HIGH COUNTRY
Senior Member
Prince Avenue, private school from Athens after winning the Class A football state championship this year , also won the Class A baseball state title last night sweeping a very good Irwin county team. Second game was not even close, and Irwin had a pitcher who has signed to pitch for Mercer.
Both finalist in class AA baseball were affluent private schools from Atlant this year.
My cousins grandson who is one of the smallest guys, pitched and hit very well. He will be playing football and baseball for Berry College next year.
This kid like most small public school kids has played football and baseball, playing both offense and defense for the team, as well as wrestling. Most of these kids play multiple sports. He worked hard, put on 32 pounds of muscle between tenth and eleventh grade.
Some have commented that the private school kids just worked harder, maybe in some cases, but not in this case.
They had no chance against a heavily recruited private school(most metro Atlanta schools have over 95% of students from outside their geographic area).
Yes, an occasional small public school can sometimes prevail, but all the stars have to align perfectly - i would give 80% or even higher odds to the privates every year. This unlevel playing field mostly occurs in the smaller classificaitons such as A and AA.
Yes it is personal, these kids had the best Class A public school in the state - yet....
We will continue to pushy for these privates to compete post season in their own classification, then it will be a level playing field. We wish them luck, and they have great kids and programs, we just dont want them in our post season competition. Privates belong with the privates, and that is where they should compete.
Strictly from an athletic competition perspective.
Both finalist in class AA baseball were affluent private schools from Atlant this year.
My cousins grandson who is one of the smallest guys, pitched and hit very well. He will be playing football and baseball for Berry College next year.
This kid like most small public school kids has played football and baseball, playing both offense and defense for the team, as well as wrestling. Most of these kids play multiple sports. He worked hard, put on 32 pounds of muscle between tenth and eleventh grade.
Some have commented that the private school kids just worked harder, maybe in some cases, but not in this case.
They had no chance against a heavily recruited private school(most metro Atlanta schools have over 95% of students from outside their geographic area).
Yes, an occasional small public school can sometimes prevail, but all the stars have to align perfectly - i would give 80% or even higher odds to the privates every year. This unlevel playing field mostly occurs in the smaller classificaitons such as A and AA.
Yes it is personal, these kids had the best Class A public school in the state - yet....
We will continue to pushy for these privates to compete post season in their own classification, then it will be a level playing field. We wish them luck, and they have great kids and programs, we just dont want them in our post season competition. Privates belong with the privates, and that is where they should compete.
Strictly from an athletic competition perspective.