Nick Stiggers to BTW, New favorite in AA??

[cobrafan90]

He's back. This will shift the balance of power in AA.

 

 

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[Edited by coacht on 12-18-02 4:27P]

 

[TheEgoHasLanded]

Stiggers can play, he's by far the best player in his class and has been considered that for the last three years probably. He can really play...This is huge, and it really hurts Ridgeway.

[Campbelle2]

A kid can move away and come back to the same home change schools and be legal. This can only happen in Memphis. This is the kind of thing that keeps the balance of power in Memphis.

[Edited by Campbelle2 on 12-18-02 12:20P]

[Opperman]

What do you mean this only happens in Memphis? He had a bona fide change of address to California. He had a bona fide change of address back to Memphis. I'm sure people *NEVER* move around in East Tennessee.

 

By the way, the article says he's back in Memphis, it does not say he's back in the same house.

[tcs]

Actually, I think what Campbelle was implying is that Stiggers returned to the same home in Memphis. Normally, this would mean that he would be in the same school zone and thus attending the same school... but obviously, thanks to Memphis's open enrollment policy he is not.

 

I like the open enrollment policy from an academic standpoint, but players should not be allowed to enroll at different schools for athletic reasons.

[Campbelle2]

This is an unfair advantage. A kid in the rest of the state would have to go to the school in his zone. In Memphis he can come back and pick his school. I bet this is sometimes done with this very situation in mind. If I were a good post player BTW and a great point guard might look very inviting. This is called loading up. AAU ball at its finest.

[Jumpshot]

If Stiggers is legal at BTW, I'll eat my hat. He wasn't even legal at Hillcrest and left there under a cloud of controversy. Went to Calif. and enrolled in a prep school for more "pub" and because of his grades. (Has a tremendous ego problem!!) Left in the middle of the year and left his team and coach high and dry. Now he all of a sudden decides he wants to bless Memphis with his presence once again and then has the gall to say in the paper that he gets to simply select which school he wants to go to now. Claims that "no one can hold him in Tennessee." If the TSSAA is not all over this...then it is a sham and should be disbanded. Let's go to open season, no holds barred, recruiting and let the chips fall where they may!!!

[Opperman]

TCS, how do you enforece "players should not be allowed to enroll at different schools for athletic reasons." You know as well as I do that people are gonna lie.

[926]

If my name was "Nick Stiggers" I would be standing on the courthouse steps in the morning, waiting for the doors to open so I could change my name!