tennisguy

Just when I thought that my neck of the woods couldn't get more ignorant, Loretto comes in and saves the day! To the guy that says "anyone can win with that talent," I doubt you probably could. Talent doesn't win. Getting the talent to buy in does. Obviously, Micah got those kids to buy in. The first few years was rough building a program that had been bad since Moses walked the Earth. He did it, and the hard work paid off. Even went to the state tournament since the Truman administration if I remember correctly. But I guess anyone could do that. Looking at it from a coach's perspective, Loretto is damaged goods right now. The firing looks shady and no one reputable will be wanting this position. I hope that middle school coach can coach some hoops. From experience, I can say that middle school coaches are usually coaching middle school ball for a reason - they aren't very good. Micah looks to be in a good spot in his life. I'm sure this hurts, but he'll manage just fine. Would love to see him back up in our area where he'd be appreciated. Not in some political cess pool. And to the MLB pitcher who supposedly got this done....being a below .500 pitcher that was lucky enough to pitch for the Yankees makes you better than average (except for the W-L record), but it doesn't make you a basketball guy. Stick with what you know.

This just made me laugh out loud!

I just read what someone posted as the story in the Herald-Citizen for this game. Those writers at the H-C should be fired! Their ability to write stories without being homers rooting for the Upper Cumberland teams is non-existent. Even if their stories weren't unbiased, they are still horribly written. This was as unprofessional as it gets. I'm embarrassed for the guy who wrote it. They should get some journalism kids out of Tech to do the writing. Guarantee it would be better.

Congratulations to Lebanon and Coach Brown! I know Coach Brown from his days as the Macon County boys coach and kept his books for awhile. He was a great coach and was jobbed up here so I'm happy to see him have the success he's had! Good luck and hopefully I'll see Lebanon in the state tourney!

Tennisgirl?? Wow never heard that one before Rockingchair, it just about hurt my feelings tho. I hope your wicker busts out of the seat of that chair and ya end up on the floor!! lol

This is going to sound like excuse making but I can't help it. I do the stories for the newspaper here in Macon for the Tigers and Tigerettes. Macon played the worst game of the year against DCA and if a the Tigerettes would have just hit a few baskets here in there they would have still won. Macon was 5 of 29 from three point land and shot 30% for the game. It was one of those games that seemed to go DCA's way but don't read anything into it. I know they advance and we go home but Upperman if they do anything at all will beat this team by 45. If Macon played them ten times then they'd win 9 of them by double figures and the one that DCA wins would have to be more of the Tigerettes beating themselves which is exactly what happened Friday night. Good luck 7AA!!

Ok even though my prediction came a year late where 7AA I felt could win some games, they did manage to take their two home games tonight. Congratulations to these two and I hope you represent your respective schools well. I am still sticking to my guns that if district realignment wouldn't have happened and Lipscomb, MLK, and Hume-Fogg were still around then it might be the next century before you guys won a game but you play the cards that are dealt and you done a fine job. Ok Indian now to you. You can do whatever you want as far as deleting me on here because I don't get on enough anymore to amount to anything and I kinda wish you would because it would show a direct abuse of your big bad moderator status that you must be proud of. I've spoke about 7AA in the terms that you said were offensive for a few years now. If you deem that term as inappropriate then thats ok. You can even block the thread, I've had a few blocked in my days of being on here though I've not visited here much recently. BUT you do not go in and make a lil smart comment like that to me and then lock the thread. You can lock it without running your little mouth and making yourself look cool. If being a moderator is a point of pride to you then thats fine. Do your job and try to keep an air of professionalism in doing so. You let the power to block and edit go to your head so you go ahead and do whatever you do to this one but I'll not let you try and punk me out like that. To everyone else, sorry you guys had to read that but over the years we have had some moderators that like to wield the power a little bit too much which is bad because most are fair and do a good job. To everyone else that still has a dog in the race, good luck to your respective teams and I wish you all the best!!

Ok this is one subject that gets me going every year. I hear the 7AA fans who obviously confuse their boys teams for their girls and think they will run over 8AA and every year I refer to the 7AA district in boys as "hillbilly" basketball when they go up against 8AA in regional tournament play. With the exodus of David Lipscomb, MLK, and Hume-Fogg, I thought last year that 7AA might actually win a game. But of course I was wrong as 7AA kept up their downward spiral against teams from the west that are much more athletic, play defense, bigger, etc. Now this year I really do believe that 7AA has a chance to win a game, maybe quite possibly two. But they won't get a team into the finals though this is the year that they might because I do believe that 8AA is weaker than it has been in awhile thought Station Camp and White House are more than either than can handle. So go ahead guys, open up the bashing on me but tomorrow night my prediction of three wins for 8AA and one win for 7AA will come true

My boy Coach Brown and his gals will take this one!!

