Are these games using a shot clock?

2 hours ago, Shotwhisperer75 said:

Dumbest set up ever! Who even thought this was a good idea. Embarrassing. 

Speechless, but what are you going to do with your back against the wall…. Gotta let them play even in not ideal stadium conditions….. at least we are local. I can’t imagine what the teams from way out of town thought. 

Would Have a better view of it if we’re at Turners.

Yes I went to the game. Stood at ground level behind the bleachers about 20 feet from the court. Absolutely embarrassing setup. I talked to someone from Darell Peterson's camp and they were appalled and said they are never coming back. 

Hold it at a different school each day, shoot a middle school if you have to; but this setup is abhorrent and can’t happen. 

If they want this as a yearly event how do they recover from this? As has been mentioned you come Florida and other states to play there?!? ?

Same thing I brought up weeks ago, the set up at Griffin has no good way to have a crowd.  Such a shame, you could have sold thousands of tickets to each pair of games or evenings' slate and had an awesome event.  If the goal was to showcase the facility, that clearly back-fired.

11 hours ago, Voice of Reason said:

What about parking? How did they handle that?

Likely not much of an issue with that crowd. There are more people up there on the weekend for the Hustle league games and flag football games.

11 hours ago, kyag said:

Are these games using a shot clock?

Yes. IMG Academy got called for a violation in their game against Lloyd tonight. 

Other points ~ 

1. I think if you're going to charge $10 for a livestream, it would be great to provide an announcer or two. The PA gun was excellent though and the video quality was top notch. 

2. I watched both games tonight off and on during a family get together. Two former D1 ballers looked over my shoulder occasionally to check out the action. Both were impressed with the level of play - both were appalled by the venue/court setup. 

Really hope they can pull it together next year and find a school/arena worthy of the talent on the floor.

Need to have it at Spooky Nook in Hamilton Ohio. 14 courts, hotel across the street, 3 airports within 1hr1/2, plenty of room for people. Charge double and let everyone enjoy any game they want. You could have a ton of teams from all over and really make it a showcase event. 

59 minutes ago, Brcatz said:

Need to have it at Spooky Nook in Hamilton Ohio. 14 courts, hotel across the street, 3 airports within 1hr1/2, plenty of room for people. Charge double and let everyone enjoy any game they want. You could have a ton of teams from all over and really make it a showcase event. 

Are you suggesting Griffin Elite organize an event with their brand name on it, is 10 minutes away from the best regional airport in North America, has more than enough nearby hotel capacity for an even larger tournament, and hold it at someone else's facility 40 miles north?

Lloyd would be perfect, they played in it and it’s 2 miles away!!

If they held this event at a large venue like UC, NKU, or X it would be even worse.  There were maybe 200 total in attendance at the most for a given game.  Host it at St. Henry's gym is the better alternative.  

Holmes or Lloyd would have been an excellent venues for this event. Glad I didn’t invest in this mess. 

Big shout out to the Griffin’s and others that may have helped organized this event and in the past, regardless of where the games have been played.  If it wasn’t for people like this I don’t think Northern Kentucky could pull in so many big teams at one time.  I’m sure they’ll get the venue logistics figured out in the future, but since I’ve been attending winter classics such as this for 40 years I don’t recall having the caliber of teams in a high school tournament/showcase in northern Kentucky at one time.  
 

The old Lee’s Famous Recipe tournament was a great local tournament, but not the caliber of teams like we’ve seen Griffin’s tournament/showcase over the last few years.