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GREENSBORO — Former Northern Guilford boys basketball coach Stan Kowalewski defended himself Saturday against accusations he used money from a nonprofit booster account to pay for personal services, saying he donated $86,314 last year to the school’s athletics program.

Kowalewski said he donated about $25,000 in cash to the school. The rest came in the form of equipment, hotel bills and pregame meals for the team and sponsoring special events at the school. “It sounds like a lot of money, and it is, but it all adds up quickly,” he said.

Kowalewski showed a reporter a 2008 tax work sheet supporting his claim, which came a day after the News & Record reported Guilford County Schools was looking into Kowalewski’s management of a nonprofit account set up last year for the school’s boys basketball team.

Documents obtained through the state’s public records laws show that Kowalewski has spent more than $4,000 from the account to pay for personal expenses such as his satellite TV bill; lawn maintenance; and medical, electric and gas bills. On one occasion in December, Kowalewski wrote a check to himself for $1,500.

Kowalewski is a managing director who runs a hedge fund at Columbia Partners, which manages $2.5 billion in assets.

He acknowledged Friday night he managed the basketball account poorly but denied the money was misused.

“I’ve invested much more into that school than I’ve ever taken out,” he said Saturday. “I hate it that it’s come to me having to release private information about my life, but I’m not going to allow (school investigators) to keep attacking me like this.”

Trisha Lester, vice president of the N.C. Center for Nonprofits, a statewide association serving 501(c)(3) nonprofits, said Kowalewski’s actions “don’t sound particularly kosher.”

“People running a nonprofit need to submit expense reports to show that the expenses incurred are in line with the nonprofit,” she said. “Writing a check for cable TV is not in line with that.”

Asked whether schools officials planned to turn their findings over to the district attorney’s office, school attorney Jill Wilson said, “We’re waiting for more information from (Kowalewski).” She declined to elaborate.

District Attorney Doug Henderson did not return phone calls Saturday.

In the seven weeks since Guilford County Schools officials announced their investigation — one that cost the Nighthawks their state basketball crown — Kowalewski has been anything but quiet. Few of the key players have escaped his wrath, including Wilson, Superintendent Maurice “Mo” Green, and even his fellow Guilford County basketball coaches.

But Saturday may have been his loudest attack yet:

He blasted schools system officials for allowing Wilson, whose daughter attends Page , to partake in the investigation at that school. Schools system officials are looking into whether Page coaches and administrators knew a student on last year’s football team lived outside the attendance zone.

“If Major League Baseball were to do an investigation on the Red Sox and (New York Yankees owner) George Steinbrenner were going to run it, how the heck do you think that’s going to turn out for the Red Sox?” Kowalewski said.

Green has said he is comfortable with Wilson’s involvement in the Page investigation.

Kowalewski said he met with Green on Friday in a private, 90-minute meeting in which Green promised Kowalewski the school system would get the Nighthawks’ state title restored if the parents of the two basketball players ruled ineligible would admit they deceived Northern Guilford officials on their official residences.

Through Wilson, Green denied offering any such deal: “There have never been any negotiations with Stan Kowalewski related to the state championship,” he said.

At the same meeting, Kowalewski said, Green told him the two players were ruled ineligible based solely on information from their mothers’ voter registration cards. “It’s the most ridiculously flimsy evidence you can imagine,” Kowalewski said. “Are you telling me athletics directors and principals are now supposed to track down voter registration cards?”

Kowalewski said the parents of the two ineligible players have asked the school system to share with them the information they turned over to the N.C. High School Athletic Association, which vacated the team’s 3-A state crown this month, but schools officials have yet to do so.

He reiterated that basketball parents “and the whole Northern community” are prepared to challenge the schools system’s ruling on the students in court if necessary.

“I promise you this is not over with parents,” he said. “Jill and Mo picked the wrong people to go after. They’re going to fight this.”

