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Noticed the brand new Gate City blue “banners” on all the street lights in town.  Well I will say.  It’s a start.   
Something that would be nice and would bring a lot of pride to the community is if instead of just the banner of the school on the street light you have Gate City Blue Devils and then put football state champs 1970 or another sport with a state championship winning year. Put a banner up for every single state championship team on the street lights.  Or do like Kingsport.  Put a street sign up for every single state championship team that’s ever been at the school. 
or use the concrete wall beside the road leading to the school.  
Draw banners of all the state championship winning sports teams on the concrete wall. 
Hey. Maybe even draw a huge mural of Mac McClung there beside it on the wall in a Lakers jersey doing the reverse dunk he had in a game.  
To me any of that stuff is good.  Anything is better than the (and I mean no disrespect) the Jerry Kilgore Attorney General sign. 
That has played itself out a long time ago.  
If Gate City is about pride in the community and making itself better… do something like this that shows pride in the community and gives your young people something to dream about.  God knows they have nothing else to dream about in the town. 
If the town is just about politics and making sure certain individuals have a certain elite status over everyone else in the county then leave the attorney general sign up.  
Let everyone else in the county know how you stand anyway.  
People power over community pride.  
That’s what the place is about anyway. 
Why from this view the town will never grow and develop and be a proud symbol of growth and revolution.  
Too many afraid of change. 
No pride in community and no one wanting to take the initiative to show that pride in the community. 
Just remain the lil old hicktown where things remain the same. And you look at photos 30 years from now and see the same old hicktown you saw 30 years before. 
Don’t even know why I suggested this stuff to begin with.  
These ideas are too radical for the old fogeys in Gate City.  
Long live the kings in power who fear nothing but one thing.  
Change coming to their kingdom. 
 
P.S.  And before some ignorant doofus says “But I thought you weren’t about the individual?   Dude I think a mural of a guy who has worked his tail off to play in a pro sports league where only the best 500 people who play the game of basketball in the world are able to play there is indeed quite the feat.  Considering there’s about 5 billion of us or more on this planet.  And one of those people came from here.  So yeah.  I think that concrete wall would be very deserving of a bunch of sports banner of our state championship teams and McClung reverse dunk mural.  

Noticed the brand new Gate City blue “banners” on all the street lights in town.  Well I will say.  It’s a start.   
Something that would be nice and would bring a lot of pride to the community is if instead of just the banner of the school on the street light you have Gate City Blue Devils and then put football state champs 1970 or another sport with a state championship winning year. Put a banner up for every single state championship team on the street lights.  Or do like Kingsport.  Put a street sign up for every single state championship team that’s ever been at the school. 
or use the concrete wall beside the road leading to the school.  
Draw banners of all the state championship winning sports teams on the concrete wall. 
Hey. Maybe even draw a huge mural of Mac McClung there beside it on the wall in a Lakers jersey doing the reverse dunk he had in a game.  
To me any of that stuff is good.  Anything is better than the (and I mean no disrespect) the Jerry Kilgore Attorney General sign. 
That has played itself out a long time ago.  
If Gate City is about pride in the community and making itself better… do something like this that shows pride in the community and gives your young people something to dream about.  God knows they have nothing else to dream about in the town. 
If the town is just about politics and making sure certain individuals have a certain elite status over everyone else in the county then leave the attorney general sign up.  
Let everyone else in the county know how you stand anyway.  
People power over community pride.  
That’s what the place is about anyway. 
Why from this view the town will never grow and develop and be a proud symbol of growth and revolution.  
Too many afraid of change. 
No pride in community and no one wanting to take the initiative to show that pride in the community. 
Just remain the lil old hicktown where things remain the same. And you look at photos 30 years from now and see the same old hicktown you saw 30 years before. 
Don’t even know why I suggested this stuff to begin with.  
These ideas are too radical for the old fogeys in Gate City.  
Long live the kings in power who fear nothing but one thing.  
Change coming to their kingdom. 
 
