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ChickenMedium
Sep 2, 2001
Forum Veteran And Professor Emeritus of Condiment Studies
How did this get past anyone? The website for this "high school" is is literally just a blog about the football program.

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Luigi Thirty
Apr 30, 2006

Emergency confection port.

ChickenMedium posted:

How did this get past anyone? The website for this "high school" is is literally just a blog about the football program.

Have you seen most high schools?

Anals of History
Jul 29, 2003


Don't know how others feel about Rodney Harrison but I'll be way more able to enjoy FNiA now that he's been booted off the main desk.

Truther Vandross
Jun 17, 2008

I’d imagine we’ll find out in a few days that an exec has a stake in whatever fund started the for profit charter school.

RC and Moon Pie
May 5, 2011

Reminds me a lot of the USA Academy debacle in Alabama, only this one actually played football.

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


I fuckin love my state’s vaporware fraud rear end football team and I need a hat of the team logo immediately

wyoak
Feb 14, 2005

a glass case of emotion

Fallen Rib

ChickenMedium posted:

How did this get past anyone? The website for this "high school" is is literally just a blog about the football program.
the first post on the site is them getting beaten 35-0 and the only player video on the site is someone who i'm almost certain doesn't play on the team

Luigi Thirty
Apr 30, 2006

Emergency confection port.

sportsgenius86 posted:

I’d imagine we’ll find out in a few days that an exec has a stake in whatever fund started the for profit charter school.

https://www.complex.com/sports/bishop-sycamore-lies-espn-play-on-national-tv?utm_campaign=sportstw&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social

ESPN says they don’t schedule the HS football games, the company that does said they just took their poo poo at face value.

RC and Moon Pie
May 5, 2011

Awful Announcing has done a tremendous job investigating so far.

Paragon, ESPN and IMG are all tremendously to blame.

Paragon's president knew about the Friday game, shrugged his shoulders and said he'd hoped they had two teams. ESPN could have stopped the debacle by declining to air the game. They claim they sounded the alarm to Paragon, so they knew this was bullshit long ago. IMG played these guys last year.

Johnny Bravo
Jan 19, 2011
I hope ESPN does a 30 for 30 someday on how ESPN was scammed by a fake high school football team

Truther Vandross
Jun 17, 2008

Ohio is a breeding ground for ridiculous charters because our legislators are all type 2 diabetics whose blood is sausage gravy.

Sash!
Mar 16, 2001


Hey, they played Sto-Rox, one of the Pittsburgh area's finest academic institutions!

Those kids would probably fare better academically by playing for a janky fake football high school than attending Sto-Rox.

Benne
Sep 2, 2011

STOP DOING HEROIN
Everyone's burying the lede here that it's a bunch of JUCO rejects getting trucked by literal kids and that's probably the most hilarious part

https://twitter.com/DragonflyJonez/status/1432519034965217282

MourningView
Sep 2, 2006


Is this Heaven?
Yeah the funniest part by far is that they're doing all that and are still terrible

InsensitiveSeaBass
Apr 1, 2008

You're entering a realm which is unusual. Maybe it's magic, or contains some kind of monster... The second one. Prepare to enter The Scary Door.
Nap Ghost
They should put the rest of the team's games on so we can see if the head coache's active arrest warrant gets acted upon.

Bird in a Blender
Nov 17, 2005

It's amazing what they can do with computers these days.

Can’t imagine being so desperate to play football that you sign up to do Ironman football for a fake school, and you do it twice in three days to boot.

Benne
Sep 2, 2011

STOP DOING HEROIN
So uhhhhhh people should probably be going to jail for this, right

https://twitter.com/ZionOlojede/status/1432547766178299911

Nybble
Jun 28, 2008

praise chuck, raise heck

Bird in a Blender posted:

Can’t imagine being so desperate to play football that you sign up to do Ironman football for a fake school, and you do it twice in three days to boot.

and playing both sides of the ball because there aren’t enough players!

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


AA interviewed a parent of a player

KICK BAMA KICK
Mar 2, 2009

After the first articles I was wondering, just what exactly is the scam on the coach's end and how could he intend to actually get away with any money or connections to a real job or anything -- I feel like even if there's theoretically some money involved you probably can't successfully get any real amount out of say the ESPN game into your pocket with an operation this shoddy, they're just not going to cut you the check before figuring it out and if they did they would come after you to get it back -- so

quote:

What were the financial particulars for being involved with Bishop Sycamore?

