OJ Mayo did not go to Huntington Prep…he went to Huntington High School which is a public school.
OT: PIAA, leveling the playing field
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Good info- not living out that way, for whatever reason I assumed it was the Prep.
Back in that time didn't another top player "move" from maybe Ohio to play w OJ?
Things are changing. I remember watching a documentary on Tim Tebow and how he and his mom kept an apartment in the Nease school district so he could be on their football team. He was homeschooled and didn't attend classes. At the time it was positioned as showing the sacrifice made for greatness. I wonder if his race had anything to do with the positive spin on that?
I have cousins in LA whose sons went to a large Catholic school. It was routine that they would get athlete transfers from Montana and other parts of the West hoping to get their kids noticed. The football QB is typically not a Californian.
Hopefully somewhere in all of this kids are learning something in class. The public vs private debate is apples and oranges. As said in The Wizard of Oz from the other movie post: "Now that's a horse of a different color." 🐎
OJ is the one who moved from Ohio. He was from Huntington, but he went to school in Cincinnati. He wanted to come back and play with the group in Huntington because they were so loaded, so they moved back (or some say he moved in with his grandmother, but I’m not sure) for his senior year. That team was the best high school team I’ve ever seen.
I have stayed out of the main recruiting discussion because I know far less about than you(plural) that live it. I do know it goes on everywhere, some schools do it….others don’t.
But I do know a lot of kids transfer to get out if terrible situations. Bad family life, crime ridden neighborhoods, drugs and gangs. For any kids that improves his life …. Credit for having fortitude to do so. Came from a great family in a great neighborhood in a great school district so I have no idea how difficult it must be to have to make that choice .
As for Aliquippa….. if a kid is a D1 prospect, especially a 4/5 star player, they would have far better offers than moving to Aliquippa….. a really bad area to live. And until this past year they had what was possibly the worst stadium in the entire state.
But they just opened a brand new stadium plus a company announced it will build an all new steel mill in Aliquippa so hoping things are turning around for those long suffering people.
Yep, I do know the girls basketball coach is also the athletic Director and they’re probably at an AAU tournament right now
Sorry. Not trying to be a smart ass, but I know way more than you apparently think you know on this one.
Gotta give you credit for being consistent.
You always know everything about absolutely everything.
That’s good enough for me.
You always know everything about absolutely everything.
That’s good enough for me.
Aliquippa is a huge offender! They play the race card. THEY are the sham. Warfield, since he's taken over in 2018 is 74-6, has had double digit D-1 caliber recruits transfer into the program. His argument is his players will get injured playing big schools. That's pure BS. Aliquippa went 300# tackle to tackle across the line and had/has multiple D1 athletes on or coming into the program (including the best player from 6A Central Catholic). I recent transfer from 5A North Hills (their best player) was ruled ineligible (the only one) and they are appealing.
Paul Warfield, is that you? This is BS. The kids coming in to Quippa are all purely their for football reasons. Warfield is in kids ears about "all the major colleges come to see the Quips play". Why would 4 kids with D1 offers already coming from better situations go to gun-riddled Aliquippa? Larry Moon and Sa’Nir Brooks, who transferred back from Central Catholic. Bishop Canevin transfer Daiveon Taylor, a high-profile recruit committed to West Virginia, and Snacks Allen from North Hills 300# lineman with D1 offers. They are ALL hand-picked.
So a player that was recruited by a Catholic school from Aliquippa moves back to Aliquippa and you count that as a negative.
And wouldn’t those D1 kids be getting offers from other schools with great facilities and lots if D1 coaches watching? Aren’t they getting offers from schools in fantastic neighborhoods? Great facilities? Great climates?
I am not saying they never recruit. But the kids go there for more than football as they could get better coaching, better training facilities, better living conditions at those football factories like IMG and a dozen or more others.
There is a reason one kid left a top rated Catholic school.
It is about attendance but the PIAA was heavily criticized about Catholic and private schools dominating because of recruiting. So they instituted a rule forcing teams to move up in classification if they won several championships in a short time.
Quips always played AA even when attendance was A. After winning several titles they were forced to AAA where they kept winning titles do now they okay AAAA.
But they won again and the state tried to force them to play 5A. Quips went to court and won sobsill stay at 4A…….. for now.
