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6 hours ago, Chiefbigfoot said:

Is Middleton good? YES! Is Middleton unbeatable? No! If you have a good on ball defender that can guard Robinson and on offense you can be efficient around the room and knockdown the easy buckets you can against them. ER missed probably 10 wide open shots and 6 of those were in the 1st quarter. If this Middleton team played in last years state tournament they would have finished behind ER, Peabody, Clay Co, and MAHS. Very good basketball team by all means but they aren’t world beaters.

It’s this year    Last year is over 

2 hours ago, Chiefbigfoot said:

Yes the one that graduated last year, if you had any capabilities of reading you would know that. 

I’ll take the high road 

27 minutes ago, Chiefbigfoot said:

Never said he wasn’t better than Elijah Groves. He is. He is not better than TAYLOR GROVES is what I said. Middleton must be down in the English department.

The one that graduated last year?  Mine and your opinion is just that. They didn’t play against each other 

Appears you just like being rude   I’ll take my English over your attitude 

Oh and Middleton play’s tomorrow and as I’ve read last year is over

Groves is a great athlete and maybe more athletic than Robinson but he is not the basketball player Robinson is.  If ER has any since they take Groves in put him in the post against the two 5'8 kids that guarded him the whole game   Too much one on one from Groves.

Robinson understands the game and plays it with a high basketball IQ, something alot of kids dont have these days.

I would take Robinson over Groves to start a basketball team every day of the week

Middleton can play with anyone. They can play fast and have the ability to be patient.  Should be a great game 

Organization. Class A girls was supposed to play last Saturday but canceled because of possible rioting.  Could have and should have been moved out of Shelby County.  Now weather has canceled all week and they want teams to play twice on Saturday and 4 games in 5 days to win out.  Ridiculous 

1 hour ago, Bobcats83 said:

It is a trend for athletes these days to play only 1 sport because you can just about play that sport all year long with travel sports.

If athletes are playing other sports and you have to beg them to play yours, you are wasting your time.  Today's kids will think you owe them or need them and will not expect rules to apply to them.  Bad idea.  Better off to play with the ones who want to play.  I don't believe the talent is all playing football or baseball, the ones that want to play basketball are already there.

They should hire Ken Bingham, worked as assistant there before and at McNairy.  Appears to have good knowledge of the game and is a hard worker looking from the outside in.

I will second that.  Ken would be a great choice

I believe I addressed the consistency factor - A foul is a foul and should be called regardless of which team it is on.

Calling officials by name should never happen.   Posts on FB by church people encouraging fans to yell at officials and posting pictures on FB implying the officials were cheating for a team is not okay.    This is not the example we should be setting 

If I implied the following I didn't mean too

From your post

" What makes your angle any better than theirs? I know the striped shirt does. But you saddled up the horse and asked for the gig. You are implying that the whistle says you know more about the game than anyone in the house except the other two who have whistles with you in stripes. But that's not the case. There are some people at every game that have a pretty darn good idea about the rules and how the game is played. "

No where in my posts do I imply that I know more or that my partners do.  I am sure there are fans that are very knowledgeable and even some that more knowledgeable than me.  But where does that knowledge give a fan or a parent the right to berate an official.  Just because they think they are "right"

I am doing the best I can do and working to get better at it.  Your post points out all the bad things you have seen and I hope you have also seen some good things. 

MY post has one message - IF you are a Christian and come to a game, act like a Christian because Jesus is right there with you.

It is not too much to ask.   Officials are supposed to be impartial and get the calls right each time, which we sometimes don't but I give it my best effort. 

Consistency - what is consistency?  A foul is a foul is my definition.  I recently watched a game out of our area and every block/charge call was a charge.  I would have to watch the film to be sure but I am fairly certain that all of those calls were not charges.  Is that consistency?  I believe our job is to get the call right.  I have done games where 1 team had 10 fouls and the other 2 and that is based largely on the style of play.  One team is driving to the basket and the other shooting jump shots & 3's.  One is playing man, one zone, style of play matters.  Fans are also looking across the court and most officials are looking up the court so our angles are different so fans often see things we are blocked from seeing.

