Private School Recruiting Hurting Public School Sports?

[TheAnswer]

11 hours ago, MadisonReb10 said:

Hartfield absolutely does it. There’s been a few kids who would’ve never set foot on that campus when it was UCS but now is essentially controlled by Pinelake. Prep has done it some. JA has been big on recruiting JPS schools the last 5 or 6 years. MRA got into the mix a decade or so ago again with JPS but would routinely get kids that wouldn’t start at MC or NWR as freshman or sophomores but probably would have by the time they were seniors. Tri County and Canton Academy are no different. CA has pulled a lot of guys from the Canton Public Schools that were the difference in a 13 win team the year before to a 3 win team the next season. 

Ron Jurney almost ran Canton into the ground with his recruiting. They are still trying to recover.

Tri-County does little if any recruiting. One of the few schools in the Jackson area that doesn’t recruit, along with Park Place, East Rankin.

 

The worst offender in all of the recruiting is Clinton Christian; they don’t hide it at all.

[TheAnswer]

21 hours ago, longhorn75 said:

I can't even name how many times the MAIS has let the "bonafide move rule" slide? It happened multiple times. A school actually got busted playing a kid who didn't move into the house properly, but after the forfeit of two games, the student athlete was allowed to play. Also, there was a more recent time when they had an athlete who was playing there, who never even moved when he transferred. But an attorney was able to get around it. So, the bonafide move rule; has been allowed to slide, and there are countless exceptions to the rule, that its enforceability was moot. There's also a bunch of ways to get around the bonafide move rule, which have been used by several programs around the MAIS without any enforcement. 

 

The Supreme Court case said not just NIL., they said any compensation restrictions like even internships and computers and such, which opened the door to NIL deals, was in violation of antitrust law. They curtailed the amount of limitations the NCAA could put into compensation for college athletes, and honestly, the way the college sports environment is going, the amateurism that the NCAA is trying to impose down throats, is soon to be a thing of the past. 

 

THere's nothing here. This is going to continue to happen, whether people like it or not. So, it's just something to be embraced. 

Bonafide move that involved the attorney was when a QB transferred from Manchester to JA. Argument was the house they moved out of was “historical” family residence. Therefore original furniture was left at the house which violates MAIS rules for moving residences.

[MadisonReb10]

11 hours ago, TheAnswer said:

Ron Jurney almost ran Canton into the ground with his recruiting. They are still trying to recover.

Tri-County does little if any recruiting. One of the few schools in the Jackson area that doesn’t recruit, along with Park Place, East Rankin.

 

The worst offender in all of the recruiting is Clinton Christian; they don’t hide it at all.

Tri County does a lot of recruiting but it just doesn’t show up in the “color” of the players. I will tell you first hand that myself and three others were recruited to Tri County, Canton Academy, and MRA in 2006 after our freshman year playing at Rosa Scott (MC 9th grade school.) All in the spring right before spring practice was to start for MC in order to get us to visit and see what they called “beautiful campuses and facilities.” Those facilities were essentially what a JUCO would look like compared to a SEC program comparing those to Madison Central but still funny at the time. One went to TCA and another went to CA. Myself and another continued onto MC and had a much better hs career than the two that didn’t go. 
 

The funniest part was all 3 mentioned were offering scholarship assistance. I will say my dad and I did go to all 3 to see what it was about, but the second they started talking about scholarship assistance rubbed my dad the wrong way. Pretty much who do you think we are and mentioned he could’ve paid for 5 players if he had wanted to because he was so mad. 
 

Long story but ran into the TCA head coach at a golf tournament in Madison two years later and he asked how everything was. I was respectful and told him going great but here came my father right behind me again and asked the guy has he not read the paper because he had lost 5 games already and MC was ranked in the top 3 in the state. Funny looking back but man my dad could be a d**k to those guys but they were the ones that initiated everything in a disrespectful manner. 

[MadisonReb10]

12 hours ago, TheAnswer said:

Ron Jurney almost ran Canton into the ground with his recruiting. They are still trying to recover.

Tri-County does little if any recruiting. One of the few schools in the Jackson area that doesn’t recruit, along with Park Place, East Rankin.

 

The worst offender in all of the recruiting is Clinton Christian; they don’t hide it at all.

Also to add I agree with East Rankin not recruiting but Park Place even while a young, smaller school has had their feelers out to NWR, Brandon, and Pearl since they started playing football 

[MSSportsGuy]

Full disclosure: I lived in Madison County when my kids were younger, but moved to Rankin due to finding a house we liked that was more affordable. 

 

I don't have a problem with private schools but often wonder why so many people in those counties opt for private education. I understand no public school is perfect and every kid is different but it's borderline comical what lengths some parents go through to send their kids to private schools due to largely athletic reasons. What I saw often was a kid who wanted to play/start as a freshman but wasn't going to. They had a greater chance to at a MAIS school so they went. Some were very good athletes, some were nothing special but their parents had different opinions. Some of my kids' friends who went that route have wound up in pretty much the same place with respect to higher education and being a young professional. 

 

Also full disclosure: could I have afforded Prep or St. Andrews for my son and daughter I would gladly have paid it for the academic experience. I was pleased with how my kids did in public and the education they received.