Expatriate
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Just now, SweetScience said:
True. That JC win much more shocking. 8-19 coming into tonight’s game.
Leading me to wonder what happened to Daniel Boone. Huge win on Tuesday, bad loss on Saturday.
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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.
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On 10/31/2023 at 7:32 PM, Turtle said:
I second your 2A picks! Austin East didn't lose too much to graduation and they have some good freshmen stepping in . Watch out for the Roadrunners
3A- Fulton will be loaded as well, they have the 3 headed beast back and they have a freshman player that ran KCS middle school league last season. Plus rumor has it they have transfer from a local high school that's going to add some fire to their already hard to beat line up.
Uh-oh. If Fulton really puts it together, they could be maybe historically great.
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An underrated event that gets a little bigger every year.
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5 hours ago, rebelwoman87 said:
I’m looking forward to this.
Me, too. Big fan. It can't get here soon enough.
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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.
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On 11/2/2023 at 6:52 PM, BarneySox2007 said:
Going to ask you something that don't have anything to do with this game but everyone of us on here from Maryville has had friendships with George Quarles and like to hear it from someone who we all respect and went to ETSU what you think of the situatiom there with him. Does he have time, is he over his head is the fans getting tired of him or whats going on. Marky Billson seems to be the biggest voice I hear ready to send the moving vans to his house everyweek on his You Tube Podcast.
Marky Billson sends the moving vans to the coach's house the day the coach is hired.
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On 10/24/2023 at 2:52 PM, BigDaddyDave said:
The Battle to see who is the second best team in the Tri-Cities. Yep. I said it!
After Elizabethton, but ahead of Greeneville?
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On 10/22/2023 at 10:06 PM, REBELRON said:
Is 16 the Quarterback for Science Hill now? I thought he looked good vs Maryville earlier this season.
Yes. He's been the starter ever since that game.
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Will all this band talk cease after Elizabethton wins -- and this is important -- the football game?
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4 hours ago, greengreen22 said:
Totally agree and it hurts now greeneville is looking at a 3rd no game Tssaa needs to get there head out of their buts and do something about it but they won't cause they care more about the job than these kids! We need change from top to bottom in the tssaa !
I'm with you, but it's never going to happen. Don't underestimate the TSSAA's ability to do nothing about anything.
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On 8/29/2023 at 2:07 PM, osunut2 said:
Broken ankle
Thanks. I feel so bad for him. He gives that offense an extra dimension.
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On 8/26/2023 at 7:17 PM, Mavericksinflight said:
Yeah it's a brutal schedule. With Moog out and offence struggling in redzone trying to find an identy. Mavs have alot of work. They have a good all around core talent. Getting on the same page is harder than I would have guessed but again we are playing some of the best teams. We have to punch it in because all that work to get down in the redzone evaporates and that can wear on a good team like the Mavs.
Why is Moog out?
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5 hours ago, noonesfool said:
AC for the win, but in defeat Toppers will be better.
Better than Anderson County that night, or better than last week?
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On 8/12/2023 at 7:41 AM, blazer1set said:
SH always seems to have the athletes but they just cannot get it together as a team. A school of their size and with the athletes they have, they should be crushing all the local competition. But they don't. Elizabethton on the other hand has had amazing success the last few years, but had a huge dropoff last year (by comparison to prev years). So something tells me the Cyclones are hungry and motivated. Talk around the water cooler is that SH knows they have much better athletes and they are going into this one to make a statement.... but are way too overconfident due to our opening sentence above. So I'm picking Elizabethton to play with way more control and discipline and come out on top in a squeaker. Maybe something like 23-21.
Something tells me you could be wrong. Who knows? We'll see how the game winds up.
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25 minutes ago, crazzyness said:
Agreed, the contact created by the runner was somewhat excessive.
That said, the guy in 3rd was absolutely obstructing the runner's path. Directly on the bag, without the ball. IF the game continues (I'd honestly be surprised if it did,) if officiated correctly, that runner should be granted home by rule. Wether he had intent to advance to home is irrelevant in NFHS rules. Once the runner is obstructed, by rule, he is awarded the next base. (6-1-H.2 NFHS)
I'd be surprised, too, if the game were allowed to continue.
By the way, it's now past 12:00 pm on Monday. Has anyone heard anything from the TSSAA about this matter?
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2 hours ago, noonesfool said:
Looked at the video several times the runner comes into third standing and puts a forearm elbow into the 3rd baseman. 3rd baseman not inhibiting any further advancement of the runner. HOWEVER, the 3rd baseman cold cocks the runner and the benches clear. Coaches do a great job. Some fans do a great job as well. I’d say the TSSAA working overtime today. UC runner sneaky dirty. Per my wifey, a proud 1974 Unicoi County cheerleader. Go Toppers!
