One Thing Not Fair

[TheEgoHasLanded]

4 years ago SBEC decided to join the TSSAA even though they are located in Southaven/Olive Branch, Mississippi. Their first year of existance they were ineligible for the playoffs. SBEC was the team that had Burney Veazney, former UT quarterback/receiver, leading their offense. They sat out that year of the playoffs and then the next year they stormed into the TSSAA Division II playoffs (Back then the set up was different and SBEC played Harding, Briarcrest, ECS, Webb, Catholic, and many other teams to get to the state title unlike now). SBEC had some really great players like J.B. Fesmire (top baseball player in Shelby Metro area his senior year, I believe he committed to LSU). SBEC had many other great players that they had gotten in the MPSAA. They used these players like Fesmire and Joe Force. They had gotten these players while still in the MPSAA, a league that has VERY different rules on recruiting. In fact, from what I have heard, it is almost not even enforced. They used the same players that they had gotten legally while in the MPSAA, but would have been ruled ineligible in the TSSAA. Coincidently, SBEC went to the playoffs that third year while using those players and bumped my high school out of the playoffs...have I complained about that?

 

 

No...this is the first time I have ever posted about this. My football coach and players did not complain or ask questions...and the very next year we beat them 35-7 en route to going 9-3 and reaching the state semi-finals. It was the best record and the farthest my school ever got in the playoffs. We could have sat back and cried, but that wouldn't have gotten us into the playoffs the previous year...the only thing that would get us to the playoffs, would be to bust our butts and really kill it in the weightroom....and we did. :justwrestle:

[takedown3]

Ego, you need to get with program. You should have immediately gone to all the other DII schools and have them thrown out.

[TheEgoHasLanded]

I was a sophomore than, please forgive me.

 

 

Comments are welcomed about my tirade that I posted.

[itzme]

I was not aware that SBEC was in MS. What is the rationale for having them play in the TSSAA?? Very odd, it seems to me. I wonder where you draw the line, if not at the state borders?

[yellowdog]

I was not aware that SBEC was in MS. What is the rationale for having them play in the TSSAA?? Very odd, it seems to me. I wonder where you draw the line, if not at the state borders?

Out of state schools are not allowed in TSSAA, but the SBEC situation was unique. I don't remember the specifics, but it had to do with the school being in the TSSAA while it was in Tennessee, they then dropped out of TSSAA and when rejoined were moving across the street into Mississippi and owned land in Tennessee where the school used to sit -- or something like that.

[CoachtFAN]

Most of the teams SBEC plays are in Memphis. I guess they figured it was easier to play a bunch of schools close by instead of traveling to every small town in MS.

[TheEgoHasLanded]

And yet still...

 

No one says anything, but supports what I said, gives me a tissue and goes to the next thread lol.

 

 

 

How will I ever get over this tragedy that claimed 5 months of my sophomore year? If we don't go to the playoffs or win a state title, then it simply isn't fun and it isn't worth doing...