This week's bizarre high school football score

Aaaaaaannnnnd, they're back....

Fairfax County judge allows them back in. All 6A Region C games -- including Littlest t_b_f's -- cancelled tonight, and they'll play Tuesday night. We actually got screwed on this one. Instead of a fairly easy win tonight, we'll get hammered Tuesday by a team that already beat us by 30.

Fairfax Co.’s Hayfield football team allowed to compete in the playoffs - WTOP News

 

Yup absolutely ridiculous.

The rest of 6A should forfeit and have their own totally-not-the-state-tournament.

 

No Cardinal Ritter, but odd enough.

 

That's not the same Banning that's 50 miles the other side of San Berdoo, is it?

 

Nobody in high school football is an "athlete." Everybody plays some position. Find out what it is.

 

In Mississippi's private school association this season, there was a Class 1A eight-man team that plucked a few players from several area schools and formed something of a superteam. One of their linemen committed to Ole Miss, so you can imagine what they were doing to people at that level. One of our local schools played them early and, IIRC, the superteam had one second down on offense in the first three quarters.
Anyway, this team was steamrolling everybody and pissing people off. From what I understand, superteam's coach is not very popular and not just for that reason. So after they beat one of the teams they'd recruited a player from, about halfway through the season, the opposing coach was about to report them to the association. One of the other coaches in their district told him to wait.
Aggrieved Coach A did, until the last week of the season — the logic being that if he'd reported him in Week 5 or whatever, the superteam would forfeit the games it had played but could still easily make the playoffs at 5-5, beat the brakes off whoever they played, and cruise to a state championship. By waiting until Week 10, it turned superteam's 10-0 record into 0-10 and kept them out of the playoffs.
Thought that move was pretty gangster by Aggrieved Coach A.

 

BREAKING: Hayfield Secondary withdraws from playoffs amid recruiting scandal, athetic director out

Cheaters win their first playoff game, and then quit the playoffs when more text messages came to light.

 

That's where I went to high school. It's been an interesting saga to follow.

Edit, to add that it's clear that something bad was going on. Hayfield has never been anything resembling a football power. Made the state semis when I was a junior but really struggled when South County opened at the site of the old Lorton prison. Hayfield used to draw from the entirety of southern Fairfax County but that tightened once SCHS opened.

 

Not a scandal, but a cool story. For the past few years, the Red Sox have let the Mass. high school association stage two of the traditional Thanksgiving morning games (huge deal here) at Fenway on Tuesday evening and night. One of today's games is Nantucket vs. Martha's Vineyard, the two very small island schools. Year-round residents on both islands are very far from being rich like the summer folks. Imagine traveling by ferry to every road game. Imagine being at the mercy of the North Atlantic in winter for food and fuel supplies. Total year-round population of the two islands would just about fill every seat in Fenway.

 

"Island Cup" is a good book about the history of Martha's Vineyard's and Nantucket's rivalry. They used to be pretty good teams. Travel sucked obviously.

 

Wouldn’t that kind of suck though to have your most meaningful local rivalry snatched up by the big city (especially when it sounds like a trip to Boston isn’t a gimmie putt for many there)? Imagine Harvard-Yale moving to MetLife Staidum.