re: Bears repeating every year. Private schools should not be

quote:

---

DIII and above should just be renamed to the Ohio Catholic Association State Playoffs

DI isn't too bad because most of them get lumped into the same division..

---

Yeah. I mean, D-I still has its fair share of dominant Catholic schools with the Cincy schools and schools like St. Iggy and St Ed's in Cleveland, but it's still pretty competitive all around, and they don't run away with it all the time. This year, 3 of the 4 semifinalists and both state finalists in D-I were public schools.

The lower divisions, though, yeah, because the public schools they're competing against just don't have enough kids to overcome the recruiting.

Even in D-I, though, a lot of the really good public schools "recruit" or at least the program naturally recruits for itself. For example, at Coffman, a lot of my teammates (probably around 10, which is a pretty large #, if you think about it) moved into the district or open-enrolled from one of the other two Dublin High Schools just to play football here, cause they see guys like Brady Quinn, Chinedum Ndukwe, Mike Adams, Jake Stoneburner, etc come out of our program and know our coach does a really good job of helping guys in the recruiting process for college.

Also, I'm almost sure the majority of the guys that play for Ted Ginn at Glenville didn't originally live (or still don't... they open-enrolled) in the Glenville district of Cleveland. He either recruited them, or once again the program/reputation recruited for itself.

Just the way it is.