[Newjacket]

Last reply to you here newjacket. You will NOT question mine or any other member of the KMSFA's integrity any more.

First of all, as I have explained, we use this message board to disseminate information. We do not use it as an open forum to air gripes, answer gripes, or argue gripes. Especially those of Williamsburg fans/parents about the North Laurel team. Coach Carloftis was explained how/why the decision was made. He is obviously fine with it.

Again, this explanation is not necessary. You won't be getting any more. I wish your program much success in the playoffs. If you get to Lexington, please feel free to come up and introduce yourself. I know that in person you will see that all of our board members work tirelessly for ALL middle school athletes in this state, without prejudice or favoritism. I take offense to your insinuation that I, or anyone else on the board, would do something underhanded to ANY team.

My name is Jeremy Bass. I can assure you that ALL KMSFA member coaches know who I am.

I will not be responding to any further critcisms from you.

Again, good luck to Williamsburg.

Sorry, I have been out of town for the past few days. Mr. Bass, I believe you are missing the point I am trying to make. If you don't want your or your organizations integrity to be questioned, then don't make decisions that go against the stated rules of your tournament without explaining them to the general public. You can't just say the coaches and teams involved understand. Your decision meant they had less travel so of course they understand If you want your tournament to truly be considered a state championship tournament then you have to set the rules before the season starts and stick with those rules regardless of the circumstances. Just coming on here and saying I don't have the right to question your integrity doesn't mean anything to me or the general public. As they say, actions speak louder than words. The fact that I don't have anything to do with Whitley or N. Laurel doesn't have any bearing on my right to know what is going on with the decisions made and neither does the fact that the teams involved are ok with it. If you would rather me bring up situations with my team then how about explaining why your organization called our AD and tried to get him to agree to change the location of our 1st round game. The posted rules state the higher seeded team gets a play at home on Sat the 15th at 3:00. Nowhere did it say this was unless the lower seeded team didn't want to travel that far. Your answer should have been no right when they asked, instead of trying to get us to agree to it. Now you and/or our opponent have whined until our AD agreed to change the game to Tuesday. This means the winner of our game only has three days to prepare for the next round compared to the other team having a week to prepare. I actually understand our AD's concerns about player safety, but if a team is going to compete in the state tournement, they and their conference know when the playoffs start and shouldn't schedule their tournament that same week. Sorry for being so long winded, but my point is if you want this tournament to be taken seriously, then you need to take it seriously, because there are a lot of middle school parents that really want the title of state champion to mean something.