Article mentions a job reassignment, but some of this is likely school related too. Their are major issues in the program he played for. They hired an out of state guy as the new coach. He has had issues getting a full staff together and players to come out. At one of our passing league tournaments I spoke to a coach who still has come connections to the program (He was the coach there after the staff I was on left in 2003) who told me they only had 28 kids out for spring ball.

Going to ALA, which is a good 50 miles from North Canyon gives him a better chance to get a hardship. If he had transferred to a school in close proximity he likely would have been forced to miss the entire season. There is still a very real chance he has to sit anyway, it really is a crap shoot with the AIA down here and how they decide on this stuff.