eaglefan85

This should have been in response to this post. No actually a Maryville fan (with respectable friends that went to GP). Really want to talk wins and loses ALCOAgoon (with an emphasis on goon)? There I fixed it for you AlcoaBasketball. Guess I had a brain spasm or just wanted to see what it felt like to be an Alcoa grad. lol.

No actually a Maryville fan (with respectable friends that went to GP). Really want to talk wins and loses ALCOAgoon (with an emphasis on goon)?

Really good? I assume your talking about the midget that ignores county and state rules and the varsity coach that turned in jv wins as varsity wins just so his win-loss record looked better. Think you need to worry more about your bears and a date with Maryville.

Forfeit. Then you just lose 2-0.

I know I said I would only post once but this warrants a comment. Obviously, you didn't understand me. You don't know the coach or anything about the situation (by your own admission). So let me be a little more direct. Find something else to do besides slam Coach P and GP. (In other words, shut up!) If you want to start a thread about the system being flawed or Fulton is the obvious choice, blah, blah, blah. Fine but don't use it as your outlet to bash the GP Coach or team. I would think one as a former coach wouldn't use an outlet as such to bash another coach or program(GP,Carter,AE) but you do say in another thread that you coached at WB (enough said).

I will say this once and only once. Most on coacht have no idea what happened in the GP situation nor should they (This is not the place to air your dirty laundry.). As far as throwing the game to avoid Fulton, what would one gain. You still have Carter and AE from that district. GP has to beat Alcoa before they can think about anyone else and then there is a good chance they will face Carter again. So pick your poison. If you had watched GP's last several games one would see that in the words of MMcCroskey "a lot of the boys were focused on other things than basketball lately". It was time after the Carter loss if they had any chance of winning another game the coach had to do something. Did he make the right move? I don't know. Did he make the wrong move. I don't know? At least he did something. Yes, all but 2 of the varsity were suspended. 1 a freshman who has gotten a little playing time lately and 1 a Senior Captain who has been a sometimes starter over the last 3 years and when not is usually one of the first off the bench (Don't forget it certainly wasn't an easy task for the 2 to play AE without their varsity teammates. I for one wouldn't have wanted to be in their shoes. Maybe all the posters should be commending those 2 boys instead of judging the coach and other players.). I will end with this. If your not a GP Coach or player and privy to team meetings don't judge.

"Give the kid a break". 2nd chance, 3rd chance, 4th chance..... where do you draw the line. That's whats wrong with our society today. We no longer realize that their are consequences to our actions. As far as top teams in district making sure every things are above board in the Pryor situation how could they. I'm sure they are more concerned with their own teams. It certainly makes the coach & administration at AE look bad. It's obvious that their concerned about one thing and one thing only "winning ball games". Don't forget AE= Always Eligible.

Hope they get to face each other again in district tourney. Hopefully for championship. Don't think back to back nights against AE and Fulton helped GP. Would like to see them play on neutral court.

How bout a few stats.

I guess instead of running the score up on G-P AE wishes they had saved a few of those scores for Ole Betsy. Better get ready for Alcoa to come to town because they certainly don't think they can be beat. Which might not be a bad thing for Betsy.

Any predictions on tonights games? Kinda looks like being a top seed in this district is not the place to be come tournament time. Can GP rebound from 3 straight losses?

Enough? It had pretty muched stopped until you opened your big mouth. If your going to try to agitate get your facts straight and maybe jump on the fight before its over. Secret meetings? Wonderful bulldog fans? Would that be the same ones that will be watching the rest of the tournament at their gym after losing tonight in the first round. Its basketball. You play hard (everybody's your enemy on court), you win or lose, you shake hands and move on. Again as already stated if your insistent on whinig could I recommend Sweetwater Valley Farms Brand to go with that wine!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GET A LIFE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!GET OUT FROM UNDER THAT ROCK OCCASIONALLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You guys have really got to get out occasionally. You definitely don't have much to do up there. What did GP actually do that was so bad? Why are you still whining so much that you started not 1 thread but 2 about GP. Can I recommend Sweetwater Valley Farms Brand since you don't get out much. I-75 south from Knoxville. Watch for the signs.

Read where the garbage came from. Not GP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I know I'm a litttle late in this deal. Yeah you apologized but never got the facts straight. Wolfenbarger may be a class act but actions speak louder than words. Sure there is nothing wrong with being excited after winning a game but to dance like he did at GP. (Someone help out I don't remember the great coach) "But act like you've been there before." A class act doesn't yell out the opposing coach and tell him to sit down. Players are a reflection of their coach just as kids are a reflection of their parents. Sit back and watch your players actions on the court. Yes there will be trash talking but the best you will never notice. Shipley running his mouth and stepping out to distract during the free throw when Holzer was shooting was 1) a line violation and 2) is supposed to be an automatic T if the player has the ball and he did. But hey I'm glad they didn't call it because Shipley didn't have time to box the shooter and Holzer pulled the rebound and scored. Also glad your coach acted like he did on GPs court. Just added more fuel to the fire and made GPs players want to win even more. So don't worry about what you say on here and don't bother to apologize just keep trash talking and calling their coach a jackass. I'm sure the players won't read this and it won't inspire them to play harder. Go GP!!!!!!!!