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BillyMac

BktBallRef wrote
But with privates that have no district boundaries, they can pick/choose a coach/school without having to move.

We have the same problem here with our Catholic high schools, and our new magnet, and charter, high schools. No district boundaries. These schools do belong to our state interscholastic athletic association and do participate in our state tournament. They aren't allowed to recruit based on athletic ability (wink, wink). Every year someone suggests that they have their own tournament division, outside the normal divisions based on school population. This suggestion never seems to go any where.

BktBallRef

BillyMac wrote
Great basketball. I usually get more action above the rim in a few of these games than I do the rest of the season with all my other games.

Exactly. The kids I saw yesterday are probably better than any combination of kids I'll see the rest of the year.

BillyMac wrote
We have the same problem here with our Catholic high schools, and our new magnet, and charter, high schools. No district boundaries. Theses schools do belong to our state interscholastic athletic association and do participate in our state tournament. They aren't allowed to recruit based on athletic ability (wink, wink). Every year someone suggests that they have their own tournament division, outside the normal divisions based on school population. This suggestion never seems to go any where.

And I bet the traditional public high schools "unofficially" complain about them recruiting and having no boundaries all the time.

Judtech

We have had several over the years in this neck of the woods. I have no problem with them participating in State tournaments, if they follow the same rules as the other schools. Most of them don't. Back when IN had a REAL HS tournament several private schools participated. But these schools did not give 'scholarships" or actively recruit. They followed the rules like everyone else. Here in VA we have 2 state wide private school associations along with the venerable VHSL. There is a broo ha ha b/c private schools aren't allowed to compete in the state tournaments with the VHSL. Also, some districts won't schedule the private schools b/c of their recruiting practices. Gotta love politics!!
The best solution that I have seen is from when one private conference split into "recruiting schools" and "non recruiting schools" So those schools that acively traveled the globe and country for players played in one division and the more "traditional" christian schools played in the other. It was a nice compromise, while it lasted.

BktBallRef

Part of the issue with the private school association in NC is that they allow kids to "reclass." For example, three local stars from public high schools are now attending a local private school and have re-classed as 5th year seniors. So understandably, the local school system have no interest in playing them and won't allow schools to play them.

JRutledge

These places are almost impossible here. Or at least they cannot play in the state association. All IHSA members have to be a member of the state education board so it would be difficult to have a terrible to have such a "school" playing.

Peace

Bad Zebra

26 Year Gap wrote
There is a school in FL that is NOT a member of the FHSAA. And I believe that FHSAA schools are not sanctioned to play any games versus this school. There was a question among the officials in the local association who did their games as to whether or not they were allowed to even wear their patched shirts for those games. Not sure how that all got resolved, but probably this school might be one that showed up where Tony was located.

Montverde Academy near Orlando? No FHSAA schools can contract with them, thus no FHSAA sanctioned officials can work those games with a patch on their shirt. St. Thomas Aquinas in Ft. Lauderdale is another factory, but more so for football and they ARE an FHSAA member.

Bad Zebra

26 Year Gap wrote
There is a school in FL that is NOT a member of the FHSAA. And I believe that FHSAA schools are not sanctioned to play any games versus this school. There was a question among the officials in the local association who did their games as to whether or not they were allowed to even wear their patched shirts for those games. Not sure how that all got resolved, but probably this school might be one that showed up where Tony was located.

26 Year Gap

Bad Zebra wrote
Montverde Academy near Orlando? No FHSAA schools can contract with them, thus no FHSAA sanctioned officials can work those games with a patch on their shirt. St. Thomas Aquinas in Ft. Lauderdale is another factory, but more so for football and they ARE an FHSAA member.

Nope. PM me.

BktBallRef

I learned tonight that the team that finished in second place was from Jacksonville, FL. Is that the team you're thinking of?

26 Year Gap

BktBallRef wrote
I learned tonight that the team that finished in second place was from Jacksonville, FL. Is that the team you're thinking of?

No. The team is at least 200 miles from there. You could go to the FHSAA website and check under classifications to see if that school is listed. There are 4 regions and 6 classifications in FL. And it is broken out by sport since all schools do not play all sports. I am not really familiar with a lot of FL schools on the Atlantic Coast, the panhandle, or the Gulf Coast from about 40 miles above Tampa.

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