GW vs South Charleston game being covered by Metro News the first week to help hype Grant Wells for the Kennedy? Lets just say friends of mine can't understand why no one is reporting on the Martinsburg kid that went to the Ohio State football camp with over 50 QB's and won the top QB award. Its seems the Charleston media is hyping this Grant Wells kid when he may not be the best QB in the State.
Sourthern WV media starting Kennedy award hype!
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Yes, State media did the same thing with Ryan Switzer. It will be very interesting because it seems Martinsburg is loaded. From what I understand they also have a Jr Defensive end that showed up for camp much bigger then last season and could turn into a prospect. I don't know how good the Wells kid is but Tyson Bagent is going to shock some people
That's what happens when you're way out yonder. He might consider a transfer to a Kanawha County team if he's not a Sr. to get the pub. Kids from across the state have been doing it for decades.
When I was young, Charleston Catholic lived on kids who got a scholarship and a bed to sleep in regardless of religion. Fans of the other schools in old KVC would give them the business over it.
Every school in the league had mystery players coming in at one time or another when the chemical plants were booming. Dad or Mom would get a job and the kid got automatic eligibility. It was a running joke. The kid would head off to college and the folks would usually move back home.
The sports families and scholly kids were right up there with voting families. You'd have new kids in your class in the fall of a major election. The weekend after election day you never saw those kids again.
When I was young, Charleston Catholic lived on kids who got a scholarship and a bed to sleep in regardless of religion. Fans of the other schools in old KVC would give them the business over it.
Every school in the league had mystery players coming in at one time or another when the chemical plants were booming. Dad or Mom would get a job and the kid got automatic eligibility. It was a running joke. The kid would head off to college and the folks would usually move back home.
The sports families and scholly kids were right up there with voting families. You'd have new kids in your class in the fall of a major election. The weekend after election day you never saw those kids again.
Sorry for the "way out yonder" crack. Most news folks in the Kanawha Valley, their bosses and most importantly, advertisers kids, go to certain HS' in the county. Those are the schools that get the most coverage even on a local level. You're looking at two of them there. Everyone else in the valley pretty much gets shorted. At least the better kids at the other schools get to show there stuff against those teams. A couple of good games against them and you're building momentum for the award.
If someone farts at GW game it will get a blip on the nightly news. A kid in Sissonsville could score twelve touchdowns in a half and get an inch and a half on page 3 of the sports page the next day. That's the way it is in the Charleston market. It's been that way since the 60's and it's not going to change.
John Raese owns 580 WCHS AM in Charleston. It's his other "flagship" station. WVRC decides who gets on the air. John's guys are going cover the teams where the advertising money is. It's just business. The teams that get primary coverage in the valley now were essentially the same before he bought the station.
As most writers and reporters in the main part of the state don't know beans about the Virginia and Maryland teams the E. Panhandle teams play, it hurts the potential candidates out there as the media questions the quality of the out of state competition. It kills a lot of players on border teams throughout the state where they play a couple of nearby out of state teams to keep travel costs down before they start conference play that might stretch a third of the way across the state.
Perhaps the coaches and the news media in that the E. Panhandle should get more aggressive in promoting their players to the media in the rest of the state? At the moment it's still "out of sight, out of mind" with much of the state media, re; the teams and players. It stinks, but it's a fact. I've got to admit it's better than it was, at one time the teams in the Eastern Panhandle may as well have been on the Moon as far as much of the state media was concerned.
Add in the favoritism, provincialism and petty vendettas said to exist in the process of selecting the winner itself, and you better hope that your coach is well liked, your program proven, and the vice-principal that retired 20 years ago didn't tick one of them off, or that great kid at the tucked away school won't stand a chance.
Don't let it bother you. If the kid doesn't win it, and has great college career, he'll have best revenge of all, making the voters that ignored him look like twits.
God help the Kennedy if John Raese ever has a grandkid who is a halfway decent football player. The boy will win it four years in a row by Royal Command.
If someone farts at GW game it will get a blip on the nightly news. A kid in Sissonsville could score twelve touchdowns in a half and get an inch and a half on page 3 of the sports page the next day. That's the way it is in the Charleston market. It's been that way since the 60's and it's not going to change.
John Raese owns 580 WCHS AM in Charleston. It's his other "flagship" station. WVRC decides who gets on the air. John's guys are going cover the teams where the advertising money is. It's just business. The teams that get primary coverage in the valley now were essentially the same before he bought the station.
As most writers and reporters in the main part of the state don't know beans about the Virginia and Maryland teams the E. Panhandle teams play, it hurts the potential candidates out there as the media questions the quality of the out of state competition. It kills a lot of players on border teams throughout the state where they play a couple of nearby out of state teams to keep travel costs down before they start conference play that might stretch a third of the way across the state.
Perhaps the coaches and the news media in that the E. Panhandle should get more aggressive in promoting their players to the media in the rest of the state? At the moment it's still "out of sight, out of mind" with much of the state media, re; the teams and players. It stinks, but it's a fact. I've got to admit it's better than it was, at one time the teams in the Eastern Panhandle may as well have been on the Moon as far as much of the state media was concerned.
Add in the favoritism, provincialism and petty vendettas said to exist in the process of selecting the winner itself, and you better hope that your coach is well liked, your program proven, and the vice-principal that retired 20 years ago didn't tick one of them off, or that great kid at the tucked away school won't stand a chance.
Don't let it bother you. If the kid doesn't win it, and has great college career, he'll have best revenge of all, making the voters that ignored him look like twits.
God help the Kennedy if John Raese ever has a grandkid who is a halfway decent football player. The boy will win it four years in a row by Royal Command.
"When I was young, Charleston Catholic lived on kids who got a scholarship and a bed to sleep in regardless of religion. Fans of the other schools in old KVC would give them the business over it"
I was at Charleston Catholic in the LATE 60s - aside from 2 basketball players of note (the second whose name escapes me), I just not see this urban legend play out in fact. Granted, kids from all over the valley came from Catholic grades schools ...
I was at Charleston Catholic in the LATE 60s - aside from 2 basketball players of note (the second whose name escapes me), I just not see this urban legend play out in fact. Granted, kids from all over the valley came from Catholic grades schools ...
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