If you wake up and there is a toilet in your front yard don't call a plumber.
You may have been flushed.
Central High School and Lake View have joined forces for what they hope will become an annual December tradition in San Angelo — the Doug McCutchen Memorial Boys Basketball Tournament.
The Bobcats are trying to raise money for the tournament costs by "flushing" San Angelo residents by delivering multicolored toilets to them.
People who are flushed can pay $10 to have the toilet removed or $15 to gain immunity from being flushed again.
"Basically we are passing around toilets that we have painted Central colors," Central head coach Jaime Boswell said. "If you pay $15 you have insurance and get to decide who to flush next. After that it just goes around and around and around.
"It is a great time to do it because the Central football team is winning and everyone is excited about sports in San Angelo."
Boswell said the Bobcats will hold the fundraiser on through November in preparation for the Dec. 1-3 tournament.
Games for the 16-team tournament will be played at Lake View's Ben Norton Gym and Central's Babe Didrikson Gym.
The tournament is named for the former SAISD athletic director who died in January. McCutchen originally began talks of hosting a tournament when Robert Chaney was hired at Lake View in 2009.
Lake View is hosting a more conventional fundraiser 6 p.m. Saturday with an exhibition basketball game between Central and Lake View alumni.
Chaney said all proceeds from the event will go toward the tournament.
"There will be a charge at the door, and we will have silent auctions for Lake View and Central items," Chaney said. "We will also have players going around and halftime asking for donations."
Chaney added that the Lions Club has been instrumental in getting the tournament off the ground. The organization is hosting a hamburger supper at Lake View High School Dec. 1 for the participating players and coaches.
"The idea behind the fundraiser is to get a base for this event every single year," Boswell said. "We have 16 teams from all over the state. There are three teams that are ranked, four El Paso schools. The headliners in the tournament are Lubbock Estacado, which is No. 2 in Class 3A in the preseason, class 5A Plano West (No. 6) and San Antonio Reagan, which is No. 16 in the rankings.
"It should be a very competitive tournament. We also have Leander and Cedar Hill who went to the state tournament in 4A."
Chaney said it will be beneficial to have high-caliber teams and players in San Angelo.
"We have teams waiting in line to come to this tournament. People that love basketball — that are basketball junkies — need to come to the tournament and see these teams. They will see all the great young players that we have coming in from all over the state," he said.
"We've got kids coming in that are some of the top players in the nation."
Boswell said the tournament also will be a way to showcase both schools and the city of San Angelo.
"A lot of these coaches want to come out here because they aren't going to see these types of teams normally," Boswell said. "We are trying to offer that opportunity. We want to have teams from all over the state. We already have some teams that want to come next year on a waiting list.
"I think this tournament is just going to get better and better."
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