number two, you said if Winfield and Ark City were able to pick and choose their teams from a county full of wrestlers they would be unbeatable. Aquinas did not pick and choose these transfers. They chose Aquinas.

When your saying to hold a school accountable for parents recruiting athletes I agree with that whether it was a public or private school involved in the recruiting. But that would depend on what the ruling board would determine to be recruiting. If any coach, school official, booster club, or other organization officially associated with a school encourages a parent to approach another wrestler's parent with promises of some financial or other type of beneficial award for the wrestler or his family then that in my opinion would be recruiting. But if say a parent from School 1 is talking to a parent from School 2 at a tournament and tells them they would love to see the wrestler from School 2 on School 1's team, then personally I don't think that is punishable recruiting violation. Even in this scenario if School 1 parent tells School 2 parent that there is financial aid available, I still would not see that as a punishable recruiting violation. It is a well known fact that financial aid can be applied for at most private schools for families that qualify.

I agree that it is advantage for private schools that they can draw from a wider metropolitan area than public schools. In spite of this you have dominant public school athletic programs like in our area the Olathe North football program and certainly the Shawnee Mission Northwest boys and girls cross country programs. Somehow these programs have been able to overcome this private school advantage over a very long period of time and they do not seem to be slowly down either.