HighSchool Fan
04-26-2005, 05:59 AM
By ETHAN B. SZATMARY / Denton Record-Chronicle
SANGER – Pilot Point officials learned Monday that the school's entire football and boys basketball seasons have been forfeited.
The forfeits cut G.A. Moore's state record for football coaching victories to 404 from 412. All 29 of the basketball team's victories were lost, as well.
The District 6-3A executive committee voted unanimously that sophomore Adam McBride, a member of both teams, has been ineligible for the entire school year.
The 6-3A executive committee also unanimously passed a motion to request that the University Interscholastic League state executive committee investigate the Pilot Point athletic program to determine if there are more improprieties.
If Pilot Point is found guilty of further violations, UIL athletic director Dr. Charles Breithaupt said there is a wide range of action the UIL can take – from private reprimand to suspension of any extracurricular activity. Also, the UIL could suspend Pilot Point from all extracurricular activities if the school is determined to have lost institutional control.
Moore, who underwent angioplasty surgery Friday, could not be reached for comment. Pilot Point superintendent Cloyce Purcell and Lewis McBride, Adam's father, declined to comment.
Monday's rulings came in the wake of allegations of improper usage of e-mail by coaches at the school. The e-mail contained racial epithets, sexual innuendo and discussion of more recruiting violations.
After local newspapers published excerpts of these e-mails, the school's Massey Stadium was vandalized. Police said that five Pilot Point seniors planted a basketball goal at the 50-yard-line and covered the facility in graffiti on April 14.
"I just felt that with all of the recent problems we've seen in the newspapers that the Pilot Point athletic program is literally out of control," said Ray Lea, Whitesboro superintendent and 6-3A executive committee member.
The committee had previously ruled that McBride was ineligible from Nov. 4 through March 24 because his family had moved into a house in the Aubrey school district.
The 6-3A committee had ruled on March 24 that Pilot Point must forfeit its last two football games and all of its basketball season. New evidence was submitted during an appeal to the UIL executive committee, but the state committee remanded the issue back to the district.
SANGER – Pilot Point officials learned Monday that the school's entire football and boys basketball seasons have been forfeited.
The forfeits cut G.A. Moore's state record for football coaching victories to 404 from 412. All 29 of the basketball team's victories were lost, as well.
The District 6-3A executive committee voted unanimously that sophomore Adam McBride, a member of both teams, has been ineligible for the entire school year.
The 6-3A executive committee also unanimously passed a motion to request that the University Interscholastic League state executive committee investigate the Pilot Point athletic program to determine if there are more improprieties.
If Pilot Point is found guilty of further violations, UIL athletic director Dr. Charles Breithaupt said there is a wide range of action the UIL can take – from private reprimand to suspension of any extracurricular activity. Also, the UIL could suspend Pilot Point from all extracurricular activities if the school is determined to have lost institutional control.
Moore, who underwent angioplasty surgery Friday, could not be reached for comment. Pilot Point superintendent Cloyce Purcell and Lewis McBride, Adam's father, declined to comment.
Monday's rulings came in the wake of allegations of improper usage of e-mail by coaches at the school. The e-mail contained racial epithets, sexual innuendo and discussion of more recruiting violations.
After local newspapers published excerpts of these e-mails, the school's Massey Stadium was vandalized. Police said that five Pilot Point seniors planted a basketball goal at the 50-yard-line and covered the facility in graffiti on April 14.
"I just felt that with all of the recent problems we've seen in the newspapers that the Pilot Point athletic program is literally out of control," said Ray Lea, Whitesboro superintendent and 6-3A executive committee member.
The committee had previously ruled that McBride was ineligible from Nov. 4 through March 24 because his family had moved into a house in the Aubrey school district.
The 6-3A committee had ruled on March 24 that Pilot Point must forfeit its last two football games and all of its basketball season. New evidence was submitted during an appeal to the UIL executive committee, but the state committee remanded the issue back to the district.