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Fort Hill Basketball

I was actually waiting to see if anybody posted anything about this. I am not too proud to admit after a decade I did not see this coming. Sure athletes come and go but FH was mediocre at best even when it seemed like they had the athletes. Some coaches actually do change their philosophies and learn new tricks and maybe he's just a late bloomer. Whatever the reason sticking with it has paid off, congrats to him and the Sentinels for another excellent season.
I think Mikey Allen playing at BW, then going to Fort Hill really inspired a lot of South End kids to focus a little more on basketball. Especially some on the non-footballers. If you didn't see FH freshman play this year, you missed out. They were a very talented bunch. Had some decent talent at the JV level as well. Don't want to throw shade, but if I were a betting man, I would pick the freshman team to beat the JV. All that young talent is a good problem to have. Looks like the next couple of years could be exciting up at FH.

Fort Hill Basketball

People should be giving FH varsity basketball coach Thad Burner some love. FH struggled for nearly a decade to be near the top of area standings and now they have won the Area, WestMAC and Regions for a third year in a row. Area basketball has always been what it is, never going to knock out top teams east or in the metro areas or bigger WV schools. Most every Area team this year battled through .500 seasons. Was difficult to find a team heads above the rest from week to week.

The Southern girls however, hope they can bring a state title home this year.

Nice Job Thad. We see you.
I was actually waiting to see if anybody posted anything about this. I am not too proud to admit after a decade I did not see this coming. Sure athletes come and go but FH was mediocre at best even when it seemed like they had the athletes. Some coaches actually do change their philosophies and learn new tricks and maybe he's just a late bloomer. Whatever the reason sticking with it has paid off, congrats to him and the Sentinels for another excellent season.
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Fort Hill Basketball

People should be giving FH varsity basketball coach Thad Burner some love. FH struggled for nearly a decade to be near the top of area standings and now they have won the Area, WestMAC and Regions for a third year in a row. Area basketball has always been what it is, never going to knock out top teams east or in the metro areas or bigger WV schools. Most every Area team this year battled through .500 seasons. Was difficult to find a team heads above the rest from week to week.

The Southern girls however, hope they can bring a state title home this year.

Nice Job Thad. We see you.

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I think that over the years, there's been a ton of factors that have made a negative impact on game attendance. The County schools need to take some steps to bring out some positives, what that would be, I really don't know, but I do have some ideas. I get the chance to talk to Todd, I'm sure that he could send me to the right person or at least tell me that the idea is no good. (He knows that I'm so old, you can't hurt my feelings by telling me the truth!) LOL
I always say the same thing. I'm way to old to have my feeling hurt. lol

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I think that over the years, there's been a ton of factors that have made a negative impact on game attendance. The County schools need to take some steps to bring out some positives, what that would be, I really don't know, but I do have some ideas. I get the chance to talk to Todd, I'm sure that he could send me to the right person or at least tell me that the idea is no good. (He knows that I'm so old, you can't hurt my feelings by telling me the truth!) LOL
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Understood. The days of the mass crowds are gone. Personally, I'd like to see more student interest at the games. The big question is, how do you increase the population at games and not have the bad behavior. I think that Ridge has a pretty good thing going, from what I remember, they have always had good crowds. (I have memories of watching a game, as a young kid, from the sidelines because there was no room in the bleachers.) Alco has a few other issues that they need to address. Hopefully, brighter days are in the not-too-distant future. Fort Hill has something special going on. Alkire, Shook, and company have a once in a lifetime thing going on and kids should really be doing everything that they can to be part of this experience. OK, I got off topic a little. The older I get, the more this happens! Sorry.

Something I've noticed when watching video of teams from downstate, many seem to have much more student involvement. Could possibly be because the rivalry has been so one sided over the last decade plus.

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Understood. The days of the mass crowds are gone. Personally, I'd like to see more student interest at the games. The big question is, how do you increase the population at games and not have the bad behavior. I think that Ridge has a pretty good thing going, from what I remember, they have always had good crowds. (I have memories of watching a game, as a young kid, from the sidelines because there was no room in the bleachers.) Alco has a few other issues that they need to address. Hopefully, brighter days are in the not-too-distant future. Fort Hill has something special going on. Alkire, Shook, and company have a once in a lifetime thing going on and kids should really be doing everything that they can to be part of this experience. OK, I got off topic a little. The older I get, the more this happens! Sorry.

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Wow! That will really increase the numbers at the gate.
At this point you almost have to ask what numbers. Except for the Allegany game is there ever more than friends and family at the game...of course that's not counting the band. Without the band it truly would feel like a funeral. It is truly sad that local football has died in terms of fan support. Please don't try and excuse this by talking about the population. I'm not talking the 5,000 or more that were regular back in the day...I'm talking about 1,000 people for a town of 18,000 and basically two high schools doesn't seem unrealistic.
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