{"id":341897,"date":"2023-10-26T19:32:04","date_gmt":"2023-10-26T19:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=341897"},"modified":"2023-10-26T20:00:09","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T20:00:09","slug":"is-scandal-ridden-football-program-bishop-sycamore-making-a-comeback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=341897","title":{"rendered":"Is scandal-ridden football program Bishop Sycamore making a comeback?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Bishop Sycamore, the football program that was allegedly also a high school, is back and will be playing in November. This, according to reports that the scandal-ridden school is fully back and functioning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">And, according to investigations, the Ohio-based Bishop Sycamore really wasn&#8217;t much of an academic school, let alone a football team. Nevertheless, it appears that the Columbus, Ohio, football team is back.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">This could and should be interesting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">As both a football program and an academic institution, Bishop Sycamore has deservedly drawn heavy criticism. But that doesn&#8217;t seem to be stopping them from returning to the field, as\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/sports\/other\/bishop-sycamore-is-scheduled-to-play-a-football-game-next-month\/ar-AA1iQuZ4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">a report this week<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0said that Bishop Sycamore will play Life Christian Academy (Chester, Virginia) at Virginia State University on Nov. 9.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/va\/chester\/life-christian-academy-eagles\/football\/\">Life is 1-7 on the year.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Bishop Sycamore is back? <img src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/14.0.0\/72x72\/1f6a8.png\" alt=\"\ud83d\udea8\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em;max-height: 1em\" \/><img src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/14.0.0\/72x72\/1f6a8.png\" alt=\"\ud83d\udea8\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em;max-height: 1em\" \/><img src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/14.0.0\/72x72\/1f6a8.png\" alt=\"\ud83d\udea8\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em;max-height: 1em\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Disgraced Ohio program reportedly playing Life Christian Academy of Virginia.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/14.0.0\/72x72\/270d.png\" alt=\"\u270d\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em;max-height: 1em\" \/>STORY:  <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qv8sor1zvd\">https:\/\/t.co\/qv8sor1zvd<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YpFmgtXDLO\">pic.twitter.com\/YpFmgtXDLO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; MaxPreps (@MaxPreps) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MaxPreps\/status\/1717600335127093355?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 26, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As for Bishop Sycamore, they are best known for losing 58-0 to IMG Academy in 2021 during a nationally televised game on ESPN. The school has drawn criticism for its academic standards. The conclusion <a href=\"https:\/\/education.ohio.gov\/getattachment\/Topics\/Ohio-Education-Options\/Private-Schools\/Non-Chartered-Non-Tax-School-Information\/bishop-sycamore-report.pdf\">of a December 2021 report from the Ohio Department of Education<\/a> was damning and concluded &#8220;that there is no evidence that Bishop Sycamore High School is meeting the standard for non-chartered, non-tax supported schools.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/2021\/12\/17\/bishop-sycamore-state-investigation-concludes-school-a-scam\/8941257002\/\">There were a whole host of issues regarding the team<\/a>, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cantonrep.com\/story\/news\/2021\/09\/01\/bishop-sycamore-football-team-accused-stiffing-canton-hotel-espn-fairfield-marriott-geico\/5681745001\/\">allegedly passing bad checks to cover hotel costs.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Much-maligned football program Bishop Sycamore is back, apparently.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":286601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341897"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=341897"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":341899,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341897\/revisions\/341899"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/286601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=341897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=341897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=341897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}