MrSandman

One other point I meant to make which I failed to do. If a team loves to run up and down the court what is the best way to frustrate them. IMHO it's not letting them touch the ball, they'll get frustrated, take bad shots, and maybe even get a little emotional that would cause them not to play to their best ability. I'm still against a shot clock.

I still say no to the shot clock. To begin with each school would be responsible for getting, installing, and getting people to run the clock. Think about all the errors the regular clock has, imagine a shot clock doubling the chance of errors. What about the small schools that can barely get people to run the clock at there home games and now you just doubled that problem. If you pay your clock people then it doubles the expense to the school. I know our refs our bad but I actually went somewhere else and came back home saying I'll never complain about ours again. It just gives them another chance to screw up what they already do. As for the teams on the court: 1 team holding the ball 1 team defending 2 coaches. I can come up with all kinds of scenarios to give reasons why holding the ball is beneficial to a team but I won't. The only thing I will aknowledge is the excitement aspect. When did high school basketball become the purpose of ones entertainment. I always thought of it as a game that is meant to be won by one team or another. That's just part of my 2cents. /smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile.gif" />

imho a shot clock is bad for the high school level. not everyone is blessed with good or even avg shooters outside of 15 feet and need that extra time for offensive patience in order to get a shot they would be successful at. So keep it like it is.

NO, Some refs have a hard time calling games now, I couldn't imagine what would happen if they had more responsibility.

I do know that this game has playoff implications. In order for our beloved devils to make the playoffs this has to happen, JHS to beat UHS and for Cosby to lose to Grace. Which are two tough but doable tasks.

FightingIrish thanks for the information that I did not know. I was hoping to motivate the highlanders to a victory over Grace. Not that they need it, because I'm sure they are. You are right about everyone needing to hit the weight room during the off season, especially those that do not play other sports. You know how it is, when it becomes playoff time and when your team needs a little help to get in, you become a fan of other teams to help yours

Has anyone thought of the playoff scenario's. Cloudland can still make it (as I get blasted for saying that) if and only if the fans get behind the players and the players get behind the coaches. I know people will say that they can't beat hampton but they can beat grace and that's where they need to start. So take one game at a time. Yes it will help my team out too. Just a fair warning to the Cloudland folks. Do not let the knoxville referees get into your head. There will be no breaks in knoxville because of their egos (badddd), so play through the bad calls.

I can't wait to see what is behind this story at abingdon, the sad thing is this will follow the coach the rest of his life or at least he will have to answer the question what happened.

I know he's no shaq, but he can't run the floor either.

Here's the way it is. The degree from Notre Dame will carry more weight and open more doors for this young man than a degree from Tennessee.

Even though I totally agree with you about coach giving supplements to players is very bad bad bad. There's still the questions about whether or not it is illegal, unethical yes. He has stated on the film he bought it for the kids.

gonna be cold and some interesting results

This is a tough opinion question. Wish there were criteria's such as whether this was going to be by won/loss record, motivator, team improvement. I know for a fact that teams that are not winning are working twice as hard to improve. So please be kind and put a requirement on so we can answer!!!!!

Here is the tie breakers from the TSSAA website D. The following tie-breaking procedures shall be applied and all regular-season games, both region and non-region, shall count (After each of the following steps have been applied, item C above shall be applied.): 1. The team with the greatest number of victories. 2. The team who has the greatest number of victories over teams winning 50 percent or more of their games. 3. The team whose opponents have earned the most victories. 4. The team whose opponents have received fewer defeats. 5. The team who has the greatest number of victories over teams in its own class. 6. Ten yardline overtime procedure at neutral site Monday night at 7:30 P.M.

Thanks Rangerbook06, those are some of the things I have heard before. You are right I am in Jellico on the girls side. Clinch is scheduled for varsity competition (first year). I will try and do as much as I can to help out with scores and such. I appreciate the honesty and I know it's not personal because from what I have heard district 2 needs to pick up it's level of play to compete with district 1. Maybe this will be the year.

Maybe I worded it wrong but was refering to the region with hancock county in it. Is that not Reg 1 District 2 in A. not being rude but i can see where it looked like reg. 1 in AA

That was me that heard it from some concerned parents of J.V. players that were told there season was over before it was completed with different reasons. You know the rumor mill though, we do keep feeding itl.

New to the disrict this year, what does the outlook for that district look like. In other words what's supposed to happen? Then what you think will actually happen?

Is the real issue here that the coach supplied instead of allowing it to go through the parents and players. I for one never believed in the use of suplements, but that's my preference.

Just curious about one thing, Why is losing to Jellico such an embarassment. Since 1996 season they have made the 2AA - 3AAA - 1A (twice) playoffs. Just like every small school they go through there cycles.

Just out of curiosity not trying to argue or start something but I and Coach T readers would love to know!!!! What makes your coaching so much better than what they are getting now?

had to dig deep on the page booklet to get this topic back to the frontlines.

I do not know much about RBS except there basketball is exceptional. The community is proven to be sports minded. So why isn't there any support for the football program? Lack of winning is an easy answer, think of something deeper.

This might be the real reason that the J.V. schedule was cancelled at CCHS. There's been talk about various reasons and this might be the truth here.