The Schwab wrote:Thoughts from the state tournament:
1. GF is NOT the place for the state B.
2. I felt so bad for the New Town kids the first game, ridiculous.
3. Amazing games
4. Thought the coverage in Fridays paper was very good, Saturday not so much.
5. Concession prices^^^?! Are you kidding me? Wow
6. One of the worst books for the State tournament ever, no records page etc...
7. Scoreboard placement (I thought they had a big drop down board the last time)
8. CK and BH put on a show in the title game, very impressed.
9. If it's a foul in the 1st quarter it should be a foul in the 4th quarter.
10. The lights were on for the starting lineups in the championship game, why?
11. GF should have taken a page out of what Fargo did last year for the girls (put the crowd "on top" of the floor, the NDHSAA people do not need their own special section behind the table, sorry)
12. If the NDHSAA is going to come out with new "rules", enforce them. The no mega-phone, no running around the court, having to "stand above a seat for each person" was not enforced, and it's pretty bad when Sherm had to come and tell a student section that they can't run around the floor, IMO that looked really bad for the AD of that school.
Might seem like a lot of complaining, but I didn't feel like it was the best run tournament, and I completely disagree with the State Tournament taking place in Grand Forks.
Agree with all of this, forks is a hockey town. With the season switching back to boys being later they should just rotate the tournament in Bismarck and Minot where it belongs. I know it wont happen, but those 2 towns do the best job with it.