Level playing field. Wow, so much I could do with that.

Sure they are good enough for another team but if you want to go to Landon or Bullis or Prep (in the past) you might be the best 8th grader at your school but still not good enough.

You want schools to make teams worse so your kid can play at his level.

Anonymous wrote:So I guess you don't have a valid argument or anything valuable to add other than "life isn't fair." But good try and go back to playing Fortnite.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Or maybe they are good enough and the opportunity to get on the field isn't level.
What, exactly, is the great life lesson here? Life isn't fair? That's a stupid point.
I guess we should let the coach make all the decisions for the school and team without any oversight or without any relation to the school.
You are an idiot, kid.

Level playing field. Wow, so much I could do with that.

Sure they are good enough for another team but if you want to go to Landon or Bullis or Prep (in the past) you might be the best 8th grader at your school but still not good enough.

You want schools to make teams worse so your kid can play at his level.

The lesson is that sometime somebody is better than you are and you need to learn how to deal with that. Sometime you have to work harder or sit the bench or find another sport. The boys playing have practiced on the field, off the field, during their spare time, during practice and after practice.

You are a helicopter, mom.

And you are an idiot.

It's not about if somebody is better than someone else. No kidding dummy. It's about a much narrower situation of how to balance a community where some people pay and some don't. It's about how coaches react on the sidelines and off the sidelines. It's about how the school is perceived by the larger community of prospective students and families.

And yes, if a school can't pay the bills or grow the endowment because applications and donations go down, witness Montrose Christian and St. Anthony's in NJ, because they want more wins rather than a better school than less wins is the way to go.

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Anonymous wrote:Or maybe they are good enough and the opportunity to get on the field isn't level.
What, exactly, is the great life lesson here? Life isn't fair? That's a stupid point.
I guess we should let the coach make all the decisions for the school and team without any oversight or without any relation to the school.
You are an idiot, kid.

Level playing field. Wow, so much I could do with that.

Sure they are good enough for another team but if you want to go to Landon or Bullis or Prep (in the past) you might be the best 8th grader at your school but still not good enough.

You want schools to make teams worse so your kid can play at his level.

The lesson is that sometime somebody is better than you are and you need to learn how to deal with that. Sometime you have to work harder or sit the bench or find another sport. The boys playing have practiced on the field, off the field, during their spare time, during practice and after practice.

You are a helicopter, mom.

Anonymous wrote:Two comments:

Bellistri's sideline actics are closer to Giblin's than you think. Ever seen him freak out on the refs? Bullis parents/admin find it embarrassing.

Regardless of what grammar corrections you might make, Bellistri plays his best players, as he should. That's why his teams are so good. Bullis has a ton of money and doesn't need to worry about pissing off the one or two families who are upset because their kids aren't starting.

Anonymous wrote:Or maybe they are good enough and the opportunity to get on the field isn't level.
What, exactly, is the great life lesson here? Life isn't fair? That's a stupid point.
I guess we should let the coach make all the decisions for the school and team without any oversight or without any relation to the school.
You are an idiot, kid.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

Anonymous wrote: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.