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CAL and DeSales not in due to 2A tournament. Evangel not in since opted out for All A tournament last year.

On 1/4/2023 at 10:07 AM, Tigerpride94 said:

CAL and DeSales not in due to 2A tournament. Evangel not in since opted out for All A tournament last year.

Per an article from the CJ, the LIT committee bans teams for one year and charges a $1,000 fine before allowing schools to re-enter the LIT after dropping out. They upped the fine portion of the rule to $3,000 in 2013.

Both CAL and Evangel have said that they will not pay a $3,000 fine, so it sounds like the LIT committee may be reconsidering their fine. If more teams tell the LIT to pound salt after being levied with a re-entry fine for dropping out for a year, the LIT is gonna run out of good competition in the tournament pretty fast.

Evangel's coach Larry Miller made a really good point in the article....KHSAA membership only costs $1,000 a year, yet the LIT committee seems to think the right to compete in their tournament is worth three times that amount.

Why Evangel, DeSales and CAL are out of 2023 LIT and the rule that may change as a result | courier-journal.com

Does the LIT pay any money to the winner and/or participants? Because if not, I don’t care how much prestige the tourney has, I would never pay that fine. 

3 hours ago, Colonels_Wear_Blue said:

Per an article from the CJ, the LIT committee bans teams for one year and charges a $1,000 fine before allowing schools to re-enter the LIT after dropping out. They upped the fine portion of the rule to $3,000 in 2013.

Both CAL and Evangel have said that they will not pay a $3,000 fine, so it sounds like the LIT committee may be reconsidering their fine. If more teams tell the LIT to pound salt after being levied with a re-entry fine for dropping out for a year, the LIT is gonna run out of good competition in the tournament pretty fast.

Evangel's coach Larry Miller made a really good point in the article....KHSAA membership only costs $1,000 a year, yet the LIT committee seems to think the right to compete in their tournament is worth three times that amount.

Why Evangel, DeSales and CAL are out of 2023 LIT and the rule that may change as a result | courier-journal.com

I'd have been more likely to complete this quote ...

It's a shame DeSales will be banned from next year's LIT.  They're going to have one heck of a good team!! 

? Tonight's eight matchups ~

? Wednesday's Winners Bracket schedule at Valley ~