Having coached there are a lot of people who know me so they feel compelled to call me by name when myself or another official makes a call they don't like.  That should not happen.  People who yell "call it both ways or call it on both ends" are implying that an official is cheating in my mind- I can assure you that is not the case for me.

The most important point I am making, as a Christian, is that I brought Jesus with me to the game and need to act like it.  I got a feeling that if Jesus came in person to a game with a whistle and stripped shirt there are a lot of Christians that would yell at him too, and he would be perfect

I know I said I wouldn't post on here again but after all the fun I had officiating a game last night I felt it necessary

I had coached basketball at the junior high and high school level for 22 years.  I have yelled and screamed at officials more times than I want to admit.  Not only as a coach, but as a parent. 

I NEED TO FORMERLY APOLOGIZE TO ALL OF THEM.  This year I decided to pick up the whistle and do it myself.  And yes, I did it because I love the game and for the kids.   HARD doesn’t begin to explain how difficult it is. EXTREMELY DIFFICULT doesn’t do it justice either.   It was much easier from the coaching box and the stands because from there I saw everything through our school colors glasses.

Officials have different areas they are supposed to be covering and they are not always watching the same thing you are.   Sometimes they are blocked by other players and can’t see the play.  Yes I know there are 3 out there and someone should see it but that is not always the case because we are not all looking in the same area.

I can tell you that I have missed calls because I am human and make mistakes. But I can also tell you that I watch film and read to try and get better.  But mistakes are going to happen because we can’t see everything and our angles are not your angles.

Officials are going to make mistakes but from what I have seen none of them are intentional.  Fans screaming don’t help us do our job or help your team.  I am confident  that at some point in my career I embarrassed my kids, my family, myself and  my school for the way I acted and so are you.

I am definitely confident that I embarrassed Jesus and didn’t act like the Christian I am or supposed to be.  So the next time you go to game, you Christians remember who came with you and remember there are other people watching you.

Anyone know the schedule or brackets for next weeks action in Memphis?

Is it posted anywhere?

This is Coach Forsythe and I am sorry to say that last year I posted a few times on here about basketball games.   HOWEVER I won’t be on here again.  

Reading all this stuff is disheartening. I don’t know any of you but instead of getting on here and mouthing you should be spending your time and money supporting the Bobcats.  Calling kids out by name is ridiculous.  They are KIDS and surely don’t need to read this mess.   What good are you doing for the Bobcats by all this nonsense 

The players, school and the coaches need your support not your negativity or opinions.   No coach worth his salt plays daddy ball.  They try to win by putting kids in the best possible position.   I don’t believe any coaches at MCHS would do it any different 

Support the kids by supporting the coaches.  Either help us get better and promote positive attitudes or shut up

I’m done on here and won’t be back 

Looks like a good AA bracket. Whose the favorites?

CAK? Or some one else

14AA wins again. Dyersburg missed too many Free throws but it was a great high school game

Middleton and TCA going to state

TCA and Middleton vs Dresden and Huntingdon

Should be 2 very good substate games, playing at home will be crucial

Does Dburg have an answer for Jackson in the post?

Does anybody?  

Dyersburg is basically 6 to 8 players who are all guards.  They will pressure the passer and help in so FW will have to have some guys make some 3's.  Also think FW enjoys an uptempo style which will play into Dyersburgs hands.   IF FW slows it down a bit and feeds it inside Dyersburg could be in trouble.

Obviously McNairy is a much better team with Walker on the floor.  If Brown wanted to lose that would be an easy way to improve the odds of losing the game

Has Brown ever did that before?

I Definitely say you picking Chester over McNairy is an upset.

McNairy beat em by 8 and by 5.  Chester was in both games

I think McNairy will win but wouldn't call a Chester victory an upset

FW will probably still make the finals. Bolivar is the one who gets screwed having to play FW instead of McNairy

I believe this is the first time that a 13AA sweep is a possibility. Crocket is good and Obions post pose a problem. Definitely possibility of a sweep

First time 13AA could possibly sweep

FW and SS get a bye

Chester at Lexington and McNairy at Bolivar

Lexington will win and other game is a toss up.

I don't thing SS or FW can beat Dyersburg, but I do believe either one of them can beat Westview

Dyersburg is deep, they can all shoot and handle the ball.  I think both teams that make it to region finals will go to the Boro