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Don't get down on the Tribe just because your Coach is selling his soul to become the next Chief of the Tribe....

Paul Wade to be next coach. Not sure he is in it for the long haul though. Shorts are okay at DCA, not Ensworth.

Oh, I'm sorry. Am I not allowed to have an opinion on things based off of the close to a thousand basketball games I have kept stats for since I was the age of 12. I have worked games from AAU and high school summer camp games, to state tournaments, and even a Men's Final Four. I thought I was able to speak my opinion. I just want to know how he hurt you, or what family member of yours he cut for you to attack him the way you do, and to go out of your way to practically comment on every post that mentions how good of a coach he is or about his successes. But oh well I guess you can have your opinion and I can have mine.

I worked all 21 games at the state tournament doing stats. Where I was placed I sat right next to the home bench, at the scorers table, and I have done so all year as I keep stats for a local high school as well to help them out. I worked probably close to 100 high school games keeping stats at the table with officials from all over the state. What I saw at the state tournament in the Bradley Houston game with the ref that called the technical was ridiculous. It started with a warning to a coach for being out of his box. When you watch the film, the play is on the opposite end of the floor. The ref who called it is on the opposite baseline, and is peeking past players as they are dribbling towards him, and stops play to call Reuter out of his box 85 feet away from him. The technical foul is the weakest technical foul I have ever seen in my life. He had not said anything to the referees up to that point other than trying to figure out what the warning was for. He gave the traveling motion, when the girl clearly dragged her foot a good two or three feet after she picked up her dribble. He had already stopped giving the motion, and two seconds later the official calls the technical. That same official had been terrible the night before in the Gatlinburg-Pitman game. As soon as I saw his name on the list for day three I was concerned. Even after he called the technical, he could be seen staring Reuter down out of timeouts, and when the play was on his benches side. He had been staring him down the entire game. Meanwhile, in the AA state final Upperman's coach is at half court, all over two officials, and I hear "Coach get back to your box, we will figure this out." Bradley was only told that there could have been better communication between the officials and coaches about giving hand signals and that life isn't fair sometimes. I find it ridiculous. I have lived in other states and in the West Virginia Secondary Schools Athletic Commission (WVSSAC), the coaches rate the officials after every game 1-5, with one being the best, and if they give them a four or five, they have to write a letter to the state explaining why they gave them that. Officials also have to fill out a report after every technical they give, and explain why they gave it, and it also has to include the two teams, score, time and quarter of the game. The TSSAA has no accountability, and I find it extremely frustrating. I will give them this. That official did not call a state championship game, but was a stand by official. At that level I feel that the TSSAA is not only the one to blame. The assigner for the Middle Tennessee association (the association that specific referee was from) should be asked why he recommended him to call the state tournament. There needs to be more accountability not just for officials, but for the TSSAA as a whole. Until there is, you will continue to have problems like this, and the way it is looking it will only get worse.