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[quote=Anonymous]Playing on an elite team at a powerhouse private enables many talented athletes who are subpar students to get into top universities and colleges, so parents are willing to go this route. To be clear: rich parents will happily pay an extra year of tuition at Prep if it means their average student son can get into Duke or a similar school. No need for a scholarship at Duke...rich parents just want their kid to get into and graduate from a good school that the kid otherwise wouldn't have a shot at. Separate but related: poor families jump at the chance for their kid to get a scholarship at a private high school (good environment, excellent sports programs, keeps them off the street) so they can get a sports scholarship for college (ideally Division I).  This isn't rocket science. Holding a kid back gives them an edge athletically. This happens all over the country. I think back to when I was in HS and you could flip through the yearbooks of Prep and GC and others and you wouldn't see ANY black kids...not the case anymore.

To go a step further: I know a kid who was recruited by a public school to play a sport. He lives in one county and actually goes to school in another county. Recruited by the coach. No clue how they pulled that off. Neither parent works in that county. I don't get it.

And I heard Elliott in the morning talking about this today...guess Kane isn't the only one who reads DCUM ;)[/quote]

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