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I have posted on here many times that Scott County will never consolidate it's schools, the county is just too big! 543 square miles big and 70% of the population lives with in 10 miles of Gate City, you could combine GC/TS or GC/ RC but never all 3!

Princeton George Wythe Radford Letcher County Central Gate City Lee High Ridgeview Lebanon Abingdon Tazewell Bluefield Grayson County Patrick Henry Hurley Northwood Chilhowie Twin Springs Rye Cove Honaker Maryland UNC Rutgers Appalachian State Tennessee Pittsburg Cincy Kansas City Indianapolis Dallas Miami G'sOTW: Graham 50 Giles 49

Draw a line on the map from Gate City to Abingdon, everyone near that line and south of it will stay steady or gain a little and everyone north of that line is subject to drastic enrollment declines! Coal mines and the mining industry could keep people for a while but all that is gone and it ain't coming back!

The Mountain 7 could become a district with 3 classes in it within 5 years!

With Gate City, John Battle and Virginia High being the outliers! Bristol is going to add students because of the casino and GC will stay steady because of the Tennessee kids!

The season was rolling along nicely until you posted this garbage! Have you not seen the last 8 seasons of GC Football! As a proud GC alumnus you don't stir the pot, the football gods don't like it! And if you are going to be man or woman enough to make a post like this have the balls to come back and face the music! Don't be a hit and run artist! You could combine the last 10 GC teams together and still not have enough talent to beat Graham, let alone a state title!

Knoxville area is good, but Middle Tennessee high school ball is next level good! Mid State is a recruiting hot bed and will be for many more years to come!

Lord Botetourt Galax Princeton Radford Gate City Science Hill Ridgeview John S. Battle Graham Tazewell Bluefield Hurley Narrows Van, WV Thomas Walker Eastside Honaker Patrick Henry Northwood Colorado Purdue James Madison Mississippi Miami Marshall Tennessee North Carolina West Virginia Alabama Wisconsin Atlanta Cincinnati San Francisco Philadelphia Dallas GOTW: Marion 42

I haven't been to the Park in a few years. I am glad they have improved the place. It is a cozy little stadium! wait till you go to Kermit Tipton Stadium where you sit a good 25-30 yards across a track behind the bench, it feels lie the game is a quarter of a mile away!

No player at Science Hill has ever played anywhere like Bullitt Park. Science Hill is the 5th biggest high school in Tennessee with around 2400 students and rarely play out of state! I would love to see their faces when they get off the bus and go to that little tiny locker room.

Science Hill just went to defending 4A State Champion Anderson County and beat them and play Maryville the week after Union, this game will be important to Science Hill and after they get over the "culture shock" they will play well and Stacy Carter is a great coach! Tennessee high school football in all about wins and losses come playoff time!

Grayson County Christiansburg Bluefield Radford Central Gate City John S. Battle Lee High Ridgeview Union Graham Riverheads Patrick Henry Floyd County Eastside Montcalm, WV Honaker Rye Cove Twin Springs Rural Retreat Tennessee Washington Appalachian State Marshall South Carolina Penn. St Virginia Tech LSU GOTW: Narrows 50

Abingdon, Pulaski County, Carroll County, Central, Gate City, Union, Ridgeview, Marion, Patrick Henry, Craig County, Fort Chiswell, Glenvar, Allegheny, Narrows, Sherman, WV, Cumberland Gap, Castlewood, Rye Cove, Thomas Walker, Holston, Princeton. Navy, Vanderbilt GOTW: Honaker 50, Radford 51, Graham 52

Defense is the key for the Devils! With the modern offenses of the day, you have to be able to get off the field at least a few times a game. I look for ball control out of the Devils, their running backs and QB can control most games, as long as the line holds up even half way decent. Gate City has never had a 5 man o-line that averaged 300lbs across the board and have proved you don't need it to be successful, you don't need maulers on the line just ballers doing their jobs! I think the Devils win but it will be close!

The historical perfect program already exists! 5 state titles and Highway 23 runs a quarter of a mile from campus and invented artificial noise! Intimidating and cozy home stadium and the colors are navy blue and white!

A coach player ratio of 3 to 1!

The Times News Twitter live feed on Friday Nights is the bomb! You can keep up on every game at whatever game you are attending!

Did you all steal the Robbie Norris playbook? LOL when he was Head Coach at Sullivan North and OC at Westridge and last I heard the OC for Rye Cove that was his playbook 7 plays!

Abingdon doesn't have a "t" in it and the VHSL would never approve a three team district. Abingdon is perfectly happy where they are at!

It is an easy trip now! I drove it when it was two lane from Big Stone Gap to Jenkins and coal trucks were everywhere!

I am just picking at the scab a little! LOL! Gate City could be 2-8 or 8-2. Gate City has some stud players coming but all are underclassmen! The Hickman kid who us a sophomore is going to be a star barring something unforeseen!

Don't hold your breathe!

Thanks GMAN for the leadership and Thank you Ryan for keeping the flame burning!

That's a nice home schedule for the Bears! All the tough ones at Bullitt Park!

Chris Fugate has been named Head Coach at Gate City, he has 26 years as an assistant in the program.