Community support

Don't you know it takes 6 hours and two ferry rides to get to Clinchport?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: burton2019</div><div class="ubbcode-body">When you're winning, the fans are out in full force. When you are losing.....its a different story. </div></div>

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I noticed the same thing last week when we played PV. I posted something on it last weekend. It is really odd because I remember when I was in school the fans were always so loud and supportive of PV. It was not like that this year for some reason. As for Coeburn I mentioned to someone else tonight that it looked like the only the parents of the players showed up tonight. As for the band or lack there of, I recall Clintwood was the first school last year that did not have a band. That is so sad, however I do remember reading in the papers a few weeks ago that there was a shortage of Band Directors in this are and that several schools were being forced to share Directors. It was in the Coalfield. It's such a sad comment on this area and the priorities of so many around here. I felt so sorry for those boys from Coeburn as they started out looking quite good in the first few minutes of the first quarter tonight. Especially when Burton fumbled the ball on their first possession. The Coeburn side was so quite. They made noise however due to the lack of people in the stands on their side, it was like a group of kids yelling at one their friends on the other side of the field. Perhaps we need to start getting adults involved more in cheering and supporting the teams in person, not just on here.

How was RCs crowd?

It was their homecoming and I thought they had a good fan support there.

RC's crowd was nice-stands full

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Indian_Dad</div><div class="ubbcode-body">RC's crowd was nice-stands full </div></div>

So about a 30 person turn out?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> Clintwood was the first school last year that did not have a band.</div></div>

Dickenson Co. schools made the regretable decision almost a decade ago to do away with all county band programs.

I am sorry I was mistaken then... I just remember last year at the Norton - Clintwood game I asked a CW Fan where their band was and they told me that they did not have one "this year" so I assumed it was a recent decision. It was the first time I noticed a band missing at a school. Do they plan on trying to get a band back together or is it completely gone?

When it comes down to it (and this is coming from a former band dork) band just isn't cool at all the county schools.

At Burton a lot of us weren't the coolest kids in the halls by any means, but the band never got ridiculed like they apparently did when I talked to people from other schools. I always felt like our athletes, especially the football team would be pretty supportive of us - even telling some us they loved it whenever we played certain songs and how much it pumped them up. I remember my 7th grade year when we won the Lonesome Pine Band competition, we had fans rolling out to football games just to see the band at halftime.

It's sad when you look at the situation across the county b/c when you'd talk to some of the old timers the LPD used to have days of big bands and whoa could you imagine that kind of atmosphere - it must have been like a college football games back then.