fbinnd wrote:I think we all know that a town attempting to bring families in is completely different than Trinity trying to win region title after region title. I love the way the parochial backers can skew the facts in their favor, when common knowledge points to conclusions that are otherwise.
Hey, if you want to justify your parochial school recruiting athletes by pointing the finger at towns bringing in families, I guess you'll do whatever you can to sleep at night.
I've went to a private school and played sports and have had new kids transfer. I see how it can be misconceived as recruiting a small town kid moves to a larger town and doesn't want to go to a school w/ 2,000 students if they have the means they can come to a private school all students can file for some kind of payment plan but we don't just allow students to come for free. Private schools do not get help from the government our tuition pays our teachers, books, desks, etc.. So it wouldn't be a good move out allow 5 students to come and not pay the $20,000 over just their HS years.
You say you have all these facts about parachiols you may have a 1 or 2 but I feel you have to be clos e to situation to see what it really is what we see as a random transfer could very well be for family reasons. Plus its not like you haven't stuck your foot in your mouth about a transfer student already(knife). Which shows me you just look at the cover and don't see any deeper than that, which takes away alot of your credibility
I was a decent player in HS I graduated from a parachiol school in Bismarck. I received numerous phone calls from asst. coaches to head coaches since I was a soph. to transfer to area public schools. Oddly enough the only other parachiol school in town was the only to not call me. That FBINND is a fact and I know for fact over the years many other players have received the same calls and in some cases even visits. Because of where my father worked i received phone calls inquiring if it was in the cards to move and promising a starting position to small class B school in the same region. Nothing really major than just a phone call, so I didn't see anything wrong w/ it. It doesn't really bug me as much as I know more people think like you do than don't just because they look at the surface.
I believe that by percentage public schools try to recruit much more than private schools this isn't to say that every public schools recruits that would be just as thickheaded to say that all private schools recruit. one private school recruiting is probably 5% of the private schools but by comparison I think that 10-15% of the public schools in ND call players and do things that could be in some ways looked as recruiting