St. James
- Thread starter BoKnowsSports
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So is it correct that this place has never fielded a football team as of yet? Is it a school? What teams would they end up playing?
It's a huge sports complex with an indoor football field. Hosts a ton of youth and high school events in a number of sports. They are trying to start up programs where kids do online learning part of the day and then train the rest of the time. Probably the facilities don't bring in much money during school hours and this is a way to change that. They also hired prominent coaches to run girls basketball and track & field. I think it's tough to make this work for football but we'll see.
Trying out for what? Their website doesn't have any kind of tryouts posted. Was it invite only? Many teams use that facility. Was it something to do with that?
Heard he’s pissing a lot of DMV coaches off right now…just know that PME pipeline is about to have that program up.
So they’re attempting to create an IMG of sorts at St James, just without the on campus housing as well as established credentials that IMG already possesses
Why would anyone get mad or expect him to do anything different than he has always done?
Nothing different than what he's always done. Only now it's legal. Personally, I'd like to see him take a public school that has been struggling and build it up from within, without the recruiting. Just take what players that are already there. To me, that's the sign of a good coach. Anyone can go and create an all star team and look good doing so.
He doesn't have the ability or the inclination to do that.
Yea this gonna be very interesting moving forward. What's interesting is most of the kids lining up to play for them would most likely get offers at their home school. So I wonder what make it such an attractive thing for already established kids.
I've seen many kids get promised this or that and transfer for "better opportunities ", yet they end up going to lesser schools than the kids who stayed "home". Or in some cases, don't even play in college at all. The coaches that do this can claim they care about the kids, but in the grand scheme of things, they only care about boosting their own ego and win loss record and are trying to live their past through kids
