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Hayfield Football Coach Fired
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Anonymous
Yes. If Hayfield wins, they will definitely move up in the Washington Post top 20 rankings. |
Anonymous
It definitely is the game of the week. I know a few local news channels like ABC News and Fox 5 will be there as well as 12 or so college coaches from Clemson, UVA, and Georgia among others. Definitely excited for this matchup. |
Anonymous
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So the only game this completely legit definitely-a-regular-non-cheating
public school team will play all season is versus a private school that is allowed to recruit players from across the DMV. |
Anonymous
Why aren't the 2 playing? Why were the other 7 booted off the roster originally? |
Anonymous
Some of the guys weren’t keeping up with their assignments in class. Coach Overton has high academic standards and school comes first. |
Anonymous
Dematha plays Saint John’s next week and both those teams are ranked higher than Hayfield so that could end up being the game of the week. But if Hayfield dominates Riverdale Baptist like they’ve been doing these other teams, I think they should at least move down to the #2 spot. Hayfield has unfortunately had an easy schedule and this will be their first real test. |
Anonymous
It was the third week of school. My high schooler had zero grades at that point. |
Anonymous
Did your high schooler take the same courses at Hayfield High School as the kids trying out to play for the Hayfield football team? |
Anonymous
I thought it was even less than that. Didn't school start on August 19, and the decision was made on August 29? Plus two days there was no school for the labor day holiday? So 7 actual class days had passed? Maybe I'm wrong-if so, please clarify. Thanks! |
Anonymous
HILARIOUS! You think we are so dumb to believe that the "coach's high academic standards" had him pull 9 players--including two stars--off the team roster right before the first game? And so early in the school year that no one had any grades? And just coincidentally during a meeting with VHSL? |
Anonymous
The tryouts for fall sports are held before school starts....these kids had already made the Varsity roster and were on the team for almost a month and listed on the roster. |
Anonymous
The VHSL wouldn’t make a kid ineligible and then make them eligible in the same season. That’s just not how it works. |
Anonymous
| Why were they all deleted feom the roster and then a few added on weeks later into the season? The whole situation is bizarre. |
Anonymous
Had to been the school ensuring the students meeting the school’s requirements. Doesn’t sound like and regulating authority made the boys ineligible. Could’ve been something as simple as some paperwork not being signed by a guardian or not getting a physical in on time. |
Anonymous
Parent of TJ 2020 and Chantilly 2022 grads. Both of whom were very involved in not athletics and neither of whom of who had the talent or desire to play junior junior junior varsity anything (unless we are, in fact, counting marching band— which does require some athleticism, or at least the stamina to manage 8 hour days marching in August). But, I’m off of work sick today and this thread is an interesting read. I didn’t realize how much less drama there has been in my life since my kids graduated. And I keep seeing the “you must be racist against the coach” comments. Which seems like BS. I grew up and went to high school at a Friday Night Lights type school in the 1980s in the South. And most football coaches were black and there was plenty of racism. But there really was not against football coaches, who were treated like Gods by pretty much everyone at the high school Anyway, my high school had fewer than 500 kids (total, not graduates a year— my graduating class was 105 kids). And even they had multiple football coaches (who also classified as teachers and had to teach actual classes, which was a joke, but anyway…) So, if a program is the size of Chantilly, it has a head varsity coach, head JV coach, head offensive coach, head defensive coach, maybe someone in charge of special teams. And I imagine at at a school with 3000 kids, the head, offensive, and defensive and whatever coaches also all have assistance coaches. Right? So, way more than one football coach per high school. So here’s the question, if you take the 5 or so “most important” football coaches per high school, however that is defined— say head varsity, asst varsity, head O, head D and head JV— or whatever. Multiply by 24 non-magnet, non-alternative HSs. That’s 120 “important” football coaches in FCPS. Out of those 120 coaches, how many are Black? Is it 2-3? (Hayfield has one of the few Black coaches) or 40-50 (which would be my guess- a reasonably equal Black/ white split of coaches?). Or 70-80 (Black coaches are way, way overrepresented)? For reference, Fairfax County is 11.5% Black, or 5.75% Black men. So, if the distribution of coaches followed population, there would be 7-8 Black male coaches. Considering almost all coaches or men, a normal distribution would be 13-14 Black men, based on the percentage of the population that is Black men. You see where I’m going with this, right? If there are only a handful of Black coaches and Hayfield having a Black coach is highly unusual and FCPS Black football coaches are underrepresented based on their population, then maybe some of the treatment he is receiving is racist. Certainly FCPS would appear to have something strange going on with the race of its football coaches systemically. If, OTOH, there are 40 Black football coaches and they are overrepresented based on their population, where is the racism? Especially if the other 39 or 49 or whatever Black Coaches don’t have these types of allegations against them. If Black coaches are way over represented and 39 Black FCPS coaches are doing fine and 1 has problems, there isn’t some complex conspiracy. Maybe that 1 coach is actually a problem. So, how many Black coaches in FCPS are not having problems? |