[OutsideLookingIn]

Knott County Central gets credit for playing their own kids.
Justice - Started his high school career Pike County
Christian - Started his career June Buchanan
Combs - Started his career at Cordia
Caudill - Started his career in Letcher County
Cornett - Back up post player Hazard, Cordia

Hall and Cornett are true Knott County boys

but I understand it is okay because they are from the mountains and it doesn't count in recruiting if they local boys

[Blue/Red]

Ok now list the high schools they have attended.

[Madness12]

Technically Combs started his career in elementary school with Hall at Emmalena. 5 of those 7 players will not be playing next year so please tell us all what the point in this post is.

[Blue/Red]

Technically Combs started his career in elementary school with Hall at Emmalena. 5 of those 7 players will not be playing next year so please tell us all what the point in this post is.

No point to it. Lol

[Hoopster007]

Knott County Central gets credit for playing their own kids.
Justice - Started his high school career Pike County
Christian - Started his career June Buchanan
Combs - Started his career at Cordia
Caudill - Started his career in Letcher County
Cornett - Back up post player Hazard, Cordia

Hall and Cornett are true Knott County boys

but I understand it is okay because they are from the mountains and it doesn't count in recruiting if they local boys

I you're gonna talk this **** get it right Hall and Chance Cornett and Dalton Cornett all went to JBS at one time or another. Isaac Caudill has lived all his life in Knott Co.Jealousy is a terrible thing!

[Blue/Red]

I you're gonna talk this **** get it right Hall and Chance Cornett and Dalton Cornett all went to JBS at one time or another. Isaac Caudill has lived all his life in Knott Co.Jealousy is a terrible thing!

It's like the person that made this thread is out side looking in. Haha

[baller4lyfe]

Knott County Central gets credit for playing their own kids.
Justice - Started his high school career Pike County
Christian - Started his career June Buchanan
Combs - Started his career at Cordia
Caudill - Started his career in Letcher County
Cornett - Back up post player Hazard, Cordia

Hall and Cornett are true Knott County boys

but I understand it is okay because they are from the mountains and it doesn't count in recruiting if they local boys

Grasping at straws now are we nicker:nicker:nicker:

[Blue/Red]

Grasping at straws now are we nicker:nicker:nicker:

Depends on where the straws come from when they was young straws .nicker:

[Sportsfanatic2015]

Don't care where they started, They are at Knott Co. now. Hope they win it all. Would be nice to see Mountain Boys win one.

[Heisenberg Effect]

I hope a mountain team does indeed win it all.Knott is a very good team.They defeated Clay and dismantled Perry.They are very professional on the floor and impressed me.If it's not Clay,I hope Knott wins it or another mountain team.Young men and women choose where they want to play whether people like it or not.Seen it several times in Clay but it's the athlete's choice.Support them wherever they are.

[OutsideLookingIn]

Shelby Valley won it all 2010, I think they were a mountain team that was built using their own talent.

[footballfever]

Are there ANY schools that have all 13-15 varsity players that have attended that school system since K-1 ??

[TribePride]

Shelby Valley won it all 2010, I think they were a mountain team that was built using their own talent.

If I recall, they swooped a few kids from other parts in the county...

[fatpatfan]

[Image: https://i.imgflip.com/hu8vg.jpg] You just hatin cause we be going staten! Yea bolz!! These boys are Patriots through and through.They get cut,they bleed red,white,and blue! Quit looking outside in and come join the Patriot Nation!!! More mashed taters please!!!

[UKisN1]

I you're gonna talk this **** get it right Hall and Chance Cornett and Dalton Cornett all went to JBS at one time or another. Isaac Caudill has lived all his life in Knott Co.Jealousy is a terrible thing!

Hey...hope they win it all, but Isaac Caudill has not lived his whole life in Knott Co.

[More Cowbell]

Shelby Valley won it all 2010, I think they were a mountain team that was built using their own talent.

If I recall, they swooped a few kids from other parts in the county...

Shelby Valley's 2010 starting five probably were responsible for >95% of their on-court production (they did not play their bench very much). All five played for one of the two feeder programs:

Elisha Justice = Dorton
Cody Varney = Dorton
Ashley Hatfield = Virgie
Taylor Newsome = Virgie
Tyler Newsome = Virgie

Granted, Hatfield was originally from Phelps. But he transferred to Virgie well before he even sniffed high school. They were about as close as you're going to get to a homegrown team.

[Hit N' Run]

^That may never be done again.I sincerely hope so but I just don't think so.

[Real Badman]

Shelby Valley's 2010 starting five probably were responsible for >95% of their on-court production (they did not play their bench very much). All five played for one of the two feeder programs:

Elisha Justice = Dorton
Cody Varney = Dorton
Ashley Hatfield = Virgie
Taylor Newsome = Virgie
Tyler Newsome = Virgie

Granted, Hatfield was originally from Phelps. But he transferred to Virgie well before he even sniffed high school. They were about as close as you're going to get to a homegrown team.

I'm having a hard time remembering, but I thought Hatfield transferred to Valley after 8th grade, going into 9th. I'm fairly sure he was a contributor to the Hornets high school team as young as the 7th grade, maybe even 6th. I thought there was someone who came from Johns Creek or Mullins too.

[More Cowbell]

I'm having a hard time remembering, but I thought Hatfield transferred to Valley after 8th grade, going into 9th. I'm fairly sure he was a contributor to the Hornets high school team as young as the 7th grade, maybe even 6th. I thought there was someone who came from Johns Creek or Mullins too.

Nope, Hatfield played for Virgie in middle school. I even remember seeing a very cool picture circulating around back then, that showed all five players in their respective teams' uniforms. Virgie, led by Hatfield and the Newsomes, had defeated Justice and Varney's Dorton squad in the finals of some middle school state tournament (BCI or something like that). Also, I was thinking he started at Virgie in 6th grade, but I won't swear to it. All I'm positive of is that he played for the Eagles in 8th grade.

As for someone being from Johns Creek or Mullins, none of the main guys were. The only bench players that saw any minutes other than garbage time were Zach Ramey and Tanner Tackett. Ramey had gone to Pikeville, was homeschooled for a year, then enrolled at Valley. Tackett was from Virgie. Beyond that, I suppose there might have been a reserve from JC or Mullins. But if there was I don't recall, and if so he wasn't a major contributor anyway.

[Ballers]

More Cowbell, you have this argument/talk once a year lol.

[More Cowbell]

Nope, Hatfield played for Virgie in middle school. Also, I was thinking he started at Virgie in 6th grade, but I won't swear to it. All I'm positive of is that he played for the Eagles in 8th grade.

RB, I was curious so I did some digging to see what the answer was. I went back into the BGR archives and found a discussion about 2004-05 middle school b-ball. In it, I found some posters who mentioned that Ashley Hatfield was playing for Virgie as a 7th grader. Later in the thread it was also mentioned that he had just transferred that year.

So apparently he began playing for Virgie in the 7th grade.

[More Cowbell]

More Cowbell, you have this argument/talk once a year lol.

Hey now, I wasn't the one that brought up Shelby Valley in the thread. Neither was I the one that said they "swooped up" several transfers for that team either. All I did was correct some incorrect information.

I don't know if this discussion happens once a year or not, lol. But if I'm reading a thread and someone says SV's title team was due to a bunch of transfers, I'm going to set the record straight. :biggrin: