SUCKER PUNCHES

***** AS LONG AS HIGH SCHOOLS HAVE BEEN PLAYING FOOTBALL THERE HAVE BEEN ACCUSATIONS OF RECRUITING .

THERE ARE RECRUITING CONTROVERSIES EVERYWHERE THAT FOOTBALL IS PLAYED .FROM COAST TO COAST & BORDER TO BORDER NOT ONLY OLIVE BRANCH MISSISSIPPI .

IS THERE SUCH A THING AS RECRUITING IN HIGH SCHOOL ? MAYBE .

SCHOOLS ATTRACT STUDENTS OR PLAYERS BY THEIR REPUTATION IN ACADEMICS , ATHLETICS , & ARTS . SCHOOLS  DEVELOP PROGRAMS THAT ATTRACT PARTICIPANTS.

RECRUITING IS BASED ON A FAULTY PREMISE THAT A STUDENT BELONGS TO A SCHOOL BASED ON THE LOCATION OF HIS RESIDENCE .

THIS MAKES THE STUDENT A SERF OR AN INDENTURED SERVANT.

A PARENT HAS THE RIGHT TO PUT THEIR CHILD IN THE BEST PLACE FOR THE CHILD .

TAKE GIBSON COUNTY FOR EXAMPLE . IF YOUR SON IS IN THE BAND GCHS IS WHERE YOU WANT HIM TO BE . A HUGH EXCELLENT BAND , WELL FUNDED , GREAT TRIPS , JUST TOP NOTCH .

ON THE OTHER HAND, IF YOUR SON PLAYS FOOTBALL YOU WANT HIM ANYWHERE BUT GCHS . LOW NUMBERS , BAD TEAM , HAVE LOST OVER 50 CONSECUTIVE GAMES .

WHY WOULD YOUR BOY PLAY AT G-COUNTY WHEN THERE IS A SUPER PROGRAM WITHIN 10 MILES IN ANY DIRECTION ?

YOU WERE ATTRACTED TO THE GCHS BAND NOT RECRUITED . SAME WITH THE OTHER FOOTBALL PROGRAMS .

  A PARENT SHOULD HAVE TO RIGHT TO SEND HIS CHILD TO ANY SCHOOL TO WHICH ;
1. PARENT CAN PROVIDE TRANSPORTATION
2.THE SCHOOL HAS ROOM FOR
3. PARENT MUST PAY ANY FEES NEEDED

 HOW THE PARENT PAYS IS HIS BUSINESS . IF YOU HAVE SOMEONE GOOFY ENOUGH TO PAY YOUR KIDS WAY GOOD FOR YOU .

THE OTHER SIDE OF THE COIN .

A SCHOOL OR COMMUNITY CAN DECIDE WHAT TYPE OF ATTRACTION THEY WANT THEIR SCHOOL TO HAVE .

OLIVE BRANCH CHOSE FOOTBALL.

 IF YOU WANT TO BE A FOOTBALL SCHOOL MAKE YOUR PROGRAM AS ATTRACTIVE AS OLIVE BRANCH THEN PLAYERS WILL COME TO YOU

IF THE OLIVE BRANCH COMMUNITY WANTS TO ACCEPT FOOTBALL PLAYERS WHOSE PARENTS ARE NOT PAYING LOCAL TAXES AND FORE-SAID PLAYERS WILL PUT LOCAL BOYS ON THE BENCH , THEN SO BE IT . 

ALL OLIVE BRANCH HAS TO DO IS SAY  ; WE HAVE A VERY ATTRACTIVE FOOTBALL PROGRAM . MANY PLAYERS WANT TO COME HERE TO PLAY .

BUT OLIVE BRANCH WANTS TO ACT  LIKE EVERYONE IS STUPID AND SAY THE PLAYERS ARE COMING FOR THE ACADEMICS .

JUST TELL THE TRUTH OB . WE HAVE A GREAT PROGRAM AND PLAYERS WANT TO PLAY HERE .

I KNOW FROM EXPERIENCE . I WAS A DECK CHAIR ON THE RED DEVIL CRUISE SHIP . GERMANTOWN HAD A GREAT PROGRAM THAT WAS DOMINATE FOR OVER 20 YEARS .

MANY PLAYERS CAME THERE TO BE PART OF THE PROGRAM . THEY WERE NOT THERE FOR THE ACADEMIC SIDE OF THINGS .

GERMANTOWN DID NOT RECRUIT , THE RED DEVILS ATTRACTED.

A COMMUNITY CAN DECIDE WHAT THEY THINK IS IMPORTANT IN A SCHOOL

 SOME SCHOOLS THINK FOOTBALL MATTERS MOST ; SOME FOOTBALL MATTERS NOT AT ALL .

THERE WAS ONCE A SMALL PRIVATE SCHOOL WHERE A BOOSTER DECIDED THE SCHOOL WOULD BECOME A BASKETBALL POWER .

THE SCHOOL WAS NOT A MEMBER OF THE STATE ASSOCIATION SO TRANSFER RULES WERE NOT A FACTOR .

TUITION WAS PAID BY THE MONTH  . SO AT THE BEGINNING OF BASKETBALL IN OCTOBER  FIVE GREAT BASKETBALL PLAYERS WOULD SHOW UP .

THEY WOULD STAY TO THE END OF BASKETBALL  , THEN LEAVE SCHOOL.  PAID 5 MONTHS TUITION  , PLAYED A SEASON OF BASKETBALL .

TEAM WON 3 STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS , THEN BOOSTER SAID BEEN THERE DONE THAT & MOVED ON . 

SCHOOL HAS NOT BEEN CLOSE TO A WINNING SEASON SINCE

I WAS NOT RECRUITED FROM MEDINA TO MILAN . TRUTH IS NEITHER SCHOOL WANTED ME .

I WAS ATTRACTED BY MIRAGES AT MILAN .