How did Joey ever get into the NFL?
he would have lived on the compound all his life,, don't you have to go to college to get into the NFL let alone make a super bowl?
sharefrom various things mentioned in episodes I got the impression that he was kicked out of the compound at some point as well and was able with the help of Bill and their uncle who had also gotten kicked out able to get an education at some point.
shareI don't remember every detail, but it was my impression that he wasn't kicked out like Bill was. I think he went to college. That's believable: if you're a good enough football player, you just need to meet the minimum academic requirements to be eligible, and there are colleges which will give you a free ride.
How he became visible enough to be recruited by colleges isn't really explained. It's possible they sent him off to some high school for two years to play football. At least in some places, you can play on a public high school's football team without being a student at the school.
Joey clearly has no meaningful education. That happens to some college football players. Quite a few of them at some colleges.
I've never heard of schools where you can play on a team, but not be a student at the school. Where do they have those?
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I'm just expressing my opinion.
You may all go to hell, and I will go to Texas.
In Washington State, at least. Students who go to private schools can play sports at their local public school. It's not super unusual, particularly in football, where some private schools don't even field teams.
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I'd never heard of that until now. Everywhere I lived, you not only had to be a student, but you also had to have passing grades. There were also rules about which schools you could attend and who could enroll you in school because they didn't want people to move from their homes to another town to live with a relative just to play on a better football team.
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I'm just expressing my opinion.
You may all go to hell, and I will go to Texas.
Here's the actual text of the WIAA rule:
"A student who is a regular member in a private school may participate on the interscholastic teams of his/her resident public school if the student resides within the service area of that public school and if the interscholastic activity is unavailable to the student in the private school."
There are also similar provisions for kids in "public alternative schools" that don't have a team, and home-schooled kids.
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More to the point, here's the Utah rule:
"When a given sport is not available at the member high school where a student attends and thereby has established eligibility, the student may become eligible for that specific sport at another member high school. In order to activate that eligibility, the student must secure written approval of both principals under one of the following circumstances:
"1. Home-schooled high school students or students attending a public charter or private high school: eligibility is only available at the UHSAA member public school in the attendance area where the student's custodial parent or legal guardian resides (neither a power of attorney nor a district or school guardianship will suffice) or at the public school from which the student withdrew for the purpose of home schooling or attending a charter or private high school. Public charter and private high school students may only be eligible at a traditional public school for sports or activities which are not available at their charter or private school. Students may continue to attend their charter or private school while participating at the traditional public school."
Nowhere, in fact most states have laws even prohibiting transfer student athletes (other than ones that transferred from one district to another due to a parent's move) from playing sports for their first year to prevent schools from recruiting students.
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