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Same with Smallwood. He left Central cause he didn't like his situation and went to one that would benefit him. Same with Nix last year. He shopped around before ending up at East.

I would have never believed statements like this would become the norm with high school athletes.  The system is broken and will eventually collapse.     

Whether schools are 'recruiting' is a matter of semantics.  It's like debating whether those hookers in Las Vegas are recruiting Teddy or just standing there in their mini skirts with seductive smiles, waiting for nature take its course.  Schools with mojo don't have to recruit - they just have to be available and willing to lift up their skirts. 

With an endless supply of dads driving around looking to pimp out their sons, it's a match made in heaven.

LMAO, I know the family and I can say that East didn't recruit him. He didn't get along with the Central coaches and some of the players.

Good example of how we are short-changing our kids.  Back in the day, if you you didn't get along with the coaches and other players, that more than likely meant you had some social skills that needed attention, especially if you liked playing football and having friends.

Now, it's f those chumps.  I'll call my dad and we'll just go find another coach and some new friends.

CUSD still misses a lot of talent too!!! Have you seen some of the kids walking around campus? Pancotti was the last person I saw actively recruit students on campus (CE)!!! He's still a beast and watch McLane take over FUSD........ mark my words.

I'm a Bullard guy, but I'd love to see another FUSD school return to prominence.  I used to watch Rod Kraft and the Big Red Machine.  McLane used to be one of the big dogs, if not the biggest. 

Most kids never play high school football, so designing your district around those 100 or so students is crazy. Not realistic or aligned with the needs of a SCHOOL district.

I agree.  We tend to get pretty excited about the kids born with God-given physical talent, especially around here. 

They've spent a lot of money on TRAC 6 marketing and swag. They'll boot Central and recruit the rest of the Section.  In 10 years minimum their non-league games will be against national powers with names beginning with words like "Saint" and "Archbishop" or ending with "Prep".

I agree.  Expansion = dilution.

 

The boundaries are a mess, if you live in the new development on Shaw and Leonard/Highland you are in Sanger's district even though you could throw a rock and hit CE.

School districts are independent local governmental agencies that set their own boundaries. While the City of Clovis proudly identifies with Clovis Unified, there is no direct correlation.  Large chunks of the Clovis Unified geographic area were subsequently annexed into the City of Fresno, but they remained in Clovis Unified while Fresno Unified continued to sink. Clovis West and Clovis North are both located in the City of Fresno.

Boundaries can change.  Sometimes, adjoining districts merge.  If the development on Shaw and Leonard could be annexed out of Sanger Unified and into Clovis Unified by a boundary change, the developers could probably get a 20% increase in their home prices. I'm sure there was a lot of negotiation between the developers and the school districts on boundaries, fees, tax sharing, etc.

I've heard rumor that Garces slashed its football budget to $20k, which is nothing at a private school. 

$20k is nothing at any school.  Garces should get off the transfer train and play with the boys they have, even if they drop a division or two.  If these transfers aren't curtailed, high school football will be ruined. 

College football is already a thing of the past. 

[We need to get back to under .500 can't go to playoffs and fill the brackets up.]

We need to get back to under .500 can't go to playoffs and fill the brackets up.

CIF needs to put some parameters that allow for consequences to a S**t Season

Bud Kilmer for President!

of what?

Of whatever you take that makes you do this:

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what constitutes an A or B school?

For example, CW is an A and Bakersfield is a B. 

If a kid can't graduate with todays standards set so low they need to be shipped off to an island.

Most of the good islands are taken.  We can use Kern County until we find something more suitable.  The boneheads will blend right it and never know they're being punished. 

Why would we expect schools to be any different that society, if you want to find an excuse you will.

Here's something to consider, the public education system was designed to produce factory workers, if in the US we are now moving away from making goods and out sourcing it to countries like China and Mexico why are we surprised that public schools are now producing dependents of the state as that is now becoming a major source of our economy.

