Public vs Catholic's ?

[onenybrother]

There a big debate going own in N.J. about making Public and Catholic's and play in ther own league's. I think it a good idea. Only because of the recruting the cathoilc's school do here in Bergen County.

 

[Newc]

I don't see why you would want to have the Catholic schools and the public schools play in seperate leagues, wouldn't they eventually have to face each other in the state playoffs or would you have a public state champion and Catholic state champion? I think if they had the duel state champs it would take something away from the title. There are plenty of public high schools that "recruit" players as well all across the country, not only the Catholic schools.

 

[onenybrother]

I don't see why you would want to have the Catholic schools and the public schools play in seperate leagues, wouldn't they eventually have to face each other in the state playoffs or would you have a public state champion and Catholic state champion? I think if they had the duel state champs it would take something away from the title. There are plenty of public high schools that "recruit" players as well all across the country, not only the Catholic schools.

Which is true. But in smaller counties where the picking are slim, recruiting become's a major advantage.

 

[BGIF]

NJ used to have separate championship divisions. That changed over the years as Catholic schools joined previously public school leagues like Bergen Catholic joining the NNJIL. The public schools are restricted to kids from their school district (regional high schools) or town. The Catholic schools have no restriction. Likewise you can only change public schools by moving to another town or district. Not so with Catholic schools.

onenybrother, I moved out of state 20 years ago. Didn't BC sue to get into the public school leagues? I thought it was a shotgun marriage and the public schools have resented from the beginning as the private schools have an advantage not being bound by a territorial limit.

 

[onenybrother]

NJ used to have separate championship divisions. That changed over the years as Catholic schools joined previously public school leagues like Bergen Catholic joining the NNJIL. The public schools are restricted to kids from their school district (regional high schools) or town. The Catholic schools have no restriction. Likewise you can only change public schools by moving to another town or district. Not so with Catholic schools.

onenybrother, I moved out of state 20 years ago. Didn't BC sue to get into the public school leagues? I thought it was a shotgun marriage and the public schools have resented from the beginning as the private schools have an advantage not being bound by a territorial limit.

Yes they did sue , and they lost. You hit it on the head, the advantage they has in Bergen County is enormous. I no plenty of towns who lose countless of kids to this practice. My son play High School basketball, I've seen Catholic's schools with a 99% white population But there sport's team is 95% black. Now that's ludicrous.

 

[tgolden]

KY already tried that. basically, all the public schools are just mad b/c the catholic schools beat them all the time. and at least in my area, I know for a fact that we did not recruit. in fact, there was a few certain public high schools that were known to recruit more than any private school. IMO, it basically just came down to a little bit of anti-Catholic bias. nobody cared about the Christian schools, even those that had good teams.