{"id":342230,"date":"2023-10-28T01:08:45","date_gmt":"2023-10-28T01:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=342230"},"modified":"2023-10-28T02:00:52","modified_gmt":"2023-10-28T02:00:52","slug":"playoff-ban-for-tennessee-powerhouse-lipscomb-academy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=342230","title":{"rendered":"Playoff ban for Tennessee powerhouse Lipscomb Academy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association (TSSAA) is handing down sanctions on Lipscomb Academy, banning the football program for two years from the postseason.<\/p>\n<p>According to the TSSAA, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennessean.com\/story\/sports\/high-school\/2023\/10\/27\/lipscomb-academy-ban-tssaa-football-playoffs\/71340496007\/\">Lipscomb has been found guilty of a &#8220;recruiting violation.&#8221;\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lipscomb, is a national name and a state-wide powerhouse. The Nashville, Tennessee school went 13-0 last year and is routinely one of the top teams in the state. It is one of the most heavily recruited programs in Tennessee.<\/p>\n<p>The 2023 season represents their first football season in the Division II-AAA East, which is considered to be the toughest and most competitive of the private school divisions in the state.<\/p>\n<p>Truth be told, the ban may not matter much to Lipscomb. Given that this is their first year in a tougher division, there have been struggles this fall. They went into the weekend 4-5 (2-2 Division II-AAA East).<\/p>\n<p>Given their difficulties this year, there is a real chance that Lipscomb may not have made much of a playoff run this year. Also, given that Lipscomb has a national non-conference schedule (they played IMG Academy and Alabama powerhouse Saraland this year), the competition level won&#8217;t be affected greatly by no postseason.<\/p>\n<p>There schedule is already tough and has helped Lipscomb attract top talent to their football team.<\/p>\n<p>Former NFL offensive lineman Kevin Mawae is in his first year as the head coach at Lipscomb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Lipscomb Academy was penalized for a recruiting violation this week.<\/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\/342230"}],"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=342230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":342231,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342230\/revisions\/342231"}],"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=342230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=342230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=342230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}