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Coaches, The BCAT Clinic is coming up next weekend SEpt. 23-24. The clinic will be held at Mt. Juliet High School and is on the floor with players. Cumberland University will bring there men's team to be the demonstrators. Speakers include: Tubby Smith Memphis Bryce Drew Vanderbilt Bob Hoffman Mercer Ben Howland Mississippi State Matt McCall UTC Don Showalter Team USA 17U Head Coach Mark Price Fmr NBA shooting coach and current HC Charlotte Steve Forbes ETSU Steve Payne Tennessee Tech Cost is $75 but goes up to $90 on September 20. Check www.bcathoops.com for registration and updates on the clinic.

Coaches, The BCAT Clinic is coming up next weekend SEpt. 23-24. The clinic will be held at Mt. Juliet High School and is on the floor with players. Cumberland University will bring there men's team to be the demonstrators. Speakers include: Tubby Smith Memphis Bryce Drew Vanderbilt Bob Hoffman Mercer Ben Howland Mississippi State Matt McCall UTC Don Showalter Team USA 17U Head Coach Mark Price Fmr NBA shooting coach and current HC Charlotte Steve Forbes ETSU Steve Payne Tennessee Tech Cost is $75 but goes up to $90 on September 20. Check www.bcathoops.com for registration and updates on the clinic.

I agree totally, he did a good job this year and is a good coach. True there were some teams with more talent in 8aa, but with that said a lot of times it boils to chemistry and that relates to personalities of coaches and players. This year wasn't the most talented Cannon team but had good chemistry.

From what I have heard they have not had as many to apply unlike what has been posted on here. Dodgen is a good coach but he will not have the talent he has had the last few years at Cannon if he goes to White County. Whoever gets this job better make sure they can handle being criticized and scrutinized because it won't be a walk in the park!

Although I think everyone does deserve a second chance, this is a little befuddling to me. Not only did he throw the game, he made a complete mockery of the game and sport in general. I don't know how good of a coach he is considering Riverdale had already won 3 State Championships before he got there, and he had a team left by John Wild that returned virtually the whole team from the 2012 CState Champion. But hey Lebanon has some great people that will make an excellent decision one way or the other.

Ok folks here is your time to be the Executive Director. What issues should the TSSAA address for basketball? This is open ended, so it should bring variety.

Well said, it is ironic this has happened, glad you noticed that too!

That means it was tougher, they were all in with the public schools, has to beat them all to win it.

What has evolved so much and what rules have changed exactly? It hasn't been that long ago.

What is your reasoning?

Who? What?

Imagine that, but they are the best in Tennessee that's why they are calling the state!

Sorry if I was off a couple million, my bad. Yet they have more classes and a better overall tournament format and attendance for the state tournament.

They could definitely do something about this too, it is simple. To be able to referee in the state, you pay them more, personally I would like to see it go up to $125-150 for a doubleheader with stipulations that you will be held accountable and evaluated by the schools and coaches after each game. This evaluation has nothing to do with whether they missed the call in the 3rd quarter or not, it should be professionalism, knowledge of the rules, and such. Remember these officials are employees of the schools they have the privilege to represent by officiating the games, they are not the show, no one pays to see them mess up a game or for that matter call a great game. They are there to see the players decide the game PERIOD! At the end of the year the officials that are ranked the highest get the honor of officiating the tournament, not the 'good ole boy system' that is in place now. I would venture to guess if this type system were set up in Tennessee, the quality of officials would improve dramatically. Other states use a similar system and it works. But the supervisors fight it hard. This is something that all sports need across Tennessee on the high school level.

And your arguement is?

Agreed. This is if and only if the TSSAA will listen to their members, which is anyone's guess. They have some issues that they never move past discussion stages, that is disappointing to say the least. They have schools in the same class that are over twice the size of others. They seem to solve the problem in football by adding 3 more classes for the playoffs, tell me exactly how that is fair to the kids in other sports? Then in some sports you have and A-AA champ and AAA champ, only 2 state champions, how can this be? And please don't give me this would water it down or just give everyone a trophy defense! Simply look at Alabama, a state identical to us in population and generally considered a football state, they just sold out their state championship at around 16,000 at the Birminghsm Civic Center. The TSSAA should wake up and have some guts to do their job.