Contact Robert Bell at 373-7055 or robert.bell@news-record.com

sporty2

May 31, 2009 - 7:54 am EDT

Oh I am so tired of the blame game put out there by Coach K. The lack of responsibility and ownership of the events over the past few months is certainly showing the lack of character and moral base the man really has. First off, he could put ten million dollars into the basketball account but you still can absolutely not write personal checks out of a non-profit account. The thing about this is he KNOWS that! I am a mom who has been a booster club treasurer who does not work in business as my professional career and I know that! There should always be a series of checks and balances put in place to avoid situations such as these. Of course I needed to be reimbursed for things that I purchased for sporting events, banquets, etc. but that is why we have multiple signers on the account and dual signatures required. I would never be allowed to write a check to myself but I could get the coach or booster president to write one to me. Why? Because it wouldn't be right to not do that! So Coach K could come back and say he put in this money and that money but that does not negate the fact that he wrote out bills from this acct. There are no excuses this time!

bobrobin1963

May 31, 2009 - 9:03 am EDT

He sounds like so many hedge fund mangers in the news recently. Too many with that kind of power and influence, for some reason, do not believe the rules apply to them. Anyone who is accountable for monetary funds, especially the non-profits, knows they cannot legally write a check from those accounts to themself. It's called "embezzlement" and is a felony offense in the State of North Carolina. Rationalization just will not cut it!!

get the facts straight

May 31, 2009 - 9:15 am EDT

Here is the issue. Showing a tax work form as proof is proof of nothing other than he claimed these donations to the IRS. That only means he might possibly have lied to the IRS. What financial manager would donate cash and buy things for a non-profit like a school and not keep the receipts? That is not sloppiness. It is just balogna. If he wants to prove his innocence, it is quite easy. Give Guilford County what they have been asking him for for weeks now. Show them the receipts for the things you purchased. Show them the deposits of cash you made for the $25,000. That should take 2 minutes to aquire. There is a reason he has not produced that despite repeatedly being asked for it. I imagine they will give him a little more time, and then they will turn it over to the DA's office for prosecution. Given all the publicity and the fact that Northern Guilford, Guilford County Schools, and all accounts associated with the school must be balanced for auditing purposes, Guilford County will have to turn it over, and given all the publicity, I imagine the DA will prosecute. Just the fact that he wrote checks from this account even if he were to have donated money to it is illegal and he has admitted that he wrote personal checks from it. On News 2, he kept saying it was his own account. At the same time, he admitted using the tax ID number for the School Booster Club. Can't have it both ways.

Panacea

May 31, 2009 - 9:22 am EDT

A work sheet is not the same thing as his actual tax return. Work sheets are usually used to figure the taxes owed. He could have dummied this. I'd want to see what he actually submitted to the IRS.

Of course, the IRS might now be developing an interest in this since he can't seem to keep from shooting himself in the foot.

Well, he can always coach the gang banger team at Central Prison.

Illiterati

May 31, 2009 - 9:38 am EDT

Sounds like StanK was using the basketball team's account as a tax shelter. The IRS may very likely be interested in this situation after all is said and done. I hope the investors in his hedge fund take a close look at what's going on in that office as well.

StanK's attorney would do well to tell him to close his mouth. The more he talks, the more he indicts himself. It's funny how he's not divulging this information to the attorneys who are requesting it, but he instead opens up freely to the press. He's like a drowning man at this point. This whole story has made-for-tv movie written all over it.

May 31, 2009 - 9:25 am EDT

This guy digs himself deeper into the hole with every word that comes out of his mouth. His lawyer must be going nuts trying to control him.

The question I have is, if he is able to afford to donate 80,0000+, why did he need to write personal checks to pay his bills out of a booster club account or a team account?

It is also interesting to note that he claims that Green agreed to reinstate the basketball title if the parents would admit to deceiving Northern officials. So basically what I'm hearing is, "I'll get these two sets of parents to fall on their swords if you'll give me my title back." Selfish bastard--it's all about HIM. So the parents admit it, so what? The team still fielded two ineligible players, and the cheating doesn't go away. And you can't tell me he didn't know.

Why was a voter registration card accepted as proof of residence? I can change the address on mine at any time, for no cost at all, and "prove" I live somewhere I don't. That's one of the reasons the Feds were pushing Real ID (an idea I disagree with btw) was to cut down on voter fraud.

A driver's license would be better, but it costs money to change your address on that, and then the DMV sends your vehicle registration documents to the wrong address--which is why they didn't do that. This must be the red flag Wilson was talking about. So, I still believe Kowalewski knew those two players were ineligible.

