Brownie Points: Saguaro situation should have never happened

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• footballer123 posted at 11:52 pm on Mon, Nov 7, 2011.

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  Mr. Brown, you have figured it out, you are the smartest writer of them all...
  great questions...

  it is without a doubt that CLIFF MCKENZIE of the district corruptly scheduled this game for money reasons. Cliff Mckenzie and the district (not the computer system) came to sanders way before the season started and forced the game upon him, when he recommended the game wasn't safe (being that chap was a division higher) and furthermore that timing (being week ten, before the playoffs) was wrong, he told cox communications, and fox sports, not to televise the game that he would not be playing his starters...they were fully aware, cox listened, fox didn't...
  Sanders is raved about in his community by his kids and his administration, and most especially by the parents of his kids.

  ps. love how az media didn't let anyone know that DJ Foster broke a State Record for TD's scored in a game last Friday (10), and making him saguaro's first ever NATIONAL player of the week...validating his resting his players against Chap.

  GENIUS!

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• sss posted at 10:56 am on Sun, Nov 6, 2011.

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  Thanks JB. I have a thought about how the "Computer" generated this date. AIA Associate Executive Director Chuck Schmidt has a very cozy relationship with Scottsdale Unified School District Athletic Director Cliff McKenzie. Many people do not realize that in the SUSD all gate receipts from sporting events go directly to the district and not to the schools. This sets up a situation where individuals at the district level can make corrupt dollar related decisions. Prior to the scheduling, Cliff imagined that both Saguaro and Chaparral might be undefeated through their respective seasons. Scheduling the game at the end of the season would fill the stands and the SUSD coffers far beyond the normal meaningless end of season games. Build the hype all season about POY candidates going head to head, add a National TV contract and what we have is a very lucrative deal. A few extra key strokes and HAL came up with a dream game. Say what you will but this did not have to happen. I do not buy for one minute that this was a coincidental geography based computer generated happening. The only missing piece was Sanders. Cliff and his AD board that includes Charlie Ragle by the way, are already making plans to discipline Sanders and make sure he does not get in the way of their cash cow next year. Greed and egos caused this to happen. Can I prove this? Of course not. Chuck has the keys and believe me he is not about to let this story get legs.

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• RavenFan posted at 10:42 am on Sun, Nov 6, 2011.

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  Easy to assess blame to the AIA and scheduling; however, because of the rivalry involved with these two schools, no date would have been satisfactory. Sanders actions violate the basic tenet of interscholastic sports and Ragle allowing his team to attempt 2 pt conversions with a 40-0 is classless and despicable. As for the division reasoning, Saguaro has won the previous 4 games against Chapparal, so I fail to see an imbalance or injustice here. The big problems as I see it are this, coaches with big egos and the climate with open enrollment, recruitment of kids, transfers for non academic reasons, and parental pressure which has created this quagmire! Make no mistake about it, this is exactly what the schools want. Early this year an agreement between Hamilton and Chapparal couldn't be reached as Chapparal was not willing to play Bishop Gorman and Hamilton in consecutive weeks. Perhaps, the AIA should have stepped in and intervened, but if they had a hue and cry would have come from the Chapparal faithful, the likes of which you have never seen. Ultimately, Desert Vista quashed the game as they weren't willing to give up their date against Hamilton.
  The schedule is set by the AIA and that's a given and you take the good with the bad. Phoenix Union schools didn't qualify for the playoffs, despite some of these schools going 7-3. They played their schedules as prescribed by the AIA and paid the price in lacking power points. Is this fair, I think not. Yet, I haven't heard one high school sports writer take up their cause. Mr. Brown, your arguments about the schedule are groundless. The real problem is this, in that the tail (schools) wags the dog (AIA), rather than the AIA wags its' tail!!

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