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How do you have grade problems at the beginning of the school year? How does a kid admitted to Clemson have grade problems? |
A bare minimum of academic standards no longer applies to college football recruiting. College athletes are now paid for their talents on the field and they can move among schools for the best pay. FCPS, like other school districts have minimum grade requirements for athletic participation. I think it’s a C average in all courses on a student’s transcript. |
For fall sports initial eligibility is based on final spring grades. So failed a class last year (at Freedom) or some course work looked suspect to FCPS. Re: Clemson - it’s been a football factory for years and even more so now. They’ll get your paperwork and through the admissions office and into an Easy majors. |
| The rumor is that one of the star players is in trouble with a criminal gun charge. |
Football offers can be revoked. The kid has until the senior year to meet the incredibly low bar for admissions as a football player. If not, it's off to juco for a year. This happens to top recruits all the time |
| I was at the game last night. I had never seen the team play before and only read about all the complaints on DCUM (this includes in past years as we are an Edison family with daughters so no reason to go to a football game of another school). But my kids went last night and I drove their friends and just stayed to see what the hype was about. And while the Hayfield team is good. They are not large or imposing at all. They're just fast and talented and it's really only 5 of them who stand out. So many people spoke about how unsafe it would be to play them. I can's say how. Edison has a little small player #2. He was tiny tiny and he was fine and might have been the best one of the team. Edison did have 3 guys get injured but 2 looked like cramps and the third looked like what happens when you play football. Hayfield's team is not big at all. |
My kid heard that too |
Multiple Chantilly players were injured and are out for the season. |
Yep. Cheaters win, big whoop. It will not be a real win. |
That tells me football is not their sport. People get injured in sports. That team is not big at all. My girl broke her finger in volleyball. The other was concussed in soccer. It's sports. |
That game might have become a bit rough due to the name calling or insults thrown around before the game. Hopefully all the northern region teams can play as friendly rivals, even if one team is stacked with talent. Madison is probably the only other team that can pose a challenge to Hayfield’s dominance. Glad to hear the Edison game went well. That’s a good neighborhood rivalry and Edison won that game against Hayfield last year. |
I just wrote this. I should clarify, getting injured doesn't mean football isn't for them. Blaming the injury on anything other than the fact that it's a sport with risk is. |
Its absurd for one team to cheat and then expect all the other teams to just cheerfully go along with it. If Edison beat Hayfield last year, the game should have been similar this year since it should largely be the same kids again except for graduated seniors. A lopsided result from year to year just shows the extent of the absurdity. |
| What unusual name-calling and insults occurred before the Chantilly game? I saw grown men crying on social media over cheerleaders holding a "beat the hawks" sign. It was bizarre. |
Ask the Chantilly coach what he said that that severe of an a$$whippin. |