PLAYING TO LOSE

**** DON'T BE SHOCKED 

TSSAA OUSTED SYMRNA & RIVERDALE FROM THE BASKETBALL TOURNMENT .

BOTH TEAMS WERE TRYING TO LOSE THE GAME .

THE REASON : TO BE OPPOSITE BLACKMAN IN THE NEXT TOURNMENT . 

THIS HAPPENS QUITE OFTEN , JUST NOT AS BLATENT AS THESE TWO . 

SOME SEE TRYING TO GET IN THE EASY BRACKETT AS PART OF THE GAME .OTHERS DO NOT .

THE ONLY WAY TO STOP THIS,IS TO MAKE THE TOURNMENT  ONE & DONE . YOU LOSE AND YOU ARE OUT .

AS LONG AS MULTIPLE TEAMS ADVANCE THERE WILL ALWAYS BE TEAMS JOCKEY-ING FOR POSITION .

TOURNMENTS SHOULD BE WIN OR GO HOME . THERE SHOULD BE NO SECOND CHANGES AT TOURNMENT TIME .

**** TOLD YOU 

MEMPHIS FANS ARE UPSET . THE TIGERS ARE ONLY A LONGSHOT TO MAKE THE BIG DANCE .

I BELIEVE MEMPHIS HAS TO WIN THE CONFERENCE TOURNMENT TO GET IN THE SHOW .

SAYING THAT,MEMPHIS IS JUST AN AVERAGE TEAM . JOSH IS JUST AN AVERAGE COACH AT BEST .

THE ONLY THING NOT AVERAGE ABOUT THIS YEARS TIGERS IS THE EXPECTATIONS OF THE TIGER FANS .

THE DEMANDS IN TIGERLAND ARE AMONG THE HIGHEST IN COLLEGE BASKETBALL .

AND MAYBE THEY SHOULD BE ! JUST CONSIDER THE COST .

THAT BASELINE SEAT I OCCUPIED DURING THE UCONN GAME WOULD COST ME MORE THAN 6K FOR THE SEASON .

WHEN YOU ARE SHELLING OUT THOSE KIND OF DOLLARS YOU DEMAND RESULTS .  THE MORE MONEY THE MORE PRESSURE .

**** SPREAD TOO THIN 

THE MEMPHIS HIGH SCHOOLS TEAMS DON'T SEEM AS DOMINANT AS USUAL . 

THEY ARE STILL THE STRONGEST STATE - WIDE BUT THE GAP IS NOT AS WIDE .

I FEEL THIS IS DUE TO THE LARGE NUMBER OF HIGH SCHOOL TEAMS IN SHELBY COUNTY .

THE GOOD PLAYERS ARE SPREAD OUT RATHER THAN CONCENTRATED ON A FEW TEAMS . 

MAYBE THIS IS A GOOD THING . MORE GET TO PLAY AND MEMPHIS - SHELBY COUNTY STILL RULES THE ROOST .


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