Cookeville has always been a rude team to play weither it be at Cookeville or at LA. And to top it off now im afraid to even park my car there in their parking lot. During the LA/CHS game some body went out and broke the grill off my car and stole the toyota emblem off the front of it along with all the crome on the front. Dont believe me go ask the Cookeville city police who btw took almost a hour to get back to the other end of the parking lot. I think the PA guy reading the sportsmenship quote was probalby directed more towards the few CHS fans more than the LA fans. If you think that was bad you should attend a few more of LA's games we can get alot louder than that. As for the seating there was no excuse to rope off that much of the visiting side knowing that most of the home side would be wide open. You would never get treated that way at a Livingston home game.
Allow me to throw in some more things about the strange crap that goes on at Cookeville High School
when Basketball games are going on. Last year I think they had a couple of games with the guard rails all pulled out on one end and then in the middle where the guard rails stuck up about 3 or 4 inches right in the middle of where people had to walk. I wrote the Principal of the school and he hum hawwed around trying to think of an excuse of why the rails shouldn't be there and finally decided that they really ought to be there after all and they put them back up.
Water fountains used to be all turned off. I wrote him again and he said they were having problems with them which was strange since also the year before they hadn't worked and he assured me that he would get them fixed. In the Mid South Classic, I think they still wasn't working. They were working the last game with LA. I suspect that they turn off the fountains so you will have to buy the $1.50 or more bottle of water.
Before a game last year on Saturday, I beleive this was a Mid South Classic day and they had the gates at the front of the high school closed and a bunch of people were trying to get in that way.
They finally did open them, but notice at Cookeville High School, everything has to be done backwards.
Go in the rear to get in as you mentioned, use the back entrance streets, etc. In addition they can't count at the consession stand. I can truly say that Cookeville High is the worst place that LA ever plays in terms of mess ups. One more thing is the crowds. LA always outnumber the Cookeville fans
and I have never saw them outnumber LA, and I have been going to the game for years and years.
Wildcat70