Originally Posted by Pwyse
Originally Posted by Bamarich2
Sure some schools recruit and that’s been going on for years. It’s far more than just recruiting though - it’s the resources. And the multiplier doesn’t solve the issues.

It’s the same argument every year. It’s not private schools, it’s resources in most cases. It’s the haves and the haves not. Why do you expect these to be equal? There is no rule about how many resources a school can apply to its football program. So why don’t the public schools apply more resources to it? Because they choose not to. “We can’t afford it” is garbage. Go work hard and raise the money. Make it a priority and apply some energy to it. It’s such a socialist attitude to want to separate people because they have worked hard to apply resources to a program and the outcome is better than yours.

Do you think black people from poor families should get preference over kids that come from hard working families as far as college goes? Of course not. It’s the same attitude you are applying to this situation.

It's pretty obvious from some of these comments that there's a lot of assumptions made that aren't factual. For instance, it's not as simple as "go work hard and raise the money". In some systems, and I've had experience in one of them, school boards put strict limitations on how monies can be raised and in some instances how monies that are raised can be spent. The last sentence you wrote isn't even a close comparison. No one is asking for preferential treatment... only that there's a somewhat level playing field. And right now in the AHSAA, there isn't one and eventually they will have to do something about it.