graham has not had a basketball team really since the years of john quinter and earl and john thompson years. the baseball team has never really been good way back even when i was in high school from 69 -73 did not have soccer back then wrestling was not good either kids did not go out for the other sports like football so as ad he could not make kids go out for other sports. heck before carlock the football team and other sports other than basketball were no good though we did have a great powder puff team back then. so i dont blame carlock for the fact that other sports did not do well. kids wanted to play football because over all it was a winning program and the other sports never produced winning teams year in and year out. no ad can make kids go out for other sports but the other teams had the equipment that they needed to play their sports. that is a ad's job i feel. it is up to the coaches of the other sports to get the quality kids out for their sport.
Does State Runner-ups ring a bell from 1974 in basketball under the direction of Allen Wiley. Ronnie Edwards who signed with Don Devoe at Tech. By the way this was under Coach Carlock as AD!
So the most successful player for the most successful team should be POY. Record wise the most successful teams were Abingdon and Carroll. No doubt Bryan is a fine young man and a good player, but Graham was a two man team most of the year, and it showed. Quarterfinal trip to the playoffs aside, the only team they beat in the playoffs was Tazewell.
No where does it say the POY has to come from the team with the best record. It comes from who the the 7 coaches in the district think is the best player. Maybe they will give you a vote, since you know more than them.
It doesn't. But it did seem like Diaz did quite a bit for himself.
You said it. He did quite a bit for HIMSELF. The award is for what you do for the TEAM. Jordan won the other district coaches votes. That tells you who they considered the threat that they had to stop. Last time I checked, basketball was a TEAM sport.
I disagree 100% on the player of the year. The paper said Bryan had like 15.2 ppg and 9.7 rebounds per game or something like that? Brad Rhudy from Tazewell had 16.9 ppg and 13.2 rebounds per game. Is that not higher? I know Tazewell didnt go as far as Graham but its player of the year, not team of the year. If anything Rhudy should have atleast gotten 1st or 2nd team.
Where does it say you have to be the leading scoring to be player of the year?
It all depends on his contract. Everything now is really conjecture, I think.
Let's just say, I have a little insight into how the county schools work. IF Doug's going to be fired, it will have been checked, double-checked, and triple-checked to prevent inaccuracy. That's "if" he is fired. The more likely option is that they wouldn't renew his contract. And if they don't, you're pretty much SOL.
Unless they gave a reason for dismissing him. Then they have to prove that reason is actual facts. If it can not be proven, Old Doug will be just fine in court. Case in point. John Kuzko of JI Burton vs Norton City Schools. Winner Kuzko.
A football coach is more than a coach, in a lot of ways, he and is the pillar of the community. I think if we lose focus of that, in exchange for victories, we've lost our purpose. I hate it for the battle community but if they bring him back, just for wins, I will lose all respect for them. We need to remember how influential a football coach is and what message we are sending to the young people there.
Being a coach and teacher, means keeping your face and name off the front page of newspapers.
January 20, 2011 1:30 AM | 0 Comments | Post a Comment
Ugh. Why, Twin Valley and Hurley? Why?
What did they do?
Well, how about mar a basketball game with 56 team fouls that resulted in six players fouling out – five Twin Valley players – that forced the Panthers to play the final 14 seconds with four on the floor.
Read the above graph again. Let it sink in. Four. Players.
Done? Good.
“We did not discuss being physical,†TV coach Brian Moore told the Bluefield Daily Telegraph. “Our only game plan was to control tempo and try and win a basketball game.â€
Really, coach? Really?
I don’t know many teams that win basketball games by helping turn what should have been a hotly contested Black Diamond District opener into a free-throw shooting contest (the two teams combined for 70) thanks to TV’s 34 fouls.
I don’t know many teams that win basketball games with four players either. Just sayin’.
Did the Panthers suddenly decide to take matters into their own hands? If so, who’s collecting the coaching stipend?
Now Hurley, which has done nothing but win on the road all season long, isn’t totally clean of any fault here.
A Rebel got into a first-quarter fracas with a Panther, both got ejected and, to be honest folks, that should have been the end. It’s sports. Emotions run high. Pride’s on the line. Like we said, it’s sports.
But it was the Rebels who needed a Sheriff’s escort out of the gym, according to the Daily Telegraph. They also didn’t finish with … say it with me … four players on the court.
