I just read an email letter from the AD/HC of Mervo written to the MIAA dated 05/08/18 that was posted on the new Baltimore board about the underhanded and controversial tactics of St. Frances.
There is not any reason that I see not to believe this as the Franklin starting QB apparently jumped ship to St. Frances just 4 days before the season after practicing all summer with Franklin and playing in two scrimmages, according to posters.
If what the Mervo AD/HC says is true this is pretty damn dirty and totally dismisses the race-baiters stating that the MIAA action against St. Frances was about race and not dirty-scheming tactics. The racism claim has become just a red-herring about anything in an attempt to promote oneself as a victim, when in fact St. Frances appears to be a perpetrator of underhanded and dirty tactics. I know recruiting probably happens all of the time but I have not heard of any teams, public or private, that have taken these alleged measures or to this level.
The Mervo AD/HC gives details about St. Frances’ tactics, including an unnamed person coming into Mervo, refusing to give his name, asking for transcripts of the players that St. Frances was specifically recruiting, players showing him texts from St. Frances including coaches promising him “SEC” and “NFL” money and St. Frances scolding Mervo admin that if they care about their kids they would encourage them to leave Mervo and go to St. Frances, actually coming to the school to pick up players and take them to practices and actually practicing with St. Frances while still enrolled at Mervo.
The confrontation towards St. Frances has nothing to do with race but with exactly what T. Helmick stated previously in another thread and I share his sentiment about what some schools are doing with high school football.