Hayfield Football Coach Fired

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Anonymous wrote:So when Reid stood up at that meeting in August and said everything was legit and the coach and principal had her full confidence, she knew that multiple football transfers had claimed to be homeless and that five kids all claimed the same address....

In fact, the Hayfield letter to VHSL defended five at the same address as evidence of the expensive nature of northern Virginia housing.

Wait, let me see if I understand this. Over the summer, people in the know at Hayfield request an investigation of a large number of potentially ineligible transfers. Instead of setting up an impartial outside investigation, FCPS decides to carry out the invesigation themselves. Of the 30 kids, they conduct a surprise drop-in of a sample to see if they are actually living at their alleged address. And it turns out that the majority of this small number of kids who got "verified" were the five kids at the same address?!

This is beyond cynical. This isn't even following the letter of the law,

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Hayfield referred 14 students to Gatehouse for residency checks in May 2024. Gatehouse didn’t complete the residency checks until August 26, 2024.
Reid announced on August 27 that the players were cleared. On August 29, the three skeptical school board members asked for an outside investigation but were voted down.

The Hayfield letter to VHSL says “shared housing is leveraged as an affordable living option for some families, particularly in urban areas with high cost housing…shared housing is not evidence that any family intends for their residency to be less than permanent and thus is not evidence of violation of the Transfer Rule (28A-7).”

Dont fall for it. This is what Reid wants everyone to focus on and the narrative strategy of her 3 letters- for everyone to focus on residency. The residency does NOT matter, but if she can get everyone fighting over that, she hopes they focus on the only 2 things that do matter and that are slam dunks - the violations for recruiting and spirit of game.

Reid’s new narrative strategy is to continue to mention the irrelevant eligibility and now also say that the college landscape changing so VHSL rules don’t work anymore. She is running FCPS by picking the rules she wants to agree or ignore with at the time.

She should have no vote of confidence from any family in FCPS that’s not the parent of the Hayfield starting football team. The time and $ on this mess that she could and should have stopped long before is staggering. Parents of students who are having problems other than whether they can play a football game, how heard do you feel right now? Thanks Reid and School Board for putting one principal’s football dream above everything else.

Can you explain what you mean about the eligibility being irrelevant? And the college landscape changing? How would that affect county residency rules?

It should impact residence rules and is another distraction, but idea is football now big business bc players can get $ beyond tuition. So coaches like Overton have their own businesses where they train kids (outside of school, but he has consistently been investigated for using school resources/facilities/$ for his own business). Some want to argue in name of equity that players should be able to transfer to whatever school want to play football wherever they want. Anything short of that is not equitable.

But again, THIS IS DISTACTION designed to gain sympathy for liars and cheaters.

Have fun enforcing any boundaries changes if make sports Wild West.

Overton has other side hustles in PWC. I don’t have the time to dig deep in it, but he is also allegedly associated with a business “TM Security LLC” opened by Justin Meehan - who apparently was an o-line coach at Freedom under Overton. I am not sure Meehan followed on to Hayfield as a coach, but he was most definitely on the sideline along with dozens of other adults who may or may not have been credentialed to access the field. It all may be on the up & up, who knows?

I doubt the Fairfax Times / Wall Street Journal Reporter who broke the story reads this thread, but I am sure she is digging into every lead to any other angle on this story. That’s her modus operandi for sure.

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Get your popcorn ready! What's going to happen at the court hearing on Dec 4th. Will the parents add FCPS to the suit so that their kids can continue in the playoffs? Will the FCPS attorney continue to represent them pro bono? This should be good!

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Before FCPS Reid was over only 22,000 v the 180,000 now. Like Overton, she got in over her head.

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Anonymous wrote:New uniforms are expensive! Public HS teams need a LOT of uniforms and buy new sets very infrequently.

As the parent of a daughter who is a multi sport athlete in FCPS, the girls teams' uniforms appear to be 15 years old. Meanwhile, the boys teams appear to get new uniforms more frequently.

My sons fcps basketball uniforms are so raggedy and ill sized that i have had to get them sewn st the dry cleaner just so he can wear the shorts. Two years in a row.

Definitely not just the girls. We purchased uniforms for my sons. The one uniform we didn’t purchase was ill-fitting and incomplete. We supplemented pieces.

