GDS vs. WES
No tickets remain…SOLD OUT as of this morning at 8:15am….
If you need tickets hit the parking lot before the game or just tune into AM950 radio or www.wpetam950.com if you can’t get inside tonight….We have an audience that will join us from Georgia tonight by way of the net, so get on board, if you can’t get in….
Tip-off is 5:30 for the girls and the boys go at it at 7pm…..
High Point Christian, High Point Wesleyean, And Greensboro Country Day only hold 200 people in their gym so stop making a big deal out of this nonsense! How about when Northwest played Western in a soldout Guilford County Arena, or when Pagr and Grimsley played both times in an atmosphere where you couldnt talk to the people next to you! Get off the johnsons of the private schools and realize that recruiting players is superficial and the public schools are packing house every night with good old fashioned hard working kids with loyal fans and the true essence og high school basketball!!!!!!
I helped sell the tickets for the first WCA/GDS game and we had 1100 tickets not including people with coaches passes and cheerleaders so you might want to do some research before saying things like that. HPCA however, does have a tiny gym. GDS has a decent size gym close to 900 at least so stop acting like you know something. Don’t be upset that local public school basketball isn’t as good as private.
Totally agree with the previous comment. Just imagine how great local Greensboro high school basketball would be if some of the private schools weren’t selling false dreams and these talented players stayed with their homebase schools. The Metro 4A Conference alone would be impacted tremedously. Dudley, Grimsley, Page, WG, SE, etc would make a great high school basketball conference game every night!!! So keep praising these 200 seat capacity private schools while they continue to rob what the true essence of high basketball is supposed to be truly about. How many kids from these schools have went to major Division I schools that would not have gone anyway if they stayed at their respected homebase school? I actually believe some of these players’ stocks have plummeted! Private schools are ruining true North Carolina high school basketball!
Ok so if you sold 1100 tickets and the gym holds 900 then obviously you need to get you math skills together and public school ball is just as good hence the fact GDS goes to the little 4 year after year and gets beat by public schools, the top scores in the county are Sam Hunt and Frank Eaves who are both public school players. Montrell Goldston and Reggie Dillard both left public school to go and get limited minutes and see their above 15 ppg average plummet now that they have gone to GDS! Yea private school ball is great ok those kids dont want any part of the rugged competition and athleticism that these public schools are putting on the floor every night! Going private is a cop out and personally I wouldnt want those kids in my collegiate program because they are saying to me they cant handle the pressure of the inner city gritty public school athletes! Your child must play at New Garden Friends!
At GDS the capacity is right at 950-plus….We’ve been to Mendenhall and Jamestown Middle on Monday of this week, at Page on Tuesday for Page-Smith, at Grimsley, Northwest, Page, Eastern Guilford on Weds., on to Northern Guilford on Thursday and already at Southeast Guilford today and then on to GDS for WES tonight…….We promote quite a few schools and events and we are not at them all, but we do come pretty close and most say we keep it in neutral as we drive/ride across the county….Brother, we have made our stops all over….
If the rest of you would work as hard as we do and quit just talking, we might be able to turn this county around, maybe upside down….To their credit, I have seen a lot of our local TV stations, 2 ,8, TWC 14, Weaver and the News and Record out there on the route this week…We must keep on building or we are going backwards and as the lady on the phone over at Dudley says, “Failure is not an option”…….
@ Coach RL
First of all, you clearly don’t have any reading comprehension. I said I helped sell tickets for the first GDS/WES game which was at Wesleyan. I then said GDS holds at least 900. I was talking about two different schools and if you had any kind of comprehension skill, you may have picked that up. My math is fine, considering I am a math major in college. Therefore, I don’t have any kids, so none of them go to NGFS. You mentioned the little four. Yes, last year GDS lost to Northwest I believe, but can you name a public school this year that has beaten GDS, WCA, or HPCA? I will help you out, no public school, in the state, not just guilford county, has beaten any of these three teams. I am not going to come on this website and support recruiting (I don’t have a direct problem with it, especially since it is not as rampant as people think, but I will not endorse it). But this year, and I am only referring to this year, private school basketball is better than public. That is a basketball fan, being honest about basketball and there is no argument for public school considering not a single public school team in the COUNTRY has beaten any of the aforementioned private schools. Andy and his crew do a great job covering all of the local sports and we should be appreciative, but back to the matter. You said that these players can’t handle the pressure of “inner city gritty public school athletes” yet these teams are undefeated against them. I would expect the leading scorers in the county to be from public school. Those are the kids that don’t have other players on their team at their level. They are almost required to be a one man show.
First of all, I have nothing against private schools. I coached football at a private school down in Florida; however, there were some differences (ie. no recruiting allowed period – even if its not rampant as we might think here in NC, nor were we allowed to have 5th year players); however, if that is where a parent wants to send their child then its their prerogative.
