BlueDevil4Life2008

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.   

I’m a Blue Devil fan but I admit. When I read this, I felt totally sorry for the Warrior team “who was very disappointing”.  Well, all the Warrior players who didn’t play to win that is “except Isaiah who played to win”. I’m sure they really all showed up and said “you know I really want to go out there and play like %#*% tonight. How about we all go do that?  But let’s not tell Isaiah. We want him to look better than all of us like his dad wants him to every night.”  
What kind of a coach distinguishes one player over the whole team?  A Central team of course. I have heard that the Hayes kid looks way more like a player than Isaiah ever does at times. Mainly because he is just mentally tougher. When times get tough for Isaiah he will look over at the bench looking for help.  Hayes just fights and plays through the toughness.  If that’s the case I know who to take every second. 
And if the Central team was that disappointing, except Isaiah, maybe they need to just all go sit down and let the prophet TJ McAmis and his son from on high  who sits at his right hand see how he does on the court by himself. I’m pretty sure that wouldn’t be a pretty picture. Unless he is changing water bottles into wine and making the Central crowd drunk (which is a real possibility the way they act), that’s probably the only miracle you would see. 
Heard he has a daughter coming up on the JV that is a pretty good player as well.  What’s next on his bucket list trying to take Robin Dotson’s position as Warriors girls coach after his son graduates so he can tell the paper how bad all the other girls are on her team and how they don’t play with heart and passion like his kid?  
Stay tumed!

 

I’m a Blue Devil fan but I admit. When I read this, I felt totally sorry for the Warrior team “who was very disappointing”.  Well, all the Warrior players who didn’t play to win that is “except Isaiah who played to win”. I’m sure they really all showed up and said “you know I really want to go out there and play like %#*% tonight. How about we all go do that?  But let’s not tell Isaiah. We want him to look better than all of us like his dad wants him to every night.”  
What kind of a coach distinguishes one player over the whole team?  A Central team of course. I have heard that the Hayes kid looks way more like a player than Isaiah ever does at times. Mainly because he is just mentally tougher. When times get tough for Isaiah he will look over at the bench looking for help.  Hayes just fights and plays through the toughness.  If that’s the case I know who to take every second. 
And if the Central team was that disappointing, except Isaiah, maybe they need to just all go sit down and let the prophet TJ McAmis and his son from on high  who sits at his right hand see how he does on the court by himself. I’m pretty sure that wouldn’t be a pretty picture. Unless he is changing water bottles into wine and making the Central crowd drunk (which is a real possibility the way they act), that’s probably the only miracle you would see. 
Heard he has a daughter coming up on the JV that is a pretty good player as well.  What’s next on his bucket list trying to take Robin Dotson’s position as Warriors girls coach after his son graduates so he can tell the paper how bad all the other girls are on her team and how they don’t play with heart and passion like his kid?  
Stay tumed!

 

From what I am hearing from other people not to mention what I have seen so far from the Blue Devils.  Then watching Central in the Arby’s Classic, this is my Mountain 7 District regular season prediction. Right now, I believe this is pretty on point. 
 
Prediction - Final Regular Season Standings 
Wise Central 12-0
Gate City.  8-4 (Central 2, at Union 1, at Lee 1)
Union  8-4 (Central 2, at GC 1, at Lee 1)
Lee.    8-4 (Central 2, at GC 1, at Union 1)
Abingdon.      
Ridgeview    
John Battle  
 
Mountain 7 Tournament  Semifinals 
 1) Wise Central  vs.  4) Union
2) Lee vs  3) Gate City 
 
Mountain 7 District Finals
1) Wise Central vs  3) Gate City
 
Regular Season and Tournament Champions
Wise Central  - 1 seed
2 seed - Gate City
3 seed - Lee
4 seed - Union
 
Southwest District   
1. Graham
2. Virginia High
3. Tazewell
4. Richlands
 
Region D Tournamemt Quarterfinals
1 Wise Central vs 4 Richlands
2 Gate City vs 3 Tazewell
3 Lee vs 2 Virginia High
4 Union vs 1 Graham    
 
Region D Semifinals 
1 Wise Central vs 1 Graham
2 Gate City vs 3 Lee
 
Region D Finals
1 Wise Central vs 2 Gate City
 
Champions
Wise Central
 

As for the M7 being better than the SWD..... Virginia High didn’t tuck their tails and head north to play Richlands, Graham, Tazewell and Marion on longer road trips so their players could take in the culture of far north SW Virginia.  Especially when Battle is like 5 minutes away, Gate City is 30 min away and Abingdon i is 15 min away.  That is the definition of tucking tail and running right there. 

As for the M7 being better than the SWD..... Virginia High didn’t tuck their tails and head north to play Richlands, Graham, Tazewell and Marion on longer road trips so their players could take in the culture of far north SW Virginia.  Especially when Battle is like 5 minutes away, Gate City is 30 min away and Abingdon i is 15 min away.  That is the definition of tucking tail and running right there. 

