I too love tournaments and this story may have holes in it but....
a friend of mine has a houseboat at wax on nolin,he is retired and is there quiet a bit,he eats lots of bass he gets from tournament directors and he nets lots of them on sundays and mondays in the duck pond behind the marina.He make comments all time how he knows why people say the fishin ain't like it used to be.Even some of those fri. night big bass die too.When renegade had their tournaments there he would get at least 15 bass as big as 5lb in the next day.If you put a fish in the boat at 7 am and tote it around all day his chance can't be that good,specially if you hop wave from pleasure boaters.
I personally would love to see tournament do away with slot fish and go to a 3 or 4 fish tourney.TFK had no slots i didn't think it was good but..it speeds up weigh ins and basically has no effect on the tournament.