Pay-to-Play Sport at Private HS employing club coach - what's normal?

[Anonymous]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/morgan-wootten-winningest-high-school-basketball-coach-dies-at-88/2020/01/22/a7ad57b0-3c61-11ea-baca-eb7ace0a3455_story.html


‘They may forget some of the teachers they had, they may even forget some of the players they played with, but they never forget their coach.’ That’s the beauty of coaching. You get to touch lives. You get to make a difference.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So the WCAC has simply turned a blind eye to these egregious violations of the rules by SJC for a generation? That's the takeaway here? This is all out in the open. If this is the case, maybe the tin-foil-hatters should reset and instead explore the relationship between the WCAC commissioner and SJC.

FOLLOW THE MONEY

WCAC has only a part time commissioner and he's got a busy full time job with Alexandria Public Schools. Prior to him, the job was vacant for 18 months and prior to that it was well known that the rules were treated as suggestions. Rules have never been followed in the WCAC. Why get ethical now?

[Anonymous]

Specious argument, at best. WCAC has been asleep at the wheel for various reasons so big, bad SJC has taken advantage and is running roughshod while the other member schools sit idly by. Sounds good. Good talk.

[Anonymous]

The other schools probably don't want to say anything for fear people would look at their programs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I found this quote in a WP article about WCAC basketball today:

“It’s part of our job as coaches to put our kids in a position to be seen, to be exposed, to play against high-level competition,” Gonzaga Coach Steve Turner said. “We have to put them in places where college coaches are going to be.”

I think this illustrates exactly where Gibbs goes off the rails.

When Gibbs doesn't let kids play in National Showcases during the offseason (I think that was a major factor for the 5 kids who just left) or tells kids to not go to winter college camps (but they can go to his own camps), or withholds information from parents and kids about a college showing interest in a kid, he illustrates that he's not interested in helping the kids reach their objectives.

The only possible conclusion you can reach when he does these things is that he's more interested in maintaining control over the kids for the benefit of his own program.

As a coach or teacher, that level of selfishness is just disgraceful.

Happy to report that all 5 kids who were tossed from the program for not lining the pockets of the head baseball coach are now committed to D1 programs. Good for them!

[Anonymous]

From the St. John's website:

NFHS (National Federation of State High School Associations) Honors St. John’s Coaches
2/25/2020

Sal Caccavale was selected as the Boys’ Soccer Coach of the Year for the Mideast Section, which includes the District of Columbia, Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia. In the fall of 2018, St. John’s boys’ soccer team won the DCSAA championship, the program’s first title since 1986.

Mark Gibbs was selected as the District of Columbia Baseball Coach of the Year. Last spring, the Cadets won the WCAC regular season title for the eighth consecutive season and the WCAC tournament title for the sixth consecutive season. The team then went on to win the DCSAA championship.

[Anonymous]

Anyone else die a little bit inside when they saw that this thread had a fresh post?

[Anonymous]

Let this shit go!!!!!

[Anonymous]

We should all be so lucky to talk about the CHAMPS some more.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Let this shit go!!!!!

You wish. Worth sharing that apparently cheating and bad sportsmanship pays off.

[Anonymous]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2020/03/19/st-johns-baseball-team-requirement-play-coachs-private-team-causes-turmoil/

WAPO chimes in, late to the party again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2020/03/19/st-johns-baseball-team-requirement-play-coachs-private-team-causes-turmoil/

WAPO chimes in, late to the party again.

Well there are looking for stories since not much else is happening in sports

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2020/03/19/st-johns-baseball-team-requirement-play-coachs-private-team-causes-turmoil/

WAPO chimes in, late to the party again.

Coach Gibbs is SHADY.

[Anonymous]

From the article this looks really bad and would seem to put St. John’s status at risk. Had to understand how the board of the school doesn’t put a stop to the baseball and soccer coaches’ behavior. Even if what they are doing doesn’t violate any rules, and it is hard for me to believe that is the case if it is as described, this is a really bad look for a Purportedly religious, educational institution.

[Anonymous]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2020/03/19/st-johns-baseball-team-requirement-play-coachs-private-team-causes-turmoil/