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Transfer Season 2018

pumbaa said:
You keep telling yourself that STA built it from the ground up with a bunch of whiney private school dopes.
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I will because I know it's true and I can actually articulate that.

You can't and so you spout the on thing that you think you know and then crumble like a wuss when challenged on it,
 

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Coach Macho said:
Funny you say this. Although I'm not down there anymore a few of my buddies are still at WHS, so I keep tabs on what's going on. (your boy Chop is out there)
They just lost a Freshman CB (who has offers) to Heritage last week.
Lost a 6'5" WR (with offers) to Piper.
However, they gained a QB and LB from Arch Bishop and WR's from BA and Ely. (and a handful more kids transferred in as well)
It's literally...like you said...a free for all down there.
Programs are losing kids and gaining kids at the same time. I guess it comes down to losing/gaining the right ones.
They lost a D1 Corner but gained a D1 Quarterback. I'd take that trade any day.
It's almost like the NFL free agent period now. It's silly.

And it really has nothing to do with winning either. You shouldn't lose anybody after having the best season in school history.
Has nothing to do with offers either.
Fact of the matter is, today's front-running generation simply can't turn down an offer from the "cool schools" like STA and AHS. It's about status with a lot of them. They wanna be able to say "I am going/transferring to Saint Thomas" on social media.

**** is crazy to me. It does NOT go down like that over here on the West coast. I think one of the major reasons is that we don't have that whole 7-on-7 culture over here. That culture is filled with leaches.
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It would be happening where you live if you had the population density, and concentration, that makes so many big schools relatively close to each other and thereby convenient from a transportation/distance perspective. All the big schools in SFL, Dade/Broward/Palm Beach - it’s not a logistical/travel stretch to switch from one to the other.

At the end of the day it’s the FHSAA that allows this shlt to happen. Pure and simple.

And it’s created a huge diva mentality in south Florida because it’s so easy to pop from one schocolate to the next, and then you have the sleaze bag adults encouraging the behavior.

If you have the right conditions, a bunch of big time schools, relatively close together, and a large enough population where there’s hundreds and hundreds of elite athletes, like South Florida, and zero regulatory control (FHSAA) then it creates the environment for that to happen. The sleaze bag adults will take advantage...parents, too. Then of course, you create a culture of divas.

Doesn’t happen in other areas as much because what other area have the concentration of high population, in a smallish area, with thousands of good/elite athletes where it’s feasible to move around due to cleseness of schools. None like south Florida.

It’s not that you have more virtuous people, they just don’t have the same environment that makes it feasible.
 
Tee3000 said:
I feel you but I'm all for kids transferring if they're zoned to a **** program with trash coaches bc it's too many trash coaches in this profession.

Just bc I live in a district...my son isn't going to be coached by some art teacher just bc he passed the background check to coach high school ball.
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Man I totally agree with you on the coaching
 
Mark Little said:
Actually the FHSAA had been trying to corral this stuff but the Legislature passed a law in 2017 that completely opened up the floodgates.
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It’s still on them if they don’t have the clout to make the legislature pass appropriate legislation, or at least add riders.

They’re charge is to do what’s best for the student athlete, and enforce.

They do neither very well. But god forbid you have a tiny piece of jewelry on in a track meet. They’re on that bullshlt. But forget the big picture.

Just another barely functional self-perpetuating bureaucracy.
 
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FHSAA screwed it up. When this was the typical headline about offseason high school football they really needed to crack down on the private schools (like they did with IMG), but instead just opened it up. U school, Chamindae, Columbus,STA (ohh schit another post quote by Mark!), and AH kept getting big time transfers the public schools were getting killed, so instead of fix it they just threw fuel on the fire.


2016
St. Thomas Aquinas, Chaminade bolster rosters with key transfers


2015
St. Thomas Aquinas bolstered by influx of transfers
 
DB4 said:
The crazy thing about the kid that transferred from Western to Piper is that he never played a down of regular season football at Western. He was at Ely last season. And the Piper head coach was at Western watching their spring game too. Very crazy stuff.
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Piper's head coach is my homeboy. Played hs ball with him. Piper got roached for their young qb that will be a div 1 recruit. Think he went to Deerfield.
 
DB4 said:
I went to watch them at the spring game. Kid didnt impress me. I thought he’d be way more dominant with his size but he was just okay.

Semi sidenote but the Piper head coach has a lot of enemies in the county. Everyone is recruiting but it seems like he’s real out there with contacting kids. All that to still wind up finishing behind Deerfield Beach in that district.
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Just seeing this lmao. He's never been much of a recruiter..but he has always coached or have connections with the 7 on 7 teams..being that our other high school teammates are coaches for those 7 on 7 teams. Maybe he said f it this go round after his qb got took..lol
 
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@gogeta4 who is the coach at Piper now? I played there when Gatewood was the coach, but he went to Plantation or something like that and I am not even sure if he is there still.
 
pumbaa said:
@gogeta4 who is the coach at Piper now? I played there when Gatewood was the coach, but he went to Plantation or something like that and I am not even sure if he is there still.
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Dave Coleman. A pretty young coach. Good dude..but thats my homie so i may be bias lol
 
Mark Little said:
I will because I know it's true and I can actually articulate that.

You can't and so you spout the on thing that you think you know and then crumble like a wuss when challenged on it,
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They didn't...they recruited Sterling Palmer back in the 80's.....recruited Mike Irvin to STA

their first state title team is littered with guys that were to attend other high schools...
 
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Tee3000 said:
Yeap...gotta recruit bc other schools will recruit your players
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I watched when a certain Ely coach left who may or may not have posted in this thread and said on social media it would be a bloodbath. In the hours following Ely lost almost half their roster.
 
This why SoFla RECRUITS are divas!! Some HS player's, might play at 3 or 4 different HS in 4 years.. FHSAA need to put a stop to that, IF they transfer make them sit out the year!!
 
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pumbaa said:
FHSAA screwed it up. When this was the typical headline about offseason high school football they really needed to crack down on the private schools (like they did with IMG), but instead just opened it up. U school, Chamindae, Columbus,STA (ohh schit another post quote by Mark!), and AH kept getting big time transfers the public schools were getting killed, so instead of fix it they just threw fuel on the fire.

2016
St. Thomas Aquinas, Chaminade bolster rosters with key transfers


2015
St. Thomas Aquinas bolstered by influx of transfers
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You haven't even made a point here since nobody said that STA doesn't have transfers at the school.

So to recap, you were asked a question that you couldn't answer and so you called somebody a *****. Then you lied and said you were done. Then when you came back to engage again you posted links to "prove" something that wasn't even the issue in the first place.

You suck at this.

Hang that Piper diploma high.
 
Tee3000 said:
their first state title team is littered with guys that were to attend other high schools...
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This is such a stupid claim that I can't believe it's gone this long without being corrected.

Every player at every private school was supposed to attend other high schools since every kid presumably grew up in a neighborhood that was zoned for a public high school.

I can't believe this kind of stupidity exists today.

Embarrassing.
 
OriginalCanesCanesCanes said:
It’s still on them if they don’t have the clout to make the legislature pass appropriate legislation, or at least add riders.

They’re charge is to do what’s best for the student athlete, and enforce.

They do neither very well. But god forbid you have a tiny piece of jewelry on in a track meet. They’re on that bullshlt. But forget the big picture.

Just another barely functional self-perpetuating bureaucracy.
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This is really silly.

They fought the legislation for years and were successful at heading it off. But a State Senator from Lakeland made it her life's work to pass this law. The FHSAA is statutorily obligated to follow the law.
 
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