Fairfax VA, High School Banned from Postseason Due to recruiting violations-October 31st, 2024-5:25pm
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Fairfax VA, High School Banned from Postseason Due to recruiting violations-October 31st, 2024-5:25pm
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Enterprise ready, AI. Back to old school with DP and Shay on 93/7 the ticket and the ticket FM.com. That might be the best high school recruiting story I've heard of all time. I mean, because you know, you have the one coach that's down in Georgia that recruited the quarterback and then he got in trouble. And then he was like, take, you know, that one guy. He started out in the MTV show of Hoover. Then he's been everywhere and he seems like he's kind of a bad dude. DP told us during the break of recruiting. Now, we know it all happens. It's going to happen and it should happen because if a kid, I'm a firm believer this, if a kid wants to put himself in the best situation to try to go to college, he has to go where he can't because not everybody can afford to pay for these astronomical prices for college. But DP, bless the people with this. I've never listened. I don't know what type of house he first of all. I don't even mind that he has the kids live one. What size of house do you have to have 14 kids living in your basement? Like is that even like? And they say, either a heck of a house or oh, that's a heck of a house. Imagine that bathroom. I don't want you. They're like, you better know that you football players. Right. You showering at the stadium. Don't come. That's where your shower is to understand. And this is six days with the highest level. So which would be a here. So a classic, right? So the coach who's known, right? Had success at some other schools. Fairfax County public school system. Reports that the schools football program has been banned from postseason. And not from the county, but from the state. The state said. Hey, you can't you can't play in this in the playoffs. Fairfax County public schools has some issue to it, but because the reports of some 14 players and or families all living. In under one roof in one address. Transferring and players, the conversations of recruiting within 100 mile radius is. Of of the 50 miles, what's the radius 100 miles is what what was actually said. So no, I'm saying what what is legal. Legal is within your neighborhood. So imagine you're at Lincoln High, and if you live in the zone that is predetermined for Lincoln High School. That's it. You're supposed to go to school in Lincoln High. And I've talked to some young people and I know that some of that happens here. That hey, I don't want to play Lincoln. I want to play Lincoln. I want to play at Northeast. And so you know, you go live with auntie or uncle, but in this particular case, they put a ball on one roof and. When you talk about recruiting, as you said, in a perfect world, you play for who you want to play for. Yeah, but what also happens from equity and equality standpoint, that doesn't always work because you're pulling kids from one zone. So let's say it's it's Lincoln High and they're all going to North Star and balling out. Taxing and representation and resources are based on where you live, not on where you're going to school. There's a difference between how the zoning happens and then coaches, of course, and then a family. Like, wait a minute, if I live in Lincoln in the Lincoln area and there's 14 kids who came from another place to take my son's spot or my daughter's spot. Probably I'd probably be a little salty over. I'd probably be a little better over. Yeah, I mean, yeah, and that has happened in different schools around the state. So the school systems around the country are really going to have to to kind of make. Well, it's got to be state by state, but I also say, you know, you got my solution is. You got to get some dues in there that are really. Want to get that work, get competitive. Because if you have say us three or coaches say there's only three say we're here in Lincoln. There's only three high school. But they know I don't have this to have to go play for Austin because I know we've got a good program here. Then the zoning and all that stuff. You ain't got to worry about it. You know what I'm saying? Then the main positions would probably be quarterback because only one can play. And so the Texas is, you know, that Lincoln has open enrollment. So the money would go wherever the student goes. But you also get into the equity and otherwise. You want to get one transfer, right? That if everybody's choosing to play for coach foreman. There's a reason there's something good that coach foreman is doing. So, you know, and as long as the parents are okay with it, then it's a thing. But just say that 14 people who have to go through compliance. Like there's paperwork that has to be in this. They just use that address. Well, but here's the thing. They moved yet here to use my address. But if they're using your address, you have to provide documentation that says that they're actually living at your address. And you're beholden to it because that is an allotment of federal and state and district money that you are saying should come to your house and to your people when it's not really coming to your house. It's going somewhere else. And it's taken from somewhere else. So