BobcatFan22

THIS, back when i was in school and the year or 2 i helped out with Basketball teams would actually TRY to play defense and not 'rest on their laurels' if you don't play defense then wonder WHY the game has gotten out of control or why we're all just standing around, it's no one's fault but the players/coaches that let it happen, play defense and make them make a mistake throwing the ball around, shot clock isn't really meant to be used in non-private high school associations IMHO, just learn to play good defense and things WILL eventually come and speed the game up back to "normal" if anyone cannot handle that then they need to just stop going to watch Basketball games, this is 100% normal

problem may end up being getting an Authority that won't be easilly swayed/bought off to drop it... then what do you do... take them to court(good luck with that as i know a lot of lawyers would look at this and go "what monatary damages are there, none, nope don't want it), sadly i think they're gonna get away with this no matter what everyone does, and even if they're forced to forfeit... it's gonna change nothing and the TSSAA is just gonna go "moving on"

wonder what this means for the other half of the school on the other side of the parking lot(girls leadership), definately does not look good

if it somehow ends up Pickett vs "definately not Tennessee Temple" i'm willing to bet Pickett comes in really angry after the last 2 years of having to face them in the sectionals and will be wanting a lot of revenge, they're gonna have to get there Though, hopefully the boys stay focused and deal with the teams in their way first though

24 years actually they kinda got that wrong as he started with the 2000-01 Season for the PC Boys team(i was part of that team so i would know), as others have said it's gonna be REAL big shoes to fill, dunno who they're gonna find but hopefully they're ready for the next couple years

the only times they used a pre-determined bracket in recent times was the 1998-99 and 1999-2000 seasons as they paired they had the brackets set in advance for the Winners and Runners up from each Sectional Tournament(back when 3 teams per region made it to this stage) and they'd have say Sectional 1W vs Sectional 3R, Sectional 2W vs Sectional 4R, Sectional 3W vs Sectional 2R and Sectional 4W vs Sectional 1R; after they decided the Sectional Tournaments were no longer necessary they went with the "blind" draw instead with the ONLY exception to Blind being that teams from the Same District MAY NOT be paired on the same side of the bracket, so if 2 teams get drawn on the same side they just throw the 2nd team ball back in the hopper and redraw till they get someone else

i cant for the life of me remember which year it was... but it was somewhere between 1999 and 2002 where a top 10-20 team in the nation (either Whitehaven or White Station) was eliminated in the first round of the districts and thus OUT of all post season play; it's kinda what makes districts MEAN something if you have more than 6 teams, a top team can just have a BAD day and get eliminated(or have injuries happen going into the game or even DURING the game[look at the Pickett vs Clarkrange game from Monday as a perfect example) and as stated earlier the last thing we need is the TSSAA getting involved in anything and as stated by others maybe these districts need to look into handing out byes for the top seeds so they just progress thru as a reward for doing well in district play... but well you never know anymore

probably won't be an update until sometime mid day today at earliest, hoping for the best though

i don't get how they kept playing either, i've seen bad falls like that during my time with the team(even saw a player fall almost on their head after being undercut on a layup)... hopefully Emmy is OK by this time tomorrow and it's not AS bad as it looked, from everything i saw it, just looked like one of those one-in-a-million freak accidents of just tripping and not being able to catch herself at all and landing very bad, praying that she's ok after this; hats off to the girls for playing it thru though and still almost pulling off the victory, hopefully CR and Celina both go to the big house and bring another Gold Ball home for the UC, hopefully we hear some good news about Emmy soon

it was that way for a while with the Regions too, 3rd place is in, 4th place goes home, i was thinking this may be an option too but you know there'd be a LOT of Push-back from the schools if you did that, and the TSSAA wants to make as MUCH money as they can, so more Games = More $ so not much you or I can do about that if at all; also the reason we have a lot of the issue with the 4-5 team districts is the travel time (and in extreme east TN's case, topography) that prevents from realistically having mostly 6-8 team districts thru out the state in all classes, also some of these newer charter schools coming up with very little enrollment and very few good players sneaking in as a 4 seed due to a miracle upset in district play usually leads to these blowouts, just sayin, feel bad for KA though, 6 kids out of what... an enrollment of like 50 kids, gonna be real hard for them to ever compete if ya ask me

when i was helping out with the team for a few years we were LUCKY to get enough to have a basic offense practice and sometimes had to throw the junior high kids out there to just get a basic "visual" of what we were doing; a lot of the problem with kids not showing up is 2 fold, 1 is the parents not letting them and 2 is the fact that a lot of these kids are pressured into some type of job and a lot of the jobs don't let the kids off because "we need the help" again small town where if you CAN get the help at work you hold onto it at all costs... again this has probably changed over the last few years but last i saw this was the case; also filing discrimination, that'll go absolutely nowhere especially in a small rural town

a really SMALL one inside the gym last i remember and it's exclusively for the Basketball Team, but yea again a SMALL weight room

as stated by above, there are building blocks in place for there to be a passable(maybe good) High School Team, the problem is keeping the kids motivated to play and getting the community behind them; a lot of that has to come from the top though and considering how certain people are in the "higher ups" and how they get into those positions... yeah...

