One of Texas’s best high school quarterbacks has come full circle.
On Thursday, the University Interscholastic League (UIL) state executive committee reversed its eligibility ruling on Lewisville junior quarterback Laykon Brassfield. The Fighting Farmers star is now eligible to return to the field after missing four games, but their three vacated wins will not be reinstated.
Brassfield’s appeal passed by a unanimous vote after the DEC initially voted 7-0 to rule him ineligible after he transferred from Edmond North in Oklahoma to the North Texas school after his sophomore year. The DEC’s initial investigation found that Brassfield did not actually reside in Lewisville and declared he could not participate in varsity competition for one calendar year from the date he enrolled at Lewisville…