Hayfield Football Coach Fired

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Anonymous wrote:The court documents leaked on Asra Nomani’s X page, don’t look good for the Principal or Coach.

The person to talk to is the Student Information Assistant (aka the registrar) at Hayfield. When a student registers from outside the county, a request is made for the records. There’s no way that person didn’t go to the principal after registering 14 kids from the same school and making all those requests for records to the same school.

Why stop with the register? There was an end of year luncheon in June with all the staff where Thompson told them that under no certain terms that anyone should gossip or spread rumors about this.

A principal directing staff to refrain from gossiping and spreading rumors is not the smoking gun you think it is.

Um, ok, you do you. Hopefully soon enough we'll here from that staff and find out what was really going on in that school.

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Anonymous wrote:Big fan of Hayfield and was so excited for the season. Sucks that Overton was so afraid to lose that he had to circumvent the rules to win by 50-60 plus points a game. We had potential to build a dynasty if done the right way for the boys !

Now they will forever be remembered as cheaters and LOSERS that were part of the biggest scandal in Virgina high school sports!

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Anonymous wrote:The court documents leaked on Asra Nomani’s X page, don’t look good for the Principal or Coach.

The person to talk to is the Student Information Assistant (aka the registrar) at Hayfield. When a student registers from outside the county, a request is made for the records. There’s no way that person didn’t go to the principal after registering 14 kids from the same school and making all those requests for records to the same school.

Why stop with the register? There was an end of year luncheon in June with all the staff where Thompson told them that under no certain terms that anyone should gossip or spread rumors about this.

A principal directing staff to refrain from gossiping and spreading rumors is not the smoking gun you think it is.

Bless your heart.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Big fan of Hayfield and was so excited for the season. Sucks that Overton was so afraid to lose that he had to circumvent the rules to win by 50-60 plus points a game. We had potential to build a dynasty if done the right way for the boys !

Sadly, it appears he did it for himself. If he cared about "the boys" he could have stayed in PWC and tried to get kids athletic scholarships there. Girls and boys from one Stop sign towns earn athletic scholarship to Power Four Universities. Kids playing in Woodbridge would also be able to do so too.

[Anonymous]

Staff were told at the luncheon that speaking about things would have a negative impact on our evaluations .
Yes, I work at Hayfield.

Not everyone at Hayfield is of the mindset that this was proper. Hayfield is so much more than this football team and athletics department. We are a very diverse school, no ethnicity group makes up a majority of the population and we have over 50 different home languages spoken by our students and staff.

We are not perfect, but we are not defined by this scandal either.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Staff were told at the luncheon that speaking about things would have a negative impact on our evaluations .
Yes, I work at Hayfield.

Not everyone at Hayfield is of the mindset that this was proper. Hayfield is so much more than this football team and athletics department. We are a very diverse school, no ethnicity group makes up a majority of the population and we have over 50 different home languages spoken by our students and staff.

We are not perfect, but we are not defined by this scandal either.

Friends who work there as well, I heard the same thing. Darin Thompson is an ass.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Staff were told at the luncheon that speaking about things would have a negative impact on our evaluations .
Yes, I work at Hayfield.

Not everyone at Hayfield is of the mindset that this was proper. Hayfield is so much more than this football team and athletics department. We are a very diverse school, no ethnicity group makes up a majority of the population and we have over 50 different home languages spoken by our students and staff.

We are not perfect, but we are not defined by this scandal either.

Friends who work there as well, I heard the same thing. Darin Thompson is an ass.

So if pressed to give the whole truth with promises that it won't affect reviews, will staff talk?

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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.

We need to do what is done in most of Europe. Kids who want to be athletes attend different schools and the public schools have intramural level sports that everyone has to be involved in.

No one wants either of these scenarios.

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Pfff. You are a jock sniffer. A lot of parents are fed up with the hyper competitive sports environment at our schools. The intense competition sets of something horrible in parents and they take over and ruin sports.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The court documents leaked on Asra Nomani’s X page, don’t look good for the Principal or Coach.

Kinda funny how neither one of them noticed all the transfers! Shouldn't the principal be on top of that? And the head of security didn't notice his former players in the hallways until they showed up in his weight room? Was he even doing that job?

Isn’t the head of security a “paper pusher” type of job in some office? He would direct the security guards to go out in the field and interact with the students. So he could argue he never saw his former players. I don’t know, but I’m trying to see if there’s some reasonable defense there.

Ms. Reid could argue in her defense that this is all news to her, and that she went by the legal playbook FCPS uses for dealing with sensitive matters.

