Basketball Star To Play At Middle School
FairCityNews.com | Dec 03, 2010 | Comments 2
Quirk demonstrates his skills at Middle School pep rally
Springfield MO.- Charlie Quirk, a Glendale High School senior, who was recently declared ineligible to play in this final year by the Missouri State High School Activities Association will play instead for Carver Middle School. Apparently a loophole in MSHSAA guidelines does not prevent a player transferring back to middle school if high school credits are offered. “My transfer from St. Charles East to Glendale was done for family reasons,” commented Quirk. “By transferring back to middle school, I am doing it for pure athletic reasons. I am a senior and can’t sit out a year. There are no trophies or championships in playing JV ball. By going back to middle school and still maintain high school credits for graduation, I can compete for the city championship.”
Carver 8th grade basketball coach Joe Dunkem was all smiles when asked about his new player. “I have to keep pinching myself to see if this is all real. When you deal with the average 8th grader who is 5 foot nothing and has to learn the basics, then get a guy who is 6-foot-seven and averages 17.7 points and 8.8 rebounds a game is a coaching dream. I also believe that this will be the first time in Springfield Public School history where a player from an 8th grade championship will go on to play Division I college basketball the following year.”
When asked for a statement regarding Quirk’s transfer, officials from St. Charles East High School were short and rude. “He punked us,” stated Al Rectum Athletic Director for St. Charles East. “We thought by being total jerks and a-holes about him choosing family over our sports programs would send a message to him and others like him. His actions make us look stupid and we don’t need any help with that.”
In an unrelated story MSHSAA has approve the entire St.Louis Vashon boys basketball roster which features players from Europe and the former Soviet Union. “None of these guys speak a lick of English but they can sure play ball,” stated former Vashon coach Floyd Steele who will house the entire rooster for the upcoming season.
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Hidden in this year’s massive pork barrel spending bill in Congress is funding for a wall around St Charles to prevent its beleaguered citizens from escaping.
Since there is uncertainty about the passage of that measure, the high school athletic directors in that community are taking steps to pitch in and do their part. Mr Rectum is quoted as saying, “We’ll make sure that boy won’t even be allowed to play in any GED league in this state.”
It just goes to show that scorned high school petty bureaucrats have more fury than any two scorned women.
I recently ran into retired federal judge Hiram A. Mighty while eating lunch at Cook’s Kettle on Commercial Street. He smiled when he said he was aware the attorneys used to call him “Old High and Mighty”, but he only handled two really big cases in his entire career.
The first was school desegregation. He had played high school basketball in the St Louis area in the late 1960s, and he had noticed that nobody of European descent seemed to be involved with Vashon High School. So, when he became a federal judge he changed that. That’s why today the St Louis freeways are clogged with yellow school buses and orange construction barrels.
He told me he was proud of his role in busing Eastern European players to Vashon, and agreed there would be nothing wrong with busing players from St Charles to Springfield.
Oh, his second big case was allowing Yahweh’s Ministers to operate a booth at the airport.