Jacoby Dixon

[MrFleet23]

On 8/24/2025 at 8:09 AM, AggiesAreWe said:

If it's ruled he moved for athletic reasons (which this clearly is), then residency won't matter. He will have to sit a year.

I agree, after the DEC rules him ineligible, I can see them appealing it to SEC.

This is goofy to me. I buy a house and now my kid is ineligible because he’s good at football? UIL shouldn’t have that much power. I’ve seen a case where CPS had to intervene with the UIL because the child was removed from the home. Another case where they wanted to change the child’s custody in the divorce paperwork in order for them to be eligible. This stuff is barely the school district’s business let alone the UIL. They’re going too far. 

[Lions Pride 2021]

I know my opinion on this topic isn't popular on this forum, but the days of the UIL restricting kids movement making them sit out a year is coming to an end. The kids have four years of HS; to take away a year because you don't like that they deem your program less than is a you problem - do what's necessary to make it a place where kids want to be. I hope this is resolved before my grandkids are old enough to play, but if not, I'm going to be first in line to file that lawsuit.

Good luck to everyone's teams this year!

[Lions Pride 2021]

On 8/25/2025 at 12:52 PM, bullets13 said:

Man, that would be awful. In smaller areas like SETX the ensuing free-for-all would lead to a handful of super teams leeching all of the talent around their surrounding areas, with lower classification football being crippled beyond repair. It would also turn into bribing and payment scandals. 

My response to that is your school needs to do better to be a place kids want to be. Not to penalize people who want to do better.

[Lions Pride 2021]

On 8/27/2025 at 2:58 PM, Bigdog said:

An good education lasts way longer than any sport.  Especially since most kids don't make it to college or pro sports. 

I agree but the UIl still should not stop a kid from playing sports because they moved, no matter the reason.

[Lions Pride 2021]

On 8/26/2025 at 1:15 PM, AggiesAreWe said:

Sports is not part of the curriculum. You don't need it to graduate.

Why you think it is tells me everything about your viewpoint. 

Is that supposed to be an insult? I thought we didn't do that on this site. For shame!

If I live in a school district and my child is enrolled in that school district, another school's coach should have no say if my child can participate or not. Additionally, the purpose of the so called extracurriculars is to produce a well rounded citizen.

You need to dig into the history of the amateur movement. It's not noble at all. It has roots in racism, classism, and restriction of economic advancement.

This stupid notion that playing a sport is a privilege needs to go away. You get what you earn.if you're good enough to be on the field you earned it, period. All that talk some pros say about it's a privilege to play is code switching to make a certain demographic feel comfortable. They're playing the game and I don't fault them. Because unfortunately, depending on how you look determines how honest you can be in public.

[bullets13]

6 hours ago, Lions Pride 2021 said:

My response to that is your school needs to do better to be a place kids want to be. Not to penalize people who want to do better.

It would be hard to “be a place where kids want to be”, especially when it comes to athletics, if the best players are able to pimp themselves out to the highest bidders. And make no mistake, that’s exactly what would start happening. 

[weonlyrun28toss]

Heard he ran for 478 yards and 12 TDs in his first game in TAPPS! 

[Matthew328]

18 hours ago, Lions Pride 2021 said:

I know my opinion on this topic isn't popular on this forum, but the days of the UIL restricting kids movement making them sit out a year is coming to an end. The kids have four years of HS; to take away a year because you don't like that they deem your program less than is a you problem - do what's necessary to make it a place where kids want to be. I hope this is resolved before my grandkids are old enough to play, but if not, I'm going to be first in line to file that lawsuitu

Good luck to everyone's teams this year!

If you file a lawsuit right now, you'd be the first person to win vs the UIL under the current format.

The best you could hope for is an injunction/restraining order to stall out the process which could take multiple years to play out through appeals etc.

What typically happens as what happened w/Anthony Black at Duncanville is they got a restraining order on the UIL ruling, by the time the courts heard the case Black had graduated so it got thrown by the courts as it was moot and dismissed the restraining order

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Then the UIL went back and retoractively punished Duncanville for playing Black during that time and banned them from the playoffs for the next year and suspended the coach for a year....so most schools know this now and would simply choose not to play the kid until a court made a final ruling...best hope would also be federal court, odds aren't good beating the UIL in a state court...just calling it like it is there

 

Even if you had a perfect storm of a freshman kid being ruled ineligible and he had enough HS years left to fight it...he'd be eligible after 365 days....would his/her parents want to continue spending the money and fighting the UIL when the kid is now eligible? It's not like you get that year back, so would the juice (or money) be worth the squeeze