Don Ketchum
Former Staff Writer, AZPreps365.com

Cesar Chavez football could get new life

October 19, 2010 by Don Ketchum, AZPreps365

"=""> It appears the door has been left open for Laveen Cesar Chavez to possibly earn a football playoff spot if the Arizona Interscholastic Association Executive Board decides to rescind the school’s probationary status.
"=""> On Aug. 23, Cesar Chavez was placed on a one-year probation based on what was deemed by the Executive Board to be a recruiting violation.
"=""> At a meeting of the Executive Board on Oct. 18, school administrators and legal counsel were allowed to appeal the probation. The Executive Board decided that if the school turns paperwork listing corrective actions on the matter by Oct. 29, it could rescind the probation at a special session on Nov. 1.
"=""> The football regular season ends Nov. 2, so that would allow playoff bracketing to be updated should Cesar Chavez qualify. Entering this week’s (Oct.  22) games, Cesar Chavez has a 4-4 record and holds onto the 16th and final spot in the Class 5A Division I power-points rating system used to determine playoff participants.
"=""> In related news, the programs at Class 3A Show Low and Class 1A Glendale Joy Christian were not punished for alleged infractions due to the self-reporting and corrective actions that were taken on the part of the schools.
"=""> Show Low’s infraction involved contact that Show Low High School Board President Paul Wyatt had made with the parents of football player Jordan Morgan. Young Morgan had left Chandler Valley Christian and was briefly with the program at Chandler High before moving to the White Mountains area. Morgan’s father, Bill, was the coach at Valley Christian and left after the 2009 season.
"=""> Bill Morgan also had been a former coach at Show Low and had become friends with Wyatt there.