Crock1615

Bluff City had a team last year. It was their 1st or 2nd year fielding a team. Of course, this year nobody in Memphis is playing so I don't know what they will be doing going forward.

https://cms-files.tssaa.org/documents/tssaa/2020/August-FAQ-TSSAA.pdf

Cancellation of Contests due to COVID 19 Games cancelled due to COVID 19 shall be treated as follows: Football - TSSAA Regulations require teams to play a district/region schedule for playoff purposes. Regular season standings and the building of postseason brackets are done by TSSAA staff which creates the need for consistency on how cancellations are handled. Therefore, the following procedures are in place when a team is unable to play due to a COVID 19 outbreak or school system mandate. 1. Region Game- The game will go on record as a no contest for the school that is unable to play due to the outbreak or school system mandate. The school that could have played will receive a region win and overall win in the standings if the school can not replace the game with a new opponent on the same week it was originally scheduled to occur. If the school that could have played does replace the game with another opponent on the same week it was originally scheduled to occur, the school receives a Region win in the standings and the outcome of the game will be used in the overall standings. 2. Non Region Game- The game will go on record as a no contest for the school that is unable to play due to the outbreak or school system mandate. The school that could have played will receive a win in the overall standings if the game is not replaced. If the school that could play does replace the game with another opponent, the outcome of the game will be used in the overall standings.

if i am not mistaken, i think this would count as a "Covid win" for Huntingdon, but not a loss for mcewen in the region standings. so if both teams were able to play the rest of the region schedule without any cancellations, and both won out then huntingdon would be 6-0 in the region and mcewen would be 5-0. this would make huntingdon the 1 seed and mcewen the 2 seed.

yes if the school will let a freshman enroll, the only residency requirement is that he live at home with his parents/legal guardians.

it will only apply to transfer students. incoming freshmen are eligible at any school that will take them.

yes on transfers an actual person reviews it but the school is notified of the decision through the portal.

The cornersville game was the last region game and the last game that was forfeited. This is the game that the official allegedly made the comment. So even if that game was not forfeited then fayetteville's region record would have been 1-4. they would have still not qualified for the playoffs.

interesting ideas. a few questions about these ideas. 1 - would your urban and rural groups compete for separate state championships? 2- so the transfer policy would be like florida's is now. free transferring for any reason. 4 - how to you prove recruiting?

this is all supposition, but it could have gone something like this: Fayetteville enters transfer information into the portal that the student had a bona-fide change of address into their territory. the portal declared him eligible. Someone reports him for not living in the fayetteville territory. school is contacted and says his address is in our territory believing that their territory includes all of lincoln county. The tssaa just takes their word that this is their territory. declares student eligible. someone else (or the same person again) reports to the tssaa that this address is NOT in fayetteville territory per tssaa definition of territory. new investigation finds that the address is in fact NOT in the fayetteville territory. Student is declared ineligible. again, this is all supposition, but i can see how it could have played out this way.

in the article posted above from alabama, a team was removed after they won the first playoff game and the team that lost on the field was awarded a win by forfeit and played in the second round (and lost) I don't know if the tssaa would do the same or not.

I guess we are to assume that the BOC decided the time the whitwell player would be ineligible was zero games.

yes that is correct. the tssaa assumes what the school reports to them is true. if someone files a complaint they investigate.

yes every transfer has to be cleared.

All-Star Games Section 23 (a). No student shall be permitted to participate in an all-star game unless it is sanctioned by the TSSAA and unless he/she has completed high school eligibility in that sport; (b) no individual player is allowed to participate in more than two sanctioned all-star contests during the school year; and (c) any student who fails to comply with the preceding requirements loses athletic eligibility for a period of time to be determined by the Board of Control. This rule reflects the present NCAA rule involving all-star games and is designed to parallel those regulations. If a student-athlete withdraws from school and participates in an All-Star game prior to completing their high school eligibility in that sport, he or she will be ineligible to participate in that sport twelve months past the date of the All-Star game. An all-star game is defined as any contest (where admission is charged either directly or indirectly) in which one or both teams is composed of players selected from two or more regularly constituted teams. This regulation does not apply to summer baseball and girls softball. Any all-star game involving TSSAA athletes must be sanctioned by the TSSAA. A filing fee of $250.00 is required for the game to be considered for sanctioning. If the game is approved then an additional approval fee of $750.00 is required. If the request is denied, then all fees shall be refunded. This fee is required annually for games involving groups not affiliated with the TSSAA. No member school shall permit use of its equipment, facilities, or of its employees, directly or indirectly, in the management, coaching, officiating, supervision, or promotion of player selection of any unsanctioned all-star team or contest during the school year. The part in bold answers your question. there is no set penalty. each case is decided by the board of control.

I would think so.

the most likely outcome of this is that the winner of the Mcewen/Huntland game in round 1 gets a bye into the 3rd round to face Huntingdon. of course that is assuming there are not a couple of upsets in region 6 this week.

was there a complaint and and investigation prior to the sept. 6 letter or was that letter a result of the online transfer student eligibility form that the school is required to submit for all transfers?

I have one question that is a little off topic from the court discussion but still related: I have not seen fayetteville play this season or last season. last season fayetteville was 1-9 with several lopsided loses. This year they are 9-0. Did the kid in question make that big of a difference? or were they going to be good this year anyway?

tullahoma territory is the city limits. when fayetteville city schools added the high school grades it "claimed" that territory from the county. prior to 2010 did high school students who lived in fayetteville ride buses to lchs? I don't know for a fact how lchs did it, but the way that most system would handle this is all students in the city would be bused to one location from their various bus routes (presumable the middle school) and then they would all be bussed to the high school at the same time. on a side note: Here in west tennessee, almost every city in gibson county has its own school district and then there is a gibson county district. There are 5 separate districts in the county each with its own territory.

so that provision is referring to "magnet schools" by this definition, fayetteville is not a system-wide school. it is a city school whose geographic zone is the city limits of fayetteville based on its bus routes.

is tullahoma a city school district similar to fayetteville? i am from west tennessee, so i am not familiar with all the geography over there. but if so, the transfer would be eligible if he moved into the city limits of tullahoma.

yes to be eligible immediately they must enroll in the school that runs buses by their house, unless they are entering the 9th grade, then they could go to any school in the county.

https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolmap/ this is the census bureau map of all school districts in the us. if you zoom in to lincoln county tennessee and then click the "Zoom to" link on fayetteville city schools, it highlights the city limits of fayetteville, if you click the "zoom to" link for lincoln county schools, it highlights all of lincoln county except the fayetteville city limits.

but if it was really their territory, they would run buses there. this situation is why the bus route rule is there. a system could just say "our territory is the entire united states if you can provide your own transportation, but we will run buses in the city limits."