Switching schools and remaining eligible a problem in in Memphis

[KnoxReb]

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?

[barb]

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...

[AndrewJackson]

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?

[WestTNFBCoach]

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!

[Jet Pride]

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.

[Soxfan1]

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.

[KnoxReb]

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!

[Soxfan1]

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.

[ExFootballCoach]

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.

[Memphis89]

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.

[barb]

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.

[AndrewJackson]

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.