Comments about ‘Play-where-you-want bill debated’

So, tell me......
What would we really lose if the UHSAA didn't exist?
They're obstructionist and punitive. They add nothing to the process other than negativity.

Let's try this for a few years without them.

Sounds like it is becoming a bigger circus out there, what a sad day.

Kids should not be allowed to transfer for athletic reasons. Many coaches are already shady characters and I can't imagine them penetrating the different High School Systems to "recruit" star players to their school. Next you'll hear about booster scandals and gifts given to Freshmen to get them to transfer. If you are good enough to get a scholarship it doesn't matter where you play. You can score 35 points a game for a team that's not that good, or hit a bunch of homeruns and still get scholarships.

This would make a bad problem much worse. It would destroy high school athletics. Any parity that exists now would be gone. You would have elite high school athletic programs where the same
team(s) winning every single year. The good players would then transfer to those schools leaving the majority of high schools (90% of them) high and dry.

Like it or not sports is a huge part of the high school experience. I have heard many parents trasfer to give their kids a better "educational" experience, which is a lie 90% of the time. This policy would destroy the sense of community and "team" because you would never know when your players were going to transfer. They could transfer for any reason. It would be like having an athlete leave early for the draft. What is wrong with a kid committing to a group of his friends to stay. If he does not like the coach, or the situation, deal with it and try to make things better yourself. In today's atmosphere rather than working through your problems, we are teaching kids to run away from their problems by allowing them to transfer.

I'm a little surprised something so radical is even being talked about. I guess it's time for the UHSAA to wake up and realize that if they don't manage this transfer issue more successfully, then the powers that be will do something about it. There is no way I could be in favor for a midseason transfer, but the rest of this bill is at least interesting.

who is this guy that thinks c-wood has a stanley havili at every position? timpview smoked them and everyone else and they will the next 4 years. However, c-wood does have some big boys. who would want to play for jon doe who never played football-just teaches at the school? so what if a rich guy gets nice equipment for players-h.s. football is getting bigger and better every year-well at least 5A- 4A has C-wood and timpview

90% of my peers want play where you live, play in your schools boundaries. end this non-sense of academic transfers when is it just paper work to justify an uphappy athlete.

Interesting. I live in Brevard County, Florida. Years ago they went to open enrollment and one high school actively recruited the top football players. Within three years they had a USA Today top 25 team. Easy to do with a county wide all star team. The school embarked on an expensive travel program to play similar teams and left the other schools in the District behind. Other schools were penalized by losing their best players. It benefited a few (who got scholarships) but hurt the entire concept of what high school sports is about, namely a part of the overall high school experience. The District here changed the policy to the benefit of the entire District.

What a joke this is really REDICULOUS!!!

Remember UCLA without scholarship limitations? This bill would create a very few "superpowers" in each sport and kill the others.

To High School Fan - so tell me, do you want our Legislators running high school sports?

Play where you live. That should be the rule. If you want to transfer for academic reasons then I applaud you; but you should still have to play where you live.

This is the stupidest idea that has ever been thought up!! Really!!! This would destroy High school sports

ANYTHING which the likes of Howard Stephenson, Paul Mero, Chris Buttars or the Eagle Forum supports is immediately suspect--They always have some kind of hidden agenda. Through this BABY out!

How about this? Let's drop high school athletics once and for all. If a kid wants to play sports, have him do it in intramurals (less involved) or club sports (parents pay). Use high school fields for hosting the club games in their area. Use the schools themselves for teaching Academics, Fine Arts, etc. High school athletics are broken and they need to be revamped.

first their are to many classacations cal only has 4 lets go back to 4 classafactions and have a true state champ.as for trancfers it semms to depend who you are and who big of school you go to the smaller schools seams to not matter at all big schools seams to be a big deal class up uhsaa and make a stand on this.you guys have created this monster

We need to wake up and start to think about our children. Why would we want to teach them that if they don't get to play as much as they want then just transfer somewhere else. Nice thing to teach them. In a few years when their boss doesn't like their work then just move on to another job instead of improve yourself and make yourself better. It is time that we teach our kids commitment and fair play. Someone needs to take control of High School athletics (not the legislature). UHSAA needs to step up and do its job. If they even inforced the current rules that would be a start. If a kid says they want to go to a certian High School and starts there as a freshman then fine but if they decide they want to transfer it should only be allowed if their family is moving to a new school boundry. Or maybe we could say athletic transfers are allowed but they must wait one year to play any athletics. Bottom line is that we need to teach our children to keep their commitments it will do wonders for them in more than just sports.

Swarley,

You would eventually have coaches going below high school to scout out middle school kids and influence them to come where the best opportunities await them. We would hold a state-wide letter-of-intent day each year where top middle school football/basketball players commit to the high school of their choice. Coaches could be promoted or fired based on their ability or inability to recruit the best of the 11-13 year old crowd. We could rank the annual recruiting class of each high school.

What imbecile came up with this idea?

They should not even be allowed to have sports if you dont think it is a blind for all star teams you are crazy.let them play each other then i dont have a problem with it.and the same go's for privet schools

Yes, students should be able to transfer to other schools, even for athletics reasons. Parents (and students) who pay taxes deserve to attend the school of their choice, so long as they can transport themselves to and from the school. Although in my opinion, I think students would be better served if we were to get rid of extra-curricular activities entirely and channel more of our resources into academic achievement and core education such as science, English, math, and literacy. Leave extra-curricular activities to the private market.