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Message: [QUOTE="Bama fan, post: 2865127, member: 7757"] Many private schools, parochial or otherwise, have advantages that most public schools do not. Various rules have been put in place to offset these advantages by state athletic commissions. In my area around Birmingham, Al the private schools, mostly Christian academies, are required to 'play up" by being put into classifications that force them to play larger student population public schools. Years ago the football program in Massillon ,Ohio recruited good players by offering their parents jobs if they relocated. Seems as if certain schools will always try to get a leg up by any means possible. The ones with good programs and success in placing players on D1 teams will continue by virtue of their reputations. It is ever thus. [/QUOTE]