Athletic Recruiting (Transfers) In High School

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Athletic Recruiting (Transfers)In High School

• PED 4761
• Summer 2006
• Paul Stranz

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Major Reasons for Recruiting

• Education policies at both state and federal
  levels
• New Charter and Magnate Schools
• Federal No Child Left Behind Act
• Enables families to leave schools with
• substandard academics
• Backyard high school is just one of many options
• NCLB Act applies to academics not to athletics
• Open enrollment has become the norm

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Major Reasons (Cont.)

• Growth of club sports
• Parents are now accustomed to choice.
• Traditional channels of youth sports, to
• middle school sports, then on to high
• school sports.
• Multiple clubs available.

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Major Reasons (Cont.)

• Growth of club sports (cont.)
• Parents are investing a lot of money on
• club teams.
• Places pressure on high school athletic
• programs to perform.
• If high school programs do not perform
• parents feel justified to look around.

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Major Reasons (Cont.)

• Increasing complex family structures
• Custody arrangements are very complex.
• Custody may change every year or more often.
• Arrangements may be across town or from state
• to state.
• Student may live with father, mother, or
  relative.
• Hardship cases must be justified when
  transferring,
• but not allowed just for athletics.
• Stringent rules must be followed for
  transferring.

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Major Reasons (Cont.)

• Increase in non-faculty coaches
• Sixty percent of coaches nationwide are non
  teachers.
• Walk-on coaches are not as likely to embrace
• philosophy of educational athletics.
• Stressing winning over the values of teamwork
  and
• loyalty.
• Not hired to just coach a sport but hired to
  teach kids,
• your classroom is the field or the court.
• If you want kids to be loyal, coach needs to be
  loyal to the players who have gone through that
  program.

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Schools Private vs. Public
Public Schools
Private Schools

• It is wrong to deny a kid an opportunity to
  better himself or herself.
• Public schools get students assigned to them.
• Perception is that students who transfer to
  private schools were enticed.

• Past 15 to 25 years quality of education has been
  under attack.
• Private schools taking advantage this situation
  and recruit public school athletes.
• Its not right for a player to be wooed from a
  school that might have spent several years
  developing their talents.

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Schools Private vs. Public
Private
Public

• More discipline in school and athletic programs.
• Students respond better to a disciplined
  structure.
• Recruiting is getting people in the building.
• Just because a program has good athletes doesnt
  mean that they recruit.
• Quality schools recruit themselves.

• Public schools get students assigned to them.
• Private schools have the advantage of recruiting.
• Typically private schools have greater access
  wealthy beneficiaries.
• Recruiting is getting players to gain advantage
  in athletics.

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IHSA Public-Private Task Force

• IHSA conducted a Public-Private Task Force Survey
  
• 564 of the 752 member schools (75) responded
• The survey asked questions regarding 30-mile
  radius for non-boundaried schools.
• Should students pay tuition as incoming freshmen
  at a public school continue to be ineligible for
  one year?
• Should all schools without boundaries be subject
  to a multiplier?
• Should schools that have experienced unusual
  success in a sport be subject to a multipliers?
• Should population density be a factor when
  determining the multiplier?
• Are you in favor of adding classes for certain
  sports?
• Do you support separate playoff systems for
  public and private schools?
• http//www.ihsa.org/announce/2004-05/041217.htm

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IHSA Public-Private Task Force

• Results of the task force
• They set a fixed number of 735 students as the
  cutoff between Class A and Class AA. Derived by
  averaging the cutoffs for the last 10 years.
• All two-class sports and activities will use a
  single method of classification
• A multiplier of 1.65 will be applied to the
  enrollment of all non-boundaried schools with
  450 or more students.
• Affirmed that the IHSA will hold tournaments
  that include all public and private, or
  boundaried and non-boundaried, schools.
• http//www.ihsa.org/announce/2004-05/050319.htm

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IHSA RECRUITING

• IHSA Schools approved changes to the Recruiting
  By-Law
• Endorses a tradition of privates schools
  allowing a faculty members children to attend
  the school without paying tuition.
• Recruitment or attempted recruitment of students
  for athletic purposes is prohibited, regardless
  of their residence.
• It will be a violation for any student athlete
  to receive or be offered any remunerations of any
  kind or be offered any special inducement which
  is not made available to all applicants.

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IHSA RECRUITING

• IHSA Schools approved changes to the Recruiting
  By-Law (cont.)
• Recruitment programs must be designed to provide
  an overview of the academic and extracurricular
  programs offered by a school and are not to be
  used for athletic purposes.
• Information presented or distributed shall be
  limited to the academic and extracurricular
  offerings provided by the school.
• Information shall not imply, in any manner, that
  members schools athletic program is better or
  more accomplished than any other.
• http//www.ihsa.org/announce/2004-05/050601.htm

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IHSA

• There are 756 IHSA member schools.
• Consisting of 610 public boundaried schools.
• 146 Non-boundaried schools both private and
  public.
• Classification cut-off for 2006-2007
• 730 students and below Class A (420 schools)
  55.6
• 730.1 students and above Class AA (336 schools)
  44.4
• http//www.ihsa.org/school/change07.htm

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Final Four IL State TournamentPrivate Public
Non-boundaried Schools
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Final Four IL State TournamentPrivate Public
Non-boundaried Schools
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Questions

• The prior two slides illustrate the dominance of
  non-boundaried schools, private and public, in
  the Final Four in the Illinois State Soccer
  Tournaments for the past five years.
• 1) Is there an equal playing field when
  non-boundaried schools are able to recruit?
• 2) Why do the non-boundaried schools dominate the
  state finals in the smaller Class A schools?
• 3) Is recruiting an issue that even needs to be
  addressed?

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Reference

• Athletic Management, (2005). No Child Law
  Creates New Issues. Athletic Management. August
  2005.
• Glenn, C. (2003). Win at all costs. American
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• Hall, C.R., (2005, October 16). Whos been
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• IHSA Announcements. (2005, January 18).
  Public-private task force makes recommendations
  to board. Retrieved July 9, 2006, from
  http//www.ihsa.org/announce/2004-05/050118.htm.
• IHSA Announcements. (2005, March19). Board acts
  on public-private recommendations. Retrieved July
  9, 2006, from http//www.ihsa.org/announce/2004-05
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• IHSA Announcements. (2005, March19). Board acts
  on public-private recommendations. Retrieved July
  9, 2006, from http//www.ihsa.org/announce/2004-05
  /050319.htm.

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Reference

• IHSA Announcements. (2005, June1). IHSA schools
  approve changes to recruiting by-law. Retrieved
  July 9, 2006, from http//www.ihsa.org/announce/20
  04-05/050601.htm.
• School classification changes. (2006, April 25).
  Retrieved July 9, 2006, from http//www.ihsa.org/s
  chool/change07.htm.
• Peltz, J. (2006). Penalty plans for Florida high
  school sports transfers touch off firestorm.
  Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, FL) 2006, April
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• Smith, L. (2005) A tough game. Athletic
  Management, Oct/Nov. 2005.