Gumshoe ---
Correct me if I am wrong, but as I understand Open Enrollment in the Public System a student must not participate in athletics for a full year if they are in grades 9 - 12. I am not aware of that rule when it comes to "transfers" in the Private Schools. Call it what you like, there has been more than one case in the past that a football player has appeared as a Jr or Sr and a "scholarship" for a "better education" was provided. Back to the topic.........
Good Luck Bluffton Baseball
Good Luck Bluffton Softball
It has been enjoyable to follow you both in 2010
This topic has been discussed and railed upon and defended many times on this site over the last few years and always seems to fall on deaf ears when it comes to what the truth actually is. LCC benefited five years ago and four years ago from students who transferred to lCC after being released by their former schools superintendants. They did not have to sit out because they were released. LCC also has had two other transfers in the last three years both of whom sat out a year to qualify. Those being Lombardo and Johnson. Since the first set of transfers that raised such a stink, the school yielded to the demands of the NWC and agreed that even despite releases from the former schools, LCC would not accept anymore student athletes without requiring them to sit a year. There have been none since Johnson that I can think of. Now LCC does get students from the city school voucher program, a program that has drawn alot of pro and con debate both inside and outside the school and statewide. I am not aware of any voucher kids up to this point playing any substantial role in any of the big three sports. Aside from the parents of students who were already in the school system and negotiated the loopholes to receive a cut in tuition, I am not sure many people in the school system are in favor of the voucher program, aside from the administrators who like the bump in enrollment and the state dollars that come with it. Despite what most people outside the school believe, LCC has struggled with declining enrollment and the rising costs to run the school.
It doesn't take a "rocket" scientist to understand the dislike by some of LCC given the myths that are perpetuated on this site and in the NWC community but they are simply myths today. In the last few years lCC has bent over backwards to be a good conference member but seemingly to no avail and it is frustrating to those who want to be good league members and those who are very happy to be a part of a conference. Which is what brought about this topics original point. When the Bluffton players were as vocally excited as they were to see LCC lose, despite being a fellow conference team and the Bluffton coaches stood by and watched seemingly amused, it brought out some frustration in parents who had to watch hard working seniors and other players be disrespected, players who have nothing to do with the politics of schools and the myths that others wish to believe. That parents who openly vented toward the Bluffton coaches were just as wrong as the Bluffton players for what they did, they should have taken the higher road but it can be hard to do when you hear the things you hear that just simply arent true.
The support that LCC received from other conference schools during that state basketball run was very appreciated and I for one thought we were finally past all the negative talk and rumors over what happened five years ago. But as evidenced during that baseball game and from what you read on this site, there is still work to do. Don't take it out on the kids who are no different than any other high school kids, who want to be the best at whatever they do. We can't change what happened in the past, we can only move forward and continue to work to improve what we do to be a good conference steward.
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..............im sorry for being so demanding..they dont recruit..they send letters asking if you would like to be apart of the education! haha..what a joke. only lcc can get close! haha thats right..there such a better community over in lima so much better education then all the other nwc schools! schools run in cycles..not for lcc though! there always tough..there communtiy works so hard with there children to make such a great athletic school as your own..from what i understand lcc is a catholic school..i know principal isnt even catholic...anyways..good luck to riverdale and bluffton as they move on!
