Trimble v Newark Catholic

[LICKING COUNTY FAN]

I went to a public school so this answer I do not know.

Can a student go from a private schools to a public school and play right away?

[dilligaf]

Well the way i see it Trimble had there chances to win they just didnt make it happen when they needed to .Two good teams someone had to loose congrats to both teams.

[55buckeyes98]

There was some talk among the coaches that teams who play up during the regular season they should have to play up at least one division in the playoffs. For example, Ursuline plays all D3 or higher schools during the regular season so they should have to play D4 or higher in the playoffs. Newark Catholic for example plays a d3/d4 schedule now, but will be more D4/D5/D6 next year and would be ok moving up one division. Now it will be different next year when we go to 7 divisions, but the idea is a good one. Not all private schools should have to move up, but you should at least play in the playoffs against teams closer to what you play in the regular season. There was also concern about having only 72 teams in D7 instead of having an even amount of teams in each division. You have a 50% chance of making the playoffs in D1 and around a 33% chance in the rest of the divisions starting next year. I don't think football is where the private/public debate is a huge deal, it's the rest of the sports that have bigger issues. I think most private schools should look at maybe playing up one division, how we decide which one's is the issue.

[M0TIVAT0R]

I went to a public school so this answer I do not know.

Can a student go from a private schools to a public school and play right away?

Theoretically no, unless the family can prove that they have made a complete move to the district, and it is not athletically motivated. But schools and players find loop holes to this rule all the time. The OHSAA has no interest in investing the in the resources to keep it from happening.

[55buckeyes98]

I went to a public school so this answer I do not know.

Can a student go from a private schools to a public school and play right away?

I believe the answer is you can go from private to public and play right away if it's the school district you live in. I'm assuming you could also go from public to private and play right away. You cannot go from public to public or private to private without moving. The rules may have changed but this is how I used to understand it. Now there are also some weird rules like for schools like Columbus Academy and St. Charles since they do not have any boundaries at all like the CCL. Can anyone verify this?

[doubleplay643]

Pretty much correct 55Buckeye. CCL (Central Ohio Catholic League is comprised of Bishop Hartley, Ready, St. Frances DeSales, St. Charles and maybe a Worthington School) as I recall. If you are anywhere in the vicinity of Central Ohio you can attend these schools assuming you meet their testing standards or you can receive a "scholarship" offered by them. If you want to attend and meet their application standards you pay a fairly significant tuition. The "scholarship" part of this for families who kids can't afford to attend is where the funny business starts...there are lots of families who can't afford the tuition obviously, but guess what types of kids gets the scholarships? Unless you are clearly an outstanding athlete in usually basketball or football you don't have a snowball chance in getting one of these scholarships, trust me. So it is win-win for the catholic schools, they have wealthier parents who can afford to give their kids year around personal training and speed/agility type of access PLUS the pick of an entire population of a Central Ohio for some other athletes who are classified as less fortunate and worthy of a "scholarship". And of course the church can take the moral high ground claiming they are helping the poor, or balancing their student population with diversification or whatever their latest line is...win-win.

That being said some of these CCL schools are more aggressive in their recruiting than others. St. Charles (all boys) not so much, they are more likely to give a scolarship to a SMART dis-advantaged kid than to an ATHLETE dis-advantaged kid. St. Charles also averages a school score of 28 on their ACT. DeSales and Hartley are all about the ATHLETE dis-advantaged kid...go look at their State of Ohio play-off records.

Until OHSAA puts a stop to it like other states and separates the public and private schools, we here in SE Ohio probably more times than not are going to wind end up on the short end of the stick. But it is about competing in the end and when David beats Goliath it is a pretty special event.

[M0TIVAT0R]

The OHSAA policy states that if you transfer from one school to another you must sit out a calendar year unless you meet one of their exceptions. For instance, if a student withdraws from the school in which district they reside to attend an online school such as ECOT, then leaves ECOT to return to the original school, they must sit out a year even though they never moved out of the district. There are exceptions to this rule however. I would think the same is true with private to public transfers.

[doubleplay643]

The exceptions are not that hard Motivator, just saying. If you do it correctly there is no sitting out a year, otherwise the practice would not be so commonplace.

[implantcat]

Where is the U of NC and Danville thread at?

[implantcat]

Was looking for a roster. Is that not allowed for the last names not living in the area????