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You may feel that the calls were garbage but if you were truthfully on the visitors side then you could not have heard what was being said by the Glencliff coaching staff when he was yelling at the refs towards the end of the game. He told the refs that no matter if the score was 35-0 that the game still needed to be called fairly otherwise they were going to get somebody hurt. I feel that this statement goes for both ways!! And no one EVER said that Glencliff doesn't have a unified team!! The team is unified they have just had some rough seasons and I think that every school at some point goes through that! I feel that now that the player was declared "eligible" you feel like you can bash the team by calls that where or where not made, just take the win and be happy for them that they didn't have to forfeit the game. But do you honestly feel that its appropriate for a student to still be eligible to play after putting his hands on a teacher and that being the true reason he had to leave Glencliff?!?!

So basically you are saying that this player attended school for more than 40 days which at that point made him eligible to play any sport that he wished. So therefore that would make him an ineligible player this semester?!?!?The Tennessean posted that about the forty days because of what it states in the bylaws of the TSSAA eligibility rules. You are eligible to play 8 semesters beginning with your 9th grade year as long as you attend more than 40 days of school!!! If this player did indeed attend more than those 40 days then he was eligible to play at that time! The only reason I feel like this is an issue is because he was put out of Glencliff for putting his hands on a teacher and still getting to play! Which in the end is why it bothers me so much.

To start with, the team was told about this before anyone else was. They were told on Friday night after the game was over with, so they did not have to find out through gossip or by the internet. It fell on the coach at that point to let his team know that they could possibly have an ineligible player. Friday night did not turn into any of these actions that you are speaking of. I feel like you are trying to justify the fact that Hunters Lane is playing with an ineligible player. Unless you attended a different game than I did I think that these actions are made up. The truth to this whole matter is that the player in question did attend Glencliff and the players brought it to the coaches attention. The Glencliff coaches could have truthfully turned the school in but instead they brought it to the Hunters Lane coaches attention and the HL coaches turned this into the TSSAA. In reality Glencliff has nothing to gain from the player being declared ineligible. They have a losing record and in no way will they be able to go to the playoffs!! So you trying to blame this whole matter on Glencliff is not even understandable. The whole point is that everyone needs to follow the rules. The truth to this whole situation is that the player in question was put out of Glencliff for putting his hands on a teacher. So now students are rewarded for missing school and putting their hands on the administration?!?! So for everyone to be up on here trying to put the blame on Glencliff is completely ridicilous, the blame needs to fall on the player for not being honest up front with his coach when they believed earlier in the season that they were paying with an ineligible player. In the eligibility rules it states that you do have 8 semesters of eligibility, I would understand if the player missed school because of an illness but he missed because of actions that he chose to make. I believe that he should not be able to be on the field. I feel that the TSSAA rewards players for not attending school and for making the chose of putting their hands on a teacher. Maybe everyone should get all of the facts before they start trying to defend the actions of this player being in his 5th year of high school. Yes this did all come about because of actions that the Glencliff coaches took by telling the HL coaches, but if this would have been taken care of in the beginning then this would not have been an issue during the 10th week of the season! So before everyone needs to take the blame off of Glencliff!! If Glencliff really wanted to be dirty about the situation then they could have not said anything to the HL coaches and just simply turned them in. The bottom line is that you are trying to say that Glencliff played dirty to justify the fact that this player was playing ineligibly!!!