“They told us it was $1,000, because Judah was going to live at home and that was it. So I paid the $1,000 and that was the only thing we were ever charged officially. They were supposed to pay for the camp, they said we have sponsors that are paying for everything. We’ll pay for the hotels, the entry fees, we’ll take care of all that because we are doing that for all the kids. As long as you are doing it for all the kids… I didn’t want to get into that where he got something that someone else didn’t get because that could affect his eligibility. I was like ‘As long as everybody else is getting it, and the school is paying for it, I guess that’s fine.’ But no, I ended up paying for all our hotel rooms, we paid for all of our entrance into the camps.”
yeah he was just going straight into the parent/kids' pockets.

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


https://twitter.com/mcamerlengo/status/1432496171474432000?s=21

Extremely good 2 minute documentary

Crazy Ted
Jul 29, 2003

At first the whole Bishop Sycamore thing was kind of hilarious, but now after seeing all the details there's really not much funny about this story anymore. The worst thing is that even though there are probably a lot of people who should be fired for this you know one guy will end up taking the blame.

TL
Jan 16, 2006

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world

Fallen Rib

"Is Butterbean okay?" might've been the hardest I've ever laughed in a movie theater.

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


TL posted:

"Is Butterbean okay?" might've been the hardest I've ever laughed in a movie theater.

It’s seriously the best line in the entire franchise. Movies, the TV episodes, all of it.

Mahoning
Feb 3, 2007
Sorry my favorite Butterbean moment was when he destroyed Bart Gunn at Wrestlemania 15.

https://youtu.be/J9fmrvYXgtY

Vertical Lime
Dec 11, 2004

https://twitter.com/snytv/status/1432821331805024261?s=21

bradburypancakes
Sep 9, 2014

hmm. hmmmmmmmm
Long live Gary, Ron, and Keith

Crazy Ted
Jul 29, 2003

More stuff on Bishop Sycamore coming out:

https://twitter.com/awfulannouncing/status/1432839886147440643

quote:

It’s just for Roy Johnson to make money. I know he is, because it can all be proven via court records. Schools… like he will call up a powerhouse school in Maryland, and say “We will come play you but golly gee, we are this struggling organization, so you need to pay us money to pay us to get there.” And the school in Maryland will say no problem. Then all of a sudden, hey, there’s a lawsuit in Delaware County, Ohio because Roy Johnson never paid the busing company. Okay. So where did that money go? Maybe it went to the hotels? Nope. There’s a lawsuit, he never paid the hotels. Maybe it went to the helmet manufacturers? Nope, there’s a lawsuit. Never paid them. So, maybe it went to the banks where he took out loans? Nope, there’s lawsuits. He never paid the banks where he took out the loans. He just pockets the money.

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


AA has done a hell of a job covering this

psyer
Mar 26, 2013
https://twitter.com/worldsoccertalk/status/1433063050022641670?s=19

mactheknife
Jul 20, 2004

THE JOLLY CANDY-LIKE BUTTON

oh hell yes

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007



yooooo hell yeah

harperdc
Jul 24, 2007


Hopeful this leads to more coverage of the African Cup of Nations. But as somebody who’s watched plenty of Asian Cup and AFC World Cup qualifiers, it ain’t always great quality.

mactheknife
Jul 20, 2004

THE JOLLY CANDY-LIKE BUTTON

harperdc posted:

But as somebody who’s watched plenty of Asian Cup and AFC World Cup qualifiers, it ain’t always great quality.

that is, at minimum, half the point

Bird in a Blender
Nov 17, 2005

It's amazing what they can do with computers these days.

harperdc posted:

Hopeful this leads to more coverage of the African Cup of Nations. But as somebody who’s watched plenty of Asian Cup and AFC World Cup qualifiers, it ain’t always great quality.

The only African Cup game I ever watched was Zambia defeat Ivory Coast in a shoot out in 2012. It was one of the greatest things I ever saw, probably because I ended up in a bar full of Zambians living in Chicago.

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


Bird in a Blender posted:

The only African Cup game I ever watched was Zambia defeat Ivory Coast in a shoot out in 2012. It was one of the greatest things I ever saw, probably because I ended up in a bar full of Zambians living in Chicago.

That sounds like a drat blast

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


Nickelodeon's bring back the NFL wild card game simulcast gently caress yeah :toot:

Vertical Lime
Dec 11, 2004

https://twitter.com/ESPNPR/status/1433465251312377856

tebow pops up on fridays fwiw

Vertical Lime
Dec 11, 2004

https://twitter.com/Tom_Smith717/status/1433492849404923905

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DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


https://twitter.com/JaredUTSA/status/1433581024647294983

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