Touchy subject at Bath
Well there’s a firestorm brewing just south of here.
Here are a couple of stories from today’s Lima News:
High profile transfer at Bath spurs debate
Bath Superintendent under fire for allowing transfers
Essentially a couple of boys from Bath have transferred to Lima Central Catholic. They aren’t just your average students, they are pretty good football players. Bath’s football program has struggled in recent years while LCC has been on an upswing ever since former Columbus Grove coach Jerry Cooper took over as head coach.
While Catholic schools get the bad rap on this most of the time, you can’t fault LCC for bringing them into the fold. They want to change schools so they should be allowed to…it’s their choice and their parent’s choice.
I do have a couple of problems with the situation though. What ever happened to loyalty for the school district you live in and the kids around you you’ve played with for so many years? All that stuff has apparently gone out the window with the way prep athletes change schools these days.
It’s a double-edged sword. You want to see kids maximize their potential and I also understand they may not always be able to do it at their hometown school. It’s a tough issue.
Believe me I coached at a private school and I know what it was like to see kids you developed through elementary school and middle school leave when they get to high school. It seemed to happen quite often for us when I was coaching wrestling at St. Wendelin. Honestly, I can’t remember getting one transfer student into our program the 13 years I was there --- But I saw plenty leave and that always left a bad taste in my mouth as a coach.
But the key in the Bath-LCC situation seems to be the actions of Bath Superintendent Bill Lodemeier. He had to sign an exemption for the athletes to be immediately eligible. The OHSAA waiver states that a student’s physical and emotional well-being must be at stake for the release to be signed by the superintendent.
A lot of Bath people are angry Lodemeier signed the waiver. I think it’s fairly common for supers to sign off on students transferring.
We have a few public to public transfers each year in this area…thankfully most area athletes and their parents aren’t school shopping for sports programs.
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Here are a couple of stories from today’s Lima News:
High profile transfer at Bath spurs debate
Bath Superintendent under fire for allowing transfers
Essentially a couple of boys from Bath have transferred to Lima Central Catholic. They aren’t just your average students, they are pretty good football players. Bath’s football program has struggled in recent years while LCC has been on an upswing ever since former Columbus Grove coach Jerry Cooper took over as head coach.
While Catholic schools get the bad rap on this most of the time, you can’t fault LCC for bringing them into the fold. They want to change schools so they should be allowed to…it’s their choice and their parent’s choice.
I do have a couple of problems with the situation though. What ever happened to loyalty for the school district you live in and the kids around you you’ve played with for so many years? All that stuff has apparently gone out the window with the way prep athletes change schools these days.
It’s a double-edged sword. You want to see kids maximize their potential and I also understand they may not always be able to do it at their hometown school. It’s a tough issue.
Believe me I coached at a private school and I know what it was like to see kids you developed through elementary school and middle school leave when they get to high school. It seemed to happen quite often for us when I was coaching wrestling at St. Wendelin. Honestly, I can’t remember getting one transfer student into our program the 13 years I was there --- But I saw plenty leave and that always left a bad taste in my mouth as a coach.
But the key in the Bath-LCC situation seems to be the actions of Bath Superintendent Bill Lodemeier. He had to sign an exemption for the athletes to be immediately eligible. The OHSAA waiver states that a student’s physical and emotional well-being must be at stake for the release to be signed by the superintendent.
A lot of Bath people are angry Lodemeier signed the waiver. I think it’s fairly common for supers to sign off on students transferring.
We have a few public to public transfers each year in this area…thankfully most area athletes and their parents aren’t school shopping for sports programs.
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Findlay Courier Thursday Local Sports
Fostoria Review Times Thursday Sports
Fremont Ross beats Marion in home finale
Oak Harbor has no answer for Royals’ Reynolds
Marion Harding eliminates Fremont Ross girls
Dyer sets season scoring record for Harding girls
Clear Fork wrestler turns it around
Wauseon girls end Bryan’s season
Chasing Jay Burson
What Ashland area coaches say about Diebler
Bucyrus area boys previews
Browns get ready for NFL combine
Fort Jennings shoots down Antwerp girls
Defiance Crescent News Sports
Mansfield area prep roundup
Lima News Thursday Sports
Upper Sandusky, Norwalk in big game Friday
Labels: Transfers
posted by --J-- @ 8:07 AM
7 Comments:
At 2:00 PM,
Anonymous said…
Loyalty ended when pro players started moving from team to team for a few extra bucks. Monkey see, monkey do.
At 8:49 PM,
Anonymous said…
Not sure I agree with that. No one here is getting paid. Some of it is just evolution. People are more transient these days and kids know kids from other schools because of travel teams and the internet.
I do agree, loyalty isn't what it used to be. I don't know how the kid from Bath can look at those kids in the eye that he's played with for years.
Again, it's a sign of the times. You have parents who think they can control every aspect of their kids lives. Obviously, it can't be their kids fault, it's the coaches, or the teachers or someone else.
JDee
At 5:11 AM,
Anonymous said…
No, nobody is being paid, but its still a matter of loyalty. There was a time when a babseball player played his entire carear for the same team. Now they move from team to team for a few bucks, or a better stadium, biger market, you know, the grass is always greener. Young athletes see this and figure why be loyal to school. Money may not be involved, but the grass may be greener.
At 5:22 AM,
Anonymous said…
Schools like LCC enjoy the advantage of being able to pull kids from a large area. Public schools only have the kids that live in the district, unless they open enrole, and that has to be done prior to their freshman years. Private schools should have to compete in the Division I catagory for all sports.
At 5:39 AM,
Anonymous said…
If everyone made the same, yet they were still moving to other teams it would be one thing. But in free agency the money makes a difference. If the money was as big in the 60's and 70's, those guys would have moved on like today. They aren't somehow better people.
Some private schools do this. St. Wendelin, Fremont St. Joe's don't even have programs that stand out in the small school divisions, and you want them to play in D-1?
JDee
At 11:18 AM,
Anonymous said…
If private schools have such an advantage, why did more public schools win the titles last year? In fact, of the final 8 teams in DI playoffs last year, only two were private schools. The idea that private schools dominate in HS football is a myth.
At 9:24 PM,
Anonymous said…
How many kids switch schools thru open-enrollment? Tons! C-R loses 20-30 kids a year to Bluffton, but it's the kid that open-enrolls to Ada for b-ball that gets the attention.
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