re: Capitol and Southern Lab fire FB coaches; LHSAA plans press conference

Southern Lab will forfeit football championship trophies for 2015 and 2016, along with a runner-up trophy from 2014, based on sanctions released by the LHSAA at a joint news conference held Tuesday at the LHSAA office.

LHSAA Executive Director Eddie Bonine said the ruling was based in large part on an investigation done by Southern Lab which started in Oct. 2016. Bonine said those findings were turned over to the LHSAA on Friday. Southern Lab School Director Herman Brister and Bonine both addressed the media.

Bonine said the investigation showed Southern Lab violated a variety of recruiting rules, including ones providing payments or inducements for athletes that other students did not receive.

The school will forfeit all games from those three seasons and be banned from the football playoffs for two years. The coaching privileges of head coach Marcus Randall, a former LSU and Glen Oaks High School quarterback, were suspended for one year. Randall was entering his third season.

Southern Lab’s other sports will be placed on an administration probation and won’t be subject to a playoff ban.

Assistant coaches involved with the program over the past three years also are subject to suspension under the sanctions. Bonine and Brister said the status of coaches and the eligibility of current and former players, including those who have transferred to other schools, will be scrutinized in the coming days.

Southern Lab does not play in a jamboree this week and Brister said a coaching plan would likely not be finalized until early next week. The Kittens open their season at Riverside Academy on Sept. 1.



This is way more than "paperwork"

You don't suspend assistant coaches because of "paperwork"