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Anonymous
It’s a message board and people type informally all the time on this thread but only pro-Hayfield messages get these “grammar” responses. Nice dog whistle. |
Anonymous
Bless your heart. |
Anonymous
Dont bless me. Bless the victims of white supremacy. Bless the kids that are being hated on and whose football season was ruined by the haters. Also bless the haters themselves. Lets hope they lose the insecurities that have caused this behavior. |
Anonymous
| FYI, the school district does not have to have a reason to non renew Coach Overton. Coaching contracts are one-year at will contracts. They can be non renewed for absolutely no reason. I think the county is working on a way to get the Principal out of Hayfield. Once he's gone they will have a quick 2 minute conversation with Overton that his coaching contract won't be renewed in the fall and then he's done. The idea that they need to have proof or hard evidence is ignorant to what has happened to many coaches. Most coaches who are let go are simply non renewed and never given a reason which makes it impossible to fight against legally. |
Anonymous
Speaking of insecurities, let’s bless all those who use the race card to deflect attention away from the real issues, poor character and dishonesty, among several others. Oh, and cheating. Nice trying. Go have a coffee and think about how you will cleverly bring race back into a discussion that has nothing to do with race. So sad that this is all you have. |
Anonymous
The sad part is, people who defend Overton and Hayfield won’t understand this and will scream race as the reason why he will be non-renewed. You have the vast majority of the Hayfield community that wants him gone. You have 99% of the school district that what’s him gone. There is a small minority of individuals the have drank the Kool-Aide and this is the sword they will fall on. Maybe one day and with significant hours of counseling behind them, they will eventually understand that what happened with the Hayfield football program was wrong. It may take years for this to happen, but I will pray for those few that still want to cling to something other than what this is, cheating. |
Anonymous
They aren’t blowing out every team in fcps they are playing either |
Anonymous
I disagree. From a legal perspective, FCPS can simply refrain from renewing his coaching contract. Non-renewal is a much easier and cleaner way to let him go. The stickier issue is with the principal. it appears that he has caused some exposure (choosing words carefully) to retaliation claims and if I were FCPS would want the benefit of the external legal review before taking any action. Typically in investigations in the corporate world cleaning house of various actors is not unusual, fair or not. One way to insulate (to a degree) from retaliation claims is to clean house. FCPS is not a corporation but legal liability is unpleasant to any large entity. It is somewhat understandable that the HSS parents and their kids playing football don't have a full appreciation of this dilemma. But it is a real factor. I noted with some interest the Apostle's screed against the ending of the Hayfield football season. She attacked a FCPS coach as racist. I assume that this is the reason her screed has been taken down. The Apostle was no doubt informed of the possibility of defamation liability. Not so smart. One thing about those who support the racial angle are missing. Gaining a college scholarship. particularly in the Power 4, is an incredibly long odds proposition - very long odds. Hayfield has two 3 star players. No certainty at all they will end up playing, particularly the receiver at 5"10 155 lbs. Of course the ACC team will put 20 pounds on him but no one can predict whether he will remain fast enough to play at the Power 4 level. Not a knock on the kid - for all I know he is a nice kid. But D1 football is brutal. I was a D1 scholarship Power 4 guy years ago. Ditto for my brother. The chances of getting a scholarship in our sport were tiny. In hindsight it was foolish to count on an athletic scholarship, especially since once granted one one had to subordinate academics to athletics. My brother and I, both poor, were Phi Beta Kappa for a reason. It was the only kind of goal that made sense. Otherwise the system works you rather than you making it work for you. The focus should be on improving the academics of all black males, and this won't happen for most through football. The glorification of high school football doesn't help many. Note this comment is from a guy who likes and knows sports. |
Anonymous
Thank you for this. Too many parents hope for stardom for their kids when hoping for good academics is so much better. |
Anonymous
The Hayfraud parents never accept this. They still, to this day, believe it is perfectly acceptable to recruit high school students from other teams. All they care about is the end result and building a dynasty. Their dynasty is made out of sand because it is against the rules to recruit. They love to crow about their wins when we know and they know their coach recruited huge numbers for the team and other schools don't do this. They will never accept that the coach can not recruit students. |
Anonymous
Once again, this isn't a race issue. Overton came and won so many games because he didn't follow the rules. You do not "build a powerhouse of a program" in high school because you are not allowed to recruit students. HOW DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND THIS? |
Anonymous
That's it. They just double down while admitting in their posts that Overton recruited players from other schools. |
Anonymous
She should sue. This is one of the slimiest ascpects of this entire debacle. |
Anonymous
DP. I actually think it's the worst aspect of the entire scandal. Silencing whistle blowers should be a red line not to be crossed. Football is a game and not a big deal in the scheme of things. If she was silenced and transferred for a sport, imagine what else they'd do if an employee started asking questions about more serious infractions |
Anonymous
As a theoretical example, something major happening at the school and the director of security being unqualified to deal/assist with such an event? The other security people there also not being much help because perhaps they have no training and background in security? |