It doesn't matter whether the parents lied or Kowalewski lied about residency for these kids. It's clear they were ineligible, and so I don't see a court siding with the parents.

ilvteaching

May 31, 2009 - 10:38 am EDT

I must admit that I am shocked at the allegations against Coach K in that letter. I do believe it is stupidity on his part, rather than theft . .but it doesn't come close to making it right. I am sure officials with go after him as much as possibile - as they should.
None of that changes these facts:
School officials pulled those voter registration cards to prove that the students do NOT live in the district - not the other way around. The parents are fighting because they DO live in the district and the information on the voter registration card is old. That information, according to my source, was put in the students files on May 4. It probably is the red flag Wilson was talking about. The problem is Yeager was let go in April. Bottom line - The kids live in the district!!! They should not have been declared ineligible to begin with.

As far as the trip to NY, the wives should not have gone. It was, however, approved by the county. Is it really worth forcing two administrators with over 30 years experience out over that? (remember, if I am correct and the kids actually live in the district, they had no reason to fire Stan anyway). Couldn't they have just written them up? Do they have to put their pictures on the front page of the paper every day? I don't think so. I understand that many people do.

I do not understand how, last year, an assistant principal could be hired in this county who was on trial for sexually assalting a student in another state and he is let go quietly. The News and Record never investigated how the hell that happened.
Or a much older one, but worse, a coach in Guilford County is caught in a school is caught at midnight with a female atudent by a principal. Nothing is done. Principal retires, new principal comes in who hears the rumors and transfers the guy. The guy was put in jail (after doing this at two schools under three principal) and nobody investigated how THAT happened.
I do not think that Force, Yeager and Lawson are terrible people - I do not think they deserve the way they have been treated. I do not think Stan is a terrible person, although I admit he is looking pretty arogant and stupid at the moment.
Bottom line . . the school system had NO obligations to Stan. all they had to do was not renew his contract. They have used a nuclear bomb to get rid of a bug problem. and a lot of good people are getting hurt. By the way, do you know these kids? Do you know how they are being treated at school - it is bad.
This should have been handled VERY differently!

As an aside, I didn't respond yesterday because I was in the Blue Ridge Parkway enjoying the beautiful day with my family:) In fact, I am going back outside now. Don't assume because people don't respond, we have "seen the light" and now admit that everything the county did was ok. That is not the case.

May 31, 2009 - 11:39 am EDT

I feel terrible for any kids that are mistreated due this situation they were put in because of their coach. The thing is, that yes, people are hired who shouldn't be...they are let go quietly and all move on. It's sad, unfortunate and definitely can be unfair but Coach K is a loud mouth who is dragging his kids in deeper and deeper. For the care of his students, his personal financial records and his own self respect, he should have just admitted there were some issues and let it go. But he keeps making it worse and is not taking into account at all what he is doing to this kids. You are right, this should have been handled very differently, he should just admit he made a mistake and stepped away quietly.

May 31, 2009 - 12:24 pm EDT

Welcome back. I understand a gap in posting--we all have real lives. But so far, you're the only one.

I'm sorry to say you're still making excuses. All these other cases you mention, such as the assistant principal, have nothing to do with the subject at hand. Not to say they're not serious and ought to have been or should be investigated. But the subject at hand is, Kowalewski used ineligible players and stole from team accounts.

What you're essentially saying about the voter registration cards is that someone planted evidence. That information should have been on file with the school before the season began. So if someone put those voter cards in on May 4th, then you're saying someone tampered with evidence. That's a strong allegation. Who told you that? Kowalewski? Consider the source very carefully. Who put the voter cards in there? Who witnessed it?

If it is true that the information in the files was tampered with, there'd be other evidence to support it. Utility bills, for example. So why haven't those been produced before now? Were the kids actually physically living at the parents address, or at an address provided by the coach?

Why would the school administration need to manufacture evidence? What possible motive could they have to create such a public and expensive stir? Green has no such motive: he wasn't even working here when the allegations first came up. Wilson? She's a hired hand, not a politician.

Not saying it couldn't have happened. Am saying you need to provide more than an allegation from parties unknown (ie I know who's making the allegations for GCS--Jill Wilson).

May 31, 2009 - 12:36 pm EDT

Addendum: re the kids on the team being treated badly at Northern.

Sorry to hear it. Maybe they shouldn't be flashing those big jeweled rings in front of a school that's been humiliated in public by their cheating to win. Probably some kids there who tried out for the team and didn't have a real chance because Kowalewski knew before the tryouts who was on the team and who wasn't.

