Yes it is true. I have read a few inaccuracies here but the jest of it is correct. Southern is convinced FH uses listening devices in the players helmets based on their own game film. The question the accusation raises with me is that it is absolutely impossible to conceal something like this between 16 FH coaches on staff and over 50 teenage kids on the roster. They all have to lie to make this work. The idea that the entire FH coaching staff is involved in a lie of this nature with a team of teenage kids is really, really, really a massive reach. I would love to be a fly on the wall to witness FH coaches instructing their kids they were putting a listening device in their helmet and to not tell anyone. Kids twitter everything the way social media works...to which I can already see multiple area coaches scrambling through the internet to make this true. I can't believe I am actually discussing this to be honest. Let's just say that if anything like this did happen, there is no question the beans would be spilled.
I have good relationships with some of the Southern folks and I have been forthright with my opinion to them directly. My biggest disappointment isn't that the complaint was filed with the MPSSAA but that Southern went and shared it with FH opponents among others. If they wanted to file the complaint, which is still absurd to me, that is one thing. But to slander FH based on an opinion without due process was some pretty low down vindictive stuff. Extremely unprofessional and absolutely a legal issue. This wasn't the only complaint. There are several that are less severe in nature and quite possibly true but still a non-stop list of adults crying over a high school football outcome.
Not everyone has the same opinion and that that shouldn't keep people from respecting one another. I have seen the video and I see nothing that makes this allegation fact outside of an opinion. Even if one believes that FH has a listening device in helmets, making it sound like fact and handing it out to a large array of others was really bad decision that is irreversible. I can see where a person watching the video might make such an assumption but I also know the way FH calls their audibles, which is miles ahead of the antiquated coaching technique of getting in a defensive huddle and calling the defense. FH calls their defensive movements on the fly before the snap. It's extremely impressive. Also know that kids react on the snap. Just because a coach yells BLITZ THE QB after the ball is snapped, the kid is already blitzing the QB because he watched the same film and has already been coached into reading the formation. Again, I am very disappointed mostly in the slander without due process, whether the report is true or false. This incident is sure to only generate more hate and a product that isn't good for the students.
The can of worms has been opened now and there is no closing it unfortunately. Embarrassing to say the least.
On a joking side, if all this is true I am very disappointed in the FH coaching staff. Not because they cheated, but because they still have their QB running to the sideline to get the play call. Idiots, they can't even cheat properly. LOL.