11-27-2024, 11:08 AM
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https://www.fairfaxtimes.com/articles/ex...c8974.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……..
