Fayetteville to forfeit 6 wins

[ecu]

Any chance Fayetteville wins appeal?

[Southtowner]

2 hours ago, ecu said:

Any chance Fayetteville wins appeal?

I don't think so.

[tradertwo]

5 hours ago, ecu said:

Any chance Fayetteville wins appeal?

'Bout the same chance that Elvis was going to show up and claim his Falcon tickets that Jerry Glanville left for him.

[ladykee]

How hard is it for TSSAA to verify a “bus” runs by the home address when conducting the initial clearance? That is complete failure on TSSAA part if they are clearing without checking all the qualifications. They should have a checklist and once they clear they clear unless info provided was false info. If the issue was the bus in this instance TSSAA should have known that prior to clearing the player. That should have been asked & clarified. TSSAA messed up and should not be able to penalize retroactively on a cleared player in this type of instance. This is crazy stupid! Don’t clear until you are presented all paperwork that could affect an entire team. As long as all actions and paperwork is legit then clear and own it! If at some point evidence proves otherwise then there’s an issue. Have humans lost all logic this day & time? Surely there is more to this than what has been presented. If not I pray for those involved a fair and just appeal process is done and TSSAA will realize they dropped the ball and to penalize someone else for their error is absurd. 

[jimmycrackedthatcorn]

Tssaa is a joke. They pick and choose who to ok and who to rob.

Fayetteville should not have to forfeit games since they cleared the player. They could just say the boy is not eligible and has to sit the remainder of the season. 

[Southtowner]

Simple.  Just don't break the rules to begin with. 

Player was eligible for Lincoln County but not Fayetteville City.  He didn't move within Fayetteville's territory.  Should have filed a hardship.

[Southtowner]

And where is the evidence that says the student athlete was cleared by the TSSAA? 

Could this have been like the Signal Mountain issue where the wrong box was checked on the paperwork?  That student athlete was cleared as well to participate only because of how the paperwork was filed.  Come to find out the wrong box was checked.  Kid was given a hardship but that didn't release Signal from having to forfeit the games he played in.

[The Drunken Sailor]

2 hours ago, ladykee said:

How hard is it for TSSAA to verify a “bus” runs by the home address when conducting the initial clearance? That is complete failure on TSSAA part if they are clearing without checking all the qualifications. They should have a checklist and once they clear they clear unless info provided was false info. If the issue was the bus in this instance TSSAA should have known that prior to clearing the player. That should have been asked & clarified. TSSAA messed up and should not be able to penalize retroactively on a cleared player in this type of instance. This is crazy stupid! Don’t clear until you are presented all paperwork that could affect an entire team. As long as all actions and paperwork is legit then clear and own it! If at some point evidence proves otherwise then there’s an issue. Have humans lost all logic this day & time? Surely there is more to this than what has been presented. If not I pray for those involved a fair and just appeal process is done and TSSAA will realize they dropped the ball and to penalize someone else for their error is absurd. 

Yep, unless there is something that I am missing then this is on the TSSAA. It's been investigated twice now from what I hear and now they say that the kids is ineligible? New info either came out or the TSSAA is as inept as SEC officials.

[Indian]

6 minutes ago, Southtowner said:

And where is the evidence that says the student athlete was cleared by the TSSAA? 

Could this have been like the Signal Mountain issue where the wrong box was checked on the paperwork?  That student athlete was cleared as well to participate only because of how the paperwork was filed.  Come to find out the wrong box was checked.  Kid was given a hardship but that didn't release Signal from having to forfeit the games he played in.

His hardship matching school should have been Ooltewah. 

[RocketHouse]

12 minutes ago, The Drunken Sailor said:

Yep, unless there is something that I am missing then this is on the TSSAA. It's been investigated twice now from what I hear and now they say that the kids is ineligible? New info either came out or the TSSAA is as inept as SEC officials.

New info is apparently TSSAA finally got around to checking the school website at the end of the season after sitting on the "investigation" for weeks. Would this not be the initial step of an eligibility investigation? 

The kid moved to Lincoln County which makes him eligible to attend Fayetteville according to their director of schools but because they do not run bus routes outside of the city limits he is not a legit move for an athlete. 

 

Per the Tennessean article: 

The athlete's address was not within Fayetteville's city limits, which made it outside of the school's territory, the TSSAA determined.

The TSSAA's bylaws define a public school's territory as the "geographic boundaries and bus routes of the area served by that school as established by the local board of education," according to the letter.

Fayetteville city director of schools Janine Wilson wrote on Oct. 21 to the TSSAA that, under Fayetteville city school board policy, the board recognizes the lines of Lincoln County to be the defined territory and geographic area that the system serves.

However, the TSSAA reviewed the school system's website and wrote that according to the site, attendance at Fayetteville High School is open to all Lincoln County residents, but transportation is only provided by students in the Fayetteville city limits.

[Varo]

41 minutes ago, Southtowner said:

And where is the evidence that says the student athlete was cleared by the TSSAA? 

Could this have been like the Signal Mountain issue where the wrong box was checked on the paperwork?  That student athlete was cleared as well to participate only because of how the paperwork was filed.  Come to find out the wrong box was checked.  Kid was given a hardship but that didn't release Signal from having to forfeit the games he played in.

this is one of the reasons why Fayetteville High School is appealing the decision made by AD Menees, in Director Childress' absence.  

[ReitzFan]

58 minutes ago, jimmycrackedthatcorn said:

Tssaa is a joke. They pick and choose who to ok and who to rob.

Fayetteville should not have to forfeit games since they cleared the player. They could just say the boy is not eligible and has to sit the remainder of the season. 

The school reported said player as eligible. Based on the information that was given to the TSSAA he was declared eligible. When given more specific information, he in the school were declared ineligible. The blame here goes to the school for not fully reporting. The letter from the TSSAA in the above post clearly says the decision was made based on information given to them.

Edited October 27, 2019 by ReitzFan