[RunItUpTheGut]

Offset the drive for who? You? Look it wasn't broke when we used to have it at the high schools with much better basketball atmosphere, so why try to fix it just to satisfy just a few? THERE IS NO GOOD ATMOSPHERE AT THE ARENA!!!! And NOBODY can dispute that.

I can fully understand your argument, and agree that the high schools are better, but what are you going to do when every school except HCHS voted to have it at the arena?
It more or less comes down to the fact that the arena will hold any crowd the tourney will ever bring, and schools dont have to put up with it being on campus so school adminstrators love it, so of course they'll never vote it down.

I know its a little drive for HCHS and other schools, but to be quite honest, its not that horrible, it just so happens HCHS has the furthest drive of all the schools in the region. Almost all the other schools in Bell, Laurel, Clay, Jackson, and Whitley Counties can be there in 30-45 minutes tops.