P.S.  And before some ignorant doofus says “But I thought you weren’t about the individual?   Dude I think a mural of a guy who has worked his tail off to play in a pro sports league where only the best 500 people who play the game of basketball in the world are able to play there is indeed quite the feat.  Considering there’s about 5 billion of us or more on this planet.  And one of those people came from here.  So yeah.  I think that concrete wall would be very deserving of a bunch of sports banner of our state championship teams and McClung reverse dunk mural.  

If Radford had an open enrollment and a nationally recognized AAU program (say it was called Team New River Valley) and this team had the best players from Carroll County, Pulaski, Blacksburg, Christiansburg. Etc ... ... then a  few of them move into the Radford area to go to school I’m sure Cormany would in all accounts be accused of recruiting the best players to come to Radford because the area and the school is Class 2 size yet they are producing college players every single year with lineups that go 6’3 to 6’8 and the majority of them played for their AAU team.  Maybe that’s what needs to happen.  Since John Marshall has set the precedent. Every school needs to have an open enrollment. Doesn’t matter where you live.  Go to where you want to play ball. Schools out of the Roanoke, Bristol, Lynchburg, Harrisonburg, the beach.... just load up.  Do your best LeBron and make the best super team in the history of Virginia high school sports. John Marshall does it.  What’s good for Richmond is good for the rest of the state. If the VHSL says anything just point east and say, “My dawg Ty White said it be ok.”

If Radford had an open enrollment and a nationally recognized AAU program (say it was called Team New River Valley) and this team had the best players from Carroll County, Pulaski, Blacksburg, Christiansburg. Etc ... ... then a  few of them move into the Radford area to go to school I’m sure Cormany would in all accounts be accused of recruiting the best players to come to Radford because the area and the school is Class 2 size yet they are producing college players every single year with lineups that go 6’3 to 6’8 and the majority of them played for their AAU team.  Maybe that’s what needs to happen.  Since John Marshall has set the precedent. Every school needs to have an open enrollment. Doesn’t matter where you live.  Go to where you want to play ball. Schools out of the Roanoke, Bristol, Lynchburg, Harrisonburg, the beach.... just load up.  Do your best LeBron and make the best super team in the history of Virginia high school sports. John Marshall does it.  What’s good for Richmond is good for the rest of the state. If the VHSL says anything just point east and say, “My dawg Ty White said it be ok.”

June 22, 2019 
 
“I don’t want to see no Nike bags. Only Addidas bags. You guys need to mature real fast and go get your money!   People in this thing.... They got a black card and go anywhere they want and swipe that card and don’t even have to check their balance.”  
 
While in June in the summer in Southwest Virginia, coaches be saying, “Hey we trying to get better.  I know some of y’all have summer jobs but I appreciate you taking the time to spend it with us.  This is where we get better for next year.”  
 
Class 2 basketball at its greatest baby! 

 

https://www.prephoops.com/virginia/player-database/

https://www.maxpreps.com/high-schools/marshall-justices-(richmond,va)/basketball/roster.htm
 
Just look up the players on the roster of John Marshall and then look at the AAU team that they played for in the Prep Hoops site.  The only Class 2 school producing tons of college players (some D1) every single year   
 
There’s a reason   
Ohh   And if someone from Richmond sees this don’t be surprised if you see John Marshalls roster disappear on MaxPreps anytime soon  
 
In the words of Johnny Cash what’s done in the dark will be brought to the light  
Sooner or later God will cut you down   
 

https://www.prephoops.com/virginia/player-database/

https://www.maxpreps.com/high-schools/marshall-justices-(richmond,va)/basketball/roster.htm
 
Just look up the players on the roster of John Marshall and then look at the AAU team that they played for in the Prep Hoops site.  The only Class 2 school producing tons of college players (some D1) every single year   
 
There’s a reason   
Ohh   And if someone from Richmond sees this don’t be surprised if you see John Marshalls roster disappear on MaxPreps anytime soon  
 
In the words of Johnny Cash what’s done in the dark will be brought to the light  
Sooner or later God will cut you down