Non-chartered, non-tax supported schools must report their students' participation and attendance to their local school district treasurer, which for Bishop Sycamore the state lists as Columbus City Schools. No one from the department's communications office returned a telephone call Monday, and it was unclear if Bishop Sycamore filed that report. 2 high school football program IMG plays in Cincinnati Friday nightĮach non-chartered, non-tax supported school must certify in a report to parents at the start of each school year that it meets the Ohio school operating standards in a report that must be filed with the Ohio Department of Education. The Ohio Department of Education lists no charter school by that name, but last year the department listed Bishop Sycamore as a "non-chartered, non-tax supported school," a type of school that "because of truly held religious beliefs, choose to not be chartered by the State Board of Education." It isn't clear if Bishop Sycamore is a school at all for the 2021-22 school year. "(Playing two games in three days) is against any high school rule, but they don't have to abide by those rules not being a high school," Akron Archbishop Hoban athletic director and football coach Tim Tyrell said. Game footage from both matchups reviewed by Awful Announcing's Ben Koo shows that players who appeared in both games played more than Johnson indicated. Bishop Sycamore played football both Friday and Sunday nightīishop Sycamore lost 19-7 to Sto-Rox on Friday night before facing IMG on Sunday. Speaking on Twitter Spaces hosted by Mike Robinson on Monday afternoon, Bishop Sycamore coach Roy Johnson said about 15 players played in both games, though he said most of them played only small portions. Ghazi also said that Paragon was unaware Bishop Sycamore had played a game on Friday night in Pennsylvania and would not have scheduled the matchup if they'd known. Paragon president Rashid Ghazi told Awful Announcing that he wishes his company had done more due diligence on Bishop Sycamore. “We regret that this happened and have discussed it with Paragon, which secured the matchup and handles the majority of our high school event scheduling," ESPN said in a statement. "They have ensured us that they will take steps to prevent this kind of situation from happening moving forward.” Paragon Marketing Group took care of finding matchups and providing them to ESPN. It was uncomfortable for anyone who watched." Paragon Marketing Group scheduled the matchup, not ESPNĮSPN itself didn't schedule the game, which was part of the GEICO ESPN High School Football Kickoff. Player health and safety was at risk today. "Sorry," Shroff wrote. "They had no business being in that game today. From what we’ve seen so far, this is not a fair fight, and there’s got to be a point where you’re worried about health and safety."īishop Sycamore: Twitter has fun reacting to Bishop Sycamore's program and ESPN game against IMG AcademyĪfter the game, which IMG won 58-0, Shroff responded to comments on Twitter that Bishop Sycamore was the only school in Ohio willing to play IMG. "Bishop Sycamore told us they had a number of Division I prospects on their roster, and to be frank, a lot of that, we could not verify," Shroff said. "They did not show up in our database, they did not show up in the databases of other recruiting services. So, OK, that’s what you’re telling us, fine, that’s how we take it in.
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