if ya look at the region Albany is in, if they were to lose about 20 or so kids they'd drop into a more favorable one for playoff purposes but if they moved up it'd be a 50/50 on getting a playoff win, where they are now though... they're usually a 2-8, 1-9 team just because well 2A in KY is a murderers rowe; also doubt any kids that go to Pickett(nowadays) Would want to go up to KY to play, plus it'd require our program shutting down and getting an approved co-op to send kids up there(or vice versa)

that'd require them starting the Pop Warner program up again, and last i heard, there's almost NO interest in it at the moment, it took a lot of "tooth pullin" to get them to start back up the Junior High Program... maybe in a few years there'll be some movement to start it back up again

there kinda are but not as many as you would think... a lot of the kids from the old "Pickett Titans" teams were rejected from Overton Outlawz and a few other surrounding teams due to "the kids having the wrong last name(happens a lot up here in the upper cumberland)" and helped fill out some numbers, as far as a Junior High Squad, last i heard there was JUST enough to field a team, problem is getting people to be Coaches for these kids for some of the reasons i said earlier; add in they'd have to participate 100% as an independent as they got ejected out of both Upper Cumberland Leagues(Tennessee and Kentucky) due to previous coaches being... well i'm not gonna discuss that, it's a if ya know, ya know thing

this is pretty much the reason, the ability to make whatever schedule they want and not be locked out of certain dates so they can get the opponents they feel comfortable playing so they can MAYBE build a program from the ground back up and get something of a culture going up there is the reasons they'll probably take another cycle to get back to Region Football, they really need to fix the Culture AND get more players to want to play AND get the Community behind it... until all 3 of those happen, they'll forever be just an "independent" in Football

i mean at this point, what do you do... try to convince a lot of these schools in East and (and parts of middle) TN to sponsor football so we can even this out... doubt that'll work, some schools can barely scrounge together teams as it is, also the way they have it now you have absurd trips no matter how you split everything in the east; they have the same problems at times in Kentucky too especially in East Kentucky

8 man is 100% out of the question, they would rather sack the program than play 8-man considering the travel distance with that... trust me i've talked to those in the know up there and that is the consensus

so... as someone who helped out with the program during its first few years in class football (since it's rebirth) most of the issue is a lack of Support from both the Locals and a few people in Power up there(school board) add in some kids are kinda told NOT to play football because "this is a basketball school" and well you can see why they only get 18-23 kids per year try out to play, add in a lot of these kids don't get any time off from their jobs to go do Practice Sessions, and a lot of stress put on the Previous Coaching staff, lack of a Pop Warner program, a not that good Junior high program(they are improving though) and well you add that all up and you wonder how they can ever field a team; i can tell ya from inside info someone did offer to get them better facilities including an actual field of their own instead of sharing the baseball field, but were told NOPE from up high(never got full clarification as to why they got told nope) add in the lack of funds and the somewhat absurd travel Pickett would have to do, the fact that they usually go 1-9 on the regular(occasionally win 2 games) to be honest i have no clue where they go from here; i'd love for one day for the Bobcats to actually make the playoffs and make good run at it but... until a LOT of things go the correct way it's not happening and that's why Independent Football is where they're gonna stay for a while and i don't see them changing it any day soon unless a LOT of stuff changes

as someone who helped out with the program during its first few years in class football (since it's rebirth) most of the issue is a lack of Support from both the Locals and a few people in Power up there(school board) add in some kids are kinda told NOT to play football because "this is a basketball school" and well you can see why they only get 18-23 kids per year try out to play, add in a lot of these kids don't get any time off from their jobs to go do Practice Sessions, and a lot of stress put on the Previous Coaching staff, lack of a Pop Warner program, a not that good Junior high program(they are improving though) and well you add that all up and you wonder how they can ever field a team; i can tell ya from inside info someone did offer to get them better facilities including an actual field of their own instead of sharing the baseball field, but were told NOPE from up high(never got full clarification as to why they got told nope) add in the lack of funds and the somewhat absurd travel Pickett would have to do, the fact that they usually go 1-9 on the regular(occasionally win 2 games) to be honest i have no clue where they go from here; i'd love for one day for the Bobcats to actually make the playoffs and make good run at it but... until a LOT of things go the correct way it's not happening and that's why Independent Football is where they're gonna stay for a while and i don't see them changing it any day soon unless a LOT of stuff changes

IIRC Indiana attempted this a few years ago and it kinda failed miserably, same with Ohio(the pro rel/competitive balance thing) at least we're not doing like the IHSAA does where they pre-draw all of the match-ups around week 6 of the season and well at that point what's the season mean except conference championships... ya ever want fun go look up who get the byes in some classes and just laugh

last i heard from up there they still don't have the "numbers" or "confidence(from those who control the purse)" to move back to non independent status so... yeah...

to my knowledge there is little to no coverage even from the Newspaper about them, as far as a roster goes... probably reach out to the Uppercumberland Reporter about that, they may have a roster as they went to a few of the games this year, just didn't broadcast any of them

if i had any say anymore in the program i'd set that up... but sadly i have no say