AnswertheBell

If you pay that type of money to attend a private school, you should have complete confidence in the administration. If they do this type of thing the SCHOOL and ATHLETIC department should pay the price. Even if effects the others that had nothing to do with the situation. Fire those who knowing did this. Punish the coaches and school. You are in this as a team, right. When things go well it is WE are doing all the right things. When things go bad many jump ship and can't understand why those that were not involved have to pay a price. It is because you are apart of a whole, not only the good but also the bad.

Not so much a closed mind, I appreciate everything that a private school has to offer. I respect the way they do things. However, the private schools and public schools operate totally different and bottom line is that it creates an uneven playing field for lack of a better term. They are not the same!

I can't wait to compare rosters to see how many new kids will be on that team. The ones that were not there last year and not the incomming freshmen.

You know what they say, "If you can't beat'em, join them."

Before most of these schools start winning state championships and dominating, they have had some kind of khsaa violation.

The success starts with most of these schools in a violation. Then success breeds success then......... ATHLETES breed success!!!!

Looking at this list, lets take a look at Lex. Cath. 2006 baseball state champs 2007 football state champs boys basketball rated #1 girls basketball rated #2 cross country boys 3rd state cross country girls 16 th boys golf 1 individual state boys soccer arguably 3rd in state swimming 11th in state boys double tennis state qualifier girls single quarter finals girls double quarter finals boys track 8th state girls individual had champion This little community has produced some athletes this year. Would love to look at educational data. I know they would rank in the top 10. They don't seem to be recruiting just run of the mill adverage and below adverage kids. Just an observation.:walk: If I were to guess St. X and Trinity list may be more inpressive. LCA is on the way. Don't forget Cov.Cath.

Very few institutions with the success rate of private schools recruit the weakest, most troubled student they can find. Not that they don't have them, they just don't actively recruit them. Use of another term by definition, not recruitment.

I understand. Do you see where I was going with what I said? I was trying to use an example as a definition of recruiting. How the institution gains from the process.

We have never ask anyone to leave the KHSAA. We just want to split public and private.

Not referring to special needs kids. What makes you think that they fit the description I used.

Your missing my point. I do believe that you would take as many as you could. Private schools have wonderful people that would help anyone. I am referring to recruiting as a definition.

This was not to point any fingers. I was just giving what I thought recruitment was as a general definition.

I will never believe as an administration that you seek these type kids out for recruitment. Sorry. And thats not to say that you don't have them in your school.

Recruitment of these kids. All schools public and private have troubled kids.

They will not and that is what makes it different. The solutions that everyone points to, can never happen. That is what will eventually cause the split.

Without going into a lot of detail, think about this. Why would a private school recruit a kid that was just released form detention. He has a multitude of charges, has failed most of his classes,along with a volient past. While this type of school may be exactly what he needs, privite schools will not recruit him, obviously.(Don't blame them) However, there is a kid with outstanding grades and community service record and not to mention very discipline, that is the kid we recruit.(why not?) So in recruiting kids we as an institution recruit what will only help us, not the student. To define recruiting is not to help the athlete (while they do recieve benefits) it is soley to help the institution become a better place or team. Academically or athletics it makes no difference.

Agreed with the way it is administered. I don't feel it should be given at all. This is where we differ.

I feel that recruiting violations are what the institution gains from the athlete. Not the athlete.

When those advantages leave the playing field and creep into the administration and policies the kids can no longer decide the outcome. I agree some kids will be better than others. Coaches will do a better job than others. This goes way beyond that. Surley you can see past what you just posted.

Cover , I must say one thing. You are very fair in what you think and say.

Agreed. But it is shared with a lot of others that voted to change it.

As many of you said," easy doesn't make it right". Within the rules doesn't always make it fair. That is why rules change.

Irreconcilable differences

Offering financial aid and no boundries is recruiting within itself. The process itself is recruiting. Most private supporters have agreed that recruiting students is the process. It's what makes them go. If you get just one athlete in the mix, it can make a difference. This is why in just a short time private schools can and do compete at the highest level. They recruit motivated and diciplined students, and some are athletes. I am not saying that this is bad or wrong or that they shouldn't do it. I just believe that the whole process makes for an unfair advantage. Public schools operate a different way and we should not have to change all publics and you should not have to change what your doing. We should be allowed to split. We voted to do so, overwhelmingly. We don't want to change ,you don't want to change, go to two different set of playoffs. Irreconcilable differences...what do you do?...go your seperate ways.