hummm Just wondering how WV gets all these players. It would be interesting to see how many of their team has been enrolled there since the Elememtary years.

I am tired of hearing this stuff because everyone wants their kids to go to a good academic school everyone thinks they are a basketball factory.

You are correct, Mack. That is my point though. Most small schools will have a 2 or 3 year run and then struggle for a couple years and then have another good 3 or 4 years. What coach Jones has been able to do for the last 7 or 8 years has been pretty remarkable. I don't think there is another coach in the region that gets as much out of his players as Coach Jones.

 

Agreed. Coach Jones is in a class of his own in the 8th region.

I am tired of hearing this stuff because everyone wants their kids to go to a good academic school everyone thinks they are a basketball factory.

 

A factory?

A factory?

 

:laugh:

I'm going to have to agree. Walton is not a factory. Small schools have ups and downs with talent. Gallatin has had a pretty long run of very good talent combined with a great coach. Walton's talent has been rising steadily the last few years. The next 4 to 5 years they should be competitive with anyone.

A factory?

 

Walton is more like an assembly line. They take pieces from here and there and put them together. Kind of like when I was a mere child living in Bellevue and I had to "Borrow" pieces from all the bicycles on the block in order to fix my own. It was a sweet ride.

Walton is more like an assembly line. They take pieces from here and there and put them together. Kind of like when I was a mere child living in Bellevue and I had to "Borrow" pieces from all the bicycles on the block in order to fix my own. It was a sweet ride.

 

What have they borrowed?

Walton is more like an assembly line. They take pieces from here and there and put them together. Kind of like when I was a mere child living in Bellevue and I had to "Borrow" pieces from all the bicycles on the block in order to fix my own. It was a sweet ride.

 

Their assembly line seems to be working!

You are correct, Mack. That is my point though. Most small schools will have a 2 or 3 year run and then struggle for a couple years and then have another good 3 or 4 years. What coach Jones has been able to do for the last 7 or 8 years has been pretty remarkable. I don't think there is another coach in the region that gets as much out of his players as Coach Jones.

 

I think Mack was simply pointing out that it hasn't been in just the last seven or eight years. More like 13 or 14 years, with maybe only a down year or two mixed in.