Yeah, I think I'd be pretty mad if I had to look at those students acting like they won fair and square when they didn't.

Kids can be cruel. But the lesson is, when you betray the public trust, this is the response you can expect.

May 31, 2009 - 1:21 pm EDT

My point with the assissant principal etc - there are bad things that go on in the schools that deserve publicity and front page coverage day after day - this isn't one of them.

Wow! you assume that kids are wearing flashly rings to school and deserve to be mistreated?? and that this is their fault? and you teach? wow. (and I waste my time arguing with you?)

The kids' parents have attorneys and will fight Have you read the paper ?- the NAACP said they were shocked listening to the storys of the parents. What do you THINK the parents are saying?? Why do you think the people who actually know what is going on are so upset? has it not occured to you that there actually could be another side to this story?

I don't need to provide anything -that is what the lawyers are for. All I am saying is that a lot of innocent people are being hurt here unfairly.

Finally, as for your questions to why evidence about their residences been produced - many people don't believe that the place to play this out is in the media. And even though we are anxious for a fight and for the players to be exonerated, we too wish Stan would shut up:)

May 31, 2009 - 2:59 pm EDT

Common sense is, if you do the wrong thing and then rub people's noses in it, you should not be surprised when you are greeted with hostility.

These kids are not owning their role in this--they should not have gone to that "awards" ceremony. It was in horrifically poor taste. It was rubbing their ill deeds in the face of the student body, who have to live with the dishonor these players brought to their door.

Had these kids said to their parents, I don't want to go, I don't want the ring, then their peers may have been more forgiving. But at least 2 of the kids were interviewed showing off and bragging. It did not make a good impression on me, so I have no doubt at least some of their peers are equally disgusted.

Had the kids refused to participate, and told the news they were shocked and ashamed of what happened, then the ire of the students would more rightly go to the adults, and less on the kids.

There's an old saying: be careful how you treat people on the way up, because you will meet them again on the way down. These kids are learning this lesson the hard way. Unless they're being physically assaulted, I don't see how they're being "mistreated."

The bit with the assistant principal has nothing to do with this case. You were trying to distract attention away from Kowalewski. If you feel so strongly about this other person, file a complaint with the school board and press for an independant investigation. But don't complain about the treatment of Northern when you do, or the complaint will find its way into File 13 as coming from a crank.

Yeah, I've read the paper. I've said before I don't see where the NAACP has any business sticking its nose into this. This is not a race issue. It's about kids, parents and a coach who cheated, and a coach who's also a thief.

You're making a serious claim of tampering with evidene. If you're not willing to back it up, don't be surprised when people don't believe you.

Of course, playing this out in the media is not the right forum. But I'm not the media, I'm a blogger commenting on a situation based on the information at hand. Which doesn't look good for your side.

If in fact I am wrong, if in fact evidence does come out to prove your case, then once I've seen that evidence I will be the first to get online and say so.

May 31, 2009 - 2:10 pm EDT

"What possible motive could they have to create such a public and expensive stir?" That is a GOOD question!! Again, GCS has no obligation to stan. The season was over. Don't rehire him.
Teachers are being laid off for the first time since the 80's (at least in my school), some schools in this county have no paper left, after school busing was caneled for after school tutoring. And how much are we spending on this? What possible motive indeed!

ForTheKids

June 2, 2009 - 2:29 pm EDT

ilvteaching~ I guess we are supposed to man these blogs day in/day out. We can tell who really have lives on here. Glad you had a great day with the Fam! I too have been spending a relaxing weekend with my family. Too relaxing, I got sick..lol

But you took the words right out of my mouth. Could not have said it better.

May 31, 2009 - 9:30 am EDT

get the facts straight, I am with you. Of course you would have receipts. I have worked as an educator, pta president, pta board chair, volunteer, and booster chair and treasurer and have always kept receipts for EVERYTHING and could produce them at a moment's notice. Certainly a man in his business would be able to do the same if all was legit. There was actually a time in which I lost a receipt for items purchased for the school booster club and I could not get a duplicate. I never asked for that money in return and would never do so. If I couldn't prove it, I didn't want to ask to be reimbursed! And that was only for about $100 not thousands! If I put in that much money you can bet I could account for every single penny with actual receipts!

