When it comes down to it, do people honestly want a situation where the positive things (and negative) about things in our lives, like schools, businesses and the like, are not shared?hockey_is_a_choice wrote:The fact is that while some schools do recruit, both public and private, the recruiting usually takes place through the parents. The reality is that beginning a few years ago high school teams are filled with boys who have played hockey year round since they were mites. This change more than any other factor (including recruiting) has leveled the playing field among the privates and public schools that are located in wealthier communities or communities where it is hip to make financial sacrifices for junior to play hockey year round.
That is how most of the "recruiting" happens at both public and private schools. I don't personally like the idea of letting people get up and enroll wherever they want because of all of the negative socioeconomic externalities of that, but the idea of competition within the education system should be something that drives it to make it better.
In the end, the only want to entice someone to go to your program is by having a better product to offer.
huh? We have open enrollment now...urban iceman wrote:Then go back to open enrollment so the smaller schools can recruit like the St Thomas' do to even it up a little. The smaller schools can't help it if their hands are tied to enrollment, that doesn't make it a "JV" tourney. They for the most part follow the rules, whens the last time you saw an Eden Prairie player transfer to say, Northfield? I think the big school arrogance is what takes away from the smaller school tourney getting any respect. The A players are left out of mostly everything defining top hockey players i.e, Mister hockey, All Metro etc by even the Media Jackels :HockeyBum wrote:I am one northern fan that will miss STA, Hate to see them go out on top... and would have loved to had a chance at them again this year. They are great competition and if you get rid of anyone that can put a quality team on the ice all you have is a JV tourney. I would rather loss to a great team than win against a substandard team.