Alma_Parker;602032 wrote:Right. Maybe the whinerbrigade re-read your elegant and data-laden posts from over the past couple weeks and concluded the 'case' they had on football was weak. And so moved on to swimming and wrestling. Oddly enough, and a bit ironically, the data uncovered there only proves your point more: it's a small number of top programs that produce consistently and public/private is in no way the obvious causal variable, even if private schools might have some 'advantage' around better general discipline and/or stronger sense of community which can help a coach accrete the many factors needed to make a program perform year after year.
That said, I have to hand it to skank for coming clean and confessing that he could imagine that maybe once every ten or twenty years that an Orrville or an Ironton might compete with his mighty Tigers. Now that was never the point, as the debate (at least I thought) was strictly about whether the publics like Orrville and ironton and Massillon should be forced to compete for a 'state championship' which would go to the team that beat all the teams except for a handful of the best programs of their size, or whatever you would print on the juice box / trophy. That's the topic. Near as I can tell it's case closed. Not sure many folks want to spend time chasing down rumors of "recruiting" in swimming, but all interested should have at it.
We hear it locally every day. I don't know where all these recruits everyone talks about the parochial going out to get but they are not here. We play hard nosed football and win that way. Div. IV is a tough division that beat up on Div. II and III champions. No matter how you multiply it we will play harder practice longer and lift more weights till we win. Dedication is a mother of all multipliers. Put that in your multiplier.