I couldn’t agree more.  With Coach McAmis Jr on the floor you will have Sr. yelling at his players from the bench along with Jr yelling at his own teammates as well while playing!  Makes it 100% complete!
Should be great games!  Wise has 7 seniors?  GC has Dean, Compton, Sallee, George, Mack and Hensley.  Providing they all stay healthy out of football season, this could be a good group of seniors as well! 
Not to mention role players on bench like Reed, Gose and Starnes!  
Not sure how far this group can go. After this group of seniors graduate, there will be very few tough players coming in behind them from what I’ve seen the last few years from our younger groups.  
The past few groups that have graduated and brought us success had a different type of mindset than these guys coming up now!  We have some Juniors who could be our really last good class of players with a lot of physical toughness and skill but after that?  Going to be some lean years I believe.  We will lose tons of rebounding inside after Reed and Gose leave in 2021!  Going to be very very weak inside!
 

Want to really upset your peoples in Lee County?  Your good ole boys used to have a coach by the name of Jamie Hackney.  He is one of our coaches now here at Gate City.  He used to be the JV boys basketball coach at Lee High and I was told by some of his pals that he did have an interest in taking over the basketball program at Lee High had it been offered to him. They chose not to so he came back to Scott County and became a coach at Gate City and won a state championship with them.  Sad though.  Had he been able to coach some of those talented shooters that Lee High has now and with the "correct" support that he should have had as a coach it is really hard telling what kind of great program Lee High would have right now.
It is really sad.  A county that is so big and so beautiful with so much to offer and yet no one wants to settle there.  No business would be caught dead there. No hospital wants to help anyone there.  No one wants to coach there. No one I say really wants to teach there only because it is probably home for some of them and for others a job and you can make some money.  All because you have some really grumpy old grandpas who cant get out of the 1940s and feel that Bobcats and Bulldogs are two animals that will never be able to co exist at all with each other from Darwin's Order of Natural Selection.
Yet you have Bulldogs and Vikings just over the hilltop at Union winning state championships and region championships and going to all kinds of state tournaments by simply working together.  And furthermore is one of the two sections of Wise County that people from Gate City can actually tolerate.  We wont speak about the other section. 
We like Lee a lot but evidently Lee people who run the county and the schools feel that the universe ends at Powell Mountain and the Virginia state line near Kentucky. They cant get anything right at all in their choices and cant understand still yet why everyone else is winning and they aren't.
Maybe its because they don't understand that outside of Jonesville and Pennington there are other kids in Virginia working for their school and really don't care what town they come from. 
I think it would make a great 30 for 30.
What if I told you there was this county in Virginia that had five high schools.  Two were great football powers.  They came together and for a couple years were really good.  Then the people couldn't figure which town the kids came from was better?  So they fought and they fought and they fought.  They fought to the point that instead of being strong together they acted like five year olds and said, "Hey, lets split our high school back up into two.  That way we can have what we want.  You know. Because we have the greatest athletes in the universe."  And yet they haven't won a thing of significance in 30 years.  Yet the county right across the ridge from them came together and two of those schools just across that ridge probably had a better sports tradition than they ever thought of having.  And they came together and have won consistently ever since.  Backward, I think so.
In terms of tv shows,  Union goes from Dynasty to Empire. Lee High goes from Game of Thrones to Married With Children and those four touchdowns in a single game way back when.  Three cheers for Al Bundy!! 
That's my opinion and I welcome any doubters. 
Thank you and you're welcome.
And to Jamie Hackney hope you like that ring boy!  Shines bright from what I've seen of you coaches!

Want to really upset your peoples in Lee County?  Your good ole boys used to have a coach by the name of Jamie Hackney.  He is one of our coaches now here at Gate City.  He used to be the JV boys basketball coach at Lee High and I was told by some of his pals that he did have an interest in taking over the basketball program at Lee High had it been offered to him. They chose not to so he came back to Scott County and became a coach at Gate City and won a state championship with them.  Sad though.  Had he been able to coach some of those talented shooters that Lee High has now and with the "correct" support that he should have had as a coach it is really hard telling what kind of great program Lee High would have right now.
It is really sad.  A county that is so big and so beautiful with so much to offer and yet no one wants to settle there.  No business would be caught dead there. No hospital wants to help anyone there.  No one wants to coach there. No one I say really wants to teach there only because it is probably home for some of them and for others a job and you can make some money.  All because you have some really grumpy old grandpas who cant get out of the 1940s and feel that Bobcats and Bulldogs are two animals that will never be able to co exist at all with each other from Darwin's Order of Natural Selection.
Yet you have Bulldogs and Vikings just over the hilltop at Union winning state championships and region championships and going to all kinds of state tournaments by simply working together.  And furthermore is one of the two sections of Wise County that people from Gate City can actually tolerate.  We wont speak about the other section. 
We like Lee a lot but evidently Lee people who run the county and the schools feel that the universe ends at Powell Mountain and the Virginia state line near Kentucky. They cant get anything right at all in their choices and cant understand still yet why everyone else is winning and they aren't.
Maybe its because they don't understand that outside of Jonesville and Pennington there are other kids in Virginia working for their school and really don't care what town they come from. 
I think it would make a great 30 for 30.
What if I told you there was this county in Virginia that had five high schools.  Two were great football powers.  They came together and for a couple years were really good.  Then the people couldn't figure which town the kids came from was better?  So they fought and they fought and they fought.  They fought to the point that instead of being strong together they acted like five year olds and said, "Hey, lets split our high school back up into two.  That way we can have what we want.  You know. Because we have the greatest athletes in the universe."  And yet they haven't won a thing of significance in 30 years.  Yet the county right across the ridge from them came together and two of those schools just across that ridge probably had a better sports tradition than they ever thought of having.  And they came together and have won consistently ever since.  Backward, I think so.
In terms of tv shows,  Union goes from Dynasty to Empire. Lee High goes from Game of Thrones to Married With Children and those four touchdowns in a single game way back when.  Three cheers for Al Bundy!! 
That's my opinion and I welcome any doubters. 
Thank you and you're welcome.
And to Jamie Hackney hope you like that ring boy!  Shines bright from what I've seen of you coaches!

