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High School Football - BostonCard - 11-27-2024
https://www.fairfaxtimes.com/articles/exclusive-explosive-texts-indicate-athletic-director-involved-in-hayfield-recruiting-scheme-exploiting-federal-homeless-loopholes/article_4bbc85ce-aacb-11ef-a7f3-536329fc8974.html
This story, from Virginia, is pretty crazy. Basically, Hayfield High, a high school in northern Virginia, straight-up poached a championship football team from the winning school one county over. They were so good, they not only went 10-0 in their season, but outscored opponents by a cumulative 633-20 (that’s an average score of 63-2). In the first playoff game, they went 75-0 in the first half. And then, well, life comes at you fast, as they had to forfeit their second round game after a newspaper found texts from the AD that appeared to show him boasting of a plan to abuse the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act to pretend that key athletes were unhoused, and then use the law intended to protect homeless children to build and acquire his superteam.
Now, if this is for high school football, you can only imagine what some college teams are doing. After all, if you ain’t cheatin’, you ain’t tryin’.
BC
RE: High School Football - Giants - 11-27-2024
BostonCard dateline='[url=tel:1732726811' Wrote: 1732726811[/url]']
https://www.fairfaxtimes.com/articles/exclusive-explosive-texts-indicate-athletic-director-involved-in-hayfield-recruiting-scheme-exploiting-federal-homeless-loopholes/article_4bbc85ce-aacb-11ef-a7f3-536329fc8974.html
This story, from Virginia, is pretty crazy. Basically, Hayfield High, a high school in northern Virginia, straight-up poached a championship football team from the winning school one county over. They were so good, they not only went 10-0 in their season, but outscored opponents by a cumulative 633-20 (that’s an average score of 63-2). In the first playoff game, they went 75-0 in the first half. And then, well, life comes at you fast, as they had to forfeit their second round game after a newspaper found texts from the AD that appeared to show him boasting of a plan to abuse the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act to pretend that key athletes were unhoused, and then use the law intended to protect homeless children to build and acquire his superteam.
Now, if this is for high school football, you can only imagine what some college teams are doing. After all, if you ain’t cheatin’, you ain’t tryin’.
BC
Legal payments and the transfer portal have significantly reduced the cheating that was rampant in the past. Add to this the ability to keep players academically eligible via support systems that rival anything the Pentagon has to maintain military operations and you have no reason to worry about acquiring talent and keeping them on the field.
Just work with the athlete’s “team” to sign them, pay them handsomely, keep them eligible and win games…
No cheating’ needed……..
RE: High School Football - Mick - 11-27-2024
(11-27-2024, 10:00 AM)BostonCard Wrote: https://www.fairfaxtimes.com/articles/exclusive-explosive-texts-indicate-athletic-director-involved-in-hayfield-recruiting-scheme-exploiting-federal-homeless-loopholes/article_4bbc85ce-aacb-11ef-a7f3-536329fc8974.html
This story, from Virginia, is pretty crazy. Basically, Hayfield High, a high school in northern Virginia, straight-up poached a championship football team from the winning school one county over. They were so good, they not only went 10-0 in their season, but outscored opponents by a cumulative 633-20 (that’s an average score of 63-2). In the first playoff game, they went 75-0 in the first half. And then, well, life comes at you fast, as they had to forfeit their second round game after a newspaper found texts from the AD that appeared to show him boasting of a plan to abuse the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act to pretend that key athletes were unhoused, and then use the law intended to protect homeless children to build and acquire his superteam.
Now, if this is for high school football, you can only imagine what some college teams are doing. After all, if you ain’t cheatin’, you ain’t tryin’.
BC
In high school in the late 1970s, I played football for a gem of a coach who employed a host of infamous aphorisms, including "it's only cheating if you get caught" which was indicative of his general approach to life as a high school teacher and molder of young people. At the time, he was in his mid-20s. In later years, he became semi-revered, rising from head football coach to athletic director to high school principal to -- I kid you not -- administrative head of HR for a large California school district. His nickname among the district's teachers was a variant of his surname which almost precisely matched that of a Star Wars villain.
RE: High School Football - Goose - 11-27-2024
(11-27-2024, 11:08 AM)Giants Wrote: Legal payments and the transfer portal have significantly reduced the cheating that was rampant in the past. Add to this the ability to keep players academically eligible via support systems that rival anything the Pentagon has to maintain military operations and you have no reason to worry about acquiring talent and keeping them on the field.It is indeed true that making everything legal lowers the crime rate. Unfortunately it often has "unintended consequences".
Just work with the athlete’s “team” to sign them, pay them handsomely, keep them eligible and win games…
No cheating’ needed……..
RE: High School Football - Giants - 11-27-2024
(11-27-2024, 11:39 AM)Goose Wrote:(11-27-2024, 11:08 AM)Giants Wrote: Legal payments and the transfer portal have significantly reduced the cheating that was rampant in the past. Add to this the ability to keep players academically eligible via support systems that rival anything the Pentagon has to maintain military operations and you have no reason to worry about acquiring talent and keeping them on the field.It is indeed true that making everything legal lowers the crime rate. Unfortunately it often has "unintended consequences".
Just work with the athlete’s “team” to sign them, pay them handsomely, keep them eligible and win games…
No cheating’ needed……..
And right now, we are just waiting for the other shoe to drop. It could be anything from a slight tap on the floor to a loud crash.
