Shawn Conway's Possible HS Ineligibility
Rivals is showing a front page post of Shawn Conway. In the article it goes on to say there is a possibility that Shawn will not be eligible to play his senior year of high school football.
Family difficulties resulted in Seaholm head coach Chris Fahr gaining legal custody of Conway in May ? and since Fahr lives in the Clarkston school district, Conway might be forced to enroll at Clarkston High, be subject to transfer rules and miss the fall sports season.
It does say in the next paragraph that the school board and district superintendent can waiver the rule.
The same report suggests the Birmingham School Board and the district superintendent can sign a waiver that bypasses the rule and that would allow Conway to remain in coach Fahr's legal custody, live in Clarkston with the Fahr family and still attend Seaholm.
Links
http://michigan.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1091657
http://burneysbytes.blogspot.com/ (article is called "Blind Sided?")
But I'm sure he'll find a way to play
You got to feel bad for these kids...they go through hell. I hope it works out for him.
I thought with school of choice rules you weren't locked into the district the home address is listed in. Anybody in education have further information on that?
A school can decide to become a "school of choice" and then can accept students regardless of residency. But not every school decides to do that. Plenty of high schools retain the traditional geographic basis for attendance.
And a school in a district like Birmingham, with a very solid property tax base, isn't likely to ever become a "school of choice" since they don't really need the extra funding that comes with extra pupils and don't want the headaches.
Over the last few years there's been sporadic talk of going school of choice here in Chelsea, and in a newspaper article about the idea one of the administrators made an interesting point. He said he'd worked at other districts when they went school of choice, and contrary to popular belief, it's not necessarily a guaranteed financial boost -- he's seen it help district finances, and he's seen it essentially change nothing (increased expenses matched increased funding).
Didn't Mike Shaw miss his senior year of football (or part of it) for a similar reason? I know he missed the track season because of it. This is a bummer if it happens, but I don't think it will affect his play at M.
He played his full senior year of football. The stuff didn't come up about his residence until track season.
these rules are designed to prevent things unrelated to what conway did. let's hope power greedy administrators see the light.
These types of rules make sense most of the time as long as they provide some sort of say around it for certain situations such as these. Just let the kid go to school where he wants and play if he wants. he needs as much normalcy in his a life as he can get right now.
It's in his benefit to be able to play football his senior year...anywhere.
It blows my mind (I live in Cleveland) that Glenville can pretty much have kids transfer in at will so they can play football there.
ub wants him on the team (uhh, yeah they do) they have enough people of influence to get the school board to keep him there. This shouldn't be an issue.
But I went to Lahser and there was seemingly a large amount of parents on our booster club who wanted our black players to go back to the Pontiac school district. The boosters did this so that their (far) less talented white children (One of which was yours truly for 2 years) could actually see the field. Obviously this situation is entirely different from that, but similar feelings may come into play.
this is HS eligibility you are talking about? My first thought was that he did something that would make him ineligible to the NCAA.
Whoops sorry about that. Didn't mean to cause a scare.
I thought it was too early to be worried about our recruits eligibility so I assumed everyone would have also assumed high school eligibility.
I certainly hope that the person in question is not Shawn. I really do not want to have another Dorsey-esque media frenzy about a recruit
I hope that everything works out for the kid! Based on the articles, it looks like the kid is trying to pull himself up from a less than ideal situation and I will be rooting for him.
Since you have no idea whether this is Shawn, did you really think it was a good idea to post a link to this article in a discussion about Shawn? Poor form.
To be fair, I referenced a link that was already readily accessible from the links provided in the main post and I referenced it because I thought it germane to my reply. There was probably no need to link the article (one for redundancy and two because it is innuendo) and I will keep that in mind in future posts. The blind sided article referenced issues off the field (as a reason he may lose his senior season) and IF it is true, I hope that it is something very minor and not something that will stir the proverbial pot again like the signing of Demar. Thank you for the constructive feedback.
The person in this article is CLEARLY Shawn. IF you read the entire article you would have seen that this kid was a tall African American with a former guardian... there are not too many black people in Seaholm to begin with. Let's just hope Drew Sharp doesn't get his sleaze ball hands on this story.
Whether or not it's him, it's still poor form to post things like that (even if it's "clear" to you that it is him). Last I checked, we don't go out of our way to bash our own commits.
Also, posting links to stories like that in discussions about recruits only increases the chances people like Sharp pick up on it. You think he doesn't read this blog?
If anyone has or gets info on whatever the 'improprieties' are that are causing difficulty with the waiver, can you please not post them? Even if they are posted elsewhere?
I just think it uncool that this poor kid's life and the difficulties he has faced/is facing need to be dragged around in public and I would hope we could refrain here.
Thanks.
Sucks that he had some family difficulties, good luck on clearing that up.
BTW, is this a new trend that some coaches are getting legal custody of some of their players? I never remember it happening back when I was in HS. I seem to remeber a few recent recruits having this happen (Gholston comes to mind).
Mad Props to the coaches for opening up their homes to these kids who are having difficult times at home. Not so much props to those who are doing it to try to exploit the system.
It really sucks that he could be ineligible, he's gone through a rough time so they further penalize him by saying he has to tranfer to another school? That's not right.