OT - 60 Minutes story about coach

[Adam]

He doesn't have to recruit now; the players come to him.

[Andy]

We've got the recruiting complaints here in AZ also, but it is not totally directed at the Private and/or Religious schools.

Most AZ school districts have "open enrollment" where a new freshman can attend any HS they want. Once they start at a HS, however, there are guidelines regarding transferring to different schools. Barring certain things, like moving to another school's attendance area, the athlete and parents have to apply to the state association for athletic eligibility.

There have been cases of a kid attending four different high schools in four years by his/her parents renting an apartment in the new schools area....

[Mark Padgett]

Originally Posted by Andy

Most AZ school districts have "open enrollment" where a new freshman can attend any HS they want.

My oldest daughter and her family live in a fairly large school district here in Oregon that has a similar policy. If your kid wants to attend a HS that is not the one in the HS boundary in which you reside, it's OK under two conditions. First, there must be room at the other school and second, there must be some reason (such as a logistical situation pertaining to how the kid would get to school, like a parent passing the other school on the way to work or a program offered there that's not offered at the closer school) although they really don't enforce the second condition. Her daughter will start HS in the fall and has decided to attend one on the other side of the district. It's because they have an outstanding girls soccer program and she is a soccer maniac. She has played on an all-star traveling team for three years and has been "recruited" by other schools because she averages scoring over two goals per game. It doesn't really matter too much, since all the high schools in the district are rated very high academically. A few of her friends are going to attend that school also.

Info for you guys familiar with the Beaverton, Oregon area - she lives in the Sunset boundary area but has decided to attend Westview.

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by Mark Padgett

A program offered there that's not offered at the closer school.

There's a town outside of our local officiating area that has two public high schools. One has an outstanding girls basketball program, the other one doesn't. The one with the good girls basketball program offers a state sponsored vocational agriculture program, the other one doesn't. The head coach at the basketball/agriculture school would tell the best middle school basketball players on the other side of town to sign up for vocational agriculture. He's no longer coaching there. He got in big trouble when he told his players not to play high school softball so they could play on the AAU basketball team that he sponsored.

[Tio]

I would recommend to any basketball fan to read "Miracle at St. Anthony." It is a great book about the 2004-2005 St. Anthony's squad.

Hurley doesn't need to recruit. Players seek him out... he sends nearly all of his players to college. Many to major conference D1 schools.