I will add Kirtland to that list.I remember them finally breaking through against Ursuline who was about unbeatable
DI is different. Once you get to a certain amount of boys you can compete and it matters far less. It is the smaller schools that rig their enrollment (see previous post).
Ask Hoban if CB is working
The lies never die. A culture of success that encourages participation and excellence teaches kids to compete. You’re delusional if you think the Catholic diocesan schools limit their enrollments to stay in smaller divisions, while recruiting only talented athletes as students.
sorry..i thought the question is..who is whining the most..to me, nothing says whining like taking the association whose other members voted in favor of the rule to court.
The goal was to handicap the private schools, especially by keeping them out of D4 through D7. By that measure it is working.
Some of the public schools whined for decades about losing to the privates. They made up lies to justify their own inabilities. Privates haven’t whined, but want a little fine tuning, which the publics, with 90% of the vote, won’t do.
The key here isn't necessarily the structured environment, (though it will be a better one due to the lack of as many knuckleheads ) it is that the private school is getting better parents, which will generally get you better kids. I have no issue with privates recruiting, I mean, no one is compelled to go there, so they should recruit.
The reason your parents sent you to Alter was because they saw that as a better option than the public schools. You came from a good home that was going to produce really good kids. This is not unique at a private school. This gives a private school an advantage. Your parents sent you there for this advantage, and they were smart to do so. Of course this has nothing to do with the "public school inabilities". Statements like that seem to suggest that all kids are exactly the same, but somehow when they go to a private school, the private school transforms them into better football players. Heck, if that were the case, college coaches wouldn't bother with recruiting the best. They could just take anyone and transform them into great players.
Fine. So why make up lies to justify doing things like counting a kid who never attended public school as two or three, under the guise that somehow he was stolen away from a more deserving public school?
As Buckwheat would say: “O-tay”
I'm actually indifferent about the competitive balance issue. I agree with the idea that privates have an advantage. I don't particularly care if anything is done about that advantage. Sports are about a lot more than winning a state title.
Yup, just own up to the advantage, in not doing so, they appear delusional.
Every winning team has an advantage. Some call it an edge. Is it unfair? Unfair enough to change the rules? Those without an edga say so. Rather than challenging themselves, they rig the rules. I don’t mind that. It’s the lies that irk me. Just say we can’t compete, so we’re going to change the rules so we can get a trophy, too. Don’t make up lies about the successful teams.
Tell us more about these "lies"? One would think you folks would welcome the additional challenge.
I'm pretty sure no one on here said anything about public schools not being able to recruit. Some can, some can't. Our school doesn't have open enrollment. But again, if you think there is simply something magical about what they do at a private school, and that they will take just any ol' student and turn him into a champion, you are delusional. You get really good kids, so you will then have really good teams.
