KnoxReb Posted May 20, 2011 Report Share Posted May 20, 2011 How can kids continue to change schools and stay eligible? This seems to be a major problem in Memphis in particular. I have heard that Olive Branch (Miss) raids the Memphis High Schools on regular basis, but it seems like these schools keep stealing kids from each other. What is the deal? Is there just no control over there and why does the TSSAA allow it to happen? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barb Posted May 20, 2011 Report Share Posted May 20, 2011 How can kids continue to change schools and stay eligible? This seems to be a major problem in Memphis in particular. I have heard that Olive Branch (Miss) raids the Memphis High Schools on regular basis, but it seems like these schools keep stealing kids from each other. What is the deal? Is there just no control over there and why does the TSSAA allow it to happen? I'm pretty sure T$$AA has no jurisdiction in Mississippi... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrewJackson Posted May 20, 2011 Report Share Posted May 20, 2011 It might have something to do with the coaches they hire. Tim Thompson from Melrose to Ridgeway comes to mind. He got into trouble at Ridgeway before he even coached a single game. When you hire shady people this is bound to happen. Rumor is that Cordova High has hired Coach Johnson from Hillcrest and he was run out of Nashville Stratford for cheating, recruiting and knowingly playing ineligible players. I understand that he already has 5 of his Hillcrest players at Cordova, a huge linemen from Westwood is on the way and another 6' 8" monster from Southwind is coming in the summer. One of the Hillcrest kids is being driven from Whitehaven to Cordova in his father's City of Memphis police car! That is a great use of tax dollars! How does this stuff happen? Does anyone in Memphis care? Why has the TSSAA allowed this to go on? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WestTNFBCoach Posted May 20, 2011 Report Share Posted May 20, 2011 Cordova High must have Stevie Wonder has a Principal and Helen Keller as their Athletic Director if they are allowing the head coach to bring over ineligible players. Memphis is the wild, wild west for sure! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jet Pride Posted May 20, 2011 Report Share Posted May 20, 2011 It might have something to do with the coaches they hire. Tim Thompson from Melrose to Ridgeway comes to mind. He got into trouble at Ridgeway before he even coached a single game. When you hire shady people this is bound to happen. Rumor is that Cordova High has hired Coach Johnson from Hillcrest and he was run out of Nashville Stratford for cheating, recruiting and knowingly playing ineligible players. I understand that he already has 5 of his Hillcrest players at Cordova, a huge linemen from Westwood is on the way and another 6' 8" monster from Southwind is coming in the summer. One of the Hillcrest kids is being driven from Whitehaven to Cordova in his father's City of Memphis police car! That is a great use of tax dollars! How does this stuff happen? Does anyone in Memphis care? Why has the TSSAA allowed this to go on? What you're saying is pretty flagrant and I suspect, Cordova's opponents won't sit on it if they are true. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soxfan1 Posted May 20, 2011 Report Share Posted May 20, 2011 Cordova High must have Stevie Wonder has a Principal and Helen Keller as their Athletic Director if they are allowing the head coach to bring over ineligible players. Memphis is the wild, wild west for sure! This may be the greatest single post ever on CoachT! I have a friend that coached in Memphis who said that people from the neighborhood who may have been out of school for several years may even be suiting up and playing. It is easy to get around the rules when very few are going by the rules. Go Memphis make us all proud. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnoxReb Posted May 20, 2011 Author Report Share Posted May 20, 2011 Memphis is a mess! How does the school system allow all that to go on? Cheating is cheating! It teaches kids that it is okay to do it, as long as you don't get caught. At some point the TSSAA needs to put an end to all of that transfer stuff, there has to be a way to enforce the rules! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soxfan1 Posted May 20, 2011 Report Share Posted May 20, 2011 Memphis is a mess! How does the school system allow all that to go on? Cheating is cheating! It teaches kids that it is okay to do it, as long as you don't get caught. At some point the TSSAA needs to put an end to all of that transfer stuff, there has to be a way to enforce the rules! Better talk to the private schools first. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExFootballCoach Posted May 22, 2011 Report Share Posted May 22, 2011 At least with private schools you are allowed to live anywhere you want and attend those schools. These public schools are using bogus addresses, telling parents how to get around the rules and lying about where kids really live. That is just wrong! The private school deal is another discussion all together. They are a serious problem as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Memphis89 Posted May 23, 2011 Report Share Posted May 23, 2011 Lol a Southwind doesn't have any 6'8 monsters at that school except for two or three basketball players and they're not leaving so I don't know where thats coming from, but I agree with the rest of the thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barb Posted May 23, 2011 Report Share Posted May 23, 2011 This may be the greatest single post ever on CoachT! I have a friend that coached in Memphis who said that people from the neighborhood who may have been out of school for several years may even be suiting up and playing. It is easy to get around the rules when very few are going by the rules. Go Memphis make us all proud. As if Memphis could be any more proud of area teams after that football clinic Trezevant put on in Cookeville...just let Telli White straighten 'em all out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrewJackson Posted May 23, 2011 Report Share Posted May 23, 2011 LOL!!!! The Principal and Athletic Director at Cordova interviewed Telli White for the HFC job. Apparently, they were prepared to offer him the job before a booster club member informed them of his background. This according to someone who knows the AD very well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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