OH YES I'VE RETURNED!! Its been way too long but I thought I'd come back to give my words of wisdom and I know you've been missing them. Of course I'll have to start with my friend swanson. I hope for the love of all things holy you aren't blaming the refs!! I didn't go to the game but I know that excuse is the most over used, under deserved insult you can give the other team. It does sound like these games between the Range and RBS have been fun though so I hope you guys get a chance to meet up again and hopefully I'll be able to make it. Also Mr. Swanson, you looked in your magic eight ball I'm sure and came up with your predictions for what the Lady Bulldogs will do this season.....don't you think enough pressure is put upon these girls already without you claiming what you think they will do?? I know when you have a big fan base for a class A team like you do, a lot of focus and pressure surrounds the program but swannie the district tournament hasn't even started yet and your ranting about a state championship. Just let them play it out, give their best effort, and see what happens. And if you want to have a good old fashioned knife fight a la' Pattie's Bar style, get on yahoo and we will throw down!! lol

Greetings everyone. This is the first time I've even been on this site in 6 months because like I've said many times before, I might be approaching 30 but I do have a life which means I'm not the people in Carthage who have nothing better to do than rant and post incoherent responses on a site about highschool sports. Since I'm doing some writing for the Westmoreland paper, I had the honor of covering last nights big game. I've heard about all the rants and raves about how great the Owls were and how Tez couldn't be stopped and how Smith County was more physical, etc. I didn't read any because I didn't have to. I'm sure the excuses are pouring in right now about how Smith played terrible and how Westmoreland played the game of their lives, blah blah blah. The thing is I've heard this crap before, numerous times actually. I don't have to read any of this thread to know what is being said by the largely uninformed Owl fans. I did glance at one post though how the better team didn't win because of a dropped touchdown and a miss on a chip shot. It was blind luck that you guys scored on the opening kick off because the cover team didn't hold their lanes and you wouldn't have even had the field goal if it weren't for a turnover. Do you guys realize that ya'll had less than 90 yards of total offense!!?? You guys got hit in the mouth and pushed around all night. Your lucky that before the half Westmoreland didn't score put one in the endzone but you guys don't see when you all get lucky, you only see when you think the other team has. The big play threat that I've heard about and witnessed against Macon County was just that, a threat. Tez had a rough night trying to defend in the secondary and the hit that he tried to put on Kyle Rippy where he came in and tried to lay the boom done nothing more than made Rippy laugh as he shrugged off Tezmania and ran 5 more yards to pick up the first down. I think Tez has got speed and he is a nice player but Bass makes that team go and he had a rough night. Your coaches paniced and tried to throw the ball all over the field in the second half, especially in the fourth, and until the last drive they didn't even have to. You guys got beat, toughest thing for you all to admit for some reason but you did. More than likely I won't be back on this site for another six months which I'm sure gets you guys really depressed but I do have a life so keep the excuses rolling. Westmoreland really appreciates the good blackboard material that was given on here so make your excuses that way they can have even more to go on if you guys happen to meet up again

Ok I really don't like the classless cry or calling anyone classless because they are pulling for one team over another, even if it is a team that is in their area. These teams don't get along really well around here and I don't think RBS if they were the ones sitting in the stands that they would pull for any of the teams that were listed. You can cheer or boo whoever you want, free country. If you don't like it then move. Personally who someone cheers for doesn't amount to anything in the grand scheme of things. The games is played on the court and what happens in the stands has no bearing on anything. Just because some of you believe that you have to pull for the team in your area doesn't mean everyone has to think that. Do you think UT pulls for Alabama or Florida when they go to a bowl game, certainly not! Those teams are classified in UT's area but they wouldn't cheer for them against anyone. Basically someone just needs to quit their crying. It wasn't classless move by any of the players on the other team, it was simply their choice.

Wow, tennisgirl, that one is real original. How about this....you go to bed because people your age would have been there hours ago and you can get up in the morning, pop your geritol pills, and have a great day tending to the cattle.

Yeah thats a great idea, get the kiddie coaches in there and coach. Its a different level and your coaching against men who coaches for a living, puts in countless hours towards making their football team better. Coaching wins on the peewee level where the occasional reverse always goes for a touchdown does not equate to wins on the highschool level.

We sure do need to meet chair, we can do so at next year's region tournament but I better make sure I catch you on the first day because I know you won't be there the second.