Missing link revealed in High Schools facility envy scandal
Tonight I saw the best basketball gymnasium in Oconee County, and before this week I never knew this brand spanking new facility existed. It is the practice gym in the other end of the older Oconee County high school which might be the straw that broke John Osborne's back as far as his public fall from grace with respect to North Oconee's desire to have just as good facilities at his place up Hog Mountain Road. So it was with great interest I inspected this hidden gem of a gym heretofore unknown to the general populace. Could this have made John Osborne loose his grip on decorum? Perhaps it was a catalyst for other personal demons as well. But it does make one wonder when a visiting football team has to change in a tent at North Oconee while OCHS can handle a huge tournament of grapplers along with dozens of third, fourth and fifth grader hoopsters from at least four counties I am aware of.
This practice gym even has a plaque with the members of the 2009 Oconee County Board of Education. The facility is magnificent, resplendent with sound baffling. It is rumored that this facility was built in reaction to a father who did not want his daughter coming home at 11 pm after not getting to practice in the lone gymnasium at the high school, which was overrun by a massive wrestling tournament at the same time I was visiting the new gym. The two gymnasiums are not connected and no signage exists for the new one yet. As a parent of a child coming home from hoops practice entirely too late twice a week I can relate to the desire for the kids to get to bed well in advance of the late evening news.
I am glad that the Oconee County Board of Education supported this new facility, and perhaps I should pay attention to the legal ads a little closer to watch the bids for such unexpected expansions in the Oconee arsenal of basketball gymnasiums . The court surface is flawless, the lighting is perfect, the doors are somewhat too close but it resembles a top of the line church gym in size and will be used by the many basketball teams this county supports.
The Northeast Georgia Premier League plays games in whatever gyms they can find this side of the old Rocket Gym in Watkinsville. Today the Green team won in a great team effort early and the nightcap saw the white squad switching to green colors to lose to a tough Oconee Storm with some man child and a twin coach (Pert Plus) I recall from my Herman C. Michael gym supervisor days. The rims were frozen on both ends for our white team today, but I have warmed up to this new gymnasium. Although on these rare very cold days here, the entrances are not particularly well situated to ensure any degree of continued warmth. Such is the life in public school facilities.
Build more gyms. Support recreation in Oconee County.
This practice gym even has a plaque with the members of the 2009 Oconee County Board of Education. The facility is magnificent, resplendent with sound baffling. It is rumored that this facility was built in reaction to a father who did not want his daughter coming home at 11 pm after not getting to practice in the lone gymnasium at the high school, which was overrun by a massive wrestling tournament at the same time I was visiting the new gym. The two gymnasiums are not connected and no signage exists for the new one yet. As a parent of a child coming home from hoops practice entirely too late twice a week I can relate to the desire for the kids to get to bed well in advance of the late evening news.
I am glad that the Oconee County Board of Education supported this new facility, and perhaps I should pay attention to the legal ads a little closer to watch the bids for such unexpected expansions in the Oconee arsenal of basketball gymnasiums . The court surface is flawless, the lighting is perfect, the doors are somewhat too close but it resembles a top of the line church gym in size and will be used by the many basketball teams this county supports.
The Northeast Georgia Premier League plays games in whatever gyms they can find this side of the old Rocket Gym in Watkinsville. Today the Green team won in a great team effort early and the nightcap saw the white squad switching to green colors to lose to a tough Oconee Storm with some man child and a twin coach (Pert Plus) I recall from my Herman C. Michael gym supervisor days. The rims were frozen on both ends for our white team today, but I have warmed up to this new gymnasium. Although on these rare very cold days here, the entrances are not particularly well situated to ensure any degree of continued warmth. Such is the life in public school facilities.
Build more gyms. Support recreation in Oconee County.
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