CHEATING IN HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL

[Floor_General22]

Amid the recent scandal at Hoover High School in Alabama, where coaches, teachers and administrators are being investigated for academic improprieties, are there any schools here in Tennessee that might be doing this as well?

[GreenMan]

Amid the recent scandal at Hoover High School in Alabama, where coaches, teachers and administrators are being investigated for academic improprieties, are there any schools here in Tennessee that might be doing this as well?

 

 

Have you ever heard the name Orlando Wade whom played at Spring Hill on the 1986 championship team.

[Floor_General22]

Have you ever heard the name Orlando Wade whom played at Spring Hill on the 1986 championship team.

 

 

 

Yes, Mr. Football in 86 I think. What about him?

[riverrat]

In the age of no child left behind and schools being shutdown for not making AYP(adequate yearly progress)? Surley not. It is not always athletically motivated, but I am sure it happens on occasion.

[KWoodroof]

Amid the recent scandal at Hoover High School in Alabama, where coaches, teachers and administrators are being investigated for academic improprieties, are there any schools here in Tennessee that might be doing this as well?

 

I think it would be naive to think that there isn't/hasn't been any cheating of that sort. In addition to academic fraud, there are other abuses, such as those associated with the Miami Northwestern program, where significant rules violations (such as failure to report a players felony arrest for a crime that occurred on school grounds) occurred with both the knowledge, and in some cases, complicity of coaching staffs and school administrators.

[lax4life32]

with coaches teaching and other teachers involved in athletics in other ways theres probably extra credit given or special treatment or even making the class easier as a whole but hopefully there isnt grade changing and teachers allowing players to not do work but still get the grade and alot of schools go easy on behavioral problems with athletes especially the star players

[wareagle958]

with coaches teaching and other teachers involved in athletics in other ways theres probably extra credit given or special treatment or even making the class easier as a whole but hopefully there isnt grade changing and teachers allowing players to not do work but still get the grade and alot of schools go easy on behavioral problems with athletes especially the star players

 

Ya thats exactly right especially when you get veteran teachers- after being at the school or in the teaching business for a long time, they understand what the athletes are there for, and most of them understand that the big time players are going to somethin bigger and better than their english class and figure they are so far gone that they aren't really strict on discipline and grades.

[Floor_General22]

Here are some news articles related to the Hoover case.

 

http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2007/07/remova...incipal_pr.html

 

http://blog.al.com/bn/2007/07/richard_bish...ontract_ev.html

 

http://www.al.com/sports/birminghamnews/in....xml&coll=2

 

http://www.al.com/hsfootball/birminghamnew....xml&coll=2

[Cowboyfan71]

Powell and grade fixing for Smith comes to mind....

[the2kguy]

probably happens almost everywhere to some extent - from one extreme to the other - like a kid that gets total favoritism shown all the time and he doesn't have to even go to class, to the level where a kid gets a few points added to keep him from failing.

[knockknock]

probably happens almost everywhere to some extent - from one extreme to the other - like a kid that gets total favoritism shown all the time and he doesn't have to even go to class, to the level where a kid gets a few points added to keep him from failing.

 

 

 

Not in the same line of cheating but against the rules none the less is the rampant amount of recruiting that goes on in Tennessee. Some schools are notorious for it and nothing seems to happen. Since the Brentwood Academy case, seems that the TSSAA has not been real interested in investigating complaints. Clear violations of eligibility rules seem to go unnoticed. Is this a problem all over or just in our little corner of East Tennessee??

[Floor_General22]

Not in the same line of cheating but against the rules none the less is the rampant amount of recruiting that goes on in Tennessee. Some schools are notorious for it and nothing seems to happen. Since the Brentwood Academy case, seems that the TSSAA has not been real interested in investigating complaints. Clear violations of eligibility rules seem to go unnoticed. Is this a problem all over or just in our little corner of East Tennessee??

 

 

 

The Brentwood Academy case was a joke. You are right, the amount of recruiting that goes on here in East Tennessee is getting out of hand. However I would say most of it is done through the loop holes that exist in the current rules. But that is a topic for another thread.