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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So what happens with the NINE ineligible players? Can they become re-eligible or do they have to sit the whole year out? Are they all still at Hayfield?

Depends on the reason for ineligibility which might be multiple things. But if the ineligibility is for residency, VHSL says the student can become immediately eligible if the parents establish bona fide residency in the new school district.

I’m guessing that’s the plan. For the parents who got flagged, they are going to double down on moving to Hayfield.

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Anonymous wrote:I will say, don't know about football byt my kids played FCPS basketball and volleyball and there was never a "team fee" like this. Everything was covered.

https://www.fairfaxtimes.com/articles/fairfax_county/high-school-recruiting-scandal-bullying-alleged-at-hayfield/article_0cf41168-2f24-11ef-be80-5771473f6dd4.html

My kid played football and another sport in Prince William county (not Freedom) and there was a fee collected each season to pay for team meals before the games. Could this be what the collection was for?

$30,000 of team meals?

Wouldn't it be simpler and cheaper to pot luck it?

Why do they need team meals? My kids
played other high school sports and they did not have team meals.

I don't know what kind of sports your kids played, but football games generally start at 7 pm and last until around 9:30 or 10 pm. Lunch for some of these players is as early as 10:30 am. It's unreasonable to expect athletes to go nearly 12 hours without a meal and still perform well on the field. They need a meal.
I mean, I guess you could just say that each player should pack a lunch box, but the meal together is good team bonding.

Most kids would go home on the bus at 3:00, eat, and then return to school for the game. Why are they hanging around the school all day? This is so weird to me.

Ummm....clearly it's going to take too long to go home to Woodbridge on I-95 South during rush hour ! Of COURSE the team mom needs to provide "pizza " (and probably pasta and steaks ftom a hood restaurant) so that the Prince William kids can make it to the game! Duh! Everyone knows that traffic on I-95 south during evening rush is brutal! 😉

[Anonymous]

(from a GOOD restaurant)

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Anonymous wrote:(from a GOOD restaurant)

Correcting typo

That's quite a typo.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So what happens with the NINE ineligible players? Can they become re-eligible or do they have to sit the whole year out? Are they all still at Hayfield?

Depends on the reason for ineligibility which might be multiple things. But if the ineligibility is for residency, VHSL says the student can become immediately eligible if the parents establish bona fide residency in the new school district.

I’m guessing that’s the plan. For the parents who got flagged, they are going to double down on moving to Hayfield.

By the time they sell their house or officially move out of one place into another, the football season will be over.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So what happens with the NINE ineligible players? Can they become re-eligible or do they have to sit the whole year out? Are they all still at Hayfield?

Depends on the reason for ineligibility which might be multiple things. But if the ineligibility is for residency, VHSL says the student can become immediately eligible if the parents establish bona fide residency in the new school district.

I’m guessing that’s the plan. For the parents who got flagged, they are going to double down on moving to Hayfield.

By the time they sell their house or officially move out of one place into another, the football season will be over.

Sometimes people move into a new place before selling their old one. Happens all the time.
We don’t even know that these families own their current homes, they could be renters.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I will say, don't know about football byt my kids played FCPS basketball and volleyball and there was never a "team fee" like this. Everything was covered.

https://www.fairfaxtimes.com/articles/fairfax_county/high-school-recruiting-scandal-bullying-alleged-at-hayfield/article_0cf41168-2f24-11ef-be80-5771473f6dd4.html

My kid played football and another sport in Prince William county (not Freedom) and there was a fee collected each season to pay for team meals before the games. Could this be what the collection was for?

$30,000 of team meals?

Wouldn't it be simpler and cheaper to pot luck it?

Why do they need team meals? My kids
played other high school sports and they did not have team meals.

I don't know what kind of sports your kids played, but football games generally start at 7 pm and last until around 9:30 or 10 pm. Lunch for some of these players is as early as 10:30 am. It's unreasonable to expect athletes to go nearly 12 hours without a meal and still perform well on the field. They need a meal.
I mean, I guess you could just say that each player should pack a lunch box, but the meal together is good team bonding.

Most kids would go home on the bus at 3:00, eat, and then return to school for the game. Why are they hanging around the school all day? This is so weird to me.

Ummm....clearly it's going to take too long to go home to Woodbridge on I-95 South during rush hour ! Of COURSE the team mom needs to provide "pizza " (and probably pasta and steaks ftom a hood restaurant) so that the Prince William kids can make it to the game! Duh! Everyone knows that traffic on I-95 south during evening rush is brutal! 😉

Hood restaurant? The racial overtones by the previous poster are just disgusting.

