Small things in life that gravel your ass

[Iowanian]

I'll tell you something that gravels my ass.

High schools that recruit kids for athletics.

Stay in your district, play with the kids you grow up with....and if you happen to have 3-4 state champ caliber kids move into your district for wrestling, or girls from 3-4 states on your basketball team....there is a * next to your championship in my view.

[raybec 4]

Originally Posted by Iowanian

I'll tell you something that gravels my ass.

High schools that recruit kids for athletics.

Stay in your district, play with the kids you grow up with....and if you happen to have 3-4 state champ caliber kids move into your district for wrestling, or girls from 3-4 states on your basketball team....there is a * next to your championship in my view.

This used to be a big problem in the 90's. I didn't know it still was. I used to wrestle a kid from St. Louis who was actually from somewhere in Illinois. He went to Chamanade On a "scholarship"

[LoneWolf]

Originally Posted by Iowanian

I'll tell you something that gravels my ass.

High schools that recruit kids for athletics.

Stay in your district, play with the kids you grow up with....and if you happen to have 3-4 state champ caliber kids move into your district for wrestling, or girls from 3-4 states on your basketball team....there is a * next to your championship in my view.

In very rare cases, it makes sense for a kid's family to move to a different district. I have a cousin that has a son who is a very talented WR (he's being recruited by Baylor, Oklahoma State, and West Virginia), but the coach of the high school team when he was a freshman ran a single wing offense and there was zero talent at QB. His dad started talking to other coaches at other schools in the area and they found a school with a great QB that was the same age with a coach that runs a pass heavy offense. They moved to that district and it was definitely better for my cousin's sons future.

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by LoneWolf

In very rare cases, it makes sense for a kid's family to move to a different district. I have a cousin that has a son who is a very talented WR (he's being recruited by Baylor, Oklahoma State, and West Virginia), but the coach of the high school team when he was a freshman ran a single wing offense and there was zero talent at QB. His dad started talking to other coaches at other schools in the area and they found a school with a great QB that was the same age with a coach that runs a pass heavy offense. They moved to that district and it was definitely better for my cousin's sons future.

They have to know that it's a rare case, though.

I lived in a rural area growing up, and school transfers were unheard of. We had one kid who did it because he or his dad (I think it was his dad) was convinced that he had a future in football. It was a big to-do getting him switched into our school system, and I think the dad even bought some land in our district to do it. Then the kid shows up and he had no future in football at all. Granted, our football coach was an idiot, but I don't think this kid even started on our 2-8 rural football team.

Whoa - I looked this kid up because I haven't thought about him in years, and the case was even written up in Sports Illustrated for some reason: http://www.si.com/vault/1981/05/18/825642/scorecard. Search for "Rolla".

I had a couple of details wrong. I guess he left the district instead of coming in, and he was trying to redraw the district boundaries around his current land. Maybe it was a good idea to get away from our idiot football coach.