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[quote=Anonymous]13:36, this is 12:32.    I agree with you that it is a matter for each school, and there is room for different strokes for different folks.  Where it gets complicated are these leagues -- MAC, ISL, etc.  -- because teams in the league want to be competitive with one another and, like the ivy league, it seems as if some of the sports league competition spills into other areas of competition (something I don't fully understand at independent schools).

I think the points made by both 14:15 and 14:54 are interesting  and related to one another.  Without commenting on those particular situations, I would note that when a school tries to bring up a team long term with this approach and it fails to take root, it has excluded an equal number of stronger students from the school as the number of recruits, benched an equal number of starters of other kids who may have been stronger students, etc.  -- and that too has both short term and long term consequences.  In addition unless the students recruited are full pay students, they are diverting financial aid dollars from other potential students who presumably have the better grades.   So yes, 3 kids a lone won't change a school forever, but where does it stop?  Three each year of recruits?  Multiple teams?

One related issue we have not talked about is transparency.  Are schools open with the parent body about what they are doing before they do it?  I doubt it for a number of reasons.  But should they be?  [/quote]

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