I think kids know who the hot hand is. Take Edgewater for example before Cameron Duke. Laughingstock. Then he “attracts” players and becomes a contender every year.    Look at Deerfield Beach. They were a 8-12 win team annually with Jevon Glenn. Now they are one of the worst teams in South Florida. They have won 6 games in the last 3 season combined after he left!!! Point is certain coaches know how to attract players. Players know where to go and when to go. It’s even easier in the Information Age.    So if TFA has coaches who know this formula, it’s not a surprise someone can get really good really fast 

I tend to side with Ray here. No other program can entice players in the way IMG, and it seems TFA, have done. Programs shouldn't play by different sets of rules. The idea that an absolute nobody program at a tiny school can suddenly scoop up many of the area's best players and play a national schedule without ever having won ANYTHING is ludicrous.  But, I think where we run into trouble is with the basic idea around programs being able to recruit players. I think we're beyond the point of a communist-style approach where we engineer equivalent talent bases for programs. The better programs should be able to recruit/attract whoever they please, and families pick the best option. Now that the players are all professionals (don't get it twisted, the 16 year-old brat who isn't any good STILL retains the right to PURSUE "NIL" opportunities and there is a non-zero chance he'll get some eventually), schools and/or boosters should also be able to pay players. It's basically already legal. The market will eventually sort itself out and we'll reach a point where no one would actually pay a teenager to play sports for a particular high school. It will just be seen as bad business. But, it shouldn't be illegal. And, it wouldn't be such a sore spot if all the programs could play by the same rules.

Plausible Deniability can be used as a defense, but it still doesn't eliminate GUILT!!  They took 2 kids from our program and had a full court press on our 2 top LB's that just graduated, Melendez who is now at Auburn and Robert Lee at FAU.  This isn't hearsay as their parents told me as much at practices.  "COERCING" the player isn't the standard, instead simply talking too and encouraging it.   Kids that were not involved shouldn't be punished and with the School Choice they are free to play elsewhere.  The institution knew all along as their Principal as well as the varsity baseball HC resigned in protest of what they witnessed.  TFA needs to be held accountable for turning a blind eye.   Hopefully, we will see more of this in the upcoming season as they aren't a one off. 

I noticed St Francis from Gainesville, and The First Academy-Leesburg are dropping out of 11-man and playing an 8-man schedule 

I wasn’t familiar with what they were found guilty beyond a reasonable doubt for. I did know they hired coaches from other schools and a slew of the players for the former team came over. Not sure if that’s illegal or not. If there was evidence of someone who works for TFA coercing a child to transfer then that’s on them. But kids who had nothing to do with it shouldn’t suffer. Suspend the guilty adults for 2 years from coaching in Florida. Coaching of any kind. 2 years. And allow the kids who didn’t do anything wrong still get a chance that the rest of the kids in the state get to do.