Only district teams "Have to play" each other in basketball. The rest of the teams are chosen by each high school team's coaches and athletic directors, so this is not true at all. If the team was afraid to schedule him, then they would have just gotten another team to take their place.
Now I agree with East TN starting with the Fulton run then Alcoa sneaking that 1st one out then repeating (That Carter kid was the best I've seen at the High school level). I think ya'll have been drinking that West Tn water lol. Hats off to East TN basketball but that run is over lol.