Plausible Deniability can be used as a defense, but it still doesn't eliminate GUILT!!  They took 2 kids from our program and had a full court press on our 2 top LB's that just graduated, Melendez who is now at Auburn and Robert Lee at FAU.  This isn't hearsay as their parents told me as much at practices.  "COERCING" the player isn't the standard, instead simply talking too and encouraging it.   Kids that were not involved shouldn't be punished and with the School Choice they are free to play elsewhere.  The institution knew all along as their Principal as well as the varsity baseball HC resigned in protest of what they witnessed.  TFA needs to be held accountable for turning a blind eye.   Hopefully, we will see more of this in the upcoming season as they aren't a one off. 

I noticed St Francis from Gainesville, and The First Academy-Leesburg are dropping out of 11-man and playing an 8-man schedule 

I wasn’t familiar with what they were found guilty beyond a reasonable doubt for. I did know they hired coaches from other schools and a slew of the players for the former team came over. Not sure if that’s illegal or not. If there was evidence of someone who works for TFA coercing a child to transfer then that’s on them. But kids who had nothing to do with it shouldn’t suffer. Suspend the guilty adults for 2 years from coaching in Florida. Coaching of any kind. 2 years. And allow the kids who didn’t do anything wrong still get a chance that the rest of the kids in the state get to do. 

So they get punished for doing something and the only way to remedy the situation and have a chance of competing for a championship they need to (checks notes) do the exact same thing that got them punished in the first place!!!!! 

If those teenagers truly want the ability to compete for a state title, they can simply transfer to another school.  Apparently that's a thing now.