Didn't a female administrator try to bring up something similar and they transferred her to Annandale?

Yes, the Fairfax Times mentioned her by name. She was punished and sent to Annandale HS. She had gone to Hayfield herself and wanted her kids to go to.

[Anonymous]

To the guy who appears to be "Academy Dad" from the soccer board. There is no need to make personal insults if someone disagrees with your ideas about "European" style sports academies here.

I'm sorry it appears someone hurt your feelings in school. I hope you eventually get over it. Truly.

If your kid loves band, drama or French Club then awesome. That is a good thing. Most kids in h.s. find their niche, make a friend group and are overall happy. Because you have an axe to grind from your past doesn't mean you need to call names with someone who disagrees with you. You wouldn't want someone calling you "nerd," "dork," "spaz," "geek" or worse. Treat others how you would like people you live to be treated.

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*love

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Anonymous wrote:The court documents leaked on Asra Nomani’s X page, don’t look good for the Principal or Coach.

Kinda funny how neither one of them noticed all the transfers! Shouldn't the principal be on top of that? And the head of security didn't notice his former players in the hallways until they showed up in his weight room? Was he even doing that job?

Isn’t the head of security a “paper pusher” type of job in some office? He would direct the security guards to go out in the field and interact with the students. So he could argue he never saw his former players. I don’t know, but I’m trying to see if there’s some reasonable defense there.

Ms. Reid could argue in her defense that this is all news to her, and that she went by the legal playbook FCPS uses for dealing with sensitive matters.

Didn't a female administrator try to bring up something similar and they transferred her to Annandale?

Yes, the Fairfax Times mentioned her by name. She was punished and sent to Annandale HS. She had gone to Hayfield herself and wanted her kids to go to.

Is that a legitimate way to attend a school for which you are not zoned - having a parent employed there?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The court documents leaked on Asra Nomani’s X page, don’t look good for the Principal or Coach.

Kinda funny how neither one of them noticed all the transfers! Shouldn't the principal be on top of that? And the head of security didn't notice his former players in the hallways until they showed up in his weight room? Was he even doing that job?

Isn’t the head of security a “paper pusher” type of job in some office? He would direct the security guards to go out in the field and interact with the students. So he could argue he never saw his former players. I don’t know, but I’m trying to see if there’s some reasonable defense there.

Ms. Reid could argue in her defense that this is all news to her, and that she went by the legal playbook FCPS uses for dealing with sensitive matters.

Didn't a female administrator try to bring up something similar and they transferred her to Annandale?

Yes, the Fairfax Times mentioned her by name. She was punished and sent to Annandale HS. She had gone to Hayfield herself and wanted her kids to go to.

Is that a legitimate way to attend a school for which you are not zoned - having a parent employed there?

Yes. It’s listed on the student transfer application as one of the options. Staff members do this all the time.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The court documents leaked on Asra Nomani’s X page, don’t look good for the Principal or Coach.

Kinda funny how neither one of them noticed all the transfers! Shouldn't the principal be on top of that? And the head of security didn't notice his former players in the hallways until they showed up in his weight room? Was he even doing that job?

Isn’t the head of security a “paper pusher” type of job in some office? He would direct the security guards to go out in the field and interact with the students. So he could argue he never saw his former players. I don’t know, but I’m trying to see if there’s some reasonable defense there.

Ms. Reid could argue in her defense that this is all news to her, and that she went by the legal playbook FCPS uses for dealing with sensitive matters.

Didn't a female administrator try to bring up something similar and they transferred her to Annandale?

Yes, the Fairfax Times mentioned her by name. She was punished and sent to Annandale HS. She had gone to Hayfield herself and wanted her kids to go to.

Is that a legitimate way to attend a school for which you are not zoned - having a parent employed there?

I believe I've read she lives in an area zoned for Hayfield. Furthermore, teachers can have their kids attend the school they teach at in FCPS. I assume administrators can too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Staff were told at the luncheon that speaking about things would have a negative impact on our evaluations .
Yes, I work at Hayfield.

Not everyone at Hayfield is of the mindset that this was proper. Hayfield is so much more than this football team and athletics department. We are a very diverse school, no ethnicity group makes up a majority of the population and we have over 50 different home languages spoken by our students and staff.

We are not perfect, but we are not defined by this scandal either.

Would you say that most of the staff would like to see Overton and Thompson gone ? B/c right now when I here Hayfield, I think Overton. Not sure why he is still drawing a paycheck from FFx county, but he is.