Honorable Mention - Schools that play in a lower class than they should be playing in...you know which ones I'm talking about...<pointing finger>Riverheads, Grayson Co</pointing finger>
#3 - Princeton - There's nothing about them that I've ever liked...always have a chip on their shoulder for no reason at all, they were never good, until maybe this year. And their fans are just awful, finger nails down a chalkboard bad. We'll just leave that one there.
#2 - Radford - I just don't like them, Ugly uniforms, their black and gold looks like baby poop and their garbage stadium that should have been condemned in the 1980s. And then there was that playoff game in the 90s...I think there was some illegitimacy to that win...they knew every play that Graham was running.
And, I'm sorry if this pisses off a few people on this board...
#1 - Gate City - Hated them from the earliest days that I can remember. Their holdbacks, the kids that came over from TN, their train horn, the fact they don't care what side of the stadium they sit on. On top of that, they always seemed to beat Graham when I was a kid, the hate was real. My uncle played on the team that lost 52-0 and 70-14 in the early 70s, I think he helped fuel my hatred for GC. Fortunately, my years in high school, we took 3 of 4...I'll sill can see Eddie Hall picking off a screen pass and sprinting 40+ yards to the endzone my freshman year. But I digress, I just don't like them.
Blake Graham and Marquel Ray are the go to guys for Graham, in my opinion. Ray is the leader on the floor, he dictates the offensive play, very good ball handler and decision maker, good defender with good hands, causes turnovers.. Blake can score and is very scrappy and plays good defense, can make steals and block shots. Fix contributes quite a bit for a freshman, but he along with G. Palmer (another freshman) and a few others all contribute about the same, good group of players that rotate in and out without any noticeable drop off.
To be honest, they had a great game plan last night. They took it right at Hairston and got a couple of fouls on him early so he couldn't be aggressive. Bluefield kept firing up threes, Graham kept getting easy bucket in close. Not sure Bluefield was ready to go up against a team that had as many good athletes as they have. Best high school game I've watched in a while.
Graham is at Bluefield tonight in the old high school gym. I don't think it has the capacity to hold the crowd to show up. I hear when they get to 1000, they are going to turn folks away. Should be interesting to see how Graham stacks up. Bluefield always fields a good basketball team and this year is no exception. Still seems like Graham isn't in basketball shape yet, from what I've watched. They play Bluefield again in a couple weeks, that might be a better indicator.
What school(s) do you absoloutely hate, can't stand them, hate so much you hope they lose every game??? Name up to 3...it could be a school your team played every year, just once, or even never. You can give your reasons why or not.
Unbelievable, Princeton pulled it off. I had Parkersburg by 14 points. Princeton needed the Parkersburg upset over Hurricane in order to host tonight, then catches another break as Bridgeport beats the number one seed in AAA Cabell Midland by 3 touchdowns tonight, so Princeton is now hosting the WV AAA semifinals. Just crazy. And... I'm not so sure Bridgeport is an automatic win over them. Princeton might actually win the game and play for the damn WV AAA title.
They didn't catch a break getting Bridgeport. They are good, don't let the #8 seeding fool you. They only lost one game, to Morgantown, and they run a single wing type offense and pound it down your throat all night long. I watched them kick the poop out of Cabell Midland, that game was only in doubt in the 1st Q. They came out and ran 8.5 minutes off the clock driving 68 yards to start the 2nd half for a TD and the game was over at that point, CM knew they couldn't stop them and were beat mentally at that point. I think Princeton's run ends next week at Anne P Hunnicut...
Officially joined to be a voice on here 😁 Have been on here since a supervisor told me about it back when I started that job so it must have been fall of 03 when I first learned about it and visited. Was more of a schedule/score site at the time. Seems like it turned more towards a message board and that's when I officially signed up on it 🙂
Yes, that’s true. I had a lot of free time when I started the original site, it then evolved into this board. The idea for this board came from Lance Ratliff, he had the connections and suggested it to me. He runs it now since I stepped down a while back.
GMan joined on November 12, 2003, so that's roughly when the board was started. I joined September 18, 2005. Wild to think I was a sophomore in high school back then.
That’s when this iteration of the board appeared. SWVASports started in 2001 with a different message board. This was a big step up from the original one.
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