Want to really upset your peoples in Lee County?  Your good ole boys used to have a coach by the name of Jamie Hackney.  He is one of our coaches now here at Gate City.  He used to be the JV boys basketball coach at Lee High and I was told by some of his pals that he did have an interest in taking over the basketball program at Lee High had it been offered to him. They chose not to so he came back to Scott County and became a coach at Gate City and won a state championship with them.  Sad though.  Had he been able to coach some of those talented shooters that Lee High has now and with the "correct" support that he should have had as a coach it is really hard telling what kind of great program Lee High would have right now.
It is really sad.  A county that is so big and so beautiful with so much to offer and yet no one wants to settle there.  No business would be caught dead there. No hospital wants to help anyone there.  No one wants to coach there. No one I say really wants to teach there only because it is probably home for some of them and for others a job and you can make some money.  All because you have some really grumpy old grandpas who cant get out of the 1940s and feel that Bobcats and Bulldogs are two animals that will never be able to co exist at all with each other from Darwin's Order of Natural Selection.
Yet you have Bulldogs and Vikings just over the hilltop at Union winning state championships and region championships and going to all kinds of state tournaments by simply working together.  And furthermore is one of the two sections of Wise County that people from Gate City can actually tolerate.  We wont speak about the other section. 
We like Lee a lot but evidently Lee people who run the county and the schools feel that the universe ends at Powell Mountain and the Virginia state line near Kentucky. They cant get anything right at all in their choices and cant understand still yet why everyone else is winning and they aren't.
Maybe its because they don't understand that outside of Jonesville and Pennington there are other kids in Virginia working for their school and really don't care what town they come from. 
I think it would make a great 30 for 30.
What if I told you there was this county in Virginia that had five high schools.  Two were great football powers.  They came together and for a couple years were really good.  Then the people couldn't figure which town the kids came from was better?  So they fought and they fought and they fought.  They fought to the point that instead of being strong together they acted like five year olds and said, "Hey, lets split our high school back up into two.  That way we can have what we want.  You know. Because we have the greatest athletes in the universe."  And yet they haven't won a thing of significance in 30 years.  Yet the county right across the ridge from them came together and two of those schools just across that ridge probably had a better sports tradition than they ever thought of having.  And they came together and have won consistently ever since.  Backward, I think so.
In terms of tv shows,  Union goes from Dynasty to Empire. Lee High goes from Game of Thrones to Married With Children and those four touchdowns in a single game way back when.  Three cheers for Al Bundy!! 
That's my opinion and I welcome any doubters. 
Thank you and you're welcome.
And to Jamie Hackney hope you like that ring boy!  Shines bright from what I've seen of you coaches!

Everyone from Central is never wrong. 
Everyone from Gate City is never right. 
The End. 
 
 
 
 
 

Friday night, "Nothing easy. Put that guy in the mat whatever it takes. I dont care what you do. You give up an easy layup you will never play for me again." 
"Yes sir pops!"
Sunday morning, "And Jesus said, Love thy neighbor as thyself. For the greatest commandment is love." And all the halos come out shining bright. 
I really couldn't live with myself but when it's all about you it makes it a whole lot easier I guess. 
Take another look at TJ on this film. After not one but two of his guys blatantly and obviously shove Mac McClung into the mat, he is fussing to the refs about the clapping. 
 

Friday night, "Nothing easy. Put that guy in the mat whatever it takes. I dont care what you do. You give up an easy layup you will never play for me again." 
"Yes sir pops!"
Sunday morning, "And Jesus said, Love thy neighbor as thyself. For the greatest commandment is love." And all the halos come out shining bright. 
I really couldn't live with myself but when it's all about you it makes it a whole lot easier I guess. 
Take another look at TJ on this film. After not one but two of his guys blatantly and obviously shove Mac McClung into the mat, he is fussing to the refs about the clapping.