Pujo- What do you think about this.

[Chakra20]

I moved this from the thread about recruiting. I reposted your posts because i thought it was very logical and brougth out the points without being emotional except for that last line. I ask you about this cause we have a good understanding of where each other stands and wanted your opinions of this idea i had.

 

 

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Posted by pujo:

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Private schools are a business, for them to succeed they have to sell a good product, in most cases education or possibly a good athletic program. All they need do, is hire a knowledgable football coach, word of mouth will take care of the rest. That is the best form of advertisement anyway. We all like to win, and if a private school takes a notion they want to have a winning footall program it is a lot easier and faster for them to build one then a small rural 1a public schools. Any school that could do this, private or public, if they were interested in winning would. The only difference a public school will get into trouble for it. Privates can reload every year, and most public schools have to wait for whatever comes along. People makes a big deal about how little the private schools coaches make, but I guarantee you they make more then the coaches at these small 1a public schools. The only small 1a public schools that have great coaching are the schools lucky enough to have a coach that is loyal to the school. Cloudland, Trousdale, Greenback, are such small schools, but most rural 1a coaches come and go. Another reason that the privates can get knowledgable coaches is the ease of caoching in private schools, compared to public schools. These schools have smart, coachable, teachable kids with parents who support them. In the public school system it's hard to keep the boys in shape over the summer because they have no control over them, and the parents don't have the time to worry with it, or just don't care. I won't call it recruiting, but it is an obvious advantage that we should not have to contend with as a small rural 1a public school. At least, a multiplier should be enforced, and then we'll get to hear from the 2a and 3a schools. Take for instance Boyd Buchanan, who the first two games of the season played two good 4a teams, and they won both games. This is fine for now, and they love the good competition until it gets play-off time then they really enjoy the 1a competition. Something is just not right, and I can see in the near future, maybe next year, when the scheduling takes place schools are going to quit playing them. The only schedules they'll be able to get is within their division, another private, or a really big school (but the big school may not want to risk getting beat, and refuse to play them as well). Are you'll so blind you can't see that everyone knows that the privates have advantages, and when you private supporters deny that fact it makes you look stupid. It's not your fault that they have advantages, it's just the way the system works, but be man enough to admit it. I have seen a few on here that can, but not many.

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Pujo,

 

You make a great point that is easier for a private school to decide "we are gonna have a good sports program" than for a small public school. They have the kids that are availble, because mainly they have access to a much larger population, but its hard to understand that with all those kids they still dont have access to all these kids because of the constraints of education and finance on the parents of these kids.

 

For example, Ezell has two large billboards on Nashville INterstates. Is that recruiting? I know what it is it is advertising but what they are promoting is product awareness about the type of education in a christian enviroment and also reads " Oh yea we play a little ball to". Seems to me that is the school itself promoting what they do and noone said that was illegal. I can assure you also that the parents of the school are the best recruiters we have.

 

The only thing i really disagree with you is about the money these guys make. On average Public school teachers make a good bit more than private school teachers. Now as far as the coaching stipend im not sure about but they may get more there. Coaching is the whole differnce in my opinion.

 

You are right again they have to have a good coach. Lets take for example this years CPA team. They dont have any real all-stars(maybe a few on d) and they have arguably one of the toughest schedules in the state early and have came out of it 2-3. but come playoff time they will be right there with a chance to win every game because of the coaches they have.

If you do move the privates up with a multiplier guess what will happen. They will win there to, because the will adapt and Learn to win there. So all your doing is shifting the burden to antther group of coaches and thats not fair. So i have came up with the end alll be all of classification proposals that gives everyone what they want. And for me would set-up for some very interesting match-ups.

 

Division(Public) I

 

Public school's--A, AA, AAA--Only public schools

 

3 Classifcations according to size. Set up much the same way as the old class system was. Oranges to Oranges.

 

Division (Private)II

 

Private Schools--2 division B and BB--Only private schools.

 

All private school are here recruting or none recruiting. BB for recruiting B for non recruiting.

 

Super Prep Public and Private

 

What about this idea. This is for everyone that thinks they are a big dog. If your school wants to compete for the ultimate prize then you have to be entered into this league and the same time classifications are done. This way you get your Riverdale, BA, Maryville, MBA, Hillsboro, McCallie all in one division.

 

I dunno that other people think about it but from a fans perspective you get everything you want. You get your recruiters in there little corner at the same time cuttin down one division from there. You get all your publics in another corner so they are happy to be competeing against other schools with same situations as them. But cut down the number of division to make the championship mean more than we are better than the 40 other teams in our division.

 

The you have the granddaddy of them all. The super division where you take on all comers. If you think your school is good year in and year out and you want to compete against the other elite schools in tennessee heres your chance.

[Edited by Chakra20 on 9-30-02 10:53A]

[Edited by Chakra20 on 9-30-02 11:05A]