Downside of Coaching at a Private School?

[JNreturns]

Everyone on this board (even myself at times) has sort of assumed that the private schools have this tremendous advantage in building football programs. But there are some downsides right?

1. Difficulty in recruiting players?
2. Tuition issues?
3. Academic standards higher?

 

[hitch_and_go]

No feeder program for the majority of them. Teams like Webb and Lamar have the same kids running the same offense and defensive from 3rd-12th grade

 

[cardsbeatwriter]

No feeder program for the majority of them. Teams like Webb and Lamar have the same kids running the same offense and defensive from 3rd-12th grade

A private school should hire a youth coach from a public youth program from a major metro and funnel those kids who have played together for a while into the private school... problem solved!

 

[Mike*Honcho]

Academic standards higher?

Didn't Drew Temple graduate from Rockhurst and then fail to qualify academically (at least at the beginning)? If I remember correctly, Mizzou redshirted him because he wasn't eligible when practices began his freshman year. That shouldn't happen with Rockhurst graduates. He did finally attain eligibility but not early enough to salvage the season. It's a good thing there were lower quality schools like KU and MO State to help him out after Mizzou dumped him.

 

[Treadmill]

Everyone on this board (even myself at times) has sort of assumed that the private schools have this tremendous advantage in building football programs. But there are some downsides right?

1. Difficulty in recruiting players?
2. Tuition issues?
3. Academic standards higher?

Biggest downside: can't qualify for your pension.

 

[BoosterBosko]

Everyone on this board (even myself at times) has sort of assumed that the private schools have this tremendous advantage in building football programs. But there are some downsides right?

1. Difficulty in recruiting players?
2. Tuition issues?
3. Academic standards higher?

Nothing about booster clubs????

 

[NorthWestBleachers]

I think it's a bit of a leap to assume that you can take several kids from the supposed worst schools in the state and move them to the supposed best schools in the state and assume they are all suddenly successfully meeting a stringent academic standard. A few of them might be.
Most of them? Doubtful.
Not just in the city .... anywhere. You couldn't put random kids on a bus in SWMO and dump them off at Thomas Jefferson and assume they'll all be making the grade. That's silly.
The money behind these schools demands a standard of academic excellence. The more this is toyed with in order to promote athletics? The more you potentially jeopardize your funding. Not always. But, often.
That could - COULD be why some of these programs are so fly-by-night.
JUST my opinion.