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Basically, it boils down to this. With a win, Mingo Central would've traveled to Bridgeport (the overwhelming undefeated favorite and defending champion) for state-semis. In order to avoid this, several (most of, from what I was told) the starters didn't play and a sub-par Westside team took them to the woodshed. Several Miner fans are supportive of this, surprisingly. Some are taking the "kids were legit banged up" approach, some are furious. I could believe the kids are banged up story had he not joked in the Charleston paper that a player would be back "unless they needed in a different bracket" - and an assistant coach quit during the week because he thought what Kinder was doing was dirty.

Because WV uses a point system based on who you've played and beat, Westside gets this "win" and vaults into the playoffs whereas with a loss they wouldn't have made it... so naturally someone misses who should've made it. That someone, I believe, is North Marion HS. I hate that for the North Marion seniors.

You play to win the game. You coach to teach kids about life. To be the man... well you guys know the rest.