I never said SPS was "getting slaughtered by bigger schools". In fact, the "Problem" for the AHSAA is that SPS is NOT getting "slaughtered".Dude, you make it sound like St. Paul's is some tiny private school that can't compete.When my kids were in school I watched St. Paul's squads line up against schools (some of whom are now 6A, like Vigor, Saraland and Spanish Fort) - and in a LOT of those games they looked like a JV team lining up against Seniors. Sometimes almost every kid on an opponent's OL And DL were half-a-head (or more) taller than the SPS kid they were lining up against.
The whole point of taking a school FIVE kids over class 3A and making them play in 5A is PRECISELY SO THEY WILL BE SLAUGHTERED.
When that didn't play out according to plan, the AHSAA now decides to punish these schools by moving them up ANOTHER class ranking, in hopes that they WILL be Slaughtered in 6A.
This is NOT about "Equal Opportunity" - it's about Equal RESULTS.
Big Difference.
Yea, but we don't like to talk about that, do we?You are right, there are MANY public schools that recruit too.Rural schools might not do it much, but that's only because the pickings are slim and resources are very limited. Your original statement indicated only private schools do it. That's just not true.