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The old classic "a player fell down so we got to call a foul." The only issue I have with basketball officials is they do call the reaction and not always the action.

Again, I didn't watch the game, but I listened to the game and followed the box score starting about 4 minutes to go in the fourth quarter. The radio announcer said McNeal had a technical foul earlier in the game. The box score had both teams near the same amount of free throw attempts, and South Side ended with a 15 FT advantage. These officials are happy to be there, they may not be in Murfreesboro ever again. Some may retire, some may not get the opportunity to go back, some may move up to the college level, and so on. Again, these guys are just normal human beings that will go to work Monday on their normal jobs. These aren't college officials where they'll travel 2-3 hours to call that game, and move on to another city. The HS officials are probably not as strong mentality to let whatever McNeal said, go. College officials probably could careless about what he said (if he said anything). But apparently he had to say something that got those officials a little sensitive and changed how they were calling the game. Because the box made it clear that was the case.

The box score tells you everything, I don't know if what happened to give McNeal the technical foul, but it played to their advantage. Elizabethan shot 12 FT's in the 1st Half, 8 in the 2nd Half, and 8 in OT. South Side shot 6 FT's in the 1st half, 20 FT's in the 2nd Half, and 15 in OT.

Listening the game on the radio, it appears every time a South Side player falls to the floor, the officials call a foul.

46 free throws in this game. 46

Man, it looked like that was a bad call at the end.

Is Hardin County the first team ever to host 7 games in a regular season?

No, this is also wrong, even though Dyer County/South Gibson played each as well Gibson County/Riverside will tomorrow. I just don't want South Gibson/South Side's season to end if they were to meet up in the first round. They played each other in district and region tournaments, for them to meet up in Murfreesboro and play each other again, and for one of their seasons to end, is not fun and fair for the players. At least end their season by playing another opponent.

Agreed, I wouldn't mind changing it up a little bit. Maybe each association from I-65 and West call the girls tournament, the association from I-65 and East call the boys tournament. I don't know how they're doing it, but I don't want 3 random officials who haven't worked a game together/don't know each other, call a single elimination tournament with lots at stake.

The southern part of West TN has good officials, but I heard the northern part is pretty bad. Luckily, I was told the southern part (like the Jackson officials) service Gibson County

And your first part is why I don't think many umpires will enforce the rule. I know in the past players aren't supposed to wear jewelry. However, high school was the only age group that didn't let players wear any jewelry. The players could wear it when they were kids, they can wear it in college and pros, but not in high school? Why is that? And no, "safety" is not an answer to that question, because the players wore jewelry before they played high school ball.

Last year, we had over 100 head coaching openings. I have no idea what the number is so far this year, hopefully somebody will know. Few things: A) we got coaches are being selfish and coaching for themselves and not the "kids." Even though they will tell the media they're coaching for the "kids." Two people I think are Tyler Turner and Morgan Cruce. Turner was at Liberty for 3 years, than one of the Panola schools in MS (outside of Memphis) for 3 years, than Goodpasture for 1 year, down at Jackson, MS for a year, and now he's at a school in the Little Rock area. Cruce was a head coach I think at Gibson County, then he went to a school in Arkansas, and then I think went to Bethel for a year and coached there, Henry County and coached there for a season, then he went to Brighton and was the head coach for one year, and now he is at Univ. of North Alabama where he is an assistant coach, reunited with Brent Dermon. There are two of them on top of my mind that are always "looking" for jobs at the end of season and not being happy and content with where they're at and building that program. b) I don't think schools are as patient with a coaching process and development (I can usually tell at the end of year 2 if a coach is "good" or not). C) Simply politics within the school and the school system. D) coaches will likely leave for another position if they don't feel like they're being compensated enough. Whether if that's facility upgrades or somewhat of a pay raise. If a team is being fully successful on the field and the players are doing well in the classroom and off the field, and the school system isn't doing something nice (like new uniforms, weight room upgrades, new upgrades, etc.) to reward the program, then a coach may sit then and say "the heck with this" and go somewhere else. I do think coaches spend a lot time away from their own families during the fall, and they just want the appreciation to be there. Those are just some of my ideas.

I'm just saying that Brown will get considered for the award, but will likely not win the award because his usage rate may not be there (he won't have many carries is what I'm saying. Not enough carries = not enough yards) and he won't be playing a lot during the second half of some games (but the games against Peabody, St. George, and Lausanne should be his games to persuade the voters he can win the award).

Got cha!

There's simply not going to be a perfect way to execute this plan. I do understand there are some frustration, but no one is going to be happy whether if we do this process or if we do it through a computer metric system. With that being said, I do like Upperman in AAA. Have a feeling it'll be their tournament.

The sad thing about Kumaro Brown is that you put him on McKenzie's team, he'll win the award. If you put him on Moore County or Bruceton, he'll win the award. Kumaro Brown probably should've won the award last year. 1,000 yards rushing and only 70 carries for MASE in 14 games (I don't know if that 1,000 yards rushing with 70 carries is a regular season stat or not). When Kumaro Brown has the football, he will probably be the best player on the field. And he also an effective two way player. Kumaro Brown is in a lose/lose situation here. If he can't pad his stats because MASE is up 35-0 in basically every game they had last year (other than McKenzie) so he would ended up being taken out of the game and mercy rule is in effect. He doesn't really need the ball for MASE to be successful as other players are from other schools. But if he does do really well stat wise, then he and MASE would be heavily criticized because they played a fairly light schedule. Lausanne, St. George, and Peabody would be 3 of the MASE non-region opponents (see what happens when Coach Miller now has the opportunity to create his own schedule?) Lausanne had two losses last year to CPA and Bartlett (two teams that played past Thanksgiving), St. George is a D2-AA private school team that will play in a competitive class. Peabody was eliminated by MASE last year in the playoffs. I don't know what the Tide has returning, but I know Jacobs will have them prepared this fall. So Miller has answered the scheduling aspect of things, he did what he can do.

I always figured the football playoffs would be better if they used an analytics/computer ranking system determining a team's success. Similar to the Z-plan, but teams won't get the benefit of beating bad teams in football, and bad teams won't get punished for losing to a great team, may even get credit for hanging in that game.

Make it 18. Northeast is available.

TCA job is no longer on the bulletin board.

You made a major mistake by claiming I'm a fan of that school down there. I'm a North Side by heart! Not that other school

Relaxxx. Just go hit up the Catfish Cabin and enjoy a fish fillet

She probably needs to run for mayor in Dyer. Heard lots of people in Dyer were upset over the election y'all had in November. Point being: I know Greenfieldfan is saying Greenfield's team with Chloe and Tess would be the best team ever, and I doubt that's true. I will take those North Side girls with LaVanda Ross, Sha Brooks, Gwen Delk and a good complimentary support cast over what we have witnessed at Greenfield. I'm sure the same with you and the GC girls in 09/10. Agreed with what you said, fans can pick the best "team" from their school and can figure out how they can beat those recent Greenfield teams. Goodluck in Loretto

I'll definitely take my 2005-2006 North Side girls over any of those Greenfield teams that Tess and Chloe were on. It's not a shot at Greenfield either. Not to mention the 04-05 North Side girls with Sha Brooks on it, and even the Dyersburg girls in that same year.

That last part is new. I knew the three game series is true, I know the double elimination is true. Back to the 3 game series, I do think all 3 games are at the higher seeds field, but I do think the "road" team will be the "home" team in one of those games. I don't think they're literally going to drive to that place to play that game.

You're delusional if you think that's going to get enforced by the umpires.