re: Zyron Forstall has transferred to IMG Academy

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The two kids that were kicked out loved Jesuit and were devastated that they couldn't help their teammates in big matches

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Soccer????

Les firing coach stud for failing to sign Cam Robinson has got to be one of Les’s best decisions

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Is there any evidence of going to IMG actually helping anyone?

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If there is a benefit, I'd bet that the bigger impact is making the transition into big-time college football--adjusting to a college schedule, college training regimen, college atmosphere and expectations, and college independence--a bit smoother, more than any sort of tangible on-field improvement. So even if there's not really much overall performance benefit, I wouldn't necessarily be surprised if IMG kids are a bit more likely to contribute as true freshmen, just by virtue of the fact that they probably have less of an adjustment period than most other guys.

Also: It sounds sort of counterintuitive, but I actually think that one of the major benefits of IMG is academics--not necessarily that they're learning more or learning better, but that the curriculum is structured in such a way as to accomodate and facilitate early graduation, to allow kids to early enroll and get an extra semester of work with their college program.

In any event, all of this is really just speculation - I have no idea whether there's any kind of real measurable performance benefit in an overall sene.

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Nobody is gonna want them to remain in the LHSAA if it’s out in the open that it’s LSU’s “developmental” program.

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As usual, you're wrong again.

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What?? If LSU created a Louisiana-based football academy, it is incredibly likely that that school would not be a fully participating member of the LHSAA.


Like... you realize that IMG has an agreement with the FHSAA that it won't participate in the Florida HS football playoffs, right? And although IMG is technically a "full member" of the FHSAA--which really just means it pays its dues to ensure everyone remains happy)--it's classified as an "independent", which means that it's not part of any particular division or classification (e.g. 1A, 2A, etc.). The football team still plays other HS football teams, but that's much more a product of the fact that those are really the only teams available as opponents than it is IMG participating in "HS Athletics" in a traditional sense. For instance, IMG (which actually originated as a tennis academy) doesn't play school-versus-school HS tennis matches - because there are plenty of other outlets for individual tennis players of HS age to compete against their peers.

Similarly, Oak Hill Academy does not participate in the virginia HS state championship playoffs. The same is true of Findlay prep in Nevada.


I'm fairly certain that none of these schools are per se "prohibited" from competing in HS postseason events in their respective states, but this is really just because there's no need to ban them when they agree voluntarily not to compete. If one of them decided all of a sudden that they did want to compete in their respective HS league, for one thing I would guess that they'd probably be in violation of some eligibility rule or another, but if not I can't imagine that the other schools would allow that to continue in perpetuity.


The same thing would happen with a football academy in Louisiana.

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the school told my kid they couldn't earn NIL money,

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They might as well drop out of the Catholic League if that’s their stance. I find that hard to believe when all their rivals have NIL for their studs

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They might as well drop out of the Catholic League if that’s their stance.

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I mean they maybe have 1 student at a time where NIL is even an option (and that’s being generous af) so that’s a stupid opinion.

Do you really think the catholic schools in Nola are littered with kids earning NIL money?

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Do you really think the catholic schools in Nola are littered with kids earning NIL money?

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The wrestler from BM for sure, they all seem to have studs in every sport at one time or another so yeah. That’s why they are who they are.

Plus NIL isn’t always million dollar deals. It can be thousand dollar deals too.

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That’s why they are who they are.

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I can assure you that the catholic schhols aren't who they are because of sports. You seem to have an incorrect presumption of what these schools are about.

Maybe being away from home for the fall makes him homesick

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You really trying to lump the entire catholic league in as a bunch of John Curtis's?

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I mean they have made John Curtis just another team in the district