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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]From: https://www.novabaseballmagazine.com/news/quick-hits-guyers-comeback-begins-in-puerto-rico

And thus we have another example of the many differences between public and private school athletics.[/quote]

This irks me. Why should it make a difference whether these coaches/educators are at public or private schools? Regardless of whether kids are going to their local public school or their parents are paying thousands of dollars a year to go to a private, decisions by coaches, teachers, and administrators should be guided by what is in the best interest of the students. What is going on at St Johns is clearly not in the best interest of these students. It sounds like this baseball coach and this soccer coach are in it for themselves, not the kids. Why would a school want to have people like that around coaching and mentoring teenage student athletes? And why do these individuals get into high school coaching? The best coaches and teachers get into it because they really want to make a difference in kids' lives, but these guys clearly just want to line their pockets. Go into private coaching/instruction where athletes come to you voluntarily. If you're good enough at it, your services will be in demand and you'll make a nice living. But by forcing kids to play for you and holding their parents hostage if they want their kids to attend a particular school - that tells me that your not very good at what you do and can't survive without putting a gun to peoples heads. Pathetic.[/quote]

Um ... in public schools, taxpayer money pays the greedy coaches.

Big difference. I don’t care in the same way if they’re doing their unseemly stuff with private - not public - funds.  They’re scum either way but one is worse.[/quote]

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