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  1. Sure, and the Patriots shot the lights out, and that how it goes. But this was the District 1 loss that's most puzzling. SH and D-B losing I can see (Brady Lawson being pukey sick didn't help), and WR didn't have much of a chance against the Fighting Cloningers. But the 'Blazers....
  2. Leading me to wonder what happened to Daniel Boone. Huge win on Tuesday, bad loss on Saturday.
  3. I used to live in a state that used to have totally pre-assigned matchups for the first round of the basketball tournament AND pre-assigned sites for every game. The latter was intended to put every game on a neutral court, but it didn't work out that way. That state had a strictly single-elimination tournament. A team had to win five games to get to State. That state's governing body worked around its neutral court issue in two ways: 1. Instituting a seeding system for the early rounds like Tennessee and a lot of other states. Higher seeds would get home court, but for no more than the first two rounds. After that it was all neutral courts. 2. Asking schools to sign up to be neutral site hosts, creating a pool of geographically-friend places for the governing body to assign games. Nearly every time, games would go to a school that was roughly the same distance from each competing team. It was a fan- and player-friendly move that cut down on travel time. Schools had to volunteer to be neutral site hosts. Those with better facilities became regular fixtures on the tournament landscape, and I'm sure they made a little money on the deal. The host school would get a (small) cut of the ticket revenue and all of the money from concessions. Such a system requires participation from just about every member school, and agility by the schools involved as competitors and/or host sites. The governing body would give potential host schools as much lead time as possible; they'd tell a school a week or more in advance that it could be the venue, so it could make the necessary arrangements. It's a system that works pretty well.
  4. Uh-oh. If Fulton really puts it together, they could be maybe historically great.
  5. An underrated event that gets a little bigger every year.
  6. Me, too. Big fan. It can't get here soon enough.
  7. Here's one way to look at it: This was supposed to be a comparatively "up" year for Science Hill and a comparatively "down" year for Maryville. This was supposed to be the best chance ever for Science Hill to beat Maryville in the playoffs. Maryville won by 26 points and the game was basically over in the 2nd quarter.
  8. Marky Billson sends the moving vans to the coach's house the day the coach is hired.
  9. Yes. He's been the starter ever since that game.
  10. Will all this band talk cease after Elizabethton wins -- and this is important -- the football game?
  11. I'm with you, but it's never going to happen. Don't underestimate the TSSAA's ability to do nothing about anything.
  12. Thanks. I feel so bad for him. He gives that offense an extra dimension.
  13. Better than Anderson County that night, or better than last week?
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