I had this in another thread that morphed into a political debate and so I felt I would just start a new one.
If anyone understands how the metropolitan charter and public schools work in regards to football programs I've been through it. I have been working with all of them for a almost a decade. It really all started when I set up the football schedules for MATHS out of Baltimore the years they had a school and Capitol Christian. Honestly, I literally put their entire football schedules together for a good 3-4 years. Which then led me to helping a large handful of schools in MD and DC fill their football schedules.
The bottom line is that most of them (not all) are very unorganized and understaffed. I have no idea how they run a football team yet alone the school, which many times can be a church, an old warehouse, an old office, etc. What is most disappointing however, and I see it with so many kids and their parents, is that kids today bounce from school to school. It gets so bad in the metro areas that some kids have attended 6 schools in 4 years based mostly on a promise they can get a college athletic scholarship if they play ball for this or that coach. Coaches are to blame. Moreso parents are also to blame despite they just work under pure ignorance or a complete lack of understanding of how to help their child.
This is where high school recruiting begins. The promise of a college scholarship opportunity being better at my school instead of that school. Sorry, but no coach can make such a promise to parents and no coach should. It's so easy to sell a parent and a teenage kid and we get what we have today.
Moving along... Capital Christian will field a football team. They have a full schedule. Their head coach Cornell Wade did leave to start a new football program called Royalty Institute. The claim was that he took all the CCA kids. That is not entirely true. After talking with numerous coaches in that DC area I'm not sure how Royalty will work. This first year program has some really big private school heavy hitters on the schedule (St. Frances, Calvert Hall) and are still not sanctioned by the MPSSAA. Nor do I have a clue where their school set up is even located. I have no idea what Coach Wade has in mind and I'm not getting into what I hear.
If anyone can find a single blurb on the internet about Royalty Institute you are better than I. There is not a mention of the school or program, not even on social media. Funny enough, the only thing I find when you google Royalty is this MDVarsity forum, LOL.
Let's just say so many coaches make those promises to kids in hopes they will follow them. It's scary stuff. Kids in the metro DC area just want a chance to make it out to the point where they will sell their souls just on the hint of a promise. However, I see it at so many places where high school recruiting is the name of the game. I think it's sad, but they are not my kids and I have no right to say otherwise. I'll leave it at that.
If anyone understands how the metropolitan charter and public schools work in regards to football programs I've been through it. I have been working with all of them for a almost a decade. It really all started when I set up the football schedules for MATHS out of Baltimore the years they had a school and Capitol Christian. Honestly, I literally put their entire football schedules together for a good 3-4 years. Which then led me to helping a large handful of schools in MD and DC fill their football schedules.
The bottom line is that most of them (not all) are very unorganized and understaffed. I have no idea how they run a football team yet alone the school, which many times can be a church, an old warehouse, an old office, etc. What is most disappointing however, and I see it with so many kids and their parents, is that kids today bounce from school to school. It gets so bad in the metro areas that some kids have attended 6 schools in 4 years based mostly on a promise they can get a college athletic scholarship if they play ball for this or that coach. Coaches are to blame. Moreso parents are also to blame despite they just work under pure ignorance or a complete lack of understanding of how to help their child.
This is where high school recruiting begins. The promise of a college scholarship opportunity being better at my school instead of that school. Sorry, but no coach can make such a promise to parents and no coach should. It's so easy to sell a parent and a teenage kid and we get what we have today.
Moving along... Capital Christian will field a football team. They have a full schedule. Their head coach Cornell Wade did leave to start a new football program called Royalty Institute. The claim was that he took all the CCA kids. That is not entirely true. After talking with numerous coaches in that DC area I'm not sure how Royalty will work. This first year program has some really big private school heavy hitters on the schedule (St. Frances, Calvert Hall) and are still not sanctioned by the MPSSAA. Nor do I have a clue where their school set up is even located. I have no idea what Coach Wade has in mind and I'm not getting into what I hear.
If anyone can find a single blurb on the internet about Royalty Institute you are better than I. There is not a mention of the school or program, not even on social media. Funny enough, the only thing I find when you google Royalty is this MDVarsity forum, LOL.
Let's just say so many coaches make those promises to kids in hopes they will follow them. It's scary stuff. Kids in the metro DC area just want a chance to make it out to the point where they will sell their souls just on the hint of a promise. However, I see it at so many places where high school recruiting is the name of the game. I think it's sad, but they are not my kids and I have no right to say otherwise. I'll leave it at that.
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