re: 2A Finals-U-High versus Evangel (Deja Vu Game)

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Can anyone have a good team anymore without someone saying they recruit?

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Mangham?

i was trying to be sarcastic...

I don't think anyone is referring to the LSU coaches kids...


People that say schools recruit are both right and wrong....

More times than not they are talking about parents involved with a school and not the school itself..

And I am not talking about uhigh but in general..


Lets say mr Joe has a large construction company and bobby's dad has is a sub contractor.. Bobby is a very good athlete going to Pine crest.....mr joe is an alum of highland hills prep...and his kids go there...he tells bobbies dad...here is an extra 7500 on that last invoice....that should cover bobbies tuition at highland hills

Nobody knows about it but bobby's dad and Joe....that is how it happens and those are the cases that even when the lhsaa finds out about them thtey don't have te subpoena power to prove.

But at the end of the day you'd be surprised how often it goes on and how often the bobby's don't even stay at the school that "recruited" them.


Now before you public school guys start....the biggest way publics do it is by having places where parents living outside their attendance zone can use shelter adresses- again the school doesn't always know it is going on..but it does and often...proving it is the hard part...which is why some feel the lhsaa should do away with attendance zones completely...

And it is hard or impossible for schools or the lhsaa to stop parents from enticing/coercing people they know or associate with from sending their kids to schools..pubic and private...

Again not throwing any school in particular under the bus but, speaking in gneneral....and the biggest recruiters out there don't have a whole lot of success to show for it..

back from Monroe and thought I would bring a little substance to this thread. Cubs prepped this week by hitting off a pitching machine at 90 to get ready for Williams/Calvary. It paid off as we hit the ball well and Calvary came apart at the seems defensively.
Unfortunately we turn around the next day and play Evangel throwing a submariner in the mid 70s. his pitches tail toward a rt handed batter, and it seemed like everyone was hitting ground balls off the handle to the left side. To ECA credit, you could tell that when that kid pitches, you are going to get a ton of ground balls, and their infield made the plays repeatedly. Their 2 runs came on a tough luck play for us.

In the end, evangel only scored 3 runs in 2 games, all 3 unearned, and won the State Championship. In football they win with offense, in baseball they won with defense.