HIGH COUNTRY
Senior Member
This is a decades old problem, changing the enrollment factor as the GHSA did last year, and kicking the affluent privates up to a higher classificiaton does not work.
Examples:
Mt Paran baseball - Just beat a very good Jeff Davis team, MP although only 1100 students K-12 had FOUR (4) division one senior pitchers ( Ga Tech, Miss State, and Georgia) plus other D1 commits, plus other college level commits on team. Come on guys, this isnt normal. Most rural south ga teams may get a D1 pitcher every 15 to twenty years, if they are lucky. And they had FOUR seniors D1 in one year.
Unrstricted recruiting, affluent schools that most parents (maybe not the atheletes) poay up to 409 K a year for tuition, they have private coaches, national travel teams, etc. 95% of most Atlanta private schools enrollment is out of area, especially the athletes.
GHSA needs to wake up and quit catering to private schools, mind you - These are not the small south ga private schools that we have in our area, but somthing totally different.
The only solution is that they need to have their own private school playoff format.
If all the stars line up exactly, rural schools sometimes can compete and even win - but the results due to the stacked cards will favor the affluent privates most of the time.
Pace Academy won 4A mens basketball second year in a row, Pace will win both boys and girls tennis, Prince Avenue won class A football over a very good Swainsboro team that beat a very good Irwin team (by alot of points too).
I am sure Mr Paran will play North Cobb Christian in the AA baseball finals this year.
And the list goes on and on, the dominance by the alluent privates continues especially in the niche non football sports and will continue until the GHSA quits kicking the ball down the road and deal with the core issue!
I will again this year write to mulitiple state reps in the legislature , there has to be a grassroots response to the failur of GHSa to right a decases old wrong!
This is a travesty - GHSA needs to wake up!!!
Examples:
Mt Paran baseball - Just beat a very good Jeff Davis team, MP although only 1100 students K-12 had FOUR (4) division one senior pitchers ( Ga Tech, Miss State, and Georgia) plus other D1 commits, plus other college level commits on team. Come on guys, this isnt normal. Most rural south ga teams may get a D1 pitcher every 15 to twenty years, if they are lucky. And they had FOUR seniors D1 in one year.
Unrstricted recruiting, affluent schools that most parents (maybe not the atheletes) poay up to 409 K a year for tuition, they have private coaches, national travel teams, etc. 95% of most Atlanta private schools enrollment is out of area, especially the athletes.
GHSA needs to wake up and quit catering to private schools, mind you - These are not the small south ga private schools that we have in our area, but somthing totally different.
The only solution is that they need to have their own private school playoff format.
If all the stars line up exactly, rural schools sometimes can compete and even win - but the results due to the stacked cards will favor the affluent privates most of the time.
Pace Academy won 4A mens basketball second year in a row, Pace will win both boys and girls tennis, Prince Avenue won class A football over a very good Swainsboro team that beat a very good Irwin team (by alot of points too).
I am sure Mr Paran will play North Cobb Christian in the AA baseball finals this year.
And the list goes on and on, the dominance by the alluent privates continues especially in the niche non football sports and will continue until the GHSA quits kicking the ball down the road and deal with the core issue!
I will again this year write to mulitiple state reps in the legislature , there has to be a grassroots response to the failur of GHSa to right a decases old wrong!
This is a travesty - GHSA needs to wake up!!!