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For 7-on-7 football in the summer, school coaching staffs are allowed to help organize the team and select the players. They can also decide the person – usually a player's parent or member of the booster club – who will coach.

Members of the school coaching staff can even watch 7-on-7 games from behind the end zone. But there is one thing, according to the University Interscholastic League rules, that coaches cannot do. Coach.

You won't see coaches working on a defensive back's footwork or refining a quarterback's throwing motion, but they'll yell out some quick instructions as shown in the television report.

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That's not exactly what the Dallas Morning News' Brandon George writes in his blog on the Southlake Carroll quarterback situation, but it's close.

George blames WFAA for investigating and the UIL for its transfer policy. How about no one's to blame but the family that tried to transfer without really moving?

There's nothing wrong with the UIL's transfer's policy. It has plenty of teeth, it just doesn't have the expectation of an FBI background check for every transfer. The problem of UIL transfers isn't the policy, its coaches that sign transfer papers knowing an athlete is changing schools for athletic reasons or not really moving. And that isn't even the case for the Southlake Carroll situation.

Carroll ISD needs to verify the parents' claim of residency, but it's not the police, the FBI or WFAA. WFAA, no doubt, spent more than Southlake Carroll's cross country team budget to investigate the eligibility of one athlete. The UIL expects due diligence, but not an FBI investigation into transfers.

Questions about transfers will continue not because of the UIL. They'll continue to because there will always be parents that want something different than the rules or coaches are telling them.

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So here we are, one day before the football season begins, and the eligibility of Southlake Carroll's starting quarterback is up in the air. It's a tough position for Carroll, but this always looked like a possibility.

Daxx Garman transferred into an ultra-competitive school district and football program and took over the highest profile position on the team. With all the feathers that ruffled at Carroll and at the schools that compete with the Dragons each year, there was no doubt that Garman and his family would be scrutinized.

And there was certainly reason for that scrutiny, because Garman moved around to multiple schools in Oklahoma. And at his last one, the Oklahoma Secondary Schools Activities Association declared that he didn't live in the boundaries for the school he attended.

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Monday was the first day of school, and one of the last for serenity. ESPN will focus on Cibolo Steele running back Malcolm Brown this weekend, and University of Texas fans will zoom in after that.

But Brown seems to get all of this and that expectations are about to descend on him faster than any linebacker could. He handles it with the same confusing mix of emotions that other high school seniors have, and this will come in handy over the next few years.

He fears the big head as much as the swollen knee, and it's an attitude that doesn't allow for shortcuts.

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The University Interscholastic League is packaging its biggest championship games together for the first time this year. It could also be the start of a long run of UIL championship games at Cowboys Stadium.

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Editor’s Note: The feature story in this year’s Abilene Reporter-News Kickoff 2010 is coaches who have mattered to their players perhaps more off the field than on it. Retired sports writer Bill Hart, who knew his share of remarkable coaches, reflects on some of those men and the situations they faced as disciplinarians and as father figures.

Longtime high school football coach W.T. Stapler believes that about 90 percent of the coaches help prepare their athletes for life after football in addition to life on the field.

Stapler, who led Sweetwater to the Class 4A state championship in 1985, said his high school coach, Jesse “Red” Burditt, inspired him to become a coach. Stapler followed in his coach’s footsteps by motivating his players to do their best — in some cases going the extra mile.

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