Prior to the previous three years (2012, 2013, 2014) Beaver hadn't had any really good basketball teams (by their standards) since around 2007, so they hadn't reloaded in about five years. It would appear Bluefield has a strong freshmen class that could potentially strongly contend for several additional AA titles in the coming 3 years. And west of Radford HS basketball in VA is not overly strong. Graham has a strong team in SWVA, but they would struggle to seriously compete in any class of WV basketball. If they were going to beat Beaver on the hardwood this was the year to do so.
Trading Upton for several prospects the biggest being a pitcher thst will miss the upcoming season after Tommy John and a fielder with great speed, but suspect hitting and fielding ability. Why not just have traded Upton for a bag of baseballs? They would have been more useful.
With Tidewater teams the caliber of Lake Taylor now in 4A, it's gong to be extremely different for any school west of Richmond to win a 4A state title. Salem was no slouch and they were dominated...
Beaver overcame a lot of adversity last night; getting outrebounded in the first half badly, freshman mistakes by the PG against more experienced opponents, and significant foul trouble to their best offensive player (Ponder). It was a nice first win and good building block, but tougher games are ahead and improvement, smarter play is a must.
Graham's experience would appear, on paper at least, to present a good challenge to the youthful Beavers. I'm excited to see what Collier and Hopkins can do with all the hype coming from their middle school and summer league performances.
Isn't it always interesting, the person(s) that builds something is in many cases the same person(s) that cause it to crumble. Beamer built VT football and galvanized the fan base, taking the program to places it had never been. And now, he's the one responsible for it crashing down as game by game the fan base develops more of the "I don't give a ....." attitude. It'll be interesting to see exactly how many people are in the seats come next Friday night, especially with the students on break.
Are any of you aware of how terrible Atlanta was pre-1990???
Absolutely, I grew up watching Dale Murphy and those hideous blue uniforms. The fact, since Ted left the new ownership hasn't been interested in spending money to keep or get players worth a nickel to come to ATL.
For me, the Heyward trade is the final straw. They made no attempts to sign or even negotiate with him. The Braves are under the impression that the only thing a MLB team needs is pitching, runs aren't important. The pitching was good enough this year for ATL to be a 90-95 win team, but the offense was pathetic...AGAIN and it's going to be even worse next year. Now you remove Heyward defensively and plug in possibly Gattis? That's a cluster**** waiting to happen. Now the rumors are they're looking to trade J. Upton for two more pitchers from SEA? Are you freakin' serious? If that happens several of us on this board could make the batting order.
Trading Jason Heyward is the final straw for this life-long Braves fan. They'll sign POS players like BJ Upton and Dan Uggla, but trade away a guy like Heyward. I'm rooting for the Cards from this point forward and hopeful JHey makes the Bravos forever regret this decision.
Capital and Beckley were scheduled to play several weeks ago, but from what I understand the conference (MSAC) forgot to schedule any officials. So the teams arrived to play, but the officials did not and the game was not rescheduled.
They gave away about 100 yards on penalties. To win the game even with that is a good thing. It worries me for any possible close games...I thought field position would be critical in this game, and it was...but Bluefield did manage to overcome their own mistakes.
But really...there's no excuse for all those false start penalties in game 10.
I couldn't agree more, but you had better bite your tongue though or you'll get called "not a true fan" for not being overly positive.
I wasn't there, either Bluefield played horribly sloppy (almost 20 penalty flags) or there was home cookin'. Either way, Bluefield will get to play at home through most of the playoffs.
Only one, two at most, of the penalties were for something other than false starts; they were legit calls. Beaver has struggled with false start penalties all season.
Agreed. I feel like we get a lot of chances to beat up on a lot of really bad teams through the year, and fear that the big games (this, Wayne, playoffs) are way different. I'm not ready to give up on this game, though, but I never like being behind at the half. Not sure how this team will react to that adversity.
The next two quarters will tell us all we need to know about this team, serious contenders or is it time to roll out the basketballs....
The game being at home gives Riclands a chance and because the game is at Richlands it's the toughest game remaining on Bluefield's schedule outside of @Wayne to end the year. With that being said, if Bluefield hopes to contend for a state title in WV they must handle Richlands because they will see much better teams in WV AA come deeper playoff rounds.
Is anyone surprised? There are student-ran newscast facilitated better than WVVA and that's been the case since before I moved away. And don't even get me started on the BDT and their lack of professional journalism. It isn't going to change folks, so accept it for what is it.
It goes without saying that Gate City is one of the toughest places to place in SWVA, maybe the toughest. I hope the Devils bring the wood and intensity at Beaver tonight because that's the type of challenge Bluefield needs to be molded into a championship caliber squad.
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This is brilliant and more of the Power 5 conference teams should consider doing this.