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Originally posted by brudawg

People are not saying that Trinity "recruits" just to make an excuse why they are better than other teams. Because they are a WHOLE lot better then the mojority of the teams in the state.....for many reasons, one being the recruitment issue. When Male won state 2 years ago, I don't remember people complaining, or making excuses why they won. Male just had a better team, and had no advantages over Trinity except for the fact that they were better. I dont know, in a way, i guess it is an excuse, but face it, Trinity has an unfair advantage over ALL public schools(as does X), and something should be done about it.

Why should something be done about it? Is this one of those, "I want my trophy or I'm leaving" comments? I mean this is not an issue amongst people when basketball season comes around, it has always struck me that people just don't like the idea of Trinity having a better team. If you haven't learned this yet then you will now. Life is not fair, not every team has the same abilities and to eliminate every advantage ANY school has is just wrong. I guess we need to do something about Ballard's ability in basketball, because they have just been so much better than Trinity in the last few years. Is that right? No. Does that sound right? No, but that is the gist of what you stated above.

Yes Trinity has an advantage because of the idea of recruiting, but Trinity must recruit to survive. I would have no problem if public schools started recruiting, since there is open enrollment in this city it shouldn't make much of a difference.

I've been avoiding this thread for as long as I can but I now am going to throw in my 2 cents worth.

Does Trinity have an advantage because of numbers? Yes we do as does St. X and Assumption and Sacred Heart.

Does Trinity Recruit? Yes we do, we send students along with Roger Burkman to Catholic grade schools to try and entice students to go to Trinity, all Catholic schools do this. They only go to Catholic grade schools as well, so they are not recruiting kids from public schools. As far as running our ads on TV, I do recall JCPS running ads promoting public schools not any particular school, just the public schools in general.

Why has this become such an issue, is it because we have won back to back state titles in football? Then why are we not saying the same thing about St.X in soccer or swimming, or Assumption in volleyball? Why is it that Trinity is the scapegoat here?

Yes numbers make a big difference in a sport like football, but when you get the the level of 4A, the difference is not as big as it would be between classes. Yes Trinity has more guys to choose from, but they don't all have to go out for football. They choose to do so out of their own free will. Why is that? That is where tradition, and coaching come into play. If a kid knows that his school's football team has an amazing tradition he is more likely to want to be a part of it than if his school has a less than enticing tradition. So yes Trinity's size is an advantage, but our size would be meaningless without our coaching or our tradition.

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Originally posted by Xperthsfan

Whenever I try to do the avatar thing from the site you suggested I get this message: The uploaded file is not a valid GIF or JPG file. Please ensure that it is and try again.

 

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I had this problem too, save the file to your hard drive then put it up. It should work then, at least it did for me.