Most of today's student wouldn't qualify to work in factories.  You need to be able to read the Safety Posters and have the work ethic to show up on time every day.  There goes at least half of them.

But back to the question about D1 schools having to play down due to the number of potential student-athletes who fail as students and become ineligible.  How does that happen if teachers are giving out C's to functional idiots? 

For example, McLane has 3,000 students with 800 eligible, which means that 73% are ineligible. That's amazing.  Are the standards for extracurricular activity higher than the graduation standards, because McLane's graduation rate is 89%?

Doesn't add up.

Now we're getting back to appearances, izne if anyone understands manipulation of information via statistical data it would be you. Remember, high schools tout a graduation rate but they don't have to show the proficiency in basic math and reading of those graduates.  So kids and their parents can  sit thru the same boring " we struggled together and now face new challenges" speech, take the pictures in the cap & gown and feel good about this "accomplishment" but like the diamonds on your pinky rings izne, its a fugazzi

I thought we were talking about D1 population schools having to play down a few divisions due to a lack of eligibility. "Sure, we have 2000 boys in our school, but only 400 of them are eligible to participate in extracurricular activities, so we are really a D4 school."

In today's educational environment, you'd really have to try hard to become academically ineligible.  It's almost impossible.

I've always been a cubic zerconia guy.

Drive a car until the wheels fall off it's going to be hard to fix.

Great analogy.

Looks like Teddy got a bad batch.

blame the people in charge. It seems that the keys to the kingdom that is CUSD have been handed to individuals that are more concerned with the appearance of excellence rather than actual excellence.

Wait..., I thought we were living in a new age where objective reality is bent to suit our subjective opinions.  Where perception is reality.

Which is it?

I am not sure we can blame the school, we all know that there are many factors that contribute to academic success one being the socio-economical make up of the school. I agree schools with 3000 kids shouldn't be lower than D3

I get it, but we're not talking about college admissions or scholarships.  We're just talking about remaining eligible in schools that graduate everyone with a pulse.

I'm stealing this.

You can't steal something from someone who stole it.

Schools need to learn these kids are student-Athletes first, so they better get busy on their grades because their is no excuse for a school with enrollment over 3000 to be playing any lower than D3 or D4.

I agree, but I'm not sure I would go that low. If a school with D1 enrollment cannot compete at a D3 level, maybe they need to suspend their sports programs and focus on eligibility if they don't like losing.  There's no better motivator than getting hit in the face and embarrassed.  Softening the academics or the competition to give the kids a false sense of accomplishment isn't the answer.

Those kids are only a year, or in some cases, months away from entering the job market. We need to teach them reality-based lessons.  If you jack around at work, they don't soften your job description. 

I smile , shake their hand, and know this kid will transfer by the end of the season, hopefully sooner.

this is a huge problem

In my opinion, it's a problem because the parents can now openly transfer.  If that transfer window was closed, and that parent's kid was absolutely going to be coached by O-Line one way or the other, that parent's attitude might be a little different.  Coaches have always had parents who know better, but now those parents feel emboldened and make threats to transfer.  In most cases, the coaches would probably help them fill out the paperwork.  The relationship is soured, and compounded when the kid gets home and listens to his father berate the coaches the kid looks up to.

Somebody explain to me how any of that is good for the kid. There is so much more a kid can learn from participating in sports and dealing with the adversity their fathers are so eager to eliminate.  This nonsense robs the kids of about 90% of the best life lessons on how to be a man and replaces them with staggeringly bad life lessons on entitlement and how to be a bitch. 

can you imagine how a blue/green haired she-them or whatever pronoun it assigned to itself would react to being berated by a drill sergeant or an offensive line coach?

Oh man, I hadn't thought about that.  Line them up, shave their heads, and drop their pants. 

My guess is after one year of forced reality and military-grade discipline, any cases of gender dysphoria would be cured.

Think of all the social ills we could cure by implementing this simple policy...