So this is the long and the short of it; at the P.E. in service, a district person told all in attendance to not use one vendor and instead you a vendor owned by the husband of a district staff member; I wish I could make this up.
For years various district sports teams have used BSN uniforms, and at the training were told to stop.
https://www.bsnsports.com/team-uniforms
Instead, they were steered to T5
Which is owned by Robert Talley,
https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-talley-8445294/
and that name should sound familiar to you. He is married to Tammy Talley, the district's very own award-winning athletic director.
Humbled and honored and perhaps about to get a lucrative payday.
I was told a few days later BSN came off the banned list, but the damage may already be done. Then think about this if you are in district sports and want to curry favor, what better way to do it than by supporting the husband of the athletic director? The phrase appearance of impropriety comes to mind.
I am pretty sure none of this was illegal, and as far as I know, no one is slipping Mrs. Talley twenties under the table, or she is promising whatever she can promise to teams that buy her husband's uniforms either, but that doesn't make what transpired right.
We should and could be doing better.
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