It amazes me that the TSSAA turns a blind eye to all of this. It is terrible on the girls side. Much worse than the boys in my opinion. But the TSSAA will not enforce their rules. They only cater to one sport and we know what that is. They will come closer to ruling a kid ineligible who makes a move by the book for the right reasons than an ever doing the same for a kid whose move is shady and done because of recruiting. From what I have seen they are a joke. When they actually do something for other sports and try to enforce the rules that are on the books, I will start attending the TSSAA tournament events again, until then I am on strike. They never listen to the member coaches or schools about anything other than football. Just do your jobs and end this crap that CPA and other schools like them do!

I would say your sippin too much of Lynchburg's finest!!

Arseneault had a conflict and had to cancel last week.

Sept. 26 4-5 Registration 5 Kermit Davis 6 Mike Brey 7 Donnie Tyndall 8 Kevin Eastman 9 BCAT coaches meeting Sept. 27 7-8 Registration 8 TBA 9 Noah Basketball 9:30 Brendan Suhr 10:30 Kevin Eastman 11:30 Bob Huggins 12:30Rick Insell 1:30 Gene Menees TSSAA rules meeting The best thing to do is check www.bcathoops.com for updates, usually they have a change or two before the clinic. For he price and outstanding group of speakers every year, easily the best clinic anywhere. Every coach in the state should be there.

This is always an outstanding weekend of basketball. By far one of the best of its kind in the country. I was told the Hotel Preston is very close to sold out again so if coaches haven't reserved a room they better do it quick. 0

This is always an outstanding weekend of basketball. By far one of the best of its kind in the country. I was told the Hotel Preston is very close to sold out again so if coaches haven't reserved a room they better do it quick.

THE BCAT WILL HOST IT'S ALL-STAR GAME IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE WOMEN'S BASKETBALL COACHES ASSOCIATION AND FINAL FOUR EVENTS IN NASHVILLE THIS SATURDAY APRIL 5TH. THE GAME WILL BE PLAYED AT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NASHVILLE AT 3PM. THIS EVENT IS NCAA CERTIFIED AND IS FREE TO ALL 2014 BCAT MEMBERS. COST FOR SPECTATORS IS $5 HERE IS THE ALL-STAR LINE-UP 2014 BCAT ALL STAR ROSTER Player High School College Amber Fuqua Sycamore Lipscomb Loren Cagle Lipscomb Academy Lipscomb Shelbie Davenport Riverdale Clemson Brianne Alexander Smyrna Austin Peay Courtney Storey Lincoln County Presbyterian Jameka Braden Shelbyville Presbyterian Fallon Baker Beech Austin Peay Emily Hatfield Hendersonville West Carolina Janie White Rossview Brown Brooke Copeland Bradley Florida Rebecca Reuter Bradley MTSU Gabby Lyon Science Hill MTSU Abbey Sissom Cannon County MTSU Jaycee Coe Jackson County Kentucky Keiana Gilbert Columbia UTC Chelsea Nelson John C. Overton N.C. State Alise Parker Houston Providence Rachel Bell Creekwood Vanderbilt Derica Wiggins Oakhaven Jackson State Mendy McNeese North Greene ETSU EAST COACHES: JIM BROWN JACKSON COUNTY KEVIN THOMAS SHELBYVILLE WEST COACHES: COREY BARRETT RIVERDALE STAN GATLIN SOUTHWIND MICHAEL DODGEN CANNON COUNTY

It will be announced next week. The game has been moved to April 5th to run in coordination with the Women's Final Four in Nashville. BCAT is working with the Women;'s Basketball Coaches Association to make this a special event for Tennessee Girl's basketball.

pretty sure Boyd Buchanon won the state in 1996 and runnerup in1988