re: Jimmy Detail is on the warpath...

All of your points are valid, but you are missing the point. It doesn't matter if you can find ways to circumvent the high school, the high school coach is a scumbag period and there should consequences to this type of behavior.

I coached high school basketball at one time, and I would have been upset if colleges wouldn't have given me the courtesy of talking with me. Letters to high school coaches are part of tradition because the assumption is that high school coaches know the kids best and will look out for their best interest. I once didn't give a letter to a kid, but that was after I called his dad and we agreed that he had to work on some off field things before he could get his college letters. This guy is scum of the earth, period.