Boys Basketball Public School rankings No. 3 - Varsity Extra
Basketball rankings: The new Mercury News boys and girls top 15	Girls Basketball Public School rankings 3 and Out
Public schools rankings? Are you kidding me? What a bunch of cry babies. This liberal PC whining is just plain stupid. It goes back to the “everyone deserves a trophy” philosophy. Man up and stop the crying. The Merc News should be ashamed of themselves. Pathetic.
And the number 3 team just got knocked off by Santa Teresa tonight. I’ll be curious to see how these rankings will be revised next week. Mt. Hamilton race also getting interesting with 3 teams having a 6-2 record, and if Willow Glen beat Independence tonight, it will be a 4 way tie for first with a 6-2 record and Santa Teresa 2 games behind with a 4-4 record. It will make for an exciting 2nd half of league the next 2 weeks.
It’s not liberal and not PC, “3 and Out.” It’s a fact that public schools and private schools are fundamentally different athletically. Public schools can only accept schools in their district and can only have the limited coaching staffs that school districts can afford. Private schools can recruit, start youth teams well before high school age and spend exhorbitant sums on large, talented coaching staffs. So, yes, private schools have an unfair advantage over public schools and should be judged differently.
“Private schools can recruit, start youth teams well before high school age and spend exhorbitant sums on large, talented coaching staffs. So, yes, private schools have an unfair advantage over public schools and should be judged differently.”
While having more money to spend on coaches and better facilities is true, your statement on recruiting and starting youth teams violate the undue influence clause and would be considered cheating. It is a myth that keeps being spread by ignorant people who dont know the rules. I do agree that Privates do have advantages but its not because of cheating (recruiting and starting youth teams)
Rules: http://www.cifccs.org/cbp/policies/recruiting.pdf
Forget “politically correct:” ranking public schools while ignoring CCS teams south and west of Gilroy makes the rankings incorrect, in my view. The team with the most wins in CCS — 17-2 San Benito — isn’t mentioned because it is south of Santa Clara County. The Balers, whih lost in the CCS semifinals last year, has only lost to Bellarmine and Palma (a loss it later avenged). For perspective, MaxPreps has San Benito ranked #4 in CCS D1. The Merc ignores them, even though they compete for the same section title that the other ranked teams do. I get that resources are slim to cover south of Gilroy, but there are enough prep sports websites to consult for rankings. We’re used to being overlooked down here, despite our football team’s sixth CCS title of the decade; our softball team’s 7 straight CCS D1 titles; and the baseball team’s back-to-back appearances in the D1 championship game in the past 2 years. Teams that compete for CCS titles should compete for a spot in your rankings. That would be correct — politically and otherwise.
You’re delusional if you think the private schools don’t recruit–basketball, soccer, and especially football. Tuition grants are common for kids who are not academically “elite.” Period.
Boys Basketball Public School rankings No. 3 - Varsity Extra
Basketball rankings: The new Mercury News boys and girls top 15	Girls Basketball Public School rankings 3 and Out
Public schools rankings? Are you kidding me? What a bunch of cry babies. This liberal PC whining is just plain stupid. It goes back to the “everyone deserves a trophy” philosophy. Man up and stop the crying. The Merc News should be ashamed of themselves. Pathetic.
And the number 3 team just got knocked off by Santa Teresa tonight. I’ll be curious to see how these rankings will be revised next week. Mt. Hamilton race also getting interesting with 3 teams having a 6-2 record, and if Willow Glen beat Independence tonight, it will be a 4 way tie for first with a 6-2 record and Santa Teresa 2 games behind with a 4-4 record. It will make for an exciting 2nd half of league the next 2 weeks.
It’s not liberal and not PC, “3 and Out.” It’s a fact that public schools and private schools are fundamentally different athletically. Public schools can only accept schools in their district and can only have the limited coaching staffs that school districts can afford. Private schools can recruit, start youth teams well before high school age and spend exhorbitant sums on large, talented coaching staffs. So, yes, private schools have an unfair advantage over public schools and should be judged differently.
“Private schools can recruit, start youth teams well before high school age and spend exhorbitant sums on large, talented coaching staffs. So, yes, private schools have an unfair advantage over public schools and should be judged differently.”
While having more money to 
spend on coaches and better facilities is true, your statement on recruiting and starting youth teams violate the undue influence clause and would be considered cheating. It is a myth that keeps being spread by ignorant people who dont know the rules. I do agree that Privates do have advantages but its not because of cheating (recruiting and starting youth teams)
Rules: http://www.cifccs.org/cbp/policies/recruiting.pdf
Forget “politically correct:” ranking public schools while ignoring CCS teams south and west of Gilroy makes the rankings incorrect, in my view. The team with the most wins in CCS — 17-2 San Benito — isn’t mentioned because it is south of Santa Clara County. The Balers, whih lost in the CCS semifinals last year, has only lost to Bellarmine and Palma (a loss it later avenged). For perspective, MaxPreps has San Benito ranked #4 in CCS D1. The Merc ignores them, even though they compete for the same section title that the other ranked teams do. I get that resources are slim to cover south of Gilroy, but there are enough prep sports websites to consult for rankings. We’re used to being overlooked down here, despite our football team’s sixth CCS title of the decade; our softball team’s 7 straight CCS D1 titles; and the baseball team’s back-to-back appearances in the D1 championship game in the past 2 years. Teams that compete for CCS titles should compete for a spot in your rankings. That would be correct — politically and otherwise.
You’re delusional if you think the private schools don’t recruit–basketball, soccer, and especially football. Tuition grants are common for kids who are not academically “elite.” Period.