Pit Bull wrote:Sniper wrote:District12guy wrote:For some privates it's simply not possible to move up a class. For example, I know for a fact that Bishop Ryan and Our Reedemers aren't big schools enrollment wise, and most of their players have been there for their entire high school careers, so "recruiting" isn't an issue. Plenty of small town schools have more students. Is it really fair to move these schools up a class simply because they are private schools? Or because they are located in Minot? I don't know anything about any of the other privates, all I'm saying is not all of them have an overwhelming advantage as many here seem to believe. In fact, in region 6 the most dominant teams for a few years have been teams like Rugby and Berthold.
I think the “recruiting” associated with private schools is mostly pointed at the amount of students Shiloh has had transfer in over the years, which is a lot and many of them just happen to be good athletes. Also the advantages most people refer to when talking about private schools is living in towns that offer many more opportunities to improve in athletics. You can’t tell me living somewhere that you have little league sports, acceleration programs available, a YMCA, summer camps does not help. And yes schools like Thompson have a similar advantage living near bigger cities that offer this but I would rather have them be the “bad guys” than the schools located within those cities.
Curious who the boys have recruited over the years? Ogbu was a rare exception. So other than him since I'm sure you think he was recruited, who else in their boys program? Just curious since you seem to think it's rampant.
To be clear I quoted someone else saying recruiting, I did not call it flat out recruiting but I could rattle off some names of athletes who transferred to Shiloh:
Donovan Lambert- Transferred to Shiloh in junior high. Played for new town as a freshman and sophomore. Transferred back to Shiloh as a junior. Rumored to have transferred back to New Town after basketball to graduate?
3 state appearances: 2 Shiloh, 1 New Town
Aaron Yellow Wolf
Transferred to Shiloh as a senior.
James Inman
Transferred to Shiloh from Century as a Sophomore.
Josh Wood
Transferred to Shiloh from Century as a Sophomore.
Chad Coulter
Transferred to Shiloh from Mandan. Not sure what year.
Ogbu
Transferred from Nigeria to Shiloh.
Matt Rask
Transferred to Shiloh as a Senior (maybe Junior)
Jace Ritzke
Transferred from Williston.