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What part was inaccurate? |
| The biggest factual mystery in all this was how did FCPS decide all the kids lived in Hayfield zone, but VHSL decided that 9 didn't? What facts did VHSL consider relevant that FCPS ignored? |
| And how was one ineligible the first week supposedly for the whole year and then magically became eligible in time for the next game? |
Do you know that the 9 players who were removed from the roster all came from Freedom? If so, were they all ineligible because they lived outside the schools zoning district? If all that is true, can you prove any of the football coaches recruited the players? The Assistant Coach who moved near the school with his son that plays, is really the only coach we can reasonably assume brought a player in. All the other assumptions about recruiting and other unethical behavior by coaching staff are a reach. |
If you look at the VHSL rule on bona fide residency changes, you can cure by engaging in a bona fide move. So the kid that sat out against WSHS but played against Annandale we can assume completed the bona fide move. |
| What makes a move a "bona fide" move? |
This is from two different VHSL docs … The student shall not have enrolled in one high school and subsequently transferred to and enrolled in another high school without a corresponding change in the residence of his/her parents, parent, or guardian. The original residence must be abandoned as a residence, that is sold, rented or otherwise disposed of as a residence, and must not be used as a residence by the immediate family. The entire family must make the change and take with them the household goods and furniture appropriate to the circumstances. The change must be made with the intent that it is permanent. … Residence is defined as the domicile of an individual, meaning that the individual lives in a locality with the intent to make it a fixed and permanent home. Domicile requires more than bodily presence as an inhabitant in a given place; it requires bodily presence and an intention to make such a place a fixed and permanent home. Other indicia of domicile include automobile registration, voter registration and the reporting of a mailing address change to the appropriate agencies, such as the post office, utility companies, creditors and employers. Under no circumstances can a family or student participant have two residences for eligibility purposes. It is the obligation of the school to know the complete residence status of each student participant and to see that all comply with these requirements. Any change in residence must be bona fide. Determination of what constitutes a bona fide change of residence depends upon the facts of each case. |
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I would think fcps would have the same standard. Of course your family has to actually live here!
Really don't see how 9 kids "lived here" according to FCPs but not VHSL. |
| Maybe those were the kids who submitted the Homeless forms. FCPS took them at their word: VHSL didn't buy it. |
| None of this matters much. Hayfield is going undefeated and that’s already been established |
Of course cheating matters. |
There will always be an asterisk. Just like John Marshall basketball in Richmond. |
| No one respects wins when you get them by cheating. Its sad to both win and be a laughingstock at the same time. |
If Hayfield were caught cheating, there would have been some sort of disciplinary action against the program. That hasn’t happened so the slander needs to stop. |
Students from outside the schools zoned living quarters have moved into or found some sort of way and are definitely playing for John Marshall’s basketball team. |