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Which transfer was it that made the team what it was? Was it Ramey who was the 6th man and was supposedly not good enough to play at Pikeville, or Hatfield who was in the SV system since the 7th grade? Many want to try to diminish what was accomplished at SV, but besides Ramey every kid there played middle school ball for either Dorton or Virgie. Yes, SV had a lot of talent, but not any coach could have won the state with that team. How many people actually believed SV would win state before it actually happened? I read so many times on here over the years that they were good, but overrated. Coach Booher and the team fit together well. I can't say how great an Xs and Os coach that Booher was because I wasn't on the bench, but I can say he was a great coach in many other areas. He is one of the most organized high school coaches I have seen around here in a long time. He was also very good at preparation. Many of the SV faithful (including me) will be forever grateful to Coach Booher for what he did at SV. He had a lot of talent, but he did a great job of getting all those star players to buy in to the TEAM first mentality. Many of those kids could have gone to Pikeville or Pike Central and been THE star.

Now, I think we could both agree that those kids had a "team first" mentality long before Booher came along. I believe some are disgruntled because they feel Booher was doing more self-promoting than anything. Otherwise, why would he leave after winning the state title? Because he new the talent wasn't going to be there. So he abandoned ship! He could have worked some things out and gotten the same sweet deal he ended up with at Holmes.