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Anonymous wrote:Get your popcorn ready! What's going to happen at the court hearing on Dec 4th. Will the parents add FCPS to the suit so that their kids can continue in the playoffs? Will the FCPS attorney continue to represent them pro bono? This should be good!

If had been a valid suit, yes, Hayfield Principal should be added to the suit, personally named.

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Anonymous wrote:Get your popcorn ready! What's going to happen at the court hearing on Dec 4th. Will the parents add FCPS to the suit so that their kids can continue in the playoffs? Will the FCPS attorney continue to represent them pro bono? This should be good!

The court would have order Mr Peabody and Sherman send Hayfield back in time to last night in order to be allowed back into the playoffs. 😉

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Anonymous wrote:I naively thought Reid would be put on leave today.

Thanksgiving Break started today, I think we will get announcements Sunday evening.

There’s no way.

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The commended student notification issue was nonsense to me manufactures by Asra. Commended is a pretty irrelevant honor and it’s ridiculous that college board didn’t notify students themselves. The administrators had plenty going on with back to in person learning and it was obvious it was an oversight not a “war on merit” as asra tried to argue.

This is a completely different issue. Its clear that fcps has been covering up intentional cheating and has stood by hayfield even when evidence was found. Asra has redeemed herself in my mind.

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Anonymous wrote:I naively thought Reid would be put on leave today.

Thanksgiving Break started today, I think we will get announcements Sunday evening.

There’s no way.

The board majority is standing behind reid and hayfield in favor of comprehensive investigation nonsense.

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You should see the Instagram handle hayfield.barstool. The Hayfield football players make a barely audible threat to Fritts.

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Anonymous wrote:New uniforms are expensive! Public HS teams need a LOT of uniforms and buy new sets very infrequently.

As the parent of a daughter who is a multi sport athlete in FCPS, the girls teams' uniforms appear to be 15 years old. Meanwhile, the boys teams appear to get new uniforms more frequently.

My sons fcps basketball uniforms are so raggedy and ill sized that i have had to get them sewn st the dry cleaner just so he can wear the shorts. Two years in a row.

Definitely not just the girls. We purchased uniforms for my sons. The one uniform we didn’t purchase was ill-fitting and incomplete. We supplemented pieces.

DP and it’s not all football teams. My son played at a different school, not varsity. The equipment and uniforms were terrible. Many parents who could afford it purchased their own helmets even, because the ones the school provided were so unsafe and ill fitting.

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Anonymous wrote:I naively thought Reid would be put on leave today.

Thanksgiving Break started today, I think we will get announcements Sunday evening.

There’s no way.

Americans have voted cheating, corruption, and cover-ups are completely acceptable-Reid will be just fine.

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Anonymous wrote:The commended student notification issue was nonsense to me manufactures by Asra. Commended is a pretty irrelevant honor and it’s ridiculous that college board didn’t notify students themselves. The administrators had plenty going on with back to in person learning and it was obvious it was an oversight not a “war on merit” as asra tried to argue.

This is a completely different issue. Its clear that fcps has been covering up intentional cheating and has stood by hayfield even when evidence was found. Asra has redeemed herself in my mind.

You can’t really believe this can you?

When the top of the email to the principals about their students who were to recieve the commendation says:

“Please present the Letter of Commendation as soon as possible, since it is the student’s only notification of this National Merit Scholarship Program honor.”

Which is not disputed. No principals claim they didn’t get it

Yet, the claim for no wrong doing is they didn’t know that they were supposed to let the students know?

If the comprehensive report actually says no wrong doing, why not release it? This is the same situation, they just didn’t get away with it this time.

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Anonymous wrote:I naively thought Reid would be put on leave today.

Thanksgiving Break started today, I think we will get announcements Sunday evening.

There’s no way.

Americans have voted cheating, corruption, and cover-ups are completely acceptable-Reid will be just fine.

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Anonymous wrote:I naively thought Reid would be put on leave today.

Thanksgiving Break started today, I think we will get announcements Sunday evening.

There’s no way.

The board majority is standing behind reid and hayfield in favor of comprehensive investigation nonsense.

Several showed their dissatisfaction by not signing that letter. That may pave the way for more openness about dissatisfaction. And they are obviously paying attention to how this is all playing out as things become more public. It's embarrassing for FCPS to say the least.