Five CNY high schools will no longer schedule CBA

[PeteCalvin]

CBA most certainly recruits. They plucked a couple of solid hoops players out of the Syracuse City District when my son was in eighth grade. One of the players was going into ninth but reclassed back to eight at CBA. Believe me, he didn’t need to. He was already a stud. But that’s another great use of the private school system.

 

[nocohalo]

I admit I skimmed the article quickly, but that letter ignores the recruiting piece entirely. Can’t have a real discussion about the situation without acknowledging that fact IMO. Is CBA recruiting? I don't know. If they are, that can’t be ignored even if they had a few down years like the letter mentioned. They haven’t lost a game in 3 years and only 1 game in the last 4 years. Seems like a red flag to me that they might have a competitive advantage.

School size is largely irrelevant if you can recruit. Doesn’t guarantee success every year, but it’s a huge advantage.

You mentioning DC brought me down memory lane. Years ago, 4 time State Champion Jamesville Dewitt with Coleman/Cavanaugh came down to DeMatha and I watched the Stags absolutely wipe the floor with them. Wasn’t a close game out of the gate. DeMatha is a much smaller school than JD. That exemplified to me the difference between private and public. For as good as JD was, they aren’t touching a private school like DeMatha on their best day that makes a concerted effort to recruit kids.

I’ll be interested to find out more about this as I have family that works in the Liverpool school district I’ll be visiting this Easter weekend.

Some irony in that those JD teams had some funny business on their end with transfers. I remember one season, I think Triche's senior year, JD conveniently got Corcoran's best player as a transfer.