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Given that SL already won at Nl and NL has no one that can guard Mabe(Smith who just left NL for SL could body him a little) and that this will probably be a very emotional game(all the SL players remember what Valentine and Messer said last year when Mabe went down) I say SL by 15. Will be a fun game to watch just like the earlier one.

Smith, was on that 8th-grade team at NL that won the state, that is three of their starters on that team they have run off or PO'd enough to quit or leave. It speaks volumes about a coach who can't keep a team like that handed to them on a platter playing in my opinion.

NL has played a top 10  schedule in the state and as far as that 8th grade team that won state it only had 2 kids that anybody would consider basketball players

LOL, they were sure GAMERS and PLAYERS when they won that 8th Grade State, we were there watching another team play and saw them finish it up.  They played
together as a team whether you consider them basketball players or not, they were a DARN good group that someone got working together well enough to not only
make a run at state but win it & 2 players didn't do it alone.  I am just saying that had the right coach gotten ahold of that group, they could have had something to
build on.  And as well as they played together they could have been competitive down the road.  I don't know who the coaches were who missed this opportunity, just
saying they did.

Unless they changed coaches the RIGHT coach had them as 8th graders and that would have been Tim Sizemore. He has more knowledge than anyone on the current HS bench and should be your Head coach there. When Valentine heads back to Lex soon maybe they will give Tim a shot. He would do great!

The "ladies man" will be selected as the next coach if it comes open.