Re: Well looks like another A championship for a private school

dwilson

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Dec 1, 2023, 6:56 PM

Wow!!!! Talk about a low information poster. Pretty much everything you have said is wrong. Have you ever even been to a game at CCES? Their facilities are nothing super special. Almost EVERY other stadium CCES plays is better.

My son played on a couple championship teams at CCES and I can assure you not 1 player on that team was recruited. There was one player who was a wide receiver who transferred to get an education, but kids transfer to high schools all the time. Most everyone on those teams were at that school in the 3rd or 4th grade. Practically every team they played had much bigger OLs and DLs.

What CCES had, that alot of other programs didn't, was a dedicated group of players that literally played as a team. Coaching was excellent and the effort was outstanding. Wake Forest for many years punched well above their weight with "average" players because they were well coached and played with great effort. I'll take an effort guy with some talent over a prima donna 5 star loafer any day.

The comment about skipping school is absolutely laughable. CCES is a hard school and demands the same academic work as all other students. In fact, it was such a problem that I complained to the school administration because they gave zero breaks in due dates, tests, etc. despite the football team's travel schedule that often would take them to Columbia and beyond.

The simple fact is CCES excels because they have smart, disciplined and driven players. That does not always win against super talented teams, but it wins most of the time.

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high schools, private and public, and can say that athletic facilities and equipment at private schools are WAY ahead of public schools. WAY. Ain't even close. I went into one Private school locker room, and they had at least twenty helmets still in plastic hanging on a wall, unused. I followed that visit to a public school where cuts were being made because they didn't have enough helmets!

To your point, the private schools that I have watched play definitely play well together and are well coached. Once they are playing on an evened field with the new SCHSL rule, they may still look well coached, but they may be a little outmatched and will most likely get drilled against 3A competition.

I don't know if the new rule unfairly targets schools like CCES, St Joes, and Southside Christian, since the main point is to level the field for those playing the likes of Grey, Oceanside, and now Mountainview, but they certainly have an advantage in resources and in how wide of a geographic net they can cast.

I'll bite my tongue on the recruiting front since it most likely goes on in both public and private schools, with the only distinction that in private schools, it's legal....

Go Tigers!

Well looks like another A championship for a private school