BigWinners

I do believe the combination will be a very, very good team and will be able to compete with the Gate City's and the like in time. From what I understand, both teams lose most of their best players so next year may be tough. If they had combined last season, they would have been a real threat in 2A. Haysi might have beaten Lee, but I believe Union, GC, and Marion all beat them. They might could have beat Marion at Haysi, but not at Marion. Lee was soo underrated, they were so close to beating Union and GC both.

and SOS does come into play when the playoffs start, you want as many points as possible to get higher seeding and host games.

But they will have to play a lot better talent throughout the regular season, which increases chances for injuries and also can dishearten a team if they lose a couple games to good teams early. I wont try and speak for Guru, but I think the point we are making is that Haysi is not used to having to play 7 teams in a season that are truly capable of beating you, its usually just 2-3 games a year before the playoffs. Haysi was VERY good last year, but they lose a lot. Even last year, if Haysi had to play Gate City, Union, Lee, and Marion, do you believe they would have won the same amount of regular season games? I do not believe so. Even if you are a better team, having to play great teams back to back to back makes it so hard to win all your games.

I assumed the "We're not worthy" was directed at me, and you also insinuated that I made sexist posts, which is completely untrue. Not to mention you have liked every single post in which a poster has talked shit about me. Im not mad, I think its hilarious. Okay, I dont wanna bitch back and forth with you. Truce?

If Union wins three of those games, they are in great shape for the top seed in the C40 tournament I predict we go 2-2, but could easily go 3-1 or 1-3. I think we can finally beat Lebanon (third time is a charm), but I know nothing about Letcher and going to Gate City and winning is going to be a very difficult task. It comes down to Virginia High coming to Union, we beat them once but didnt count in conference because it was a tournament. VHS has the most talent of any C40 team, but they seem to lack discipline and a great coach. If Union goes 0-3 against the conference team, they will have no momentum going forward into the tournament and be in bad shape. At the very least, hopefully we can beat Lebanon and start the tourney with some sort of momentum.

What games are left for your respective basketball teams? Union's remaining schedule: Union at Gate City, Feb. 3rd* (SUPER) Letcher County at Union, Feb. 6th Virginia High at Union, Feb. 10th* Lebanon at Union, Feb. 12th* (SUPER) * denotes conference game. The C40 tournament is February 16th thru the 21st.

Union clinched at least a share of the Mountain District Championship last night with their win at Lee.

Once again, you took the first shot, and get all pissy when I fire back. Why would I be banned? Ive not made obscene posts or took personal shots at anyone, if yall ban me just because Im not in your little clique thats pretty lame.

CW had some success in the late 90s with Justin Hamilton, but I agree with your point. Going from playing Castlewood and all those other BDD/Cumberland teams to playing big time teams like GC, Union, etc.. every year will be a shock to them for the first few years. Haysi was very good last year, but they could not have competed in D2 IMO. GC, Union, Lee, Richlands, all made the playoffs and all had good showings. Even Central played a decent playoff game. Hell, Union was SEVEN turnovers away from defeating the eventual state champion at their place, and GC had a great shot to beat Richlands if the field was not in such bad shape to kill GC's slash running game.

You're right, you're probably not worthy, but maybe some on here are.

I have no problems at all taking grief, as long as these guys can receive as good as they (think) they give.

So I have them going at worst 6-4

Maybe the Clintwood guys with experience playing tough teams can help the Haysi guys get ready to play a real schedule. Does the CW QB return? And does CWs best player, cant remember his name, Dalton maybe, return?

Ask anyone on the old LPD Forum, China Cabinet Guy was always the aggressor and was a moron. But again, I love the fact I have you so wound up just by posting. It was a running joke, he always challenged people to fight. The people would show, and he would never show up. Again, I dunno why you have such a hard on for me. EDIT-Forgot I had already responded, almost made another post. You aren't familiar with the situation obviously. This guy would ALWAYS resort to threats of physical violence, yet when many a poster went to actually confront him because, well if you think I'm an a-hole, you'd think he was Hitler, it would have been hilarious to see his reaction and he would never show up but return posting after a day or two and continue to threaten to beat everyone's ass. The point was that everyone had a run in with China Cabinet Guy, that was my encounter with him. Ive been in one real fight my entire life, in the 7th (IIRC) grade. I have NO doubt that I would get my ass kicked by a big majority of the general population. Im a bigger guy, 6'4, 220 pounds (used to be over 300 until I got blood clots in my lungs and let it go too long and lost a lot of weight. I looked like I had AIDS, I was down to as little as 164 pounds), but I'm a lover, not a fighter. BTW, how can you make smilies on here? HTML verison? :) :P :p or is there another way to do it?

