It was just one year. Sal got beat out for the running back job as a sophomore at Easton by a fellow sophomore (who played linebacker at West Virginia). Sal wrestled 145 for Easton that winter, then transferred to Becahi for his junior year. Played two years of football there, then wrestled for Easton as a senior. Blew out his ACL that winter which pretty much ended his career. Also, that was from 2003-2005, I think the transfer landscape has changed drastically since then.
Part of the reason for all of the historic transfers in D11 is all of those schools are on top of each other. Particularly through the 90s and early 00s you had a housing boom where tons of the farmland in the region was becoming pop up housing developments and it became really easy to hop around, because you weren’t moving very far (nobody had to change jobs or anything) and there was ample new housing supply to change districts.
Much of the public school hopping has really slowed down. Schools started challenging it in the late 2000s in a couple sports and kids got blocked. That’s partly where Becahi’s opportunity came from, you could go public to private for a change in educational opportunity in a way you couldn’t public to public and families that were inclined to hop schools were going to do it anyway, but now only really had one option. If I remember correctly, Mike Labriola wanted to go to Easton from Wilson, but found there was a lot less red tape involved to just send him to Becahi. Notre Dame has added some competition to that model, but the dynamics are pretty similar. Both of those schools are also desperately hurting for enrollment and beefing up athletic programs to get bodies in the door is their strategy to stay open.
I don’t think of the McMullen’s counting as transfers - they were sending all of the boys to Wyoming Seminary regardlesss of wrestling, and lived in a couple different places in the Valley (my brother at Easton was in school with the oldest in middle school). Cerniglia certainly transferred out of Nazareth in a pretty ugly split. Niko Camacho, Jared Papcsy, and Mike Madera are the other Division I kids out of their feeder program recently they didn’t go to Nazareth. But by and large they do pretty well hanging onto kids.
Also, Kasak is from Doylestown, so none of this really applies to him. (but a significantly longer commute to M2 than Bethlehem would be).
