6, maybe up to 7 or 8 schools in VA's Class 2A equal, small 3A (WV AA), that could play with the top 2 AA schools in WV, this is correct and should be that way based on the number of schools in Virginia. Same for single A in West Virginia. For the best team in WEST VA single A ball, there should be at least 3 or 4 equals to that school in Virginia (for that same size level-approximate classification).