Sportsaholic Mamaw

Yes, there is some responsibility for truth. I'm not from a football school and I know nothing about you. What they're doing just isn't right. I think your situation can be applied and discussed anywhere. It's sad enough that they take a little bit of smoke and thru their own embellishment get a real bonfire blazing. That is impossible to address, maybe don't dignify it with a response. However, the flat out lies are a defamation of character and that person is trying to deny you the right to earn a living for you and your family. And that is so wrong. I don't know if you can prove they made those statements, but if you can I would seek some form of restitution. Even if it's the satisfaction of a formal apology.

Yes you have, I noticed that. Just want that vote for seeding BAD at BCHS, I guess. But I don't have a vote anyway. Told Papaw, at least in my case, we are keeping it all in the family. :thumb: Do you know anything about the disagreement between the BCBOE and the AIBOE?

No way in Hades.

Wow!

I'm not demeaning the award winning efforts of any athlete. I just couldn't care less about how other states run their programs. I am saying that the way it has been done in Kentucky, is the very reason we have the Sweet 16. A one of a kind experience. From listening to the Sweet 16 on the only radio a family owned or driving the car in the direction of the radio station broadcasting the games, so we could hear the games. Watching it for the first time, on television on Ch. 19 out of Newport,Kentucky . Making the trip to Freedom Hall to see it live, sacrificing spring break for love of the game. Then watching it the first time in Rupp Arena. Many of these young men, playing in Freedom Hall or Rupp Arena, had never played in a gym that held more than a couple hundred fans. It was THE pinnacle of basketball and to win it all was something an athlete dreamed about growing up. From their very first shot made thru a woven wood basket nailed on the side of their barn or corncrib. As you said you're not a native Kentuckian, so you didn't live, sleep and eat basketball. Lots of small schools couldn't field or afford a football team. But they could put a basketball team on the floor. THE SWEET 16 is the ultimate TRADITION and that's what you don't feel. It is the way we do tradition in Kentucky, it Is the right way and ALWAYS should be. I hope.

Totally needs mental help, not some kind of sensitivity training. What kind of person just says shoot someone?

Taken from story in Lexington Herald Leader by Mark Story Sixty nine years ago, Cliff Hagan led his Owensboro Red Devils to win the 1949 Sweet 16 State Championship. Hagan would also become a player on teams that won the 1951 NCAA Championship and a 1958 NBA Championship and inducted as a player into the 1978 Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. After his epic hoops career, to this day, the 86 year old Hagan says his greatest basketball thrill was leading Owensboro to that 1949 Kentucky Sweet 16 basketball championship. Just thought this might give you another viewpoint on why keeping the Sweet 16 the way it is and why it means so much to so many to keep it that way.

Congrats to Nicholas County on a home win.

Happy Birthday TBG.

I went with my heart for the underdog and the big hard working heart of Mason Burden. Congratulations Robertson County.

I know how the All A works, my school has been to state. That's not what I took the sentence to mean. Per Warbeagle- Perhaps have the tournament game "count as a true region game". Did Warbeagle mean take the place of one regional game if that team wins their District Tournament in March?

Perhaps even have the tournament game count as a true region game? Here we go. Sorry. Let's hear how this would work with the way it's currently aligned? This rabid nonclassificationist truly wants to hear this discussion.

No where, it's just an intuitive feeling I have, I guess. I was just answering a question from another post.

I've only had Internet a few years so I know I may not know Internet speak yet. I use all caps if I want someone to feel the importance of my reason. No, you definitely didn't get under my skin and all caps for me doesn't mean yelling. Ask my sons and they'll tell you, it's when I use their middle name. I grew up with 5 brothers and have 6 grandchildren, 4 of which are boys. If a post makes me feel like yelling I use this :taz: It's hard to demonstrate emotions without voice or facial expression. This is a good discussion that needs to be addressed.

I have no HATE for the All A or All 2A to come. Grief would better describe the loss of THE SWEET 16.

No one is fooled by this persuasion argument, BUT THEY CAN STILL PLAY IN RUPP IN THE SWEET SIXTEEN. It's a slow slide to basketball classification and the end of THE SWEET SIXTEEN.

Winning it all "in your class" just isn't the same for someone born, bled and raised in Kentucky like me. I couldn't care less about keeping up with anything in Ohio. Or the country. It's the tradition with me that counts. I realize that doesn't mean zilch to some people but it does to me.

Because since 1918, now Kentucky is one of two states, the other being Delaware, who do not have State Classed Tournaments in basketball. It's the possibility of David vs. Goliath.

This is making it Class basketball. Just hasn't been sold to schools as such. Just doesn't seem like a good idea for our established traditional Sweet Sixteen. I know "MY GENERATION GAP IS SHOWING". :idunno:

If they go ahead and do this, it will be the end of David vs. Goliath at Rupp. No more excitement for Cinderella. Before, it was A REALLY BIG DEAL for small schools to win their Region. Five guys or possibly girls who had played together and stayed together since 3rd or 4th grade and knew each other's every move and strength, playing in and possibly winning the SWEET SIXTEEN. I don't like where Kentucky is headed with these classes, 1A and now 2A. To win the All A and now 2A, is a really good thing. But to this Old Timer, it just isn't the SWEET SIXTEEN.

It's a TRADITION, mcpapa , if she's loves it that much, take her to the 500 and Raceweek, she'll never forget it. Pricey but might as well take her to the best there is, THE RACE.

Used to love watching NASCAR. My Uncle raced in the Daytona 500 in 1969. I think he finished 17th. The detour he took, thru the infield after being crowded off the track before driving back on the track, made the headlines with that piece of driving. :scared: My FIL said I'd have to wait until after he got back from Daytona 500 Race before I could deliver his first grandchild. I did.:thumb: But Nascar has overregulated EVERYTHING so much. Watch some races, check to see race winners and leaders. But it just looks like a totally different sport to us old timers.

I'll go with my heart and the underdog on this one. Hope Mason Burden can step up with a big game and Senior Leadership. And Kelsch as head coach. Good Luck, guys.

What's with all the dislikes for anything mentioning St. Patrick improving? Been a tough year.

brooksville, what's with the dislike? St. Patrick has had a tough year.