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trash...absolute trash....hey..look...page sucks now..lets all read in length about how good they are at sucking...hundreds of other stories..I am just shocked N&R has not re lived the Trent Welbourne blocked field goal returned for a touch down for the state championship...which was played...at grimsley...however...the big point is...I bought the paper..i read it...i gave feed back...just did not think that on a sunday after the first round of the high school football playoffs...covering Page is a good idea...now...a profile on what a great great job southwest has done....wow...what a great ending to a very good story...battled in the end w ex arch rival ragsdale, how did yall miss that one???Ragsdale who usually blows southwest out every year, was taken off Southwest schedule...the only way they would meet was in the play offs...you cant seperate these two schools...they are just bound to fight...this fight was all the way to over time...then...Southwest loses...this time close...not a blow out...this time in the play offs...they lose..heart breaking...a playoff win against ragsdale would have set the program ahead for a long time....So...now...we can ask....who is going to play college from this team..who just played their last game...against the team they loved to hate...and played them tough..honorably...who is coming back...is ragsdale scared...did the re assignments level the playing field....southwest had a huge huge step in playing the tigers that tough in the playoffs....hats off cowboys...saddle up next year! Instead we get more page....great...dont forget to give a few haywood jeffries moments. Page...yipppeeeeee

and I know his name is tripp...we just like to call him trent...he did go to page ya know.

Not understanding at all what Ben is talking about (above), I think the story on Page is fine as an in-depth, season-long inquiry. However, the timing is strange. My daughter (here last night, GHS 1999), informs me that Grimsley is in the playoffs, a not-so-often thing that probably got coverage (I don't follow sports, heretic that I am as a southerner). I assume that you ran the story because it's football season but if news is timing, wouldn't the story have done as well and stood on its own AFTER football season and the highlight could have gone to Grimsley's achievement? In other words, good story. But why right now?

As a transplant who couldn't care less about high school football, it didn't bother me WHO you profiled. I'm just here to give it up (again)for Jerry Wolford, whose eye-popping imagery really spiced up your front page. Now if only you can get him out of my frame during the next breaking news scene...

I am a junior at Grimsley High School. I am flabbergasted by your coverage of Page’s football season and now with the seven-part series about their season. Get real! Grimsley won the game with Page – did we get front page… NO - it was Page and their pep rally. I believe with a score of Grimsley 41 to Page 14 we deserve a little more coverage than we received on October 1.
The News and Record needs to realize there are other schools in the Greensboro/High Point region and cover real sports news like winning first round of playoffs and maybe tell us about the teams still alive for playoffs.
Please don’t show partiality because a lot of us out here don’t care to hear Page’s excuses for not having a successful year. They made the headlines in the past rightfully so when they were winning.
Why has Grimsley not made the front page of your paper or did you not hear that we are number one in the West Metro 4-A Division? Page’s season has ended but, Grimsley and other schools have high hopes as they continue their success this football season.

Sue, actually in our view the timing is just right. Page's season is over. They just lost their playoff game. But the football playoffs continue so that, on the high school level, the interest in football is still high. And there will be plenty of time to continue to recognize Grimsley's, Dudley's, HP Central's, Northeast's, Ragsdale's, et.al. accomplishments.

LeeAnn (Jessica), Grimsley is having a great year. I know, I have a daughter who's a classmate of yours. But you're wrong about our coverage. Both Page and Grimsley were on the front page on the day of their football game. And Grimsley has been on the front of the sports section a couple times, including the Saturday after the Whirlies beat the Pirates. (As you say, there are other teams in Guilford County that are also competing for the state championship besides Grimsley so that they need to get some of that front page space, too.)

We published all the teams still in the playoffs both yesterday and today. And we'll do it again next Friday and Saturday.

Bear in mind that back when we committed to do this series on Page -- August -- we purposely looked for a team that was facing a big challenge....not a team that we were predicting would win a championship, although we probably wouldn't have picked Grimsley then, either.

I agree you had a small picture of three or so girls from Grimsley on the front page under a huge picture of Page's pep rally where the pirate is chasing the whirlie around - it still does not show the kind of coverage that Page is getting not just this week but all year long. I am looking forward to some positive coverage of other football teams as the season continues.

Don't worry. You'll get it.

Through my many years of looking at the Greensboro News & Record's "Sports Page" everyday, I have never seen a losing team (Page Senior High) get the publicity during this time of year (High School Playoffs) that they are getting.
Yes, I am a Grimley High supporter!
It gauls me that the Greensboro News & Record will publish 2 > full pages of a losing team (Page...who is out of the playoffs) than to comment on the winning programs throughout the city and the state.
Don't waste our everyday reader's time protecting someone's agenda.
By the way, Sunday's sports page is a great time for the NFL coverage... and if you have noticed, the Panthers (Carolina) are doing pretty well this year. Fill up your sports page with winners not losers!
Expect Carolina in the Superbowl.

TK

John explained clearly why Page was chosen in his original post. The story of that team's struggles provides a story that is recognizable to more readers than one on this year's powerful Grimsley team.

And I hope that some Grimsley supporters might understand why supporters of other schools might laugh at a complaint about coverage. Through the years, Grimsley has gotten more than its share of N&R ink, particularly before the school sytem merger.

The page story should have been run mid season..the playoffs are here..the best story of the weekend was the swest cowboys vs ragsdale...swest had to fire to asst coaches that week and still played an awesome game against a team that beat them so badly in the past that they took them off the schedule...that would have been good...hearing about page now is just kinda ho hum

Man, this is a tough room. But hey, it was a great idea for a story (though a little reminiscent of ESPN's "The Season") and the timing, I think, is spot on. I wish I had thought of it. But it does go to show that many don't understand what the N&R was trying to do here. For a long-range piece like this you make your choice and live or die by it. Arguably, there's drama in every season for every team -- it's one of the reasone we love sports so much. And what's wrong with Page, other than it's not Grimsley? Were they supposed to just dump three months of reporting and switch trains mid-track when Grimsley made the playoffs? Hell no. And sometimes *not* making the playoffs *is* the story. This is *good* coverage. I'm gonna click over and read it right now.

I haven't been involved in the Page story, but something analogous occurs to me: John Feinstein's book "A Season on the Brink," about one year in the life of the Indiana basketball program in general and its then-coach, Bobby Knight, in particular. In the season preceding the one covered in the book, the Hoosiers had done uncharacteristically poorly and Knight's personal behavior had become a news story. Things got better, albeit not great, in the year covered by the book.

And the next year? Knight's third national championship at Indiana.

Ben, you have misrepresented the end of the regular season series between Ragsdale and SW twice in this thread.

The series did not end because one team dominated the other. It ended because the two schools could not agree on when to play the game during the season.