How would your state deal with this

One of the most interesting things I've read on here in a long time.

In 2013 alone, their boosters raised nearly half a million dollars.

Questionable living areas for players.
Suspect grades or classes taken.
A head coach allegedly paying the rent for a player.
Tuition stipends.
Coaching stipends up to 80k a year.

This story has everything. Bellevue needs their own ESPN 30 for 30. It seems as if their football culture grew beyond what they could control.

It just makes you wonder, how many other programs, that are considered to be "elite," are operating with the same impunity?

When you start gaining attention/recruiting/poaching high-caliber athletes from other schools, something like this is bound to happen.

The report was just released so nothing has been done yet. As for the 50k he received the state had known about that as it had raised a stink about the amount so the WIAA had passed specific rules about that, something about how the school board had to vote on large amounts of money being paid liker that.

WOW!!!!!!!
but not 100% suprised.
more suprised more havent been found out.  

Our state only puts teams on probation

When they get busted again, they go on double probation

After that, double secret super probation

70 During the course of our investigation we have heard from several witnesses that Coach Goncharoff received payments far in excess of those reported by the Booster Club, ranging in amounts from $100,000 to over $300,000.

This was in the foot notes.

"Lack of instutional control" is the term I believe that applies here.

This is one reason I don't get into the hero worship of coaches/ big time HS programs. These guys were revered in the wing-t community for years and apparently were cheating their a$$es off the whole time.

To win HS football games.

It ain't X's and O's its Jimmy and Joe's 

Bellevue is a public school, but the WIAA, the supervisory agency, is from what I can tell, a private organization. I wonder who they are answerable too?
There was certainly a large amount of money raised by the booster club……..who has control over this? The local School District? The County Government? The State Board of Education? Where is the accountability?

In this State, Maryland, the management of public school athletics comes under the purview of a State run organization that is answerable to the Department of Education and ultimately, the State Government. We also have a local County Board of Education Athletic Department that we are answerable to.

Judging from the level of obfuscation and lack of cooperation from the Superintendent on down, the entire group would be canned if something that egregious happened here. This would be up to and including the loss of their teaching or administration credentials.

Locally, we had a "scandal" here several years ago, where a Coach was accused of changing a student's grade. He was terminated.
However, the Coach did not have access to the records, only the guidance counselor and Principal did……….and the coach had a law degree. The coach was reinstated as a teacher, and eventually transferred to another school as a Head Coach.
The Principal was demoted, and more or less encouraged to retire a couple of years later.

We have had the occasional false residence listed and have to be very diligent in our record keeping, providing all sorts of documentation, bills, proof of residence, etc. to prevent this from happening again. At the very least, the teams have to forfeit games.

Student recruiting and transfers for various sports became so endemic in the suburbs around the Washington D.C. area, that several coaches were involuntarily transferred, and in D.C.it got so bad that kids would go to one school to play football, transfer to another for basketball, and yet a third to run track. The Washington School System finally had to implement a one year "no play" rule for these types of transfers.

The Private schools have their own set of regulations. But apparently there is some sneaky goings on between some of the teams and leagues.

A playoff ban and vacating/forfeiting of wins(including a state title runner up). Not the same exact scenario, but a local school here in Kentucky had this punishment a year or two ago for money issues and playing an illegal player.

I agree. It is interesting. But I also get the sense he is disillusioned. 

If if you get a chance, post part two. This is more interesting than OJ vs. The people.

 I don't see any post (in this thread-at least) where anyone is trying to bring this coach down.  More than anything, people have answered the OP stating how their school or community would handle this situation.  I see coaches stating objective opinions and thoughts.  As natural as it is to react to such egregious accusations, I see no overt comments intended to discredit this coach.  

So is this guy a teacher paid by the district, or is he seasonal and only gets the HC stipend? So if he gets 60K a year from booster, plus 7K stipend he is making 67K a year to coach at a Powerhouse? He needs to move to Texas or Alabama and get some real $$. There probably are illegal things going on, but the mistake is they were winning.

And 42 transfers in 7 years,, so 6 players each year? Around here the inner city and suburbs players change schools each year, by providing a different address. I would love to see what the stats are on big school state champs, how many starters were in their district in the 8th grade?

Maybe this guy is crooked but man there are alot of non football type people that would have to be purposely breaking alot of rules to win football games. Most administrators will sell their soul to keep their job, cant imagine they would just let all this pass? In the report (i skimmed it and maybe missed it) It didnt seem like there were any sworn statements, cashed checks, receipts, audio recordings, former players, other schools claiming recruiting? So the rules broken are ...paying coaches for winning, keeping kids eligible not by fixing grades but sending them to more classes, obstructing the investigation by not saying what they wanted to hear, and not investigating addresses.

My area this has happened and the state suspended the coach for a year and the admin let him take the fall for not monitoring players address, even though it was the AD's job. But they made a mistake of winning to much.

That's in Texas where HC is an admin and makes a significant amount more money than in most places, in most states the HC is not the AD or AC. I think in most places I've been around the HC is actually a teacher. Texas is not the norm in high school football. My point is would that document hold up in court? And most state associations can act on their own while dealing with public school funds with no legislative oversight. Again to answer the OP question is in my area the HC got suspended while the AD didn't.

Read the last sentence of my last post. Here it is: Unethical coaches will try to push the limits. Others ignore or don't know the rules.