And losing to the kids
I’m not sure what’s more pathetic — that a Texas High School (Texas Christian School from Katy, TX) used adult players in a football game against the high-school players of Not Your Ordinary School (yes, that is the actual name of this private charter school here in Austin) — or that the adults lost (28- 18).
“Some of the guys had tattoos and full beards and looked like they were like 25,” Not Your Ordinary School senior running back David Johnson said of his opponents that Oct. 28 afternoon. “At the time, we thought they were just sort of big.”
Maybe even more pathetic is that the coach cheater for Texas Christian, Herc Palmquist, is not being punished by his own school. Maybe that’s because Coach Palmquist is also the founder of the tiny school. (He is serving a five-game suspension leveled by the Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools, which governs Texas Christian athletics). Palmquist is also the school’s head administrator.
If my kids went to that “christian” school, I’d be pulling my kids out there today — with a full refund, thank you very much.
The matter may have never come to light if Jeff Ramsey, parent of a former Texas Christian student, had not asked questions. The same night as the game, two current Texas Christian players went to the Ramseys’ home to visit his son, Taylor.
Jeff Ramsey asked the players why they weren’t at their game.
“They said the whole team was off, that the game had been canceled,” Jeff Ramsey said.
The following Monday, however, Ramsey found a score for Texas Christian and NYOS on the sixmanfootball.com Web site. He contacted Huntress via e-mail to inquire how a score was posted if no game had been played.
“Granger e-mailed back and said a game had been played,” Ramsey said. “I said there’s no way � the quarterback and center had been at my house that night.”
Excellent job, Coach. Excellent.
My oldest daughter Lauryn is one of the cheerleaders at NYOS.
We parents were shocked that a Christian School Administrator/Coach would put our kids in this type of situation. What the papers and news didn’t report is that our head coach is deaf, and our assistant coach is a parent volunteer. (For that matter, the cheer coach is also a parent volunteer. ) NYOS doesn’t have a football field of it’s own - we lease the (old) Hutto Football stadium for our home games and all practices are held at a nearby park. Yet, our boys and girl (yes…one girl on the team) still beat the uniforms off of them and went on to win the 6-Man Independent Playoffs. Again. Are we proud? You Bet!
Left by Tamberly Barker-Janke on November 30th, 2005 at 2:58 am