The Guilford County commissioners have hinted that they were going to do something to call attention to the 2022 Grimsley High School football team that lost in the state championship against New Bern High School, which later had its state title taken away for, among other things, using ineligible players.
While New Bern had to vacate that state title, the title was not subsequently given to Grimsley.
The Guilford County Board of Commissioners doesn’t have the authority to officially declare Grimsley state champions. However, on Thursday, Oct. 19, the board is going to do what it can to shine a spotlight on the team by approving a resolution honoring the team’s undefeated record and presenting the resolution to them.
There will also no doubt be a picture or two taken of the team with the commissioners.
The effort to honor the team has been led by Commissioner Pat Tillman, who will read and present the resolution at the meeting. Tillman said earlier this month that he wanted something to be done about the fact that the team was essentially the state champions but would not be recorded in history as such.
After this year’s investigation by the North Carolina High School Athletic Association, New Bern High School had to forfeit all of its wins during the 2022 football season – including the state championship game against Grimsley.
Grimsley “lost” to New Bern, 40-28, in the game last December.
The resolution notes Grimsley’s football program “has experienced victory most recently in 2021 with an undefeated record by winning the North Carolina 4-A State Championship, and in 2019 by winning the Metro 4A Conference Title and a Number 1 overall seed in the North Carolina High School Athletic Association.”
It also notes the dedication of the 2022 Grimsley High School football team and that of the coaches, athletic boosters and parents, and it concludes, “Now Therefore Be It Resolved by the Guilford County Board of Commissioners, that it joins our local and state entities as we recognize and celebrate the 2022 undefeated season for the Grimsley High School Football Team.”
Thank you Pat Tillman.
They still lost…Grimsley athletics/parents are the most egotistical, arrogant people. They scream white privilege in its truest form. You had an undefeated regular season and you lost the championship. The vacated win was over grades not performance on the field…and for that, you are still second place. Ridiculous Tillman, trading proclamations for votes. BOC you have started a precedent…you better follow through in the future years.
So glad you understand what WHITE privilege is. How about black entitlement, if this had been Dudley, black people would still be screaming after all Dudley is privileged. Skip saw fit to give the Dudley boosters 50k dollars of taxpayer money but no other school in the county got a penny, why is that. As far as the team that beat Grimsley over a third of the team was ineligible and they were all starters. Take that advantage away and who knows what the outcome would have been. If those players had been caught earlier in the season most likely that team would not have been playing in the championship game. Go cry a river somewhere else.
Funny thing about Grimsley Cgcc they are not all White and neither do they have the fighting or gun violence that Dudley has. No shooting or murders in their parking lot. Get a real life
I never seen so much BEGGING & SCREAMING ON T.V. by a School, Players, Coaches & AD like I have with Grimsley. They got BEAT, WHIPPED, DEFEATED by NEW BERN. I am sure some of Grimsley Players aren’t making the Grades either. Talk about a PICK ME-PICK ME Group!!! They want to so badly be up their with Dudley, Northern and Page with a Trophies. The only one they have is from the COVID SEASON IN THE SPRING OF 2021. CRYBABIES!!!
You sound like you’re from dudley the black entitlement school. An illegal win is not a win. It’s like using PEDs in th all sports. It’s not a win. You sound like a real crybaby. I’ve never heard any Grimsley players crying about this. Stupid wanker
One team’s forfeit is another team’s win. Nothing arrogant about that. And there’s nothing arrogant about Grimsley’s football coach. He is a humble, fantastic role model and positive influence.