[Captain Backdoor]

From the link posted above:

I usually do not complain about votes like this whenever a great player/coach is selected, but this time I have to.

I think Don Story is a great man and a great coach. His Lincoln County Patriots were a quality basketball team and he carried himself with dignity.

With that said, however, he lost the Regional Championship with home-court advantage and a VERY experienced and talented team. (I believe that 3 or 4 players on that team are either being scouted or have scholarship offers) They also had coach Story to play for, this was his last year as a coach, win or lose.

I realize that Rockcastle is a talented team but everything about that tournament SCREAMED for the Patriots to be playing in Diddle, but they did not. Christy Noble lead the Rockets through one of the hardest regions in the State (most years, and I could argue this season as well) onto Diddle and took them to the Final Four (and almost to the State Championship game). How could she not get 12th Region coach of the year?

*I hope my homer-ness isn't kicking in, but I believe the committee that selected this was wrong*

I'm ok with coach Story getting Coach of the Year. What I'm not ok with is how did Jessica Upchurch get player of the year? Now I am not knocking the player I just want to know how this can be justified when you have players like Kayla Bolin, Danay Fothergill, Sara Hammond the list goes on and on..