May 31, 2009 - 9:37 am EDT

I love the statement that he invested much more into that school than he's ever taken out! Like that is supposed to make it ok to pay your personal bills from a school account. Of course he invested a lot...that's what coaches do...they sure aren't in it for the money on a high school level! I have invested a lot over the years as a volunteer but that doesn't entitle me to anything....certainly not writing a check to my ob/gyn from the school account!

May 31, 2009 - 9:48 am EDT

The ob/gyn check really piques my prurient interest. If the check is for his wife's doc, then she's complicit in this scheme as well. If it's not for his wife's doc, then who is the female who made a trip the to gynecologist on the coach's dime, and why? What else might the man be hiding?

This scandal is like when a cop pulls a guy over for a busted headlight, and then finds a body in the backseat and a bale of weed in the trunk. A minor infraction opened the door to a whole mess o' trouble!

May 31, 2009 - 10:27 am EDT

Re the wife, well, only if she knew. It depends on who pays the bills in the family. When I was a kid, my mother paid all the bills. Dad just gave her the receipts. So I'd need to see more evidence that she knew about the school checking accounts.

Not a Fan

May 31, 2009 - 11:27 am EDT

I'm surprised anyone thinks a wife is involved in this. Sounds to me like old Stan is paying bills that he doesn't want run through the household account for his wife to see. "Honey, what's this OBGYN thing here?"

novel

May 31, 2009 - 11:36 am EDT

No idea whether she is involved or not, but I do know that when StanK was accused of recruiting by NW High School AD, she came to his defense via LTE, which she submitted w/o acknowledging she was his wife. (Used her maiden name)

May 31, 2009 - 1:22 pm EDT

I am curious - what is LTE?

May 31, 2009 - 2:40 pm EDT

LTE=letter to the editor. And welcome back to the debate!

May 31, 2009 - 10:44 am EDT

Sporty2 - are a volunteer on these trips?- that might explain why you think taking childen out of town is a cake-walk. I have actually done it - for several decades. This year I took 150 kids to DC and 20 to Europe. I did all of the planning and organization, and I was the one ultimately responsible. It was work. If you are the one planning those trips and the one at the top who is responsible for them and don't think it is work, PLEASE tell me how you do it!

May 31, 2009 - 11:30 am EDT

I have gone on some trips as an educator and some as just a volunteer parent. You are right....lots of kids, far distance trips and planning too (which I have done as well) is definitely work. My response about the cake-walk was on the other discussion regarding your comment about "doesn't sound like many of them know what it's like to take 20 kids to NYC". Coach K and the two others would have been plenty to chaperone that trip of high school age children. We are not talking elementary kids and hand holding here. My point was that there was no need for the wives to go and definitely not to have been paid for! Btw...we took 55 high school kids to NYC on a trip that I planned and there were 6 chaperoning....this was also at Christmas time and there was never an issue so I know you don't need 6+ chaperones for 20 kids!

Get A Clue

May 31, 2009 - 9:44 am EDT

So, at best he's a big-hearted guy with lousy bookkeeping skills and at worst he's an embezzler.
And so far his best defense is he's busy, a tad lazy and ignorant of paperwork. (Gee, makes me want him as my money manager for his hedge fund. Um, not.)
Since when did teenagers playing a game take up so much time and money? Last time I checked, mere students simply wishing to get an education had to supply their own school supplies and feed themselves as well as arrange their own study habits.
Again I say: let's get back to educating students including full P.E. and intramurals and for a change let those more interested in athletics pay and play on their own dime and time.

HNest

May 31, 2009 - 9:54 am EDT

Robert Bell, have you been able to establish if any of that $84,000 was used to pay rent for the house across the street from Northern where the Lawson's lived so they could be "Guilford County" residents?

Any man willing to put $84k into a basketball program is obsessed. Obsessed to the point I'm sure he wouldn't mind bending a few rules to win. And, with a donation cow that big it's easy to see why Joe Yeager would do anything to cover his tracks.

Yoda

May 31, 2009 - 11:44 am EDT

For what it's worth,
I don't know if this coach is guilty or not, I have my own suspicions, I am willing to see how this works out before I jump on the proverbial soapbox either for or against.

