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The Zain situation baffles me. Am I correct in hearing the Retherford family moved out of one district and into another, purchased a home in the new district and the district they moved out of imposed a penalty? There has to be more to the story.
There is not really more to the story. The previous school filed the complaint. The fact that they said snywhere but Benton is what gets me. It was personal.
Amazing, whatever school district the Retherfords moved out of should of had no say when the family established residency/purchased a home in the new school district. IMO The freedom to move your family in and out of a school district should never be compromised when property purchases and sales are involved. Sorry the Retherfords had to go through that.
It is actually a points system based on winning the championship and how many transfers in. At least that is what I read in an article about Aliquippa.
PIAA tap dancing around an issue.
I could be wrong but as I posted above, my understanding was that the penalties were because of one kid who transferred this year from Forest Hills to McCort, and supposedly nothing to do with the Bassetts, Gibsons or the kids who moved from out of state. But the length of the suspension was in part because they were repeat offenders from several years back or something.
Not much, just the PIAA being the PIAA. To make it even better, Zain was allowed to play soccer that suspended year. Just not wrestle.
This was an instance that I found truly disturbing. If parents pack their family up and physically move into a different school district, it isn't anybody's f#*king business why they did that. That is now the school district where they live and pay taxes, their kids should have access to every activity the school avails to every other kid. To allow some butthurt adult from the kid's previous school to have a say in what activities the kid should have access to is the ipitomy of adult bullshit.
I was vaguely aware of the guidelines.
I would think putting a school up in a classification 3 to 4 times their enrollment size seems to be unfair.
Paraphrasing Jerry Tarkanian, everytime Kentucky basketball gets caught cheating Cleveland State gets hammered by the NCAA.
The PIAA is supposed to govern HS sports, HS sports exist for the benefit of kids. The PIAA should be looking out for kids, not allowing themselves to be used as a hammer to cause harm to kids at the bequest of a butthurt adult.
Line mountain which I would say is a big rival for Benton especially in the post season. It your right should not have been a big deal. Of course I don't know the whole story
That was kind of a crazy year at Line Mountain. Shortly after the Zain fiasco, Martz resigned before the season for "personal reasons ". Only to be hired back on.
Lake Lehman had a similar Zain experience. Jack Davis was originally from LL, he was wrestling coach and a professor at Clarion, he left Clarion, moved his family back to LL but his son was not allowed to wrestle his junior year due to a complaint to the PIAA. Clarion and Harveys lake are 200 miles apart, he didn’t just switch schools for a better program.
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But he was able to compete in football and baseball, just not wrestling…
L-l Transfer Must Wait To Compete
By JOE PETRUCCI jpetrucci@leader.net Wednesday, December 21, 2005 Page: 7B A standout three-sport athlete who transferred from a high school near Clarion to Lake-Lehman must wait a little longer before he can wrestle again. Junior Scott Davis, whose parents Jack and Jackie are both...
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PIAA pins wrestler’s hopes
Ruling: L-L transfer out this season By JOE PETRUCCI jpetrucci@leader.net “The majority opinion … was wrestling was the motivation for the transfer at the time of the transfer.” …
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But he was able to compete in football and baseball, just not wrestling…
Mike resigned for personal reasons. Once that got sorted out he was convinced to come back.
This board used to have a party to that issue post. That person stopped when the it hit the fan. That person still went to PSU matches and rooted on the lions during zains time. No idea if he lurks/lurked here and I havent talked to him in many years. I presume he still goes to matches and roots on the lions, as he is a very passionate wrestling fan.
There was a lot more to it at the time, but I think everyone is better off for it staying in the rear view.
Like Aliquippa and others, Southern Columbia got bumped up again for football. Which is fine.
There is a long-long history of district switching in the coal region which is probably why it never has gotten to the PIAA level. The zain thing was just different and im very content to leave it there.
I ran that tournament u are referring to. They are definitely loaded and all such nice, respectful kids. I would have them back any year.
All of this.
While we all dislike that ruling, Zain wasn't victimized by it. Quite the opposite. Sorensen, Pantaleo, and Jordan were the real victims.
Well ran event. Great work sir.
Can you comment where all those kids came from. I been following wrestling for a while not the youth. Just impressed by those kids and that youngest Harar boy. PA has some young hammers coming up very soon
Then Zain comes back from year off and wins state final against Lansberry from Line Mt.
Don't forget that he won a World Cadet title on his year off. I guess that is the definition of "when life gives you lemons, make lemonade".
Don't forget...other victims are anyone else caught in the Bow N Arrow!
Waynesburg is public. Central Greene school district in glorious Greene County. Home to 3 of the 13 PIAA 4x champions: Jim Conklin, Cary Kolat, Gavin Teasdale.
I also wonder if all the kids except the Gibsons, Miller, Bassett and Forrest are offended that they're not "widely considered elite wrestlers."
Now the parents will all make up a fancy story that they did not transfer their children for sports. The kids will also have to be in on the lie. Nice example that sets for them. The whole world knows they transferred to wrestle. People in Europe, Africa, Asia, North and South America know it, even Australia. Everyone! Most agree they should just transfer to Wyoming Seminary.
Ah son of a gun, now here come all the guys from HREveryone knows the best corn fields are in Benton...duh.
The reality is they had no issue with him getting an education there which we all know is the reason for school. They had an issue with him being good at wrestling and not wanting to be in their community.
RECENT?
You’d have to go back quite a ways to get 9 Iowa champs, far from recent.
BTW, 5:12?? Prostrate actin up again?
A: I'm at work at 5:30AM every morning. You should have those welders fired up by then!
B: That is the most recent group of multiple Iowa champs I could find.
I don’t know why the out of area kids should even deny that they moved here for sports. The area has M2, Young Guns, The Compound and the RTC within driving distance of it and some very good competition for their sons to go up against. Why not say we moved here for the clubs, training and PA competition and chose McCort because they wouldn’t be restricted in finding a home that they’d want inside a particular school district. Tell the judge, what school their kid wrestles at doesn’t even matter because they get better competition at the clubs and they moved here for what the area has to offer outside of school. I didn’t read the court paperwork but I was thinking this has more to do with one of the local kids transferring to McCort than the out of staters.
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