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I love Gridiron's analysis of 13th region ball. He's good. And I love his Bell County team. But rating South 6th, behind a North team they've beaten twice by an average of a dozen, per, is kinda crazy. Jeff Davis can coach circles around Mr. Valentine. I wouldn't put much stock in North's 15-point win over an inconsistent and mediocre Clay County team. I'd still put South above those two.

Just wondering, why do you have so much love for Mr. Valentine?  After all, he does have a day named after him, it's coming up soon.

I have very little love for Mr. Valentine. He kinda sucks!!!  If Jeff Davis or Pietrowski had had Reed ,  Reed's cousin,  and the other parts around them, they would have won state, at least once.

No, neither one would have the state.  The missing piece was a big kid, and Valentine knew that when he went after Noah.

Why couldn't he keep Noah?  Or did Noah never have any real intention on playing for North?

I'm just assuming he didn't have enough basketballs to go around.  Noah played summer ball with NL and then went back to Harlan County.  Then V went and got the Chadwell kid from Knox Central, he played the one season with NL and returned to Knox Central for his senior year.