Minford at Wheelersburg 2-3

[Dr Lou]

I dont think booing a transfer that left your school is a big deal at all. as long as it was booing. big deal. MD

He just came back to where he belonged, are you aware that he lives in Minford, grew up in Minford, and went to Minford until 7th grade? Thanks

[ManitouDan]

He's a transfer , and got treated as such by the school he left , no big deal. your welcome.

[KVDW]

He just came back to where he belonged, are you aware that he lives in Minford, grew up in Minford, and went to Minford until 7th grade? Thanks

i admire his loyalties to his home school



wait........ what was he doing at wheelersburg in the first place?.

[CCC]

I think he got lost for a moment and realized where he was. with a bunch of stuck up, think their better than everyone else and coach who wouldn't let him thrive as a player situation AND THEN CAME BACK! Coach shoe has allowed him to become a great player in a system that runs more than just a 7th and 8th grade FLEX OFFENSE. give me A BREAK! you better get use to Minford beating up on you. They have swept the burg this year 7-12 grades. The tide has shifted. You better get out there and start recruiting again.

[lrn4lf]

Austin is the best basketball player in the history of Minford basketball and Coach Shoe is the savior!

[lrn4lf]

As for the booing by burg students, our kids booed Eddie Miller at our place and booed him at Burg way before their kids booed Austin. He used them and they have the right not to like him for what he did!

[91Grad]

lrn4lf"
You are an idiot ! Sorry your kid or whoever is on the bench and ain't good enough to play, talent talks and wins games !!! A ball hog ... That's the funniest thing I have ever heard, u apparently don't know a thing about basketball !!!

[lrn4lf]

[quote="CCC"]I think he got lost for a moment and realized where he was. with a bunch of stuck up, think their better than everyone else and coach who wouldn't let him thrive as a player situation AND THEN CAME BACK! Coach shoe has allowed him to become a great player in a system that runs more than just a 7th and 8th grade FLEX OFFENSE. give me A BREAK! you better get use to Minford beating up on you. They have swept the burg this year 7-12 grades. The tide has shifted. You better get out there and start recruiting again.

We have the best coach in the history of Minford basketball !

[bballin]

Lrn4lf ... Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa ... Hope you don't support Minford basketball !!

[CCC]

You mean a system that berated his players and coaches over the past year. which has cause not just McBee to leave but also whitly and bendoff. why do you keep saying "about beat." you might have an arguement if you said beat. Your little Jonny not playing as much as you would like. aw! As i recall Minford took Valley into double overtime. You must not understand the game of basketball or you would see the differences but its hard to see when your looking at your baby boy through bliders

[CCC]

OK new rules for posts. We are going to have to start posting two of the same topics everytime we post. One for the nonintellectual types and one for the intellectual types. Lrn4lf is clearly in the lower division. I hate that. He or she reminds me of the drunk guy at a bar interupting you all the time when you are trying to have a intellectual conversation with a friend. What an idiot. I concede to Lrn4lf he or she is the "OZZIE" of the nonintellectual posts. By the way concede means to admit ones verbage is true or valid after first denying or resisting it. I hate when i'm wrong!

[Dr Lou]

He's a transfer , and got treated as such by the school he left , no big deal. your welcome.

Yeah then he found out he was on a leash and wanted to PLAY.. if you see Seth Cowgill out..ask him if he regrets it, because I KNOW the answer..and that is real talk.

[Dr Lou]

I think he got lost for a moment and realized where he was. with a bunch of stuck up, think their better than everyone else and coach who wouldn't let him thrive as a player situation AND THEN CAME BACK! Coach shoe has allowed him to become a great player in a system that runs more than just a 7th and 8th grade FLEX OFFENSE. give me A BREAK! you better get use to Minford beating up on you. They have swept the burg this year 7-12 grades. The tide has shifted. You better get out there and start recruiting again.

times have changed.. BLACK AND WHITE TV...COLOR TV... used to be Burg, now it's going to be Minford.

[Dr Lou]

I think he got lost for a moment and realized where he was. with a bunch of stuck up, think their better than everyone else and coach who wouldn't let him thrive as a player situation AND THEN CAME BACK! Coach shoe has allowed him to become a great player in a system that runs more than just a 7th and 8th grade FLEX OFFENSE. give me A BREAK! you better get use to Minford beating up on you. They have swept the burg this year 7-12 grades. The tide has shifted. You better get out there and start recruiting again.

