Many of the area and states most successful coaches also coach club. They do it because they are great coaches and love the game. If you think that only one school and coach uses club coaching to draw players to their school you are misinformed. Ignatius's head coach runs an 06 and 07 team for Pennine, New Albany's coach started his own club team, Moeller and Wyoming coaches coach at CUP, Elder Walnut and X all have coaches for KHA (X also has a parent who was former president and is now on the board at KHA), Summit's coach is the director of coaching for every boys team at Ohio Elite. Mason's coach runs a camp for all kids in the city and coaches club too. Don't know how you came down to one school in particular here but coaches who are successful are asked to coach at successful clubs. Drawing these vague accusations seems childish to me.
the Anderson coach is a coach at KHA, the newly hired Middletown coach is the DOC of his own club, and this is all only on the boys side.
Kids and families will rarely make a move to transfer schools if it is not for the best interest of the kid at a holistic level. HS soccer will not get these kids college scholarships. In fact, good players playing at lower achieving schools often end up getting accolades they wouldn’t if they played along side better players who outshine them.
the best form of recruitment is creating a program that is successful and helps boys transform into young men with character and values. There are a few programs who do just that a draw kids away from programs who aren’t doing so. They should not be ridiculed, they should be celebrated.
want players to stay and play in the district they live in? Hire a coach who can run a program people want to be a part of.