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if y’all want a good laugh go and watch the very last fan that came out of the stands behind v highs bench. He literally drags his wife down the stands just to show how big of a guy he is.

7 pm on friday

Pretty sure Tim hayes said that it is a neutral site that Floyd gets to pick

Pretty sure what the rumor was that they said “non aau recruitment champions”

There were 30 seconds left in warmups? Everytime i watch v high they usually shoot around till the clock hits zero. Anyone know if they can even do anything to mozells dad? I don’t think he made contact with anyone so I think the only think they could say he did was disrupt the peace?

Don’t condone this type of behavior at all but if all the posts saying how badly v high was treated and the racism they face then I’m slightly okay with it. Even from the start of the nfhs broadcast you can hear an announcer being very sarcastic and say “well if they were going to show up you would expect them to be here by now.” Then right before tipoff v high was still shooting and Floyd comes over and tries to bully them back to their bench.

I’ve hard the past couple of years that whoever had to play JM still got a ring?

Is there a picture of woolen stepping out of bounds? I feel like there should be no debate over the three bc even on nfhs you can tell he was on the line. If anyone wants a better view of the scuffle go search up Martin T Pounds on FB and one of his shared posts is a much higher quality video of what happened.

I think gallishaw was going to be done after this season anyways. If he doesn’t get the boot he will end up resigning bc v high could very well be a bottom of the barrel team in the SWD next year

So you haven’t heard anything about any racist comments or a gun being drawn?

Definitely not the best look for the good ole city of Bristol. Maybe they’ll start having a limit for the amount of V High fans allowed into games bc the way they act, surprised it hasn’t happened sooner. @Bcats or @Pioneeryou know anyone who was at the game? I’m already seeing Facebook posts saying how racist all of the people there were and that a gun was drawn on the court. And why were the opposing fans running out there to try and break it up like there wasn’t enough officers and administrators out there and then one of them tries to manhandle mozell, he is probably 130 and won’t do a whole lot of damage but a fan tried to treat him like a rag doll.

Simple fix. Play all the semifinals at the same place. Baseball does it and it creates an amazing atmosphere with both class 1 and 2 semis playing at the same venue and the finals played the next day. Granted there are also probably less basketball locations that can host that big of a crowd compared to baseball.

Anybody know why the VHSL doesn’t cross-bracket in basketball like they do in baseball? If I was Gallishaw or Baker I would be pretty po’d if I had to play the 6th rendition of the rivalry in the state semi’s. Granted yes I know JM will always stay on the other side of the bracket but that doesn’t seem to be fair to all the other schools in the state tourney.

Apparently you do bc woolen definitely had 5 fouls

Yea oftentimes if you put those types of guys on an actual good team they would look like role players. Dishman from Castlewood last year led all swva players with almost 30 ppg and was definitely not the most impressive player in our area. Solid players on bad teams look far better than they actually are

I don’t really believe the whole “coaches is what makes a team great” mentality works when it comes to baseball. When you think of area coaches that are considered that are considered to be great like Doc Adams, Daniels, and Francisco, yes I’m sure they discipline their guys and made sure they are all held accountable and locked in but honestly they were all in the right place at the right time imo. Their studs weren’t studs because of those coaches, they were studs bc from an early age they played travel ball and had numerous lessons to make them the players they were. Now yes obviously there’s numerous of examples of there being tremendous talent on teams and they have zero success but I don’t think a coach has the ability to make a team that much greater in baseball.

I love how the spread of travel ball has worked. First it hit the Bristol area with Abingdon, V High, and Battle which ofc had Lebanon guys making the trek to those teams. Then Wise, Gate City, and Marion. And now I’m sure it’s nestled its way into just about every town in our area

I feel like they are going to have to win games by scores of 2-0 and 1-0. Chandler is their real only threat at the plate. They do have a high caliber arm along with an upper caliber arm but other than those two guys I don’t know exactly how deep their staff is. Having 3 solid arms is enough to make a run so if they can develop another guy within a year or two they will probably be the best non-Abingdon team in our area due to how many senior laden teams there are this year

Yep ofc I seen that video the day after I made the initial post and I haven’t felt like going back and changing it yet. Definitely going to have to go watch him against Abingdon this year.

Feel free to head over to the baseball and softball thread where I’ve put my thoughts and predictions.

Same to be said about baseball

Ah i apologize.

They did not. When you watched it on nfhs the scores were flipped so someone going strictly off that probably thought it was Marion who won

When the refs weren’t calling, as the announcers liked to say, ticky tack stuff according to the way V High fans reacted you’d have thought there guys were getting tackled.

They were trying to defend Lee’s tech for hanging on the rim saying guys were around him but he literally touches the ball again while he is hanging on the rim which is not allowed. And I genuinely hope that both V High and Graham fans are not arrogant enough that every single time Mozell or Ray throw their head or arms back to understand that there shouldn’t be a foul call every single time.