Now, there are many public schools playing not with a one man show. Yes, Frank Eaves is amongst the scoring leaders, but Page appears to have a very well-balanced team. Not to mention, they almost (yes almost dont count unless its horse shoes and hand grenades) beat GDS at the Little Four tournament; however, without the recruiting capabilities and 5th year eligibility status, I would think the public schools wouldn’t be able to hold the jock of the privates. Still not the case though. Glorify privates all you want to, but there are public schools still in existence with great coaching and leadership.
Private school basketball dominates. GDS, HPC and Wesleyan could beat any public high school around. GDS has already beaten Page, Northeast and Smith. Some of ther above comments are made from someone who probably has a son that can not play at a private school. If Guilford County Schools would adopt a rule of school of choice you would see some of this leaving public schools stop. Do like Forsyth County. Then they could get rid of the County Ad and save taxpayers money. The NCHSAA with its rules and regulations punish the coaches and kids that want to improve their game in any sport. There will be atleast 5 players that are now playing for public schools that you will see in private next year. I know of 3 myself and you will be really surprised. Chew on that. iIf you only think GDS holds only 100 you need to go back to school and learn to count.
The reason I say it isn’t that rampant is because it coaches really don’t recruit as much as people, especially public school people think. Most of the “recruiting” is done by the kids. All it takes is for one kid to go to private school, and then all his friends wish to join him. If one kid goes to Wesleyan from Greensboro like Montay Brandon did, his friends and people he play AAU with, wish to join him. People like Jaquel Richmond. Now Jaquel Richmond is at Wesleyan and the people he played AAU with and his friends try to go their like DeShaunte Carelock and Theo Pinson. Trey Chapman, who is friends with all of these guys, transfers to Wesleyan. Now Wesleyan has added 5 or 6 people in the last two years and get accused of “recruiting.” Same with HPCA. Mitch Oates followed his former assistant to a new school. Jordan Weethe followed. The trend continues. I am sure of Wesleyan, and pretty sure of HPCA, that they don’t even give any athletic grants, so can it really be called recruiting. It is a little different for GDS because I had friends in high school that got grants for basketball.
Now that we got all the whinning behind! Who won the games over at GDS? What was the scores?
@ pirates gds beat Page Pirates by 1!!! The pirates lead by 8 or more the majority of the second half!!! Page could play with any of the privates schools in this area!!!
GDS beats page, northeast, smith, and southwest Guilford. HP Christian beats southwest Guilford. Wesleyan beats Smith.
Andy does a great job of promoting all sports and a TON of schools. His site has too many ignorant individuals who post comments thus tarnishing the hard he does. Everyone should be supporting all schools public and private as they are kids playing a kids game.
GDS is a great school academically for the residents of the triad.
We are fortunate to have good public schools in our area academically too.
Andy does a very job in new age media of getting local sports scores out to the masses.
We have too many people on this board posting stupid comments about gyms holding 200 people – false. HP Christian has the smallest gym and it seats 400. Another example was GDS giving grants for basketball – false.
I wish everyone would quit debating about private verse public schools. The saying “everything is not for everybody” is true.
Private schools have a service in the community which is needed and Public schools have a service in the community which is needed.
We only here about the sports because sports is high profile. Sometime kids need the private school environment
when things may not be going as well as expected academically in public schools.
The most important thing is that we have a choice and that is a good thing for any society.
There were over 900 people in the hpca/wesleyan game. Their gym is small ut they fill it up to the rim.
The GDS gym will hold roughly 1000 people. The entire school has less than 900 students and only about 400 kids between 9-12 grade. Why would they have a 3000 seat gym with so few students. NW and Page both have about 2000 students between 9-12 grade and their gym holds 3-4 thousand when full. GDS is at least 80-100% full for every home game even when they are playing “bad” or “unknown” teams. Wenr to a game at Page when they were playing an out of town team and there may have been 300 people in the gym by the time that the boys played and less than 100 during the girls game. I have heard that it is even worst at some other schools with far less population than schools like Page or NW. The bottomline is that GDS is putting a quality product on the floor that the GDS fan base has shown a lot of loyality toward over the years. I would prefer to play in a gym that is 75% or more full each game (even against “bad”/out of town teams), than not having anyone show up beyond your family. Kids/players love a full gym whether it is 1000 fans or 3000 fans. An empty gym is a bad feel for any player in high school or middle school sports.
First off the way the lady answering the phone, “Failure is not an option.” is just part of the GCS hype. I will not even get into personalities, but it’s a school in trouble. Any GCS administrator who tells you any different JD doing us all a disservice.. Second, it’s my theory that many young men and women leave the public schools for several reasons—-Safety, academics, and a better chance of achieving academic success and retaining their elegibility. The peer pressure at the privates is on success and failure just to be cool and fit in.
I know good volunteer coaches who would rather give up coaching than deal with the system. In many cases, everyone outside the classroomm has no clue until there is an issue. Who do we have SROs in schools ?
Comments may not be politically correct, but they are correct.
The typing and swype errors, please.
Wow. Another sell out crowd at GDS that is impressive.
Congratulations to GDS on the rivalry win.