it's all pretty interesting. You got an interesting text here. I don't mean to cut you off. 4424. So that happens in Lincoln use football also happens at every level of football. Well, I mean, that's the camera. That's why I'm recruiting. Well, hey, man. You like Big Max? I got a big max. You want to be afraid. No, it was. I've been running through them through the other day. Hey, I don't have any other football brought to you by McDonald's. That would I expect it. Oh, you know, you know, when you get to extra patch on the dirt, something off the little league jersey. Right. You get, you know, Chipotle. Yeah. You know, I was like, I was in Lincoln, like, in like football back in the day. You did. I did. Did you win championship? Or did you lose that championship? I think we made it to the set ice. There you go. I like what you like. He's just there. Reese. What are we doing? Yeah. We get your own. Look, you got your own NIL care package. Like little, little, little, little, little buffet over here is going to get a whole basket. The recruiting is serious though. I mean, and everything, whether it's club or not. I mean, like I said, in basketball, I mean, I had kids try to shake me down. I'm like, like, what you going to give me? A good basketball experience. I can try to get some like donations for you. But bro, you think I'm going to pay for it. I'm going to pay you to play for me. Like, but it happens. Like they'll go and they'll, they'll, you know, have paid for guys and they just play for free. Well, I haven't been, says Omaha's got his full people from all over the state for years. Oh, I'm shaking his head. And Scott does, this has done the smart thing of capping enrollment. So they stay at the very top of class B enrollment, never creeping into class A. And he said, Hey, that conversation, that conversation has been had so frequently in the, in the circles of Austin that you just, that's it. He rolled that out so nicely. So nice. Do we got any, do we got any Scott Omaha, Scott Catholic? We can call coach. You guys are going to defend yourself. I don't want going twice. You're guilty. Right. This is what, but this is what it comes down to. Like, but you got to do what you got. What? It is. Oh, listen, I'm coaching. I'm here to bust your head over. Don't care what it takes. No, man. I'm telling you, I've been telling them to do over the Lincoln high. Hey, there's one of the A list. - No, I think it's a straight. - Listen, do not-- - 800's forman. - Oh. - You asked me to come on, we're not, I'm not playing. - Oh, they coming. - Oh, they out, they come to order. - No, Big Bang Hang on here. - Oh, come on out with a Big Bang Hang on here. - Come on with it, come on with it. - Is that why they went from B to A? Then they said, you know, we'd like it back in B. - Oh, everyone likes it better in B. - No, he said-- - You were school. - His text says, "Nick and Pius, those--" - Yeah, that's what Pius did. They came-- when they had the Hoerberg-- - Hoerberg said, "Nope, we're good. Thank you." - Right when they had the-- - See you later. - And they went back to B. - Familiar territory. - We are-- - But I'm just telling you, though. - We are weird-- - But I'm just telling you, man. I know I talked to John about these Lincoln High School coaches. I like them all, right? They're not bad people. Well, I can tell you, if we're in the defense of me and you ain't trying to win, you ain't-- no, bro. 'Cause I'm going to tell you this right now. This is the honest to God true. Walking around Lincoln, this is the honest to God true. And this is a whole climate thing. Walking around Lincoln. Now, you can go to the Malone Center, with the Malone Panthers, they do a great job. You got tanking those guys, they're building their program. And there is some overlap, right? And I get it, right? And then if you walk through North Star, like all the middle schools and all the schools right now, like, you shouldn't be the number-- when they came out with the rankings for the playoffs, there would be three or four Lincoln schools up in there. Period. It starts down off where Nick does a great job down there with Lincoln Youth Football hours down there. It starts down there. And then we're going to take it from there to the high schools and middle schools. And it's all year long. 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Go to EyeFlyWorld.com to purchase your holiday gift vouchers. That's EyeFlyWorld.com. - So I'm in for the old heads. I'm old enough that we played little league with our neighbors, kids from our neighborhood. - Yeah, carpool, yeah, yeah, for sure. - Like from our neighborhood, we played with our friends. We played with people we went to school with. We played with people that we came home to for high school and busing changed it. So circa 1970, 1971, where I was taken out of my neighborhood and put in a going to school on the other side of the camp. But I still played ball with my friends at home. - Right. - And it was weird and it built some things. But I knew the people. My relationship, I'm still friends with everybody. I played little league. - For sure. - Like that part gets missed. That the longevity and all that stuff. That you can let travel ball and all this, 'cause you're taking your kids away from their friends. 