Ridiculous - 4 team districts

[TtownReject]

4 minutes ago, Basketball44Guru said:

Didn’t the Lady Bees do that versus Tullahoma tonight?  Missed lay-ups, shot 40 percent from the free throw line, over ten turnovers and still won by double digits.  Difference is Stone Memorial capitalized on those mistakes.

On Purpose? No that was you guys

[TtownReject]

1 minute ago, MCbobcats said:

Teams tank in district consolation games a lot to avoid best team in their district until the finals where they can lose and play again.  Until they make the consolation game meaningful or reseed after the first round of regional it will continue 

Until then ITS I AM BETTER THAN SO ITS OK WE TANKED

[MCbobcats]

Coaches who lose on purpose should be fired. 
I believe two teams where kicked out a few years ago because they both tried to tank

[TtownReject]

1 minute ago, MCbobcats said:

Coaches who lose on purpose should be fired. 
I believe two teams where kicked out a few years ago because they both tried to tank

Coach Scott at Lawrence Co. I have massive RESPECT for her. That game awesome to watch

[TtownReject]

4 minutes ago, MCbobcats said:

Coaches who lose on purpose should be fired. 
I believe two teams where kicked out a few years ago because they both tried to tank

Also why i got out of youth sports. People are INSANE! 

[Jaychapman]

41 minutes ago, TtownReject said:

Coach Scott at Lawrence Co. I have massive RESPECT for her. That game awesome to watch

She gets more out of players than any coach around / got excellent feeder program going now with her sister-law coaching Local Middle School - sleeping giant in the making 

[tnhoosier]

Easy solution, just take top 2 from each district tournament and get rid of first round region game??

[Jaychapman]

7 hours ago, tnhoosier said:

Easy solution, just take top 2 from each district tournament and get rid of first round region game??

TSSSA needs the $$

[crazzyness]

14 hours ago, MCbobcats said:

Teams tank in district consolation games a lot to avoid best team in their district until the finals where they can lose and play again.  Until they make the consolation game meaningful or reseed after the first round of regional it will continue 

None of this will ever happen because the T$$AA won't pass up a chance for a dollar, but all that aside... Taking only 3 from each district makes the most sense. It makes the district consolation game meaningful. Also look at the numbers:

 

When we were operating with three classifications, we had 110-120 teams per class. 64 advancing to regions was about 55%, and I feel that's a fair, solid amount of teams. But now with 4 classes, there are 85 teams per class, but still 64 advancing out of districts. That's over 75%, which is ridiculous. If we made the district consolation game an elimination game and only have the top 3 teams move on, that leaves us with 48 teams, which is back at (you guessed it) roughly 55%. An added bonus to that would be the district champion gets a by straight into region semi-finals, which makes winning that district championship game an even more important. 

 

IMHO, I'd only be in favor of taking the top 2 teams from districts if they made (at least for the last 4 teams remaining in district) a double elimination format, like baseball.

 

Edited February 24 by crazzyness

[crazzyness]

4 hours ago, Jaychapman said:

TSSSA needs the $$

Well, it's like I tell my child. They don't NEED it. They just want it. 

[dogtruth]

12 hours ago, tnhoosier said:

Easy solution, just take top 2 from each district tournament and get rid of first round region game??

Good point. This is the way baseball is currently set up. Why not basketball? Or another way of looking at this is if the TSSAA is all about money then why not have the top four districts in baseball go to the region?  Personally I'm for basketball just sending top two district teams to the region though.

Edited February 24 by dogtruth
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[crazzyness]

15 minutes ago, dogtruth said:

Good point. This is the way baseball is currently set up. Why not basketball? Or another way of looking at this is if the TSSAA is all about money then why not have the top four districts in baseball go to the region?  Personally I'm for basketball just sending top two district teams to the region though.

Baseball plays double elimination tournaments, that's why they only have two advance.. Don't get me wrong, I'd be ok with only taking two teams while playing a double elimination format, but I'm not sure alot of folks would get behind the added two nights it would take to accomplish that (without having teams play two games in a night, which I don't like in basketball). 

I say if we're going to play with 4 classifications, only take the top 3 teams from a district tournament, and make both the consolation (elimination) and championship (1st round by) games mean something. 

 

Edited February 24 by crazzyness