Back in the early 90s
My perfect world (won’t happen):
You'll have the family who rents a cheap apartment during football season but doesn't live there but if the family claims they really are living there, you have to take their word unless the WPIAL hires a someone to stake them out which they would be stupid to do.
Yea but as long as you say you are living there and it cannot be proven definitively that you arent, I dont know how a kid can be ruled ineligible. Like I said, if the WPIAL hired a PI to stake out the apartment and it was determined no one was living there, fine, but is that really necessary?
Because for some strange reason, people feel if a kid grows up in a certain neighborhood, he belongs to that neighborhood/school. They act like that student is the schools property instead of a free citizen able to do what is best for their life. It is a strange attitude to say the least.
I don't think that is the issue. It's not about an individual kid making a choice to go somewhere. It's that in aggregate, if a school's roster is full of recruited kids from all over the place, then that is an AAU team. Why are they playing in a league designed for community-based teams from local school districts?
Key word is school, not community. However, I can tell you that the NA Cavemen have been welcomed into some grade school BB tournaments. The world didn’t end.
Why would the PIAA do anything. Most schools have attendance officers that do that type of thing daily.
That is interesting. I covered high school sports in Maryland (Frederick Co and west, although we would go into Carroll, Montgomery & Howard Co a little too) and I recall watching a kid play football for one team, starting a basketball season for the same team. Being kicked off the basketball team, and transferring schools and finishing the year at a rival school in the county, while leading them deep into the state playoffs.
There are too many people on this forum and in this world who think amateur athletes need to be restricted more than any other student
Is the aau team plaayeee. inside one school district where those kids reside ?
I don't think anyone is complaining about a team that's just better. My son goes to a school which is very good at wrestling but they do not recruit wrestlers. They have won by developing kids from elementary on up. They have placed multiple times in the last 5 years but several catholic schools have added kids from all over the country and now they pretty much dominate. There is no way my son's school can consistently compete with a school which brings kids in from nj georgia and ohio along with the best in pa. Those kids should be able to compete in the individual state tournament because it's a individual tournament but the team tournament shouldn't include any teams that are able to recruit. Football is really similar
Recruiting kids to a better school is very moral and ethical. Saves money for the taxpayers,too.
No, I think he makes a good point there. If the kids goes from public school to private school, the public school he left doesn't have to pay any of his educational expenses (books, sports equipment, bunsen burners) but still gets his parents tax$.
Be careful with better/ worse. It has much more to do with fit, imo. A kid that loves being in musicals but isn’t good enough to be a professional should not go to NA. One that is that good would be well served by NA, CAPA or Lincoln Park.
Worse than that. I think there are too many 60 year old Bosco's, living in Ampipe's glory days, get mad when the best player in that district decides he can have better opportunities at a Central Catholic. Parents of current players, I get it, it is emotional it is your kid. Adults who have no real skin in the game, I don't.
Fair points. With regard to facilities, I was speaking mostly of athletic facilities since we were talking about choosing schools based on athletics. My niece went to Seton and they did not have a pool or a football field, which was mostly fine to her since she didn't play football and didn't want to have swim class with a bunch of teenage boys. But she was a cheerleader/dancer and they just practiced on a patch of grass outside the school or something. I know North Catholic just got all those new school facilities and PCC built some amazing STEM center so I didn't mean to be too hard on the Catholic schools, and they are certainly better choices than some public school districts. But I looked into a couple of Catholic high schools for my children a few years back and the staffs at both where really over the top making it seems like they offered "Harvard" educations and our public school (Char Valley) was community college by comparison. We went the public school route and one graduated GA Tech and the other is at Pitt now, was just fine for us.
