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Two Tennessee Girls Basketball Teams Try to Lose
Posted on 2/24/15 at 10:45 am
Posted on 2/24/15 at 10:45 am
This happened in the largest classification of high school athletics in Tennessee. Both teams felt that losing would be better for their playoff bid - so they both tried to lose.
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TSSAA banned both of them instead. Right decision?
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TSSAA banned both of them instead. Right decision?
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Posted on 2/24/15 at 10:46 am to anc
Girls basketball... In the end they all lose anyway
Posted on 2/24/15 at 10:46 am to anc
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This happened in the largest classification of high school athletics in Tennessee. Both teams felt that losing would be better for their playoff bid - so they both tried to lose.
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TSSAA banned both of them instead. Right decision?
absolultey and the coaches should be fired
Posted on 2/24/15 at 10:46 am to anc
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Posted on 2/24/15 at 10:47 am to anc
wir wissen
Posted on 2/24/15 at 10:47 am to anc
yes
Posted on 2/24/15 at 10:48 am to anc
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In the 3rd qrt I finally called both coaches together when a Smyrna player was about to attempt a shot at the wrong basket (but there was a 10 second violation call before they attempted the shot) on purpose. That is when I called both coaches together and told them we are not going to make a travesty or mockery of the game. WE ARE NOT GOING TO START TRYING TO SHOOT AND SCORE FOR THE OTHER TEAM.
Posted on 2/24/15 at 10:49 am to anc
Wouldn't it have been easier to come up with some bullshite reason to have to forfeit?
Granted that gives you're team the loss of course.
Granted that gives you're team the loss of course.
Posted on 2/24/15 at 10:49 am to anc
My initial reaction is that nothing is wrong with this. It's no different than forfeiting the game, right?
Posted on 2/24/15 at 10:51 am to anc
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In the 3rd qrt I finally called both coaches together when a Smyrna player was about to attempt a shot at the wrong basket
Posted on 2/24/15 at 10:52 am to anc
That was painful to watch. Both coaches should be fired.
Posted on 2/24/15 at 10:53 am to anc
What a fricking disgrace to athletics. Both coaches should be bitch slapped
Posted on 2/24/15 at 10:53 am to anc
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TSSAA banned both of them instead. Right decision?
Sounds like they have some issues with their bracket process. Just like in the nfl with the draft, if you incentivize a team to lose, then you can't blame them for doing it.
Posted on 2/24/15 at 10:54 am to anc
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Smyrna trying to hand Riverdale the ball back. Then intentionally getting called for a backcourt violation.
Posted on 2/24/15 at 10:56 am to anc
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Girls Basketball
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Teams Try to Lose
How the frick could they tell? Have you watched girls basketball?
Posted on 2/24/15 at 10:58 am to anc
Both coaches should have been more subtle, but I get the strategy.
Posted on 2/24/15 at 11:14 am to anc
Why do you punish the kids that were just following the orders of their coaches
Posted on 2/24/15 at 11:17 am to anc
After more research, it turns out their bracketing was the problem.
Why in the frick would the loser of a consolation game get to advance???
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When the Riverdale High School and Smyrna High School (Tenn.) girls basketball teams met in the District 7-AAA consolation game Saturday night, facing them were a perverse set of incentives. The winner would be on track to face national power Blackman in the semifinals of the Region 4-AAA playoffs, while the loser wouldn't meet Blackman until the finals (assuming they made it that far).
Crucially, two and only two teams from the region advance to the state sectionals. If they assumed they would lose to Blackman—both teams already had once this season—the only way to advance to the state sectionals was to lose in the consolation game and be placed on the opposite side of the bracket as Blackman. So, both teams intentionally tried to lose.
Why in the frick would the loser of a consolation game get to advance???
Posted on 2/24/15 at 11:18 am to anc
Both schools fined $1,500. I didn't know they fined high school sports teams. I thought they just banned them
Posted on 2/24/15 at 11:54 am to anc
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Smyrna player was about to attempt a shot at the wrong basket
I'm literally laughing out loud at the thought of this. There's got to be better ways to try to lose than to be that blatant about it. It's against the spirit of competition and has not place in sports.......but I'm all for doing everything within the rules to win. It's not a written rule, but you know it's not going to sit right with everyone. Therefore, do it so that no one realizes and it doesn't get brought to everyone's attention. Don't shoot at the wrong basket and stand in the paint
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