Bad News for St. Louis Vashon HS

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St. Louis Vashon High School has been penalized by the Missouri State High School Activities Association board ...

They are being stripped of three of their state titles, with possibly even more decisions coming...
The years that are being required to forfeit due to the use of ineligible players, include 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006,
so it is pretty good chance that Bobby Hill is one of the players who is now being ruled as an ineligible player
whose presence on the team is being rules as a violation causing the forfeits.
http://www.mshsaa.org/Default_News_L...ory&storyid=37

http://www.news-leader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080611/BLOGS04/80611019

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/education/story/92963F01D88721EE8625746500535DC0?OpenDocument

http://publicbroadcasting.net/kwmu/news.newsmain?action=article&ARTICLE_ID=1297081&sectionID=1

Bobby Hill played at Vashon 2002-2006, and his brother Johnny played 2001-2005.

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Here is the box score of the 2006 State Championship game that was won by Vashon,
but which is now being overturned, and the state championship will go to Kickapoo HS.

http://champs.mshsaa.org/results/bracket_box.asp?Bracket_Info_ID=4241

In 2005, the team that won the state title, and who won't be affected even though it was Vashon that they played...
was Poplar Bluff, the school Tyler Hansbrough & Ben Hansbrough played for.

http://champs.mshsaa.org/results/bracket_box.asp?Bracket_Info_ID=3576

And the 2001 Championship game was the one that (ISU's) Lorenzo Gordon led Vashon to the title,
and so now Lorenzo will also lose his state title!

http://champs.mshsaa.org/results/bracket_box.asp?Bracket_Info_ID=704

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This is an old thread..but check this out....
Vashon HS was one of the top basketball powers in the country over the past decade....numerous State Titles, and even national rankings!!

They had many players who were top talents...
and in fact they were such top talents, that their coach Floyd Irons was willing to cheat and destroy his entire career and reputation to get them and steal those players from surrounding districts...

Anyway...players like Bobby Hill, Johnny Hill, Leon Powell, Derron Hobbs, Dwayne Polk, Cornelius Walker, James Washington, and many others were touted as D-I prospects

Well..enough time has gone by and it's time to check and see how many of those Vashon players who were so good that coach Floyd Irons was willing to go to jail to land them and win state titles with them...here's the followup...

I noted the box score of last night's SEMO game and noted that Johnny Hill is still playing at SEMO...
SEMO is quite possibly the worst D-I team in the country...they are bad....
Last night they lost - to Arkansas State 73-49.
Johnny Hill is a 5th year senior.. almost 24 years old...he's the kind of player that if he was a stud in high school, then by now he should be a strong, senior leader and ought to be a major contributor, at least on a team as weak and as needy as SEMO...right?
Nope..he barely plays...just a few minutes of time per game, even against teams like Arkansas State!
He has a career shooting pct of just a bit over 30%, and 3 ppg...
And I don't want to be accused of picking on the other Vashon kids, but none of them have done anything at the D-I level...how did they all fail so badly, and maybe someone should look into why it happened and who robbed those kids of such great potential!

The latest one..Leon Powell, is also coincidentally at SEMO - after a long route through preps school and juco......but so far after 4 games at SEMO he hasn't played a minute and hasn't scored a point.(he may be injured?)

So I guess the question is, why have the Vashon kids done so poorly?
Was it the coaching or mentoring they had in high school?....is it just bad luck...
Vashon had the talent and success copmparable to Simeon or to Manual in the 1990's...and many of those kids went on the fine D-I success.....

I know head coach Floyd Irons got off easy, although he still served some time.......
I think this is one of the truly sad stories in HS ball.......had all those Manual kids done so poorly, flunked out, or flopped, I am sure we'd be seeing someone called on the carpet!