Coach Shoe better work on a better system. The 7th and 8th grade system that Barrick runs about beat us twice! We r loaded with talent and the Burg doesn't have much talent this year and Barrick about beat us! So as for Coach Shoe and his system , I wouldn't brag about it. Burg has taken Waverly and Valley to the wire with less talent then we have!

When the kids are a year older you will have tough jr. high games, things will change in high school.

[yabbadabbadoo]

Lets see how many times McBee gets to the convo to play in the districts and then the Regionals like last year, where he was seen by quite a few coaches. He made it as Freshman and a Sophomore and got plenty of playing time those last two years.

It will take a huge upset for them to get out of the Jackson sectional. I see the top 4 teams as being Chesapeake, Portsmouth, Ironton and Valley. The first three would embarrass Minford and Valley has already handled Minford once. If memory serves me correctly, they are only taking three teams out of the Jackson sectional. I don't see Minford being one of them.


He will now become just another good player who led a mediocre team in scoring night after night. Don't get me wrong, I think he is a nice player and Barrick would have built his offense around McBee. If he had stayed at the Burg, they would have beaten Valley(twice), Waverly(at Burg), SW(twice), West (twice) and would be looking at about a 3 loss season right now. Why do I think they would have beaten these teams, because they had a good chance to win the Waverly game, both Valley games and they would have definetly won at SW and at West.

[live4sport]

Yabba--if he stayed then once again he would be the leading scorer on a mediocre team and Burg would be sitting in the same situation Minford is in. I'm sure if he was switching schools to "advance" in the tournament then he would have went SOCI where he could take a team to the regionals.

[Bo_Diaz]

Lets see how many times McBee gets to the convo to play in the districts and then the Regionals like last year, where he was seen by quite a few coaches. He made it as Freshman and a Sophomore and got plenty of playing time those last two years.

It will take a huge upset for them to get out of the Jackson sectional. I see the top 4 teams as being Chesapeake, Portsmouth, Ironton and Valley. The first three would embarrass Minford and Valley has already handled Minford once. If memory serves me correctly, they are only taking three teams out of the Jackson sectional. I don't see Minford being one of them.


He will now become just another good player who led a mediocre team in scoring night after night. Don't get me wrong, I think he is a nice player and Barrick would have built his offense around McBee. If he had stayed at the Burg, they would have beaten Valley(twice), Waverly(at Burg), SW(twice), West (twice) and would be looking at about a 3 loss season right now. Why do I think they would have beaten these teams, because they had a good chance to win the Waverly game, both Valley games and they would have definetly won at SW and at West.

Four teams get out of Jackson... As for Burg winning certain games if McBee had stayed, I don't think you can state as fact that they would have won. Does he improve their chances? Possibly... His shooting would take away shots from others, so players like Massie may not have had the opportunity to score. Also Barrick has made his team slow games down even more than he did in the past, a player like McBee may have taken quicker shots and led to empty trips. Barrick wants his team to slow it down, make a ton of passes and get great shot... Having a scorer and creater like McBee could be a positive and a negative to what Barrick feels like he has to do to win this season. I just don't think you can say beyond a shadow of a doubt that they would have or should have won certain games.

[yabbadabbadoo]

Lets see how many times McBee gets to the convo to play in the districts and then the Regionals like last year, where he was seen by quite a few coaches. He made it as Freshman and a Sophomore and got plenty of playing time those last two years.

It will take a huge upset for them to get out of the Jackson sectional. I see the top 4 teams as being Chesapeake, Portsmouth, Ironton and Valley. The first three would embarrass Minford and Valley has already handled Minford once. If memory serves me correctly, they are only taking three teams out of the Jackson sectional. I don't see Minford being one of them.


He will now become just another good player who led a mediocre team in scoring night after night. Don't get me wrong, I think he is a nice player and Barrick would have built his offense around McBee. If he had stayed at the Burg, they would have beaten Valley(twice), Waverly(at Burg), SW(twice), West (twice) and would be looking at about a 3 loss season right now. Why do I think they would have beaten these teams, because they had a good chance to win the Waverly game, both Valley games and they would have definetly won at SW and at West.

Four teams get out of Jackson... As for Burg winning certain games if McBee had stayed, I don't think you can state as fact that they would have won. Does he improve their chances? Possibly... His shooting would take away shots from others, so players like Massie may not have had the opportunity to score. Also Barrick has made his team slow games down even more than he did in the past, a player like McBee may have taken quicker shots and led to empty trips. Barrick wants his team to slow it down, make a ton of passes and get great shot... Having a scorer and creater like McBee could be a positive and a negative to what Barrick feels like he has to do to win this season. I just don't think you can say beyond a shadow of a doubt that they would have or should have won certain games.