Union went on the road and won some kind of trophy tonight, they controlled the game and was just the better team overall. Union girls win 57-30 Syd McKinney had 31 points, 11 boards, six assists and three blocks.

We all know China Cabinet Guy was from Gate City, and I have not threatened to meet someone out and BEAT THEIR DAMN ASS BY GOD. If you remember him, you remember the time he wanted to fight me and issued a "challenge" to show up at the Park in Big Stone to fight him. I went, to laugh at the guy, he never showed. Trumpet knows, if you guys show a little respect and we discuss issues rationally, I am a good poster. Im pretty sure Bearcat Bob just called beautiful. I am flattered, but I am not enthralled with my image and drown staring at it. I'm not a moron, I know Greek mythology, and I am far from a narcissist, my humor is more self-depreciating but all that's happened so far is that you guys decided to gang up on me and try and make me seem foolish or irrational when I am neither.

With five straight home games in the middle of the season, Ridgeview should have a good shot at a high playoff seed. But Div. 2 is much tougher overall IMO, not as many bad teams make the playoffs like D1. What kind of talent do Haysi/CW return? The team could be loaded if both teams return most of their firepower, both were above average last year, esp. Haysi

What has happened to the Twin Springs program? They used to be dominant in basketball, but they have hit some hard times now. Union took them to the woodshed, just dominated from tip to buzzer

I can understand that reasoning and can't say I disagree. But if I was a senior and football was my main sport (I dont know if its Herron's favorite sport or not), I would have really pleaded for more touches and made it known I was willing to risk the injury. Not if its a career-ending injury situation or one that would hamper his adult life.

You wanna know why the LPD Forum failed? For one, a few key members passed away. Another, the admin of the board had issues in his personal life and was unable to maintain the forum any longer. We've went thru my athletic history, there is no doubt I am not some wannabe athlete. I played every sport until the 10th grade, and quit football my junior season because I am a moron and had issues in my life at that time. I dont take myself too seriously, you guys are the ones taking every post super seriously and trying to create issues when there are none (calling me sexist, comments about my personal life). So who's the poster being too serious and too petty, the one defending himself or the group of posters who seem obsessed with tossing insults abound?

I posted the liberal part because most likely, most of you are right-leaning political wise and I am not sexist, homophobic, racist, or any other negative accusation towards my character. Mock me all you want, but if you ask some of the older LPD Forum posters, they will tell you that I know sports. This is a sports forum, yet all your little group of internet crusaders have talked about is me and my personality. Ask Counts or 1inStripes, I know my sports. Im not trying to be arrogant, I am saying that I am not a sexist, Im a very liberal person who believes women deserve equal rights as men. I posted that I know sports inside out, because I thought that would steer the subject to sports. I likely do know more about random sports facts and the intricacies of a sport, I was pointing out that I would be an asset on this forum. But if you guys are going to continue to be assholes and gang up on me, I will simply peace out and it will truly be your loss.

Because the LPD forum basically ceases to exist, and this is the best place to discuss local sports. And trust me, I know sports. Inside and out. I will be surprised if anyone on here knows more sports trivia, or the intricacies of sport/

No you dont understand. I played regularly, and after quitting the coaches tried effortlessly to get me to come back and continue playing. Its not like I was a benchwarmer following the team around.

That doesnt make a lot of sense. Herron was a dynamic scoring threat every time he touched the ball, yet he only touched the ball a total of 101 times? He should have had 100+ rushes alone. That's crazy to me, not giving your best player the ball. GC likely wins at least two more games and one more playoff game if they had a Herron-based offense

I posted this, but I obviously think the UK basketball team is so loaded and so great that they could beat NE and SEA together.