AnnaSage

Most school officials don't want to be snitches. I have given all of the information to the TSSAA on a silver platter. I'm just waiting to see if they have any integrity or are just a political organization of self-righteous hypocrites. With a case this blatant, that requires very little to verify, a failure to act on their part will confirm my suspicions.

The TSSAA bylaws say it is okay for a school to give a tuition discount to an athlete whose parent is a full-time faculty employee of the school. However, if the athlete is a tranfer student and has an athletic record, they are ineligible in that sport for 12 months. What about an athlete whose parent is a part-time faculty employee or non-faculty employee. Can that athlete ever be eligible if they receive a tuition discount?

That's closer to a bonafide change of address than these. By the way, sweetie, who is the new real estate agent for GHS now that you are scouting the Carolina's?

I'm sure you are an expert on these matters.

Never lived in Murray County, just rented an apartment there for a couple of months to get an address outside of 20 miles for the transfer form. All this pales in comparison to the SOMe PAY RACket of offering parental employment and tuition discounts when recruiting athletes.

You misunderstood my previous post. No hardship waivers were submitted. In fact, only one was submitted as a transfer, and that was with a bogus Murray County rental address. All TSSAA has to do is look at the paperwork they have on file.

TSSAA was given all of the information and documentation that can be validated in less than an hour. East Ridge would have been in the playoffs if TSSAA had taken action.

There were no hardships. TSSAA will not investigate. They don't care.

As I understand it doesn't matter public or private. A student with an athletic record must change residence from outside the territory to inside the territory of the new school or is ineligible for 365 days from their last participation date. For privates the territory is a 20 mile radius. Ringgold is within the 20 mile radius of Notre Dame so both the transfers from Ringgold are ineligible for the 2011 football season unless there is a TSSAA hardship approval. Hard to imagine an "unforeseen and unavoidable circumstance", "unrelated to athletic participation" that would necessitate their transfer. Can't say the tornado because one transfered before the tornando. Ringgold High School is still there. Ringgold Tigers football actually had a pretty good season. Might have been better if their assistant coach and two starting seniors hadn't bailed for Notre Dame.

Let's give this one a little twist. Another student lives within a 20 mile radius of the same Division I private school and establishes an athletic record by playing football for the local public school the entire 2010 football season as a junior. In the spring of 2011, he transfers to the private school with no change of residence, but does not participate in athletics. He is listed on the private school's roster for the 2011 football season, but no transfer form is submitted because he transfered in the spring of the previous academic year. Is he eligible to participate in football for the private school in 2011? Before anyone whines, the TSSAA is aware of both of these cases.

A student/athlete attends a public school and plays in every game during the 2010 season. He lives at home with his parents, and their residence is within the zone of the public school he attends. However, his residence is also within a 20 mile radius of a local private school. For 2011, the athlete transfers to the private school. Other than a hardship approval from the TSSAA, is there anyway he can be eligible to play for the private school in 2011? There was no change of residence. Even if there was a change, his old residence while attending the public school was within the territory of the private school.