Might have said this before, but me and a friend drove down to the west side to watch Charleston play at Stonewall back in '75 or maybe '76. Packed house, and we ended up not being able to get into the game. Trying to remember names of top players, but I think Walter Easley was playing for one of the teams during that time. Charleston was usually a mainstay in the tournament, and it seems like The Wall ended up being a powerhouse in the early 80s, but my memory has faded.
Walter’s senior season (75-76) was the best team back then. Stonewall and Charleston High both had to play their home games at the old Charleston Civic Center. They only played Hoover once and the CHS-Stonewall JV games at the schools gyms and during school time. Charleston Highs coach Lou Romano went 4 corners on Stonewall and won in the sectional title game that year. He used the spread all the way to the state finals where I think Wheeling High won, playing their last game before merging into Wheeling Park. Stonewall had 3 D1 players on that team and 4 that played at various NAIA West Virginia schools. That isn’t counting Walter and another 2 guys playing college football. Also doesn’t count two certain “Chinese Bandits “ or bench warmers that had front row seats. Ahem.
My "tune" hasn't changed at all, moron. tHuggs is a crying fraud, and you're a delusional geezer who continues to make no sense, and hijacks your your own thread because you're so envious of Ohio State's superior football program.
What's your point? Because WVU has won more of the sporadic head-to-head match-ups in the last 30 years means that WVU has a better basketball program? I'll answer this question for you: No. WVU is a Final Four team twice per century, and has won only one conference championship since it started playing in Power 5 conferences in 1995-96. Ohio State has accomplished more than WVU in men's basketball, and you don't want to discuss football with me. Know your place, Coach.
Towns used to pack the gyms back then. Now days, it seems very few show up to watch games. I can remember being a high school sophomore, and playing the JV game against Mullens and the gym was packed at the tip off of our game. Then left that game with a few minutes left to change uniforms to ride the pine during the varsity game, and remember us coming onto the floor and the place was a madhouse. I think Mullens was undefeated and probably ranked #1 in the state, and we were awful. They beat us like 90 some to 50 some. Greg White must have scored around 40-45 for Mullens. Their JV team would have beat our varsity team. Southern coalfield basketball was King back then. Now they're lucky to get enough to field a squad. If it weren't for schools combining, they probably wouldn't be able to field teams.
Are we going to stay focused on basketball or wander around?
Bobs obviously own the Mounties...the facts bear this out! Ohio U.> WVU!
I coached at Walton...you are spot on....all seats on one side and the stage on the other...when they opened the big doors on the end of the gym the shots would be affected....you ever play or coach there?
I was born in Logan and we lived on reservoir hill....you could look down on the island from our street
when Ravenswood thought we were going AAA in the 60's we signed up to play Charleston and Huntington in football the same year......we "had" the Mountain Lions 0-0 at half but it didn't end that way....gave the pony express a better game
Northfork was the best team PERIOD then....they went to Logan and beat the wildcats
This was about basketball, then you change to football(all about WVU & OSU) then it’s changed to Ohio U... where will you wander off to next?
I remember that Stonewall and Ravenswood opened the 74 state football playoffs in Charleston. Red Taylor (RHS coach) vs Bill Jarrett SJHS. Ravenswood marched down the field and kicked a field on their first drive. Their only score of the game. I think the final was 32-3.
I was there.....I had taught at Ravenswood and 74 was my first year at Walton.....Ravenswood should never have gone AAA but the Kaiser aluminum plant swelled the population......Fred Taylor was a good friend...lived 2 blocks from him
we called him Red Fred for obvious reasons.....and he by the way was from Walton originally
Read this s l o w l y this time, and let it sink in: Your Old Fold & Blew delusional buddy, SlowHead, hijacked his own thread about tHuggs by injecting Ohio State's superior football program into the discussion. I artfully wove Ohio U.'s dominance of WVU into the discussion to prove a point, which I will spell out for you because you were too dense to understand it the first time: SPORADIC HEAD-TO-HEAD OUT-OF-CONFERENCE GAME RESULTS DON'T MEAN SH!T. If WVU is superior to Ohio State, then Ohio University is superior to WVU, using your idiotic theory against you. The End.
This has nothing to do with tHuggs, the thread topic. Because you've gone way off of course, though, Google "Fred Taylor," then report back to us.
they only dont mean shit if it's not in your favor ....we have you figured out....and have for quite some time
I wasn't "talking" to you, obsessed geezer. Google the real, "Fred Taylor, National Championship Coach." I couldn't care less about some nobody Fred Taylor from up your "holler."
So to use you and the rest of the agitation gang’s own reasoning, I guess that Ohio State is scared to play WVU (being OSU clearly has dominated WVU in football and has had more success nationally). Furthermore, WVU should be allowed to dictate terms and demand home and home series with OSU otherwise the Buckeyes are chicken.
So, let me get this straight. You've been throwing tantrums about my changing the subject, so you're now flapping your dentures about Marshall and your niece, which have nothing to do with anything. I hope that your niece knows that you're a total coward who chickened out when you challenged me to meet you, then ran away to hide at a Bed & Breakfast in bum fvck, West Virginia. You're a poor role model.
it was a home for elderly folks and alternative lifestyle folks for a while...that tile floor was an absolute bitch
No, you didn't, and now you've resorted to lying because I've humiliated you with facts, as usual. I have no idea as to what you're babbling about with respect to Michigan, but your desperate plea for him to save you here won't work, as he saw you chicken out after having pounded your frail chest. It was epic, and every time that you start your bullsh!t about Marshall with me, I'm going to remind you of what a coward that you were then.
