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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You don't earn a spot on a team for being full pay.

Either you are good enough to play or your not.

Gonzaga has approx 10 Rugby and crew teams because ... Guess what, your not good enough for whatever sport you thought you could play when
 you were in 8th grade and sit down, you won't like this but your dad can't buy you a spot.

I get it, you would start at Churchill... And break records. But your not at Churchill.

You can't just go around trying  to oust coaches because your kid has " tried his hardest" and "put in his time".

You are either good enough for a nationally ranked team or your not.[/quote]

Thanks Junior, but let me tell you how it really works.

The reason those privates even have those sanctioned outlier sports instead of them being labeled as club sports is because they gave away roster spots to recruits for the primary sports. The schools made rowing and rugby official to appease the tuition paying parents. And it doesn't matter if you are good enough or not because the school has to justify the scholarship by playing the recruit. There's a reason so many kids transfer over and over. It's because they aren't that good or they can't keep up in school. And who do you think is going to get a better shot at playing time, the coach's recruit/transfer or the kid who showed up to try out?

Gonzaga has over 1000 students so they can absorb the scholarship kids far better than the IAC schools. Same goes for DeMatha (900), Good Counsel (1200), St. John's (1000) and the other large schools.

Who cares about Churchill because it's a public school and not relevant to the conversation but you better get in good with the coach there too as he is part of the BLC/Performance group along with the assistants. It's pay to play there too but just not with tuition but with camp and club fees. Same goes for other public schools and the basketball camps run by their coaches or with other sports.

The national rankings for all high school sports is a joke and are too simplistic. Even with the transfers and holdbacks, there is no way to compare IAC and WCAC teams against places like IMG or the major college prep academies.

And you better believe that tuition and those donations matter and should matter. That's why the Prep facility is called the Hanley center and the STEM center has the Blair name on it. You don't build a community around a school by taking someone's money and then sloughing the family off and then come back to them and ask for more $$.

It's a problem and it's a real fine line to walk for these Presidents and headmasters.

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Why do any of these schools allow their coaches to foster this conflict of interest with their work on outside clubs? Even my DS's private, which is not one of the super strong programs, has staffed most of its coaches with Madlax staff and coaches and all those club players are given much more opportunity. As an example, three freshman played varsity--all three were Madlax. It did not shed a good light on what is supposed to be a well-rounded school. This clearly happens with the girls and the clubs as well. I think the HS leagues should come together and say no outside coaching. Eliminate the favoritism and the pay-to-play.[/quote]

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