Private school playing an ineligible player..... pretty typical if its true. Its a shame for the kids... That coach just cost them a game and impacted in some way their district standings.
St. Pius originally won that game like 41-0 or something like that. As a small school football fan I occasionally look at standings and it clearly had Pius winning that game on MSHSAA 41-0 and Herculaneum losing 0-41 for multiple days. Now it shows Pius as "FL 0-13" and Herculaneum as "L 13-0". I do know that "FL" stands for "Forfeit Loss" and 13 -0 is the score awarded for forfeited games (in favor of the team credited with the win after a forfeit). So clearly MSHSAA went in and changed the original results after being on there for several days. Just curious as to what happened.
Could have been stated better, apologies. There are indeed private schools around the state that follow MSHSAA by laws. Based on the way the score is showing now on MSHSAA though I believe they forgot to fix the result for Herculaneum after awarding the forfeit.
Here, here! I would concur. Now I cant commit on the private school side of things. But on the PUBLIC side, well, that's my wheel house! However, due to other posters not wanting this thread to "implode" I will decline to comment. In closing though, follow the money...
Just reached out to some parents here in Herculaneum and it wasn't just a few. It was something like 5-7 (freshmen and sophomore varsity starters) also played the entire JV game.
I did my best! But now that this thread is imploding, I can respond!
Just checked, the answer is a no. AD at St Pius has been in place for over 8 years. He should know better. https://www.stltoday.com/sports/hig...cle_3bdb9222-d9ab-11e4-8750-8714d7f68b28.html Been there since 2015
8 years huh????? Seems like that timeframe fits with the last time St. Pius was caught/called out/allegedly involved in wrong doing.
Sounds like someone lost to a private school Friday night.
Oh God Pancho is sucking up to Bosko.................
Excuse me? Knowing who know what and asking for expert information is NOT sucking up. Now DONT cross me!!
Or you could say they are blatantly ignoring the rules.
When your talking about a small school with only 25ish players dressed on the sidelines like Pius and you have any opposing coach worth a darn that watches anywhere between 3-15 hours of film on a team per week (yes good assistants watch a lot of film too), its not hard to figure out which kid is which. Even with a Jersey swap. Especially considering Pius recruits kids from other local public schools. All the kids know each other around that area. Just a really dumb decision by their coaching staff.
In addition to the jersey swaps, you can easily make a "typos" to the program. A few extra names here and some typos there, BAM! You almost have a new team! Just make sure you have the booster club "contract out" the program production.
"Witch hunt!!" "Politically motivated!!" "They are terrible people!!" "They are not impeaching me, they are impeaching all of you!!"
If you suck at breaking the rules and get caught, that aint no witch hunt!
Rules are in place for a reason..... If you don't have enough then you don't play. Its that simple. Its your job to get kids out as a coach (legally). As for self reporting... Come on man. Everyone knows if you get caught by another team that's what you do to save face. If they had to forfeit the JV Pius v. R7 game as well and then the scheduled JV Pius v. Herky game was not played as was originally scheduled then clearly this was an ongoing issue. According to some parents it wasn't just "some kid". It was varsity starters they played down...... Yes they were Freshmen but come on...
If you don't have the numbers for a lower level game, then you don't play it, or go down to 8 man football. As to self reporting it, I call BS. The Pius AD is an assistant coach, and another asst coach on staff is a former AD at Hillsboro. If 2 AD's on the football staff and the head coach didn't know that simple of a rule, then they aren't fit to be in their position. More likely scenario is they are doing what they want, choosing to ignore the rules, and someone called them on it. You could call it the little league type nonsense you see nowadays. (play in tournaments where kids play multiple games a day, assemble an all star team, coach take all the credit for success, rules be darned).