Two fans were also ejected. OK, that pair shouldn’t be allowed in the gym for the rest of the regular season. Lock the thread. End of discussion.
OK, I’d let them in, but they have to sit in a box with “I got kicked out for being a nimrod†written with a Sharpie on their foreheads.
Seventy free throws? How long did this game take?
It’s not bad enough that schools with one gym host these ludicrous “quads†– first the two JV games then the varsity game back-to-back-to-back-to-back – but then, thanks to Twin Valley’s we-promise-it-wasn’t-our-game-plan foul fest, this debacle gets dragged until well beyond 10 p.m. which means, after a brief team meeting (if they felt safe enough) the Hurley boys get home at, let’s say, midnight. On a school night?
Fix this. Fix this now.
I’m all for varsity doubleheaders, actually, that’s how the game should be played. A night of basketball. First the girls, then the guys and, maybe, switch it up every now and again with the guys going first. But this four-games-in-one-gym-on-one-night stuff has to stop. Ship the JV teams to the opposite site.
I know, that’s just silly. That might get the STUDENT-athletes home and in bed (with their homework done) before midnight.
Question for the scheduling “gurus†who came up with this: When was the last time you tried to do homework either A) sitting in a loud bandbox gym or B) on a rickety yellow bus switch-backing up a mountain?
We wait patiently for your e-mails.
Again. Seventy free throws. At what point do the referees just pick up the ball and go home? Would you have blamed them? Is it OK for them to officiate a game where one team has … again … four players on the floor?
Speaking of the postseason (replete with hyperbole): Powell Valley boys hammer Pound 54-26. Rye Cove’s boys lambaste (told you, hyperbole) Ervinton 55-38. Coeburn’s girls whitewash Thomas Walker 61-22. Oh, and Honaker girls obliterate Council 57-15.
Now, betcha all those teams on the losing end make it to regionals.
Seriously. Way to go Virginia High School League (and by VHSL we mean principals and administrators).
Stop. Listening. To. Parents. When. It. Comes. To. The. Postseason.
Wait. I think Twin Valley just sent Hurley back to the free-throw line.
The word is that he is wanting the date after richlands as an open week. To fit Grundy in he would have to move a team in that date.
Haysi and Hurley have agreed to swap dates, thus opening the same spot for Grundy and Honaker to play. Like it has been said, you do not need districts for single a football.
it would be a hit in the district to both teams as far as that goes....but, with the playoffs being on points, winning the district doesnt mean much.
Bottom line is, Honaker will not change open dates that both teams have, so that Grundy can pick up another game. Grundy has a game scheduled on 10-14-11, and it is not with Honaker.
Graham has never played Gretna during the regular season...however, you forgot to include Martinsville, Woodrow Wilson, Patrick Henry-Roanoke, Elizabethton, Tennessee High, Salem, Lee (early 90s - they were tough), Radford (AA), Gate City (AA) and Mount View (yes, they were pretty good back in the late 90s) on your list of formiddable non-district, regular-season opponents...
Played Gretna two years ago at Mitchell Stadium during regular season on a saturday afternoon.
I am just guessin with a lot of these teams I am just a little bored.
week 1 East Ridge (KY)
Week 2 Pound
Week 3 Ervington
Week 4 Mount Calm (WV)
Week 5 Phelps (KY)
Week 6 Twin Valley
Week 7 Hurley
Week 8 Open
Week 9 Haysi
Week 10 Honaker
I would also think that any of these teams could pop in as well.
Clintwood, Graham, Williamson (WV), St. Paul, J.J. Kelly, Pikeville(KY), J.I. Burton, John Battle
As of now 2011 schedule is. Twin Valley, Hurley, Honaker, Haysi, Castlewood. East Ridge. There are four open dates right now. As for the River View deal, West Virginia is on the front end of their two year cycle this year. Virginia is on the back end of their two year cycle this year. The hope is Wise county is going to combine some schools, thus opening up some games. Maybe the bdd will play each other twice, like some of the schools in northern Virginia did one year.
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Does State Runner-ups ring a bell from 1974 in basketball under the direction of Allen Wiley. Ronnie Edwards who signed with Don Devoe at Tech. By the way this was under Coach Carlock as AD!