What is it about Florida high schools and crooked athletic administrations?

Someone really needs to start taking a microscope to high school athletics in the state of Florida.

And it's well beyond the football stuff I've been talking about for some time...

Add this little ditty from Yahoo! Sports: The 16th-ranked team on Yahoo!'s Rivals.com blog Top 100 high school teams in the country had it's season terminated and all wins forfeited after the use of an ineligible star player.

Now, more allegations have been found, and the team has been fined $53,000 by the state high school athletic administration -- which has the power to do so, by the way.

Not only has the investigation found multiple ineligible players, but the open falsification of documents to allow them to compete.

When are we going to start coming to the conclusion that the only reason many schools exist is to promote a hierarchy where the athletes -- often violent -- are on top? That without the athletics, the schools would not exist at all?

They found that six players were document-falsified to play basketball at Dr. Krop -- and the penalty includes a three-year postseason ban for the school which will be extended to all sports if (*cough*when) it is found this extends to other sports.

Will someone please explain to me why this kind of conduct is not grounds for sending to the Florida Dept. of Education (or whatever it is called down there -- the Department of Public Instruction, it's called in one of the states I've lived in) to revoke the damn school and shut it down?

The saddest part is why the book wasn't thrown at them and, on top of everything else, the fine could've been six times this amount, or upwards of $313,000!

The more things change...