Ridiculous: Freshman star Andrew Brown Banned for rest of 2024 Season because he ran NBIN unattached

except at least where i grew up, we have club soccer april-december, and HS january-april. the HS coach where i came from isn't allowed to coach select. i know at least one HS coach served a suspension for stepping in when his kid's select team had their trainer ejected.

and there is debate about whether we could keep playing in the state playoffs if our team was still alive and dallas cup fell within the HS schedule. and you had to seriously consider it as dallas cup was like elite youth teams from around the world and college/pro scouts. even if it might screw your HS team. but we lucked out and either advanced towards state but didn't get invited, or got invited but got eliminated.

i think folks are missing MS treats the unattached like a second team that fouls your eligibility to represent your HS. look i think the counter-arguments are fair enough, maybe make a list of national meets that don't count. but i can also see where it's like if you're representing tupelo HS that's all you can rep for 2 months. the state doesn't necessarily want to have to screen whether you just competed against yourself when you moonlighted. but surely there is some compromise. you go to the meet but as your team. or you run it by the state as an exception.

personally at least some of this smells like libertarians wanting to test whether fairly straightforward rules apply to their kids. the rule is straightforward but my kid doesn't have rules.

i mean, there's already stuff like homeschool kids eligible to represent schools they don't attend and are perhaps even offended by. "but i am in the attendance zone and check the boxes."

better argument goes something like this. at times in HS i played 3 sports and often 2 at same time. HS soccer friday HS track saturday. no one blinks. XC meet saturday select soccer saturday/sunday. sometimes a meet and a game same day. sometimes have to miss one for the other. sometimes drive from one to the other.

so, that's legal, but running unattached during track is somehow disloyal? yeah, bull.

but the easy answer is still show up in HS garb. track meet saturday was same school colors as soccer game the night before. we don't have an issue with that version, no matter how taxing.

Here's a nice update on Brown who seems to be thriving during the suspension:

dyestat.com

DyeStat.com - News - Andrew Brown Overcomes Suspension In Mississippi By Finding Meets With Better Competition

Tupelo Freshman Was Barred From Competing For His School After Racing At New Balance Nationals IndoorBy Oliver Hinson for DyeStatThe Mississippi High School Activities Association said Andrew Brown wasn't allowed to race seas...

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He thinks that in a competitive 3,200 field, he could break nine minutes, and in the 1600, he aims to break the state record of 4:09.

If I were him, I would not ever race for a MS public school again. That bridge was burned.

< moves to Mississippi.

unattached runner runs some more unattached meh

if you read the article they told him what would happen, that's pathetic

It says that he was recognized for running the fastest 1600 in the country for freshmen but he isn't close. It also says that top runners will transfer if the rule isn't changed. Why? The rule isn't new and kids have continued to comply. What would be different this year?

During the hs soccer season my daughter played for the us u18 nat soccer team, her club team, and hs team. No probs

And in my state that wasn’t allowed. State rules are all over the place on this stuff and most were written decades ago when this stuff really wasn’t an issue.