Recruiting players

competition

Thats almost my point exactly, I guess maybe I'm the only one who feels like I couldn't gain any satisfaction for winning three games against a team that I should have been playing for. Maybe I'm to competitive and too cocky but I couldn't help but think I would have won 3 games no matter which team I played for. Maybe its just mindset but I still feel like it shouldn't be acceptable.

 

Here's a true incident. A kid grew up with his buddies all his life. They attended the same schools and played in the same leagues. They started their HS freshman year together and looked forward to the future where they had dreams of competing for the State Championship. The school system decided to re-align the district and said player was torn away from his buddies and his dreams (the school he was assigned to had trouble fielding a team). No one expresses outrage when the school system randomly decided that a street address will help fill a quota system. That the thought of neighborhood schools is a racist term. That it can singularly make a decison to draw a line on a street map and tear a student away from his boyhood friends. I've seen it rip neighborhoods apart and force people who lived together for years to move. This happens many more times in Charlotte then the skating around the transfer rules. To me, the politics of CMS schools has caused far more problems, socially, academically and athletically, then the few individuals who transfer schools in hope of a better opportunity

 

The senario you mentioned happened a lot in Charlotte especially 4 or 5 years ago. Problem is most parents who tried all avenues to keep those friends from being split up were acused of doing it for the wrong reasons. The majority were simply trying to keep friends together not teammates but were still looked upon as trying to do it for athletics.

 

Yep...especially the Pineville folks

 

You didn't finish the "rest of the story" want to know how it ends

 

Gotta run...tell ya later

 

maybe "they" were just respecting loyalty.