kentuckian

Anybody have a schedule for this tournament?

I saw the game, dude ... did you? Westview was something like 3-20 from the 3 line ... they were bricking them.

What the heck does that rambling post have to do with my assessment of the first Marshall-Westview game?

I saw the game, and my most vivid memory is of Westview bricking a bunch of 3-pointers against Marshall's zone. I certainly don't remember them getting hammered on nearly every shot.

If someone came on a message board, posted an article I wrote and attacked my integrity and professionalism, I would want to respond, too. You're the one that has chosen to make this personal. And it's pretty obvious as to which of you two has the more objective, unbiased viewpoint on the matter.

No one is defending Howard Beth's actions on here, but it seems that some of the Martin people (or at least one particular poster) is a little sensitive about the issue and bent on attacking Beth and anyone else that doesn't see things his way. Bottom line ... the tournament is over and Westview won the title. And I fail to see how the article in question was disparaging of the Lions Club Tournament ... Beth issued his opinion, and he is entitled to it. Others can judge the veracity of it for themselves. Believe me, not everyone in western Kentucky (or Marshall County, for that matter) subscribes to Beth's point of view.

Probably because he was covering the game itself, not some post-game locker room meeting.

I get tired of this argument. A bigger school, by definition, has more athletes from which to put together their team ... that's the advantage. That's why most every state has several classes.

Vashon is one of the best teams in Missouri in any class. Warren Central is a top-10 team in Kentucky, perhaps a top-5 team. How many Class A teams in Tennessee could realistically compete with those clubs night in and night out? In all likelihood ... none.

Alcoa and Hopkinsville were scheduled to be the first game this year ... that argument is bogus. The reason the game started late last year was the extreme heat. The first game was delayed because the heat index was over 100 degrees at the time of the scheduled kickoff. What is more important? A timely start or kids not playing in dangerous weather conditions?

No one said that they were. A pretty bold statement, considering that Alcoa is forking over thousands of dollars not to play the game.

What, WB and Heritage forced Alcoa to drop a game under contract two months before it is supposed to be played? I guess we're blaming the wrong people, then. Sorry, Alcoa. On what do you base those claims?

Jinxed up rules? The Alcoa-Hopkinsville game ended around 12:30 a.m., best I recall. It was the second game of a doubleheader ... the first game was delayed by over an hour because the heat index exceeded 95 or 100, whatever the KHSAA standard is. It's done for safety reasons.

And how many of those people aren't seeing things through Alcoa-filtered glasses? Bottom line ... if Warren did something to warrant ejection from a quarterfinal playoff game, it isn't far-fetched to suggest he did something against Hopkinsville to warrant one, either. And there are people that were close to the play that said he threw a punch. Regardless of your feelings on the issue and what occurred last year, it doesn't explain why Alcoa waited until June to pull out of the rematch.

I'm not arguing with your assessment of Hopkinsville's program ... I'm not about to tell you that you didn't experience what you say you did with them. But it seems that most of the Alcoa complaints had to do with the facilities and officiating, neither of which had anything to do with Hopkinsville. Trigg County is the program that's getting screwed here, just as much or more so than Hopkinsville is.