A.E. and Brainerd fight. Only get one year. Unaka just doesn't show up, gets two years!

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https://www.knoxnews.com/story/sports/high-school/2018/08/13/austin-east-brainerd-basketball-postseason-bans-lifted/974735002/

 

The 2019 postseason is back on the table for two high school basketball teams in East Tennessee.

The original two-year restrictive probation placed on Chattanooga’s Brainerd and Knoxville’s Austin East — the result of a mid-game brawl that broke out between the two teams in January — was lifted Wednesday at the TSSAA’s Board of Control meeting.

The 12-member board turned down the schools’ initial appeals in February but welcomed additional appeals once the Panthers and Roadrunners had put forth measures to promote sportsmanship.

The board voted 7-3 to lift the sanctions. 

Michael Murphy

Edited August 13, 2018 by Red Rebels

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(WJHL) – The governing body for Tennessee high school athletics ruled Unaka High School ineligible to participate in any football playoff series for the next two years.

The Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association appealed a ruling against Unaka's basketball program that banned the team from participating in post-season tournaments due to the football team forfeiting a playoff game against Greenback High School earlier this month.

Kevin Ward, the director of schools, told News Channel 11 school officials would be in Nashville appealing the decision against the basketball team.

Friday morning, the TSSAA said " (1.) Unaka High School's football program will not be eligible to participate in the football playoff series during the 2017 -2018 and 2018-2019 school years. (And) 2. The Unaka High School boys' basketball program has been reinstated and is eligible to participate in the post-season tournament series."

https://www.wjhl.com/news/tssaa-unaka-high-football-program-ineligible-to-participate-in-playoffs-for-2-years-after-forfeiting-game/871679304

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Unaka should have put 11 players on the bus to Greenback. At the coin toss they should have started a fight. If they did that they would be playing this year.  

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I'd would have got some Tush Hog of a kid from way up in Stoney Creek with a name like Rambo or Taylor or Ritchie or Peters or Sheffield and had him punch the Cherokee captain right in the nose!

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I would think the Creekers would have an opinion on this. Did Unaka appeal too soon? Should they have gotten together with Greenback for some sort of camp or community service in the Greenback area during the off season? I know they have a new coach at the U and they have been doing lots of good things. I just hate it that kids that had nothing to do with the forfeit have to pay such a high price.

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If unaka can keep the women coming out for football,  they won't have to worry about this problem happening anymore