If Southern was convinced there were devices in the FH helmets (and they are still convinced) they would have calmed down first before letting their immediate anger over the loss get in the way of an intelligent response. Never make a drastic move until you calm down first and use logic. If they were smart they would have kept the complaint secret for a week or so and yes found a way to check the helmets when FH played against Silver Oak or Forest Park or even Mountain Ridge. Then filed an official complaint to the MPSSAA.
Instead, they lost to FH on Friday and handed out the video the following Monday to everybody with a pulse including the FH opponents with a stamp on the package that said HEY EVERYBODY LOOK AT THE FORT HILL CHEATERS. Southern is not the judge and jury, never should have done that. Which was where they royally screwed up in the slander department. You do not interfere with an opponents ability to have relationships with other schools, especially without a full burden of proof. I can speak first hand when I say FH has a hard enough time getting football opponents. There was no reason to send that video out to the world via Hudl aside from a severe anger disorder. There was going to be no way that video they had was going to convince any jury beyond reasonable doubt that FH was guilty. Yes, I can see where someone might think it was possible from the video, but never a conviction. That is why the vote was 6-0. It wasn't Fort Hill's job to show they were innocent, it was Southern's job to prove they were guilty and they did not have proof for a conviction of such obviously.
I have been forthright about it and I'm saying again with ZERO doubt that FH doesn't put anything in the helmet. It's stupid beyond belief. It's as stupid as FH claiming Southern intentionally would not fix the press box roof for that game so they could set this all up. I know the Southern AD very well and it's Stupid. I have known the FH coaches most of my life and it's Stupid. They could never have kept this a secret forever even if they wanted to put a device in the helmet, never. So many people would have had to lie forever. Why people cannot comprehend this is beyond me...or once again STUPID!!!
People here that know me well...do you think I wouldn't know?