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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This proposition appears doubtful. Overton acted in accordance with his school bosses’ desires. They wanted a top football team and he did as promised. Great players don’t grow on trees and he did what he had to to get them to Hayfield, even if it meant some kids were listed as homeless or living at Planet Fitness. And Overton went to a place where residency and associated rules don’t matter. If he doesn’t succeed in the marketplace at St James, well, he will have to deal with that reality. The culprits here are the FCPS administration who lost perspective in their quest to chase the community cultural god known as football. [/quote]

oh pleeeeeeaaaasssseeee. OVERTON wanted to coach a top football team and trashed two high school programs on his way to work at a fancy Gold's Gym.[/quote]

Former NCAA scholarship athlete here. I am sure you have a similar background. Virtuallty every scandal I came across as the fingerprints of an administration on it. Coaches get away with exactly what administrators let them. In Hayfield's case Overton did what the principal and the region superintendent wanted. I am sure with your experience in top level athletics would on reflection cause you to agree.

Not sure why the angst over Overton’s latest assignment. If you want to do what he does he is at the right place. He either succeeds or fails with that business model. From a typical DCUM parent’s perspective, the St James thing seems nuts. But DCUM is a narrow slice of the culture and not tied in with the people who consider St James.

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Overton was caught, and reprimanded, for cheating numerous times at Freedom. Was the Freedom principal and the Prince William County region superintendent in on that too?

The articles still exist. Just google "freedom football forfeits". You'll find multiple different news stories.

What is also interesting about those forfeits, is that they coincide with Overton having a better win/loss record. The initial seasons he was at Freedom (when they played with all Freedom kids), they were not good.

All of a sudden Freedom becomes good and [i]coincidentally[/i] also starts having to forfeit wins for ineligible players.

Take any tenured coach with a winning record in FCPS, LCPS, or PWCS and give them Freedom or Hayfields roster and I bet you see the same (if not better) results than what Overton had. [/quote]

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