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Well, I'll say this. They're no Cedar Creek with a freaking carpool from Monroe to Ruston, but they def get kids from Union and Caldwell. "Recruiting" has definitely decreased the last 4 years as Sterlington's program has regressed.

Oh, and OCS holds back a ridiculous amount of kids. For "academic reasons?" For athletic reasons, definitely.

As an alum I can assure you that OCS does no active recruiting. Are there kids who live out of district who go there? Yes. However it is for the environment of the school and its academics, not athletics. Their entire families go there and not all are athletes. 95% come to OCS prior to high school.

As for the holdbacks that is completely true. I didnt, but there was an absurd amount of holdbacks and it was for sports. It was always guys and it started as 8S went to 5T and then further back as to avoid the rules of the LHSAA. IMO it only made a difference in their early years as they got some playing time early as freshmen but as the other kids hit their growth spurts they caught up by jr and sr and the holdbacks were no longer the standouts.

To sum up OCS recruiting: false, Holdbacks true.

In fact OCS was the victim of WM's recruiting. Willis Britton and Andrew Whitworth for starters. I believe Banks also started out at OCS if my memory serves me right.

If Whitworth had stayed with them the oline would have had included Niswanger Whitworth and Hurley all of which were scholarship LSU players 2 of which were starting NFL linemen.

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Posted by CourseyCorridor

Baton Rouge, La.

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Posted on 11/26/12 at 7:44 pm to big70

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As an alum I can assure you that OCS does no active recruiting. Are there kids who live out of district who go there? Yes. However it is for the environment of the school and its academics, not athletics. Their entire families go there and not all are athletes. 95% come to OCS prior to high school.

It's a fine line thing. Are they coming because they are "recruited" or are they coming because the public schools they are leaving have gone to poop?

When I was a kid, all the local high school baseball programs were coached by assistant football coaches, who half-assed baseball season as something to do until spring football started.

Then the local private school hired a real baseball coach who put together a good schedule and organized it like a real coach would. Next thing you know, that school had the best players in town and, of course, they were accused of recruiting them.

Did they recruit them or did the public schools F-up by not doing the sport justice? A few years later, one of the big public schools also hired a good coach and in a heartbeat they were getting the best players.

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