La. High School Sports Scandal....Oprah is rumored to be comin'.....

[jus_the_facts]

...to do a show about this...the two players and the other boys on that team...IMO shouldn't be punished...the school administration should be instead....my alma mater got 2 evacuated Katrina players who were all stars...guess they went through the proper channels... :eyes:

http://thenewsstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060901/NEWS01/609010328/1002

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The LHSAA investigation focused on a week-long recruiting trip made by Stanley and current assistant coach D'Carlos Holmes beginning just two days after Hurricane Katrina devastated much of southeastern Louisiana on Aug. 29, 2005.

As a result, Bastrop was then stripped of the Class-4A state football championship, given fines of $14,000 and had two current players benched for the season — junior quarterback Randall Mackey and running back Jamal Recasner.

Of the remaining five transfers, James Brown Jr. has since returned to Port Sulphur, while Jeremy Sylve and Jody Ancar have graduated and signed to play collegiately at Grambling State University.

The LHSAA relaxed certain restrictions on student transfers four days after Katrina made landfall last year. But the organization still prohibited schools from having direct recruiting contact with evacuees, a violation that Commissioner Tommy Henry said occurred when Holmes and Stanley transported players to Morehouse Parish.

"We went to the civic centers looking for kids; every school did," Stanley said. "The text messages began coming next, since the phone systems were down in South Louisiana. That was how we got in touch with some of the others."


Henry said because of hardship associated with the storms, the LHSAA didn't question the Bastrop community's outpouring of gifts — including housing, food, clothes or money.