After watching several standout athletes pursue the grass-is-always-greener pathway through the years, area high school boys basketball coaches “quit their bellyaching” — as Chris Poore put it — and decided to do something about it. In their brainstorming, they came up with an idea to promote the top players but keep them tied to their high school. The result was 423 Hoops, an organization that combines the college-recruiting-network resources of high school coaches in Northeast Tennessee and Southwest Virginia. The league is one step the coaches have made toward trying to keep kids from transferring to private schools for so-called … Read more