A couple I forgot about
Michael Hudson (Army)
Jake Yacinich (IA, Baseball)
2 more guys that went to Dowling all 4 years
Michael Hudson (Army)
Jake Yacinich (IA, Baseball)
2 more guys that went to Dowling all 4 years
Valley High School Recruiting????
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The biggest recruiting job the Catholic Schools have is keeping the kids who grow up in the Catholic School system, or play in the Catholic Football League at Dowling. Those names don't get any press when a kid leaves the Catholic School System, but for some reason, its huge news when they leave the Public School System.
As for Valley- If you are a talented player with potential, why wouldn't you want to play for the school with the largest exposure in the state. The list of D1 athletes they've had over the last several years goes on and on. Besides our own Patrick Neal, I can't think of any of those guys that didn't go to Valley all 4 years. Not saying there isn't one, I just can't think of any.
Just because a kid goes to Catholic school for four years doesn't mean that he wasn't recruited, they just got to them early. You think High School coaches aren't aware of who the top 7th and 8th graders are? Or other players and parents? Most of the rectuiting is done by the kids and parents, often at the request of the coach... There were multiple area schools trying to get my brother to transfer and my ex-wife experienced the same thing in the Cedar Rapids area.
Catholic schools recruit 100% of their students 100% of the time. Again, you can't name a D1 recruit from a Catholic school who isn't Catholic. Are you intimating that Catholic schools are paying tuition for athletes?
What a great thing to teach high school aged kids-- If things aren't going well in your current school just up and leave your coaches and teammates. That should serve the kid well in the real world.
And we wonder why so many college kids transfer anymore...
And we wonder why so many college kids transfer anymore...
How often does being the top 7th or 8th Grader translate to being a D1 athlete?
I've could type up a countless list of letdowns there.
Like I said before, the real battle is turning the Catholic jr High kids into Catholic HS kids.
Public Schools in DSM do the same thing.
Oh, and all the guys I typed up grew up going to Catholic Jr Highs.
Because college kids are the only ones who head for greener pastures.
See: Coaches, employees, divorce rate, etc
Clearly you do. You seem to state that Catholic schools are recruiting athletes. I'm stating that the vast majority of D1 recruits from Catholic schools are indeed Catholics so they have a pretty good reason to be at a Catholic school.
So...are Catholic schools paying athletes? Because by their nature as private schools, Catholic schools must recruit ALL of their students.
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One of the Ft. Dodge St. Edmond basketball state title teams when I was in high school had several non-catholic/public school transfers as key players.
They certainly have great, non-catholic players. Regardless of how they got them, legit or not, you're foolish to think they aren't there.
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Yep...they are not understanding that point...how would be know about someone's faith unless they advertised it. I do know many Xavier students in Cedar Rapids that are not Catholic. And a few of them are the better athletes there...and were contacted specifically by the school's coaches.
if you are talking about splitting to Ankeny an Ankeny Christian that's a very weak argument consiering ACA enrollment is around 50 and Ankeny is around 1000...hopefully I'm forgetting somebody else that's a horrible argument
Bingo, happens in Omaha A LOT. Open enrollment to Millard school district because of the perceived quality of education and athletics. Each Millard high school (West, South, North) currently are over 2000 students same as Valley and are regularly dominant in sports, the 2010 Class A football title was between South and West which are about 2 miles from each other.
My wife and I recently moved to Elkhorn in NE partially because of the school districts overall strength compared to Omaha public schools. They also have traditionally had excellent sports teams in class B in NE (analagous to 3A in IA), so I guess they sure did a hell of a job recruiting us to the area.
I guess I'm in the who the hell cares crowd.
I may be off base here, but isn't it totally legal for a private school to invite whoever the hell they want to go there for whatever they deem an appropriate tuition rate? No taxpayer/gov't involvement = Invite who they want.
Read the rest of the thread. in 2013, Ankeny High is splitting to Ankeny High and Ankeny Centennial. ACA has no bearing on this
has so much truth it's not funny....I've even have seen recruiting by rival schools on facebook where the coach asks a recruit if he wants to come play for playing time and it's a sincere conversation...next thing you see him opposite the court from you.
Also witnessed a case where a guy played basketball and after it's over transferred to Urbandale to finish academics...pretty fishy :skeptical:
If you don't think they recruit you must be living in a cave...it happens from 1A to 4A and it's killing high school sports here...especially for kids from small towns that don't have the benefit of having a Des Moines or Council Bluffs right by it.
alright thanks. I just remember ACA from the dad's prostitute scandal..makes alot more sense now.