If the TSSAA worked -- much less worked overtime --- on Sunday, they'd have issued a ruling on the status of Unicoi County and Elizabethton by Sunday. But they've announced one won't come until Monday. Because it's the TSSAA.
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On 2/28/2023 at 7:28 PM, HawkGuy06 said:
Oh ok! Yea TSSAA doesn’t want to spend any money. They just collect it. If they agree to it, it will be at least 4-5 years imo
(on set of "Jeopardy")
HawkGuy06: I'll take "Completely Obvious Things" for $800, Ken.
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On 2/4/2023 at 11:54 PM, DBGRAD70 said:
Well, to real basketball. What are your thoughts on the chances that the INDIANS could go deep into the playoffs this year? They looked good against The Powder Puffs Friday. But so would North if they still existed.
They're going deep into the playoffs.
Home court in the district and regional tournaments. Nobody in the Big 5 can touch them. No beast of a team coming out of the IMAC. Which puts the (clears throat) Tribe into the Sectional, very likely at home. Which means they have a good shot at getting back to State.
The only thing that can stop them is a bad night of 3-point shooting. But with three scary outside shooters and McHugh coming on, if two of them struggle the other two would pick them up.
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On 2/3/2023 at 8:45 PM, DBGRAD70 said:
It seems these days, at least in basketball, that all I see is "Tribe" this and "Tribe" that. "Tribe Nation" at the end of the court. "The Tribe" everywhere including this board.
What?
These are "The Indians" not "The Tribe". So what's going on here? Perhaps a little left wing attempt to slowly and subtilely take away the word "Indians" relative to Dobyns-Bennett?
What we really need to do is get rid of the word "tribe". Why? Because the radical Left that wants to take away our heritage is actvely trying to divide us into tribes and put labels on us. Time to stop it.
These lizard people using laptops to traffic babies out the basements of pizzerias with gas stoves and sexy candy will stop at nothing!
And how DARE Kingsport school officials call the renovated Sullivan North the TRIBE Athletic Complex!
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It does seem to be wide open, and that's really exciting. As for the Indians, they'll cruise through the district and regional tournaments -- there's not a team in the region that matches up against them. It'll take one of those "their worst game and the opponent's best game" kind of things to keep them out of the sectional.
IMO the difference between last year's state championship team and this year's team is where the scoring comes from. Last year they could get points from every spot on the floor, but this year it's really guard-heavy. Not that the back court they have won't be enough, but an athletic team that can defend the perimeter might keep them in check enough to beat them.
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On 1/12/2023 at 3:11 PM, TribalEmpire said:
A sleeper team nobody is mentioning could be David Crockett. I think they're a heavy favorite to come out of and win Region 1, which would mean avoiding Bearden in the substate most likely. Not sure who the other team could be coming out of 2 (Heritage maybe?), but Crockett has the nation's leader in assists and are coming off of a 30+ point beatdown of Science Hill on their own floor Tuesday night. Watch out for the Lady Pioneers.
Crockett does look really good. It wouldn't be a surprise to see them win their region. Their games against Daniel Boone this year could be classics.
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On 11/23/2022 at 8:21 AM, BarneySox2007 said:
This has nothing to do with GQ but for me ETSU lost all credibility many years ago when they abolished the football program over lack of support. To me personally GQ would stand a better chance at Chattanooga recruiting out of Georgia then Johnson City. Look at Science Hill High school for example, no one comes to the games. Seen to much on social media so far from fans there for GQ to have a fighting chance. Sanders got out and knew what he would lose if he came back for another year. Far as Maryville goes Derek Hunt is the coach and will be for long as he wants. I can't blame him for the lack of great athletes we once had which did show this year and to be back in the final four I would have called you a liar to your face but here we are again. Derek will have a lot of things to address this winter and some tough decisions to make but the pipeline isn't empty by no means. We've just never been down this avenue before and I'm sure he don't want to go down it anymore either.
If ETSU's only recruiting base is Johnson City, they'll continue to struggle. Much like any other FCS program that limited itself to recruiting to only city with a population of 70,000. None of which exist.
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3 hours ago, WaCoJaCo said:
The closer I look at it the more I'm sure. They're still the best team in Region 2 and Region 1 is pretty weak. They've already beat Science Hill easily, DB is an 8-1 team that plays like a 1-8 team, and Jeff. co is average at best.
It's easy to imagine Region 2 sweeping Region 1 in the first round.
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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....