194:'s facilities". In reality, they held practice outside of an apartment complex that housed students at Ohio State. The team also did not have athletic trainers, which resulted in the athletes playing injured. The apartments housing the students frequently evicted them after Johnson failed to pay rent. Many players had already graduated from high school and there "were four or five kids that were 20, 21, had children of their own". A number of players had legal issues; at one point so many players had active arrest warrants that the team could not fly to away games. One player joined the team immediately after being released from jail. The team also struggled with camaraderie; a former player claimed there were at least five fights at every practice.
906:. Life Christian Academy's head coach David Fitzgerald said that "Bishop Sycamore staff is seeking to revitalize its reputation" and they "have worked with a very reputable company that matches high school football games up." Life Christian Academy has faced challenges in scheduling football games because of concerns with the school's academic and eligibility standards. The company that organized the game is Prep Gridiron Logistics, which is run by Joe Mamione, and organized the matchup between Bishop Sycamore and IMG Academy. In a statement, Prep Gridiron Logistics stated that the game had not yet been finalized. On November 8, 2023, Life Christian Academy announced that the matchup had fallen through due to lack of equipment.
703:, but he refused. Johnson also refused to allow a running clock even when it was apparent the game was out of hand. It subsequently emerged that ESPN officials had greenlit the broadcast despite Bishop Sycamore being slow to provide rudimentary information about the school and the team, contrary to longstanding practice for high schools appearing on the network. For instance, Johnson did not show up for a scheduled virtual production meeting two days before the game. ESPN only got a fact sheet about the school hours before the game. Several members of ESPN's production staff thought something was amiss when several names on Bishop Sycamore's roster did not check out, but the game went ahead as scheduled.
808:. However, Ferree grew suspicious when COF Academy claimed to have 750 boys on its roll; according to Ferree, if a newly opened school in the state capital had that many boys, he and other OHSAA officials would have known about it. After unsuccessful attempts to verify that COF Academy was what it claimed to be, the OHSAA declared that COF Academy was not a legitimate school, which ultimately led to its charter being revoked in 2018. Ferree ultimately concluded that Bishop Sycamore existed as a money-making venture for Johnson. He told
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Sycamore was booked for a nationally televised game against IMG—the "most talented prep team in the country". To Shroff's mind, the game appeared to be such a mismatch that "there's got to be a point now where you're worried about health and safety". Luginbill agreed, saying that the game could potentially get "dangerous" due to Bishop Sycamore's apparent lack of depth.
207:(AME) and had plans to build a "massive campus". Johnson was business-development director for the Richard Allen Group, the financial arm of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Johnson later used COF and the church's name during his attempts to sell life-insurance. The AME church has denied having any connection with the school, but an investigation by
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Logistics. Maimon contacted 200 schools to play IMG, and Bishop Sycamore was the only school willing to play against them. The game was expected by many to be a game between two elite programs but was far from competitive. IMG Academy was dominant throughout the entire game, winning 58–0 in their first shutout since 2019.
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never gonna leave that program. He might say he's not taking the coaching job. He might lie to make the public get off his back. But Roy is not gonna get out of that. He's gonna be in their ears at all times." Johnson was replaced by Tyren
Jackson as the school's head football coach. In an interview with Columbus TV station
752:; it instead plays in the Texas Christian Athletic League, which includes the team in its Division 6A, a "national division" open to teams outside Texas (by late October, the TCAL had dropped Bishop Sycamore from the league). In 2020, the school claimed an enrollment of only three students. Ohio Governor
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Sycamore and its previous incarnation, COF Academy. He first looked into the school when he noticed that it played a number of OHSAA member schools. Standard practice called for Ferree to contact any non-OHSAA member school to verify
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Department of Education into Bishop Sycamore was released on December 17, 2021, and found that the school failed to meet educational standards, failed to provide a physical location for classes to meet, and did not employ any
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Sycamore that the two organizations are not to be affiliated with one another. In 2019, there were concerns that YouthBuild were fielding players who were older than 18 or had otherwise used up their four years of high school eligibility. These concerns, which are against the rules of both
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Pennsylvania (which they lost 19–7). The game featured many of the same players as their game against IMG Academy. Rashid Ghazi, president of Paragon Marketing, said that the game would have been canceled had anyone known Bishop Sycamore was already playing a game the preceding Friday. After the
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Sycamore was a real high school. During the 2020–21 school year, the Ohio Department of Education listed Bishop Sycamore as a "non-chartered, non-tax supported school"; the school was not listed at all for the 2021–22 year.
