[washed up]

Everybody wants to win, I get that. But in life as well as athletic events, no matter how well prepared or conditioned sometimes you lose. To me there are more teachable moments when you lose. If every member did the very best they could do and still lost I say you are successful. Successful teams are just that, teams.
They are not a bunch of talented individuals running around making plays. A successful high school team is a team made up of everybody from the youth d team to the seniors and all the volunteers, coaches, parents in between. All I am saying is that over the last several years high school sports have taken on a college/pro mentality. Went 4-6 go buy a new coach. Went 15-20 search the world for better basketball players. Doesn't matter if they speak English just so they can play. Even doing this you can't even win a regional title. Kid pleads guilty to rape, serves 6 months in juvenile and is allowed back on team because he has a lot of ability (Ohio). Fake addresses to fake birth certificates to fake classes all in the name of winning. If this is the norm for high school sports then I want no part of it. When we teach young men and women that it is alright to block in the back, as long as you don't get caught, it is alright to skip class, don't worry about that test, I got your back, if anybody asks, this is your address, caught drinking, just normal kids, with no consequences they carry this forward. And really this conversation should be on thread by itself. I did not mean to hi jack the Ashland thread with my rant. I do apologize. Good luck to my alma mater Friday.

Seems everybody does two things, points fingers at others and justifies their own transfers. DB2 take Lawrence for instance, there was a lot of controversy surrounding the Dalton Boys a year or two ago. Tolsia folks point fingers and Lawrence folks justify.