The strange story of the Bishop Sycamore football continues to get stranger.
The alleged charter school was originally known as COF Academy, based out of Columbus, Ohio. One former player, Aaron Boyd, told his story to Complex.
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He said that he was 15 when he was recruited, and that everyone else was 19 or 20 and already out of high school.
Boyd goes on to allege there was no complex, and that the team stayed in a hotel for five months. He adds the “head coach of Bishop Sycamore wasn’t the head coach. He was like an athletic director,” and was writing bounced checks to keep the kids in the hotel.
The team also started out with 10 coaches, and by the end of the season only had one because no one was getting paid.
Now a couple years later, the problems continue for Bishop Sycamore.
After playing, and losing, to Sto-Rox on Friday, Bishop Sycamore turned around and played a national game on ESPN, apparently duping the sports giant to air their 58-0 drubbing by IMG.
Now, The Fan’s Josh Rowntree reports that he spoke to someone who was working the sidelines during the Sto-Rox game and that Sycamore had, “no formal medical/training staff.”
He adds they also only had equipment for 20 players, “so guys were exchanging pants and helmets on the sidelines so they could go in game.”
While this Bishop Sycamore story continues to develop and get strangers, kudos to the Sto-Rox Vikings for beating a group of 19-20 year-olds.