But that would be punishing programs who are successful. For example. Brandon High is/was a national powerhouse for wrestling for decades. So if you have a kid in the Tampa area who is coming up in elementary and middle school and is a stud wrestler, it would a huge disservice of the parents to not at least try everything they can to get their kid to Brandon. That is the pathway to success.    So why should Brandon be punished by having state championship aspirations stripped away because they laid a foundation of excellence in their craft?    Brandon doesn’t need to recruit. Anyone who wrestles knows Brandon wrestling. So if studs are showing up at their door in droves, why should they have to turn them away and crush their dream? Or have to be punished, sentenced to expensive regional AAU-type competition? 

And this helps to underscore the reality that K-12 SCHOOLS should be completely separate from big-time, for-profit sports. In truth, they already are in every way but the official way. Make big-time, for-profit sports REGIONAL rather than attached to K-12 schools.

If you go through ALLLLLLL that craziness travel and lose the typical high school experience with prom, homecoming, friends, girlfriends etc. Just to play a sport then doesn’t that kind of tell you how important that decision is to that kid and his parents? You are not going to do all of that for a hobby. This is something that they most likely are investing time, money and effort into hoping that it takes them to the next level and doing it locally minimizes that chance in their opinion 

This system is bad in Florida HS wrestling as well. kids will take home school classes on the computer and wrestle for a school 3 hours away. They find places close to home to train at and then on the weekends they drive to whatever tournament that school is participating at that weekend and wear their singlet. 

Exactly. That’s what I always assumed. That’s why when I was asking one of the sources connected to the football team who do we have for KOC ; And he said Dr.philips. That threw me through a loop because I’m already knowing we play Dr.philips in the showcase, which made me pause. Like hold up since when did the showcase take place on the week of KOC.    so I still don’t know who we play for KOC , it has went from norland, to dr.Philips.