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? about a school location..Where is North Cross High ...
littlraskul replied to edrforshey's topic in SWVA Football
to answer your question, it doesn't take long to get there from salem. north cross is right off rt. 419, close to cave spring hs. -
just so you know how the process works, all players named district poy are automatically 1st team all-region. you see who else got 1st team? goins. that's because you can bs and politic district coaches, but coaches outside of your district--they have eyes and brains.
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What are the coaches in the SWD thinking about in girls Basketball?
littlraskul replied to BCRAM55's topic in SWVA Basketball
fact check: i'm not a native of cc. i don't even live in cc. in fact, i was born and raised in tazewell co. trust me, i know tazewell county and how it operates, as i've also got experience in the school system there, both teaching and coaching. and ftr, one of the tazco girls' hc's is a very good friend of mine. let's leave it at that. oh, and don't get started on watts vs. keene. this conversation? same exact principle. you can thank coach mitchell for keene's honor. and that's a shame. -
What are the coaches in the SWD thinking about in girls Basketball?
littlraskul replied to BCRAM55's topic in SWVA Basketball
the answer is easy to see, ram. when the 4 "original" swd schools stick together, they get their way. it's all political in tazewell county, everything is. combine their desire to stick up for one of their own with their frustration that carroll beats them like a drum year in and year out, as well as the fact that tazewell's coach is seemingly more concerned with getting his kids individual accolades than putting together a solid program (see: allie hunter). motley will go in and present his case; mitchell will pull strings behind the scenes. and because of that, the best player doesn't always get the recognition she deserves. -
Michael Jordan's son gets basketball scholarship
littlraskul replied to tbgfan's topic in College and Pro Sports
wait, so now we're going to also take a person's family's financial situation into consideration when offering athletic scholarships? i can see that one now: coach: well son, we'd love to have you come play ball at (insert college here), but since your parents make $x, you'll have to walk on so we can save the college a few bucks. nevermind that your athletic talent (should you and our team prove to be successful) could bring help bring in millions for our university and its athletic program. fact is, son, your folks are well off and we want to save scholarships for poor folks. are you serious? come on, now. -
Graham Tazewell Richlands Grundy CC and Marion
littlraskul replied to bigdogfan2's topic in SWVA Football
parents do move, some honestly. however, we all know that sometimes, people play the system. example? i love cburg, but look at their wrestling program. folks moving from pa and other states who "just happen" to have sons who are talented wrestlers "just happen" to end up at cburg? um, right. no offense, though, but if i'm a parent looking to make a name for my son in football, i don't move into the richlands district. it's a aa school in the sw part of va. the 804 and 757 get far more love when it comes to recruiting. in these areas, there are talented but not hyped "under the radar" kids who get a more serious look by coaches when they come to the school to recruit another player. in swva, there are no pipelines, and players like fuller and muncy are the exception to the rule. -
arthur--brian has explicit rules forbidding what you just did, regardless of whether you gave him credit or not.
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split for time constraints, probably. frozen roads in tazewell county aren't cute, just like frozen roads in carroll aren't, either. the floor at the ccis gym is bigger than the floor at cchs. jv's are gonna be worn out :)
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again, another missed point. it's not YOUR sentiment because, believe it or not, not everything in tazewell county revolves around graham high school, nor should it. now, moving on: the point is that when pocy kids were forced to choose between tazewell and graham, both principals and the superintendant and school board reps said the pocy kids would be more than welcome wherever they decided, even though yes, phs kids were booed by ghs students when they visited graham high school. some phs students chose to attend ths, others chose ghs. the point is that while no, brandon didn't score the majority of his points for the bulldogs, they are treating him as if he did. to them, there is no distinction. ths has gone above and beyond to ensure a smooth transition for these kids who the rug was pulled out from under, and they have accepted these kids without distinction, without a tag or an asterisk. to them, brandon is a bulldog, just as if he had been from day one. and, as a phs alum, i applaud the efforts of tazewell high school, even though there are folks who understandably disagree with what they are doing. strangely, though, the folks disagreeing on this board have nothing to do with tazewell high school, which only further illustrates my point. again, the point is not whether brandon would break ghs's record, the point is that hypothetically, if he did, there's zero percent chance that ghs would treat him as he is being treated by tazewell.
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From 1-9 to 9-3, Wyatt tabbed Coach of Year
littlraskul replied to Bulldogs52's topic in SWVA Football
cole had an in-home visit by a vt coach recently. he may be an invited walk-on there. as for cole and muncy, it's great to see guys from swva get looks and offers. however, i don't think either will make much noise at the next level. hope they prove me wrong. -
nice save, gman. but, it is what it is. he's put up the numbers. and if the schoolboard, er i mean cookie johnson wouldn't have been such a nasty "see you next tuesday," he'd still be putting up the numbers at phs. as it is, he was forced to choose a new school. that decision was out of his control. he made it, and though some may disagree because he didn't make every basket for ths, i appreciate the gesture made by the ths admin. it's them not only saying (so it'll sound pretty for the papers, i.e. brenda lawson) but showing that they accept the phs kids who were left without a school, without an identity. this same gesture would never been made to a former phs kid who chose ghs, and that's fact.
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congrats to grundy for that, but honestly, i wouldn't expect a lot of success from them when they get up to the varsity level. abingdon and marion are consistently tough, not to mention carroll. speaking from experience, i know carroll uses their jv program explicitly as a training grounds for their varsity team, and although wins are nice at that level, the "better" players from carroll don't stay on jv for long. carroll's jv teams are usually filled with 8th graders and players who, unless they significantly improve quickly, will hardly see the floor when they get to varsity.
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Questions for the former Pocahontas students/fans...
littlraskul replied to GMan's topic in SWVA Football
let's just say that i do know what i'm talking about, seeing as i've worked with the guy. thanks for playing, though. he comes from a prominent family in the area, but he's extremely unprofessional and crosses the coach/friend line all too often. yes, the pocy boys like him and played for him--because they saw him as one of their buddies, not because they respected the man as a coach or for his knowledge. and, being your players' friend doesn't automatically make you a good coach; it makes you a liability. oh, and a bonehead for setting yourself up like that. beyond that, he doesn't know the intricacies of football. he didn't know how to teach the pocy kids technique and simple fundamentals of football. he got his playcalling degree from madden u. and the little success he did have at pocy was largely due to having no fewer than 2 athletes: one to take the snap and one to either catch a pass and outrun the defense or take the handoff and outrun the defense. honestly, point to a pocy game louthan coached and show me one coaching decision that made the difference between win and loss in any game. basketball, the pocy kids play basketball constantly. all he had to do was kick back and press play. he was just lucky he had talented players come through the school during his time there. true varsity coaches build a program; louthan wouldn't have done diddly squat with the next bunch of indians to come through after the pauleys graduated, and that's just fact. and let's not even let me get started on his teaching ability, or lack thereof. i could write pages on that.