Eastern Alamance Eagles forced to forfeit 14 football games and 14 basketball games from 2015 season(NG, EG and NEG will pick up wins)

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Update from the Friday Burlington Times-News and it sounds like this was a paperwork miscue that has now turned into a major mess…Parts about this go along the lines of one parent or relative enrolling the student and the paperwork comes up wrong when dealing with the residency…Possibly enrolled by one parent or relative, but living with another and it sounds like it was young student, maybe a freshman, just coming out of middle school into high school this year/last semester….

Eastern Alamance has been forced to forfeit all 14 football games/victories from their 2015 season and also 14 basketball victories from the first semester of the 2015/2016 season….Eastern Alamance went (14-1) in football and (29-2) in basketball….Eastern Alamance made it all the way to NCHSAA 3-A Semifinals in both football and basketball this past season…

The school must forfeit the games and pay back all home playoff ticket sales from football and basketball homes games due to the use of an ineligible player…The issue was due to improper paperwork and the question of the ineligible player’s residency being in-district or out-of-district and it has been ruled that the player was living out-of-district…Eastern Alamance also received a $500.00 fine from the NCHSAA….Playoff monies must be payed back to the NCHSAA….

Read all and read more when you hit CLICK HERE for the Burlington Times-News and details for this post were also coming in from WFMY NEWS 2 Sports…

*****Resulting from these forfeitures, it means that Northern Guilford, Eastern Guilford and Northeast Guilford high schools will all pick up football victories for games played against Eastern Alamance in 2015 and this is the second victory coming for Northern Guilford from the 2015 season, with the other being a loss to Southern Durham in the post-season and that came due to a Southern Durham forfeiture resulting from a paperwork issue dealing with a player physical exam.*****

+++++Basketball wins will be coming the way of NEG, EG and NG too from last season….+++++

CLICK HERE for the WFMY NEWS 2 Sports report on this post with Liz Crawford…

13 thoughts on “Eastern Alamance Eagles forced to forfeit 14 football games and 14 basketball games from 2015 season(NG, EG and NEG will pick up wins)

  1. NCHSAA, the conference, & other entities have paid personnel who can catch this type of mishap earlier in the year, but when schools are predominantly white, the situation is overlooked. Eligibility needs to be determined immediately then regulated. Knowing th state of NC, the rules are probably ambiguous.

  2. Here is my take on this situation. How does an AD know where a child lives? Is he suppose to follow every kid home to make sure he lives where he says he does. If each school district would follow Forsyth Counties policy this would not happen. I Guilford County kids can go to schools out of district because their home school does not offer a particular course. These kids dont go to the school out of their district for a class, they go there to play sports. The Guilford County School Board is so naive. They should make a rule that you can go to a school out of district to take a class that is not offers in your school but make them play sports at their home school. I bet that would cut down transfers. Just us a little bit of common sense

  3. Common sense and Guilford County. Oil and water.

    Open enroll or make everyone play at their home school…period. Do it across the state. One way or the other.

  4. $19,000 Dollars that Eastern Alamance will have to pay/ send to the NCHSAA…

    Eastern Alamance is assessed a $500 fine and must return all playoff money to the NCHSAA. The Eagles played host to four postseason football games and four boys’ basketball games, although one of those games was moved to Williams High School.

    That hikes the total that Eastern Alamance has to send the NCHSAA to slightly less than $19,000….

  5. This all seems very harsh. There has got be a better way. I think the NCHSAA is a little power hungry. Also, open enrollment is a terrible idea. Just play in your home district or go to private school. That makes it easy.

  6. I know people with defend what the NCHSAA is doing especially with the issues that Northern went thru about 7 years ago but this is straight up robbery by the NCHSAA. Where will that $19k go? These programs have already made plans for improvements to their gyms or fields. One single “freshman” did not make the difference between the basketball team and especially the football getting that far in the playoffs. The penalty has no equal connection to the actual impact that the student/player will ever have on the school. If he had the drawing power of a Lebron, then okay but there is no such player in this area today.

  7. I know for a fact that these type of situations occur within nearly every school in Guilford Co but it does not make it to this level of problems. Example I know a player that has divorced parents with one in the district and the other out of district. The kid splits time but only lives with the dad on weekends which is the only parent living in the district. I am sure the NCHSAA would rule against the player but nobody will ever say what is actually happening because it’s not worth fighting the non open enrollment policies of Guilford Co. I know of at least 3 situations like this just in the Grimsley and NW districts. Another example when I was working out of town on business and my wife was working a 3rd shift rotation my kids would stay with the grandparents out of district for several months at a time. The point is that none of these situations were reported and could have been issues if reported by a salty parent that their kid was not getting playing but it was not. A lot of the situations with many of these kids are fair and have simple real reasons why they occurred but should not necessarily be open for public attention. I am sure their are situations that really are terrible and should be fined but I don’t think a simple “paperwork” mistake or unintended errors should cost a school so much money or lost of that many games. I think it’s stupid on the college level and even worst on the high school level. These games occurred and you can’t change what people saw during the games as it played out that night.

  8. Playing out of district is cheating and it just continues into college.

  9. I know everyone is bashing the NCHSAA and saying the school did nothing wrong. But I say they did.

    EA gained a competitive advantage playing an out of district player. Some other school lost a competitive advantage because a player that would go to their school was playing at EA.

    And what about some of those close wins they had may flip the other way with a lost opportunity for another school.

  10. @ chunky brown no other school, at least not in the United States, lost a competitive advantage with this kid playing at EA. He came from Nigeria and has never lived anywhere except the EA school district since he entered the country.

  11. WOW…going all the way to Nigeria to recruit kids just so you can beat Roscoe and the Nighthawks…LOL

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