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re: LHSAA: West Monroe busted over player tampering

Posted on 8/28/17 at 9:41 pm to
Posted by reo45
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Posted on 8/28/17 at 9:41 pm to
Now you are communicating in a way that we can actually converse instead of resorting to name calling childish shite.

I do remember this event clearly. I remember Shows saying, "Well, hell we can hook that trailer up to the back of my truck and haul it to one of these trailer parks here in town". It was satire, but he was serious in the fact that he could make it happen if he wanted to leave. He even said he owned a trailer park ...

He then asked him why he wanted to leave his current school. The player told him why and then he said for a ring. Shows then showed him his championship ring and it was glorious to behold. He then went on to tell the player that he would have to earn his spot and blah blah prove himself.

We actually didn't run into him at first when we got to the store. We ran into another coach who was working and asked where Shows was. He said at the field-house. We left and went to the field-house and when we did we saw a few players we knew already and they all took notice of who was in the room. We asked a coach where Shows was and he said he had already left and gone back up to his store. We thought, "Well, hell, we have to go back", but before we left a principal (you probably know who) comes storming out of the back left corner of the old weight room (I assume a hall as I never been in their weight room before that day) and approached the three of us--the player, me, and a family member of mine who was attempting to help this kid get to WM. Yea, I am actually a WM fan you idiot, but I don't wear blinders. We were HELPING him get to WM and not vice versa. The principal lost his shite right there in the weight room. He acted like some alpha dog big wig and told the kid and my relative representing the kid (and also knew the principal) that he (the player) doesn't go to Shows to talk about transferring and that he only comes to him. He made that abundantly clear. What is vague--as you say memory isn't perfect--is that he spoke about the rules and about what it took to be a legitimate transfer. He took control and even tried to intimidate him from wanting him to come. Talked about leaving friends and what not.

We left and went back to the store and that is when our interactions took place. Shows wasn't unruly or ridiculous. He just let it be known that if the kid wanted to move, he could, and although jokingly saying he could help him move to WM, he was serious to the fact he could help make it happen (or someone else indirectly).

He never bashed the sending school; he had nothing but praise for the coach of the young man and the staff.


I just told you the unmitigated and unadulterated truth. No embellishment; no adding; reality as it was and happened.

Later that same day the player received a call from his coach/coordinator and told him that he heard he had met with WM and was thinking about transferring. We later met up at his home and stayed and ate. This coach had a player actually living with him at this time to stay eligible at this school also. Coach and the player fleshed out the problems and spoke openly. After doing so we all spoke for awhile and left.

This behemoth actually started tearing up when we left as he was truly torn. I don't even think he took himself serious or thought the possibility was real that he could actually make the move in the first place. Now that it was a reality and he had to make a decision it wasn't so easy. He sat on it for around a week and then we met the 4 offensive linemen (one who was a cousin by marriage) at the mall. I remember how we asked them how they knew we were up there. They said they went by his house and his grandmother told them we were at the mall. How did they know where he lived? I still don't know how they found out his address till this day.

He made his decision a little while later and told his coach and I assume he told the WM players also, but I do not know that for certain.

He wasted away and didn't win anything at all. The player who ended up playing his position on the line in 1999 and 2000 I ended up becoming friends with as he was hired on temporarily at the Guide Plant before it closed down. We both spoke candidly about that whole thing that went down; he talked about how he knew he wasn't going to be starting his junior year with him there and so on.

I dont mind sharing this stuff because for far too long I hear people jawing about how it happens and some who says it doesn't; or I read about it on forums, but without stories from anyone that actually has seen it or experienced it.

Well, here is a story laid out nice and clean for you. Take it or leave it. Either way I don't care, but it happens probably all to often.
Posted by Dale Murphy
God's Country
Member since Feb 2005
24479 posts
Posted on 8/28/17 at 9:53 pm to
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We actually didn't run into him at first when we got to the store. We ran into another coach who was working and asked where Shows was.


Sounds like this player and his agent are the ones that made the first move.

quote:

I am actually a WM fan you idiot


And you called me out for name calling?
This post was edited on 8/28/17 at 10:17 pm
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