Ok then, look for it to be Chesapeake, Portsmouth, Ironton and Valley out of Jackson. Minford would likely have a shot against Valley, but the other three I don't see them competing with them.

I think Barrick would have went more uptempo with McBee at the point. Burg doesn't have a true go to guy. Massie is a streak shooter. One game he might have 25 and the next 4. McBee would have been the go to guy with 3-5 other role players around him, which would have fit Burg to a "T" this year.

On the games they lost. I would have to believe they would have beaten West and SW in those two road games they lost to them. I think they would have beaten Waverly and Valley at Burg as both of those games went OT and probably would have beaten Valley at Valley. They lost there composure down the stretch in that one and the lack of a floor leader let Vally come back and win. If you look at the Burg's schedule, I think with McBee, they are sitting at a record of maybe no worse than 13-3 right now. Even without him, they have been in every game with the exception of the Portsmouth and Fairland game.

[KVDW]

I think he got lost for a moment and realized where he was. with a bunch of stuck up, think their better than everyone else and coach who wouldn't let him thrive as a player situation AND THEN CAME BACK! Coach shoe has allowed him to become a great player in a system that runs more than just a 7th and 8th grade FLEX OFFENSE. give me A BREAK! you better get use to Minford beating up on you. They have swept the burg this year 7-12 grades. The tide has shifted. You better get out there and start recruiting again.

times have changed.. BLACK AND WHITE TV...COLOR TV... used to be Burg, now it's going to be Minford.

yes, times have changed.... but change isn't always for the better. today it's all about "ME" !!
the "team" concept is fast becoming a thing of the past and i certainly don't consider that a change for the better.

i'll still take loyalty to his school and the community from a player over a chance to get to the regionals.... any day !

how much have some of these boys mentioned (mcBee, bendolph. whitley, and others) "advanced" themselves by bouncing around all over the place from one school to another?
as someone said, they'll still just be footnotes to a few mediocre local teams down the road a few years after all is said and done anyway. although they are all better than average "local" talent, none will be Lew Alcinder type "game changers" on the big college scene.
in the long run, as a whole, the schools and communities they left will think much less of them than the schools/communities they went to think good of them.

very few (if any) of these "ME" boys today at ANY school will end up legends at Duke University or the like anyway, so what's the point.

EVERYBODY in the general population has heard of the world famous WATERLOO WONDERS TEAM, but how many can name a single individual "star" on that team ?

and as far as them liking or not liking one coach better than another......

"I make my practices real hard because if a player is a quitter, I want him to quit in practice, not in a game."

Bear Bryant / Alabama

[Dr Lou]

I think he got lost for a moment and realized where he was. with a bunch of stuck up, think their better than everyone else and coach who wouldn't let him thrive as a player situation AND THEN CAME BACK! Coach shoe has allowed him to become a great player in a system that runs more than just a 7th and 8th grade FLEX OFFENSE. give me A BREAK! you better get use to Minford beating up on you. They have swept the burg this year 7-12 grades. The tide has shifted. You better get out there and start recruiting again.

times have changed.. BLACK AND WHITE TV...COLOR TV... used to be Burg, now it's going to be Minford.

yes, times have changed.... but change isn't always for the better. today it's all about "ME" !!
the "team" concept is fast becoming a thing of the past and i certainly don't consider that a change for the better.

i'll still take loyalty to his school and the community from a player over a chance to get to the regionals.... any day !

how much have some of these boys mentioned (mcBee, bendolph. whitley, and others) "advanced" themselves by bouncing around all over the place from one school to another?
as someone said, they'll still just be footnotes to a few mediocre local teams down the road a few years after all is said and done anyway. although they are all better than average "local" talent, none will be Lew Alcinder type "game changers" on the big college scene.
in the long run, as a whole, the schools and communities they left will think much less of them than the schools/communities they went to think good of them.

very few (if any) of these "ME" boys today at ANY school will end up legends at Duke University or the like anyway, so what's the point.

EVERYBODY in the general population has heard of the world famous WATERLOO WONDERS TEAM, but how many can name a single individual "star" on that team ?

and as far as them liking or not liking one coach better than another......

"I make my practices real hard because if a player is a quitter, I want him to quit in practice, not in a game."

Bear Bryant / Alabama

Those 3 players you mention all went back HOME where they belonged in the first place.