High school recruiting question

wheeels · May 05, 2006, 08:26:18 pm

If a coach gets another job across the state,he is tryng to take some of his former players with him,is this recruiting or not? Just curious. What does the rule state?

wheeels · May 08, 2006, 09:25:22 pm

This must be a tough question.

Huntingisformen · May 08, 2006, 09:37:47 pm

I bet its because they all do it.

arreferee · May 09, 2006, 08:35:58 am

Quote from: wheeels on May 05, 2006, 08:26:18 pm
If a coach gets another job across the state,he is tryng to take some of his former players with him,is this recruiting or not? Just curious. What does the rule state?

I think a safe thing to ask here is, "If a player moves to a town where his coach moves to, why did the player move?" If he moved to play football then there is a good chance recruiting is behind it. If he moved becasue his parents got different jobs then it might not be. Of course, if the coach was responsible for the kids' parents getting new jobs...

With private schools that have no boundaries and public schools in places like Little Rock where the legislature has made it where students can go to any high school they want, recruiting is hard to prove. I'm not saying that all coaches in these situations recruit, but I don't think you can say that none of them do either.

Huntingisformen · May 09, 2006, 08:42:16 am

What if the coach moves to S.E.Ark. , the players family still lives in N.E. Ark. and the player lives with the coach? What if the coach begs the player to move and fills out all the paper work for the kid? Can a school refuse to release this kid?

givemeabreak · May 09, 2006, 08:53:26 am

Not if his parents move too.

wheeels · May 09, 2006, 07:37:51 pm

Quote from: arreferee on May 09, 2006, 08:35:58 am
Quote from: wheeels on May 05, 2006, 08:26:18 pm
If a coach gets another job across the state,he is tryng to take some of his former players with him,is this recruiting or not? Just curious. What does the rule state?

I think a safe thing to ask here is, "If a player moves to a town where his coach moves to, why did the player move?" If he moved to play football then there is a good chance recruiting is behind it. If he moved becasue his parents got different jobs then it might not be. Of course, if the coach was responsible for the kids' parents getting new jobs...

With private schools that have no boundaries and public schools in places like Little Rock where the legislature has made it where students can go to any high school they want, recruiting is hard to prove. I'm not saying that all coaches in these situations recruit, but I don't think you can say that none of them do either.

good post. Im sure it happens all the time.

bowlegs · May 09, 2006, 07:46:10 pm

let me tell you bowlegs has been ask by 3 different coachs to come play football for them. If you people could see me playing during lunch , you would say this guy could be an all american some day. The Gosnell, Rivercrest, and the EPC coaches all ask me to come play for them,this was last year. So to answer your ? yes recruiting is happening everywere

Pirateplaya · May 12, 2006, 11:37:06 pm

Well regardless some coaches do recruit. They are a little more sly about it than i had thought until it happened to me a few times. While never actually flat out saying "Hey come play for us and here is why" they i guess you could say beat around the bush. Also if the coach gets one of his players to talk to you is that really recruiting? I've had that happen too, for the reason the players always told me it wouldnt be considered recruting. Never took up on a coaches offer though personally