Thursday, November 1, 2007

California high school football, now more corrupt than its Texas counterpart

I've gone after Texas high school football pretty hard for years. Primarily because it's corrupt and it's about the only way people can forget for a few hours that they live in Texas. But now the tables have turned.

The football team at Stockton's Franklin High School in California was banned Tuesday from playing any games until the 2010 season.

That's a somewhat harsh penalty. In fact, it's the harshest penalty The California Interscholastic Federation Sac-Joaquin Section's board of managers has ever handed out - and they have control over 182 schools.

So what exactly happened?

Franklin administrators and coaches allowed three ineligible football players from American Samoa to play in a game Friday against Tracy High. And let me make this clear - this was no mistake. The school KNEW these three players were ineligible before the game but let them play anyway. It takes balls to do something like that...and stupidity, sheer stupidity.

And it's not like this is the first time Franklin has done something sketchy. Not at all.

A section investigation found Franklin had committed 54 violations. The Sac-Joaquin section has accused Franklin coaches of using undue influence, improperly recruiting at least 10 teenagers from American Samoa since 2004 to play football. Among the accusations were that Franklin coaches paid for parents from American Samoa to fly to Stockton with their sons, and were put up in Stockton hotels just long enough to register their sons at the school.

Importing ringers all the way from American Samoa for a public high school football team? I never knew what a football hotbed American Samoa was. But anyway, let me just put this into perspective. American Samoa is closer to Australia than it is to the states. And the distance between American Samoa and Stockton is over 5,000 miles. Usually you just go a town or two over and steal some players from the rival high school.

Color me impressed Franklin High. You have officially put corrupt Texas high school football to shame.

-WCK

4 comments:

Jarrett said...

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson is completely flabbergasted by this news.

Anonymous said...

Your an idiot!! Corruption in high school football is in every state in the nation, but you point out Texas and make the statement that you have been riding Texas hard for awhile because of this! Where do you get your information? Again, YOU ARE AN IDIOT!!

Anonymous said...

And your an asshole for your comment about Texans using high school football to forget we live in Texas!! If you think living in California is so great let me throw a few facts at you!! Californians in general are corrupt! Housing prices range in the corrupt!! A home worth $150,000 is listed to sell at half a million and you idiots buy them!! If one of you assholes from California tried that here your asses would be in a sling!! You live in California because you like paying a state income tax? Having the terminator as your governor? Some of the worst gang violence in the history of AMERICA!! So, with that being said you can kiss my texas ass!

Anonymous said...

omglolol
Can't we just leave this alone already? Holy crap :|

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