'Cause not all friends are built the same. But we figured out how to win together. And that was way more important than me going to travel ball when it was with some stranger. Because people that I only saw in the weekend. Right? That wasn't what it was about. - Travel ball changed it because, and it based on where you're at. Like up in Minneapolis, you don't need to go play for clubs because you got enough athletes and good players. So it's kind of like that. - Yeah. - So I could roll with my squad and do that. And we'd be fine. Or when back then, we only had two AU teams in the whole state. Like now they had up in Minnesota. They got their own AU league throughout the whole state. You know what I mean? And primarily, they got a few club teams, but then they have AU with their high school teams because of the competition so good. I think around here, when it comes to club basketball, it's two things. You got some parents that are living their life vicariously through their kids. And they can go to work and say, my kid plays for this. And we beat a team by 30. Then you got something that are doing more with less. Then you got something that they're building up from the ground up. And then again, they're the other team that like they go accumulate. All the really good kind of young dogs where they're way ahead of everybody else 'cause everybody's just kind of going from the backyard to playing organized. And they're beating the brakes off everybody. Then it starts to even out. And then you got something that are grandfathered into these certain teams. And there's politics there as well. You know what I mean? You know, like where they'll, you know, the low ball or kind of like low talk kids that aren't in their program to coaches and stuff. And there's a whole bunch of things systematically going on. Now that probably happens all the time, but it's magnified when there's money involved and there's clubs involved. - Yeah, I mean, to identify one, what the community says is right. - The community can say something. - Right. - But when that money's talking, they don't care. - Well, we always said that in sports in life, that money decisions versus what's good for the community decisions aren't always tied in the same thing. Yeah, access and power and resource is the thing. But look, I can tell you, you know, my part of the county was a poor part of the county, of our county relative to, for our county. You know, Fairfax County, all into county, two of the richest counties in the country. But we were from the poor side of that. And what happened was that these athletes from the poor area were beating the rich developed teams. And so what did they start to do? - They start pulling players from the poor area and say, "Hey, listen, am I?" - Yeah. - "You want Burger King after every practice?" Like we can send him home with some food. And I remember those conversations, like I remember the conversations, my being recruited and having a coach tell my grandmother, "Hey, listen, I'll make sure he's delivered to your door. I will pick him up from your door. I will deliver him back to your door on time, on purpose." And then he made the mistake of saying, "Well, we'll feed him, too." And you can't say that to a black grandmother, 'cause she was like, "You ain't gonna feed him no better than I would." So never mind. But this is what we're talking about on the high school level, that people are finding the boundaries and then they're working within them. And then sometimes they're working beyond it. And Lincoln and the state of Nebraska really is gonna have an interesting discussion this offseason. - Oh, here's a really good thing right here. And this is also very telling here. And this is also, but I will say that there's a way around it because there's plenty of fields that could be available at the senior high schools. Not one Lincoln Junior High has a practice, or has a football practice field. That means they can't play there either. - How was that possible? - No, you know, it was landlocked and that's fine, right? But you could still play. - But how, how was that? - They probably never thought Lincoln was gonna get past 50,000 people. - See, this is what, in Houston, but in the woodlands, in the woodlands. (laughing) - In the woodlands. - How many there? I'll be serious. - In the woodlands. - Your boy got a pumpkin. - In the woodlands, they have elementary. - Oh yeah. - They have a league for elementary football in the school that you go to. So the program that I was in, we had from fourth grade on up, all the way up. And every school had their own. And they built the space. They said, listen, we're gonna, there's farmland here. Don't tell me that you don't have the room. And don't tell me that you don't have the resources. It makes perfect sense that this stuff should happen. And that to me, if you took that statement and made it the priority for 2026, you would find people who would make sure that Lincoln kids had what everybody else has. - Yeah, football was there for sure. And then every Omaha public junior, junior high hat does it. - But I still think there's a way around it even in the meantime. 