yeah it sucks for east. but hey my little brother is on cyprus and guess what we are going to the playoffs. thank you USHAA. #cypruspirates

It sure sounds like the board has an agenda to make East High a scapegoat. Perhaps it should be used as a great opportunity to review policies and guide lies for the gray areas in all schools. The boys in question here surely fall within the"gray area". Now an East High faculty member of 23 years has felt the needed to resign because of this needless ruling and an entire team of committed boys is punished for this so called "breach". It sure sounds like the people voting had an agenda and perhaps to eliminate East sure changes the playing field for a lot of other contenders.....hmmmm. We have lost sight of why we have high school sports.

This is a devastating ruling. While we do not want High School Administrators to break rules to recruit players to form Super Teams, this clearly is not the same thing. There was no intent by the players to lie. There was no intent to buck the system. For some of these boys this is the most important thing in their lives and possibly the one thing that puts them on a road to success. They have worked hard, toed the line been responsible and made changes in their lives to play for East High. Now they are denied that opportunity. There is not a one size fits all ruling here. I fear the repercussions this ruling will have on 126 lives.

Congratulations UHSAA! Once again you demonstrated that might makes right. To overrule the penalties handed out by the principals of the schools in Region 6, administrators that each day deal with the challenges of multicultural student populations, where just getting kids to go to school and participate is difficult, seems to be poorly though out. Comparing other sports governing bodies to high school athletics makes even less sense. For most high school athletes they play simply for the love of the sport and the lessons learned through practice, hard work, winning and losing. There is no money involved no scholarships, no endorsements. What lesson is being taught by penalizing all the players. That the world is not fair? That it doesn't matter...one size fits all...That there is no such thing as aggravating or mitigating circumstances Come on, do the right thing here. Change the rule, or at least the consequences. If you think about it the eligibility rule unfairly impacts those who come from unsettled and even dangerous family situations. Is that really the intent? The kids have done nothing wrong.