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He was there, he ran his mouth the whole game, everyone on Lotts Creek heard him. This was a different game because Chris Hudson actually got after it and showed what he really can do. He had about 34 pts and couldn't be stopped. I don't know if it was just the competition between him and the Canadians or what got him going, but he needs to play like that all the time and it will make Cordia a much better team and very fun to watch. I think there was 6 or 7 dunks last night combined by both teams. Pretty nice ones too.

On all this other stuff about Rhodes, I think people are getting on here talking about stuff they don't know anything about. They were having problems for a lot of reasons that people don't like to get on public boards and discuss, so people just speculate and get things way wrong. He got suspended the first couple games for "protecting his players", can't blame him for that. He got suspended the second time because they were out of the region and the group of refs called 12 T's on out of region teams that week for almost nothing. The problems they had with the "Stats Man/jr High coach", need not be discussed, no one on here has a clue what really went on. So people are making him sound like a mess when he is really not. The kids quit or got kicked off because they don't know how to act in public and they don't want to do their work the way everyone else was. Rhodes is a great guy and makes his kids work hard and do what they are supposed to or he disciplines them, and if they don't like it they quit. Leave the man alone and let him build his empire! :igiveup:

First, I actually congratulating Cordia on their win and was sincerely happy for them. Second, anyone who has followed this on here since July can not honestly post on here that they do not understand why people like myself would get on here and say the things that we are about Rhodes. They way Rhodes and Cordia have gone about this whole thing has been a mess. If they had not created the situation none of us would even care enough to read the threads about Cordia and would know what is going on up Lotts Creek. And, if Rhodes came here to make a difference in those kids lives and not to built his "basketball empire", then why did he need to bring three Texas boys with him. I was told because these were boys who had it rough in Texas and need something good in their lives and Rhodes wanted to make a difference for them to. Now we find out that at least two of them are not too bad off since their Daddy is NBA agent and all. Second, whose life is he wanting to make a difference in here. He has lost 8 players off his varsity. Some quit and some were kicked off (according to Cordia fans). Cordia fans have got on here and said those boys were trouble makers and thugs and didn't really want to be on the team anyway. Well, then are those boys not the very ones that Rhodes should have worked with the most, mentored the most, really put himself out there to make a change in their lives. Instead, he let them go and if all he has are the good kids, the ones who will work hard anyway. He missed his opportunity to makes a difference in a kids life when he those boys go.