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[Update 6:25 p.m. ET] After nearly three hours of listening to Signal Mountain High School’s appeal, followed by more than five hours of closed-door discussion, the Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association’s six-member Board of Control has not yet reached a verdict.
According to one TSSAA source, the board members will reconvene early Friday morning to continue their discussion and vote on the appeal.
Signal Mountain officials hope to regain at least some of six football wins taken away by the TSSAA, which ruled on Oct. 7 that the Eagles had played an ineligible student-athlete.
Thursday morning’s Board of Control hearing took on more of a courtroom feel than most appeal hearings that go before the TSSAA. Attorney Clancy Covert handled most of the presentation for Signal Mountain, while TSSAA attorney Rick Colbert asked most of the questions, rather than board members.