RE: High School Football - newguy - 11-27-2024
(11-27-2024, 11:33 AM)Mick Wrote:(11-27-2024, 10:00 AM)BostonCard Wrote: https://www.fairfaxtimes.com/articles/exclusive-explosive-texts-indicate-athletic-director-involved-in-hayfield-recruiting-scheme-exploiting-federal-homeless-loopholes/article_4bbc85ce-aacb-11ef-a7f3-536329fc8974.html
This story, from Virginia, is pretty crazy. Basically, Hayfield High, a high school in northern Virginia, straight-up poached a championship football team from the winning school one county over. They were so good, they not only went 10-0 in their season, but outscored opponents by a cumulative 633-20 (that’s an average score of 63-2). In the first playoff game, they went 75-0 in the first half. And then, well, life comes at you fast, as they had to forfeit their second round game after a newspaper found texts from the AD that appeared to show him boasting of a plan to abuse the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act to pretend that key athletes were unhoused, and then use the law intended to protect homeless children to build and acquire his superteam.
Now, if this is for high school football, you can only imagine what some college teams are doing. After all, if you ain’t cheatin’, you ain’t tryin’.
BC
In high school in the late 1970s, I played football for a gem of a coach who employed a host of infamous aphorisms, including "it's only cheating if you get caught" which was indicative of his general approach to life as a high school teacher and molder of young people. At the time, he was in his mid-20s. In later years, he became semi-revered, rising from head football coach to athletic director to high school principal to -- I kid you not -- administrative head of HR for a large California school district. His nickname among the district's teachers was a variant of his surname which almost precisely matched that of a Star Wars villain.
it's amazing how people like that are revered.
amazing and disappointing.
RE: High School Football - fullmetal - 11-27-2024
(11-27-2024, 08:49 PM)newguy Wrote: it's amazing how people like that are revered.
amazing and disappointing.
That's a function of how much we care about sports. It blinds its devotees, who think winning is the only thing that matters off the field as well.
RE: High School Football - BobK - 11-27-2024
I always had good coaches. Two became college basketball coaches.
RE: High School Football - Mick - 11-28-2024
(11-27-2024, 09:26 PM)BobK Wrote: I always had good coaches. Two became college basketball coaches.
I had a mix. Our football coach my freshman year, Norm Costa, was excellent. He built a football empire at Palma, just a first-rate man. I think he was Chris Dalman's coach, and Dalman is now the president of Palma. Costa had 253 Career Wins. 16 league titles 6 CCS titles and owned at one time the longest CCS win streak (48 games). He is in the California Coaches Association Hall of Fame, the National High School Hall of Fame and the Salinas Valley Hall of Fame.
RE: High School Football - La Jetee - 11-29-2024
I wish that I could relate to the stories of excellent coaches like the one at Palma. My high school football "coach" was also a math "teacher" of the lowest levels of math at my high school. He also had an affinity for girls under the age of 18, including the older sister of my high school girlfriend who didn't tell me what happened until years later. Whenever my girlfriend and I were together and he walked by, she would get physically upset and I couldn't understand why until I was let in on the reason. Her sister developed an eating disorder and after years of therapy was able to move forward.
I bring this up because this person is the father of one of Stanford's back up quarterbacks who runs for short yardage first downs and TDs. It's a disgrace that his son gets a Stanford degree.
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Ex-Coach-Sentenced-for-Sex-Crimes-Man-given-3-2949759.php
https://www.losaltosonline.com/archives/lamson-replaced-as-homestead-high-football-coach/article_54460a8f-f34a-5453-85aa-0333c6be9b64.html
https://www.justice.gov/usao-edca/pr/el-dorado-hills-man-sentenced-25-years-prison-embezzling-more-400000-employer
RE: High School Football - BostonCard - 11-29-2024
Should Justin Lamsen be held accountable for the sins of his father? What his dad did was despicable, and I am so sorry for what your girlfriend’s sister had to go through. Our QB is responsible for his own actions, and if he did anything like that, then it would be a disgrace that he gets a degree. But so far as I know, he has not done anything like his father.
BC
RE: High School Football - Mick - 11-30-2024
(11-29-2024, 09:47 PM)BostonCard Wrote: Should Justin Lamsen be held accountable for the sins of his father? What his dad did was despicable, and I am so sorry for what your girlfriend’s sister had to go through. Our QB is responsible for his own actions, and if he did anything like that, then it would be a disgrace that he gets a degree. But so far as I know, he has not done anything like his father.
BC
Jeff Lamson got 3.5 years in prison for those crimes back in 1997. He was working as an accountant when he was out on bail.
18 years later, an accountant named Jeff Lamson of El Dorado Hills got 2.5 years for embezzling $400,000. Age is consistent with the former Cupertino coach/felon, and Justin Lamson is from El Dorado Hills as is Jeff Lamson. I wonder if it was the same man?
USA v. Lamson: JUDGMENT and COMMITMENT as to Jeffrey Lamson.
EDH man gets prison time for embezzlement | Local News | villagelife.com
RE: High School Football - BostonCard - 11-30-2024
This is a case where you hope the apple falls far, far away from the tree.
BC
RE: High School Football - BobK - 11-30-2024
Same guy Mick
My daughter started that first offense HS the next year 1998 and knew some involved sadly. Hs is 10 miles from Stanford. Thankfully she had excellent coaches in HS. Well I was one.
RE: High School Football - Mick - 11-30-2024
(11-30-2024, 06:49 PM)BobK Wrote: Same guy Mick
My daughter started that first offense HS the next year 1998 and knew some involved sadly. Hs is 10 miles from Stanford. Thankfully she had excellent coaches in HS. Well I was one.
Of course you were, Bob. I'll give you props... ;)