Rules of recruiting
April 18, 2008 @ 11:46 a.m. by Joannaby joanna
A poster wondered if its OK to recruit within a district. This is regarding the Maize and Recruiting post. Maize will have no boundaries when its second high school, Maize South, opens in 2009. So of course I was curious about how you keep coaches from recruiting. They will use a preferences system and a feeder pattern and the coaches work to keep the kids in their feeder pattern.
Recruiting by coaches is not allowed. But if kids are in your feeder pattern, it’s OK to send them information about your school and program, ask them to come to your summer camp, etc. One of the ways Wichita public school coaches do this is by finding out what kids are in their boundaries of their school. They then send those, let’s say boys, information about their program. Let them know when football will start.
There’s nothing wrong with it. Where it would be a problem is if an East coach, for example, was talking to a kid at Wilbur — which is a direct feeder for Northwest — about the programs at East and that he should come and be a Blue Ace. That’s a problem.
What isn’t a problem is, for example, if Heights talks to a Stucky kid — Stucky is a direct feeder for Heights — about coming and playing softball and being a Falcon.
I hope that makes sense. Any questions or clarifications, please feel free to post.
April 18th, 2008 at 1:54 pm
So Joanna…what is your issue with the Maize schools and recruiting?
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April 18th, 2008 at 3:17 pm
I bet she doesn’t have an issue with Maize schools; there just isn’t anything else exciting in Kansas. If it wasn’t Maize then we would be reading blogs about more foul balls, or what the inside of the locker rooms look like at WSU instead of the track meet, or some mythical basketball tournament that doesn’t mean anything.
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