Regardless of help from his fellow Mission League baseball coaches, Bishop Alemany coach Randy Thompson mentioned Tuesday his son, Brody, a junior catcher, has been denied fast eligibility by the Southern Part after transferring from Sherman Oaks Notre Dame. He should sit out the primary portion of the season till March 28.
Thompson had been head coach at Alemany for 18 years till shedding his job in a value slicing measure in 2019. He grew to become an assistant coach at Notre Dame. When the college determined it wished him again to be athletic director and baseball coach, he agreed. His son, a starter at Notre Dame final season as a sophomore, wished to affix him at Alemany.
Junior catcher Brody Thompson of Bishop Alemany.
(Bishop Alemany)
Notre Dame coach Tom Dill wrote a letter to the Southern Part supporting the transfer. However Southern Part guidelines require college students to maneuver bodily to be eligible instantly. Thompson mentioned he couldn’t afford to maneuver.
“It’s unlucky,” Thompson mentioned. “The foundations are set as much as forestall athletically-motivated transfers. My son desires to play for his dad.”
Stated Dill: “My request was that we as coaches put in numerous time growing younger males, attempting to make a distinction of their lives, not simply in sport of baseball. We spend our careers doing that. I believe a son ought to have the ability to play for him. How may he not return to Alemany for his dad? The entire league agreed and I don’t know why there couldn’t be an exception.”
A Southern Part spokesman mentioned no legitimate residential change occurred and the group can not waive bylaw 206. Different coaches who introduced alongside their sons with out shifting have confronted an identical state of affairs.