I was a football and a basketball coach back in the 80's. It wasn't at a Middle schools nor a High schools it was at a Rec-Center. We lost kids to the dominate or wealthiest programs. The parents would use a relative's address in the area where they wanted their children to play. It didn't seem to matter to the parent's or to the coach's the message they were sending to the children. The coaches want to win and the parents want their children to be on the winning side.

At the end of the season Middle and High school coaches would come to the games to see who they might be able to get the next year. If it look like a player or player's wasn't going to play at the rec-ball level any longer, you would then see the recruiting process begin.

As the coach you had children that played for you, and their suppose to be playing for the school in the respected area, however you would see, that child or children playing for other schools. You knew they live in your area but you seen them playing for a school that's out of their area.

I personally seen where children (that should have been playing for Western Guilford High school), were playing for Page. I had two sons and their friends that I coached, that was suppose to go on to Western Guilford. The friends that lived in our neighborhood, play with our children, (again I coached them) went to Page to play ball. At that time Page and Grimsley High school had the dominate ball programs and the parents felt their child would get the best chance at a College scholarship by their child playing for schools with winning programs.

Recruiting didn't just start at Northren. Parents will slant things to their advantage if they think it gets their child a scholarship by playing for another school. Coaches will close their eyes keep their mouth shut in order to win. They too have future visions, may be want to be a collage coach , who knows. I am not saying "ALL" coaches are like this.
I doubt there is a coach out there that will tell you recruiting doesn't go on, if they do, they are just getting started or their lying to hide something.

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Last night you shoulda heard the fight they had,

Gave little sister another bad dream,

She woke us all up with a terrible scream.
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It's really not very funny, what the children say,

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dcolin

May 31, 2009 - 12:20 pm EDT

“state title restored if the parents of the two basketball players ruled ineligible would admit they deceived Northern Guilford officials on their official residences.”

Lets see Stan is saying, well even if they were ineligible it is not the schools/his fault.
So it is ok.

“Are you telling me athletics directors and principals are now supposed to track down voter registration cards?”

Again Stan’s opinion on school process. Not were they ineligible?

“and the whole Northern community”

Now there is Chutzpah. He speaks for the “whole” community.

Look this thing has turned into a Jill, Stan personal battle.
I seriously doubt that Stan is a petty thief. Arrogant, obnoxious, self serving ass&%$#, with a huge ego and no understanding of the spirit of the rules. But not a petty thief.
Ms Wilson and her law firm know that. At this point that information should never have been released. Again I despise the guy but I doubt he screwed around for $ 4000.00 dollars. That was released to embarrass him. In this whole mess the schools, the parents, the coach, no one actually has enough sense of shame to be embarrassed

There is plenty of blame and culpability to go around...

1) From the eligibility issue. You were or were not. The quality of the deception is irrelevant... Period. Stop trying to justify it that way

2) The school system has plenty of culpability. From the school, the parents, the central offices. Stan’s reputation was clearly established as a coach and “ringer attracter” long before Northern

It has been obvious to the entire school system he is not what we need. They just never had the balls to act on it.

However to paint him as a petty thief says as much about the school system as it does about him.

The important EOG results, soon to come, will say what needs saying about our priorities

May 31, 2009 - 12:30 pm EDT

Well, obviously the information about the account was leaked to the press. I was surprised that Chan 2 was able to get something like that, but then again, it wouldn't be the first time evidence has been leaked.

But dcolin . . . there's a check from a Northern account written to Kowalewski and signed by Kowalewski. That's highly improper. How can you say that's not petty theft?

May 31, 2009 - 1:03 pm EDT

It is very improper I agree.
He is an improper jerk.
However when it comes to the money I believe him. He keeps track in his head and makes it work out
fairly correctly. Certainly improper, certainly on the face of it illegal, but not a petty thief.
If someone told him for $20,000.00 we will give back the championship he would pay it

He doesn't coach to steal. He does it for his ego
He just cares about winning. If he cared about the kids he would have left the equipment.

How many Northern parents realize that two kids that got cut should have made the team.

The residence rules are to help insure that schools have a random selection of talent
Thats what makes the games interesting.

Thats why school size determines which class you play in.( the size of the talent pool)

Stan doesn't care about that. Hell, he thinks of practice as work.

My Broken Record Speech:

All Coaches must be full time faculty

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