Jordan Hill – Coaches on both sides of the transfer situation
Completed Interviews
Athletic directors
Brian DeBerry, Grayson High School
Richard Ricketts, Prince Avenue Christian
Coaches
Jeff Herron, Grayson High School
Jason Tone, Worth County High School
Xarvia Smith, assistant coach, Allatoona High School
Adam Carter, defensive coordinator, Valdosta High School
Christopher Reece, former Oconee County player/Camden County assistant
Greg Slattery, assistant coach, Camden County High School
Stacey Stewart, former Camden County High School assistant
To add
Mark Fleetwood, Peachtree Ridge head coach
Jon Weyher, Peachtree Ridge athletic director
Scott Jackson, Decatur High School head coach
Carter Wilson, Decatur High School athletic director
Historians – The people who write the Georgia High School Football Daily newsletter.
Morgan Ainslie
Sam Hicks, Counselor and former coach at Clarke Central
Emily Giambalvo – personal story of a transfer
Jasen Johnson – interview set up for Saturday morning
Parents and siblings of Jasen Johnson
Chris Griffin – Flowery Branch High School coach (school Jasen transferred from)
Nick Bach – Mountain View High School coach
Emily Greenwood & Chenault – effects of transfers on playing career & academic repercussions
High school players
Dylan Wonnum
Eugene Brown
College players
Isaac Nauta
Staff
Glada Horvat – UGA Athletic advisor / Academic eligibility
Evan Greenberg
In doing some research, there is a lot more to work with with Florida and I think I could have enough to go with just one state.. With that in mind, these are people who have spoken out or about against Florida’s transfer policies. List will grow as I ask who to talk to from these people, but operating from a whole state at the moment and then scaling down.
Hillsborough High School football coach Earl Garcia
Armwood High School football coach Sean Callahan
Denarvise Thornton, Montverde Academy AD (Was) in charge of eligibility with FHSAA until 2015. Montverde’s athletics are great, but they don’t have a football team.
Rick Scott’s office (He passed HB 7029, which will go into effect in 2017 and makes players basically free agents; “High school students who transfer will be immediately eligible to play sports, as long as they don’t play the same sport at two different schools within a school year, the law says.” -Orlando Sentinel
Walt Griffin, Seminole county superintendent
Ashleigh and Nicole
We have gone through and tracked GHSA Constitution changes from 1978-2015. Our main focus will be writing what the changes are and ideally, why they came to be. Our most important interview is Assistant Executive Director of GHSA, Jay Russell, as he is in charge of policy. We are working on infographics to display the changes of policy. We are hoping Mr. Russell can point us in the direction of more interviews because as of now, he is the only one we know directly involved with implementing policy change at the state level.
Glenda and Bryan: Transfers taking spots
Interviewed:
- Deion Williams- SWD DB Coach
Will interview:
- Fletcher Salter- SWD head coach
- Roman Adu
- Bryan Lamar- Tucker’s head coach
I plan on using the interviews with the coaches to get the names of players that have transferred or out of their sports program.