Monday morning drivers beware!

[Pancho and Lefty]

Sending an early caution to drivers in the highway 40/44/Forrest park area for Monday am. There may be a traffic jam of epic proportions of private/parochial school coaches trying to get to CR school and offer counseling and services of their school to potential enrollees. Local attorneys websites may face overwhelming traffic as the scrambling to dissect the rule book to get transfer players immediate eligibility begins.

I’ll save you the trouble. This is tongue in cheek humor. I do genuinely feel bad for the kids who had nothing to do with the cheating and lying that cost them their season to be ended. A very tough, and for some, an unfair way for their season to end. Let’s hope it doesn’t happen again.

 

[bhunt95]

I know tongue and cheek. But I would bet you there are parents thinking about legal recourse. #SueHappyWorld

 

[Pancho and Lefty]

I would absolutely expect to see lawsuits.

 

[Treadmill]

Sending an early caution to drivers in the highway 40/44/Forrest park area for Monday am. There may be a traffic jam of epic proportions of private/parochial school coaches trying to get to CR school and offer counseling and services of their school to potential enrollees. Local attorneys websites may face overwhelming traffic as the scrambling to dissect the rule book to get transfer players immediate eligibility begins.

I’ll save you the trouble. This is tongue in cheek humor. I do genuinely feel bad for the kids who had nothing to do with the cheating and lying that cost them their season to be ended. A very tough, and for some, an unfair way for their season to end. Let’s hope it doesn’t happen again.

The only thing I would disagree with is there are no "kids who had nothing to do with the cheating". Even the backup left guard on the JV knew they were suiting up an ineligible kid, at least when he saw him in the game, if not earlier. Agreed, there are several kids who had nothing to do with the coaches' decision to play him, but still went along rather than speak out. Those kids are now learning an important lesson, too.

 

[O line wins games]

The only thing I would disagree with is there are no "kids who had nothing to do with the cheating". Even the backup left guard on the JV knew they were suiting up an ineligible kid, at least when he saw him in the game, if not earlier. Agreed, there are several kids who had nothing to do with the coaches' decision to play him, but still went along rather than speak out. Those kids are now learning an important lesson, too.

You’re telling me that every kid on the team knew that according to Mshsaa bylaws he was ineligible for the first game of next year? Some of those kids aren’t even sure where to go during individual time in practice, let alone the mshsaa bylaws...

 

[CaptainBackslap]

You’re telling me that every kid on the team knew that according to Mshsaa bylaws he was ineligible for the first game of next year? Some of those kids aren’t even sure where to go during individual time in practice, let alone the mshsaa bylaws...

I bet they could tell the difference between Bill Jackson and Marvin Burks.

 

[Duck_walk]

It won’t hurt any of the college prospects. They have 7 weeks of plays on video.

If I was paying tuition at that school I would
be pretty pissed a sleaze ball was put in charge of the kids and I would be bailing out ASAP.

 

[O line wins games]

I bet they could tell the difference between Bill Jackson and Marvin Burks.

Okay, let’s say they do notice something is up. Who do they tell? The coach? The AD? Or are you expecting a 14 yo freshman to call mshsaa on his own?

Not to mention, coach said “sometimes we switch jerseys for fun”... you don’t think little freshman believed coach when coach said it before his first ever high school game?

You think freshman’s first thought when he noticed something’s weird should be “hey, my coach is actively trying to cheat”?

 

[Treadmill]

Okay, let’s say they do notice something is up. Who do they tell? The coach? The AD? Or are you expecting a 14 yo freshman to call mshsaa on his own?

Not to mention, coach said “sometimes we switch jerseys for fun”... you don’t think little freshman believed coach when coach said it before his first ever high school game?

You think freshman’s first thought when he noticed something’s weird should be “hey, my coach is actively trying to cheat”?

I'm willing to go out on a limb and say that every single player on the team knew who their star RB was and knew his name wasn't Marvin Burks when he suited up under a different name and number in game 1. If they were too afraid to call out the coaches, they should've reported it to the principal or their parents. Had they done so, it would've been addressed before the 2nd game and wouldn't have gotten to this point. Everyone from the AD & coaching staff down to the backup JV players share at least some culpability in this (some more than others obviously). Lesson learned for all.

 

[Pancho and Lefty]

It won’t hurt any of the college prospects. They have 7 weeks of plays on video.

If I was paying tuition at that school I would
be pretty pissed a sleaze ball was put in charge of the kids and I would be bailing out ASAP.

Agree w that if it was just average joe going there because of the Christian education, class sizes, etc and also just happened to play football. Many of those kids probably went there primarily because of the coach, so they and the families should have know what type of coach they were getting involved with.

 

[Pancho and Lefty]

Okay, let’s say they do notice something is up. Who do they tell? The coach? The AD? Or are you expecting a 14 yo freshman to call mshsaa on his own?

Not to mention, coach said “sometimes we switch jerseys for fun”... you don’t think little freshman believed coach when coach said it before his first ever high school game?

You think freshman’s first thought when he noticed something’s weird should be “hey, my coach is actively trying to cheat”?

Has anyone found out if Marvin Burks is actually real? If it’s just a fictitious name, that shoots holes in the switching jerseys just for fun theory.

 

[JNreturns]

Sending an early caution to drivers in the highway 40/44/Forrest park area for Monday am. There may be a traffic jam of epic proportions of private/parochial school coaches trying to get to CR school and offer counseling and services of their school to potential enrollees. Local attorneys websites may face overwhelming traffic as the scrambling to dissect the rule book to get transfer players immediate eligibility begins.

I’ll save you the trouble. This is tongue in cheek humor. I do genuinely feel bad for the kids who had nothing to do with the cheating and lying that cost them their season to be ended. A very tough, and for some, an unfair way for their season to end. Let’s hope it doesn’t happen again.

NAACP lawsuit pending.