'Cause it does take time to get codes and stuff fast and all jokes aside, not 50,000. But I think- - You wild though. - Yeah, you do wild for them. - Yeah. But I mean, it's the thing- - That's crazy. But then you think- - It's the thing. - Come on. - How was that? - I mean, it's so many moving pieces because it starts at the youth level. It starts at the, then you can't skip the, you don't have middle school 'cause that's always, that's down the Lincoln youth football, but then it, I'm gonna tell you this and I'm gonna tell you this experience that hey, they were going long. And I tried to tell a local Lincoln basketball coach this and he looked at me like I was stupid. I said, listen bro, I coach these dudes. You get these dudes six days a week during the season, during the basketball season. You got two games in four practice. You get them six days a week. I barely get these dudes six hours, all right? Now, they're paying money to play for me. But they go into school to play for you. And I point out, I'm just like Gary Cole pointed out that dude to get that ball last night. And he looked at me and he's like, what do you mean? I said, I don't know why this is, that they should be playing harder for me because their parents are playing, but they're here 'cause they gotta deal with their peers. So you have to understand, your first impression on these kids coming from a competitive nature in club basketball with a competitive coach and everything that they've gotten, they've had to earn, you better be on point because they will sniff out some BS right from the get-go. And he looked at me like, and he's still looking. Now, granted, you can have a couple little run, you know, you're running all that. But dude, you better get out here and beat the pavement. Don't walk around here with your hat down like you somebody, man. Like, dude, I'll pop that hat up and get your butt out here and watch these kids. And you better be with these kids from the starting to the start to the finish because these kids want to play for you. And they spend a lot more time with you. - That was the whole point of the woodlands was that we got them, we saw them every day early. We knew their families, we knew their older brothers, we knew their older sisters, we knew whatever it was. We knew everything about them. And it helped us build them and develop them. That's where the success came from. And these weren't even the best athletes. It's that thing I was telling you about. We went down to, look, these are kids. They had to be the 50est smartest boys just to get into school. - Right. - That age, right? So we weren't getting the best athletes. We got the best students and people with $35,000 a year in tuition money. - Right. - But my thing was I can coach a smart kid. I can get a smart kid to play football baseball basketball. That wasn't the issue. - Right. - So they didn't have to go to the big high school. They didn't have to go and move down to Katie and Allen. They didn't have to do that because they were gonna get coached but we connected with them early. - You always tell like, you know, like a coach and I've had this in the club. Like, you know, they'd call you a coach. I'm gonna go play for someone. So I'm like, cool, man. Good luck, man. I'll see you out there, you know, play good. You know, every time I see them, I'll watch them and still got a relationship with them. Feel texting and stuff like that. You got some coaches in Lincoln and then once you don't go to a high school dad, like they can't talk to you. Bro, listen, you ain't even that serious about coaching basketball. It ain't even in your DNA. Like that led me, you know, you really want interest in coaching and coaching for you, coaching these kids. You know what I'm saying? And so that's what that needs to change and that's on whoever's making those decisions. But that first impression is huge. Unless, and the reason why it's so huge, and I'll say this and I know it went long, it's so huge because the connection from high school coaches to most club coaches isn't there. Now, it's probably gotten better. I started to see more high school coaches getting involved in the summer program, but it's mainly they trying to cherry pick on who they trying to get to the high school. You really- - There's a way, there's a way to- - Right, but if you're involved in it, then therefore, the first impression isn't as big because the first impression has been done two or three years ago in the previous two or three years. Yeah, I know who the hell you are. Now you're showing up in there and you got some, you know, I ain't gonna say it. I'm gonna take a break. - Yeah, we'll have a great- - We'll have a great tax from 4-4-2-4-1. - New Balance recently announced the addition of all American Cooper Flag to the NB family, joining Cameron Brink and an elite player roster in the brand's mission of growing the game with the next generation of athletes. In part of New Balance's ongoing commitment to supporting athletes off the court, the Boston-based brand plans to work with Cooper on community initiatives in his home state of Maine. To shop the two-way V5, Hesselow V2, and all new balanced basketball products, visit newbalance.com today. - 88% of the work week is spent communicating, typing, talking, and going back and forth on topics until everyone is on the same page. It's time for a change. It's time for Grammarly. Grammarly's AI ensures your team gets the point across the first time, eliminating misunderstandings, and streamlining collaboration. It goes beyond basic grammar to help tailor writing to specific audiences. 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