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um i think that was a typo

[Anonymous]

VHSL doesn’t determine eligibility for players - that is the school’s responsibility. But what VHSL does do is impose consequences for playing ineligible athletes, which can include forfeiture of games. So VHSL did what FCPS failed to do in their internal investigation by dint of their enforcement powers. Not a good look.

I do think some of the racial comments here are wrong. These are kids who want to play the game and are being used by adults in a way not to their long term benefit. I feel for them. On the other hand, the schools have succumbed to racial identity politics in not scrutinizing all of the actions correctly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:VHSL doesn’t determine eligibility for players - that is the school’s responsibility. But what VHSL does do is impose consequences for playing ineligible athletes, which can include forfeiture of games. So VHSL did what FCPS failed to do in their internal investigation by dint of their enforcement powers. Not a good look.

I do think some of the racial comments here are wrong. These are kids who want to play the game and are being used by adults in a way not to their long term benefit. I feel for them. On the other hand, the schools have succumbed to racial identity politics in not scrutinizing all of the actions correctly.

The only person trying to play the race card is the Coach and his defenders, who keep screeching about RACISM to try to keep people quiet.

Its not racist to expect people to follow the rules.

[Anonymous]

It is really disappointing that FCPS tried to cover this whole thing up and then claimed "nothing to see here!" an hour before VHSL had to threaten forfeits for playing ineligible kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:um i think that was a typo

Whatever it was, it was ridiculous. Several football parents here have posted that dinners before a game are typically held a a team, so the pp's unhinged rant about driving down I95 was just insane.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:VHSL doesn’t determine eligibility for players - that is the school’s responsibility. But what VHSL does do is impose consequences for playing ineligible athletes, which can include forfeiture of games. So VHSL did what FCPS failed to do in their internal investigation by dint of their enforcement powers. Not a good look.

I do think some of the racial comments here are wrong. These are kids who want to play the game and are being used by adults in a way not to their long term benefit. I feel for them. On the other hand, the schools have succumbed to racial identity politics in not scrutinizing all of the actions correctly.

The only person trying to play the race card is the Coach and his defenders, who keep screeching about RACISM to try to keep people quiet.

It’s not racist to expect people to follow the rules.

Well there is a lot of racism in football and it’s likely a lot of the racists are against this coach. I have no dog in the fight and while it looks like someone or some people affiliated with the Hayfield football program may not have been following the rules, that doesn’t mean the coach is at fault.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:VHSL doesn’t determine eligibility for players - that is the school’s responsibility. But what VHSL does do is impose consequences for playing ineligible athletes, which can include forfeiture of games. So VHSL did what FCPS failed to do in their internal investigation by dint of their enforcement powers. Not a good look.

I do think some of the racial comments here are wrong. These are kids who want to play the game and are being used by adults in a way not to their long term benefit. I feel for them. On the other hand, the schools have succumbed to racial identity politics in not scrutinizing all of the actions correctly.

The only person trying to play the race card is the Coach and his defenders, who keep screeching about RACISM to try to keep people quiet.

It’s not racist to expect people to follow the rules.

Well there is a lot of racism in football and it’s likely a lot of the racists are against this coach. I have no dog in the fight and while it looks like someone or some people affiliated with the Hayfield football program may not have been following the rules, that doesn’t mean the coach is at fault.

He's the head coach. Its his show and absolutely his fault. He talked all these kids into transferring knowing the rules and that they were breaking the rules.

Who are "the racists against this coach" that you are referring to? Did someone burn a cross in his yard?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:VHSL doesn’t determine eligibility for players - that is the school’s responsibility. But what VHSL does do is impose consequences for playing ineligible athletes, which can include forfeiture of games. So VHSL did what FCPS failed to do in their internal investigation by dint of their enforcement powers. Not a good look.

I do think some of the racial comments here are wrong. These are kids who want to play the game and are being used by adults in a way not to their long term benefit. I feel for them. On the other hand, the schools have succumbed to racial identity politics in not scrutinizing all of the actions correctly.

The only person trying to play the race card is the Coach and his defenders, who keep screeching about RACISM to try to keep people quiet.

It’s not racist to expect people to follow the rules.

Well there is a lot of racism in football and it’s likely a lot of the racists are against this coach. I have no dog in the fight and while it looks like someone or some people affiliated with the Hayfield football program may not have been following the rules, that doesn’t mean the coach is at fault.

This is not Remember the Titans era. Teams and coaches throughout the area are overwhelmingly African American. The angriest parents are the AA parents at other schools who see what Hayfield is doing.

If you want to make a racism claim you need a team with 15 transfers and 9 ineligible players that is being treated differently. You don’t have one of those.