Oxbridge Academy forfeiting all athletic wins over the last two school years

[Joshua Wilson]

From Wells Dusenbury at the South Florida Sun-Sentinel:

 

[Joshua Wilson]

Here is more from Wells on this

 

 

[FishBowl]

Here is more from Wells on this

 

 

Damn it man, I hope they're alright. I hate to see a program fold up like that.

[BrowardHandicapper]

Damn it man, I hope they're alright. I hate to see a program fold up like that.

I think Oxbridge Academy will be fine.  As long as the in-house hired coach (that has had time to take leadership over the summer) clicks with the team, Oxbridge will have not lost much ground.  On paper they are STILL as talented as anyone in Palm Beach and their facilities may have more (and advanced) training equipment on it then STA and AHP/AHD has.  If Oxbridge was going to falter, you would have seen an exodus and you probably would not have seen kids transferring in.  

[DisabledAccount]

Thats a stiff punishment for self reporting, wonder how bad it be if the fhsaa got a chance to lay it down before they did that

[Joshua Wilson]

Thats a stiff punishment for self reporting, wonder how bad it be if the fhsaa got a chance to lay it down before they did that

 

Could have been severe enough they would have gone the way like Bradenton Prep, Potter's House and Arlington Country Day did.

[DisabledAccount]

Could have been severe enough they would have gone the way like Bradenton Prep, Potter's House and Arlington Country Day did.

What they end up getting?

[BrowardHandicapper]

What they end up getting?

They didn't really "get" anything .  They just had to forfeit ALL athletic contests for the last 2 years.

[DisabledAccount]

They didn't really "get" anything . They just had to forfeit ALL athletic contests for the last 2 years.

No I ment the teams Joshua brought up, punishment wise

[BrowardHandicapper]

No I ment the teams Joshua brought up, punishment wise

Oh..I think Arlington Country Day had like 35,000 in fines by the FHSAA for recruiting violations and were forced to withdraw from the FHSAA.

[SportsNut25]

No I ment the teams Joshua brought up, punishment wise

 

Those three teams he brought up are no longer in the FHSAA. 

 

He also forgot to bring up Parkway Academy from South Florida. That one was a crazy situation and devastated the athletics program as a whole and I think the school ended up folding in part due to it. 

[Joshua Wilson]

Those three teams he brought up are no longer in the FHSAA. 

 

He also forgot to bring up Parkway Academy from South Florida. That one was a crazy situation and devastated the athletics program as a whole and I think the school ended up folding in part due to it. 

 

I let that one slip my mind lol. Christ's Church (formerly Mandarin Christian) got hit big time in 2010, but they manage to recover and never left the FHSAA. That is the only school I can say that got hit big time by the FHSAA with the book to not end up leaving altogether.

[Joshua Wilson]

And yes Parkway Academy is no longer around...they also had well documented issues with academics as well.

[Proseteye]

May I ask what specifically it was about academics that these schools were found guilty of? Were they allowing students to play football that did not maintain a certain grad average? Or, something else?

[Joshua Wilson]

May I ask what specifically it was about academics that these schools were found guilty of? Were they allowing students to play football that did not maintain a certain grad average? Or, something else?

 

The academics part of Parkway Academy was well documented by the Sun-Sentinel since they were a charter school and they had meet certain guidelines each year and were not. Ultimately Broward County Schools ordered the school shut.

 

As for the other schools Bradenton Prep I don't think is in existence. Arlington Country Day and Potter's House are still around. For them it was not so much academics, it was the athletics that was the issue.