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Sycamore offered online classes through an organization called Graduation Alliance, but the classes were ended after five months as a result of Bishop Sycamore failing to provide payments for the organization's services. Meanwhile, the team exploited cancellations stemming from the
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that athletes were recruited under the premise of the school being the "IMG of the
Midwest". However, many of their student-athletes were older than high-school age, and there was no real campus. Instead, athletes were housed in a hotel for five months, with the only schooling being one visit to a
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Coach Leroy Johnson was fired on August 31 in the aftermath of the IMG Academy game, with founder Andre Peterson taking over the operation. Peterson maintained the operation was legitimate, noting that he had enrolled his own son in the school. However, former players for Johnson have said, "He's
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on ESPN but lost 58–0 and put Johnson on the hot seat of getting fired. After the game, Johnson came under heavy scrutiny. It was revealed that there was an active arrest warrant for Johnson relating to "fraudulent misrepresentation, conversion, and unjust enrichment". Johnson also faced a civil
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began to question the legitimacy of the Centurions on-air. They revealed that ESPN had been unable to verify claims that its roster contained NCAA Division I college prospects, and they could not find any mention of Bishop Sycamore or its players in any recruiting databases. Shroff wondered how
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During 2018, Johnson was signed to the Christians of Faith Academy as the athletic director and assistant coach. During the end of the season, the team collapsed due to financial reasons. In 2020, Johnson rebranded the Christians of Faith Academy to Bishop Sycamore. On August 29, 2021, the team
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college football. The games were booked by the company Paragon Marketing, which has historically served as a partner for ESPN's high school events. Paragon was unable to find a team willing to play IMG, so they outsourced their efforts to a man named Joe Maimon, who runs a company called Prep
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public library. The school also struggled to maintain coaches as 80% of the coaching staff quit during the season and the team was left with just two coaches and one player's mother. The players were also not provided with food and some players resorted to stealing from supermarkets to eat.
710:, where Bishop Sycamore stayed while in Canton, accused the team of attempting to use two invalid checks for $ 3,596 in order to pay for 25 rooms. The team was also charged $ 750 for room damages. The Canton Police Department announced they were investigating the school for forgery.
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found a trail of emails and bank statements that documented the connections between the AME and the school, which was initially established in an effort to provide opportunities to disadvantaged youth. Whatever ties the AME had to the school were severed by fall 2018.
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would be opening an investigation into the school's educational operations. In the wake of that investigation, the three remaining schools still slated to play Bishop Sycamore called off the games. The OHSAA later stated that, even if Bishop Sycamore were not a
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similar 56–6 loss in 2020. Their 2021 schedule was ranked the fourth most difficult of any high school team in the United States. In the wake of the scandal surrounding the game, Bishop Sycamore's remaining opponents canceled their games against the team.
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lawsuit filed by ARN Hospitality, which claimed he owed them $ 110,685 for not paying any portion of the bill from the hotel where the players were housed. He faces similar lawsuits for failure to pay from a busing company and a
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One member of the ESPN production team likened the game to "four and five star recruits against a JV team". After IMG scored 23 points in the first quarter, organizers for the event spoke to Johnson about calling the game via
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high school, teams in their jurisdiction would still be allowed to schedule and play them, as no rule in the OHSAA bylaws requires OHSAA teams' opponents to be affiliated with any high school. Such games would be considered
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game, ESPN released a statement placing responsibility for the incident on Paragon, saying that Paragon had given assurances "that they will take steps to prevent this kind of situation from happening moving forward".
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video games and that the team attacked a homeless man for attempting to break into Johnson's car. The only class offered to students was a religious class taught by Johnson.
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by that name in their diocese, throughout their history. The school's website contained blank "About Us" and "Staff" pages. The school is not part of the
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1289:"Documented Relationship: Emails Reveal COF Academy's Connection to AME Church, Mixed signals: COF Academy's tangled tale"
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on August 19, 2021. Bishop Sycamore had then played a second game just two days before playing IMG Academy against
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2359:"HBO Launches Production On 'BS High,' Doc About Football Team From "Fake" School That Got Drubbed On National TV"
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Sycamore. Leroy Johnson, the former head coach, claims that they had ties to the Third District of the
2293:"Bishop Sycamore Docuseries Coming From Kevin Hart's HartBeat Productions, Complex Networks, and More"
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as its mailing address, and its physical address as being a sports training facility in Columbus. The
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1713:"We learned more about how Bishop Sycamore ended up playing on ESPN, and it's only getting shadier"
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teachers. The report went on to say Bishop Sycamore was likely a scam and that they recommend the
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Former athletes at Bishop Sycamore also revealed that Johnson's football play calls all came from
2262:"Duncanville H.S. football cancels game against Bishop Sycamore, team accused of misleading ESPN"
1519:"Duncanville H.S. football cancels game against Bishop Sycamore, team accused of misleading ESPN"
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which will cover "how the school and this game fooled the world and became front page news".
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manufacturer. Johnson has also taken out a loan of $ 100,000 but never repaid the bank.
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2198:"Ohio-based high school football team Bishop Sycamore faces questions about legitimacy"
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2050:"New Bishop Sycamore coach: 'We are not a school. That's not what Bishop Sycamore is'"
1894:"High school football: No. 2 IMG Academy blanks Bishop Sycamore 58–0 in season opener"
2424:"Life Christian coach: Bishop Sycamore matchup fell through due to lack of equipment"
2326:"Michael Strahan to Produce Bishop Sycamore Football Scandal Documentary (Exclusive)"
2023:"Bishop Sycamore director on ESPN game controversy: Football program is not a 'scam'"
1959:"After legitimacy allegations, Bishop Sycamore team accused of stiffing Canton hotel"
1616:"No. 2 Archbishop Hoban rolls over Bishop Sycamore in unofficial season opener, 38–0"
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1071:"A Former Bishop Sycamore Football Player Exposes the Dark Secrets of the Program"
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1992:"Roy Johnson, coach of Bishop Sycamore high school football team, is let go"
1485:"Here's how ESPN got duped into airing a terrible high school football team"
1383:"Bishop Sycamore update: Academic partner denies relationship with "school""
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1677:"Students became collateral damage in COF Academy-AME Church saga"
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2392:"Bishop Sycamore is scheduled to play a football game next month"
1183:"Out of thin air: COF Academy has football schedule, little else"
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